Gabriel DropOut
Comedy · Slice of Life · Fantasy · Game
✦Doga Kobo's 2017 comedy follows top angel student Gabriel after online games overtake her mission to help humans.
Synopsis
Gabriel arrives in the human world after graduating at the top of her angel school. Her mission is to make humans happy. Online games present a competing objective with stronger retention. She begins skipping school and reorganizing life around entertainment instead. Heaven's best student has adapted quickly. The original assignment has not benefited from the adaptation.
Top angel student Gabriel descends to Earth ready to help humanity. Then online games consume the schedule. School attendance drops. The mission fades behind human entertainment. She remains committed, though mainly to enjoying herself. Celestial promise meets broadband, and virtue does not finish loading completely.
Gabriel reaches the human world as the best student in heaven, ready to make people happy. Then online games get hold of her attention and the entire mission collapses. I love the speed of it. She does not drift gently into laziness. She commits to human entertainment with the conviction that should have saved humanity!
An angel abandoning her mission for online games is one clean inversion stretched into a school comedy. Gabriel's total commitment keeps it from feeling timid. She was heaven's top student. Now she skips class and treats self-indulgence as the better use of Earth. The joke is obvious, but the fall is specific enough to earn its setup.