Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Gakuen Alice 19




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Natsume and Ruka are sitting on a rooftop watching the night stars. Ruka looks as if he's about to ask something to Natsume but at the last minute decides to cancel his question. The next morning, Ruka is seen trying to stop his friends from following him like a bunch of groupie. It soon becomes obvious that the reason Ruka doesn't want anyone to follow him is because he's embarassed about his role as Snow White in Taishitsu-kei's theatrical performance. Unfortunately for Ruka, those pesky friends of his manage to find out his dressing room and take a look at him in his full Snow White costume. Ruka becomes even more embarassed when some of his friends say that he looks like a real girl in that dress.

It also doesn't help that Hotaru keeps taking picture of him in the dress. Ruka finally can't take it anymore and proceeds to give Hotaru a chase. While the two have their usual fun, Narumi takes the rest of the group to see the entire backlot. Narumi explains to the group that the play is basically a combination of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. Before he can say anything further, however, he is interrupted by a bunch of squealling fangirls who's in the middle of worshipping someone who is about to play the Prince. Narumi, however, explains that the truth is, the person who's about to play the Prince is a girl called Yuri. They picked her because her Alice is a pheromone which is capable of attracting girls. The Alice, however, doesn't seem to work on Mikan because she has her cancellation Alice.

Narumi then shows Mikan the packed auditorium and tells her that Ruka's animal pheromone and Yuri-chan's female pheromone help to attract those audiences. Mikan then asks Narumi if Ruka was selected to become Snow White because of his ability to attract the audiences. Narumi unabashedly confirms her guess. 0_0 Isn't this some kind of misuse of the students' Alice? Meanwhile, Kokoroyomi-kun is in the middle of showing his friend some kind of sticky balls that he got from Gijutsukei store. At the same time, Ruka appears on the scene chasing after Hotaru, trying to get the camera she was using to snap his pictures. Hotaru, who's not paying attention to the people in front of her accidentally hit Kokoroyomi-kun, causing him to lose grip of the sticky balls.

The balls are then propelled on top of the performers' head due to the wind that comes from a big fan and immediately unleashes its sticky effect on the victims. BTW, is it just me or does Mikan's cancellation Alice saved her from getting the effect as well? It seems to me that she's within the range of the balls and yet she's not affected by it whatsoever. Does this means that her cancellation Alice can nullify an object as well? Anyway, with almost everyone glued to each other, it becomes obvious that some alterations need to happen in order for the play to go on. Because of this, when Natsume appears stucked to a little kid who's supposed to play one of the 7 Dwarves, Narumi asks if Natsume can play the role of a forest cat so that he doesn't stick out like a sore thumb during the play.

Natsume refuses right away, asking why he should help Narumi. Upon hearing this, Narumi tells the kid that he has no choice but to cut down the number of Dwarves from 7 to 6 since the kid is stucked to Natsume. When he sees the kid looking sad, Natsume seems to change his mind. Nevertheless, he decides to leave the area without saying a word to Narumi or Mikan. Not long after this, however, he returns to the backlot wearing a cat costume. Mikan and the other girls immediately squee over his cute appearance. But Natsume quickly shows Mikan that a boy does not appreciate being called 'cute'. He also gets his revenge by telling Narumi that Mikan will make a good Prince. At first Mikan is uncomfortable about the role but Hotaru then comes and assures her that she can do it.

Ruka then comes into the dressing room and immediately becomes tongue-tied again upon seeing Mikan. Mikan tells Ruka that she doesn't have experience in acting nor is she ready for this but Taishitsu-kei and everyone else has done their best and she doesn't want to ruin it. Because of this, she asks for Ruka's guidance. Ruka tells her that all they have to do is to just do their best. The play then begins with the usual "Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess in a faraway kingdom. However, when the Princess was born, an evil witch came and gave her a sleeping curse". But since this is a messed up version of Sleeping Beauty tale, the Sleeping Beauty in this version is actually more like a Sleepy Beauty (ie. she likes to sleep). And oh, Sumire gets to play the role.

Sumire starts her role by complaining that she can't find any good boys around but then all of her sudden her cat/dog Alice is activated. Sumire then immediately jumps into the audiences seat and begins to threaten a boy, telling him that she knows he secretly brings some food with him. Mikan is surprised to see Sumire and wonders how she gets involved in the play. Ruka explains that it's all because Narumi-sensei told Sumire that no one else can play the role but her. Finally, it's Mikan and Ruka's turn on the stage. The narrator informs the audience how by fate Snow White gets to meet the Prince. Mikan seems to be a bit nervous in delivering her lines. It doesn't help that the audiences seem to be disappointed that Yuri is not the one who plays the role of the prince.

Later on Mikan tells Ruka that as she expected, she's not good at all. Ruka, however, tells her that she did a good job. Ruka's encouragement makes Mikan happy again and the two begin to laugh together. They, however, don't realise that their conversation is observed by one unhappy Natsume. The weird play then continues by short appearance by Neko-Natsume, followed by a singing and dancing Ruka and his animal friends. I have to say that the singing on this scene was attrocious. Meanwhile Sleeping Beauty is fuming because the Prince prefers Snow White than her. So she goes to her mirror and asks who's the most beautiful girl of them all. When the mirror, aka Kokoroyomi-kun, tells her that it's definitely not her, Sleepy Beauty lost it and swears revenge on Snow White.

Because of this, Sleeping Beauty sends a hunter to find Snow White. Snow White ends up being terrified of the hunter but not because of his murderous intention but more because he threatens to kiss her. When Snow White asks the hunter who sent him, all of a sudden evil Sleepy Beauty appears and tells Snow White that the hunter is her subordinate. Sleeping Beauty then laughs like a maniac and informs Snow White that she will die now. Upon saying this, Sleeping Beauty throws a "Super poisonous-bite Apple" at Snow White. The Apple manages to bite Snow White's neck, instantly killing the Princess. The Prince then arrives and tries to awaken Snow White but is surprised when he sees evil Sleeping Beauty standing next to him. Mikan quickly goes out of character and asks Sumire what is she doing here.

Sumire points to a guy flashing a note saying from now on, everyone must ad-lib their own scenario. Mikan is shocked about this and even more so when Sumire suddenly bares her fangs and claws and launches herself to attack Mikan. So the two then ends up in a deadly duel with each other. All of a sudden, however, someone flings a bone to Sumire. Sumire who's still in her cat/dog state ends up chasing after the bone. The Prince continues his attempt to wake up Snow White by kissing her. Mikan is embarassed about this but she has no choice but to kiss Ruka. However, just when she is about to kiss the boy, an apple hits her head, stopping the kiss. The stage then suddenly goes pitch-black. It seems Hotaru was the one who turned off the light and Natsume was the one who threw the apple.

