Gabriel Dropout - Anime of the Week
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Gabriel Dropout
For centuries, Heaven has required its young angels to live and study among humans in order to become full-fledged angels. This is no different for top-of-her-class Gabriel White Tenma, who believes it is her mission to be a great angel who will bring happiness to mankind. However, Gabriel grows addicted to video games on Earth and eventually becomes a hikikomori. Proclaiming herself a "Fallen Angel," she is apathetic to everything else—much to the annoyance of Vignette April Tsukinose, a demon whom Gabriel befriended in her angelic early days on Earth.
Vignette's attempts to revert Gabriel back to her previous self are in vain, as Gabriel shoots down any attempt to change her precious lifestyle. As they spend their time on Earth, they meet two eccentric personalities: the angel Raphiel Ainsworth Shiraha, Gabriel's classmate with a penchant for sadism, and the demon Satanichia McDowell Kurumizawa, a clumsy self-proclaimed future ruler of the Underworld.
Gabriel DropOut follows these four friends' comedic lives as they utterly fail to understand what it truly means to be a demon or an angel.
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Wild that it's been 6 years since GabDrop aired. It was the first seasonal I ever picked up, so it's the "no turning back" moment for me :P.
The fact that both angels end up horrible people, but the demons are angelic and cinnamon rolls, respectively, is a funny irony.
Satania gets bullied too much, though. Poor girl just wants to be a chuuni evil overlord that bakes cakes and eats melonpan.
I adore characters like hers. They're like the polar opposite of those "I just want a quiet life" MCs, because they really are striving to do the best with their hand in life, which also usually includes enough intelligence to get themselves into interesting types of trouble, but not enough to be sufficiently self-reflective about anything much.
Just like sakamoto
I mean... she did just flat out try to shoot them at one point.
Shit, it came out before my previous PC died. I feel old
One of my favourite clips from the show, Vigne is angelic.
Edit: Bonus Christmas
She's one of those characters whom it feels like she'd actually be good to know in real life (provided you're willing to join in the celebration of various holidays lol).
vigne fan?
Was my best girl of that season!
She had a lot of great scenes, but I think the best one was how she was the only one in the world to treat that coffee master with the level of respect he deserved.
Bonus Cooking
Vigne being scary is also great!
I like the Gabriel version.
Really good show if you're into cgdct slice of life/comedy shows!
What this show is a epic battle between good and evil. The good demons vs the evil angels.
I absolutely love this show. One of my top 10 favorites. I watched it while it was airing and have rewatched it a bunch of times since then.
Gabriel is my favorite character that Miyu Tomita voices.
I really hope they dub this show someday.
I do have hopes that it happens eventually.
Hell book of friends didn’t get a dub into recently
I feel like it will eventually. It seems like the type of show that would get dubbed. They dubbed Jahy-sama which is pretty similar imo.
Every single New Year, I share with my friends the clip of drunk Gabi saying "Happy New Year!". And I mean every single year
OP is absolute fucking chaos and it slaps hard. Satania's evil laugh gets me every time
Definitely check out the full version. Satania’s entrance for the last chorus… just too good
Amazing stuff, chefkiss
A show full of awful and stupid people... my favorite type of comedy.
I love those comedies about the characters doing something despicable and stupid, not just stupid.
Spending money on mmos😈
Not doing your homework😈
Vigne best girl
Satania absolutely steals the show
Hands down my favorite bit is when Satania finally gets a win when Tapris comes to town.
One of my favourite SoL anime. The fantasy concept of angels and demons sounds absurd, but the story makes use of it to great comedic effect, breaking out of the usual joke repertoire of "cute girls doing cute things" anime.
My only gripe about the anime is how short it is. While it does a great job of capturing the personalities of all of the main girls, it's a bit too short, with the last arc getting cut off with a comedic gag instead of the heartwarming scene from the original manga, which leans more into Vigne and Gabriel's friendship, instead of emphasizing Gabriel's 'gremlin' energy.
Still, its incredible that Doga Kobo managed to make it work so well within the short 12-episode schedule. Tomita Miyu is cast perfectly as Gabriel, and the other main seiyuu also do an excellent job at bringing the characters to life.
I'm still waiting for a second season announcement, but it seems unlikely after 6 years. The manga is great though, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who wants more.
Look at how many shows are getting new seasons or remakes in the last couple years. Kimi ni Todoke just announced a third season. It is a 13 year old show.
