Gakuen Alice

About the story

The National Alice Research Academy is unlike an ordinary school: it admits only students with special abilities known as “Alices.” When her best friend Hotaru Imai (voiced by Rie Kugimiya) transfers from the countryside to the city’s Alice Academy, Mikan Sakura (Kana Ueda), unwilling to be separated from her, runs away from home to follow. With no apparent special power, she cannot enter, but after the teacher Mr. Narumi (Akira Ishida) helps her, her own ability unexpectedly emerges. By this fortunate turn, she too enrolls and fulfills her wish to be with Hotaru. Her new school life brings both joy and sorrow. Classmates mock her power as the most useless of all, her partner is the troublesome Natsume Hyuga (Romi Park), and she cannot see the grandfather she has depended on. Through these setbacks, Mikan remains optimistic, gradually wins everyone’s affection and finds love with Natsume, though more difficulties still await them.