Gakuen Alice 18


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Mikan, Natsume, and Ruka are sitting in an outdoor cafe. Mikan wishes that the festival can go on forever but her enthusiasm disappears when she realises that she's hungry. Thankfully for her, Anna-chan then appears, bringing with her a Wine Banana Miracle Pie. Mikan thinks that the pie looks delicious but Natsume and Ruka know better and I have to agree with them. That cake looks disgusting even without the germs dancing around in it. Oh right, the germs. Well, Natsume notices that there is this little creature dancing around in his pie and realises that the pie is not good to eat. When he realises this, he decides to splash his tea into Mikan's face to prevent her from eating the cake.

Mikan becomes angry and demands an apology. She claims that Anna-chan has worked very hard to make a pie for them. Anna's supervisor, however, tells the kids that the pie looks like it should have expired one hundred years ago, alerting them to the existence of the disgusting little creatures. After Mikan and Ruka left the cafe, Ruka tells Mikan that Natsume's action was just his way of warning them not to eat the pie. Mikan retorts that if that was the case then there are better ways of conveying the information. Ruka, however, believes that Natsume did it because he doesn't want to embarass Anna in front of the customers with his complaint.

Ruka also tells Mikan that the truth is, Natsume is really kind. Even though he is misunderstood by many, Natsume is actually the sort of person who always think of others and do not abandon them till the end. In fact, for the sake of his friend, he always keep it to himself even when he is hurt. Upon hearing this, Mikan comments that Ruka must really like Natsume. And in a way, she can understand this because she also feels the same about Hotaru. Although Hotaru does not get along well with other people, she's basically a kind person who's willing to throw everything out to help others. This is why Mikan likes Hotaru a lot and she believes Ruka feels the same way about Natsume.

Not long after this, Mikan, Natsume, and Ruka are seen heading towards Senzai-kei group's attractions by using a flying broomstick controlled by one of Sumire's friends. The three then arrive at Iinchou's haunted house attraction which seems to be rather scary by the kids' standards. Meanwhile, inside the control room, Iinchou is seen using his power to create a monster out of nothing to scare the visitors of the haunted house. Iinchou seems to be proud of his ability and gladly ushers in his friends into the darkened hall of his haunted hall. At the same time, Sumire is not happy that Natsume has gone inside the haunted house without her. She decides to follow him while taking Jinno-sensei with her.

Meanwhile, inside the haunted house, Mikan doesn't even bother to hide the fact that the experience scares her terribly. When a body-less arm suddenly reaches out and grabs her leg, she can't help screaming around without even realising that the arm is just a device controlled by another kid inside the haunted house. She then latches herself onto Ruka's arm and in the process makes Natsume to be a bit jealous. Sumire, on the other hand, is braver. Instead of screaming around when the hand grabs her leg, she ends up kicking the hand away. The only thing she's afraid of seems to be Jinno-sensei's wrath. For now, however, she doesn't have to worry about this because Jinno-sensei is too traumatised by the haunted house.


Mikan, Ruka, and Natsume then encounter a creepy old lady. The old lady wonders if they can carry/take her to the position across where she currently stands. However, Natsume decide to ignore the old lady despite the repeated requests. To be fair, the distance if not that far but at the same time, the old lady seems kind of blind. Mikan tries to protest Natsume's ignorance but she and Ruka end up following him as well. Unhappy with the kids' ignorance, the old lady suddenly opens her eyes, revealing scary red eyes. She then begins to crawl with her hands and legs and try to catch the kids. Yikes! The moral of the story is: if you see an old lady try to cross the street, help her or else, she will have a grudge on you.

In their attempt to escape from the scary obaa-san, Mikan and Natsume are seperated from Ruka. To make matters worse, Mikan passes out when she encounters a scary-looking statue and inadvertently causes the statue to fall on her. Natsume has no other choice but to protect Mikan's unconscious body with his own body, injuring his leg in the process. In addition to this, a wall suddenly appears and blocks their way out. So now both Mikan and Natsume are trapped inside the haunted house. Meanwhile, inside the control room, Iinchou focuses his attention on creating scary monsters for his visitors. He successfully conjures one up for Jinno-sensei. The problem is, Jinno-sensei is freaked out about this.

Jin-jin's fear causes his thunder Alice to go out of whack and begins to electrocute everything in its path including Sumire. His power eventually destroys the electric power source, rendering the haunted house into a pitch-black environment. Because of this, the operators has no choice but to temporarily suspend the haunted house from its operation. Meanwhile, Mikan tries to bang on one of the walls to notify others of hers and Natsume's presence behind the wall. Natsume, however, thinks that the effort is futile so he asks Mikan to stop it. Mikan then tells Natsume that maybe he should use his fire power to indicate their location. Natsume, who's annoyed with Mikan's suggestion, ends up scaring her instead.

Mikan is annoyed about this and asks Natsume if he wants to get out or not. Natsume tells her that the only way for them to get out of here is to break down the wall. Mikan, however, disagrees with this method since Senzai-kei group has worked hard to create the place. So she doesn't want him to destroy the place as if it's nothing. Heh, there's nothing pleasing her. Natsume then calmly tells her that if that's the case then maybe they should wait for the rescue. But that doesn't seem to make Mikan happy either especially after some rocks begin to fall from the ceilings. Meanwhile Ruka finally manages to get himself out of the haunted house. He, however, quickly realises that Natsume and Mikan are still inside.

Back to Mikan and Natsume, Mikan tries her best to be brave but can't stop herself from freaking out when she hears the sound of a rattling chains. The two then turn silent towards each other and Mikan realises that she finds it hard to know what's inside his mind. Unlike other children, it's hard to engage Natsume in a conversation. She also realises that she never saw Natsume laugh before. Because of this, Mikan tries several different ways to make Natsume laugh. However, just when she almost succeed in doing so, she notices the that Natsume's leg was injured. She realises that Natsume protected her when she was unconscious. Mikan becomes appreciative of Natsume's effort and starts to become mushy.



Natsume, however, tells Mikan that he knows what a strawberry panties user like her tries to say, causing the girl to realise that Natsume managed to take a look at her panties. Mikan is pissed off about this and ends up wrestling Natsume.



