The character sheet for the manga/anime series Gakuen Alice and the tropes they embody. Be warned that there will be SPOILERS ahead for the entire series.
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Main Characters
Mikan Sakura
Voiced by: Kana Ueda (Japanese) and Andrea Kwan (English, Animax)
The Protagonist of the series, Mikan came all the way from her secluded hometown to Tokyo in order to meet her best friend, Hotaru, in the titular academy. After Narumi discovers that she possesses an Alice, she is enrolled into the academy. While attending, Mikan discovers many truths about herself, her parents, and the dark secrets of the Alice Academy. She has the Nullification Alice and is assigned to the Special ability class.- All-Loving Hero: She becomes friends with nearly every person she meets.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Mikan was enrolled in the academy with no knowledge of what her Alice is (or even what Alices are), and blundered her first day so badly that Jinno declared her a "no-star". This causes her classmate to mock her relentlessly about her apparent uselessness.
- Anti-Magic: Her Alice can essentially cancel out other people's Alices until the other one manifests.
- Berserk Button: Natsume being a pervert is a quick way to piss her off. This trope gradually faded as their relationship developed
- Brought Down to Normal: Her Alice is the type that drains from usage, and she uses the last of it to try and save Natsume's life.
- Butt-Monkey: She gets treated as such at the beginning of the series, but gradually shook off the status.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: She makes one with Natsume.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: She frequently throws herself into danger for other people, including Sumire and Natsume before she actually becomes friends with them.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Her thoughts have a tendency to wander into strange places, such as when Narumi tries to explain what Alice Academy is like and she immediately pictures things akin to alien experiments.
- Cool Big Sis: Becomes one for Youichi.
- Country Mouse: She's constantly in awe of the academy's events due to their extravagance compared to her small school's.
- Curtains Match the Window: Has brown eyes and brown hair just like her mom.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Partially subverted at first. She was raised by her grandfather but later gets to meet her mother. Unfortunately, her mother dies soon afterward.
- Determinator: Boy, is this girl ever. She is constantly pushing against the status quo of the academy.
- Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday: Mikan's birthday is registered as January 1st because that was the day her grandfather adopted her. It's later revealed that her actual birthday is May 17th.
- First Kiss: With Natsume, although it was accidental.
- Genki Girl: No matter what, she always tries to keep her spirits up.
- Girlish Pigtails: She always wears her hair as such.
- Happily Adopted: Her grandfather was actually a random bystander who Yuka left her with, but he developed a strong family bond with baby Mikan and fully adopted her as his own.
- Lamarck Was Right: She inherited both of her Alices from her parents.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: She's forced to forget her time at Alice Academy, when her powers fade.
- Love Triangle: With Ruka and Natsume. She ultimately choose Natsume.
- Meaningful Name: Her name, which means mandarin orange, was the color of Izumi Yukihira's Alice stones.
- Mega Manning: The Alice inherited from her mother allows her to do so.
- Parental Abandonment: Her father was accidentally killed by Persona and her mother unwillingly abandoned her in order to avoid Kuonji's people chasing her.
- Power Incontinence: At the beginning, she doesn't actually know how to control her Alice and it's random whether she'll cancel out another Alice or be affected by it. She grows out of this trope as the series progresses.
- Power Nullifier: Her initial Alice. She inherited it from her father, Yukihira Izumi.
- Power Parasite: Several chapters later, it is revealed that she also inherits her mother's Stealing Alice.
- Raised by Grandparents: Lives with her grandfather her whole life, and doesn't know who her parents are. Though he isn't her real grandfather.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Is the naive, chronically in trouble Red to Hotaru's Blue.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Many of the faculty members have suspicions about Mikan's parentage such as Narumi, Noda, and Jinno, with her appearance being close to her mother and her personality and her initial alice being close to her father's.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 1 With Hotaru and type 2 with Natsume and overlaps with Belligerent Sexual Tension.
Hotaru Imai
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
Hotaru is Mikan's best friend, who left for Alice Academy at the beginning of the series, and was the reason for Mikan's eventual enrollment in the academy. She possesses the Invention Alice, which grants her the ability to build robots and other useful devices. She is in the Technical ability class and is a three-star student.- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's smart, has many admirers, and very rarely displays emotion on her face. The only person she really lets her guard down for is Mikan.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: She can be rather cold and apathetic toward Mikan, but her main motivation for doing well in Alice Academy in the first place was to be able to visit Mikan again.
- The Big Damn Kiss: Kisses Mikan after pushing her away so she can find her mother.
- Big Eater: Besides money, her other big love is food. She'll spend her time during parties situated at the food table and when she's temporarily demoted to 2-star, she takes half of Mikan's food since the demotion was her fault.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Her Anti-Baka weapons make her the Tsukkomi to Mikan's Boke.
- Child Prodigy: Is inventing robots and spy cams and weapons at the age of 10. Even among Academy students, she's noted to be exceptional.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Gets better and warmer over the course of the series, though everyone notes she's nicest when Mikan's around.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Her Alice allows her to excel in inventing, to the point that her ability is at a 3-star rating (which very few elementary schoolers have).
- Heroic Sacrifice: By the end of the series, she and her brother are fated to forever wander through time due to their interference with Natsume's fate.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She rescues Natsume by breaking the laws of time, all for Mikan.
- Money Fetish: She enjoys making money, whether it's through blackmailing other students to winning competitions with her inventions.
