Young Mikan runs away to Tokyo to follow her best friend, Hotaru, who has been enrolled in an exclusive, secretive private school for geniuses. But it turns out that Alice Academy is a lot more than meets the eye. If Mikan wants to stay by Hotaru's side, she has to both pass the strange "entrance exam" and face the even greater challenge of befriending her very odd new classmates. Whether it's Hotaru's gift for inventing gadgets, the cranky Natsume's fire-casting ability, or Professor Narumi's control of human pheromones, everyone at the school has some sort of special talent. But what ability, if any, does Mikan possess? Mikan is going to have to rely on her courage and spunk if she's going to stay in school, or even stay alive! (Source: Tokyopop) Volume 9 contains a side story; Volume 10 contains the side story "Ibara no Sono" (いばらの園); Volume 17 contains the side story "Hoshizora Obake" (星空おばけ).
Japanese study overview
Gakuen Alice is a Japanese manga of 578,452 characters, with 19,296 unique words and 2,087 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 19,296 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 蜜柑Mikan×1,489
- 学園educational institution×1,412
- 先生teacher×904
- 事thing×836
- 私I×788
- お前you×740
- 蛍firefly (Luciola cruciata)×667
- 人person×667
- 今now×621
- 思うto think×619
- 校長principal×590
- 君you×569
- 佐倉Sakura×487
- 柚香Sayaka×469
- 棗jujube (Ziziphus jujuba)×425
- 棗Natsume×381
- 初等部elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)×225
- 今井Imai×188
- 中等部middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)×161
- 高等部senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)×148