Unfortunately, Ruka and Hotaru then arrive and see Mikan sitting on top of Natsume's body. Mikan tries to explain that this is not what it looks like but Natsume intends to make her look bad by saying that she tries to molest him while no one sees them. Later on, Mikan tells Ruka that despite everything, it's been an enjoyable day with Natsume. Ruka then tells her about his and Natsume's future dream of living peacefully in a place where there are a lot of animals. Mikan then assures him that one day his wish will surely become a reality.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Gakuen Alice 17




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Mikan being forced to come along with Natsume and Ruka to the school's festival due to the misfortune that happened on last week's episode. But since Mikan by nature is a happy person, she can't contain her excitement and ends up talking animatedly here and there. Natsume who can no longer stand her noisy voice decides to throw a biscuit down her throat. The biscuit instantly transforms her mouth into a bird's beak. Iinchou then magically appears out of nowhere, thanks to the inconsistent animation, to explain how anyone who eats one of the biscuits will sound like a bird. As if that's not bad enough, later on Natsume puts a leash on Mikan's neck to prevent her from running away whenever she pleases. That, however, does not stop her from cutting the leash off when she spots a store/stall belonging to Hotaru.

However, when Mikan runs towards the store, she is knocked back by a tremor that is caused by the arrival of Hotaru's new invention: a giant robot called Piglet. Inside the robot, Hotaru demonstrates how the big hunk of a machine can turn into a flying ship called Pig-Bird. The ability of the robot impresses the investors who come to see Hotaru's invention, to the point that they start bidding on the invention right away. Mikan and the others are equally impressed by the invention and even more so when Sumire comes and explains how Hotaru's invention has increased the number of sponsors for the Gijutsu-kei group. As if that's not enough, Hotaru has also created a 'capture the flag' game that utilises a bunch of robotic chicken. Upon seeing the game, Mikan and the others are keen to give it a go.

Meanwhile, a young boy called Kenji is disappointed because he's not allowed to play the game and decides to secretly sneak into one of the robots. The game then begins and Mikan starts to whip the floor by taking the flag on her opponents' helmet. However, her own flag is then captured by the little boy, forcing Mikan to chase after the boy. In order to avoid getting captured by Mikan, the boy uses his robot to fly into the sky. Unfortunately not long after he's done this, there's some kind of malfunction in the robot's engine and things quickly go out of hand for him. Because of this, Mikan asks one of Natsume's lackeys to use his levitation Alice to fly her robot into the sky. Once her robot is aligned next to the boy's robot, Mikan bravely jumps into the boy's robot.

Everyone seems to be relieved to see Mikan successfully controlling the robot again. But unfortunately, the robot starts acting out again and eventually crash landing into the forest. Thankfully, neither the boy nor Mikan is harmed because of this. The boy's older brother thanks Mikan for saving his brother but unfortunately, Hotaru doesn't have the same luck. Because of the incident, people starts to wonder about the safety of her inventions. Mikan tries her best to defend her best friend, but no one is convinced of her argument especially since she almost got killed because of that said invention. Not long after this, the student council comes to the location to inspect damages. One of these principal students turns out to be the young guy with the glasses that appeared back in episode 14.

The guy, who is known as 'Imai-senpai', walks over to Mikan and asks if she's hurt. Upon seeing the big gash on Mikan's leg, he puts his hand on the wound and immediately takes the wound away. Iinchou explains that Imai-senpai has an ability to cure wounds. Everyone seems to be impressed by Imai-senpai's ability but he seems to be more concerned with finding the person responsible for the game. However, just when Hotaru is ready to take blame for the incident, the little boy then tells Imai-senpai that he's the one to blame because he used his Alice to control the vehicle. Mikan is relieved to hear this and thank the boy for admitting his mistake. Unfortunately, someone should still get the blame and Imai-senpai decides that the fault lies squarely on the older brother's shoulder because he did not pay attention to his little brother.

Imai-senpai puts his finger into the older brother's forehead and transfer the pain from Mikan's leg into the older brother's forehead. Iinchou explains that Imai-senpai's power is like the two sides of a coin. It can takes away the pain from a person and gives the pain to someone else. Once he's done this, Imai-senpai tries to leave the area but is stopped by Hotaru. Imai-senpai's followers rudely asks Hotaru to move aside. But she remains stationary as the two greets each other with "Hajimemashite". Imai-senpai then tells his follower that the girl is probably his younger sister, shocking everyone in the area. Okay, I guess I have to explain this a little bit to make the scene more understandable. "Hajimemashite" is a greeting that a person use to greet another person that one has not met before.

For example, it's okay for me to use "Hajimemashite" the first time I see a person. But I can't use "Hajimemashite" again the next time I meet him because the word 'Hajimemashite' more less means, "This is our first meeting with each other". Now, if you put this in the context of Hotaru and her brother, one would think that as siblings, they already know each other. But the fact that they use "Hajimemashite" when they see each other here implies that they had never seen each other beforehand. True enough, as Mikan, Iinchou, and Ruka-pyon follow the two siblings, they hear how the two only know of each other's existence based on what their parents told them. Nevertheless, when Hotaru entered the school for the first time, her brother realised that maybe he'll get to meet her one day.

Hotaru then cuts to the chase and asks her brother why he never visited their parents or wrote a letter to them. Her brother coldly replies that while he appreciates the fact that their parents gave birth to him, he doesn't feel anything else for them since he and their parents live in two different worlds. This answer surprises Hotaru and anger Mikan at the same time. But thankfully before Mikan can open her big mouth, Iinchou and Ruka manage to restrain her. Imai-senpai says that now that Hotaru is also a student at this school, she can visit him and asks for any help. Imai-senpai then bids goodbye to Hotaru, who knows well that her brother's last words were just pleasantries. She recognises all of his uncaring body language: the business-like attitude and the cold eyes.

Once her brother left, Hotaru explains to her friends that in some ways, she kind of expect this to happen since her brother hasn't seen his family ever since he was five years old. Having said that, Hotaru thinks she and her brother are alike, much to Mikan's disagreement. Hotaru then remembers how her mother cried a lot when she first found out that Hotaru has an Alice ability because she's afraid Hotaru will turn out like her brother. This is why Hotaru and her parents moved around alot before settling down at Mikan's hometown. They want Hotaru to be a child who can love and appreciate her most important people. Hotaru's parents knew that the day when Hotaru has to go to Alice Gakuen will arrive but they hope that at least Hotaru will be different from her brother. The episode ends with Hotaru feeling grateful that she has Mikan to keep her from being an emotionless person like her brother.

