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AnoHito posted:One genuinely good angel shows up later. Also Vigne is good enough to make up for the both of the fail angels. Eh? Isn't Umaru at least generally caring for her brother and friends and at least keeps up appearances of being an honour student? Gab can barely even go to school.
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Spiritus Nox posted:The show spends about 90 percent of its entire runtime doing riffs on the core gag presented in the first ep, so if you're not feeling it right now it's unlikely to get better for you, unfortunately. 
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Raenir Salazar posted:Eh? Isn't Umaru at least generally caring for her brother and friends and at least keeps up appearances of being an honour student? Gab also cares about her friends deep down (especially Vigne), and she also seems to genuinely dislike causing any real trouble for people. Minor annoyances, sure, but she draws a pretty solid line and generally tries at least a little bit to fit in.
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Mar 27, 2017 16:56
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Gabe is a good girl and an angel. That's the whole point of the closer for like every episode!! And the last line of the OP. I think all of the girls have quirks as well as ways of keeping each other in check which is why it ends up a balanced cast.
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Mar 27, 2017 17:03
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Kytrarewn posted:I would agree with this, but I already found the main cast likeable. Then again, I also found most of the characters in Umaru likeable (I didn't like Boomer's sister, though I can't adequately explain why). They try to play the "But she's cute!" card when they're pretty rotten inside, and Boomer's sister doesn't really even have that card to play. AnoHito posted:Gab also cares about her friends deep down (especially Vigne), and she also seems to genuinely dislike causing any real trouble for people. Minor annoyances, sure, but she draws a pretty solid line and generally tries at least a little bit to fit in. Minor reminder that she regularly wishes people would just disappear (and that she nearly did it herself in episode 1)
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Mar 27, 2017 17:15
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I liked gab more than umaru at the beginning of their respective series, but umaru grows, and gab really hasn't. Still a fun show, though.
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Mar 27, 2017 17:20
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Last episode was fun. Show was cute and fun. Might take second place in my season rankings, need to see how Bang Dream finishes. Kinda wish that they had leaned ever-so-slightly harder on the rivalry between the Angels and Demons. The show didn't need to be a drama or anything, but I feel like having "real" angels and demons disapproving of our heroines' friendships could have set up for both some nice gags and some humanizing moments for the cast.
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Mar 27, 2017 18:01
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:I liked gab more than umaru at the beginning of their respective series, but umaru grows, and gab really hasn't. Still a fun show, though. i love both umaru and gabriel dropout, but umaru has good character development and themes beneath its layers of comedy that gabriel dropout doesnt have rear end in a top hat angels and cute/stupid demons still own though
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Mar 27, 2017 19:01
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Good Fist of the Northstar ref this ep.
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Mar 27, 2017 20:44
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There's more than 12 episodes, right? Right? They cannot not include loving candy. 
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Mar 27, 2017 23:05
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There's an OVA
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Mar 27, 2017 23:06
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But it was only half an episode long. 
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Mar 27, 2017 23:20
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This show's biggest weakness compared to Umaru is that it's a little too adherent to the status quo. Gabe is slightly more sociable, Vigne is slightly less tolerant of Gabe's poo poo. Satania and Raphi are about the same but their interactions have gotten more balanced. The jokes have stayed funny but I feel like Gabe got off too easily; I'd like it if something persisted.
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Mar 27, 2017 23:22
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Show was good. One of the only animes that gave me a genuine belly laugh at least once an episode instead of just chuckling. Gab impersonating Satania's cackle was fantastic. 
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Mar 28, 2017 00:07
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Last episode was good. This was a good anime overall. HoweverYes_Cantaloupe posted:I liked gab more than umaru at the beginning of their respective series, but umaru grows, and gab really hasn't. Still a fun show, though. I 100% agree with this. I wasn't sure if I could get past the second episode of Umaru but was very glad I did. I looked forward to Gabriel but after this last episode I'm feeling pretty much the same as when I started. All in all: Hail Satan
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Mar 28, 2017 01:21
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:All in all: Hail Satan
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Mar 28, 2017 01:41
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:Last episode was good. This was a good anime overall. However I dropped Umaru about halfway through but finished Gabriel Dropout so 
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Mar 28, 2017 03:08
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That little montage showing how Gab hasn't grown or changed at all didn't do the final episode any favors, but it was still a fun ep. Fun show, not great.
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Mar 28, 2017 05:55
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Mar 28, 2017 05:57
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:Fun show, not great. That's pretty much my final thought too. A nice, comfy comedy that didn't really do too much. But I still looked forward to it and enjoyed it.
