Gakuen Alice 1

Opening: 「ピカピカの太陽」 ("Pikapika no taiyou") - If it didn't have that one annoying instrument I'd be okay with it...
Ending: 「幸せの虹」 ("Shiawase no niji") - A Mikan and Hotaru duet. Like it :)

  
  
  
  

Watched a Chinese sub of this since I couldn't find it anywhere else.. but anyways..

Mikan's.. who btw, speaks Kansai-ben. Hope y'all have been studying ;)... leading a one kid protest movement against shutting down the school she goes to. She kinda lost her audience going over her memories of the school.. She talks about a girl that transferred to her school in 3rd grade, Hotaru.. whose favorite subject is nanotechnology. One day Hotaru asked Mikan to be her friend and go to a Karaoke contest with her and they've gotten really, really close since then.

However, today Hotaru leaves Mikan to go do something... a mechanical turtle carrying a message for Mikan comes.. Hotaru's leaving to go to school in Tokyo. Mikan is devastated but Hotaru says she'll come back to visit.. but she doesn't. There are some rumors being spread about the school Hotaru's attending, the Alice Academy. Say the students are paid by the country to go there... Mikan overhears Hotaru's mother talking with a teacher about why she went. She did it so that the school wouldn't have to be closed. And she would have had to go sooner or later anyways.

So Mikan decides to run away and see Hotaru at the Alice Academy in Tokyo. She eventually finds her way there, but can't get in. A couple of suspicious types offer to help, but they're stopped by a bishie (and I mean bishie) teacher from the school who uses some kind of strange power to convince them to go on. He tries using the same power, called an "Alice", on Mikan but it does't work.. So he offers to let Mikan into the school. Suddenly, there's an explosion and a kid in a black cat mask stands on top of the wall. He's the top student, Natsume, and his "Alice" is flame...

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I'm definitely going to keep on watching Gakuen Alice. Mikan is a hoot to watch by herself and the scenes with her and Hotaru were great. They really work well together.. somewhat like a tsukkomi combo at times, with Mikan being the aho, of course. Helps that it was pretty kawaii as well ;) Anyways, looking forward to watching more.