Gakuen Alice 16


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Mikan and her Tokuryoku group decked out in their Aladdin and the Magic Lamp outfits, ready to welcome the visitors to their RPG. The problem is, their RPG doesn't seem to attract any visitor. It seems people prefer to visit the shows created by the other groups. On top of this, the location of Tokuryoku's RPG game is quite far from the rest of the school festival. Mikan and the group are depressed about this especially after three people who happen to pass by their RPG refuses to play the game. Tsubasa, however, encourages the group to not lose their spirit. They failed to secure those customers because the customers don't know what the RPG is about. So from now on, they should have some people standing on the starting line to explain the game.

Thankfully not long after the incident, Narumi-sensei, Ruka-pyon, and Sumire arrive at the location to see how the group is doing. Ruka-pyon and Sumire are decked out in a costume similar to the rabbit and Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland so Sumire asks Mikan what kind of costume she wears. Mikan tells her that she dressed up as a Lamp Djinn/Lamp Spirit and proceeds to ask Ruka-pyon if she looks good in it. Ruka-pyon, however, is too enchanted by Mikan at this point. As a result, he's unable to say anything coherent without embarrassing himself. Anyway, Narumi-sensei looks rather keen to play the RPG so Tsubasa tells him that Aladdin and the Magic Lamp is a game where the participant enters a maze and must defeat the evil spirits who are played by the members of the Tokuryoku group.

However, there are a couple of rules to follow. First, the participant must not use violence in the game. Secondly, they must randomly pick a weapon from a weapon box to be used in the game. Narumi-sensei gets a flashlight, Sumire gets a talking earplug, while Ruka gets a seemingly useless rope. Finally, in order to win, the participant must defeat the Djinns inside the maze using a combination of their weapon and their wits. Unfortunately before Ruka-pyon can figure out the use of his rope, the game already starts. So he has no choice but to enter the maze and encounters his first challenge: Misaki Djinn. She tells Ruka that if he wants to pass this level, he must finds out the real Misaki out of her many doppelgangers within 30 seconds. Ruka-pyon fails miserably.

Narumi-sensei, on the other hand, is confident that he can passes the maze easily after defeating his first enemy using his pheromone Alice. However, much to his disappointment, Mikan turns out to be the last Djinn that he encounters. Mikan tells Narumi that in order to pass the goal, the participant must be able to take her down from her 'Flying carpet' within 30 seconds without physically touching her. Narumi realises that his pheromone Alice won't work here because it'll be nullified by Mikan's cancellation Alice. We then hear Tsubasa explaining how the winner is allowed to choose a lamp belonging to one of the Djinns. He/she then gets to keep it until the Djinn grants the person's 3 wishes. Anyway, since Ruka and Narumi have failed, it's Sumire turns to enter the maze.

While inside the maze, Sumire wonders kind of a weapon her earplug is supposed to be. For an earplug, this thing is unusually noisy, singing a song the entire time. Before she can find out its use, however, a Genie appears and tells her that in order to pass the area, she must not laugh within 30 seconds, no matter what he says. The problem is, this Genie is played by the same Tokuryoku member who has the ability to make people laugh - even though what he says is not funny whatsoever. Sumire suddenly remembers that she can use her earplug to stop herself from hearing the Djinn's words. Unfortunately, the earplug is now sleeping peacefully and as a result, Sumire can't use it to block the the guy's voice. In the end, Sumire can't stop her laughter and ends up losing the game just like Narumi and Ruka.

Soon, the news about the group's interesting RPG travels from one student to another. The three students who first refused to play the game are now surprised to see other students lining-up in queues to play the game. Some people are keen to see if they can pass the game's difficult level while others want to get either Tsubasa or Misaki to do their bidding. The popularity of the game eventually attracts Kokoroyomi-kun and Natsume so the two decide to check it out. Ruka, who's been helping the group selling tickets ends up becoming Natsume and Kokoroyomi-kun first bully victim. The two decide to tease Ruka by pulling her rabbit ears left and right. Sumire, on the other hand, is excited to see Natsume and asks if he's there to save her from the captive of Tokuryoku group. The answer is a big 'No'.

Natsume then turns his attention to Mikan who appears to greet him. He quickly asks her what kind of costume she wears. He also wants to know where she hides her breast and proceeds to pull her top to check it out. Mikan is traumatised by this and runs over to Tsubasa crying. This, however, makes Natsume jealous. So when Tsubasa asks if Natsume has come to try his RPG, Natsume decides to take up the challenge. He and Kokoroyomi-kun then begin to pick a 'weapon' and respectively receive a flower and a talking roach. Once Natsume enters the Maze, he encounters his first challenge: a girl in a mirror. The girl djinn steals his roach and tells him that in order to pass this leve, he must regain his weapon within 30 seconds. However, when she realises that Natsume's weapon is a roach, she is quite happy to return it to him.

Kokoroyomi-kun, on the other hand, manages to pass the girl djinn by reading her thoughts out loud, revealing her secrets. The girl, who's embarrassed by this has no choice but to return his flower. Meanwhile Natsume encounters his second challenge: returning the soul of a guy to its original body without touching the actual body itself. No problem. Natsume simply uses his fire Alice to make the guy feels hot and wants to get a drink. Kokoroyomi-kun, on the other hand, uses his mind-reading Alice again to get the same guy to return to his body. The third challenge is a bit difficult for Natsume since he has to write an answer to an equation within 30 seconds. The problem is, the equation is written on a blackboard that is hang upside down on a ceiling. Because of this, Natsume decides to use his fire Alice to etched the answer.

Natsume then encounters Tsubasa in his next challenge. In order to pass Tsubasa, Natsume must be able to touch him within 30 seconds. However, Natsume has now been captured by Tsubasa's shadow Alice. Because of this, Natsume decides to release his fire Alice. But much to Tsubasa's surprise, Natsume uses it not to harm Tsubasa, but to ensure that the shadow disappears. Then when Tsubasa thinks that Natsume is going to punch him, Natsume simply touches his jaw with a knuckle and tells Tsubasa that he's lost this round. Since Natsume doesn't use violence to win this round, he passes with flying colours. Kokoroyomi-kun, however, doesn't have too much luck since he got stuck at the level where he has to write an answer of an equation. Since there is no one in the area, he can't use his Alice to force them to do his bidding.

