I'm Gonna Be An Angel!

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name = I'm Gonna Be An Angel!


caption = Noelle's family in "I'm Gonna Be An Angel!".
ja_name = 天使になるもんっ!
ja_name_trans = Tenshi ni Narumon!
genre = Comedy, Romance, SupernaturalInfobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Hiroshi Nishikiori
studio = Studio Pierrot
licensor = flagicon|USA flagicon|Canada Synch-Point
network = flagicon|Japan TV Tokyo
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first = April 07, 1999
last = September 29, 1999
episodes = 26

nihongo|"I'm Gonna Be An Angel!"|天使になるもんっ!|Tenshi ni Narumon! is an anime produced by Studio Pierrot. A manga was also released in Japan in 1999. The anime was licensed for release in the United States by Synch-Point, but its domestic distribution license has since expired. The American DVD release was never completed, due to poor marketing and distribution, and thus, poor sales.cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-06-09/synch-point-on-i'm-gonna-be-an-angel-release |title=Synch-Point on I'm Gonna be an Angel Release |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2005-06-09 |publisher=Anime News Network] The manga has not been licensed for release in the United States.

Plot

"I'm Gonna Be An Angel!" is the story of Yuusuke Kamoshita who is living alone until he literally stumbles across a naked girl in a forest, a very energetic girl named Noelle who claims she is trying to become an angel. Noelle and her entire family proceed to move into Yuusuke's very large home and disrupt his life. Silky and her minions interfere as the series goes on.

Characters

;nihongo|Noelle|ノエル|Noeru:*anime voices|Tomoko Kawakami|Diana Kou::Noelle is an energetic angel in training. She shows great affection towards Yuusuke and is determined to become an angel. She often devises ways of taking off on a short runway, the roof of the house, in order to fly which is important on being an angel. She has vowed to marry Yuusuke once she has completed her training to becoming an angel for Yuusuke. And in the end of the series, Yuusuke and her show that they love each other very much.

;nihongo|Yuusuke Kamoshita|鴨下 祐介|Kamoshita Yuusuke:*anime voices|Issei Miyazaki|David Lucas::Yuusuke is admired by Noelle but does not return her affection initially. He too is overlooked by the girl he has a crush on, Natsumi. He is passive and can do little when Noelle and her monster-like family move into his lonely house. He tries to keep quiet about their residence when he is not in the house and tries to keep things from turning chaotic within the house. At first he didn't agree with being Noelle's husband but in the end, he did care and love Noelle very much.

;nihongo|Natsumi Suzuhara|鈴原 夏海|Suzuhara Natsumi:*anime voices|Yukana Nogami|Jodi Tannar::Natsumi is Yuusuke's classmate, whom he is crushing with. She is an athletic diver. She is often spied upon by Yuusuke and his classmates from a small window at the diving complex at their school. She has a serious personality. She has a boyfriend named Kai, who wears glasses, and seems older then her. Kai was her brother's best friend, and ever since his death, she had substituted Kai as her brother. She has had encounters by an angel, by her deceased brother Fuyuki, which is proven later to be Raphael at the very end of the series. :At the beginning she seems to dislike Yuusuke because she believes he is a perv, but later begins to get attracted to Yuusuke.

;nihongo|Papa|パパ|Papa:*anime voices|Juurouta Kosugi|Ricardo Ibarra::Papa is Noelle's father, and is a Frankenstein monster-like creature. He has a calm demeanour.He usaully calls Yuusuke son in law. -

;nihongo|Mama|ママ|Mama:*anime voices|Noriko Hidaka|Jessica Stenuis:Mama is Noelle's mother. She is the most normal member of the family of monsters, although she shows another side of herself in one episode (a witch).

;nihongo|Granny|おばあちゃん|Obā-chan:*anime voices|Tomoko Naka|Hettie Lynne Hurtes:Granny (Baba) is Noelle's grandmother and is a witch. She strongly dislikes humans and, therefore, is against Noelle wanting to marry Yuusuke.

;nihongo|Gabriel|ガブリエル|Gaburieru:*anime voices|Nobutoshi Hayashi|Jonas Ball::Gabriel is Noelle's older brother, and is a vampire. He enjoys teasing Yuusuke, and has horribly bad allergies against cats. When Miruru becomes the maid of the family Gabriel eventually gets used to her.

