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Alice is Borderland S1 & S2 Live Blogging

I don't actually know that much about this show except it's like playing deadly (video) games? And Keita Machida from Cherry Magic is in it

Season 1

Ep 1 (May 20)

so did they go into a parallel world through the bathroom stall?

oooh game arena okay

oh she called those lasers the borderline

did this woman do this before or something? she seems to know things and be quite matter of fact

as expected, the girl who came the latest and was the most scared and innocent-seeming died first, especially after the Chotaro TODO guy was like don't worry! play with us and nothing will happen!

lol this puzzle is too much also I don't get it why are those 2 rooms a no-go? - oh i see, that's where they came from before or something

ooh, a survivor

i mean he died but you know, survivor of the games for a while

oh, are those red lasers killing everybody whose visa ended today?

that's pretty cool, I wanna watch another ep but also want a nap hmm

Ep 2 (May 20)

Did not nap, and went to my driving lesson, here's to another episode

cool, beautiful girl with a dead/murdered father

oh she was just also in the bathroom when the power went out and then nobody was there when she came outside

okay but so she got here 3 days ago and there were other people here since before then too so ? hmm ig instead of the guy's theory that the electromagnetic stuff takes out everybody in the city, it's rather that these specific people get taken to a different parallel city? when the power goes out

okay they're also discussing possibilities about time moving differently or VR

Club = team, diamon = wits, spades = physical strength, heart = betrayal and playing with people's hearts. larger number means more difficulty

rip the first game was a 3 and this is a 5

oh nice shot of us learning to find a safezone in the building and the shot keeps going up and up to show how large the building is

oof the guy has turned to God, I think his mother who he gave money to also bought into some religious cult since she kept asking for money to cleanse Tokyo

Shibuki is such a troublemaker lol now she's tryna turn Chota against Arisu and Kurube

horseman

i did expect the real estate guy who was hanging around to die but not so soon oof

oh actual boobs?

damn we keep getting instances of women sleeping with people to get ahead, especially ones who are seen as unreliable (Chota's mother) and untrustworthy (Shibuki). also lol I just remembered the girl that Kurube was making out with had a boyfriend. why do the male characters get laws and backstories and for female characters it's just their sexuality lol

man i love unlikely group of people coming around to help each other in life and death so much we'll see how many of them survive this round

oh he really let him die interesting

a swoooooooord

oh wtf horse man got here quick is there more than one of em

there issss more than one of them okay

the climber girl is so cool beloved <3

the taggers were also in game yaaa it's like when people were wondering whether the masked men in Squid Game were also playing a different sort of game

oh? answer? the beach

Ep 3 (May 20)

Watching this a few minutes after finishing ep 2, ah been a few weeks since I binged something intensely

very intense music for that doodle

ooh in addition to phones, also weapons? and VR

fun instrumental music too

makes sense that it's a 7 of Hearts (betrayal and playing with people's hearts) when it's just the 4 of them playing. kinda like ep 6 squid game marble game

I'm slightly confused by this game. so you don't wanna abe found by the wolf and you'll become the next wolf if you're found but the person who is wolf at the end is the winner right? so won't the lambs wanna be found and wolf won't want to seek? or is it like they'll tall try to make eye contact with the wolf so that they're the wolf like some sort of reverse hide and seek where the wolf wants to hide

Shibuki picks up on it quickly as expected

woahh friendship is magic moments flashback from Arisu

oh it's interesting that by the time Arisu wants to give the wolf back, Chota literally drags Shibuki away with her mouth shut (he must be strong as hell despite his injury) and Kurube also doesn't speak because they both don't want it anymore

They're "hiding well so that the sheep don't find" them

what the fuck do they actually die for real? isn't this too early in the game for all of them to die it feels incorrect wtf i feel like I've seen kurube around for season 2 stuff maybe? is this a dream or something wtf

Ep 4 (May 20)

Man I have things to be doing but these people know how to end the episodes so that I keep clicking on the next one

oh I heard her say "they accept me as I am" about the mountains and father and my first thought was oh? is she gay?

oof we're getting how her backstory went sour too

ah her father went missing and now is suspected to have committed suicide? I guessed he died after falling from the mountains or something but this is more interesting

she kind of slightly reminds me of First from JaFirst

lmfao a trio of guys who stuck together for 4 games and even saying "having friends is the difference between winning and losing" really rubbing it into Arisu's face you fools, I don't expect more than 1 of them to survive

ah it's so fucked up like okay 1 of them survived and it's the unlikely one and the starting position was the goal damn

Ep 5 (May 20)

I've actually not done any work today and it's 10:30pm. I took a long break between ep 4 and 5 and hoped I would've done some work in between but alas.

