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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:
- All Of The Other Reindeer - Mikan, especially in the beginning.
- Badass Adorable - Mikan in the Hanahime-den arc of the manga.
- Baka (Mikan shouts this a lot, especially at Natsume)
- Bishonen (This is a shojo series after all)
- Blithe Spirit (Mikan. She doesn't quite agree with the ideology of most other students)
- Book Dumb (Mikan, who is quite clever and resourceful outside of class. Sometimes.)
- 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
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Mikan.
- Determinator - Mikan, boy howdy!
- Dogged Nice Guy (Or girl: Mikan with regard to Hotaru)
- Elevator School
- Emotionless Girl (Hotaru)
- Expy (Arguably, Hotaru, who looks a lot like the Hotaru from Sailor Moon (though Sailor Moon's Hotaru has a completely different personality))
- 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 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.)
- Go Ask Alice
- Honest Johns Dealership (Hotaru, to some extent)
- Ho Yay (Mostly concentrated around Narumi and his pheromone Alice)
- 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))
- 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.)
- Jerk With A Heart Of Gold (Natsume)
- Kansai Regional Accent
- Kimodameshi
- Kuudere (Hotaru, with regard to Mikan's affection)
- 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)
- Little Miss Snarker (Hotaru)
- Locked In A Room (Mikan and Natsume, at the haunted house)
- 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.)
- The Messiah (Mikan)
- 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
- Not What It Looks Like
- Overtook The Manga (Which resulted in a Gecko Ending for the anime.)
- Parental Abandonment
- 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.
- Relax O Vision
- Robot Me (Amanatsu, Mikan's robotic copy)
- Romantic Two Girl Friendship (Mikan and Hotaru, though it is somewhat one-sided.)
- Occasionally requited however, especially in the festival dance episode.
- 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.
- School Festival
- Shojo
- Sitting On The Roof (Done by Mikan in the end)
- 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)
- 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.)
- Toy Ship: Where do we start? Now, let's see...
- Mikan and Hotaru, which started it all...
- Mikan and Natsume.
- Mikan and Ruka.
- Hotaru and Ruka, who actually hate each other's guts.
- Hotaru and Natsume.
- Sumire and Natsume.
- Don't forget Ruka and Sumire!
- Let's just stop here and say that there's a lot.
- 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)