- Not So Stoic: The events of the climax frequently cause her demeanor to crack. It pretty much shatters when she and her brother decide to sacrifice themselves for Natsume.
- The Not-Love Interest: Serves as this to Mikan. Besides the Pseudo-Romantic Friendship aspects, Hotaru often serves as Mikan's motivation to act. It's her transfer to Alice Academy that causes Mikan to follow her, Hotaru's memory is what brings back most of Mikan's memories and she abandons a normal life to search for Hotaru.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Especially with Mikan who brings out her caring side.
- Tsundere: Will gladly whack Mikan over the head with objects, acts annoyed around her and calls her baka all the time. However, it's noted that the first time she ever smiled in Alice Academy was when Mikan showed up.
- Unwanted Harem: From upperclassmen to millionaires, she loathes her admirers and will often insult or hide from them.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 1 With Mikan though she genuinely cares for her.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Is generally smarter, more practical and more mature than most academy students.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Because she and her brother are doomed to wander through time, she apologizes to their parents for being unable to see them again.
Natsume Hyuuga
Voiced by: Romi Park (Japanese) and Candice Moore (English, Animax)
One of Mikan's classmates whom she met during her visit to the Academy. After insulting her during that first meeting, she immediately declares him as her enemy. A member of the Dangerous ability class, he possesses the Alice of Fire and is often sent by the Academy for various missions.- Aloof Big Brother: To Yoichi and his little sister, Aoi.
- Animal Motif: Cats. He's moody, tempermental, and even wears a cat mask as a punishment tool; but he gradually warms up to people and becomes fiercely protective of them.
- Back from the Dead: Hotaru and Subaru save his life by switching their deceased Natsume with a Natsume who managed to hang on a little longer.
- Berserk Button: Hurting anyone he cares about, especially Mikan or Ruka.
- Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Ruka's Betty for Mikan, being the aloof and distant bad boy.
- Blood from the Mouth: A common symptom for those who has the Limitless Alice type.
- Cast from Hit Points: His Alice is rumored and later confirmed to be this type.
- Childhood Marriage Promise: He makes one with with Mikan.
- Class Representative: As the lone special star, he's the branch rep for all of the students in the Elementary Division. This is why he's allowed to bring a kindergarten student to class.
- Cool Big Bro: To Youichi and to his little sister, Aoi.
- Doomed Hometown: His town went down in flames prior to his enrollment into the academy.
- Family Theme Naming: He and Aoi are named after plants, with his name meaning "jujube".
- First Guy Wins: He's the first male student whom Mikan encounters in the Academy, and eventually ends up with her.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: At first. It's rumored that he burned down his hometown, but it's later revealed that he was taking the rap for the actual perpetrator: his little sister Aoi.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Ruka
- Incurable Cough of Death: He tries to hide this from everyone so that nobody will worry about him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He shows peaks of this at the beginning but once Aoi is freed from the academy, becomes much nicer as the series goes on.
- Love Triangle: With Ruka over Mikan.
- Meaningful Name: His name means "jujube", a type of fruit that is used as a cough cure and also because it's similar to Mikan.
- Perpetual Frowner: He is almost always frowning. Even before going to the academy, he always had a sour expression.
- Playing with Fire: His Alice conjures and controls fire.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Played straight. His Alice is incredibly powerful and deadly, which results in him being put in the Dangerous ability class.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Like Mikan and Hotaru, he has this dynamic with Ruka. He's the fiery, callous Red to Ruka's Blue.
- Spell My Name With An S: Some fans spell his last name 'Hyuga.'
- The Stoic: His common demeanor.
- Troubled, but Cute: He's one of the more popular guys in his class, having a horde of fangirls, but mostly keeps to himself due to his dangerous Alice.
- When She Smiles: Heck, Mikan even took a sideways glance to see it for herself.
Ruka Nogi
- Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Natsume's Veronica for Mikan, being the sweet and friendly guy.
- Blue Blood: His family is rich enough that his mother hired a bodyguard to protect him.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: He's associated with rabbits and even his nickname was influenced by the rabbit that hangs around him.
- But Not Too Foreign: He is half French on his mother's side.
- Doomed Hometown: He lived in the same town that went down in flames.
- Everyone Can See It: His crush is so obvious, that the upperclassmen in the Special Ability class (plus Kokoroyomi and Kitsuneme) end up forming the "Watching Over Ruka Group" and the entire Somatic Ability class end up forming the "Ruka Guardian Angel Association" to root for him.
- Friend to All Living Things: His Alice controls animal pheromones, which means that animals are naturally attracted to him.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Initially behaves as callously as Natsume, but is actually a gentle boy putting up tough airs to support Natsume.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Natsume but it tends go in to
Ho Yay territory. - Innocent Blue Eyes: A hint that he's not as malicious as he seems.
- In-Series Nickname: Ruka-pyon to the Academy Students and Ru-chan to his mother.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He falls in love with Mikan, but he gracefully steps aside since he also wants Natsume to be happy.
- Love Triangle: With Natsume over Mikan.
- Loyal Animal Companion: He is usually seen accompanied by a rabbit around the school.
- Momma's Boy: Much to his embarrassment.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: After the characters get through his facade, he's revealed to be the patient, polite Blue to Natsume's Red.
- Spell My Name With An S: Translations are split as to whether the correct spelling is Ruka, Luka, or Luca.
