Alice in Borderland

Alice in Borderland season 2 review - an impeccably-constructed battle royale. This article contains no spoilers for the Netflix series.

The games are thrilling, the psychological subtext is fascinating, and the human core beneath it all, emphasizing the depth of the trauma being caused and the slim chance of anything ever returning to normal in its aftermath, is truly engaging. The main, perhaps only problem with Alice in Borderland Season 2 is that it’s very much in love with its own concept, and it’s so aware of how good the games themselves are that it sometimes forgets to properly flesh out the world around them. The games remain very clever in their structure and execution, being not just all-out physical challenges but also more cerebral puzzles that challenge the characters’ understanding of themselves, their relationships, and the world of the show itself. There is almost nothing to fault in the show’s structure and presentation; it’s a fantastic-looking, sometimes confoundingly well-executed action-thriller that’ll have you asking, “how did they do that?” more often than perhaps any show in recent memory. The games themselves were a standout element of the first season and they remain so here, featuring more complex setups and higher stakes thanks to the escalations of the plot. [Alice in Borderland](https://readysteadycut.com/2020/12/10/alice-in-borderland-season-1-netflix-review/) was a tremendous hit for [Netflix](https://readysteadycut.com/category/streaming-service/netflix/) back in 2020, taking the [Haro Aso manga series](https://aliceinborderland-manga.com/) and turning it into, essentially, a live-action anime with a breathless pace, no shortage of imagination, and a killer structure.

ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 2 is on Netflix and the Japanese genre-hybrid continues the style from season 1. Read our full review >

Kyuma is the leader of the band (the new group of friends, we meet during the first game of season 2) and is a proud nudist. However, despite Alice in Borderland season 2 not having a recap at the beginning, episode 1 of this second season does have a few flashbacks. In season 1, the characters (or players in this crazy game) all focused on getting all the playing cards to win and return home. The episode shows us a new group of friends (bandmates) who are trapped in this world together. Well, we get to this after the very brutal opening sequence which is the result of them being in the King of Spades game. ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 2 is on Netflix and the Japanese genre-hybrid continues the style from season 1. Season 1 premiered on Netflix in December of 2020, so it’s been a good two years. We get a few reminders of how the characters ended up in their current predicament. Read our full Alice in Borderland season 2 review here! Season 2 of Alice in Borderland does not open with a recap. ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 2 is out on Netflix with eight new episodes. Not exactly new for this Japanese Netflix series, but still a very brutal and direct way to open season 2.

Alice in Borderland, based on the manga series by Haro Aso, returns to Netflix for a second season starring Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya, and Riisa Naka.

A third season of Alice in Borderland has not yet been confirmed - however the series has proven very popular so it’s likely that it is in the works with Netflix. But it Usagi and Arisu do get through the final tests, it’s still not clear whether they will be allowed to leave the Borderland alive. Alice in Borderland was watched by an estimated 18 million households in the first 28 days of its release in 2020 - and was renewed for a second season two weeks after it premiered.

Just when Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and his comrades thought they were home clear and free, the gamemaster drew a doozy of a card from the stack: the Joker.

We won't make you battle your way through a series of games to find out the answer but sadly we have no good news for you on this front. In doing so, it's likely that a new game has already started unknown to them all and they'll have to break free. Though thoroughly battered (Niragi more so), they made it out of season two so we expect to see them in season three. It could be that all the contestants are in a virtual reality environment, much like the one Arisu found himself in the final episode. We fear Arisu and co are in for a big shock next season. Here's everything we know about Alice in Borderland season three.

Alice in Borderland season 2 is now streaming on Netflix. Is Alice in Borderland season 3 happening? Here's what we know about a potential third season.

Based on the second season’s ending, the story could go in so many different ways in Alice in Borderland season 3. We just have to see how the story continues in an Alice in Borderland season 3. The completion rate is very important because it’s also believed to factor heavily into whether Netflix will renew a show. [Alice in Borderland season 2](https://netflixlife.com/2022/09/24/alice-in-borderland-season-2-release-date/) is finally streaming on Netflix. There were also tons of exciting, action-packed scenes that will have you on the edge of your seat. The second season had viewers on another wild ride with many unique twists and turns.

