Alice 19th

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Alice 19th ( jap.あ り す 19th) is a completed manga series by the Japanese artist Yuu Watase , who also wrote Fushigi Yuugi and Ayashi no Ceres . The manga can be assigned to the Shōjo genre.

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15-year-old Alice, like her sister Mayura, who is one year older than her, is in love with the young Kyo Wakamiya. The shy, inconspicuous Alice does not manage to confess her love to the model schoolchildren and heartthrob. Instead, her sister gets together with Kyo.

The story begins with Alice saving the life of a little white rabbit on the street, who escapes but leaves behind a bracelet with a gemstone. The next time he meets the rabbit, he turns into a little girl with rabbit ears and magical powers. She introduces herself as Nyoseka and tells Alice about powerful rune-like symbols, the lotis and the malamu. She claims Alice is her long-sought Lotis Master , a master of sacred words . Alice is introduced to a new world and learns to control the positive energy of the lotis and to fear the negative energy of the malamu. Inadvertently, she uses the Malamu's energy in a situation where she is confused and angry, thereby causing her sister to disappear into the darkness of the heart (also called the inner heart). Together with Kyo, who is also becoming a Lotis Master, she goes in search of her sister. On their journey they meet other lotus masts, including Frey Willhazen, a lotism master from Norway. Together they travel into the inner hearts of many people lost in the darkness of the Malamu. Mayura is also in such an inner heart.

Although it initially seems as if the manga takes up motifs from Alice in Wonderland , the borrowings are limited to the name of the protagonist, the rabbit figure and the immersion of the normal girl in a magical world.

Publications

Alice 19th appeared in Japan from 2001 to 2003 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Shōjo Comic , in which, at the same time, Anatolia Story by Chie Shinohara and "Kare" First Love by Kaho Miyasaka were published. The Shogakukan publishing house also published these individual chapters in seven edited volumes.

The manga has appeared in the USA, France and Germany, among others. The series of Egmont Manga and Anime has been published in German in individual chapters in the monthly manga magazine Manga Twister since October 2003 . From February 2005 to September 2006 the publisher also brought out the seven edited volumes.

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