Elementary Division Students
Yuu Tobita
Voiced by: Fuyuka Ōura (Japanese) and Sarah Hauser (English, Animax)
The class president of Mikan's class who possesses an Alice of Illusions. He is one of Mikan's first friends in the Academy, being one of the few who didn't participate in bullying her during her introduction to the class. He is in the Latent ability class.- Brought Down to Normal: Temporarily, when his Alice is stolen by a member of Z.
- Class Representative: Due to his status as a 3-star, he is one of the class representatives along with Hotaru. However, he embodies the tropes much more.
- Curtains Match the Window
- Determinator: Hotaru ended up warming up to him because of this. No matter how bad their classmates treat him or make him cry, he's always trying to work hard for their sake.
- In-Series Nickname: He's referred to as Iinchou/Prez since he was initially the only class representative before Hotaru arrived.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He has a crush on Mikan and loyally sticks by her side, even if she never realizes his love.
- Master of Illusion: His Alice allows him to create illusions.
- No-Respect Guy: He's very meek and soft-spoken, which makes it difficult for him to be the leader in his class.
Sumire Shouda
Voiced by: Chiwa Saitō (Japanese) and Candice Moore (English, Animax)
One of Mikan's nastier classmates. Sumire is the president of the Natsume & Luka fanclub and frequently harasses Mikan for her apparent closeness to them. She has a Sense Enhancing Alice that gives her animalistic features and is in the Somatic ability class.- Alpha Bitch: Subverted. She's not known to be rich or popular for that matter, but she treats Mikan like dirt pre-Character Development.
- Embarrassing Superpower: She initially struggles to use her Alice in public due to the fact that she gains physical animal traits when she activates it.
- Fangirl: Towards Natsume and Ruka.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Mikan once they become friends.
- In-Series Nickname: She gets called Permy due to her wavy hair.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: She becomes much friendlier towards Mikan in later volumes, though she still keeps her smug/arrogant air.
- Little Bit Beastly: When using her Alice, Sumire grows cat ears and whiskers.
- Ship Tease: With Kokoroyomi. Revealed to be an Official Couple in the Gakuen Alice Memorial book.
- The Social Darwinist: When first introduced, she firmly believes that humans who possess Alices are superior to regular humans. This causes a rocky start to her relationship with Mikan.
- Super-Senses: Her Alice enhances her hearing and smell.
Youichi Hijiri
- Goo-Goo-Godlike: At only 3-years old, he already earned a 1-star rank (this age group typically has no stars) and had been placed in the Dangerous Ability class. He typically only uses a bit of his Alice to scare people, but he shows off the full extent of his power when he fights the Dangerous ability class in the Hanahime Den arc and the Academy police in the final arc.
- In-Series Nickname: Yo-chan.
- I See Dead People: His Alice is Evil Spirit Manipulation. However, his Alice does also allow him to see regular spirits as well.
- Paper Talisman: He makes them, but they don't actually do anything.
- Rapid Aging: After accidentally eating it, the side effects of Gulliver Candy cause Yo-chan to randomly turn 12 years old at times.
- Transplant: He first appeared in Portrait Of M And N with his brother, Eiichi Hijiri, and already had the ability to see spirits at that point.
Kokoroyomi/Mind Reader
Kokoroyomi in the right, Kitsuneme in the left.
Another one of Mikan's classmates whose Alice is Mind Reading. He is in the Latent class and is always smiling.- Ascended Extra: He initially started off as a background character, but gradually became a part of Mikan's gang.
- No Name Given: He's simply called "Mind Reader", and his real name is not revealed.
- Only Known by Their Nickname
- Perpetual Smiler: He is ALWAYS smiling, even when he cries!
- Precocious Crush: On Misaki-senpai.
- The Stoic: He used to be one until Permy snapped at him.
- Ship Tease: With Sumire. Revealed to be Official Couple in the Gakuen Alice Memorial book.
- Telepathy: His Alice allows him to read minds, which Mikan finds out when he blurts out her thoughts to their classmates.
- Those Two Guys: With Kitsuneme.
Kitsuneme/Fox Eye
Another one of Mikan's classmates whose Alice is flight. He is in the Latent class with Kokoroyomi and Yuu.- Ascended Extra: As with Kokoroyomi, he became a part of Mikan's gang as the story went on.
- Eyes Always Shut: His namesake.
- Flight: His Alice.
- No Name Given
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His name is also never revealed.
- Precocious Crush: On Misaki-senpai.
- Those Two Guys: With Kokoroyomi.
Nonoko Ogasawara
Mikan's classmate who is one of the first of the Alice students to befriend her along with Anna. She has the Alice of Chemistry and is in the Technical ability class.- Blue Blood: According to her profile, she comes from a rich family.
- Chemistry Can Do Anything: Her Alice allows her to create anything with chemicals; from basic things like medicine and potions to... strange things like ghostly apparitions.
- Precocious Crush: On Misaki-sensei.
Anna Umenomiya
Mikan's classmate who is one of the first of the Alice students to befriend her along with Nonoko. She has the Alice of Cooking and is in the Technical ability class.- Cool Big Sis: She has an older sister who is in the Senior division.
- Feminine Women Can Cook: She's a girly girl and has the Alice of Cooking, which allows her to make any type of food.
- Lethal Chef: How some of her dishes turn out.
