I'm hearing that the anime adaptation of the popular manga Gakuen Alice has been licensed here in the U.S. I enjoyed this half-cute, half-creepy 26-episode series about a spunky 10-year-old who follows her genius best friend to a school for children with bizarre gifts, and I'm sure the fine people at Right Stuf/Nozomi Entertainment will find it very profitable (even if that "Right Stuf" spelling does give me a headache).

Gakuen Alice will be released as a DVD box set with Japanese audio and English-language subtitles in 2009.

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