The musical score was composed by Yutaka Yamada, who had collaborated with Sato. The show's visual effects were produced in an international collaboration between Japan's Digital Frontier and teams from Singapore, the United States, and India. Set locations included Shibuya districts and a green screen studio replica of Shibuya Crossing. The series' first season was announced in July 2019 and filmed from August to December 2019. It stars Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya as allies trapped in an abandoned Tokyo forced to compete in dangerous games, the type and difficulty represented by playing cards, to extend "visas" that, if expired, result in the player's execution by lasers being shot from the sky.
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The series was directed by Shinsuke Sato. We don’t have control over what happens to us but the value of living comes from the choices we make for ourselves.Alice in Borderland ( Japanese: 今際の国のアリス, Hepburn: Imawa no Kuni no Arisu) is a 2020 Japanese science fiction thriller drama streaming television series based on the manga by Haro Aso. Sato could have used this visual as a way to remind us of the, at times, seemingly senseless way of life. We did sit through all these bloody games, wanting to know what it all meant. On one hand, the visual image in season 2 could just be the series’ way of poking a little fun at the viewer and knocking down the house of cards it meticulously built. The television series could take this route or cast him as an orchestrator of sorts – knowing the outcome, but never dare reveal it. In the manga, the Joker is neither vindictive nor benevolent. When it comes time to bring winning players back into reality, he has the ability to bring them there. The reader then learns he’s the equivalent of an underworld ferryman in this universe. In the manga, the Joker greets Arisu after he clears the Queen of Hearts game. However, that is not the case in Aso’s story.
Still, there’s one part of the season 2 finale that could lead the series in a new direction – either adapting another of Aso’s works or deviating from the source material to establish a round of games with new players and challenges. Our fan-favorite players miraculously all lived – despite the tease that only Arisu would survive it all. We know what the Borderlands is, who goes there, and what it takes to escape the realm.
But is this a likelihood? And, if so, what would this mean for the series’ overall arc?Īs it stands, Alice in Borderland neatly wraps up the questions and character arcs that started in its debut season. There’s the sucker punch that had some fans (understandably) feeling angry about how the Shinsuke Sato-directed series chose to close its second season.īeing Netflix’s most-watched Japanese television series ever, it’s understandable that fans are expecting and rooting for more battles to come. We were just witnessing a reimagining of their final moments through the eyes of those who were there to experience it and find a way through the cruelty of grief.īut the hardest caveat to this reveal is what it meant for the characters’ relationships: When they returned to life, none of them really remembered each other. While it’s debatable, I like to think that those who died in the games (especially the heart games) had already died in the real world. That is unequivocally the heart of this series: How do we continue through loss? The heart challenges were asking them if – despite all the loss they witnessed – could they live with that knowledge.
In the real world, these players barely survived a natural disaster and their hearts stopped. Also, this brings a lovely (albeit dark) meaning to why the heart card challenges were so brutal.
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