- Precocious Crush: On Misaki-sensei.
Junior High Division Students
Tsubasa Andou
- Big Brother Mentor: Acts as this to Mikan.
- Butt-Monkey: He has kids bullying him that are four to eleven years younger than him.
- Curse: The star-shaped mark under his eye as punishment for his misbehavior, called the "Mark of Obedience".
- Dark Is Not Evil: His Alice allows him to control shadows, but he's a nice guy regardless.
- Dogged Nice Guy: He gets dragged around by Mikan and her gang often.
- Everyone Can See It: With Misaki. Tsubasa sees it as well but is not taken seriously by Misaki.
- Like an Old Married Couple: He and Misaki always partner up for the annual festival dance. Their friends remark that their dynamics are like a husband and wife.
- Signature Headgear: More like multiple. He's always seen wearing different kinds of hats.
- The Reveal: He's actually in the Dangerous ability class, he's just allowed to hang around and associate with the Special ability students.
- Victorious Childhood Friend: Gets with Misaki and is revealed to be married to her in the Memorial book.
Misaki Harada
- Cool Big Sis: She's just as nice to the elementary schoolers as Tsubasa is.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has red hair and red eyes.
- Doppelgänger: Her Alice is a straight example of this.
- Everyone Can See It: With Tsubasa.
- Fiery Redhead: In the manga.
- He Is Not My Boyfriend: Her reaction to anyone who calls her and Tsubasa a couple until they get a Relationship Upgrade.
- Like an Old Married Couple: Has this dynamic with Tsubasa. One student even lampshades it at one of the dances.
- Victorious Childhood Friend: Tsubasa finally asks her out and she responds that she thought they were already dating.
Nobara Ibaragi
- Babies Ever After:Marries Persona after the timeskip and has a child together with him.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason she's willing to go through hell for Mikan; she was her first actual friend.
- Delicate and Sickly: She spends the final arc in the hospital due to taking a heavy hit of Persona's Alice in order to protect Mikan. She even dies at one point, but gets better due to Mikan removing Persona's Alice from her.
- Happily Married: To Persona after the timeskip.
- An Ice Person: Her Alice allows her to create and control ice.
- In-Series Nickname: "Ice Princess", due to both her Alice and the fact that she's the only girl in the Dangerous Ability class.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Persona greatly relies on her for support. He gets upset when she turns against him to protect Mikan.
- Morality Pet: She's one for Persona. Once she gets injured because of him, his loyalty to the ESP begins to waver. Mikan healing her causes him to do a full blown Heel–Face Turn.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents also abandoned her at the academy when she was 5-years old.
- Shy Blue-Haired Girl: She's an incredibly timid and lonely girl who could never make friends with her classmates because of her status. The school even gave her a second personality so that she would be able to do the dangerous work required of her Ability class.
- Smurfette Principle: The only known female member of the Dangerous Ability class.
- Split Personality: She was hypnotized and developed an emotionless personality so that she could do her missions.
- Teacher/Student Romance: With Persona.
- Undying Loyalty: To Persona, most of the time.
- Yuki Onna: Her inspiration. Her Alice is connected to the cold, she scares the elementary division at one point because they mistake her for a ghost, and she literally shows up to Mikan in the form of a spirit as she's dying from Persona's Alice.
Hayate Matsudaira
- Blow You Away: His Alice allows him to control wind.
- Meaningful Name: His first name means wind.
- Otaku: He's accused of being this due to his attraction to Hotaru.
- Stalker with a Crush: He's got a big one for Hotaru, simply because she looks like a character from a television show he watched as a kid.
- Undying Loyalty: Because of said crush, he would even turn against his own classmates for her sake.
Kaname Sono
- Cast from Hit Points: Like Natsume, his Alice has an effect on his health.
- Chick Magnet: Tsubasa calls him this. He even has a fanclub.
- Hair of Gold
- Living Toys: His Alice lets him make any doll he's made come to life.
Yuri Miyazono
A popular junior high division student in the Somatic ability class who, much to her chagrin, has an Alice that attracts females. She has a hard time controlling her Alice, which is often used for comic relief.- Bifauxnen: She has a boyish appearance and is often given male clothes for dances. Despite this, she still wears the female school uniform.
- Blessed with Suck: She declares herself to be heterosexual, but her pheromones only affect women.
- Chick Magnet: Her Alice allows her to attract females. She also has a fan club because of it.
- Has a Type: She likes skinny guys and is a fan of Shuuichi Sakurano.
- Meaningful Name: Her name, Yuri, is also the name of the genre involving girl-girl love.
- Power Incontinence: Her pheromones leak out constantly, especially when she's flustered.
Megane/Glasses Boy
A junior high division student who is also part of the Special ability class. He is usually seen hanging with Tsubasa and Misaki. He has the Alice of Possession.- Only Known by Their Nickname: He never gets properly introduced.
- Opaque Nerd Glasses: It's his defining trait.
- Those Two Guys: With Tsubasa. They've been friends since their elementary school days.
Senior Division Students
Shuuichi Sakurano
- Big Sister Worship: He adored Yuka so much, that he was punished for it when she escaped.
- Child Prodigy: As a child due to having strong powers for his age and being a runner-up for the Honor Student award.
