Ryouhei Arisu is a high school student with no ambitions and just wants to escape from what he feels is a meaningless reality. One night when he is with his two friends Daikichi Karube and Chouta Segawa, they see an abnormally large firework shoot into the sky, an event which signals a permanent change in their lives.
Blinded by the incredibly bright explosion, the three find themselves transported to what is known as the Borderland. The only inhabitants of this world are participants of a deadly game where specific tasks must be accomplished if they wish to survive. As the three begin playing to determine how they can get back home, Ryouhei finds himself feeling alive for the very first time in his life.
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Bubbles1512
Story 10/10 I started watching this cuz I heard the netflix versions was really good so i chose to watch the anime first. the plot is really good its an amazing idea id like to see more off (so ill probs watch the netflix version). Art 7/10 The art is standart nothing special Sound 8/10 The emotional songs are really good in this animeCharacters 10/10
I loved all the characters mainly Chouta.
Enjoyment 10/10
This anime really has you on the edge of your seat the entire time, mainly episode 3.
Overall 9/10
I'd recommend this anime a lot, if it had more episodes it would probs have become one of my fav.
Nivo3041
What a disappointment Actually Alice in Borderlands is one or my favorite manga, I enjoy reading each chapter, it has been a while since I read the manga, so I wanted to see these 3 ovas to see how good they are, after all for my Alice in Bordelands it was a great and I knew that, despite being 3 ovas, it could be a good thing from there (well, I was wrong). The story does not change much, Arisu Ryohei, tired of his life and with an inferiority complex by his brother, appears in another world with his 2 friends after seeing some fireworks, in the"new world" (which is equal to the Earth, but without many people) there are some survival games in which Arisu will have to participate to survive, the plot is simple, but it can unleash many possibilities, but the pacing is terrible, the plot rushes so much that we can not get to Psychologically understand the characters or their actions, the ovas only take advantage that they are a game of death to play great and develop them well (that is a good point that the ova have at least) and then forget everything else, it shows due to the emphasis to make each game fit a game and making their preparations, which does not work because the grace that the games had was to see how the protagonists faced the games in a psychological way and in a way Inamica, while here they only focused on making the game great, leaving a kind of "style over substance", since the reflections and deductions of the characters completely dislodge due to the inconsistency that the ovas had to prioritize and retract the games ( it takes very little time to explain correctly and dynamically).
The last game was the one I gave the most hope, but the flask forward (as opposed to flask back) that were recurrent in the chapter made the majority of the chapter's dialogue meaningless and explicitly let you understand that something wrong It was going to happen (which is a simple way to put tension although with everything, this game was the one that best treated the tension), without the need to resort to psychological immersion, which generates, although all the games are raised in a way correct, the latter in particular could have developed in a great way, but the little immersion with the characters and the fact that we could not get into their mentality makes their deaths do not feel like something emotional or that has weight (although the soundtrack did a good job in general), so, despite the good approach, the development was mediocre.
The characters are where the ovas weakest, in the manga the characters are undoubtedly their best element (especially Arisu), due to the duration of the ovas the characters are very poor, you can not get to emphasize with any due to the emphasis that is only given to the games and in the ingenious way to solve them, it is not at the end of the third game where you can get to understand the feelings of the characters, but that only serves to generate an emotional scene where friends of Arisu die, if not for that reason the characters never managed to express themselves correctly, the exposition of deep themes is very superficial and pretentious (we never really get to know much about Arisu's past or why Chouta feels a loading, they are only vague themes presented in a superficial way), so the exposition of themes is superficial and does not complement the characters due to their poor presentation in the chapters (although I always I talk about character designs in other reviews, here I have nothing to say, it is normal), the characters besides being poor do not get to express their personality well nor can we see great relationships with each other (which is a contradiction taking in mind that they are best friends), so outside the protagonist the other characters become very boring due to their little time on screen (it provides very badly the exhibition of characters, something that did not happen in the manga).
The animation is normal, although the scenarios are very muted and low in color that they use to express more the dark tone of the ovas themselves, outside of that the transitions are mediocre and the facial gestures too, the animation does not help to focus the viewer on certain aspects, at least the animation is not as bad as you might think at the beginning, it just does not meet decent standards.
