Alice Academy

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Alice Academy
Original title 学園 ア リ ス
transcription Gakuen Arisu
genre Comedy , romance , shōjo
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Tachibana Higuchi
publishing company Hakusensha
magazine Hana to Yume
First publication September 2002 - June 20, 2013
expenditure 31
Anime television series
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Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2004
Studio Group TAC , Aniplex
length 25 minutes
Episodes 26th
Director Takahiro Omori
idea Tachibana Higuchi
production Gakuen Alice Production Committee
music Makoto Yoshimori
First broadcast October 30, 2004 - May 14, 2005 on NHK
synchronization

Alice Academy ( Japanese 学園 ア リ ス , Gakuen Arisu ) is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Tachibana Higuchi , which can be assigned to the Shōjo genre. The manga was also known as anime - TV series implemented.

The action revolves around a young girl who is being trained in a special school. There children learn with special supernatural abilities, so-called Alice.

content

Action environment and history

The Alice Academy teaches students who have supernatural abilities. These abilities are called Alice like their owner ; it could be telekinesis or the ability to levitate, for example . In rare cases, a student may have two or three of these skills. The aim of the Alice Academy is to train the students in such a way that they can control their powers in order to later use them for society. The school is sealed off from the outside world and there are few external contacts for the students. The teachers therefore also live on the premises of the school, which is located in a large forest in the middle of Tokyo . All of this is intended to protect the students, as the government fears that their powers could be abused. The Alice are divided into five groups, which are separated from one another according to their abilities. The students in the individual groups are housed and taught separately from each other. In the school there are elementary, middle and high schools, in which the students are also hierarchized by star ranks . These can consist of up to three stars or a special rank and indicate how well the Alice masters her powers and how strong they are.

Very little is known about the Alice Academy in the population because of its isolation and various conspiracy theories are circulating. The Company Z wants to eliminate Alice Academy and let the children go to regular schools. According to the organization, the children in the Academy are exploited and badly treated by the state. A member of the organization is the girl Yuka, who entered into a relationship with her teacher during her time at Alice Academy and became pregnant. The teacher was killed and Yuka left the Academy with the help of the teacher's brother and gave birth to the girl Mikan Sakura at her best friend's house, who then grew up with her grandfather in the country.

action

Ten-year-old Mikan Sakura grew up with her grandfather in a small village. When Hotaru Imai joins her class, the two soon become friends. But Hotaru has an inventor Alice and therefore has to go to the Alice Academy soon. Mikan is sad about the loss of her best friend and after a while decides to go to school with the savings of her grandfather Hotaru.

At the gates of the school she meets the teacher Narumi, who believes that Mikan has an Alice. He wants to register Mikan and take her to the headmaster of the school in the main building, but first meets Alice Natsume Hyūga, who is about to flee from school. Narumi speaks to the director and tells Mikan that she has been accepted with reservations. However, it is difficult for her to settle in because Hotaru gives her the cold shoulder and Natsume and Luca, the "panty thieves", are in their class. But when Mikan is attacked by others, Hotaru protects her and they become friends again. But now Natsume demands that Mikan walk through the dangerous northern forest in order to be accepted by the class.

Characters

Mikan Sakura ( 佐 倉 蜜柑 )
She is very kind and helpful, cries quite often and is always upset. She sees the teacher Narumi as a substitute for father and trusts him blindly. Your Alice is the self-protection Alice and theft Alice.
Hotaru Imai ( 今井 蛍 )
Hotaru is reluctant to show her feelings, but doing what she thinks is assertive and helpful. She is also very stingy and greedy for money. Your Alice is the inventor Alice.
Natsume Hyūga ( 日 向 棗 )
Natsume is usually very cool and never smiles. He was assigned to the danger group and is notorious and feared at school. Since he hates the Academy, he tries to escape frequently. Little by little he develops feelings for Mikan. His Alice is the Fire Alice.
Luca Nogi ( 乃 木 流 架 , Nogi Ruka )
Luca mostly hides his sensitivity, but gets along well with Mikan. He is also friends with Natsume, as well as with Hotaru and Tobita. Most of the time he carries a white rabbit around with him. His Alice is the animal pheromone Alice.
Narumi ( 鳴 海 )
The teacher Narumi looks after class 1B, is always friendly and helps his students. He also tries to protect his students as well as he can and to get them on the right path. His Alice is the pheromone Alice.
Yū Tobita ( 飛 田 裕 )
The class representative from 1B. He is kind and generous in helping Mikan. However, he's a bit scared. His Alice is the illusion Alice with whom he can create illusions for others.
Sumire Shōda ( 正 田 ス ミ レ )
She is the top bitch of class 1B and chairman of Natsumes and Lucas fan club. She adores the two of them, and she also bothers Mikan and other less popular classmates, but has a nice core. She has a cat-dog Alice, which allows her to transform into cat and dog at the same time.
Tsubasa Andō ( 安藤 翼 )
He is Mikan's senpai and like Natsume in the danger group. He loves Misaki and is quite cheeky, but also very lovable. He likes to tease Mikan and calls her dwarf. Besides, he doesn't like Tono very much because he teased him as a small child. He has a shadow player Alice, with which he can control other people's movements in the shadows.
Misaki Harada ( 原田 美 咲 )
She is a popular student in middle school. She is in the special group and very nice and lovable. If

she asks whether she and Tsubasa are a couple, ignoring or denying it. However, she and Tsubasa Ando meet later. She has a doppelganger Alice, which she can use to double herself.