- Combo Platter Powers: He's one of the very few people who hit the lottery and was blessed with three Alices. These include:
- Student Council President: Because of how the Academy is set up, his rank covers every grade level. He later steps down when he moves up to the college level and passes his role to Goshima.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Any contact with his family was cut when he refused to believe Yuka was a traitor. When the Academy also threatened to harm his family if he tried anything else, he and Subaru vowed to forget their families to protect them.
Subaru Imai
- Agony Beam: One of his Alices allow him to take any pain he's healed and pass it on to someone. Non lethally, of course.
- Aloof Big Brother: Due to having the same personality as his sister, he comes off as this.
- Big Brother Instinct: It comes up when he thinks Hotaru is in danger.
- Child Prodigy: Similar to Shuuichi, his powers were strong for his age. So strong in fact, that he was actually able to heal himself when Rei infected him with his Alice.
- Healing Factor: His other Alice that allows him to take away pain with the use of Healing Hands.
- Long Lost Sibling: To Hotaru and vice-versa.
- The Medic: He's frequently called to the medical wing in order to assist the staff and even spends a good amount of the final arc trying to keep Nobara alive.
- Stoic Spectacles
- You Can't Go Home Again: Just like Shuuichi, he was forbidden to contact his family and was threatened with their harm when he defended Yuka. Knowing he also had a little sister in danger, he warned his family with Shuuichi's telepathy and then vowed to forget them for their safety. It becomes a permanent decision when he and Hotaru get lost in time due to saving Natsume.
Akira Tonouchi
- Butt-Monkey: He's bullied by fellow Butt-Monkey Tsubasa, as well as the elementary school students.
- Chivalrous Pervert
- The Casanova: His repuation. It bites him in the butt whenever Valentine's day comes along.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He used to bully the Middle School kids and still bickers with a few of the male characters, but he's still a good senpai.
- Super-Empowering: His Alice allows him to amplify the abilty of other peoples' Alices.
Hijiri Goshima
A member of student council who becomes president when Shuuichi graduates. He has the Alice of Metamorphosis, which allows him to change his facial appearance to any person of the same gender.- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts well-meaning when he announces that there will be a student police force watching the students, but all of that goes out the window when he gives Yuka and Narumi a fake key that would cause an explosion and kill Yuka.
- Easily Forgiven: Despite his role as The Mole and being one of the causes to Yuka's death, Mikan still manages to forgive him when he apologizes.
- The Mole: Pretends to be working for the HSP but is actually under the orders of the ESP.
- Student Council President: He inherits the position from Sakurano once the latter graduates to the college level.
- Taking the Bullet: He disguises himself as the ESP and takes a knife to the throat when Narumi seeks revenge.
- Voluntary Shape Shifting: His Alice allows him to change his appearance to anyone of the same sex at first.
Shizune Yamanochi
- Even the Girls Want Her: During Valentine's Day, she receives many chocolates from other girls.
- Hidden Depths: She was actually the person who taught Hotaru about the art of blackmailing and even gave her the camera she uses.
- Hime Cut
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: To Himemiya, who she usually has to control.
- Lipstick Lesbian: She's confirmed to be attracted to girls during the Sports Festival's "Borrowing Race".
- Mind Control: Her Alice allows her to control people with any sound she makes.
Rui Amane
- Abhorrent Admirer: He loves going after Tsubasa, partially because the star on his face is from Rui's Alice.
- Ambiguously Gay: Besides his thing for younger guys, his appearance is also rather effeminate.
- Agony Beam: His Alice, which appears as black smoke.
- Cool Big Sis: He's described as a "big sister" for the dangerous ability class and even offers to be Nobara's female friend when she's unable to make one.
- The Leader: Seen as one for the Dangerous ability class.
Hajime Yakumo
- Bandaged Face: Half of his face is covered by bandages.
- Pest Controller: His Alice.
Academy Staff
Anju L. Narumi
Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese) and Dave Bridges (English, Animax)
Narumi is the homeroom teacher for the Elementary Division Class B and is the one who arranged for Mikan's enrollment in the Alice Academy. He possesses a pheromone Alice and also teaches Japanese. He is a supervisor for the Somatic ability class.- The Bully: He used to bully Misaki when they were students.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer
- Camp Straight: Despite being very effeminate, his only love is Yuka.
- Charm Person: Narumi-sensei is able to emit pheromones that can make anyone, regardless of age or gender, become infatuated with him. In some cases (such as Natsume), the target may become so enamored that all they can do is faint from the shock.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Mikan mistook him for a woman, at first.
- Friend to All Children: It came straight from the student body's mouth.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Misaki.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: It's implied that he was being sent on missions by the ESP in order to seduce people for information. And this was happening while he was still a minor.
- Jerkass: He used to be this until Yuka got to him.
- Pheromones: The source of his power.
- Say It with Hearts
Jinno
- History Repeats: Acts jerk to Mikan, who happens to be Izumi's daughter.
- Jerkass: Undeniably this towards his students. However...
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: ...compared to the other teachers, especially with the likes of Persona and Elementary School Principal, Jinno is reasonable and forbearing. In hindsight, having Mikan being ranked as no-star is for the best, considering her Alice and what would mean if she is under the Elementary School Principal's sight. It helps that he has suspicions of Mikan's true parentage.
- I Was Quite the Looker: In one of Narumi's flashbacks, he was shown without the wrinkles on his face.
- Rank Up: Becomes the Elementary School Principal after Kuonji's demise.
