Kagihime Monogatari Eikyū Alice Rondo ( 鍵姫物語 永久アリス 輪舞曲 （ ロンド ） , lit. Key Princess Story: Eternal Alice Rondo ) , or simply Kagihime , is a Japanese manga series written by Kaishaku . The manga was serialised in Dengeki Daioh . A 2006 thirteen episode anime produced by Trinet Entertainment was adapted from the manga.
7-490: Kagihime is one of many anime works influenced by Alice in Wonderland as the story focuses on the completion of a third Alice book, The Eternal Alice . Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is referred to as L. Takion and not as Lewis Carroll for reasons unexplained. The story revolves around the lead of the story, Kirihara Aruto. It begins one night when Aruto is awake writing his own copy of The Endless Alice . Suddenly he sees
14-461: A girl leaping through the night sky. Believing her to be the Alice he writes about, he leaves his house and follows her to a library. He sees her fighting with another girl, who is defeated. The former then steals the latter's story and disappears. The next day, she reveals herself as Arisugawa Arisu, the female lead of the story. She then explains that she is an Alice User, capable of transforming into
21-476: A kemonomimi bunny girl that uses a key in fights against other Alice Users. The keys are used to unlock the stories in other Alice Users's hearts. She explains that if a girl loses her story that she can no longer be an Alice User; the overall goal of an Alice User is to defeat all others and finish the Endless Alice. The one who does so will be granted a wish. Later, Kirihara Kiriha, Aruto's little sister
28-623: Is introduced. Kiriha reveals herself as an Alice User and proceeds to fight Arisu. Aruto breaks up the fight and the two make peace. The trio agrees to help each other finish Endless Alice . The rest of the series follows their adventures together. Works influenced by Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) have been highly popular in their original forms, and have served as
35-560: The North Pole (1875) when writing Alice — although Hood's work came out ten years after Alice and was one of its many imitations. In 1907, copyright on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland expired in the UK, entering the tale into the public domain . The primary wave of Alice -inspired works slackened after about 1920, though Carroll's influence on other writers has never fully waned. Not to be confused with actual adaptations of
42-479: The basis for many subsequent works since they were published. They have been adapted directly into other media, their characters and situations have been appropriated into other works, and these elements have been referenced innumerable times as familiar elements of shared culture. Simple references to the two books are too numerous to list; this list of works based on Alice in Wonderland focuses on works based specifically and substantially on Carroll's two books about
49-409: The character of Alice. Carolyn Sigler has shown that Carroll's two great fantasies inspired dozens of imitations, responses, and parodies during the remainder of the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth — so many that Carroll at one point began his own collection of Alice imitations. In 1887, one critic even suggested that Carroll had plagiarized Tom Hood 's From Nowhere to
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