Gakuen Alice/YMMV

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  • Complete Monster - The Elementary School Principal, Kuonji. Kidnapping, extortion, blackmail, child abuse, child slavery, etc. He's... not a good person.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome - Shiki's unrelenting conditions for the ESP while the former is carrying the dead body of his beloved Yuka. This is soon followed by Mikan's own selflessness.
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming - This.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse - MindReader-kun
  • Les Yay - Mikan at times has pretty vivid fantasies about Hotaru.
    • What about the episode where Mikan rolls around in bed, hugging and kissing the pillow while repeatedly saying Hotaru's name in her sleep?!
    • Yuri. How can anyone forget Yuri?
    • Luna gets a whole lot of this towards Yuka in the flashbacks.
  • Moral Event Horizon - Arguably, Principal Kuonji (ESP). Many times.
  • Tear Jerker - Most of the manga from about chapter 90 on (and other situations before that, possibly). Particularly Yukihira-sensei's death, and the aftermath
  • Title Confusion - The series is called Gakuen Alice, but the school is called Alice Gakuen. The Animax dub simplifies this by calling the show Alice Academy.
    • This is a side effect of the way words in names flip around in Japanese/English translations. What they should have called it is Xanth Academy. (If you like this series you may just like "A Spell for Chameleon".)
  • Toy Ship: Where do we start? Now, let's see...
  • The Woobie - Mikan, especially when she first enters the school and has to bear plenty of snobbery from the other students and a crappy dorm room. Things gravitate from worse to better as the plot progresses, though she has friends to back her up and protect her heavily by then.