Alice on Deadlines

Alice on Deadlines
Cover of Japanese volume 1
Genre	Comedy, Fantasy
Manga
Written by	Shiro Ihara
Published by	Square Enix Yen Press
Magazine	Gangan wing
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	2004 – 2006
Volumes	4

Alice on Deadlines (D線上のアリス, Dī Senjō no Arisu) is a manga series by Shiro Ihara. It is published in Japan by Square Enix and published in the United States by Yen Press.

Characters

• Lapan

Lapan is a Shinigami, literally translated as "Death God". Lapan is introduced as perverted, initially reading a porn magazine, and is severely disappointed when he must go to the human world as a skeleton since he will not be allowed to 'play' with a young female body like last time. However, due to a mishap, he instead possesses Alice's body instead of a skeleton. Because he broke one of the principal laws of the shinigami realm, that no shinigami may go to the human realm in his/her true form, all of his memories were erased as punishment.

• Alice

Alice is a sweet and attractive girl. She is always thinking about the well being of others. However, due to a mishap when Lapan came to the Human Realm, she ended up in the body arranged for him, a skeleton.

• Umenosuke Tsurukame

The third son of Tsurukame commercial affairs, he is introduced as a cocky, arrogant and self-centered person. He believed that being a shinigami meant being a god. However, through a turn of events that included Lapan saving him, Ume got in touch with his feminine side, and he developed a deep love for Lapan.

You

You is introduced in the start of the manga as Lapan's superior. He is apathetic and seems to enjoy using weapons, such as guns. In a later part of the series, after he is sent after a Shibito known as "Mad Hatter", who has procliamed himself the "Shibito King", he encounters Lapan, Ume, and a new friend of Lapan's (who, very much like Ume, expresses much attraction toward Lapan, though she is truly a girl, unlike Ume) named Somuria. Shortly afterward, the four go on a vacation to a beach and hot spring, and when Somuria asks You why he has not chnaged into a bathing suit, he states that he has no desire to "put on a girl's bathing suit and frolic around." Somuria then feigns being upset and says she had hoped that they could all play and then enjoy some cream Anmitsu together, at which You seems quite interested, asking her if Anmitsu tastes good. Ume and Lapan then get the idea to use You's desire to try the Anmitsu to get him into a (very revealing) bathing suit and flaunt, stating that if he doesn't, he can't have any. This is the only time You shows much emotion (namely embarrassment and desperation).

Volumes

1. ISBN 4-7575-1397-6 published in March 2005
2. ISBN 4-7575-1511-1 published in August 2005
3. ISBN 4-7575-1637-1 published in February 2006
4. ISBN 4-7575-1688-6 published in May 2006