The end of the ovas only leaves the viewer anxious, forcing him to read the manga, which makes it a concise ending, but with clear intentions, I really find that these ovas were totally wasted, the manga being a work that gives much emphasis to psychological aspects and the ingenuity of the games, the anime only gave emphasis to the "ingenuity" of the games (since the few that appear are not the big deal), well, a short review, if I don't talk about other aspects of the ovas it is because it is irrelevant, I really would not recommend these ovas to anyone, or to someone who would like an anime about people in a survival game because in the end and seeing it in retrospect it is likely that there are not many things either good to get out of this animation
AniTravlr
Think Mirai Nikki, Btooom!, and No Game No life wrapped into a neat package of absolute adrenaline. All with an underlying tone of sweet suspense. Missing an ending. Breakdown: The Story has elements of suspense and drama, but ultimately is a coming of age type of story. Missing an ending. Protagonist is definitely one of the most fleshed out characters I have ever seen. His internal conflict is one that many face, and the anime does a great job of detailing his character in such a concise amount of episodes. The supporting characters are memorable, but for the most part cliched. Art and Sound are good Quality,with the art being outstanding in terms of direction and audience engagement.
Enjoyability: 100%
lethargilistic
I watched the live action adaptation on Netflix with a friend recently, and I enjoyed that, so I decided to check out the anime adaptation. Together, these are about 1.5 hours long and the same story was told over 3 or 4 hours in the live action show, so I was expecting the story to have fewer frills here. I was pretty much right. And, because I preferred the live action version, I'm going to talk about why that is more than anything else. But if you're not interested in that, the TL;DR is that you should watch the live action version instead of this, ifyou only want to watch one. It goes further in the story and reworks it so that everything gels better.
Now, I have not read the manga and I won't until the live action series has finished, but I assume this anime is a pretty straightforward adaptation. And I was really impressed by most of the story changes they did in the live action version. They changed the whole first game because that arrow set-piece was never going to happen on TV, and their replacement was much better, in my opinion. It was kind of a ridiculous puzzle, but it didn't reduce to just a word game like this one did. Making the beams smaller and using TV screens instead of the placards gave the whole thing a more modern feel. Arisu's characterization is completely different from the start; he's way more reserved through the whole thing and develops from a weak and scared starting point. In the anime, he's confident from the start and even sort-of happy to be there. He's indistinguishable from Karube and doesn't have anywhere for his arc to go. I mean, in the live action version, ARISU is the one to call out to people in the tag game and tell them he's going to coordinate. It's a moment where he comes out of his skin slightly. Here, it's Karube. What purpose did that moment serve in the anime? Moving the plot along. Which is not even to begin with the consequential hide-and-seek game, where Arisu doesn't even try to think deeply about the game at all in the anime. The live-action version was a lot more contemplative and sympathetic.
That's not to say the live action version's changes were perfect, though. They apparently cut a moment, seen in the anime, where Arisu invites someone to hide with him. In the live action version, that person just runs off and dies in a way that makes it seem like Arisu used him as bait or, at best, didn't care about his humanity. The live action version also put Shibuki in a situation where she was not in control of her decisions during the hide-and-seek game, so you could say Chota made her decision for her. Which came after a weird sex-and-cult-related segment about Chota that is not in the anime. I assume those elements are in the manga, but I preferred the anime's rendition without the cult segment and without Shibuki's choice being made for her.
What this anime does have over the live action version is that it's well-animated and has cool character designs. It also has a really pleasant, muted color palate that works well aesthetically. I wouldn't say it's worth checking out for the visuals alone, but they are nice.
Here's hoping future seasons of the live action version get to the end of the story, and that it continues tweaking things to work better. Maybe even more aggressively.
tevrashai
I chose this anime at random, I'd actually never heard of it before... I love psychological, strategic game type anime. I wasn't too sure about the first episode, I almost skipped to a different show tbh lol but the second episode had me like, "Oh okay! I'm into this"...By the 3rd episode...I thought I knew was what was about to happen, I was so sure..but woof was I wrong. So now I'm awaiting the second season and my mind is racing trying to figure out answers (cuz that was a hell of a cliffhanger lol). December can't come soon enough I gave it a 7/10.. Onlybecause 8-9-10 is reserved for EXTREMELY amazing masterpiece anime..and with this only being 3 episodes so far, I think 7 is a pretty good place to rank it for now. Or even a 6.5.
My only criticism is that they could do MORE with it. Like go in depth with the strategic puzzle solving skills. It feels like it's over as soon as it begins..not too much to uncover in the actual games themselves. Most anime have the characters at some point walk you through what theyre seeing and how they're gonna figure it out after a bit of struggling and it ends up being some master plan that you thought couldn't be defeated...all while trying to uncover the whole operation and those involved....but they don't really get in depth like that, it just kinda happens and it's onto the next without much of the story-building. But it's still interesting enough.
caseyxsharp
I'm not going to be anything but frank about this. For an "OVA" this is a total package as far as OVA's go. I don't think the people that are strictly fullfilled by only reading the manga truly can appreciate anything else that may spawn out of it. Case and point, when people continuously read what they perceive as to be a good story in reality they wouldn't be reading it if it wasn't already good to them, so it tends to make them focus more towards the story and consequently ignoring everything else like the theme and genre they're reading into, and then theyhappen to see a second telling from the writers true perspective and all the sudden to them it feels completely alien to them.
