Gakuen Alice 5

  
  
  

Mikan gets a rude awakening from Hotaru (ouch) and goes off for her first day of school at Alice Academy. On the way she runs into Tobita and the fruity Narumi-sensei, and they explain a bit about the school using Tobita's alice. It's a pretty darn big place, big enough to have its own town (dang). They also tell her that she can't see her family, but she can send letters.. Then Natsume shows up a bit pissed off and fights with Narumi-sensei a bit...

Narumi-sensei introduces Mikan to her class and Tobita explains the "Star" system they have in place there. Higher number of stars, the better privileges you'll have. Tobita and Hotaru both are 3 stars, one below the top. And at the top? Natsume (somehow).. Mikan's rank hasn't been assessed yet. After that she needs a partner.. Hotaru refuses, holding up a sign in protest, so Narumi-sensei decides for her... It's Natsume?

In math class Mikan finally learns how many stars she has.. After Sumire and her buddies have some fun with her, making it seem like Mikan's doing things to the teacher, the teacher, seemingly mad because of it, decides her rank.. 0, zero, none, nada, stars -- 星なし hoshi nashi. But it seems like he had been intending to give her no stars from the beginning...

The life of a zero star sucks.. bad room, bad food, bad facilities, so on.. and Mikan is about to tell her grandfather in a letter that it sucks.. but after realizing that there are a lot of kids at Alice Academy that don't want to be there and she actually wanted to be there, she finally gets some confidence and decides to make her way up. Hotaru drops by and offers some advice.. no matter if you're 3 stars or zero stars you're still who you are.. awwwww, she can be nice :) She then proceeds to smack Mikan with another one of her crazy inventions when she comes to give her a hug...

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So Hotaru is still Hotaru after all. Guess it's her own way of showing affection, lol ;) I counted four times she beat Mikan using one of her wacky inventions this time. But she did get back at Sumire (that was hilarious) for what she did to Mikan so I guess it evens out ;) Anyways, that's a pretty tough system they've got there.. poor Mikan. And with Natsume as her partner? Man, talk about some bad luck... About Natsume.. What were those scars on his neck? hmm.. still much to be found out about him and everybody else as well, ain't there? ;)

Oh, btw, y'all please go and wish Garten good luck on the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) that's coming up soon. がんばって！ (I probably should have taken it this year, but oh well...)