Natsume eventually reaches the final obstacle in the maze: Mikan Djinn. The rule is still the same. Natsume must get her to step down from her 'Flying carpet' without using any physical means. After not getting reaction by throwing a cockroach at Mikan, Natsume pretends that he feels sick due to an overuse of his Alice. Mikan, who is worried about him willingly steps down to check out his condition. In the end Mikan realises that the whole thing is a trick. But it's too late for her since Natsume is now the winner of the RPG and can choose any lamp. Natsume wants Tsubasa to do his bidding as a revenge so he tells Kokoroyomi to read his heart to find out which lamp belongs to Tsubasa. Unfortunately, Kokoroyomi-kun thinks that it's Mikan's lamp that Natsume wants so Mikan ends up being the one who has to grant Natsume's 3 wishes.

Gakuen Alice 15


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Hotaru’s taking Yoichi to the school festival. Unfortunately, it seems that both of them are too anxious about their missing friends to be able to enjoy the festivities. Meanwhile inside the warehouse, Mikan woke up and realized she was already face to face with Natsume, she then tried to use her teeth to release the rope that binds Sumire's hands but when she fails to achieve a significant result, she realises the futility of her attempt. The girls, however, are relieved when they find out that Natsume finally regains his consciousness. Because of this, the two quickly inform him that they are being held inside a warehouse and it seems that there is a barrier that prevents them from using their Alice.

After thinking about the situation for a while, Natsume notices the Panda-styled muffler that Mikan wears and decides to inquire its function from the owner. This reminds Mikan that she can actually use the muffler to communicate with Hotaru. Meanwhile at the school, the teachers are in the middle of discussing Reo's betrayal when all of a sudden Hotaru's muffler indicates an incoming call from Mikan. Thanks to the device, the school can now communicate with the kidnapped students. Narumi-sensei informs Mikan that normally, Natsume's power can penetrate the barrier and burn the rope. But since his body is kind of weak right now, this maybe impossible for him to do.

Upon hearing this, Natsume burns his own rope even though the effort seems to cause him a lot of pain. While Natsume unties Mikan, Jinno-sensei talks on the mike and informs Mikan that they must try their best to conceal their Alice ability from their kidnapper. In addition to this, Narumi-sensei also tells Mikan to not hear Reo's voice. However, before Narumi can complete his sentence, Reo appears and snatches the muffler away from Mikan. He begins to taunt Narumi and mention how he never thought that a man who used to be on the side of anti-Alice Academy has now become the 'dog' of the school. Reo then ends the conversation by destroying the muffler.

Reo tells the students that they may know about his voice pheromone but what they don't know is that he uses the earring on his left ear to control his power. As he says this, he begins to use his voice to force Sumire to reveal her Alice. Thankfully before Sumire tells Reo about it, Mikan manages to cover her mouth. Unhappy with his failure, Reo changes his target to Natsume. He begins to taunt Natsume and tells him that Natsume is similar to Reo's group in the sense that they both hate the school. Mikan, however, once again jumps to Natsume's defense and cancels Reo's Alice in the process. This makes the kidnappers wonder as to why Reo's Alice has no effect on her.

Suddenly it dawns on Reo that Mikan possesses cancellation Alice. Mikan, who realises that Reo has find out about her Alice tries to play it dumb. But Reo grabs Mikan's face and tells himself that her face reminds him of 'that person'. He immediately tells his henchmen to investigate the data that they have about 'that person' 10 years ago. Reo believes that apart from the 'Black Cat', this maybe the biggest capture attempt they've managed to do thus far. While the kidnappers are busy investigating their data, Natsume asks Sumire to use her Alice to investigate her surrounding. In return, she tells Natsume that she can smell a lot of gunpowder in the warehouse.

When he finds out about this, Natsume tells Mikan and Sumire to run towards a lightly guarded door once he gives a signal. He wants them to continue running towards the school and to tell the teachers the location of the warehouse. Natsume then orders Mikan and Sumire to run away while threatens the kidnappers that he'll use his Alice to blow up the dynamite in the warehouse if they move. After the girls escape out of the warehouse, however, Mikan worries about Natsume's situation. Because of this, she tells Sumire to continue without her and returns hastily to the warehouse. Sumire, who continues her journey to reach the school, however, ends up getting captured by Reo's henchman.

Meanwhile, Natsume remembers how Persona once told him that in case he is captured by an enemy and all ways of escaping are severed, he has to sacrifice his own life. It seems that Persona once threatened Natsume that if he ever becomes the enemy of the school, something will happen to his important people. Back to the present, Reo informs Natsume how all of his efforts to help the girls are for naught because sooner or later, the girls will get caught by his henchmen. Natsume becomes angry upon hearing this and tells Reo that this doesn't have to be a useless effort because he will now turn the warehouse into a sea of fire and kill all of them.

Thankfully before Natsume can proceed with his kamikaze plan, Mikan arrives in time to stop him. However, the distraction provides Reo an opportunity to use his Alice in full capacity to render Natsume powerless. Natsume is a bit angry with this development and asks Mikan why she returns. Mikan simply tells him that she's worried about him because after all, he's her partner. Meanwhile, Reo orders his henchmen to secure Mikan and Natsume but he quickly realises that his Alice has turned his subordinate powerless as well. Mikan, who understands the situation, quickly takes an initiative. She throws sand into Reo's face then takes Natsume to escape with her.

Because Natsume is still weak, however, the two have no choice but to go into a temporary hiding place. Meanwhile, Sumire manages to run away from her captor but then runs into a dead end alley, allowing her captor to corner her. Thankfully, Tsubasa and Misaki then appear to help her. Back to Mikan, Natsume tells her to go and save herself but she refuses on the grounds that everyone, from Ruka to Sumire, expects Natsume to returns safely as well. So she doesn't want either of them to give up now. Unfortunately their location has now been detected by Reo's henchmen. As usual, however, Mikan refuses to give up and puts up a brave fight before neutered by the henchmen.

Thankfully for Mikan, Tsubasa and Misaki arrived just in time to save her. Reo, however, manages to escape and one of his henchmen succeeds in capturing Natsume. Mikan, who tries to stop the henchman ends up getting knocked back to a wall. When he sees this, Natsume becomes angry and releases giga flare that causes huge explosion throughout the warehouse.
When Mikan regains her consciousness, she wakes up in a hospital bed surrounded by her friends. Ruka then thanks her and Sumire for saving Natsume. Apparently Natsume needs a lot of quiet rest but otherwise he'll be okay. Narumi-sensei then gives Mikan a surprise: because of her bravery, Jinno sensei decides to give her a single star.

