Synopsis
The year is 1924, the place, Sauville, a small European country neatly tucked beside the Alps...
Kazuya Kujo has been studying abroad at the prestigious Saint Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. Most Kazuya ignores but the story of the Queen Berry, a mysterious ghost ship, really gets to him. Of course, his brainy friend Victorique is much more intrigued by true stories, and she uses her unrivaled logic to solve mysteries even the town's famous detective can't. Ironically, it is Victorique's inquisitive nature that leads the duo to board a ship that matches the Queen Berry's description to a tee, a ship that might just hold the key to solving a sinister mystery...
Cast
Takuya Eguchi as Kazuya Kujō
Hidenobu Kiuchi as Grévil
Michiko Neya as Sophie
Miyuki Sawashiro as Cordelia Gallo
Toru Ohkawa as Bryan Roscoe
Yui Kano as Cécile Sensei
Alice the 101st
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Well suited to its place in the Doki Doki imprint, which bolsters series intended as go-betweens from shoujo to boys' love, Alice 101st achieves the shoujo character-driven charm with an inkling of boys' love bait for the fans. Past being an all-boys dormitory in the hands of a boys' love creator, the only real material that speaks more directly to that genre is that of the in-your-face character, Victor, who makes a point to tease the lead character after an initial gender mistake (and perform some just-in-case pat downs). Everything else reads distinctly shoujo in flavor, excluding if you will the almost entirely male-cast, and anything else at this point is purely speculative by boys' love readers' trained-by-habit to spot potential. If you enjoy coming-of-age stories told in parallel to honing a creative craft, then Alice the 101st could very well be a book for you.