Unsurprisingly it's down to Arisu and Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya) to defeat their last, formidable face-card opponent. However, like much of the tasks thrown their way ...

In any case, they decide to walk together in the hospital gardens and the uplifting, grandiose music almost has you believing they've achieved their happy ending. A trickster card that has lured them into this false sense of security by wiping their memories and landing them 'home,' when really they, like Dorothy, couldn't be further from Kansas. Mira convinces Arisu that he is in a hospital receiving psychiatric treatment from her, his doctor and that Usagi is a patient with whom he has formed a strong attachment to. Just in time too, as Mira was close to getting him to 'quit the game' in order to relinquish the delusion's hold on him. He continuously presses Mira about what happened to the real world and she toys with him. Not perfect, but at the very least they are home. The catastrophic damage claimed many lives but they survived. However, like much of the tasks thrown their way thus far, this challenge is anything but easy and is blighted with twists. Her cryptic words are shortly followed by her being shot through with a laser and killed. The only one left standing in their way is the Queen of Hearts, aka Mira (Minako Kotobuki). Their unified assault on the King of Spades has resulted in victory. At this point Usagi's wounds need urgent attention – she is limp but obliges when Mira insists they sit for tea.

Episode 5 of Alice in Borderland Season 2 starts with Usagi alone in the woods, calling out for Arisu. However, Arisu is with Aguni, who we learned last ...

Seeing snippets of Ann, Aguni and Chishiya helps to give more context over exactly what’s been happening to each of them and I’m sure we’ll see Arisu and Usagi joined with Chishiya down the line… The Queen is adamant that she wants Arisu on her side, and our characters soon suss that out. The Kings cannot be turned, and the opposite is true for the Challengers team. If the button on their back turns red, they turn to the Queen’s team and may not move for the remainder of the round. Arisu continues on and ends up in an overgrown part of the city, completely overcome by nature. The pair hug tenderly but it’s quickly interrupted by the Queen of Spades showing up on a big screen. Thankfully the boss turns and leaves, with the plan a complete dud. Arisu is separated from the others and wanders alone through the streets until he comes upon a tent. As for Aguni and Akane, the former ends up shot and passes out. Akane managed to free herself and crawled through the vents and away. As for Aguni, he intends to strike down the King of Spades and likens all of this to a battlefield – the last battlefield they’ll compete on. Arisu points out that the group are all separated and Tatta didn’t make it.

Alice in Borderland season 2 introduced the Face Cards. Here's what the cards mean, including what each of the games behind each face card actually are.

The team with the most players at the end of the game wins. This one is a very complex and confusing game of numbers that requires players to strategically choose a number between 0 and 100. The player team must win in order to defeat the Queen of Spades. The Queen of Spades' game begins in episode 5 and is revealed to be a physical game called 'Checkmate'. The majority of this game takes place throughout episodes 2 and 3 and it has a lot of rules. If they give a wrong answer at the end of the round, the collar explodes. In season 1, players had to beat as many games as possible in order to extend their Borderlands visas (and their lives), and collect as many of the numbered cards as possible in pursuit of collection a whole deck. Here's what games the players have to win in order to beat each Face Card. Each of the Face Card citizens are involved in games that represent their suit. Alice in Borderland is finally back, and the games have officially begun again with the players now in pursuit of the Face Cards. The second is a game of 'It'. Throughout season 1, we see the players compete for the numbered cards in order to extended their visas and stay alive.

Will there be an Alice in Borderland season 3? Here's everything we know so far, and what to expect in the possible third season of the Japanese sci-fi ...