Gakuen Alice 14


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Hotaru finding the recording ring that she gave to Mikan one episode ago. At the same time, B Class teacher alerted all of the other teachers about the two runaway students. Jinno-sensei is especially unhappy when he finds out that the students are Sumire and Mikan. The two girls themselves are seen running out of breath trying to catch the car. Thankfully the two then spot a bicycle and uses it to chase the car. Unfortunately, several teachers have now been dispatched to catch the two. Sumire suggests that maybe Mikan should let herself get caught by the teachers so she can explain the situation while Sumire continue to chase after the car. Mikan who dislikes the idea ends up arguing with Sumire instead of focusing on steering the bike. Not surprisingly, the bike ends up hitting a sidewalk road divider.

To make matters worse, the teachers manage to catch the two and try to take the girls back to the school. Mikan tries to explain that Natsume was kidnapped but the teachers do not believe them. All of a sudden, however, the teachers are attacked by a bunch of Crows that are controlled by Ruka-pyon. This allows Mikan and Sumire to run away and jump into a truck carrying a bunch of pigs. Meanwhile, Ruka finds it hard to believe that Natsume is kidnapped. But when Hotaru plays the recording from the ring she gave to Mikan, he suggests that they find Narumi-sensei quickly. Back to the squabbling duo, they have now lost track of the car due to the incident. So Sumire has no choice but to use her Alice: a dog/cat sense of smell that she uses to find out the car's whereabouts. Unfortunately, their tracking attempt has now been detected by Reo's driver.

Meanwhile, Hotaru and Ruka is in the middle of explaining the whole situation to Narumi and Jinno-sensei. The teacher at first find it hard to believe until Narumi tells them that he found out that Reo never really broke his leg so his reason for entering the school's hospital is a suspect to begin with. Meanwhile, Mikan and Sumire manages to spot the car again so they starts to chase after it again. Mikan thinks that they should get a Taxi or at least hitchhike a car but Sumire disagree because Reo will be suspicious and they don't know what kind of dangerous Alices his henchmen may have. Because of this, they can't involve normal people/innocent bystanders. Sumire tells Mikan that when she told Mikan how people with Alices are different from other human being, she also thinks that they have different responsibility because of this.

Upon hearing this, Mikan agrees to keep chasing after the car but it seems they don't have to do that because the car suddenly appears and stops in front of them. When the car moves again, it is obvious that they both have been captured as well by Reo and his henchmen. Meanwhile, the school cultural festival has started at Alice Academy. Unfortunately for Mikan's special group, their RPG booth seems to have no visitor. Tsubasa and Misaki also wonders what happen to Mikan so Tsubasa decides to go and look for his kouhai. Back to Mikan, she finds herself waking up next to Natsume and Sumire inside an abandoned warehouse. Despite finally regaining consciousness, the two girls decide to pretend that they're still asleep so that they don't alert Reo's suspicion. Thanks to this they find out that a ship will pick them at 2 o'clock.


They also find out bit information about Natsume and his 'Black Cat' identity. Apparently 'Black Cat' is a code name that Natsume used when he works as an illegal special military force under the supervision of Persona from Alice Academy. Reo also says that 2 years ago, when Natsume was only 8 years old, he turned the entire town where he used to live into a sea of fire in one night. The incident was covered up by the country and Natsume is then assigned to the dangerous alice group. People pretend to not know that children are brought up to be secret operative in this agent training section of this school. The two girls are shocked upon hearing this but Sumire tries to convince herself and Mikan that Natsume can't be as bad as he sounds. Mikan, however, is more concerned with getting away from the place before the situation becomes more dangerous.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Gakuen Alice 13


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Natsume's having a nightmare. Inside the dream, various people mention their fear of Natsume's Alice ability. Natsume then finds himself being chased around by a huge shadow of Persona who keeps telling him that 'this is' his duty. All of a sudden, however, Natsume hears Mikan's voice and a bright light shines in the darkness. Anyway, when he wakes up, Natsume becomes embarassed of his dream. So to compensate for this, he splashes some water on Mikan, making her angry. Mikan, however, seems to be relieved to see Natsume goes back to his old ways.

Anyway, Natsume tries to get rid of Mikan by telling her to go back to her group and help them out with the RPG thing. However, just as Mikan about to help out Tsubasa, she sees Hotaru and other students running like stampede. They tell her that they're on their way to see Reo (or Leo if you prefer). Mikan is clueless about this guy so Tsubasa informs her that Reo is Alice Gakuen's school graduate who now has become a famous star/singer. He was apparently a top student with Voice pheromone Alice. Upon hearing the word 'famous', Mikan wants to see him as well so Tsubasa has no choice but to let Mikan go so she can see the singer. Unfortunately, there are already many students crowding the car that carries Reo. So Mikan decides to sneak through the crowd and ends up bumping into Reo himself.

Obviously other students are not happy about this especially when Reo asks Mikan to guide him into the school. Hotaru, who's looking from afar is also not happy with Mikan's presence. She wanted to take Reo-only pictures/videos (so she can sell it) but Mikan was in her way. To compensate for this, Hotaru created a set of spying gadgetry that can be used to penetrate Reo's concert. In order to do this, however, she needs accomplices so she drags Mikan, Kokoroyomi-kun, and another student to help her. Meanwhile, Reo arrives at his accomodation and ends up meeting his sempai, Narumi. The two then change pleasantries before Narumi reveals his intention of placing a bracelet that prevent Reo's pheromone ability from affecting the students. Surprisingly enough, Reo doesn't seem to have any objection to this treatment.

Anyway, Hotaru and her accomplices are then seen starting their infiltration operation. However, Reo's concert is highly guarded by various guards and electronic devices. One of them (a student whose name I can't remember) get caught right away when he steps into the room and set off the laser-sensor trap. Upon finding out about this, Hotaru and the others used the flying socks that she invented in order to get around this problem. However, Hotaru, Mikan, and Kokoroyomi-kun then encounter two security guards. But because Kokoroyomi-kun can read the guard's mind, they manage to escape. Unfortunately, they are not that lucky because the next guard they meet is a robot and Kokoroyomi can't read its mind. So Mikan and Hotaru decides to let him get caught so they can see Reo themselves. That is evil beyond belief.

