the "Central Town" episode... even though Mikan only received 5 rabbits as her allowance, she is really excited to go shopping around because she's lived in the country her whole life.. but the mean teacher says she can only go if Natsume goes with her.. she has to beg him to take her, making it look like she's asking him on a date... also Natsume introduces that weird little kid Youichi. He has the Evil Spirits alice, a dangerous class ability... the kid convinces Natsume to go to Central Town for his own reasons...
There's all sorts of really cool things that Mikan can't buy... a mirror that shows you in whatever you want to wear, pillows that let you dream about whatever you want, a juice-making flower... Mikan is about to use her 5 rabbits to buy some ice cream, but then she sees some boys about to buy a talking apple, and the apple is saying it doesn't want to be eaten.. so Mikan interferes and saves the apple by buying it...
Then she forgets about the ice cream when she sees Luca and You-chan eating some cotton-candy-like stuff called Howalon. he says eating it makes you really happy... You-chan is about to give Mikan the last piece, but he just teases her with it... Iinchou and Hotaru offer to lend her some money, but she remembers her grandpa lecturing her about never borrowing money from people.
Mikan tries to make some money buy offering massages to people.. this one really big muscular guy shows up... "I'll do all I can, but I'm only good with normal shoulders, so your muscular ones might be a bit..."
then she tries shoe shining... the giant bird shows up wearing giant shoes...
Next, Hotaru, Iinchou, Luca, and You-chan help Mikan put on a street performance. it's really cute/hilarious... she successfully sells the matches that were used in the performance for 1 rabbit each... even the girl in her class who was always mean to Mikan comes and buys one. Mikan shares her Howalon with everyone who helped her...
"It's thanks to everyone. This melting taste is like everyone's hearts melting into one."
she's so happy, she goes and gives the last piece of howalon to Natsume...
There's all sorts of really cool things that Mikan can't buy... a mirror that shows you in whatever you want to wear, pillows that let you dream about whatever you want, a juice-making flower... Mikan is about to use her 5 rabbits to buy some ice cream, but then she sees some boys about to buy a talking apple, and the apple is saying it doesn't want to be eaten.. so Mikan interferes and saves the apple by buying it...
Then she forgets about the ice cream when she sees Luca and You-chan eating some cotton-candy-like stuff called Howalon. he says eating it makes you really happy... You-chan is about to give Mikan the last piece, but he just teases her with it... Iinchou and Hotaru offer to lend her some money, but she remembers her grandpa lecturing her about never borrowing money from people.
Mikan tries to make some money buy offering massages to people.. this one really big muscular guy shows up... "I'll do all I can, but I'm only good with normal shoulders, so your muscular ones might be a bit..."
then she tries shoe shining... the giant bird shows up wearing giant shoes...
Next, Hotaru, Iinchou, Luca, and You-chan help Mikan put on a street performance. it's really cute/hilarious... she successfully sells the matches that were used in the performance for 1 rabbit each... even the girl in her class who was always mean to Mikan comes and buys one. Mikan shares her Howalon with everyone who helped her...
"It's thanks to everyone. This melting taste is like everyone's hearts melting into one."
she's so happy, she goes and gives the last piece of howalon to Natsume...
This was one of the cutest episodes of the series...
Episode 11 - Alice, I'm in Special Training
this ep seems like something that isn't in the manga... Mikan's dorm catches on fire, and the kids all use their alice abilities to take care of it... Mikan sees that some kid is crying because the video of his mom is still in his room, so Mikan decides to go in and get it for him before it gets destroyed... Hotaru has to come in and rescue Mikan. The next day, Hotaru won't talk to Mikan anymore, and the mean teacher lectures her, accusing her of trying to gain star rankings by doing something so courageous and stupid...
Meanwhile, Noda-sensei, that special class teacher is hopping around random timelines. he meets some woman carrying a baby in this one timeline, and notices something about her... I think that's probably Mikan's mom or something. Finally he ends up back in the present.. he asks Narumi how old he is just to make sure. Mikan finally gets to have a proper class session in the special class now... he talks about the 4 different forms of Alice abilities... the 1st form which can only be used by children, the 2nd form which can be used less often, but for a longer period of time, the 3rd form which can release a lot of power at once, at the cost of your lifespan, and the 4th form which has unlimited usage/power, but shortens your lifespan each time it is used...
Noda starts training Mikan's ability by telling her he's about to get warped to another time... she sees him start vanishing, and she gets really worried and then jumps into his chest while crying, and successfully stops it... in a later scene, Noda returns to the present and tells Narumi that he went back to meet that woman with the baby again.. she said she had to go on a long journey and was going to entrust the baby to one of her relatives... yeah it's pretty obvious where this is going.
