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Series · 2017

Gabriel Dropout

ガヴリールドロップアウト

Four girls sit among oversized pink and yellow toy-like objects beneath a bright sky.
(C)2016 うかみ/KADOKAWA アスキー・メディアワークス/ガヴリールドロップアウト製作委員会

An exemplary angel sent to study among humans becomes absorbed in online games, leaving angels and demons to muddle through a less-than-heavenly school life.

Gabriel's human-world education takes an unintended direction. Her friends and rivals repeatedly behave at odds with the moral expectations attached to their celestial labels.

A smiling blonde girl appears in front of two girls in sailor uniforms.
The celestial characters' school lives repeatedly undercut their expected roles. (C)2016 うかみ/KADOKAWA アスキー・メディアワークス/ガヴリールドロップアウト製作委員会

The comedy relies on the distance between a supernatural job description and an ordinary habit. Gabriel arrives with an exemplary reputation but becomes a reluctant participant in everyday obligations; the others complicate any easy division between angelic and demonic behaviour. School and domestic encounters supply the recurring situations. Consider it for a fantasy school ensemble that plays with those reversals rather than a battle between heaven and hell. The television count keeps both bonus OVAs separate instead of treating a fourteen-entry release list as fourteen broadcast episodes.

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