Imawa no Kuni no Alice (Alice in Borderland)

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Japanese: 今際の国のアリス

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 18

Chapters: 87

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 25, 2010 to Mar 2, 2016

Genres: Action, Horror, Supernatural, Suspense

Themes: Gore, High Stakes Game, Psychological, Survival

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Sunday Super

Authors: Aso, Haro (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.38¹ (scored by 33,065 users)

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Ranked: #242²

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Popularity: #180

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Ranked #242Popularity #180Members 93,407

MangaShounen Sunday SuperAso, Haro (Story & Art)

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Alice in Borderland

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Feeling unsettled about the future, high school student Ryouhei Arisu often escapes the reality of life. After hanging out at a bar, Arisu and his best friends, Daikichi Karube and Chouta Segawa, wait for the first train to arrive in the morning. Suddenly, a colorful array of fireworks set off in the sky, and an enormous blinding firework renders them unconscious.

The trio finds themselves back at the bar covered in dust, discovering that the city has become a barren wasteland. But instead of being worried, Arisu feels alive for the very first time in his life and relishes the freedom of this lifeless city. However, his bliss is cut short when the group rashly enters a festival venue. Seeing its delicacies and lively ambiance, they think the place is a dream; unbeknownst to them, it will be the setting for their first deadly game.

Together with his friends, Arisu slowly enters the mysterious area known as the Borderland—an unknown country where every game puts their lives at stake, and a single misstep can lead to their demise.

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Imawa no Kuni no Alice was first serialized on Shokugakan's Shounen Sunday S from November 25, 2010 to March 25, 2015. The serialization was moved to Weekly Shounen Sunday on April 8, 2015 and ended on March 2, 2016.

The manga also received a live-action adaptation with eight episodes directed by Shinsuke Satou and produced by Netflix.

The series was published in English as Alice in Borderland by VIZ Media under the VIZ Signature imprint as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes from March 15, 2022 to March 19, 2024.

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Nov 19, 2025

Truly_Tariq

Recommended

“What do you live for?” That’s the moral dilemma at the heart of Alice in Borderland, and honestly, it’s a beautiful one. This manga really hit me because it didn’t just show me how characters fight to live for others, it also showed me the importance of living for myself. It’s rare for a story to balance those two ideas so well.

From the main character all the way to the antagonists, everyone is searching for purpose. Every game, every loss, every moment of desperation forces them to ask what their life actually means. And what’s crazy is how real it feels. The fear, the confusion, ...

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Apr 27, 2023

Okamii_JA

Mixed Feelings

Alice I'm borderlands, well the name itself can give you an idea about the manga without reading the synopsis, basically story has began when our MC transported to a weird world that sounds intresting right ? Yeah it is so you gonna keep reading to reveal that mystery and eventually you not gonna like it probably why ? Not because I didn't moreover I think that all mystery needs something big like gonna blow my mind but unfortunately the end didn't satisfied me .

Our MC here was spineless & depressed person , and yeha perhaps at some point we saw development ...

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Feb 10, 2023

Odisnikka

Not Recommended

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Inglish is not my first language

I don't know if the Netflix series is different, but if it's the same as this manga, I want you to know that the hype is, without a doubt, 100%...undeserved. The hype this manga gained was 100% undeserved; he is surfing a wave that is not his. If you want to know why alice in borderlands is famous, go to the series, because the manga obviously doesn't deserve the hype and is nothing more than a generic psychological manga with substandard quality compared to its peers.

Alice in borderlands is yet another manga filled with expository monologues. Every action, ... every conflict, every development and every DIALOGUE is followed by an unnecessary monologue. a raindrop cannot fall or a stone cannot move without a monologue inside a introspective moment to explain it. You can even excuse some moments, since they serve as a tool for the characterization, by showing how smart a character is by having him explaining everything. But this goes beyond the limits when wanting to do the duty of the reader by analyzing the characters.

This just shows the author's inability to:

A) create a narrative/plot that clearly SHOWS what he want to tell us;

B) the fear of being misunderstood, which motivates him to explain everything.

Reason B is understandable but not acceptable. If he's scared, he should change his methods or just give a fuck to the idiots who don't understand what he is saying.

And the way the MC's past, and the psychological problems caused by it, is revealed to us is done in such a poor way that it almost seems that the author is simply adding things as the work develops. The MC of the beginning is not the Same of the middle, but not by development, but by this "alteration" (I put it in quote because maybe it really was just a bad characterization) of the concept behind the MC.

And wow, what a crybaby the MC is. The first few times are more than understandable, since he's going through a terrible situation and all, but as the work develops, he starts crying about anything, in a Steven universe way. And sometimes, even if the moment is justifiable for him to cry, his reaction is... exaggerated to the point of embarrassment. Many authors forget that crying character =/= emotional. Actually, everything in this manga is extremely exaggerated.

The maturity of the dialogue and how the themes are approached seem to come from a children's book. This is a common problem with mangas and I'm always wondering: does the author believe what the MC is saying (which seems like as it is the definitive moral lesson of the work) or is he just repeating what other works have spoken? because the way certain ideas are conveyed are so robotic, silly and shallow that I can't believe that the author really believes and understands what is being said, because, normally, when you believe in something, you usually have a basic understand about that, ESPECIALLY if you're going to put this into a story. Don't think I'm saying this because i disagree with what is said in this manga or others, because i actually agree with the majority of them, actually, it's because i believe and understand about it that's making me confused and asking myself if he really understand what he is talking about.

The art is very tough in the start, but it improves with the time and the plot is really interesting, despite how weak the revelations of vital information are and certain nonsensical, but on point, conclusions are made to solve certain question (something classic in these psychological mangas). Some characters are also interesting, so it really is a shame that the author approaches them with the classic Shounem way: scream, expository monologues, more scream, expository monologues during an introspective moment, expository flashbacks, screamed expository monologue during an introspective moment with flashes of the past passing through the frames and, obviously, an unbelievable character change (the character can spend entire volumes having the same dilemma/internal conflict, but he magically manages to change after hearing 3 or 5 little words that are a very simple/rase answer to a complex problem or a hard to get out mental state; which, again, makes me wonder if the author really understands what he's talking about).

There are a few more issues at times here and there, but I won't go into those, because they're just that: moments. I don't think you should use isolated issues that don't recur in a review. But dont think they are not bad and wouldn't make someone droppe this manga.

And the last thing I want to say is: the last game is disappointing. He takes a lot of the things I said and multiplies them by two. And what happens after all the games are done is also anti-climactic.

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