Later, Mikan is practicing using her alice against random students, but fails agains all of them... then Natsume and that telekenesis guy come and offers to be her opponent. She fails to stop his alice too and Inchou has to put out the fire... Hotaru seems to have made up with her already and is watching her train and cheering her on... when that mean teacher comes to scold Mikan for fooling around, Hotaru defends her and says the teacher is treating her unfairly. The teacher gets violent and zaps Hotaru's hand.. Mikan comes and tries to stop him, and she successfully blocks his alice.
"Why did Narumi have to bring someone like this in a second time?"
Iinchou theorizes that Mikan's alice is strongest when she wants to protect someone.
Meanwhile, Noda-sensei, that special class teacher is hopping around random timelines. he meets some woman carrying a baby in this one timeline, and notices something about her... I think that's probably Mikan's mom or something. Finally he ends up back in the present.. he asks Narumi how old he is just to make sure. Mikan finally gets to have a proper class session in the special class now... he talks about the 4 different forms of Alice abilities... the 1st form which can only be used by children, the 2nd form which can be used less often, but for a longer period of time, the 3rd form which can release a lot of power at once, at the cost of your lifespan, and the 4th form which has unlimited usage/power, but shortens your lifespan each time it is used...
Noda starts training Mikan's ability by telling her he's about to get warped to another time... she sees him start vanishing, and she gets really worried and then jumps into his chest while crying, and successfully stops it... in a later scene, Noda returns to the present and tells Narumi that he went back to meet that woman with the baby again.. she said she had to go on a long journey and was going to entrust the baby to one of her relatives... yeah it's pretty obvious where this is going.
Later, Mikan is practicing using her alice against random students, but fails agains all of them... then Natsume and that telekenesis guy come and offers to be her opponent. She fails to stop his alice too and Inchou has to put out the fire... Hotaru seems to have made up with her already and is watching her train and cheering her on... when that mean teacher comes to scold Mikan for fooling around, Hotaru defends her and says the teacher is treating her unfairly. The teacher gets violent and zaps Hotaru's hand.. Mikan comes and tries to stop him, and she successfully blocks his alice.
"Why did Narumi have to bring someone like this in a second time?"
Iinchou theorizes that Mikan's alice is strongest when she wants to protect someone.
Episode 12 - The School Festival is Here
Mikan learns about the School Festival coming up, where each ability class puts on their own event... but her special class wants to give up because they never manage to come up with anything good...
Mikan sees Natsume reading a book alone in a classroom while everyone else is busy doing work for the festival.. he explains that the dangerous class isn't allowed to participate in the festival. Then Mikan sees the book he's reading, and gets the idea for her class to put on an RPG battle event.
When the class goes to Jinno-sensei, the mean teacher, to ask them about putting on this event, he refuses, saying he doesn't want the specials taking part in the festival anymore because he doesn't want to embarrass the school.. Mikan gets in an argument with her classmates when she's the only one who doesn't want to give up and wait until next year to try doing this event... she goes and sits with Natsume by a tree and tells him about how she got in an argument... Natsume envies her for being able to argue with people... he even correctly guesses what she was arguing about, and says "It's because you're stupid and innocent. You're way too easy to see through."
Mikan seems to be getting along much better with Natsume now.. also Hotaru and Luca happen to see them when they are sitting together talking. They start spying on the 2 of them... then when Mikan leaves, Natsume collapses.
Meanwhile, Mikan's friends in the special class go and try to convince Jinno again... they challenge him to a thing where if they can't make him laugh in 30 seconds, they'll give up and leave... the guy with the "make people laugh just by talking" alice manages to do it... Mikan goes back to her class, and finds out they got Jinno to let them do the event. They tell Mikan to go out and buy some supplies for them. She tries to go back to Natsume to tell him the good news, but she doesn't know that he'd collapsed and is now in a hospital bed...
Mikan sees Natsume reading a book alone in a classroom while everyone else is busy doing work for the festival.. he explains that the dangerous class isn't allowed to participate in the festival. Then Mikan sees the book he's reading, and gets the idea for her class to put on an RPG battle event.
When the class goes to Jinno-sensei, the mean teacher, to ask them about putting on this event, he refuses, saying he doesn't want the specials taking part in the festival anymore because he doesn't want to embarrass the school.. Mikan gets in an argument with her classmates when she's the only one who doesn't want to give up and wait until next year to try doing this event... she goes and sits with Natsume by a tree and tells him about how she got in an argument... Natsume envies her for being able to argue with people... he even correctly guesses what she was arguing about, and says "It's because you're stupid and innocent. You're way too easy to see through."
Mikan seems to be getting along much better with Natsume now.. also Hotaru and Luca happen to see them when they are sitting together talking. They start spying on the 2 of them... then when Mikan leaves, Natsume collapses.