Will there be an Alice in Borderland season 3? It could even involve a whole new set of games that could be even more sick and twisted than the ones before it. Season 2's final moment shows a deck of cards on the table. If the show does well with viewers and reaches the Top 10 charts across the world, there's a strong chance that Alice in Borderland could return for season 3. In the final scene, we see Arisu and Usagi meet. We'll likely know more when (or if) season 3 is confirmed and production begins.

Episode 4 of Alice in Borderland Season 2 starts with us back at the prison. Chishiya is alone but he manages to convince Matsushita (the emo-kid) that ...

In the present, rumbling ensues as the King of Spades catches up to Arisu and Usgi, his blimp flying overhead. Meanwhile, Arisu and the others try to work out the next phase of attack. With a razorblade in hand, Banda and Yaba have their way, eventually resulting in the Jack of Hearts blimp exploding. Chishiya is convinced that he’s the Jack and warns that he’s going to start getting aggressive soon. They were communicating through the snacks they picked up, with Chishiya realizing that the colour of the packaging correlated to their symbols, helping them through the game until this point. Chishiya is alone but he manages to convince Matsushita (the emo-kid) that Sunato Banda (the man he’s hanging around with all game long) is a serial murderer and it was all over the papers.

Expect more mayhem, mysterious violence, spirited gameplay, and character reveals in season 2 of Netfllix's Alice in Borderland.

But it revels in making or breaking the rules it’s created for its topsyturvy world, and the core characters are compelling and fully rendered. [Squid Game](https://decider.com/show/squid-game/), the runaway Netflix hit that functions on a life-or-death axis of competition similar to Alice in Borderland. Once we do that…” Arisu has always put his faith in the natural rules of gameplay. (The latter’s transgender identity was explored in one of last season’s most powerful and emotional flashbacks.) The moral compass is totally destroyed in Alice in Borderland, along with the trappings of our daily existence. Parting Shot: So far, the King of Clubs and his accomplices haven’t shared much about their identities or intentions beyond their leader’s promotion of a nudist lifestyle, and Arisu wants answers. The Gist: At the conclusion of that first season of Alice in Borderland, Arisu, Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya), Hikari Kuina (Aya Asahina), and Chishiya (Nijiro Murakami) fought their way from the carnage of the Beach back to the city center and a whisper-quiet Shibuya Station. Our Take: Alice in Borderland continues to trade easily on the fates of its non-player characters. But from a viewer’s perspective, everyone in the background of the main characters’ gameplay seems to be cannon fodder for advancing their narrative. Opening Shot: In a flashback that itself is a flashback to the beginning of the first season, obsessive gamer Arisu (Kento Yamakazi) is in his bedroom, playing first person shooters on repeat instead of attending job interviews. Once it’s determined that joining a different game might avoid more immediate destruction, the group roars off in Tatta’s commandeered Mustang convertible and approaches a part of town apparently controlled by the King of Clubs. [Alice in Borderland debuted on Netflix in December 2020](https://decider.com/2020/12/11/alice-in-borderland-netflix-review/), as the world reeled from lockdowns and the pandemic. As refugees from the Beach are shot down around them, Arisu and Usagi infer that it’s the King of Spades causing all of this mayhem.

How did the players end up in the Borderlands? What does the Joker card mean at the end of Alice in Borderland season 2? Here's how the shock cliffhanger ...

The cards are blown away and the final thing we see is a shot of the Joker card. If the Borderland's Joker operates in the same way as a Joker would in a card game, then it's going to act as a massive wild card. What does the Joker card mean at the end of Alice in Borderland season 2? None of them remember each other or what happened in the Borderlands. In this reality (which we assume is the real world), the players are found and taken to the hospital. At the end of season 2, all the players end up in hospital recovering from their injuries. At first, Mira explains that the Borderlands are a virtual reality game that Arisu and Usagi have chosen to play, and she is the administrator of the game. The Borderlands are essentially the border between life and death. After making their choice, it's then revealed that on the day the players ended up in the Borderlands, they were actually struck by a meteorite that destroyed a 10km radius in Tokyo. Basically, the whole thing is one massive mind game created by Mira in order to guilt trip and persuade Arisu that no one needs him and he shouldn't be alive. Here's how the shock cliffhanger ending sets up Alice in Borderland season 3. Almost immediately, they're thrown into the thick of it against the deadly King of Spades and fight their way through countless games against some dangerous opponents.

