Alice to Zouroku

Episode:

This whole episode I was thinking "Sana can do pretty much anything by thinking, how is she getting manhandled by someone who can only create arms? Just turn her into a turnip or something!"

Yeah, yeah I know she's a little girl and isn't thinking straight, but doesn't that show she isn't a monster? Because i she was the whole evil organization would be very dead by now.

I got the impression she could create anything, which isn't the same as being able to do everything.

Aside from creating stuff she showed that she can warp space, teleport, read minds, destroy stuff, telekinesis, healing and cleaning. There doesn't seem to be a hard limit beyond her imagination.

Which is probably limited considering she's never been in the outside world before.

Once they get back Zouroku should have her binge watch Elfen Lied or something. That oughta jump start her imagination about what to do next time. Of course, turning Sana into Lucy might not be such a great idea...

Never give powerful beings those kinds of ideas.

I'm rather interested in Sanae's dream meeting. Who was that lady?

Sana going all Lucy on those assholes would be awesome.

I'm pretty sure that it was her future self.

That actually makes a ton of sense.

Episode 5 and we learn what happenes when the Gate of Babylon goes up against a magical girl. Nice resolution all around and maybe we'll get some more slice of life stuff next episode.

Man, Shizuku is packing heat! She's not your ordinary maid. That battle was pretty awesome.

Huh, the evil institute is dismantled already? That was easy.

"I can do anything!" - well now wouldn't that be useful just a while ago.

Wonder where the series will go from now on.

Too easy, but at least they didn't forget all about it like some other series I could mention...

Or mess around until only the last episode or two, at best.

edited 1st May '17 11:20:03 AM by sgamer82

Minnie C's real name is Miriam, IIRC, and as I gather from the backstory she's indeed Japanese-American. Though I don't get why in episode 5 she gets deported through the US military channels — she's apparently been already discharged.

Let's not count out evil mysterious organization just yet.

There's apparently a recap episode this week. Not that I see a point in a recap episode for such a short series.

New episode is out:

What a nice relaxing one after the last two were all action. I like how Zoroku doesn't actually want Sana to not use her powers, just to use them wisely.

Also, aww they've become a family.

Getting caught up on episodes (I'm a few weeks behind) and, in ep 4, I like how Sanae has her very polite Calling the Old Man Out and proceeds to end it with "I'm done"

Heh, Sana's attempt to be awesome foiled by a candy wrapper.

Watching ep 6 and Sana says "it smells" so much it's practically a catchphrase or character tic

So, question, were someone to make a work page of the series, should it be "Alice & Zoroku", as advertised on Crunchyroll, or "Alice & Zouroku", with the U? Normally I'd assume as advertised not noticed in the sixth episode opening they spelled it with a U on the title. Just confirmed it goes all the way back to ep 2

edited 15th May '17 5:26:28 AM by sgamer82

Well, it depends on spelling policy. It's spelled with "u" becauze Zouroku has a "long o" sound in his name, which is written either with a macron, or with an additional "u" in Latin script. And in Japanese it is different from the common "o", and the distinction is actually meaningful. Like "shoujo" being little girl, and "shojo" meaning "virgin".

PS: Zoroku is totally that MIB dude's senpai!

edited 15th May '17 7:41:56 AM by Khathi

How to Create a Work's Page specifies "TV Tropes is an English-language wiki, so we prefer to use the English titles where applicable. So if the work has an official localized title, use the English title for the page and add the non-English title as a redirect."

Going by that, Zoroku should be used since that's how promotional material advertises it. The only reason I even question it is because Zouroku appears within the series itself in the opening.

Could be that for Sana all those smells and odors are new and exciting.

How the devil can some old coot boss around powerful superhumans who could turn him into a pincushion if they wanted with the flick of their hand?! To hell with that!

You vastly underestimate the power of Grumpy Old Man. You also forget the only ones who weren't scared of him were either allies like Ichijo or, in the case of Minnie C, had no motive or incentive to harm him beyond good presence. The rest were kids who probably weren't in double digits yet.

EDIT: I went and made a trope page at Alice & Zoroku. Description feels a bit sparse but it covers the basic premise well enough.

edited 19th May '17 6:11:04 PM by sgamer82

Episode 7: In which a certain not-quite-human gets frazzled. And it's messing with her programming.

The twins come from an abusive background. Though we don't dwell too much on that, and instead focus on those two and Sana reaffirming their friendship. Aww. It was cute how they decided who should be the older twin, too.

Weren't they just deciding it by using their card flower things an Identical Twin ID Tag? Personally I found it kind of sad even they apparently couldn't tell each other apart, according to Ichijo.

I was wondering if we'll get to see the twins again and here they are. Nice to see they are doing good and that they made up with Sana.

I'm worried about Sana's "Frazzling". It sounds serious.