The two eventually find themselves on a platform right on top of Reo's concert. Their presence, however, is detected by Reo who cunningly uses this opportunity for his plan. He pulls out a knife and then throws that knife into Mikan so that she'll fall off the ledge. Reo then catches Mikan before she plummets into the ground, making him look like a hero. However, later on he pretends that his knee is injured due to this incident and therefore has to be hospitalised. Mikan feels guilty about this so Tsubasa once again has no choice but to let her go so she can check out on Reo's condition. Meanwhile Narumi-sensei is seen sitting next to Reo's hospital bed remembering their past together. Apparently when they were young, Reo wasn't happy when he found out that Narumi wanted to become a teacher. He doesn't understand why Narumi made this decision.

Fast forward to the present, Narumi who feels guilty about that past ends up releasing Reo from the bracelet. Once he left, however, Reo reveals that he's been faking his injury and proceeds to get out of his room. Meanwhile, Mikan, Hotaru, and Sumire (who pretends that she's there to see Natsume) manage to infiltrate the hospital by dressing up as adult nurses. This is just so wrong that you have to see it yourself to believe it. Unfortunately, they got busted by a doctor thanks to Mikan's carelessness. While trying to get away from the doctor, Mikan and Sumire are seperated from Hotaru and ends up hiding inside Natsume's room. They, however, are surprised when the see Reo coming into the room as well but Sumire tells Mikan to be quiet just to be on the safe side.

True enough, they quickly find out that Reo is in the room to kidnap Natsume. He uses his voice pheromone to put Natsume in deep sleep then calls one of his MIB henchman to teleport Natsume into his car. Anyway, once this is happened, Reo left the room, leaving both Mikan and Sumire in shock. They, never the less, agree that they have to stop Reo from taking Natsume away from the school. So the two then attempt to stop Reo's car from getting out of the school's gate. Unfortunately, Reo's car is surrounded by a bunch of fans who want to see their idol's face so Mikan can't get close to the car. Thankfully for Mikan, Hotaru happens to be there as well. She quickly throws a smoke bomb into the crowd, allowing Mikan and Sumire to chase after the car and pass the school gate without much difficulty. The episode then end with the two girls chasing after the car while Natsume is seen captured inside the trunk.

Gakuen Alice 12


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When a car passed the area, a group of armed men appear and hold the car under a gun point. All of a sudden, Natsume who now wears a black cat mask, appears on top of the car and uses his fire alice to disarm the gun used by the men who stopped the car. As a result, the car can now move on safely. The armed men, however, are unhappy and began to shoot Natsume. Natsume manages to escape although it seems he's injured a bit by a stray bullet. The car itself is then seen arriving safely inside a building while elsewhere, Natsume appears behind Persona. Persona then instructs Natsume to return so Natsume follows the order without mentioning the fact that he's injured due to the job. The scene then cuts to a shot of a man talking on the phone about Natsume's appearance. The man is then seen smirking in the dark after ending the conversation.

The next day in B class, Narumi announces to the students that School Festival season has officially started. So he encourages everyone to collaborate with each other and use the opportunity to know each other better. Once Narumi left, all of the students begin to talk to each other excitedly. Well, everyone except Natsume who is still in pain due to last night's incident. He, however, hides it well even from Ruka. Anyway, later on Iincho explains to Mikan that the festival will last for 2 weeks and includes a dance party. In these two weeks, four Alice groups will compete for the best performance in the festival. True enough, a lot of students are already looking busy doing their bit parts for the festival. Ruka-pyon, on the other hand, has another issue on his mind. Apparently Hotaru took pictures of him wearing a skirt back when he helped Mikan to escape from the school. Ruka wants the pictures back so he ends up chasing Hotaru all over the school.

Meanwhile Mikan is disappointed when her sempais tell her that they're not participating at the festival. The group feels that it's easier this way since they have no idea on what to do and the fact that there is no common ground between each other's Alice. While trying to find out the solution to her problem, Mikan ends up talking to Natsume. She tells Natsume that it must be easy for him. His own Alice, for example, can be used in fireworks. Upon hearing Mikan's complaint, Natsume asks her to get closer and when she does so, he burns the end bit of her hair and tells her to disappear. Mikan is obviously angry at Natsume's juvenile behaviour. She, however, also feels sorry for him when he tells her that the school tries to hide his group's existence and therefore, they are not allowed to participate. Before Mikan can say anything much to Natsume, however, Sumire and her brother, who turns out to be the sempai who bullied Mikan, appears together.

It seems Sumire's brother is looking for Hotaru and to top it off, he seems to be rather infatuated by her. Hotaru, however, doesn't give a dime about him so she runs him over with her vehicle since she herself is still busy trying to evade Ruka-pyon's chase. Unhappy with the incident, Sumire and her brother decides to vent their anger at Mikan. Natsume, however, can't stand the guy either and decides to burn his hair so that he'll leave. Once the two leave, Mikan spots the RPG book that Natsume's been reading and gets an idea on what her Alice group can do for the festival. She suggest a Role Playing Game feature since some of the people in the group can do monster and such. The idea is well received so Tsubasa and Mikan come to the teacher's room to ask for Side Entry permission. Unfortunately, their request is rejected by Jin-Jin. Elsewhere, Ruka is seen flying using his eagle, chasing after Hotaru who flashes a banner showing Ruka wearing Mikan's skirt.

Back to Mikan, she and the Special Alice group are unhappy with the rejection but unfortunately there's not much they can do since Nodachi is still time tripping somewhere. Mikan, however, doesn't want to give up and ends up being angry with the group's defeatist attitude. Feeling miserable, Mikan ends up running away from the group and encounters Natsume reading a book underneath a tree. She asks Natsume if she can speak to him for a while. Natsume declines as usual despite Mikan protesting that he's supposed to be her partner. In the end, she asks if she can at least sit there since she doesn't have anywhere else to go either. Upon hearing this, Natsume reluctantly agrees to her request. Meanwhile, Narumi-sensei encounters two female teachers who are apparently excited about the possible arrival of a famous performer called Reo to the upcoming school festival. Narumi, on the other hand, looks concerned upon hearing this latest development.