- Sadist Teacher: He has no qualms about using his Alice on the kids who are yet to enter puberty.
- Shock and Awe: His Alice allows him to control electricity, which he channels through his baton.
- Sore Loser: Anyone who gets stuck on his team during the sports festival is in danger of facing his wrath if they lose.
- Stern Teacher: He's he one teacher that the rambunctious elementary schoolers don't mess with.
- Stoic Spectacles
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type A with Izumi.
Misaki
- Butt-Monkey: Is often picked on by Narumi during their school years. And even during their adult years.
- Chick Magnet: To his dismay, he has a lot of fangirls in the Technical Class.
- Green Thumb: His Alice makes him skilled at botany.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Narumi.
- Out of Focus: Despite being introduced around the same time as Narumi, he doesn't play a huge part and gets very little focus compared to his friend.
Noda
- Affectionate Nickname: The Special Ability class affectionately calls him Nodacchi.
- Butt-Monkey: Whenever he returns from his prolonged absences, his students would greet him by beating him up.
- Chekhov's Skill: His Time Travel skills are mostly used as an excuse for his absence and is treated as a joke. It is later used to help Mikan and her friends learn the truth of her mother, father, and the elementary school principal. It's also used to save Natsume from dying.
- Eyes Always Shut
- Perpetual Smiler: He's always seen with a dumb smile on his expression.
- Power Incontinence: Due to his inability to control his Alice, he is often taken through time warps at random, for indefinite periods of times, resulting to his frequent absence from the storyline.
Persona/Rei Serio
- Anti-Villain: He is an antagonist for most of the series, but only because the Elementary School Principal is manipulating his vulnerabilities.
- The Atoner: He goes full throttle on this trope in the final arc. It gets to the point that when Mikan requests that he never harm anyone again with his Alice (including decaying the floor below them), he decides to use his body as a human shield for her and use his Alice to decay the weapons instead.
- Babies Ever After: He has a daughter with Nobara after the time skip.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: He dotes on Nobara due to her approaching him as a child with no fear.
- Birds of a Feather: He finds himself attached to Nobara due to their similar backgrounds of abandonment.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Both his eyes and hair are black due to his Alice.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His childhood is a very harsh string of Trauma Conga Line. He was abandoned at birth by his parents due to his Alice and was taken in by the Academy. But his powers were too dangerous even for the school to handle, so he was locked up in a room beneath the Hana Hime den. The only person who was nice to him was Izumi, whose Nullification Alice made him immune to Persona's Mark of Death. But then the ESP manipulated him into believing that Izumi was responsible for locking him up and when Rei confronted him about this, his outburst inflicted Izumi with a curse so strong that even his Nullification Alice could not handle it, thus killing him. Rei's confusion when he realized that his power had killed the only person who had cared about him broke his spirit.
- Declaration of Protection: In the final arc, he dedicates his life to protecting Mikan from the ESP, to the point that he uses his body as a human shield to help her escape.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Sometimes appears as this because of the black lips and power-limiting jewelry. He also uses this trope to his advantage during the Christmas party when he disguises himself as a female fortuneteller to catch Narumi off guard and inflict his Alice on him.
- Happily Married: With Nobara at the end of the story.
- Heel–Face Turn: Persona defects from the ESP after Mikan uses her Alice to save Nobara from the effects of his Alice and accepts his apology for accidentally killing her father.
- Make Them Rot: His Alice causes anything he touch to rot to death.
- Teacher/Student Romance:With Nobara.
- Parental Abandonment: Due to his Alice, he was abandoned as a baby.
- Power Incontinence: The reason why he needs all those Power Limiters is because he can't control his Alice and his "curse" can accidentally kill anyone or anything that comes into contact with him and decays his own body.
- Power Limiter: The rings and earring he wears are Alice-controlling devices. If any one of them breaks, his power will go out of control and consume him.
- Walking Wasteland: When his emotions flare up, even his mere presence is able to affect the surrounding area. He later learns to use this to his advantage to protect Mikan from the ESP.
Kazumi Yukihira
- Aloof Big Brother: Unlike his playful younger brother, Kazumi is very serious and intimidating — often beating up Izumi if he fools around too much.
- Awesome, but Impractical: His Alice allows him to live forever, and is apparently a very rare power. But he has virtually no combat ability, and is pretty much defenceless against Alice attacks.
- Cool Uncle: Becomes one to Mikan upon meeting her.
- Icy Blue Eyes
- Long Lost Sibling: He and Izumi never knew of each other until the latter was in his late teens, and they only met in person once Izumi showed up to teach at Alice Academy.
- Older Than They Look: Due to his Longetivity Alice, he has a very young appearance despite being about 50 during his first appearance.
- The Stoic: He typically doesn't show much emotion except for when he finds out his younger brother is dead.
- Supernatural Sensitivity: His other Alice allows him to detect if someone has an Alice.
Himemiya
- Barrier Maiden: She uses her Alice to create protective barriers around the Academy, thus her reputation as the school's goddess protector.
- Covert Pervert: She drools over pretty girls and fantasizes about them. Hotaru calls her weirdo right on her face.
- Does Not Like Men: Famously detests men and would not allow males to enter her residence, the Hana Hime Den. The only men she doesn't mind are Kazumi (who is friends with him) and Shiki (who is a distant relative of hers). Which is not quite unreasonable, since the men that she shows hatred with are either idiots, jerkasses, or downright evil.