Episode 8 of Alice in Borderland Season 2 starts this finale with a look at the devastation caused by the King of Diamonds. Akane and Aguni are barely ...

I appreciate the manga continues with Alice in Borderland: Retry, but the ending we get here is actually really solid and it’s not really needed to drag this one out. It would appear that the game is now over but of course, there could be another twist to the tame. The game world serves as a sort of gateway between life and death. Then again, there’s also the idea that the Joker represents unexpected changes in fortune, which could have a simple meaning of showing that Arisu has now changed his fate and managed to find good fortune among all this misery. While Arisu and the others head down to the bottom of the train station and hide out, a meteor crashes and smashes into Tokyo, blowing the entire place to smithereens. Kuani is reunited with her mother and father, while Arisu looks out the window and notices all the characters we’ve seen over the course of the season with their loved ones or recovering in hospital. The Joker card at the end generally tends to act as a wild card. All the cards disappear, with the only one left happening to be the Joker. They encourage Arisu to live his life to the fullest and not waste a second of it. This seems to be part of the Queen’s game, given Usagi is bleeding out and is on borrowed time. Of course, this brings us to the final game. To win, they need to pass their balls through the six hoops in a certain order then hit the final finishing peg.

As much fun as it was to spend some hours in the company of Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya), and Chishiya (Nijiro Murakami) in Alice in ...

In all card games, the Joker is a wild card that usually subverts the pre-established rules, and that last addition would fit in perfectly with the Alice in Borderland world. If that’s the case, there could be blind spots to the game master’s world, and that would be a nice element to explore in the future. If there’s one thing we learned from Season 2 is that the citizens – who initially seemed to be a level above the rest of the players – don’t know much. On top of that, in the same videos, there is some evidence of people who managed to live outside the realm of the Borderland games. By the end of Season 2, we still don’t know who are the game designers, who controls Borderland and other details that we don’t even imagine. Halfway through the season, Arisu and Usagi find some home footage in which there is a girl who claims she remembers everything about the day everyone was taken from Tokyo. And they all – or most of them – ended up in the afterlife because a meteorite exploded over central Tokyo and killed them all. All the players we rooted for throughout Season 2 decline, and they are transported back to Tokyo and find out that only a few minutes had passed. The way that Season 2 ends provides closure for most characters – especially the main ones – and wraps up the citizens' arc. While [Season 1](https://collider.com/alice-in-borderland-season-1-recap/) provided us with virtually no information about the game makers, Borderland itself, and what exactly are the rules, Season 2 had the job of finally helping us understand what the heck is going on in the Japanese series. But now, we finally have the answer: What are the games and Borderland after all? She adds that he will be presented with two choices and no matter what he chooses, the answer will be given.

Alice in Borderland is (finally) back and hopefully providing some answers to the meaning behind the game world. A recap of season two, episode one of ...

It’s what much of the audience is looking for too: an explanation of why this world was constructed and to what end. He leads the group to the outskirts of Tokyo to start a new game with the King of Clubs. For now, we’re left with the promise of more answers about the organization of this world and the possibility of escaping back to our reality — should these characters want it. The episode ends without revealing much about who the King of Clubs is and what his game might require of Arisu and his friends (um, and Niragi). The King of Spades was a major dick, but the King of Clubs seems like he could be fun to hang out with. And the players have a foe to escape or defeat, so Arisu comes up with a plan: They can’t effectively fight the King of Spades with the resources they have, but they may be able to avoid him by joining a different game. Niragi was set on fire by Chishiya and tackled over a railing by Aguni in last season’s finale, but he’s still kicking and is looking to join the King of Club’s game with Arisu and his friends. [Toyota Crown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Crown) that makes for the best part of the episode: a seven-minute car chase with the King of Spades through the streets of Tokyo that starts with Chishiya getting left behind (he’s fine — probably) and ends with our crew somehow walking away from a rollover. As no-names get struck down viciously and viscerally around them, our protagonists duck, weave, and commandeer a classic Toyota Crown in an attempt to avoid the King of Spades. When we’re not in the car with the characters, we’re racing behind with the camera, fitting through even smaller spaces at just as fast a speed. The end of season one left us with the critical reveal that people who were seemingly players in the games could be involved in orchestrating them. Most of the first third of the episode is devoted to our wide-eyed gamer Arisu, stoic mountaineer Usagi, terminally underwhelmed Chishiya, trans badass Kuina, forensics expert Ann, and the behatted Tatta’s sprint to escape the clutches of the King of Spades, and it’s proof that this show still has it.