I just watched Alice In Borderland. I never heard anything about it before today, although it sounded familiar. The idea is just this: yeah like I read from another reviewer the duration and characters could have been better, and that's just exactly the way I like it. It doesn't really matter what the theme is like, it's still a death and killing game and that's really all that you need to watch it. It's the fact the characters don't get a lot of dragged out screen time that makes the that idea better. An anime like this should make you question your own sense of morality, no one gives a care about what the characters are actually like, not knowing that is about the part where it actually does it makes you question your own sense of right and wrong if that was you put in that same situation with people.
I liked the part where arisu was the only one really using his head the whole time. Most of the time everyone is struggling to survive constantly, so by the end of the show as it turns out he's the only one still alive, well then it forces you to be reminded about the premise of the show in the first place that everyone wishes they can still be that guy that starts over living in another world, it's true everyone does, but also in the game of life and death, everyone has a side of them that, that believes they are the ones that need to play in order to live, that over anyone else as well no one ever thinks they want to be the ones to admit about themselves.
SO frankly, above besides all that, if you showed me this anime out of the blue and then told me that whether it was either the manga or the anime that the not even the main character is really the one who has difficultly contemplating over that right there, then you can honestly just don't even bother concerning yourself with showing it to me then even it really was just a death game like this one too... Because that sounds like the smelly end of a horse to my ears right there.. seriously just don't bother even.. I came to watch some people get their heads chopped off, not watch some melodramatic soap opera which anything else without that right there is only the equivalent to and that's the end of it.. Tadaahh.. Now you're all caught up, go watch the show.
KrillinThresh77
As a death game enthusiast who loves the likes of Danganronpa, Your Turn to Die, Mirai Nikki, and The Hunger Games: Alice in Borderland is very refreshing. It regales a story of 3 young adult delinquents wishing they could escape the monotony of day-to-day life before finding themselves trapped in a world where they must play dangerous death games to survive. For starters, the set-up and tension of each scene is stellar, and trying to figure out the meta behind each game alongside the characters is a lot of fun. The games are dangerous, convoluted, and may bring future consequences if you don't play yourcards right. Ontop of that, the sound design and character design is also very nice.
As for the characters, the friendship between Alice, Chota, Karube, and Shizuki honestly just feels so real. You can tell that the author tried his best to convey that these people LOVE each other and wouldn't be anywhere in life if it weren't for their friends. And that's something I, and I'm sure many others can relate to.
And that isn't the only thing to write home about either, the characters' own arcs are very interesting... Iiiif you look into the Manga and Live-Action Adaptation, that is.
Yeah, unfortunately, they only made 3 episodes of this OVA series and because of that, unless you go watch the Live-Action or Read the Manga, this story has no ending. And where the anime DOES leave off... Is a big, depressing, suspenseful cliffhanger. And unfortunately, I have to subtract points for that.
But aside from the unfortunate length of this anime, it's damn good, and I recommend the hell out of both it and the Live-Action Adaptation that I've been watching alongside it, as both adaptations provide different benefits for these 3 episodes.
7/10, would be higher with a proper conclusion.
todoroquekun
WOWOWOWOWOW I LOVE THIS SHOW, I LOVE THIS SHOW, I LOOOOOOOVE THIS SHOW. I am a huuuuuuge fan of survival shows/shows wherein you have to survive/do a bunch of mindbending/psychological puzzles to survive and THIS SHOW DELIVERED. For me everything about this show was a complete masterpiece. My only complain would be why did it only had 3 episodes?! Nonetheless, the 3 episodes were filled with so much mindbening/psychological warfare that I honestly enjoyed it. Everytime a stage is cleared I always find myself collecting my jaw from the ground (YES IT'S THAT GOOD). Aside from that, eventhough the show was only 3 episodes, I felt like theywere able to give each of the characters a pretty satisfying backstory and really made us want more.
If you have any other recommendations about shows like these, please do tell me :)
Godslayer27
Alice in borderland its one of many cases (sadly) were i find myselft so freaking inmerse and hooked but just end up abruptly without any kind of continuation or in this cases an series adaptation, through the years i have lost the count of so many potentials animes that couldnt ( for whatever reason) to get an secuel or even an complete adaptation of the original material. The series to me just starts really good and just gets better along these three ovas, the overall plot its so interesting and just make you question and get your full attention as you are moving foward,the charactersin the little amount of time that we could see them didnt got so much development but neither felt rushed or anything, this series has that feeling of squid game (though alice its much more older) the idea and how its portrayed with eveything revolving around the games in a unkown world with so many enigmas and so much happening just leaves you eager to know what its next which its just dissapointing not being able to know how continues.
