    is a japanese shÅjo manga written by yuu watase (creator of the popular manga series ceres, celestial legend and fushigi yÅ«gi). it appeared as a serial in the manga magazine shÅjo comic. as with many of her previous works, watase wrote alice 19th as a shÅjo manga; but unlike her previous works, which showed a strong influence of chinese culture and history, alice 19th has a distinctly western feel to it. the heroine's name, "alice", and her encounter with a white rabbit (nyozeka) basically starts the storyline. watase has written that she thought of alice in wonderland, by lewis carroll, in drafting the characters of alice seno and nyozeka. from there she drafted her own story. from 2007 viz media released alice 19th in english. the series, which is published in the traditional right-to-left format with foot-noted sound effects, spans a total of seven volumes. ==plot== the story follows alice seno, a fifteen-year-old girl forever in the shadow of her older sister mayura, who achieves in everything she undertakes. at her school alice becomes known as "mayura's little sister". older girls, judging alice too meek to retaliate, torment her relentlessly. alice harbors a deep affection for kyou wakamiya, a handsome senpai and member â with mayura â of the school archery team. on the way to school one day, alice rescues a white rabbit from the road despite the danger to herself, but she is rescued by kyÃ´ and receives from the rabbit a bracelet with a single red stone. the rabbit she saves, however, is no ordinary rabbit. the rabbit reveals her true form to alice and introduces herself as nyozeka. alice is told that she is destined to become a lotis master. the lotis masters use the power of words and communication to enter the inner hear
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