Genres: comedy, drama, magic, romance
Themes: magical girl, school
Plot Summary: In a small country school, Sakura Mikan and Imai Hotaru are classmates and best friends - in their own way. Ditzy, emotional Mikan seems ill-matched with aloof, emotionless Hotaru, yet they are together all the time... until Hotaru gets called away to study at the strange and forbidding Alice Academy. In her anguish at being left behind, Mikan finally decides to follow her friend - and doing so, she makes a strange discovery.
Young Mikan Sakura is a girl from a Japanese countryside. optimistic, playful Mikan enjoys life to the lees. but suddenly one day, she is thrown in a state of utter dilemma and sadness when her best friend, the brilliant, cool and quite opposite natured Hotaru Imai leaves the country school to join some mysterious Alice Academy. determined to be reunited with her best friend, mikan goes on an uncertain journey to Alice Academy. eventually, she finds out that she is also an alice, a candidate eligible to enter the acdemy. thus her new life begins in a totally new environment.
Number of episodes: 26

I saw this in the Right Stuff catalog and was trying to figure where to put on my buy list. I hope this will make it to Charter VOD.

Finished up the pilot.


That being said though, I really enjoyed the pilot.
It seems to be a lot like Maburaho ("magical" school setting), though with younger kids and way less (if any) ecchi moments.

Ok, what does "ecchi" mean?

Someone, with knowledge, should make a list of anime/manga terms...

slickwolfie wrote:

In this case, generally, it loosely translates into perverted.
Or if a charcter is calling another one "ecchi", they're calling them a pervert.



And since you brought it up, ANN has a lexicon of common terms.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php

Finished up the pilot.

I'm really happy that Enoki Films put the effort into dubbing these pilot episodes, though they're kind of choppy in parts, it's still my preferred method of watching, and sadly, that is the only dubbed episode, since RightStuf is releasing it as a sub only.

That being said though, I really enjoyed the pilot.
It seems to be a lot like Maburaho ("magical" school setting), though with younger kids and way less (if any) ecchi moments.