First Impressions / Snapshots

「天使と悪魔と委員長」 (Tenshi to Akuma to Iinchou)
“The Angel, the Demon, and the Class President”

I got to hand it to Gabriel Dropout, it definitely knows how to humorously twist the dichotomous preconception of angels and demons. If Gabriel’s corruption wasn’t clear last week, this episode dialled it up to 11 with home hilarious musing on human overpopulation. Although avoiding the cafeteria due to crowding is one thing, you might just have lost it when seriously considering announcing the end of days as a career option. This comedic absolutism probably gets me because I have a friend who shares Gabriel’s views—and whose fantasy is personally designing a viral pandemic—but she’s a 4.0 GPA chem major who speaks it with tongue firmly in cheek…well, most of the time 😛

Gabriel, however, still has nothing on Satanichia Satania who definitely is vying for the adorable dumbass award and is easily my favourite character at the moment. This character type can come across as annoying at times, but Satania stays almost perfectly on the side of mild, ridiculous, and cute—especially when she lets her hair down. I really got a kick out of her lunchtime ignorance, breaking chopsticks perpendicularly and fully convinced kitsune udon is actually a fox in a bowl. That though doesn’t hold a candle to her taste deafness, which hilariously shut down Gabriel’s attempt to troll her with spice. Too bad Satania was so caught up in the melding flavours that she couldn’t recognize the grade A demonic potential of the act.

What really makes Gabriel Dropout’s comedy I’m finding though is the character synergism. The cooking skit is a prime example of this, where both Gabriel and Sanatia yielded some gut busting moments. Between the cut onions impacting Satania to Gabriel’s selfish, impulsive actions, poor Vigne was left rushing from one disaster to the next. While a mystery how Vigne even manages it, at least we know our caring devil is indeed a devil, doing a fair Gordon Ramsay impression while clobbering a curry-loving Gabriel. Even Satania the fish got into the spirit of things before succumbing to her untimely end. While more subdued, the Satania/Raphiel pairing also enhances the comedy here by offering a different line of humour. Raphiel is the key for this one, going full stalker on her new chew toy friend Satania, and even employing the assistance of Satania’s archenemy. I can already foresee some potential skits for this relationship, given how easily Raphiel manipulated Satania into becoming her servant and Satania’s continued ignorance to Raphiel’s ways. Raphiel may have been fired, but only because her condition for apprenticeship was too high for Satania after all. This little S&M partnership is nowhere near over yet.

With two episodes down and the humour hitting all the marks, it’s safe to say I’m incredibly happy with this show so far. I may not end up blogging it (still working on choices), but I’m definitely watching this one through until the end. No better way to relieve the Monday blues than with a few heavenly shenanigans.

Random Tidbits

Of course the most important angelic survey would be the favourite foods of single men. Too bad Gabriel doesn’t understand why single men might be critical to her job yet 😛

 

ED Sequence

ED: 「ハレルヤ☆エッサイム」 (Hallelujah☆Essaim) by Gabriel Tenma White (Miyu Tomita), Vignette Tsukinose April (Saori Oonishi), Satanichia Kurumizawa McDowell (Naomi Oozora), Raphiel Shiraha Ainsworth (Kana Hanazawa)

24 Comments

    1. These shows can be blogged, but there often needs to be something else beyond the humour to make it viable. It could be an overarching story as you mention, or underlying themes explored through the comedy. Gabriel’s corruption at the hands of video games is a good example, but the show hasn’t really touched on that beyond establishing the premise in episode one. It’s part of why I’m on the fence at the moment, no idea yet if Gabriel Dropout just wants to stick with funny skits, or bring in some theme exploration.

      Pancakes
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    1. well, how i see it.

      Take their Base, we have her Demons? in Western let give them Devils name
      then we have Angels

      So, both sides want are fallen to the other side.. Well, for Devils they become more brighter, Angels become more Grey.. No both side become Gray… But yeah, the Devils here special the “tutor” one are more “Angel” then the original ones.. Seems on that they lost the direction lost the drive, someone need to remind them for what they come down and up to Earth.. it is easy to lose in a vast space, so stay focus (also nearly a same speak in Star Trek: Beyond (link: https://youtu.be/EpUWZ1qQ5qQ?t=37)

      Worldwidedepp
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    2. That’s probably why they are on the selected girls. You know each girl is the opposite of what their roles represent, so giving them the outfits of their intended role adds a touch of irony. Pretty ingenious in this case, considering the ED is basically fan service at face value.

      Pancakes
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