The Best Episodes Written By Fumihiko Takayama

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Rise and Shine

   S1:E37/16/2009

   Planning to back out of joining the basketball club, Fumi is asked out on a date by her senpai - Yasuko Sugimoto. While thrown off guard and a bit flustered, she is surprisingly happy on the inside. However, Akira is invited to a mixer by her classmate Kyouko, whose fiance Kou Sawanoi, will be attending. For some reason, maybe the anticipation of meeting Kou, Akira left her home nervous and on edge. Meanwhile on that very day, Fumi and her senpai had a surprisingly quiet and pleasant time together. As the distance between them began to shorten at the library, they leaned in for their first kiss...

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   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Spring Storm

   S1:E27/9/2009

   Through this chance reunion between these two childhood friends, both Akira and Fumi make a promise to go to school together despite the fact that they attend two different schools, while still making other friends along the way. Almost as if they were making up for lost time, the intimacy between the two starts to deepen. Entering school and overcome with excitement, Akira and fellow classmate - Kyouko Ikumi - decide to join the drama club. Respectively, Fumi decides to join the literary club and along the way mistakens Yasuko - the cool, boyish upper classman who is part of the basketball club - as part of the literary club. Yasuko later decides to make a guest appearance at Akira and Kyouko's club.

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   #3 - Wuthering Heights (1)

   S1:E57/30/2009

   Preparations for the school production and upper classmen's musical number are in full swing. With Yasuko making a guest appearance as the protagonist, Heathcliff, many of her fans have gathered in great excitement to see her performance. However, there's only on person on her mind: Fumi. Kyouko approaches Yasuko and carefully acknowledges that she knows about her and Fumi, which brings about some uneasiness to Fumi. This causes her to ask Yasuko a question about her first love.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Wuthering Heights (2)

   S1:E68/6/2009

   Finally the day of the Fujigaya's performance has arrived. The first years start off with a performance of "Le Petit Prince," followed by the second year's "Little Women." Finally the upper classmen begin their performance of "Wurthering Heights." Fumi heart skips a beat at the sight of Yasuko's performance on stage. At the end of the performance, Fumi is taken aback as her senpai starts to cry.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - A Home to Return to

   S1:E54/30/2017

   When Sana and Zoroku are loaded onto a cargo ship, the one who appears to rescue them is Cabinet Information Research Office agents Ichijo Shizuku and Yamada Noriko. As they all plan their escape, Minnie C stand before them once again. As she attacks with the invisible arms that she can control freely, Ichijo links with Yamada to unleash various abilities of her own. As this battle between Dreams of Alice rages on, Sana tells Zoroku what she truly wishes for.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #6 - I'm Home

   S1:E126/25/2017

   As Hatori's parents desperately search for Hatori, it is revealed that she and Sana have been missing for ten days in the real world. In Wonderland, the two girls attempt to find a new exit and come across a rabbit that is holding Hatori's cell phone.

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   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #7 - The Red Queen Escapes

   S1:E14/2/2017

   In a deep, remote forest, a blond-haired girl runs amidst heavy rain and wind. Some pursue her, while others extend a hand to help her. As various motives tangle together, the girl, named Sana, makes her flight to the outside world for the first time in her life. In the end, Sana arrives at the bustling district of Kabukicho in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. In a convenience store there, she meets Kashimura Zoroku, the quintessential "stubborn old man."

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   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Dreams of Alice

   S1:E24/9/2017

   Since Sana had nowhere to go, Zoroku decided to let her stay in his own home for the time being. After he finds out that the previous day's incident isn't being covered by any media, he makes a call to an old friend. Meanwhile, Sana awakens to find Zoroku's granddaughter, Sanae, watching over her. Sanae says her grandpa asked her to keep an eye on Sana while he went to work. Sana was untrusting at first, but they eventually warm up to each other. Then Sana recalls her time spent at the research facility...

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   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #9 - Cards

   S1:E34/16/2017

   Kashimura Floral is in an uproar after Sana uses her Dream of Alice, suddenly landing herself and Sanae in the shop. Even after things quiet down, Zoroku scolds Sana for breaking her promise not to use her power. Then Naito, an old acquaintance of Zoroku's, enters the scene with a proposal for Zoroku. Meanwhile, Kito and his team in pursuit of Sana are steadily closing in...

