History Manga / GakuenAlice

* MeaningfulName: Yuri. She has a female pheromone Alice. [[GirlsLove Do the math]].

%%* {{Bishonen}}: This is a {{shojo}} series after all.

* FiveManBand:
** BigBad: ESP aka Kuonji. All of the problem in the academy is the result of his doing, from establishing Dangerous Class as his personal mercenary to manipulate all of his subordinates.
** TheDragon: Persona. Teacher of Dangerous Ability Class and the most dangerous people with ability to rot anything. Including human, which if it's too late it will also rot the victim heart and kill the victim. The reason Natsume is the academy now and also his behaviour in the series beginning.
** TheEvilGenius: [[spoiler: Luna Koizumi]], former best friend of Mikan's mom. Using local FountainofYouth to approaching Mikan and [[spoiler: make her in the same condition as ESP]]. Her ability is controlling many people and she used it to controlling many innocent students as a human shield and also to framing Mikan that she stole the Alice of the students. Replace Persona as TheDragon after Persona HeelFaceTurn.
** TheBrute: [[spoiler: Hijiri Goshima, establish Fuukitai as the police students to catch any opposition to ESP, act as a spy in Time Travel Arc, which ultimately killing Mikan's mom, and replace ESP as a body double because of his VoluntaryShapeshifting ability before he knocked off by Narumi. Also, act as StudentCouncilPresident.]]
** TheDarkChick: Nobara Ibaragi to the Dangerous Class, AnIcePerson who also acts as Persona MoralityPet. Has a SplitPersonality who could be said as Persona's [[TheDragon Dragon]] [[spoiler: until her HeelFaceTurn and managing to control her power with the help of [[SuperEmpowering Tonouchi's]] [[AmplifierArtifact Alice stone]].

%%* KansaiRegionalAccent: Used here and there, like with Mikan.

%%* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Yukihira-sensei after his first time with Yuka]], and immediately afterwards.

* BareYourMidriff: Mikan (10 years old) has a midriff-baring cheerleader's costume in the OP, and bared it again in a ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''-style. [[http://c2.sankakustatic.com/data/sample/59/2d/preview592d72fad78941712b23b69803a6c93d.jpg costume]] for the SchoolFestival.

* InnocentCohabitation: Natsume and Mikan do this once. Well, more like Natsume FORCES her to, despite that the effects of being stuck from the mochi Tsubasa spoiled wore off, much to her depression. Comes with 1/2 ThereIsOnlyOneBed and 1/2 BeautifulDreamer (Natsume is the one sleeping), at that.
** Hotaru and Luca as well, but they are honestly still stuck. It's also with Youichi.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: In the manga, it was a caring robot penguin simply named Penguin, who, despite being a machine, showed a plethora of emotions. Noted to be one of Hotaru's inventions made in the summer before Mikan came to the academy. The reason for its creation stems from one of Hotaru's many request letters, where a lonely 64-year-old man whose daughter and son-in-law died asked for it, according to one of the fan books, with instructions to make it adorable, and able to give him strength (figuratively). However, it was returned because it pitifully missed her and kept crying, which made Hotaru bully it a lot. It appeared many times with the characters, and even joined (or rather, snuck in) Natsume, Mikan, Tsubasa, and Luca in their quest to retrieve Hotaru's medicine and Tobita's Alice. But... [[spoiler: bring your tissues with you. It died bravely to save Mikan in Chapter 43.]]

%%* DoggedNiceGuy: Or girl: Mikan with regard to Hotaru.

%%* ElevatorSchool: It is one.
%%* EmbarrassingNickname: Luu-chan for Luca in his home town.
%%* EmotionlessGirl: Hotaru

%%* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Misaki and Tsubasa can get this.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: In the manga, it was a caring robot penguin simply named Penguin, who, despite being a machine, showed a plethora of emotions. Noted to be one of Hotaru's inventions made in the summer before Mikan came to the academy. The reason for its creation stems from one of Hotaru's many request letters, where a lonely 64-year-old man whose daughter and son-in-law died asked for it, according to one of the fan books, with instructions to make it adorable, and able to give him strength (figuratively). However, it was returned because it pitifully missed her and kept crying, which made Hotaru bully it a lot. It appeared many times with the characters, and even joined (or rather, snuck in) Natsume, Mikan, Tsubasa, and Luca in their quest to retrieve Hotaru's medicine and Tobita's alice. But... [[spoiler: bring your tissues with you. It died bravely to save Mikan in Chapter 43.]]

%%* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood

* IllGirl: [[spoiler: Hotaru]] becomes one in the sixth volume of the manga, when she uses herself as a human shield for Mikan.
** [[spoiler: Nobara (accidentally) becomes this later in the story in the attempt of getting through Persona]].

* {{Meganekko}}: Yuu Tobita is a male version of this trope, being one of Mikan's nicer classmates.

** TheBrute: [[spoiler: Hijiri Goshima, establish Fuukitai as the police students to catch any opposition to ESP, act as a spy in Time Travel Arc, which ultimately killing Mikan's mom, and replace ESP as a body double because of his ShapeShifter ability before he knocked off by Narumi. Also, act as StudentCouncilPresident.]]

* ShapeShifting: Goshima, concerning his ''face''. More or less his Alice. Along with a ShapeshifterDefaultForm.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Mikan and Hotaru, though it is somewhat one-sided, and seemingly more romantic in Hotaru's end.
** Occasionally requited, however, especially in the festival dance episode.
*** [[spoiler: Yuka and Kaoru]].
*** [[spoiler: Luna and Yuka, though that's even more one-sided.]]

''Gakuen Alice'' (also known as ''Alice Academy'') is an anime and manga centering around 10-year-old Mikan Sakura, who is dismayed when her best friend Hotaru is transferred away to a boarding school for genius students. When she learns that Hotaru is not allowed to visit or write back home, Mikan becomes suspicious, and travels alone to the school to investigate. She discovers that Hotaru is attending Alice Academy, a school specifically for children with special powers called Alices. Mikan meets a teacher named Narumi who says that Mikan herself has an Alice, and he requests to have her enrolled.

Based on the {{shojo}} {{manga}} of the same name, which ended in February 2014.