RESUME
I just cant expand so much in just mere three ovas but the overall experience that i had watching them was really good, its realy frustraiting to find this kind of gems that doesnt get an full-fleshed adaptations intead of this ovas, i want to believe that in a future we might get one but i dont have my hopes so high though.
niflh
It starts strong, has an interesting premise, hooks you with a bit of mystery and plenty of suspense, but it being 3 short episodes doesn't allow much of anything. It's completely stunted, plot/character relationships and development feel incredibly rushed, and I truly hated the last episode's outcome - even moreso for how rushed it was. Precious moments are wasted throughout the ovas recollecting on stuff to attempt to flesh out characters/their backgrounds, but it really doesn't work what-so-ever given how little time there is to truly tell anything. They should have done more show than tell in those instances. I honestly can't see what thepoint of a 3 ep ova was for this, I can imagine the source material is probably great but this just left me dissatisfied and I can't say that ending made me want to watch more - it had me feeling disappointed and frustrated, if anything. Really poor execution of the limited time, this deserved a full fleshed out season for sure.
SgtSalamander
Alice in Borderland is a brief, entertaining, and pretty typical death game anime. Beginning with the story, it must be said that while it doesn't really break any new ground, it still manages to tread those well-trodden paths in ways that aren't completely stale. While nothing is really explained and things just sort of happen, what does happen is your usual death game fare, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's even a lot to enjoy with their difficulty rating system and game genres as translated to different playing cards. This is not to mention that it was made in2014, around when the whole horse mask thing was at its peak, so the fact that it's alluded to here is pretty nostalgic. While overall this anime isn't necessarily anything special, its first episode is really strong, with a powerful setup and strong hook that leads the viewer straight into the story. Perhaps that's a symptom of a manga getting a rushed OVA. Regardless, the story is more than good enough to remain engaging over 3 episodes.
The art is perfectly serviceable, though nothing really catches the eye other than how ugly the facial expressions of the characters can occasionally be.
The sound is also serviceable, with anxious and mysterious music throughout.
The characters are perhaps the strongest point of the show, with the natural chemistry between Arisu, Karube, and Chouta really shining by the end. This is thanks in large part to the writing of that friendship, which focuses on believability and relatability. Overall, Alice in Borderland is a nice mid-range anime that's worth the time investment. This is especially true if one is a fan of death game anime, or is just looking for a fun way to spend an hour and change.
Luffy_Watching
First thing first, I really love stories where the characters are stuck somewhere (locked in some sort of place) and if they want to go out, they need to participate in some sort of deadly and psychological game. I simply adore those type of storylines and Alice in Borderlands gave me just that. The first episode was okay I guess. I did not really understand what the first game was about but the concept and the way it was executed was interesting enough for me to watch the next episode and the anime really stepped up its game from there. Episode 2 was entertaining andexciting and Episode 3, oulala, it was full of emotions and conflict and I just wanted to cry at the end.
I was hooked, those 3 episodes all together hyped me so much and I really wished that there were more episodes. I really wished that the whole thing from beginning to end was animated. The main character is interesting, the world setting is interesting and you just want to know what happens next. Like, as soon as I finished watching the anime, I directly went to read the manga and I wasn't deceived.
This anime was a really good watch and if you like thrills and stuff, then I highly recommend this!
ricuringa
Awesome and Amazing. (My first review on MAL! sorry for any english mistakes, I don’t live in a english speaking country) History: 10/10 I've been hearing that there was a live action version, so I decided to watch the anime since it was short, the idea is very interesting and reminds of Squid Game, it had children's games with a darker and murderous atmosphere, especially moments where life is very close of death in some games, and plot twists, it truly is intense. Art: 8/10 The style resembles the artistic trait of Hiroya Oku, author and illustrator of the manga Gantz, very beautiful and pleasant style.Animation: 8/10
For a 2014 OVA this is great, pacing is adequate, not too breathy and not too slow.
Soundtrack: 9/10
The songs with emotional themes really leave the viewer connected with the story, being able to have a sympathy with the suffering of the characters.
Dubbing: 10/10
The Japanese dubbing matched the characters very well.
Characters: 9/10
The characters are well built, each with their own personality, especially the trio, Chouta is very funny.
Enjoyment: 10/10
The anime really gets you hooked on the action, suspense and the ways players deal with situations in each game, it's sad that it only has 3 episodes.
Overall: 10/10
A nice small anime with a pack of mystery and action, intending to read the manga.