Meanwhile, Mikan's friends in the special class go and try to convince Jinno again... they challenge him to a thing where if they can't make him laugh in 30 seconds, they'll give up and leave... the guy with the "make people laugh just by talking" alice manages to do it... Mikan goes back to her class, and finds out they got Jinno to let them do the event. They tell Mikan to go out and buy some supplies for them. She tries to go back to Natsume to tell him the good news, but she doesn't know that he'd collapsed and is now in a hospital bed...
Episode 13 - Go After the Superstar
Mikan's voice shines a light on the dark messed up dream Natsume is having, as he wakes up in the hospital bed... Later she founds out that a famous performer named "Reo" is coming to sing at the school. He was Narumi's underclassman, and has a vocal pheremones alice. Narumi gives him a bracelet to wear so that his alice doesn't go out of control during the performance... but then later Reo is with this unknown guy saying their plan is ruined because of that bracelet (they can't just take it off or they'd fall under suspicion, I guess?)
Meanwhile, Mikan is helping Hotaru sneak into the backstage to get shots of Reo... there's a scene that makes absolutely no sense, where Mikan and Hotaru are crawling through a vent, and Hotaru goes the opposite way of Mikan because she doesn't trust her judgement, and Mikan falls down a whole that leads to outside, then falls through the ground that she falls on, and land inside onto the stage lighting area, where Hotaru is.
Reo seems to see Mikan at the corner of his eye while he's performing.. then he throws something at her to make her fall and interrupt the performance, getting the whole audience mad at Mikan... to make it even worse he gets hurt as well (or just pretends to be hurt, I'm not sure).
Later, Mikan goes to the hospital to try to apologize to Reo... but Reo was faking the whole time, and gets out of his cast and goes to Natsume's room... Mikan runs into Perm and Hotaru, who also want to see Reo.. Hotaru gives Mikan a pig nose thing that lets her sniff out Reo (and also causes her to make pig noises).. Mikan and Perm follow Reo into Natsume's room, and hide under the bed while Reo uses his powers to make him unconcious and then kidnaps him... They run after him, and Hotaru uses a smokescreen bomb so that they can escape through the gate.
Meanwhile, Mikan is helping Hotaru sneak into the backstage to get shots of Reo... there's a scene that makes absolutely no sense, where Mikan and Hotaru are crawling through a vent, and Hotaru goes the opposite way of Mikan because she doesn't trust her judgement, and Mikan falls down a whole that leads to outside, then falls through the ground that she falls on, and land inside onto the stage lighting area, where Hotaru is.
Reo seems to see Mikan at the corner of his eye while he's performing.. then he throws something at her to make her fall and interrupt the performance, getting the whole audience mad at Mikan... to make it even worse he gets hurt as well (or just pretends to be hurt, I'm not sure).
Later, Mikan goes to the hospital to try to apologize to Reo... but Reo was faking the whole time, and gets out of his cast and goes to Natsume's room... Mikan runs into Perm and Hotaru, who also want to see Reo.. Hotaru gives Mikan a pig nose thing that lets her sniff out Reo (and also causes her to make pig noises).. Mikan and Perm follow Reo into Natsume's room, and hide under the bed while Reo uses his powers to make him unconcious and then kidnaps him... They run after him, and Hotaru uses a smokescreen bomb so that they can escape through the gate.
Episode 14 - Let's Bring Natsume Back
Mikan and Sumire are arguing about which one of them should stay behind and act as a decoy so that the other one doesn't get caught, but they both manage to escape into a truck full of pigs... Sumire starts thinking about whether she should use her embarrassing alice. She grows whiskers and gains both cat agility and dog senses.. Mikan also joins in with her pig mask... some little kid walks by asking her mom what those 2 strange girls are doing...
Mikan keeps complaining to Perm that they should get help from some random people instead of searching on foot... Perm says that since the people they are going after have alices, it's not right to involve non-alice people in this. They end up getting kidnapped by Reo too... the cards that the school uses to track them were left on the road.
Meanwhile the special class is wondering why Mikan hasn't showed up yet for the festival... Hotaru goes to the teachers and gets them to search for Natsume and the others.
Mikan and Perm are now tied up in the same room as Natsume... this part is pretty much the same as the manga.. they overhear Reo talking to others about his "organization" and he drops some backstory about Natsume, how he's being trained/used by the school for black ops missions, and how he turned his hometown into a sea of flames... They also say they're going to find out what those other 2 girls alices are before selling them...
Mikan wonders if this is all true, thinks back to all the hints she's been getting about Natsume hating the school... Perm convinces her that those are all just fake rumors.
Mikan keeps complaining to Perm that they should get help from some random people instead of searching on foot... Perm says that since the people they are going after have alices, it's not right to involve non-alice people in this. They end up getting kidnapped by Reo too... the cards that the school uses to track them were left on the road.
Meanwhile the special class is wondering why Mikan hasn't showed up yet for the festival... Hotaru goes to the teachers and gets them to search for Natsume and the others.