- Kimono Is Traditional: One of the oldest characters in the series and dresses in kimonos.
- Older Than They Look: She has Kazumi's Longetivity Alice inserted in her body, so she can have the appearance of a young maiden despite being in her 60s.
Kuonji
- And Now You Must Marry Me: He forced Yuka to become engaged to him in order to keep her and her Alice from leaving the Academy. This prompts Yuka to escape the Academy before she graduates.
- Big Bad: He is the reason for everything wrong with Alice Academy.
- Forceful Kiss: On Yuka.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Luna, his most loyal follower who he had manipulated into turning against her only friend, kills him by stealing his soul.
- Manipulative Bastard: Big time.
- Older Than They Look: His body shrunk to that of a child when Yuka sought to avenge Izumi and stuck too many Alice stones in his body. Had Luna didn't kill him when he finally loses, he might regress further down to a helpless infant.
- Sadist Teacher: He uses many of the students for his own gain. Notably Luna, Yuka (until she's saved by her friends), and Rei.
- Self-Duplication: His Alice allows him to create clones of himself. Unlike Misaki's Doppelganger Alice however, those clones can be active indefinitely. The clones that he directly created can also create clones of themselves as well. The more clones are made from those clones that are not directly created by Kuonji, the less control he has on them.
- Would Hurt a Child: He doesn't give a crap about his students and is willing to send them on dangerous missions or have his security force put them down.
- 0% Approval Rating: None of the faculty members of all departments like him at all. So those students who are forced to work under him. They only raise arms against him when they witness how low he can get to achieve his goals, particularly against Mikan and her loved ones.
Z
Yuka Azumi
- Cool Big Sis: To Shuuichi and Subaru, who she promised to protect from the ESP due to their powers.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She gets mortally wounded while protecting Naru from a bomb that was set up by the ESP and dies next to her daughter.
- Curtains Match the Window
- Important Haircut: After years of keeping it long, Yuka cuts her hair when she decides to fight against the ESP and joins Z. It goes back to its original style after she reunites with Izumi in the afterlife.
- May–December Romance: There was a twelve year age difference between her and Izumi.
- Meta Power: Yuka has the Alice "Steal", which removes another person's Alice and turns it into an Alice stone.
- Parental Abandonment: Her parents sold her to the academy when she was five years old and vowed to forget about her in favor of her two younger brothers, who were Alice-less.She also does this to Mikan in order to keep her safe from the academy.
- Power Parasite: Her Alice allows her to take other Alices in the form of stones.
- Precocious Crush: Towards Izumi at the age of ten. It only grows from there.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Mikan got all of her looks from Yuka.
- Teacher/Student Romance: With Izumi.
- Teen Pregnancy: She became pregnant with Mikan at the age of 17.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Luna, who became extremely jealous that the ESP began giving attention to Yuka instead of her.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 2 with Izumi before their Relationship Upgrade.
Shiki Masachika
- Barrier Maiden: His Alice is the same as Himemiya's. As Himemiya's health declines, he has no choice but to take over as the Middle School Principal and to be in charge of the Academy's defenses.
- Declaration of Protection: Swears this to Yuka when he tracks her down after she ran away from the academy. He continues to protect her even after she is dead by defending her grave.
- First Kiss / Last Kiss: He kisses the deceased Yuka after taking her body out the gates of the academy and proclaiming that she's free.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He loves Yuka but knows she will never see him the same way. So he's content to just being her loyal follower.
- Icy Blue Eyes
- The Stoic: He never shows any emotion except for when something serious is going down.
Reo Mori
- Compelling Voice: His Alice allows him to control people with his voice.
- Fiery Redhead
- Idol Singer: What he used his Alice to become.
- Starter Villain: He's the first actual threat to appear in the story. He kidnaps Natsume and takes Mikan and Sumire hostage when they try to rescue him.
- Villain Has a Point: The more revelations about the corruption of Alice Academy are revealed, the more of Reo's hatred against them and his actions are justified.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Narumi. Reo didn't understand why Narumi ended up being a teacher when they both hated the Academy so much. He never understands that Narumi remains at the Academy so that he can protect the future students from being exploited like them.
Other Characters
Izumi Yukihira
- Anti-Magic: His Alice and the reason why he was never sent to Alice Academy, he unknowingly nullified any Alice detector.
- Butt-Monkey: He's often picked on by Kazumi and especially Jinno. Much like his daughter.
- Cool Teacher: Despite being new to the teaching business, he was absolutely loved by the students.
- Doting Parent: In omakes, he's shown to be very protective of Mikan and will try his hardest to get Natsume away from her.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
- Japanese Delinquents: He was once the leader of a motorcycle gang in his youth.
- Long Lost Sibling: He and Kazumi never knew of each other until he was in his late teens, and they only met in person once he showed up at Alice Academy.
- May–December Romance: There was a twelve year age gap between him and Yuka.
- Parental Substitute: For Rei, who spent most of his life alone due to his dangerous Alice and could only be safely approached by someone who could nullify it. If the tragedy didn't happen, he could have adopted Rei as his own son.
- Posthumous Character: He's been dead for twelve years by the start of the series.
- Teacher/Student Romance: With his student, Yuka. His older brother accepts it but still beats him up for breaking decorum and protocol.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: One of the few characters who is undeniably good and got killed for it before the start of the series. His untimely death greatly affects everyone around him.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type B with Yuka for years before their Relationship Upgrade.