;nihongo|Sara|サーラ|Sāra:*anime voices|Ayako Kawasumi|Rose Bomrungchati::Sara is Noelle's older sister. She has the power to turn invisible, and spends a lot of her time in this form. It's hard to tell when she is there or not, for a very strange reason she gets attracted to Yuusuke . Later in the series when she meets Mikael she extremely falls in love with him- but he and Raphael are a couple.

;nihongo|Lucca|ルカ|Ruka:*anime voices|Ikue Ohtani|Jennifer Seltzer::Lucca is Noelle's younger sister, and is an elven-looking creature. She is an inventor, and often makes different mechanical devices to help Noelle learn to fly and become an angel. In one of the episodes when she meets up with Eros she gets interested in him because of his speed. When Eros tells her his speed is due to his love for Silky, but she thinks it's a bunch of crap because of her will for science.

;nihongo|Dispel|ディスペル|Disuperu:*anime voices|Mitsuo Iwata|Hisato Masuyama:Dispel is the antagonist of the series, or so the audience is led to believe. He has several henchmen who he dispatches to thwart Noelle's attempts to become an angel and often treats his slave Silky unkindly. At the end of the first season he is destroyed and Silky takes his place as the series' main antagonist.

;nihongo|Silky|シルキー|Shirukī:*anime voices|Hiroko Konishi|Jennifer Sekiguchi::Originally when Dispel appeared to be in control, Silky seemed to be a dominated slave. During the second season it was revealed that she was strong willed and is more scheming and power hungry than Dispel was. Silky's intentions are unclear though she sends her minions to interfere with Noelle's training at every opportunity. It is revealed that she, Mikael, and Noelle are three parts of the same person. She starts to go insane when it is revealed she is the third angel. She endlessly refuses to become one. At the end of the series, she is shown joining Yuusuke and Noelle's class, with Muse and Eros, now toys, attached on her bag.

;nihongo|Miruru|ミルル|Miruru:*anime voices|Mayumi Iizuka::Miruru is one of Dispel's henchmen, and is a catgirl. She is in love with Gabriel, but because of his fear of cats, he is initially afraid of her. After the first season when Dispel is destroyed she becomes free of him and dedicates herself to being the maid of the house and stays as a good guy instead of a villain. Close to the end she discovers marriage, she arranges a marriage with Gabriel. On one episode when a police officer discovers Noelle isn't a part of the family, she takes her pride and confesses she isn't a part of the family. Luckily he lets it slide and Miruru and Gabriel almost kiss.

;nihongo|Muse|ミューズ|Myūzu:*anime voices|Sakura Tange::Muse is a shapeshifter whose ability is limited to changing into inanimate objects, though she only partially transforms. She is a reluctant henchmen and only obeys order so that she is not punished. She is never successful on her missions and is punished anyway, however. Noelle and the others never seem to notice that she is around which is partially due to her shapeshifting ability and partly due to her ineptness at interfering. She is madly in love with Eros and will doing anything he orders. She can be a bit of a crybaby at some points, but she turns out to be a bit nicer when Eros is turned to a doll. Towards the end of the second season she is revealed to be nothing but one of Silky's animated toys, along with Eros.

;nihongo|Eros|エロス|Erosu:*anime voices|Omi Minami::Eros is a demon-like creature that is a reluctant henchmen just as Muse is. He doesn't seem to notice Muse's affection towards him, instead going out of the way to please Silky and win her affection. Along with Muse, he bumps into Ruka in one episode and befriends her, he discovers that Silky is the 3rd soul of the three angels, but he is revealed to be nothing but one of Silky's animated toys towards the end of the second season. At the end of the series, she is shown joining Yuusuke and Noelle's class, with Muse and Eros, now toys, attached on her bag.

;nihongo|Mikael|ミカエル|Mikaeru:*anime voices|Akira Ishida|Sonny Strait::Mikael is a puzzling character in the beginning of "I'm Gonna Be An Angel". In the beginning of the anime, it is apparent that he shares an intangible relation with Noelle, even to the extent in which he is capable of speaking to her through telepathy. He encourages her to become an angel. He carries the Book of Chaos, in which the text fills a single page for each instance in which Noelle accomplishes an angelic deed.

;nihongo|Raphael|ラファエル|Rafaeru|extra2=/nihongo|Fuyuki Suzuhara|鈴原 冬雪|Suzuhara Fuyuki:*anime voices|Shoutarou Morikubo::Raphael is an angel whose foremost physical feature is a singular wing. He is a professor at the Angel School with Mikael as his student. He cannot be seen by most of the human world, with Noelle, Mikael, and Natsumi as exceptions and only Mikael can touch him. However, he does influence certain events of the series, in particular rescuing Noelle, Yuusuke, and child Natsumi when he granted Noelle the temporary power of flight as they fell from the clock tower in episode 13. He is benevolent and willing to assist Mikael and Noelle in their quest to become angels, and it is implied he has a romantic interest in Mikael. In the final episode of the series, Natsumi encounters him in the clock tower and realizes that he is her deceased brother.

;nihongo|Shinobu|忍先生|Shinobu:*anime voices|Mami Kingetsu|Kelli Tager:She is Noelle and Yuusuke's class teacher in school.

;nihongo|Masaru|マサル|Masaru:*anime voices|Kousuke Toriumi|Sonny Strait:One of Yuusuke's classmate.

;nihongo|Saiki|斉木|Saiki:*anime voices|Souichiro Hoshi|Moe Gans-Pomerantz:Yuusuke's classmate who wears glasses.

Episode List

Music

Opening Theme:
*nihongo|"Because I Love You!"|だって、大好き！|Datte, Daisuki!
*:Lyrics by: Miyu Yuzuki
*:Performed by: COMA
*:(Composition and arrangement by: Yoshikazu Suo, Song by: Mimi Koishi)

Ending Theme:
*nihongo|"Love is an Ocean"|あいは海|Ai wa Umi
*:Lyrics, composition and song by: Shizuru Ootaka
*:Arrangement by: Yoshikazu Suo

North American distribution

Indication that "I'm Gonna Be An Angel!" was licensed in North America was revealed on Studio Pierrot's website early 2001, but there was no mention on who the licensor was.cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-02-24/studio-pierrot-anime-licensed |title=Studio Pierrot Anime Licensed |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2001-02-24 |publisher=Anime News Network] In March 2001, Synch-Point officially announced they had acquired "I'm Gonna Be An Angel!" with FLCL for North American distribution.cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-03-30/flcl-and-i'm-gonna-be-an-angel-acquisition-announcement |title=FLCL and I'm Gonna Be An Angel Acquisition Announcement |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2001-03-30 |publisher=Anime News Network] Volume one was released on VHS on July 10 2001 as Synch-Point's debut titlecite web |url=http://www.synch-point.com/press/press61801.html |title=Synch-Point Announces the VHS Release of I'm Gonna be an Angel Vol. 1 - Earth Angel |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2001-05-18 |publisher=Synch-Point] and later released on DVD on April 23 2002. Volume two was delayed for a month and then again to an indefinite date.cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-01-10/synch-point-delays-upcoming-titles |title=Synch-Point Delays Upcoming Titles |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2001-01-10 |publisher=Anime News Network] cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-02-27/synch-point-delay |title=Synch Point delay |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2002-02-27 |publisher=Anime News Network] Two years after the first release of the first volume, Synch-Point announced they will released volume two on January 27 2004 after numerous emails from potential buyers pleaded for a release,cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2003-09-19/i'm-gonna-be-an-angel-2-date-set |title=I'm Gonna Be An Angel 2 Date set |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2003-09-19 |publisher=Anime News Network] cite web |url=http://www.bro-usa.com/sp_blog/2004/03/01/cover-girl-sara/ |title=Cover Girl: Sara |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2004-03-01 |publisher=Synch-Point] but it was delayed again until March 30 2004 because of cover design issues.cite web |url=http://www.bro-usa.com/sp_blog/2004/03/02/cover-changes/ |title=Cover Changes |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2004-03-02 |publisher=Synch-Point]

At Fanime 2005, Synch-Point told the public that "I'm Gonna Be An Angel" had not been making a profit for them so they had to "raise funds with other projects first".cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-06-09/synch-point-on-i'm-gonna-be-an-angel-release |title=Synch-Point on I'm Gonna be an Angel Release |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2005-06-09 |publisher=Anime News Network] They planned to release volume four to six as a set, but no releases have been made after volume three was released on January 4 2005, almost a year after volume two was released.cite web |url=http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/3446.php |title=I'm Gonna Be An Angel Vol. #3 |accessdate=2007-10-27|date=2005-06-22 |publisher=Anime on DVD]

References

External links

* [http://pierrot.jp/title/tenshi/index.html Studio Pierrot 天使になるもんっ! Official site] ja icon
* [http://www.b-ch.com/cgi-bin/contents/ttl/det.cgi?ttl_c=773 BANDAI CHANNEL 天使になるもんっ!] jp icon
* [http://www.synch-point.com/production/tenshi Synch-Point's site] en icon
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