About this series
Alice 19th, another work by Yuu Watase (known for Fushigi Yuugi, Ayashi no Ceres, and Imadoki as well as many others) is a story about a girl called Seno Arisu (Seno Alice) who is overshadowed by her beautiful and more talented older sister called Seno Mayura. Mayura is a year older than Alice, and everyone looks up to her. On the contrary, Alice is not really noticed and only known as "Mayura's little sister". Alice has always wanted a pet, and one day sees a rabbit going to be knocked down by some cars, and dashes onto the road to save it. Strangely, a glow envelopes her as she nears the rabbit. Alice saves the rabbit, and expects the cars to stop but it didn't and she was going to be knocked down, but was saved by a guy! This guy is Wakamiya Kyou, who is Alice's senior and whom she has a crush on. Alice, Mayura and Kyou are all in the archery club. Mayura is very close to Kyou, she knows him longer than Alice, because she's the same age as him. She addresses him as Kyou (his first name) while most people will only called by his last name "Wakamiya". One night, Mayura looks Alice up and asks her for her opinion on what to give Kyou for his birthday, and Alice finds out that her sister is in love with Kyou too! On Kyou's B-day, Alice chances to meet him along corridor and decides to tell him how she feels about him, but Mayura shows up so Alice excuses herself and gives way to her older sister. Feeling very sad that she cannot love Kyou, because Mayura loves him, Alice cries on her way home, and makes a slient prayer to have more courage. All of a sudden, the rabbit she saved during the car crash appears in front of her and transforms into some magical rabbit-girl and tells her she will make her wishes come true! It turns out that the Rabbit endows Alice with the power of the Lotis, and she now has to learn to use this power and discover the power of the other Lotis stones to vanquish the evil in the hearts of her friends and family, along the way finding her true self so as not to be overshadowed by Mayura, who has fallen into the darkness of evil demons and vanished from the real world. And thus the journey of a young high school student begins here...
