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alt title(s): Alice Academy 
Gakuen Alice is an anime centering around 10-year-old Mikan Sakura, who is dismayed when her best friend Hotaru is transferred away to a boarding school for genius students. When she learns that Hotaru is not allowed to visit or write back home, Mikan becomes suspicious, and travels alone to the school to investigate. She discovers that Hotaru is attending Alice Academy, a school specifically for children with special powers called Alices. Mikan meets a teacher named Narumi who says that Mikan herself has an Alice, and he requests to have her enrolled.
Though Mikan is bullied by the other students and some of the faculty, and often abandoned by Hotaru, she loves her new home at Alice Academy and remains optimistic about her life there. But as time goes on, she learns sinister secrets and meets people who suggest the school may not be as benevolent as she originally believed.
Based on the shojo manga of the same name, which is still running and has much backstory yet to be resolved.
Provides examples of:
- Accidental Kiss - Natsume and Mikan in the Christmas Ball when a dancing pair bumps into them, resulting in a crash. Or rather, "her teeth hit his". Doesn't matter. Natsume makes it permanent and undeniable later on the same night. Consider this also a First Kiss.
- All Of The Other Reindeer - Mikan, especially in the beginning.
- Ambiguously Gay - Rui.
- Badass Adorable - Mikan in the Hanahime-den arc of the manga.
- Baka - Mikan shouts this a lot, especially at Natsume (though more for his jerkass-y attitude than being an actual idiot). Hotaru does it to a lot of people (with inventions made for that purpose), especially Mikan. Others do it to others. In fact, many characters get called this at some point except those who are just not fit for the word.
- Big Brother Instinct - Natsume to Aoi. Also to Youichi, for that matter.
- Bishonen- This is a shojo series after all.
- Blithe Spirit - Mikan. She doesn't quite agree with the ideology of most other students.
- Blue With Shock
- Book Dumb - Mikan, who is quite clever and resourceful outside of class. Sometimes.
- Break His Heart To Save Him - Yes, this Trope seems to plague these two. Let's see:
- Natsume does this to Mikan at one point before the Z Arc once Persona drops the "kitten of a different color" being in danger.
- Mikan becomes a culprit of this herself in Chapter 81 once she tells Natsume that him worrying about her was troublesome when he asked what was wrong, and she was avoiding answering. This time the warning was dropped by Luna, who basically told her that if she wanted as less casualties as possible, to keep her mouth shut about what she's doing. Which is more or less endangering Mikan's life and causing accidents - only to make it look like it's Mikan's fault as a way for her to garner attention to herself. In other words, just leading the student body to hate her. There's a higher reason for this ( to bait the Missing Mom at first, yet once Mikan's Stealing Alice was revealed...), but that's the gist.
- Natsume does it a second time in the Sports Festival by coldly telling everyone that Mikan wasn't his concern and it wasn't theirs either after she almost dropped to her death in the Cheer competition. Though somewhat unintentionally as Mikan overheard him. The threat given was by Luna again in that the best thing he could do for the girl is to turn people away from her.
- Butt Monkey - Mikan and Tsubasa. Tsubasa gets it a little worse since most of the kids bullying him are four to eleven years younger than him.
- Catgirl- Sumire's Alice, with some dog thrown in for good measure.
- Cerebus Syndrome - The manga, which takes a nosedive into serious angst around chapter 90.
- Class Representative - Tobita
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Mikan.
- Color Failure
- Cross Popping Veins
- Determinator - Mikan, boy howdy!
- Dogged Nice Guy - Or girl: Mikan with regard to Hotaru.
- Dope Slap - A more violent equivalent, and looking less lighthearted. Can happen to other characters rarely, and used as part of the comedy. Comes with a rare side of Paper Fan Of Doom. But Mikan gets this SO much for her behavior, you have to wonder why she hasn't suffered severe head trauma. But that's Made Of Iron for you.
- Elemental Powers - Some Alices fill this Trope. Few examples being:
- Natsume, with the Alice of Fire
- Nobara, with the Alice of Ice.
- Jinno-sensei, with the Alice of Lightning. Or a derivation.
- Hayate, with the Alice of Wind.
- Elevator School
- Emotionless Girl - Hotaru
- Ensemble Darkhorse - MindReader-kun
- Even The Girls Want Her - Yuri, though justified with the unfortunate Alice she was graced with.
- Everyone Can See It - Misaki and Tsubasa can get this.
