Gabriel DropOut subbed Story: Gabriel DropOut is the about the daily life of a lazy angel a friendly demon a sadistic angel and a megalomaniacal/incompetent demon going to high school in Japan. Honestly its not that original as far as character personalities and activities go. Thats not to say it isnt entertaining just that its nothing I havent seen before with minor variations. The real standout episodes are 9 and 10 where they actually use the premise for something original the Christmas party and the scenes in Heaven Hell being pretty entertaining and making me wish more time was spent in those locations. I do like the idea that Heaven is super boring compared to Earth due to its excessive wholesomeness. One thing the show gets right on numerous occasions are visual gags that it doesnt draw much attention to which makes them hilarious. Anyway there isnt really much else to say so Ill move onto characters. Characters: Gabriel The shows titular character shes the star student at her school in heaven but quickly devolves into a messy and lazy shut in obsessed with MMOs once she starts living on Earth. Her deadpan attitude is pretty entertaining shes kinda like a combination of Tomoko Watamote and Umaru Himouto UmaruChan. As an aside I really appreciate the lack of upskirt shots despite her wearing a red jacket with no pants a lot of the time it shows that her design was done for character purposes and not fan service. Vignette A character named Vignette in a show focused on comedic vignettes hmmmm. . . Anyway Vigne as shes most often called is Gabriels best friend and a demon who acts like an angel to directly contrast Gabriel. Shes a pretty likeable character although I question how she made it to high school when she constantly fails to act like a demon. Shes probably my favorite of the cast. Satania A stupid megalomaniacal wannabe archdemon whose repetitive gags get so old that you want to slam your head against the wall repeatedly by the end of the 3rd episode. Shes obnoxious which shes supposed to be but its also supposed to be funny which to be fair she does have a number of good scenes but the running gag with her shouting out her name and the dog stealing her bread get really really old. Raphiel A sadist who puts on the air of being a role model of an angel. She constantly laughs at others misfortunes. Also boobs. Theres a couple side characters as well but for the sake of brevity and not boring you Ill leave it there. Animation: Im going to start out talking about something Ive never really discussed before and thats character design. I immediately noticed that Gabriel and Vignette looked a lot like Umaru and Ebina Himouto UmaruChan respectively and Satanica was pretty reminiscent of Riko Love Lab well a quick check of MAL showed that this was done by the same animation studio Doga Kobo. So whats my point? Well its just kinda distracting not enough for me to detract points from the final score just distracting. I wrote that when I first started watching for most of the show Gabriel looks damn near identical to Taiga from ToraDora which again is distracting but certainly not worth docking a point. The animation just generally looks like a Doga Kobo show jumpy comedic animation. Its colorful and lends itself decently well to comedy but certainly isnt on par with Kyoani which yes I do have a massive hard on for them. Music: The OP is decently and the chorus is relatively catchy but nothing too special. The ED is downright forgettable. The music in the show is nothing to write home about either. Overall: I may have come across like I didnt like this show very much and while I certainly dont love it its still a decent show that held my attention and made me laugh a few times. Now mileage always varies on humor and some people may absolutely love this show but Im not one of them. 5/10
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