Luna Koizumi
- The Atoner: As she realizes her wrongdoings, she refuses to get help from the High School Principal, vowing to use her remaining life and her Alice to correct her wrongs, starting by killing Kuonji's remaining clones, who are still at large.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: When she and Yuka were friends, she got very upset when people tried approaching Yuka. She also got very jealous when the ESP, who showered her with attention, began making eyes at Yuka instead of her.
- Drowning My Sorrows: She starts drinking heavily after Yuka dies.
- Evil Redhead: Has strawberry blonde hair and is one of Kuonji's most loyal and vicious agents.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Part of Luna's hatred towards Yuka (and on certain extent, her loved ones) is due of the Elementary School Principal switching his attention to her, never mind of the fact that Yuka is completely disgusted over his attention. Also, she is also jealous at the fact that Yuka is able to get free from the Academy's oppressive grasp and carve a life for herself while she can't.
- Incurable Cough of Death: She coughs up blood frequently and reveals that she is dying to the High School Principal at the end of the series.
- Kiss of the Vampire: Her Alice requires her to bite a person's neck in order to steal their soul.
- Loners Are Freaks: As a student, Luna was ostracized by her peers due to her Alice.
- Love Makes You Evil: Luna's love for the ESP is what causes her to side with him and harbor a hatred for Yuka, her only actual friend who cared for her.
- Meaningful Name: Luna is written in kanji which means "moon". Moon is associated with lunacy, which she showed with her unreasonable hatred towards Yuka and later to her daughter Mikan due to Elementary School Principal's machinations to twist her mind. Her Alice can also inflict Mind Control over her targets as well.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Yuka's apology and subsequent death puts Luna into spiral as she slowly realize that both of them are ultimately victims of the Elementary School Principal, the only difference is that Yuka fights back while Luna fights for him, destroying their friendship in the process. As Mikan somberly notes (who has knowledge of Luna's past thanks to the time travel with Noda), Yuka was the only person who provided Luna the love that she wanted all along.
- Older Than They Look: She is actually twenty nine years old, but takes Gulliver candy to disguise herself.
- Only Friend: Yuka was her true friend until Elementary School Principal's greed wrecked it.
- Parental Abandonment: Due to her dangerous Alice, Luna was abandoned at the academy as a child.
- Rapid Aging: When she first appeared in the story, she was taking Gulliver Candy to appear as a 10 y/o old.
- We Used to Be Friends: With Yuka. Their friendship fell apart due to the ESP switching his grooming target and Yuka accidentally stealing Luna's Alice temporarily in order to stop her from harming their classmates. Luna thought that it was intentional and felt betrayed as a result.
- Would Hurt a Child: She attempts to choke Mikan with her bare hands and beats Natsume when he shows resistance.
- Your Days Are Numbered: After killing the ESP, Luna confesses to the HSP that she is dying the same way that he was due to using the Gulliver candies too often.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: Her Alice allows her to sip out a bit of someone's soul. When she is in possession of a piece of someone's soul, she can control their bodies. Sucking the entire soul of her target, and they will die instantly.
Aoi Hyuuga
- Brought Down to Normal: Her Alice was the type that drained from usage.
- Family Theme Naming: She and Natsume are named after plants. The kanji in her name is read as "hollyhock" rather than "blue".
- I Have Your Wife: She is kept hostage by the Academy in order to keep Natsume under control.
- In-Series Nickname: Persona called her "Yuki Aoi" in order to keep Natsume from finding her.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Aoi lost her memories for a while and thought that Persona was her older brother. She gets better when Natsume shows up to save her.
- Playing with Fire: She used to be able to control fire.
- The Pollyanna: She's much more approachable than her brother and smiles constantly to make up for Natsume's constant frowning.
- Put on a Bus: After being rescued, Aoi reunites with her father and leaves the Academy due to being Alice-less. She comes back for the final chapter however.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted, she's a sweet girl.
- Super-Power Meltdown: When she accidentally absorbs an unstable Amplification Alice stone (that was set up by Persona), her Alice goes haywire and destroys the village she, Natsume, and Ruka lived in.
- Temporary Blindness: She lost her vision after the incident and was taken to the Academy under the pretenses that they would cure her.
Kaoru Hyuuga (née Igarashi)
- Cast from Hit Points: Her Alice was this type.
- Chekhov's Gift: She gives Yuka a pendant with her Alice stone attached to it when she graduates. The Alice stone ends up revealing to Yuka that the ESP killed Izumi.
- High-School Sweethearts: Her and Mr. Hyuuga.
- Interrupted Intimacy: How she gets introduced into the story. Yuka and Izumi walk in on Kaoru having sex with her future husband in the Special ability classroom.
- Missing Mom: She died when her children were fairly young.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Natsume gets all of his looks from her. Aoi as well, but she also has her father's Tareme Eyes and long eyebrows.
Mr. Hyuuga
Kaoru's husband and the father of Natsume and Aoi. He has few appearances in the series but is shown to care for his family very deeply. He has the Alice of Fire, which passed on to his children.- Doting Parent: To his children.
- High-School Sweethearts: He and Kaoru.
- Interrupted Intimacy: He's introduced in the same scene as Kaoru, but runs off in embarrassment.
- Playing with Fire: His Alice. However, his fire was much weaker than Natsume's.
