Poor Miyuki-chan is Late for School. As she hurries down the street, a girl in a bunny outfit skateboards by. The bunny girl enters a portal, and Miyuki-chan falls in. It's like Wonderland, except with an entirely female cast and being significantly more perverted. After a series of misadventures, Miyuki-chan wakes up, is late for school, and as she hurries down the street, a girl in a bunny outfit skateboards by.
The next part involves her getting sucked into the looking glass. Similar craziness ensues.
And that was just the anime version. The manga version has even more adventures for her as Miyuki keeps dreaming one lesbic dream after another.
The standard Miyuki-chan adventure goes like this:
- Miyuki is doing some mundane task or viewing some fiction.
- Things start getting a lot stranger. Miyuki will likely be sucked into the fiction.
- If it hasn't already, the world becomes much Hotter and Sexier.
Les Yay abounds. - Miyuki protests most or all of what's happening.
- Miyuki wakes up.
- Some evidence shows up that it wasn't just a dream or she's still in the dream.
Probably CLAMP's most titillating work ever, the manga was serialized in Newtype from 1993 to 1995 and compiled into a single volume. It was licensed in English by Tokyopop, and later by Viz Media after Tokyopop's closure in 2009. The manga was adapted to a two-episode OVA in 1995.
Miyuki-chan in Wonderland provides examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptation Distillation: Just covers the first couple chapters.
- Adaptation Expansion: Expands on the first couple chapters.
- Affectionate Parody: The chapter with the fighting waitresses is pretty blatantly a Shout-Out to Variable Geo.
- All Women Are Lustful: Played straight with the other characters. Double-subversion with Miyuki when you remember that this is all in her head.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In one translation at least, Miyuki seems more worried that she's being made late for school rather than having seemingly fallen into another dimension.
- Bitch Slap: The chess pieces in Mirrorland remove a piece by walking up to them and slapping them in the face, at which point their clothes vanish and they run off the board in shame.
- Black Comedy Rape: Miyuki gets sexually harassed by quite a few ladies.
- Cat Girl: The Cheshire cat is a redhead wearing a striped sexy cat outfit.
- Clothing Damage
- Miyuki's outfit tends to get ripped up over the course of a chapter.
- Also during the human chess game in the anime, when one of the pieces is captured all her clothes disappear.
- Crossover
- One of the manga stories has Miyuki getting sucked into a movie version of X.
- Miyuki appears as a client in one episode of CLAMP School Detectives.
- She also shows up in several chapters of Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- — but that is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover itself.
- Cute Monster Girl: Miuki dreams of so many girls like this.
- Dominatrix: The Queen of Hearts has a spiked corset (even over her breasts) and a Whip of Dominance. She tries to "punish" Miyuki, while her servants beg to be punished by her.
- Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: Other women's sexually predatory behavior towards Miyuki is generally portrayed as some combination of comedic and titillating. Then again, considering it happens over the course of a series of homoerotic dreams Miyuki is having...
- Dream Within a Dream: Possibly done in other episodes/chapters but explicitly done in chapter one of the manga and episode one of the anime.
- Ecchi: This gets very explicit at times, like when the chess pieces have their clothes vanish.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Pretty much every female character is attracted to Miyuki and most of them act on it.
- Fetish: It's implied a lot of the goings on are secretly Miyuki's kinks."I've never been turned on by chess pieces before!"
- Fluffy Fashion Feathers: Humpty Dumpty is a grandly dressed lady (just sitting in an egg), who wears a feather wrap.
- Fur Bikini: Quite a few girls wear various kinds, from the Cheshire cat(girl) wearing a fuzzy one piece, to devil girls wearing fur bras.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: The only CLAMP work to be this titillating, at least on purpose.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: The first chapter, and episode, directly implies it, but it's strongly suggested that each chapter is effectively endless.
- Hotter and Sexier: Miyuki's adventures are often much sexier than the source material they parody.
- Improbably Female Cast: Absolutely zero males in this.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: The (Bondage) Queen of Hearts. Yeah...
- Marshmallow Hell: Done to Miyuki by an anthropomorphic door.
- Mêlée à Trois: Six waitresses including Miyuki have a no-holds-barred fight to strip each other.
- Mental Story: The bulk of the series appears to be Miyuki's dreams. Sometimes there are hints these dreams or real—or that Miyuki was dreaming even when she appears to be awake.
- Mirror Match: The Mirrorland denizens force Miyuki to play Human Chess against her Mirrorland counterpart, declaring that the loser has to strip naked. Miyuki laments that since they're identical, either way she will be seen naked.
- Naughty by Night: Miyuki; a cute, shy Ordinary High-School Student with a lot of secret kinks.
- Parachute Petticoat: Miyuki uses her skirt as a parachute when she falls.
- Proper Lady: Deconstructed. She tries to be a Proper Lady, and outwardly she is, but even she has her wild sexual side at odds with her cute and shy demeanor, and it confuses and frightens her.
- Queer Flowers: In the anime, Miyuki arruns across two anthropomorphic flowers, Lily and Violet, frolicking in the grass. Lily has white hair, lingerie that looks more like bandages, and wears lilies in her hair. Violet has purple hair and a purple corset, both decked with little violets. They ask Miyuki to join them.
- Refusal of the Call: In a couple of chapters Miyuki protests being The Chosen One of her dream.
- Requisite Royal Regalia: The kings and queens (both ladies though) in the chess game wear ermine-trimmed capes.
- Rule of Glamorous: Some of the clothes are impossibly glamorous, even though they are also meant to be sexy.
- Screw Yourself: Miyuki's own reflection comes on to her.
- Sexy Whatever Outfit: Loads are worn, from roses being ladies in sexy flower outfits, to maids in even skimplier outfits than typical, to sexy cat girls and bunny girls.
- She Is the King: Played with in Human Chess game Miyuki plays. All the pieces, including both kings, are attractive women.
- Shout-Out:
- Miyuki-Chan in TV-Land opens with Miyuki moaning that she missed a late-night showing of Barbarella.
- Miyuki-Chan in Part-Time Job Land looks to have been heavily inspired by the Advanced Variable Geo games.
- Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: Of the "No Male Characters" flavor.
- Stealth Pun: In the Wonderland segment, Miyuki meets a bunch of flower fairies. One of them is based on a lily. A lily is pronounced "Yuri" in Japanese.
- Stripperiffic: About half the outfits are not meant to be practical.
- There Are No Therapists: At least ones that could help Miyuki figure out what her dreams mean. They mean she's a closeted lesbian with several kinky fetishes. That'll be ¥15,000 please, ma'am.
- Toast of Tardiness: In the Wonderland chapter/segment, Miyuki is Late for School, with the requisite toast. Her cries of "I'm Late!" turn into the White Rabbit's "I'm Late!"
- Too Kinky to Torture: Some of the Queen of Heart's servants want to be punished for disobeying her.
- Whip of Dominance: The Queen of Hearts is a Dominatrix styled evil queen who wields a long black whip for both combat purposes and to "punish" others. She even has a cadre of submissive servants who are eager to be whipped by her. She takes sadistic joy when using her whip in her attempt to make Miyuki "submit" to her.
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