And they have made speculations about the third season. With both seasons of Arisu and Usagi, the Japanese sci-fi series hooked its viewers. The mystery of ' ...

When will Alice in Borderland 3 be released?Since Netflix is yet to make any announcements regarding the same, settling for a date wouldn't be possible. [Usagi](/topic/usagi), the Japanese sci-fi series hooked its viewers. According to rumours, filming for the next season has already begun, but waiting for an official announcement is a better option.

Packed with puzzles and elaborate betrayals, few shows will leave you on the edge of your seat like this one. We've already covered that ending, but is there ...

Once again Ryōhei Arisu finds himself in Borderland and has to play a series of games to escape. One day she wakes up in a desolated version of Kyoto with the Queen of Clubs card in her hand. Haro Aso’s manga of the same name ran in Shōnen Sunday S from 2010 to 2015 before moving over to Weekly Shōnen Sunday in April of 2015. In order to stay in this world and avoid death, they have to play an increasingly difficult series of games. Volumes 9 and 10 set to be released in March of 2023. If they win, they get the chance to hopefully evade death again and possibly see their friends die.

They haven't stood up on a stage and bared their souls to a crowd of strangers as a music-making team. Kyuma, Goken Kanzaki, Uta Kisaragi, Sogo Shitara, and ...

If they touch a player of the opposing team while possessing infinite points, they will gain 10,000 points, and the other player will lose 10,000 points. • On a related note, Shitara did come up with Osmosis, which you think would give his team an edge in the game. While it’s been two years for the viewer since Arisu lost his friends in a game of hearts, it’s been mere days for Arisu. If Kyuma is right and the games in this world reveal a human’s true nature, then Arisu shows us who he is: a team player. Arisu comes up with the strategy for his team, splitting the group up into pairs composed of a faster player with fewer points and a slower player with more points: Kuina (fast) with Arisu (slow, supposedly), and Usagi (fast) with Niragi (slow, actively coughing up blood). Kyuma, who loves to wax poetic about game strategy and the nature of humanity in between battles, tells Arisu the band is winning because they value each other equally and aren’t afraid to risk it all for one another. Arisu uses the final minutes of his life to thank Tatta for always cheering him up, and then he runs. With 15 minutes left in the game and Arisu’s team behind by 3,000 points, morale is low. Shitara — he of the grunge rock mane — dies in the effort (RIP), but his three bandmates gain 10,000 points each, making them more or less undefeatable in battle and giving their team a substantial lead. The rules of Osmosis are as follows: Each team begins with 10,000 points to be distributed across the five members at the start of the game; each player must have a minimum of 100 points. The most valuable and risky of the methods, players can gain 10,000 points if they touch the other team’s base — a tall, thick pole with a plasma orb affixed to the top. While Arisu, Usagi, Tatta, and Kuina may have bonded while escaping The Beach, they haven’t lived together in crappy apartments and on tiny-venue tours.

(Though, also, who hired an in-over-his-head Tatta?) It's an interesting backstory for a character who loves and seems to know cars. (In the season premiere, it ...