Mikan and Perm are now tied up in the same room as Natsume... this part is pretty much the same as the manga.. they overhear Reo talking to others about his "organization" and he drops some backstory about Natsume, how he's being trained/used by the school for black ops missions, and how he turned his hometown into a sea of flames... They also say they're going to find out what those other 2 girls alices are before selling them...
Mikan wonders if this is all true, thinks back to all the hints she's been getting about Natsume hating the school... Perm convinces her that those are all just fake rumors.
Episode 15 - Let's Go Back to the Academy
Natsume wakes up, and they start whispering about how they're gonna get out of there... finally, Mikan realizes the panda earmuffs she's wearing is a communicator. Hotaru gets a message... "Looks like she finally figured out how to use it."
Narumi and Jinno start instructing them on how to stay safe until they arrive... Jinno says they musn't let them know what their alices are no matter what... Natsume manages to burn his rope and unties everyone, and Narumi tells them to pretend they are still tied up and unconsious.. but Natsume's small burst of power distorted the barrier enough for Shidou, the guy with the alice barrier to notice... Narumi knows Shidou too... Reo tells him about why he joined this anti-gakuen organization... He says he realized what a fool he was to let that school take advantage of him.. he says that some unnamed woman, his senior, managed to escape the academy as well..
ugh... I really hate this aspect of Gakuen Alice... it gives you vague little bits of the main plot at a time and leaves these arbitrary gaps in the story to keep some things a mystery to only be revealed later, but only makes it seem convoluted and hard to follow. It makes it kind of annoying to follow on a slow schedule like this, even when you're writing things down.
Reo uses his power to try to get them to say what their alices are.. Mikan uses her power and stops Sumire when she's about to say it, and Natsume manages to muster enough energy to throw something at Reo.. He has people with guns behind him, but he gets them to back off, thinking his voice pheremones are enough to do the job... but Mikan just keeps blocking him.. this is enough for him to find out that Mikan has the nullification alice.
"This face... you definitely look like... that person."
Reo leaves to form a change of plans because of this new information... Natsume gets Sumire to use her cat powers to sniff around.. she says that there's gunpowder too warehouses down.. he tells them to start running once he gives the signal. He puts his hand on the wall and threatens to detonate the explosives if they move, letting Mikan and Sumire escape. But Mikan realizes what Natsume intends to do and heads back to save him... Sumire wants to help Mikan, but realizes she should go to the school for help instead.. then she gets caught by someone..
Then later that Shadow Alice guy comes and saves Sumire... Mikan saves Natsume and gives him her argument about why she came back to rescue him.. Natsume manages to create an explosion when they are just about to get captured again, and Mikan wakes up in the hospital.. Narumi tells Mikan that Jinno has agreed to upgrade her to single-star.
Narumi and Jinno start instructing them on how to stay safe until they arrive... Jinno says they musn't let them know what their alices are no matter what... Natsume manages to burn his rope and unties everyone, and Narumi tells them to pretend they are still tied up and unconsious.. but Natsume's small burst of power distorted the barrier enough for Shidou, the guy with the alice barrier to notice... Narumi knows Shidou too... Reo tells him about why he joined this anti-gakuen organization... He says he realized what a fool he was to let that school take advantage of him.. he says that some unnamed woman, his senior, managed to escape the academy as well..
ugh... I really hate this aspect of Gakuen Alice... it gives you vague little bits of the main plot at a time and leaves these arbitrary gaps in the story to keep some things a mystery to only be revealed later, but only makes it seem convoluted and hard to follow. It makes it kind of annoying to follow on a slow schedule like this, even when you're writing things down.
Reo uses his power to try to get them to say what their alices are.. Mikan uses her power and stops Sumire when she's about to say it, and Natsume manages to muster enough energy to throw something at Reo.. He has people with guns behind him, but he gets them to back off, thinking his voice pheremones are enough to do the job... but Mikan just keeps blocking him.. this is enough for him to find out that Mikan has the nullification alice.
"This face... you definitely look like... that person."
Reo leaves to form a change of plans because of this new information... Natsume gets Sumire to use her cat powers to sniff around.. she says that there's gunpowder too warehouses down.. he tells them to start running once he gives the signal. He puts his hand on the wall and threatens to detonate the explosives if they move, letting Mikan and Sumire escape. But Mikan realizes what Natsume intends to do and heads back to save him... Sumire wants to help Mikan, but realizes she should go to the school for help instead.. then she gets caught by someone..
Then later that Shadow Alice guy comes and saves Sumire... Mikan saves Natsume and gives him her argument about why she came back to rescue him.. Natsume manages to create an explosion when they are just about to get captured again, and Mikan wakes up in the hospital.. Narumi tells Mikan that Jinno has agreed to upgrade her to single-star.
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