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hummm let me put it this way
It took me about 3 years to read
That is all
I'm not even joking this manga is fun to read and all but it sooooooo long and soooooooo repititive. I read it by never starting over even after taking long breaks from it just starting where I had left off last time when I had gotten bored.
If you want to read essentially 1000 one-shots based around the same character with a very loose unifying theme then this is the manga for you.
Doesn't really do it for me even those the individual cases are rather interesting

Didn't like the second half of the manga very much. Could rage about it, but I can't think of how without using spoilers.
The first half was pure genius though, continuously interesting and dynamic. Its hard to rate this manga, because the second and first half are so different in my mind.
If I was the reader, I'd just read to a certain event.
Trust me you'll know what event when you get there.

Very few mangas pull off the touching and funny at the same time, but watching Mikan grow from an immature slightly selfish little girl into a sacrificial loyal young woman does just that.
And the arc work shift of the characters growing is great. Most mangas just let their characters remain the same with simply a change in hairstyle at some points or the young characters of other mangas simply get taller and older all of the sudden.
But all the young characters grow older very slowly in Gakuen Alice. Its so gradual that by the end you become shock ... when you compare the first chapter and the last because you hardly even noticed the fact that they have all grown up.

There are several problems with it such as the repetitive nature of the story arcs, and slightly tiresome reoccurring themes. Also some of the Alice powers make absolutely no sense. But overall these complaints are inconsequential when compared with the positive attributes this manga has.