In addition to building out the world and these characters, it highlights the complexity of the face card games and the relative arbitrariness of who is “innocent” and who is “guilty” here. • In the manga, Chishiya doesn’t participate in the Jack of Hearts game, but I am glad we get to spend more time with his character here. Like the “real” world, the morality of Borderland is rarely as simple as it seems, and even those with relative power (the dealers and citizens of Borderland) still have to play deadly games. While it may be tempting to see the face card players or the citizens of Borderland as the bad guys here, Kyuma and the players we meet in Prison Cell complicate that judgment. Yaba and the woman he domineers, Kotoko; convicted killer Banda and his banged teammate Matsushita; and Chishiya and Ippei, a man “too kind for this world.” That is until Ippei succumbs to the stress of the game and lets his collar explode. The second half is devoted to the beginning of another game: Prison Cell, set in a penitentiary, run by the Jack of Hearts, featuring a familiar face: Chishiya! Even the Jack of Hearts could choose to stay in Prison Game indefinitely, as the prison is stocked with snacks. The King of Clubs isn’t a bad guy — he’s sad to see Arisu and the others die — he simply wants his band to survive more. Rather than trying to force the battle, which could result in Kyuma running away and eluding Arisu for the rest of the game, Arisu appeals to Kyuma’s sense of honor. Because no metal objects are allowed in the game arena, Tatta is attempting to use one of the shipping containers’ doors to do the bloody deed. Nothing in the game rules says a player’s wristband can’t be carried by someone else, and while the wristbands can’t be unlocked, there are other ways to get the band off of a wrist … That’s one of the things I learned in this episode, which saw Tatta sacrificing his hand and life to ensure his team’s victory.

Arisu and Usagi go searching for answers about Borderland, but just find more trouble. A recap of season two, episode four of Netflix's 'Alice in Borderland ...

The vegetation is increasing at an incredible rate.” This is her way of looking for answers. “This is the only world that is worthy of my control,” adds Yaba. • Kuina leaves Arisu and Usagi to look for Ann and Chishiya. • I was low-key rooting for Kotoko to win the Jack of Hearts game. • “I’ve never been in a land as beautiful as this one,” says Banda of Borderland. As we transition from one game to another, check in with our ensemble, and hear one woman’s chilling account of how she came to be in Borderland, this show weaves the elements in a way that breathes further life into this fictional world. The film ends, and the King of Spades appears again, like a bad penny. But Arisu finds some new and old friends in the terror: A young woman with a running blade as a foot and a bow in her hand saves Arisu’s life with her arrows, knocking him out in the process. I like that this show takes time to show the effects of this trauma. [last episode](https://www.vulture.com/article/alice-in-borderland-season-2-episode-3-recap.html), he makes it through the next round not by convincing anyone to tell him the truth about his suit but by guessing and then telling others the truth. In her interview with Kameyama, she tells him about the fireworks that weren’t fireworks the day they all came to Borderland. As the midway point in the season, the fourth episode has a lot of disparate work to do.

Somehow Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya) and the others manage to band together to orchestrate the most calculated assault against the King of ...

We're ready for the fall and like a season one Arisu faced with the death of his friends, we'll be much stronger for it. Let's also not forget that it was Heiya's seemingly inevitable demise that gave Aguni the fire he needed to take on the King of Spades. It was a key moment that became less impactful when she dragged her flagging, pin-cushioned body over to the far away spot where Aguni lay (not) dying. In season one the core friendship between Karube (Keita Machida), Chota (Yūki Morinaga) and Arisu was expected to have longevity. Ann's non-death is not the only sign that the show has lost its stomach when it comes to high-stakes deaths. A nervous titillation that can only be achieved through the cost of losing core characters. The King is beaten enough for a bullet to easily finish the job. But undercutting the emotional impact of her death by backtracking allows the previous emotionally charged moment to fall flat. Later on, when the surviving players are given the choice of becoming residents, Kuina looks over to a lifeless Ann, holds her hand and says: "Let's go back together". [Alice in Borderland](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a42082612/alice-in-borderland-ending-explained-joker-card/) really knows just how to put its players through the wringer. His attempt to end the King of Spades once and for all worked… However their strike-back runs about as smooth as a river of blood (their own).

