Gakuen Alice/YMMV


 * 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 - . This is soon followed by.
 * 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?
 * Even so, the author appears to steer toward a Mikan X Natsume pairing as the series progresses.
 * In chapter 132  Shocked reactions abound, in-story and in fandom.
 * 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
 * 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...
 * Mikan and Hotaru, which kicked it all off...
 * Mikan and Natsume.
 * Mikan and Luca.
 * Hotaru and Luca, who seems to enjoy blackmailing him and making him her gopher.
 * Hotaru and Natsume.
 * Sumire and Natsume.
 * Don't forget Luca and Sumire! (Consider the interaction of their powers.)
 * Let's just stop here and say that there's a lot.
 * What about Luca and Natsume?
 * 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.
 * 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.