- Everythings Better With Penguins - In the manga, it was a caring robot penguin simply named Penguin, who, despite being a machine, showed a plethora of emotions. Noted to be one of Hotaru's inventions made in the summer before Mikan came to the academy. The reason for its creation stems from one of Hotaru's many request letters, where a lonely 64 year old man whose daughter and son-in-law died asked for it, according to one of the fanbooks, with instructions to make it adorable, and able to give him strength (figuratively). However, it was returned because it pitifully missed her and kept crying. It appeared many times with the characters, and even joined (or rather, snuck in) Natsume, Mikan, Tsubasa, and Luca in their quest to retrieve Hotaru's medicine and Tobita's alice. But... bring your tissues with you. It died bravely to save Mikan in Chapter 43, giving us one of the early Tear Jerker moments of the story. OH, Penguin.
- Expy- Arguably, Hotaru, who looks a lot like the Hotaru from Sailor Moon (though Sailor Moon's Hotaru has a completely different personality).
- Eyes Always Shut - Nodachi-sensei. And random one time character Hoshino.
- Face Fault
- Fan Nickname - The Elementary School Principal is referred to by fans as the ESP or PSP (Primary School Principal) for short.
- Festival Episode
- First Guy Wins - With Luca's I Want My Beloved To Be Happy, which was more or less the only thing preventing it from happening in the ever love triangle, Natsume has become this. Unless you count Hotaru...
- First Name Basis - Something Natsume has a hard time with.
- Friend To All Living Things - This is more or less Luca's Alice.
- Gadgeteer Genius - Hotaru.
- Gender Blender Name - In the manga, Narumi's first name is revealed to be Anju, which probably explains why he's never used it.
- Give Her A Normal Life - Yuka sort of fits this Trope. Unfortunately, or as predicted, didn't turn out as planned.
- Go Ask Alice
- He Is Not My Boyfriend- With some variations here and there, this is typically Misaki's response every time someone mentions her and Tsubasa as something else.
- Hidden Eyes
- Honest Johns Dealership - Hotaru, to some extent.
- Hot Dad - Izumi Yukihira.
- Hot Mom - Luca's mother AND Kaoru Hyuuga, who is Natsume's. And gee, would you look at their sons.
- Hot For Student - Yuka and Yukihara-sensei. Resulted in a certain little bundle of love we know.
- Hot Teacher - Yukihira- sensei, Misaki-sensei, Narumi-sensei...and if principals count too, most definitely and infinitely the high school one (not surprising, considering he's related to the Hot Dad, after all).
- Ho Yay - Mostly concentrated around Narumi and his pheromone Alice.
- Rui to Tsubasa like wow, or any guy who might be pretty. That is, if you don't think he's rather vague in his preferences, if at all.
- An Ice Person - Nobara
- Ill Girl - Hotaru becomes one in the sixth volume of the manga, when she uses herself as a human shield for Mikan.
- Innocent Cohabitation - Natsume and Mikan do this once. Well, more like Natsume FORCES her to, despite that the effects of being stuck from the mochi Tsubasa spoiled wore off, much to her depression. Comes with 1/2 There Is Only One Bed and 1/2 Beautiful Dreamer (Natsume is the one sleeping), at that.
- Hotaru and Luca as well, but they are honestly still stuck. It's also with Youichi.
- Instant Fan Club - Natsume has one.
- So does Yukihara-sensei - ( Mikan's father) in the flashback arc of the manga
- Is That Cute Kid Yours - And they're in elementary school.
- I Want My Beloved To Be Happy - Poor Luca has finally given in the towel. With a six paged speech about it, too.
- Jerk With A Heart Of Gold - Natsume.
- Kansai Regional Accent
- Kimodameshi
- Killer Rabbit - Bear. Just. Bear.
- Kuudere - Hotaru, with regard to Mikan's affection. And to Luca, for that matter (though it's debatable).
- Lethal Chef - Anna.
- Les Yay - Mikan at times has pretty vivid fantasies about Hotaru.
- What about the episode where Mikan rolls around in bed, hugging and kissing the pillow while repeatedly saying Hotaru's name in her sleep?! Let's face it, Mikan is basically a lesbian.
- The Libby - Sumire, AKA Permy. Though she gets better.
- Light Is Good - Thrown around when referring to Mikan, who is often described as a light within the darkness, or a light found. Bright, with a strong heart, and helps bring happiness to those around her. More so when it comes to Natsume, who she "will save" - which was the sole reason why Narumi even partnered them up in the first place. The light virtues were more or less "inherited" through her father, who was thought of the same way to aid in changing the academy. Also the children's light, that can't be muttered by the darkness, and there's a need to protect them so they won't pass through pain or hardships.
- Like An Old Married Couple - Misaki and Tsubasa. Not surprisingly.
- Little Miss Snarker - Hotaru.
- Locked In A Room - Mikan and Natsume, at the haunted house.
