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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Kurumizawa McDowell, Satanichia Main

Oozora, Naomi Japanese

Tenma White, Gabriel Main

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Tsukinose April, Vignette Main

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Shiraha Ainsworth, Raphiel Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Sugarbell Chisaki, Tapris Supporting

Minase, Inori Japanese

Master Supporting

Umezu, Hideyuki Japanese

Machiko Supporting

Fuchigami, Mai Japanese

Tenma White, Zeruel Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Tenma White, Haniel Supporting

Morohoshi, Sumire Japanese

Tanaka Supporting

Izawa, Mikako Japanese

Yamashita, Shinpei Producer

Ogata, Mitsuhiro Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Motohashi, Kenichi Producer

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Mar 23, 2025

Naneo

Recommended

This anime tells a story about angel and demon. They're actually living here on earth, blending with us all learning about human behaviour. Your first thought may be angel vs demon battle stuff, but no. Note how I write it as angel and demon but not vs, because this is a fell good cute girls doing cute thing anime. Everyone might have a little grunts here and there, but overall its just funny moments on top of funny moments. They really nail the comedy genre because I always catch myself laughing on every episode.

The story itself is almost non existent. You just need to watch ... the first episode, which is the premise, and then you can decide if this is good or not. From that point onward, every episode isn't connected at all. As far as I remember, there is only two episode connected with each other. Based from that explanation, the story is very light. This anime is basically like any other CGDCT anime, with a twist, and the twist is that our MC are angelic demon plus demonic angel. Love how they also incorporate religious reference here and there.

Even though it contains religion, that still doesn't save this anime from offering fan service. At first it wasn't that obvious or noticeable. But as I progress more through the later episode, I began to realize that the fan service is a little bit moderate. Not really fond of them, but hey at least they manage to hide it behind laughable scene rather than focusing solely on fan service.

Never skipped the OP and ED song they're so catchy. At the first listening, it still hasn't clicked for me yet because of how chaos it is. I mean it's just people shouting and talking and screaming. But as I listen more, my love for it grew too. The VA are all amazing too. Not only did they voiced the characters, they also sing the OP and ED, and I think that's why it is so catchy.

Fall in love with every character introduced, everyone is a matching puzzle, when they all put together it create the perfect episode. Really enjoying this anime even after reading the manga because like I said above, the plot isn't the main thing here. But I got a little bit sad becauss there's no continuation for Season 2 onward, considering the manga is never stopped producing as of now at 100+ chapter. Well, what can we do? Watch the anime, if you want leisure and cute moments. Thank you for reading my review :)

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 7, 2024

xaan

Mixed Feelings

- hated the mc (Gabriel)
- Raphi is ok
- the demons carried hard this show
- not many jokes, could've been more fun to watch...

M.V.P. goes to Satanichia and Vignette was my favorite character.

the show is overall "ok" if you ignore Gabriel...
honestly, even supporting characters and background shadows were more pleasant than this mc 😛

... average slice of life with a little bit of supernatural to it, the story is nothing unusual and somewhat predictable but has some funny scenes and Satanichia strikes some really fun moments when she shows up

i think this show is a solid 6 because the demons make up for Gabriel's lack of everything personality.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 23, 2024

Hazamelis

Not Recommended

First, let me say that this anime is not good. That’s right, it’s not good. Yes, it features one of the best characters in all anime, Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell, a genius archdemon who controls the show every time she’s on screen with her absolutely demonic deeds and nefarious exploits. But then you have the other characters. While Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell excels in every scene she’s in, you also have Raphiel, one of the absolute worst characters I have ever seen. What is her trait? That she’s a sadist? That’s it? Yes, that’s it. She likes to see others suffering, including Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell. She never ... does anything amusing, heartwarming, or cute. She just disrespects Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell, forces her way into her home, or tries to trick her as if she were a plush toy. We all might want to be entertained by Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell, but we are on this side of the screen; she is not. If you are going to be in the show, try to earn your place and do something actually fun for once. For every scene where the genius Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell shines, there is a scene where Raphiel ruins the show. She is incredibly annoying, disgusting, and boring to watch. I hate her, hate her, hate, hate, hate. Sure, you might have characters you like and dislike in a show, but her presence serves absolutely no purpose other than being a passive watcher of Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell’s genius, which she always disrespects.

The other two characters, the most passive ones, barely have any effect on the show at all. Vignette is a good girl, so she doesn’t do bad things, cause any shenanigans, and is reliable. While she would be great to have as a friend, watching her life is dreadfully boring. Gabriel is the same but in the opposite direction. She is a slacker, so she doesn’t do good deeds. She is lazy and always stays at home. While she would be terrible to have as a friend, she could theoretically be a good protagonist in a comedy. You’ve seen other anime with listless characters that only want to be left alone, right? Saiki K, for example? These shows make great use of the listless protagonist since they are always met with energetic and cheerful people who want them to live life and do silly things. This can be great for comedy when the protagonist’s cynical perspective deconstructs the silly traditions and realities they live in. Here? They don’t do that. Gabriel is never really punished for anything, and even Vignette helps with her homework, albeit reluctantly. Gabriel might get bored by having her friends around, but no jokes ever come from it—nothing, zero.

There is barely any comedy here. The jokes are very scarce and might rely on some occasional slapstick or the fact that the angels act like demons and the demons like angels. Still, nobody ever suffers any consequences, leaving you with tasteless comedy without misery. Overall, despite having a character like Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell, who is sheer genius, the others don’t help the show at all. Vignette is the most blank slate for a good girl character, Gabriel is useless as a protagonist since she never makes anything happen, and Raphiel is one of the most despicable and awful characters in anime. She isn’t a horrifying villain that incarnates evil, an ambiguous scientist with a goal that sacrifices means for an end, an underdog, or anything interesting. She is just a spoiled brat bored with her life, only interested in schadenfreude. I still ask myself: How? How did this even happen? Having an anti-hero as a protagonist is a great idea. Making the feminine angel unfeminine, unkempt, and uncool—just a slacker like any other—can bring a lot of comedy with all the silly stuff you can do in animation. But she never ever does anything like that!

If you watch this as a comedy, it’s barren. If you watch this as a CGDCT anime, it’s still pretty bad, considering we only have one truly good character. One is as average as they come Vignette, one makes you bitter from how boring they are to watch, Gabriel, and one fills your soul with absolute hate, raising your anger to the max and making you wish you could punch her until all her teeth fall out, Raphael. Seriously, what a disgusting creature.

If one can hope, is that Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell one day gets her own spin off, away of all the mess her friends are, she was the true start of the show after all, and the only you should really pay attention too if you even decide to go through this mess. Megumin got her own spinoff, so why not her as well?

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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