It all started with fireworks, or so we thought. As Ariusu, Chota, and Karube run into the subway station at Shibuya Crossing in the very first episode of Alice ...

The Joker, our ferryman to Borderland, still exists, which means Borderland is still there, just beyond the veil of our world. In the manga, the Joker is a mysterious character, implied to be a kind of Borderland ferryman. The proof is in Arisu and Usagi: Because of their Borderland connection, or perhaps because they simply like one another, the two strike up a flirty conversation by the vending machine in the hospital. during the Civil War and was originally created as a trump card in the trick-taking game of Euchre. The Joker as a card originated in the U.S. Much of Alice in Borderland Season 2 was devoted to exploring the role of “dealers” and “citizens” in Borderland. Yaba and Banda, two characters who revel in the violent abuse of power Borderland allows even more than our real world, choose to stay.) Ann, who seemingly dies in Borderland and therefore is unable to make a choice, survives; in the hospital, we see the doctors successfully able to restart her heart. Their hearts stopped, and that is the time they spent in Borderland. (The first phase being the numbered-card games that the Borderland players collectively clear in Season 1.) In a flashback, we see the man who would become the King of Spades accepting the position at the end of the previous cycle; it is implied that, before becoming the face card-killer, he was someone like Aguni, fighting to take down the previous King of Spades. At the end of Season 1, we discover that Momoka and Asahi are “dealers,” people who have been recruited to make and monitor the games in exchange for extended visas and the hope they might eventually be able to leave Borderland. Alice in Borderland is back on Netflix, just in time to celebrate the holidays. As Ariusu, Chota, and Karube run into the subway station at Shibuya Crossing in the very first episode of Alice in Borderland, fireworks explode in the sky above the city.

Are the games truly over? Here we go over whether Netflix will be bringing us back to the dangerous game world or Alice in Borderland season 3.

We must remember that the Joker is a wild card, so everything could change -despite the seemingly happy ending of Alice in Borderland season 2. Alice in Borderland season 2 answered some big mysteries in the series, exposed the backstory of the contestants and Borderlands itself, and introduced some major big bosses onto the scene. Telling the story of a gang of trapped survivors having to play deadly games in exchange for their lives, we have seen betrayal, action, and now with the recent release of Alice in Borderland season 2, finally, some closure.

For sixteen episodes we've followed slacker Arisu and his friends (living, dead, miraculously revived and flashbacked) as they've battled their way through a ...

Just like Alice, our heroes have had a surreal and dangerous experience in a frightening netherworld dominated by living playing cards and packed with riddles that twist reality inside out. Some English sounds just don't work in Japanese. (Not for long, stick with us.) "Beer" is rendered as "biiru", "English" is "Igirisu" and so on. The final episode suggested at first that the games were a fugue state conjured in Arisu's mind as a way of coping with the guilt of killing his friends on the traffic crossing in the first episode, but later scenes showed a flashback in which Tokyo – and all the games' combatants – were hit by a meteorite. At the end of season two, it's revealed that the games have been a way for Arisu to find purpose in his life, that purpose being friendship, love and community.

Need a quick breakdown of all of the brutal Face Card games and their rules from season 2 of Netflix's Alice in Borderland series?

Whilst trying to maintain their grip as well as staying clear of opposing climbers; if a player falls from the rope, they are killed. - Home Bases; touch your opponent’s team base (a giant electrified poll), which will grant a total of 10,000 points to that team. However, two players can also join hands to give them added points for battles. The next montage game is a table top style game, which appeared to be a game of bluff competed by only four players around a desk. The aim of this game is to acquire more team members than the opposing team when time runs out; tagging a player via the button on their back means that they join the opposing team for the next round. The aim of the game is to outpoint the opposing team, of which each split a starting point tally of 10,000 between each of the five members: