I'm Gonna Be An Angel!

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I'm Gonna Be An Angel!
天使になるもんっ (Tenshi ni Narumon)
Genre	Comedy
TV anime
Directed by	Hiroshi Nishikiori
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Network	Animax
Original run	7 April 1999 – 29 September 1999
No. of episodes	26

I'm Gonna Be An Angel! (天使になるもんっ, Tenshi ni Narumon^?) is an anime produced by Studio Pierrot. It is licensed for release in the United States by Synch-Point.

[edit] Story

I'm Gonna Be An Angel! is the story of Yūsuke Kamoshita who is living alone until he literally stumbles across a girl called Noelle, a very energetic girl who claims is trying to become an angel. Noelle and her entire family proceed to move into Yūsuke's very large home and disrupt his life.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Characters
Name	Seiyū

Noelle	Tomoko Kawakami	Image of Noelle
Noelle is an energetic angel in training. She shows great affection towards Yūsuke 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 Yūsuke once she has completed her training.

Yūsuke Kamoshita	Issei Miyazaki	Image of Yūsuke Kamoshita
Yūsuke 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.

Natsumi Suzuhara	Yukana Nogami	Image of Natsumi
Natsumi is Yūsuke's classmate, whom he is in love with. She is an athletic diver. She is often spied upon by Yūsuke and his classmates from a small window at the diving complex at their school. She has a serious personality.

Papa	Juurouta Kosugi	Image of the family
Papa is Noelle's father, and is a Frankenstein monster-like creature. He has a calm demeanour.

Mama	Noriko Hidaka
Mama is Noelle's mother. She is the most normal member of the family of monsters.

Baba	Tomoko Naka
Baba is Noelle's grandmother and is a witch. She strongly dislikes humans and, ergo, is against Noelle wanting to marry Yūsuke .

Gabriel	Nobutoshi Hayashi
Gabriel is Noelle's older brother, and is a vampire. He enjoys teasing Yūsuke, and is horribly afraid of cats.

Ruka	Ikue Ohtani
Ruka 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.

Sara	Ayako Kawasumi
Sara is Noelle's older sister. She has the power to turn invisible, and spends a lot of her time in this form.

Miruru	Mayumi Iizuka	Image of Miruru
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.

Dispel	Mitsuo Iwata
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.

Muse	Sakura Tange	Image of Muse and Eros
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 inaptness at interfering.

Eros		Image of eros
Eros is a demon-like creature that is a reluctant henchmen just as Muse is.

Silky	Hiroko Konishi
Originally when Dispel appeared to be in control, Silky seemed to be a doormat 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.

Michael & Raphael	Akira Ishida & Shoutarou Morikubo	Image of Michael and Raphael
Michael 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. Raphael is an angel whose foremost physical feature is a singular wing. He is a professor at the Angel School with Michael as his student. He cannot be seen by most of the human world, with Noelle, Michael, and Natsumi as exceptions and only Michael can touch him. However, he does influence certain events of the series, in particular rescuing Noelle, Yūsuke, 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 Michael and Noelle in their quest to become angels. In the final episode of the series, Natsumi encounters him in the clock tower and realizes that he is her deceased brother. Michael and Raphael share an apartment in the second half of the series. They are in a romatic relationship and display typical Japanese 'married for 10 years' behaviour. Though Michael has a serious attitude and often berates Raphael for his indecent teasing.