- Love Triangle - Guess which. Just guess. They fall under Type 3. There's also the much smaller Izumi/Yuka/Narumi, which is Type 4.
- Luminescent Blush
- Made Of Iron - Mikan, who can take amazing amounts of physical abuse.
- Magic Skirt
- Mask Power - Persona, and Natsume when he's destroying things.
- Meaningful Name - Yuri. She has a female pheromone Alice. Do the math.
- Mega Manning - Using the Steal Alice to great effect.
- The Messiah - Mikan.
- Metrosexual - Narumiiiiiii.
- Mind Control Eyes
- Mood Whiplash
- Mundane Utility - The students have no problems to use their Alices for amusement, like at the school festival.
- Naive Newcomer
- Noblewomans Laugh - Sumire can do this at rare times. In the manga, at least.
- Not What It Looks Like - Mikan and Natsume in the haunted mansion, when he lifted up her skirt and saw her panties, calling her "Strawberry". Naturally, she went over to attack him, but it turned rather unfortunate, and it left them in compromising positions. Cue the others appearing to watch it in time and Mikan panicking afterward.
- Oblivious To Love - Mikan. Sometimes Misaki as well when it comes to Tsubasa...or is she really? Hmm.
- Odd Friendship - Mikan and Hotaru. Even mentioned by some in the actual canon as well.
- Odd Shaped Panel
- Omake
- Overtook The Manga - Which resulted in a Gecko Ending for the anime.
- Parental Abandonment - Forced abandonment. The main reason as to why you'd want to avoid sending your Alice gifted kids there as much as possible. Unless you wish to not see or hear from them ever until they get out (or until a student wins a one week vacation as a prize for being exceptional), or you want the government's money for them. Mikan follows the Missing Mom (as well as Natsume), and Disappeared Dad.
- Playing With Fire - Natsume.
- Put On A Bus - Amanatsu.
- The Power Of Friendship
- Power Nullifier - Leading to a Fridge Logic explanation for the seemingly nice teacher helping Mikan get in: He really just wanted her there to help control the other kids.
- To be fair, in the manga Narumi had much more valid reasoning. Mikan's father also had the nullification Alice, which is quite rare, so he suspects some relation.
- Puppy Dog Eyes
- Raised By Grandparents - Or can be seen as such to Mikan.
- Relax O Vision
- Ridiculously Cute Critter - Penguin.
- Romantic Two Girl Friendship - Mikan and Hotaru, though it is somewhat one-sided.
- Occasionally requited however, especially in the festival dance episode.
- Yuka and Kaoru were almost borderline this. Almost.
- Sadist Teacher - Jinno. Subverted in the last episode, when he turns out to be a decent guy.
- And in the manga, where he's one of the good guys and has been all along. But still sadistic.
- Say It With Hearts - Narumi in the manga. Oh God, Narumi. Rui is another one, only with SayItWithStars.
- School Festival
- Shojo
- Shy Blue Haired Girl - Nobara.
- Sitting On The Roof - Done by Mikan in the end.
- Slapstick - And how!
- Spiritual Successor - The anime has a great deal in common with another shoujo from ten years prior, Kodocha, including but not limited to Mikan being practically a clone of that series' lead, Sana.
- Split Personality - Nobara, in some form or another.
- Sprouting Ears - Very common in the manga.
- Tall Dark And Snarky - Eliminating the "tall", Natsume in the first half, but he changes slowly as he gets Character Development.
- Tear Jerker - Most of the manga from about chapter 90 on (and other situations before that, possibly). Particularly Yukihara-sensei's death, and the aftermath
- Title Confusion - The series is called Gakuen Alice, but the school is called Alice Gakuen. The Animax dub simplifies this by calling the show Alice Academy.
- Together Umbrella - In a chapter where the Special Abilities class find old photo albums when cleaning, they also find graffiti done by past students in a wall behind a cupboard. One of them had written "Yuka" and "Sensei" under a drawn umbrella symbol. Mikan, unaware at that point of what it meant for her (it's her parents), drew a line downwards where she wrote her name. Even before that, on one of Yuka's flashbacks, Izumi found her on a rainy day sitting on a stool-step, upset with people shunning her for her Alice. He, of course, had an umbrella opened.
- Toy Ship: Where do we start? Now, let's see...
- Troubled But Cute - Natsume.
- Unspoken Plan
- What Kind Of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway - Mikan gets teased for her Alice, which is not particularly flashy compared to other students'. It does, however, turn out to be extremely useful in the right situations.
- Wizarding School
- The Woobie - Mikan, especially when she first enters the school and has to bear plenty of snobbery from the other students and a crappy dorm room. Things gravitate from worse to better as the plot progresses, though she has friends to back her up and protect her heavily by then.
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