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Forewarning; this is my personal favorite anime and I will likely be extremely biased.

NGNL (No Game No Life) is the story of 2 exceptionally skilled gamer siblings who somehow end up in a fantasy world where everything is decided by games. If you are already disinterested, move on. It heavily parodies and references a lot of anime and video game themes. This sometimes includes parodying things like needless fan-service, common video-game themes, overused genre tropes etc..

The overall story is fairly simple small scale, but there are plenty of opportunities for the story to be more interesting and grand over a multitude of seasons if it ... gets more series. At the time of writing this there is only 1 with the prequel movie coming soon, and the story definitely continues after this season.

The story conforms to the rules of this world that has been made entirely for the series, which is convenient and also a bit disappointing, as it means the story can be somewhat predictable.

The art style is very unique and definitely has an appeal, strong outlines and vibrant colored scenes dominate almost every second of the series. The world is both beautiful and well designed. The animations where necessary are always of great quality and any vfx look clean and satisfying. Whether or not you personally enjoy the style is up to your own subjection.

Audio wise, the music is great and the sfx is well made. I have watched both the English and Japanese version of the series. Though it is rare, this is one anime I would actually say some of the English voice actors did a better job, especially for Sora and Jibril, and I lean towards the English Stephanie too, however the Japanese Shiro is far superior. (I am a native English speaker with little no to knowledge of Japanese) So whatever your preference, but the dub by Sentai is very good.

The characters are entertaining and humorous. Most of the characters are very unique as they don't usually fall into classic anime tropes other than the main 2 characters. Most cliche occurrences of characters are intentional parodies of something anyway.

Overall the entire series is enjoyable from start to finish, it has a perfect mix of comedy, action, adventure, and fantasy. It is a fun world that is interesting to learn and explore along with the quirky and well mixed set of characters.

Gabriel Dropout is nothing special or extremely original. It is in reality; 4 somewhat cliche angels and demons characters that do ridiculous things everyday at the human high school they attend. A 'slice of life', comedy and the unofficial CGDCT (cute girls do cute things). I will not rate the story, art or sound as it was never intended to excel at these things.

This is one of the very few shows that make me actually laugh every episode. The characters are well written and have intelligent dialogue between one another that perfectly compliment each other. It is simple and genuine. Each character alone may be ... weak but together I cannot choose any that I like or dislike more than others. Gabriel's relatable laziness, Vignette's naïve innocence, Raphiel's blissful toying, Satania's misguided mischief, among with an interesting and likable set of supporting characters, like the Coffee store owner who is sweet and gullible, or their terrifying no-nonsense teacher.

Do not question or demand of the plot, nor expect some meaningful character development or progression. This anime provides pure entertainment of likable characters doing amusing and hilarious things, nothing more; but certainly nothing less.