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Mar 28, 2017 05:59
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Thirding that. Highly unlikely to make my personal year-end list, but a basically well executed show that I consistently looked forward to and avoided any real clunkers.
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Mar 28, 2017 06:15
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I couldn't stand Umaru and dropped it partway into the third episode. From what I understand Umaru grew more than Gab did but Umaru needed that growth because she was completely intolerable where Gab didn't need to change much because she wasn't actively dragging the show down. This show had some real problems with consistency where a few episodes just fell flat or were weak, including the first and last episodes. But I'd say it's the funniest comedy I've watched reaching back until High School Boys in terms of actual laughs. That might say something about me not deliberately seeking out comedies but I enjoyed this a lot even if it's not going to be a top X anime of the year.
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Mar 28, 2017 06:32
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Yes_Cantaloupe posted:That little montage showing how Gab hasn't grown or changed at all didn't do the final episode any favors, but it was still a fun ep. Fun show, not great. maybe angels are eternal bcause they dont grow. makes u think
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One thing I like Gab more than Umaru is that Gab basically owns up to being rotten and fallen and largely gives no shits unless there's ramifications and even then she'll try and weasel out of it if possible. She's honest about it and the series is too. She could definitely be less rotten, but the series by its nature doesn't need that kind of baggage Umaru is almost ashamed of her other self to the point of having three mutually exclusive identities among her friends and never seems to bring up the courage to resolve it. She certainly is building up the courage towards it and that's part of her arc. That's the nature of her series.
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I definitely liked this show better than Umaru-chan, mostly because of its cast. The hidden-identity plot at the center of Umaru-chan meant that the show could never really bring all of its characters together, at least not until the last two episodes or so. This meant that we mostly just got to see the other girls interact with Umaru or one of her alter-egos, and not much with each other. GabDrop, on the other hand, introduced all four main characters in the very first episode, and then just had fun bouncing them off each other and pairing them up for different chapters. I also felt like the whole "main girl is a huge slob" aspect didn't get nearly as much screen time in GabDrop as it did in Umaru-chan. After the first two episodes or so, "Gabriel is a really lovely angel" becomes more of a running joke, rather than the central plot point. Umaru-chan definitely felt more repetitive in that regard. Finally, Umaru's character arc really wasn't all that interesting (and GabDrop does almost the same thing for Gabriel, although more subtly), so the fact that this was just straight-up plot-less gag anime didn't bother me at all. In conclusion, this anime was dumb and fun as hell, and one of my favorites of its kind in the past couple of years. That said, does anyone know if Crunchyroll is likely to air the OVAs?
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crunchyroll just kind of randomly picks up OVAs when possible. it's not something you can gauge easily so just hit up your friends at nyaa. or buy the BDs!
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Mar 28, 2017 10:43
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Is it bad that I was actively rooting for Zelel this episode?
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serefin99 posted:Is it bad that I was actively rooting for Zelel this episode? Nah, Zelel moving in with Gab would have been hilarious.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Nah, Zelel moving in with Gab would have been hilarious. We are all Rephi.
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New chapter on batoto. Pros: two good secondary characters show up. Cons: pretty much all the humor looks to have been in puns and wordplay that doesn't translate well. http://bato.to/reader#94b82bb2cf13c539
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Coffee Jesus tries very hard.
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Spiritus Nox posted:Coffee Jesus tries very hard. And I kind of like that Raphi is surprisingly nice with Tapris.
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Is it worth it to start reading the manga from Chapter 1? Or just find the second manga-exclusive tapris story that was talked about earlier in the thread, then try to figure out where the anime ends?
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Kytrarewn posted:Is it worth it to start reading the manga from Chapter 1? Honestly, at this point, probably not. The scan (or maybe raw) quality is not that good, and the anime covered almost everything already. Maybe wait for the English releases, which are forthcoming.
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OVA 2 was very very good.
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OVA 2 should have been the final episode of the season. It's the best episode of the entire show.
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May 28, 2017 18:27
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Space Flower posted:
I don't know, but it has more character progression than most of the actual season. Maybe it was meant to be the finale but they couldn't finish in time?
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There Bias Two posted:I don't know, but it has more character progression than most of the actual season. Maybe it was meant to be the finale but they couldn't finish in time? It's included on volume 3 of the show's BluRays. I think more shows are including OVA episodes on the disc to get people to still buy them.
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I liked it a lot, but it's definitely a pretty massive tone-shift from the rest of the show. I can see how they would decide to keep it in an OVA.
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