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Something Not Human

    S1:E44/23/2017

    Minnie C and her group took advantage of a moment's negligence to kidnap Sana. Left behind at his office, Zoroku demands answers from Naito as to just what Sana really is. Meanwhile, the giant "arms" controlled by Minnie C have Sana completely trapped, and Minnie C asks her, "Did you think that you were human?" Just when it seems all hope is lost, Sana's powerful thoughts take the situation in an unexpected direction...

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #11 - The Kashimura Family

    S1:E65/14/2017

    The seasons have quickly turned to winter. The matter of the research facility has been resolved, and life is normal again in Zoroku's household. Sana seems to have fully adjusted to being a member of the Kashimura family, as well. After seeing Sanae off on her way to school, she heads for the flower shop with Zoroku, where she sometimes helps with his work. She still has some trouble with stamina, but she has adapted well to the outside world. Then, one day, Sana goes out with Zoroku to get her overgrown hair cut...

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Friends

    S1:E75/21/2017

    Zoroku is making a trip to Yokohama to meet a client, so he takes Sana with him. Accompanied by Ichijo, Sana is impressed by the sight of the ocean and the robot-operated factory that she visits, and enjoys her day out to the fullest. Rejoined by Zoroku, the trio visits Chinatown, but then Asahi and Yonaga suddenly appear after being unseen ever since the research facility incident was resolved. The twins run away as Sana and Ichijo chase after them...

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    #13 - The Evil Witch

    S1:E85/28/2017

    Shikishima Hatori is a completely ordinary grade school girl. Then, one day, she develops a "Dream of Alice" power. Hurt by the sight of her parents constantly fighting over her future schooling, Hatori prays that they'll go back to being her kind mom and dad again... and that dream is realized in a way she never expected. Meanwhile, Sana is helping out at the flower shop as usual, waiting excitedly for Asahi and Yonaga to come for a visit...

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Where the Cheshire Cat Smiles

    S1:E96/4/2017

    Sana collapsed after meeting Hatori and Ayumu, and Asahi and Yonaga brought her back to Zoroku's house. The three girls are now having a great time playing together for the first time in so long. Then Sana comes up with a plan to teach Hatori a lesson for doing something so awful to Zoroku. Meanwhile, Hatori's emotional state has changed yet again after her encounter with Sana. She tells her best friend, Ayumu, that she's used her power too much and can't go to school again. So a concerned Ayumu returns to Harajuku to search for Sana.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #15 - The Little Queen

    S1:E106/11/2017

    A collision with a "Dream of Alice" power has left Sana and Hatori trapped in the deepest part of Wonderland. They wander all over this world so unlike their own, but there's no sign of an exit anywhere. Meanwhile. after learning what's happened to Sana, Zoroku and Sanae head to Wonderland with Ichijo. They can't help gazing with wonder at their first sight of Wonderland, the place where Sana was born. But they've barely begun the search before Ichijo...

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Fireworks in Winter

    S1:E119/10/2009

    In the blink of an eye, summer has past and fall has sunken in. Yasuko's basketball team has begun to excel pushing them into the national tournament. However, a rumor about Yasuko going to study in England after graduation begins to spread, which comes as a shock to Kyouko. In the meantime, Fumi runs into Yasuko at the train station, and looking at each other together.

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    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - The Queen and the Witch

    S1:E116/18/2017

    Ten days have passed in the outside world since Sana and Hatori got trapped in Wonderland. Ayumu, remembering a promise they once made, begins to worry that Hatori won't ever come back. As he and Sanae search, Zoroku looks back on on all the things that have happened since they met Sana. Meanwhile, Sana and Hatori finally find an exit out of Wonderland, but it has already begun expanding at an accelerated rate, to the point that it's affecting the outside world...

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Youth is a Lovely Thing

    S1:E47/23/2009

    After being asked by Yasuko to accompany her to school, Fumi worries about who to walk to school with: her childhood friend or girl who she likes. When revealing her predicament to Akira, she laughs and they come up with a solution to her problem. In the meantime, Kyouko starts to inquire about Yasuko...

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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Flower Tale

    S1:E17/2/2009

    Kamakura all-girl high school's newest student is this little crybaby Fumi Manjoume. In the morning of the school's welcome ceremony while on the train in a chance encounter she meets a girl from a different high school, named Akira Okudaira. As it just so happens, these two girls were childhood friends who had not seen each other for 10 years until now. This meeting at the station on the way to school, brought tears to Fumi's eyes. Akira saying that Fumi hasn't changed much since they were kids softly handed her a handkerchief to wipe away the tears...

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