Such events buoy my hopes of a second season of Invaders of the Rokujouma?!, and maybe Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?
prepubs for Rokujouma are completely free access on J novel. I dunno what membership level you have to be though. Well at least a large number are. They have up to vol42 so far translated.
I (pretty much) stopped reading source materials a long time ago, because I was repeatedly getting frustrated at various aspects of adaptations. I occasionally have a pang or two of regret, but I enjoy shows a lot more judging them on their own merits so can't see myself returning to reading sources.
The series taught me how to count from 1 to 33 in Japanese.
Chou beri ba
Amazing!
Still one of my favorite CGDCT anime ever
It's a great series that gets to its sitcom-like premise very quickly, so if you haven't watched it yet, the first episode is a good introduction to see if you vibe with its brand of comedy.
It's also a series from the cute moe slice-of-life heyday of studio Doga Kobo after their breakout hit with Yuru Yuri. They're still putting out some great stuff, but not sure if they still have the access to the same animators/storyboarders, but there's some great sequences in GabDrop with lots of energy and charisma.
Vigne is truly bad to the bone.
Love this one it's an absolute blast
Gabriel Dropout is great, I hope it gets a sequel or the spin off gets adopted.
I can never stop thinking about this show when I watch anime I'm just like 'but was it better or worse than GabDrop"
Check out the OVA… pretty heart warming
I'll just leave this here:
https://youtu.be/8HPz5kdGhcw?si=7pVEEgNeWW0RZyPo
Just finished this about a week ago. Super fun, super funny. And I absolutely loved the way the English subs would incorporate puns and phrases from the Bible and Christianity.
Raphiel definitely steals the show though.
Seeing her slowly descend into what she turned into always made me laugh
That scene with the door made me watch this show.
How does this not have a second season?
One of those series that I liked at first, then the comedy got a bit stale, especially when Satania is involved (so like almost always lol).
btw if you liked the series but didn't watch the OVA you're doing yourself a disservice, the ep2 of the OVA was great.
TIL there’s OVA!
There are two OVAs, and both are excellent. One OVA is quite tonally different from the rest of the series.
Yeah, it's kinda wild when shows do that.
The only other anime I know with that kind of tonal shift is Ojamajo Doremi, where the Na-i-sho OVA had a really heavy final episode.
Cautious Hero. Man, that last ep...
I remember that one being quite a surprise because of how serious it was.
I think every comedy/slice-of-life series could benefit from one of those kinds of "serious" episodes. While I don't really kind series which are drama every week, I find having it happen once near the end of a season is a good payoff and makes for a neat contrast against all the light and comfy times.
It's a formula that also worked well for seasons of Yuru Yuri and Non Non Biyori which have a handful of poignant moments in-between all the hijinks.
I'm still uncomfortable with S3 and the OVA's, where they changed studios from Doga Kobo to TYO. It just drops the absurdity that I really liked from S1 and S2.
Yuru Yuri runs on absurd comedy and TYO somehow managed to lose that.
I think that's a fair enough opinion. Since it's rare to get a third season out of a slice-of-life comedy though, I'm glad that it got more episodes in the first place even if they're not at the same level as Dogo Kobo; I personally still found some of the magic still there.
Pretty much, and the best way to measure this is actually BD's/DVD's out of observation:
3-4000 BD's, successful, but S2 not guaranteed.
5000-6500 BD's, usually guaranteed S2, S3 depends heavily on S2 performance (Hidamari Sketch had 6500 at launch, but S2 had a whopping 8800 copies sold, it got 4 seasons)
9000-11000 BD's: 3 seasons usually
Anything larger than that is already extremely known. Such as: Bocchi The Rock, K-On!, Haruhi and Lucky Star.
My love affair with coffee began when, as a trading company employee, I encountered the finest beans in Brazil. My passion grew until, finally, I quit my job to open this coffee shop. Traveling to personally select and purchase coffee beans on-site, then roasting, grinding, and brewing them myself. Twenty years have already passed in my never-ending quest for the perfect cup. Oh, how time flies.
A cup of coffee, after a hard day's work, is divine. Truth be told, I'm quite proud of my house blend. To attain my flavor and fragrance, I use five types of coffee beans. I use all that I know to bring out the best in each of their natural flavors in this unique house blend. Of course, I'm also picky about where they were grown. Each year, I go on a trip to purchase them in person.
Did the manga ever get far, I know it was on hiatus for awhile
Last I checked, which was just now, it's at 97 chapters.
At least on the site I use. Not sure if there are more chapters, though.
It is a tragedy this never got a second season, I miss Satania so much. Sometimes the best series only get one season unfortunately.