Before he can contemplate the situation further, however, Tsubasa and other upperclassmen from Tokubetsu class appear in the teaching room again. They ask Jin-Jin to allow them to participate, if they can make him laugh. Jin-Jin at first refuses but thanks to Narumi's nudge he finally agrees. The problem is, making Jin-Jin laugh proves to be difficult since the guy is hellbent on not laughing despite the students' attempt. Jin-Jin even covers his ear when he realises that one of the students has an Alice that can make anyone laugh just by hearing one single word from his mouth. Tsubasa, however, cleverly uses his shadow skill to tickle Jin-Jin so that his hands stop covering his ears. As a result, Jin Jin laugh and the Special group Alice get their permission to participate in the festival. Meanwhile, Hotaru and Ruka has taken their run and chase adventure to a ridiculous level but they eventually stop when the two spot Mikan and Natsume peacefully sitting back to back.

Mikan is in the middle of telling Natsume how she had a fight with her group back then. So Natsume tells Mikan to go back there again and make amends with them. Mikan thanks Natsume for listening to her and proceeds to leave him. After Mikan, left, however, Natsume passes out due to his injury. Thankfully Hotaru and Ruka see the incident. Meanwhile, Mikan is surprised when she returns to her group and sees everyone busy preparing for the festival. So Tsubasa and Misaki explains everything to her. Mikan is happy about the news and wants to tell Natsume but when she goes back to the spot where the two sat together, Natsume is not there anymore. The scene then cuts to Hotaru and Ruka standing next to a hospital bed containing Natsume. At the same time, the mysterious man who was seen earlier in the episode is now seen talking on the phone. Thanks to the conversation, the man finds out that Natsume has been taken to the school's hospital.

Gakuen Alice 11


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Mikan is sleeping inside her room. However, just as she's about to indulge in her fantasy about Hotaru, a fire alarm breaks out and all of the students are forced to evacuate the dormitory. Mikan is relieved when Iincho tells her that Hotaru is safe and is also amazed at the usefulness of other students' Alices in helping to quell down the fire and safe those who are trapped in it. Meanwhile, Natsume is seen on the other side of the building looking rather disturbed. Ruka then arrives and asks him if he's okay and suddenly Natsume starts to remember a girl who's trapped in the fire while there's an echo of sound from many people including Persona whispering "Hitogoroshi" - Murderer. Back to Mikan, she's trying to help a kid who's crying because he's left a videotape of her mother inside the now burning room.

Mikan foolishly tries to return to the dormitory and gets the tape. She does manage to get the tape but at that point, an explosion happens in the building and she falls unconscious after seeing Hotaru in her flying duck motorbike. The next day, Jinno-sensei wants to know which student barged into the burned dormitory last night. He is definitely not impressed when he finds out it was Mikan even after Iincho tries to explain to him that Mikan was trying to help a kid. Somewhere in an unknown location, Noda-sensei time-tripped himself into a snowy area. In this place, he sees a woman walking alone holding a baby in her arm. It's only after she left that Noda-sensei realises that he may know that woman. Back to Mikan, she's in the middle of telling Misaki and Tsubasa about how she feels feels useless after last night's incident.


Elsewhere in the school, Narumi-sensei is seen sneaking around a greenhouse belonging to Misaki-sensei. It seems he's there to steal those plant-like whip that he used back in episode 2. However, as soon as he picks the plant, an alarm goes off indicating that someone has taken something from the greenhouse. Narumi quickly makes his way out of the greenhouse trying to escape. Before he can get too far, however, he bumps into Noda-sensei who appears out of nowhere. To make things weirder, Noda-sensei asks Narumi how old he is right now. When Narumi answers that he's 27 years old, Noda-sensei is relieved, telling Narumi that it seems he's returned to the present. When Mikan and Tsubasa appears on the scene, Nodachi realises that he hasn't thought Mikan much of anything. So he offers to teach Mikan a lesson right now.

Nodachi then begins his lesson by telling Mikan that there are four types of Alice form capability. The first one is the type that only appears in during childhood period, the second one is one where the Alice can be maintained for a long time but without too much power. The third one is where the Alice is powerful but can only be used in short amount of time and once. Finally, there is a rare type that has no limit but it has effect on the user's life. Mikan is then interested to know more about the first one, so Nodachi tells her that it is an Alice which only appears when someone is still a child but eventually disappears as the person becomes an adult, turning the adult into an ordinary person. The most 'interesting' one, however, is the Alice type that can produce harmful effects to their health or even shorten the life of the person who uses it.

Upon hearing this, Mikan suddenly remembers about Natsume but then wonders why she is even thinking about him and tries to shake her Natsume-filled thoughts. Anyway, Nodachi then tells Mikan that just talking about it won't do any good so they're going to practice her Alice. He informs Mikan that he's going to time-trip again now and he wants her to use the cancellation Alice to stop him. Unfortunately, unlike other groups which have access to tools which can help Alice users to evoke their power, Tokuryoku-kei has no such device. So instead Nodachi tells Mikan that he'll wander in the past or future and unable to go back if she can't stop him with her Alice. Upon hearing this, Mikan becomes worried about Nodachi and manages to use her Alice to stop Nodachi's time-trip effort.

Having said that, Mikan is not happy that Nodachi makes her scared like that. So Nodachi asks Mikan to forgive him but he believes that method is effective to reproduce her power. Noda then time-trips for real after telling Mikan to practice her Alice. And practice she does. Mikan decides to set up a stall in the school asking other students to use their Alice on her and she'll try to cancel it. This ranges from Mikan trying to cancel a guy with smelly fart *snerk* to Natsume's attempt to toast her ass. Meanwhile inside a park in the school, Noda sensei makes another appearance in front of Narumi-sensei who proceeds to offer him some tea. Out of the blue, however, Noda-sensei then tells his time-tripping experience where he went back 10 years earlier to a snowy day and saw a woman carrying a child in her arms.

Upon hearing this, Narumi-sensei seems to be reminded of something and bids goodbye to Noda-sensei. Back to Mikan, she's in the middle of convincing Hotaru to help her practicing but Hotaru refuses and tries to shoot baka-gun bullets at Mikan. Unfortunately, a stray bullet almost hit Jinno-sensei, pissing off the teacher. Jin-Jin is even more unhappy after he finds out that this is happened because Mikan tries to practice her Alice. At the same time, Hotaru is not happy that Jin-Jin treats Mikan like a dirt. So the conversation goes downhill from there and turns dangerous after Hotaru calls Jin Jin a heartless person. Jin-Jin suddenly goes abusive and uses his lightning Alice on Hotaru. When he tries to use a bigger one on her, however, Mikan manages to nullify his Alice. Unhappy with the failure, Jin-Jin left the scene, allowing Iincho to tell Mikan that her Alice works when she wants to protect people who are important to her.