Heart no Kuni no Alice (Alice In The Country Of Hearts) Images

Release date:
Original game
2007-02-14 (Windows)
2008-09-18 (PlayStation 2)
2009-08-20 (PlayStation Portable)
2010-03-14 (Windows - Remake)
2011-07-28 (PlayStation Portable - Remake)
2013-10-31 (PlayStation Portable)
2014-03-13 (Apple)
2014-05-02 (Android)
2014-12-18 (PlayStation Portable)
2015-07-30 (PlayStation Vita)

Fandisc
2014-05-29 (PlayStation Portable)

Original character design: Hime Ringo
Illustration (Remake): Fujimaru Mamenosuke

Developer & Publisher: QuinRose

General Information:

Heart no Kuni no Alice (Japanese: ハートの国のアリス lit. Alice in the Country of Hearts) was originally developed as a Japanese female-oriented visual novel by Quin Rose.
Heart no Kuni no Alice dabbles around themes of adventure, comedy, harem, fantasy and most definitely romance.
Heart no Kuni no Alice is based on Lewis Caroll’s classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
Heart no Kuni no Alice otome game was released on February 2007 for the Windows PC and September 2008 and July 2009 for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable, accordingly.


The manga adaptation of Heart no Kuni no Alice was written by Quin Rose and illustrated by Soumei Hoshino.
Heart no Kuni no Alice was serialized in Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Avarus since October 2007.
Heart no Kuni no Alice ended with its chapters collected and published in six volumes on October 2010.
A spin-off manga series was released on the following year entitled “Joker no Kuni no Alice: Circus to Utotsuki Game” which was illustrated by Mamenosuke Fujimaru.
Joker no Kuni no Alice: Circus to Utotsuki Game is still an ongoing manga series in Ichijinsha’s Comic Zero Sum since June 2011.


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Ending:

Plot:

Unlike Lewis Caroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice in this parody is quite different.
She is practical, strong, and yet quite the darkly cynical one.
As opposed to the traditional story, Alice is forcefully kidnapped by a mysterious man with bunny ears into a place called “Heartland”.
After being tricked into drinking a mysterious medicine, Alice soon finds out that she is forced to play in mysterious game.
In order for her to go home, she has to meet and spend time with the strange residents of Heartland and fill up a bottle, only then can she go home.
To make matters worse, Heartland is on the verge of a civil war where everyone in this quite strange and deranged world finds it hard to trust anyone and goes with their instinct to kill.



Characters:

Alice Lidell is based on the original main character of Lewis Caroll’s original book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. And unlike Alice in the traditional books, she reacts to everything realistically. Unlike the inhabitants of Heartland, Alice takes life seriously as opposed to their not caring whether they die or live personality.


Peter White is based on Caroll’s version of the White Rabbit. He first meets Alice and drags her into Heartland where he confesses that he is desperately in love with her. He works as the Queen of Heart’s Prime Minister.


Blood Dupre is the charming and flirtatious leader of the Hatters. He represents the Mad Hatter of Lewis Caroll’s books. He is later revealed to be involved in the civil war against the Queen of Hearts.

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Update:


Kodansha have published nine novels by Yukiko Uozumi on Heart no Kuni no Alice from February 2008 to March 2011.
Two other novels by Midori Tateyama and three novels by Sana Shirakawa were published following the events of the original series Heart no Kuni no Alice and its sequel counterparts.
Quinrose was originally working on an OVA (original video animation) of Heart no Kuni no Alice but was delayed until further notice.
On the other hand, Asahi Production worked on the feature-length animated film entitled “Heart no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World” which hit the theaters last July 2011.



Heart no Kuni no Alice Similar Series:
1. Fushigi Yuugi
2. Ayashino Ceres
3. Fruit Basket
4. Starry Sky
5. Koukou Debut


source: Zerochan; written by carllustre87