Alice Stilza

Alice is a short, slender woman who is immediately recognisable by two details: she is completely bald, and she is almost always depicted mid-shout with her mouth open. The baldness is implied to be a long-term consequence of the pollution exposure that defined her career. The open mouth is its natural state.

She has sharp, intense eyes and is almost always wearing large, round-rimmed goggles that rest either on her forehead or over her eyes — the equipment of a researcher who was accustomed to working in hazardous conditions before she was a clinic administrator. Her standard outfit is a professional white lab coat over a dark, high-collared garment. She typically maintains an aggressive posture that makes her appear larger than her actual stature.

Alice is loud, abrasive, intensely proud of her professional achievements, and constitutionally incapable of tolerating any failure to acknowledge those achievements. She has a very low threshold for disrespect and a very high volume at which she expresses it. These traits are partly personality and partly the permanent physiological consequence of an act of professional dedication that most people would not have attempted.

The Name Demand

She will aggressively correct anyone who does not address her by her full name. This is the series' introduction to her, sustained across every subsequent appearance, and it functions as both comedy and characterisation: a person whose contribution to Ground medicine is genuinely exceptional, insisting on the specific acknowledgment she has earned. The demand is not vanity. It is the position of someone who sacrificed her health for a breakthrough that changed how the Ground's most dangerous profession works, and who finds it reasonable to expect that the people benefiting from that breakthrough know her name.

Dedication Behind the Volume

Beneath the shouting is a doctor who deliberately ingested polluted matter — one of the Ground's most dangerous substances — as a research methodology. She survived. She also cannot modulate her voice for the rest of her life. The trade is a clear indication of how she prioritises: the medical breakthrough was worth the cost, and she made that calculation consciously. Enjin's description of her as "loudmouthed but good" is the most accurate available summary of the ratio.

Several years before the main story, Alice was a medical researcher working on the effects of the Ground's toxic environment. Body pollution — the condition caused by prolonged exposure to the Ground's polluted zones — was, at that point, effectively untreatable. People who contracted it deteriorated. People who worked in No Man's Lands long enough got it. People who got it did not recover.

Alice decided that was a problem worth solving at personal cost. During her research into polluted matter, she ingested some of the substance deliberately — a high-risk methodology that produced the data she needed and also produced permanent physiological damage. Her vocal cords and ears were affected, resulting in involuntary, uncontrollable shouting that has persisted ever since. Her baldness is implied to be a further consequence of the same exposure.

The breakthrough that came from this research made her the first person on the Ground to successfully treat body pollution. The treatment is what allows Givers who have been contaminated during missions — including multiple members of Team Akuta — to recover rather than deteriorate. Her name is known across the Ground in the specific way of someone whose contribution is practical and measurable: people are alive because of what she did, and they know it.

Introduction — Post-Penta Medical Care

Alice's formal debut came when Team Akuta returned to South Branch HQ following the Penta desert mission. While the team recovered in the medical facility, Alice appeared to oversee treatment — and to establish, at significant volume, that the people in her clinic were going to address her correctly. Zanka introduced her to Rudo as the "amazing" first doctor to treat body pollution, which is the kind of endorsement that lands harder when delivered by someone as stoic as Zanka. She demonstrated her personality immediately and completely.

The Doll Festival Arc — The Clinic Under Pressure

During Mymo's takeover of the South Ward, the Alice Clinic became the primary hub for emergency treatment and long-term recovery as casualties from Mymo's "Apostle" attacks and Rule power mounted. Field Givers like Eishia used on-site Heal-type instruments to stabilise patients immediately; Alice managed the broader medical infrastructure — intake, treatment, containment of pollution cases, and the kind of coordinated logistics that keeps a clinic functional when the city around it is in crisis.

Amo's Recovery — The Referred Expert

Following Mymo's defeat, Enjin recommended Alice specifically for Amo's recovery — noting that she had been through a polluted zone and needed someone qualified to assess the consequences. His description: "a loudmouthed but good doctor near here." The recommendation is the clearest summary the series offers of how Alice is regarded by the people who rely on her: the loudmouthed part is acknowledged first, the good doctor part is what matters, and both are true.

• She is voiced by Ryuusei Nakao in the Japanese anime adaptation (Studio Bones, 2025) — confirmed from the Anibase profile. Nakao is a legendary voice actor known for voicing Frieza in the Dragon Ball franchise across multiple decades. The casting of Nakao for a loud, intensely proud character who demands respect is not accidental.
• Her constant involuntary shouting is a confirmed medical side effect, not a personality trait — the result of permanent damage to her vocal cords and ears from ingesting polluted matter during research. This distinction is established explicitly in the series and is worth noting because it changes the read of every scene she is in: she is not performing volume. She cannot perform anything else.
• Her baldness is implied to be a further consequence of the same pollution exposure — a long-term physiological effect of the contamination that never reversed.
• She is canonically the first person on the Ground to successfully treat body pollution — a breakthrough that transformed the viability of Cleaner fieldwork. Before her research, contamination in No Man's Lands was effectively terminal. Her name is well-known across the Ground specifically because the survival rate of people who would otherwise have died from pollution is a measurable statistic.
• The Alice Clinic at South Branch HQ is a named facility — one of the few named locations within the headquarters itself. The naming implies institutional permanence and that her position within the organisation is not simply a role but a recognised institution in its own right.
• Enjin describing her as a "loudmouthed but good doctor" is the series' most economical character summary — two accurate facts, the less important one first, the more important one last. The structure of the description is itself a kind of endorsement.
• Her name "Alice Stilza" has been consistently rendered in official volume content — early fan translations varied but the canon spelling is established. The birthday confirmed from Anibase is October 10th, placing her under Libra — a zodiac sign associated with balance, justice, and perfectionism, which fits a character whose entire career arc is about restoring equilibrium to bodies that have been thrown out of balance by pollution.