Misaki-sensei ( 岬 先生 )
He is a teacher in the techno group and also a biology teacher. He is friends with Narumi, even if he mostly has to suffer because of him.
He is very popular with his students. His Alice is plant manipulation, with which he can manipulate plant growth, such as a whip bean, which is often stolen by Naru.
Persona / Rei Serio ( ペ ル ソ ナ / 芹 生 零 , Perusona / Serio Rei )
He's one of the cruelest people in the Academy, in large part because of his Alice. He accidentally killed Mikan's father in a fit of anger. His Alice looks withering, but has no name. Just one touch can have fatal consequences, only four people survived a touch: Subaru, Hotaru's brother, because of his healing Alice, Mikan thanks to her thief Alice, and Narumi, because Mikan stole it for him. The last one is Nobara, who was healed by Mikan removing the Alice stones with her Alice.
Yuka Azumi ( 安 積 柚 香 )
She is Mikan's mother. She had a tough time when her parents left her to the Academy to save herself and her little brother through the money. Yuka's first and last love was and is Izumi Yukihara. He was a teacher at the Academy and the younger brother of the high school principal. Because the Academy murdered Izumi, she broke out and went to Group Z, where she fought the Academy. Before that she gave birth to a child by Izumi, Mikan, which she left to her grandfather. As a child she had a teleport Alice, then she discovered her thief Alice, with which she could steal other Alice's and acquire herself or others. This Alice carried over to Mikan.
Izumi Yukihara ( 行 平 泉水 )
He is Mikan's father, but he died of Persona long before she was born. He was a sincere person, with a character similar to Mikan, only that he was more relaxed. Almost the entire Academy loved him. He worked as a special class teacher and had a self-protection Alice that carried over to Mikan.

Publications

The Manga Alice Academy by Tachibana Higuchi was published in Japan from issue 19/2002 (beginning of September 2002) to 14/2013 (June 20, 2013) in individual chapters in the manga magazine Hana to Yume by Hakusensha . These individual chapters have also been summarized in 31 edited volumes.

The series was published in English by Tokyopop , which published 16 volumes until the US division closed. It is published in Spanish by Glénat . Alice Academy appeared in German in Daisuki magazine at Carlsen Comics since October 2005 . The publisher published 19 anthologies, the series was discontinued in 2013. The translation is by Nina Olligschläger.

Adaptations

Anime

The animation studios Group TAC and Aniplex produced for manganese a 26-part anime - television series at Takahiro Omori directed. The character design comes from Yoshiaki Ito, the artistic direction was taken over by Yoshinori Hishinuma. The series was broadcast from October 30, 2004 to May 14, 2005 on the Japanese television channel NHK .

The series aired in English on Animax- Asia and was published in Spanish by Rose Entertainment. The anime was also broadcast on Tagalog by ABS-CBN .

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Mikan Sakura Kana Ueda
Hotaru Imai Rie Kugimiya
Natsume Hyūga Romi Paku
Luca Nogi Miwa Yasuda
Narumi Akira Ishida

music

The background music for the series was composed by Makoto Yoshimori, with Yoshikazu Iwanami directing the sound. The opening credits Pikapika no Taiyō ( ピ カ ピ カ の 太陽 ) and the song for the credits , Shiawase no Niji ( 幸 せ の 虹 ), were sung by Kana Ueda , who also speaks the main character. Rie Kugimiya also sings during the credits.

Fanbook

There were two official fan books for the manga series. The first (Volume 7.5) was published in March 2005 and contains data up to Volume 7 of the series. The second (Volume 25.5) was published in September 2011 and is equivalent to Volume 25.

In May 2007 an official art book for the series was published. A picture book for practicing the hiragana characters followed in October 2011 . There was also a Pika Pika SP fanbook that appeared in Hana to Yume magazine.

radio play

For the series, three radio play - CDs released, in which the same speaker talk in the series. They were first broadcast on an internet radio program and came out on CD in 2006 .

  • Gakuen Alice: Love Potion Chūihō (SVWC-7329) ( Jan 18, 2006)
  • Gakuen Alice: Mono Wasure Machine (SVWC-7332) ( February 22, 2006)
  • Gakuen Alice: Chocolate Holic (SVWC-7342) ( March 24, 2006)

Video game

On November 18, 2004, Gakuen Alice - Doki Doki Fushigi Taiken ( 学園 ア リ ス 〜 ド キ ド キ ☆ 不 思議 た い け ん , Eng. "Schoolyard Alice - Heartbeat: A Wonderful Experience") was released for the Game Boy Advance . On June 22, 2006, Gakuen Alice followed - Kira Kira Memory Kiss ( 学園 ア リ ス 〜 き ら き ら ★ メ モ リ ー キ ッ ス , German "Schulhof-Alice - Sparkeln: A memory kiss ") published for the PlayStation 2 console in Japan. This was followed on April 19, 2007 by a Nintendo DS game called Gakuen Alice: Waku Waku Happy Friends ( 学園 ア リ ス 〜 わ く わ く ハ ッ ピ ー ★ フ レ ン ズ , German "Schoolyard Alice - Nervousness: Happy Friends").

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gakuen Alice Manga's Last Chapter Being Prepared. Anime News Network, September 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ 学園 ア リ ス 絵 本 ベ ア と い っ し ょ に あ い う え お ｜ 白泉 社. Hakusensha, accessed June 2, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ CDJapan.co.jp for the first , second and third CD

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