today's megatokyo has an article that reminds me of something, o my em'lys and henrys. the commentary by dom beneath the comic has a section with comments on a news item of perverse interest to me: alices, what i reckon are something between emilys and THE DOROTHY. weird...
So later this week, Gakuen Alice starts airing on Japanese TV. I would talk a little about Gakuen Alice, but honestly, I've barely read the manga I own, since it's been on loan for so long.However, Gakuen Alice amuses me in too many perverse ways for me to let it pass without comment. Y'see, I like to call it the Shoujo X-Men. And I'm not joking.
Y'see, the main character, Sakura Mikan, and her best friend Imai Hotaru, transfer to a school for Alices (thus the name, Gakuen Alice). What are Alices? They're people who have special abilities beyond that of normal humans, and to develop their abilities, the principal of the school is gathering them up.
See what I mean? I can't help but be fascinated by the Bizarro World version of X-Men, especially since they're all ten years old. One of them controls fire, one invents, one... emits animal pheromones...
But c'mon, how can you not be morbidly fascinated by that?
[emphasis mine. -em0]
indeed, how can i not be morbidly obsessed with the notion of the alice? even tho she's not from a story about reaching over the rainbow but rather diving under the world and civilisation and mucking about in it like an 1890s the filth.
an for you emilys and henrys what are unfamiliar with certain terms, check Wikipedia: a notable example is shoujo.
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