ooh this Beach is like the weird strange highly-controlled rebels or governments or organizations in dystopian YA novels

oh there's like hundreds of people at the beach wtf

the blonde guy from the horseman tag is here too and seems to have a subplan within the Beach? okay interesting. also the beach people have weapons and he had a taser, I originally thought he'd acquired it by himself but I wonder if it's from The Beach

okay it makes sense that they're meeting so many people from previous games at the Beach (like the blonde guy and the guy Arisu saved both from the tag game) because I was like how can there be this many beach people but we only met like 2 thus far but nah we just didn't know the others were also in the beach. anyway, I think this guy will maybe die but the girl Kuina will live

oh i see just flipping the switch while the door is open doesn't mean you're giving an answer - it's your chance to see if it's correct or not but if not, you just choose one of the other 2 as the answer

how would Ann know the answer?

oh bruh i definitely should've guessed the "touch bulb to see if it's hot" thing that's like easy science and doable as a viewer, online the other tests

all the weapons people sharing a look when Hatter says he'll have to replenish his visa soon okay

Hatter is so gross and self-absorbed, I wonder if he's gonna die really soon lol

was that zoom out of the beach supposed to show us something about where they are or anything? it's lost on me unfortunately

Ep 6 (May 20)

fuck I really should just be doing work but here I am aghhh

so did he just make up the thing about being able to leave? I did wonder if maybe that way of escape wasn't accurate but that they had been given wrong info, not that they had manufactured the info

wait but even if he does steal the cards then what? he's gonna have to keep going to games to renew visa/get 10 of hearts right? and won't the beach people just kill him there? or he's gonna steal it but keep it a secret ig be a little double agent

oh wtf Ann is digging through a dead woman's brain to find a GPS there

actually I'm off-put by how much skin and butt and boobs we're seeing of women and none of men like either do none or do both. this show really does just assume the audience is cishet man i guess

oh Hatter died for real which is expected but who knows if it's from the game or if the militants took him out

i like how the blonde guy looks like an elf sort of

damn elf guy really betrayed Arisu for no damn reason T.T unless he's just ? pretending somehow who fucking knows even let's not think and just see where this goes

ooh a drawing of a deer aka where the safe is. but also yknow now I'm reminded of the drawing that elf guy found in the horse mask's pocket during tag

there really is no need for sexual assault like why does this show just treat women like that

woah elf man is ruthless fr

oh ho ho 10 of hearts among all the beach players woahhhh nice

omg this is so fun they're gonna have to for real burn somebody but a bit toooo fun, how will I go to bed after this instead of watching next ep

Ep 7 (May 20)

Ah fuck, I'm here at 12:15 AM (so technically may 21) instead of doing my work

chaooooosssssss

this is genuinely so fucked up they're just killing everybody and burning them in the fire but none of those killed are the witch, just innocents

oof Kuina volunteering to fight the sword man girl don't die pls

this running around the complex while trying to escape but only to be gunned down by the militants brings back memories of the recurring nightmares from my childhood where the gunda with guns would break in and we'd be forced to run all throughout the quarters to try to escape

oh we're getting backstory of the sniper mans (Niragi) also he's so beautiful he reminds me a bit of taeyong when he's in his childhood bullied attire and actually quite a bit like Kai (he reminds me a bit of Yoongi as this beach sniper version of himself)

ah kuina trans woman! shitty childhood but she did it

okay fuck so i was thinking that we always get some backstory before a character dies, so when we got Nigari's story I was like is he gonna die? but thought maybe not yet but then he did die and now kuina also got to tell her backstory so agh she's probably gonna die soon too

oh bald guy has this sort of body posture because of sitting on his computer all the time? of his wording about freedom even through death and this land or whatever is so good honestly. "for me, I have no past" but if he kills kuina I'll slaughter him myself

not Arisu fighting for life and strength again cuz of his flashback to a trio moment T.T

omg did kuina beat him?? don't die don't die don't die pls

oh they're insinuating that the stoic new number one leader is the witch?

ohh he's called Hatter because he was a hatter. and he and stoic new number one knew each other

this episode is so fun because we have so much chaos and so much backstory for side characters

oh Ann really ot whacked so quick

Favourite episode so far

Ep 8 (May 20)

Fuck it, I'll watch the last ep of the season too. how the fuck am i supposed to not?

oooh dead Momoka and her friend (Asahi) were taking recordings/vlogs? I hope they show what the two of them were always secretively talking about

oh come onnn i wanna know

so stoic man Aguni is not the witch? well he did kill Hatter okay

what's Aguni's motive? just kill everybody so that they don't hope of leaving the place? cuz he knows it's bogus?

bro didn't they have 15 minutes at the end of last episodes, what time do we have left now

was Hatter's gun empty? i thought it kinda looked like that when shooting but wasn't sure

oh what the hell Asahi is the dealer? so is that the thing they were talking about on the vlogs like "the man" and took them to "the place"

lmfao seeing the elf man do nothing but just watch from the balcony above everybody and see his reactions occasionally is so funny like oh. that's us the viewers

oh aguni going to agun/fire with nagiri omg

bro why is the sword tattoo man's words so beautiful and haunting it really does read like the way of somebody who belongs to a cult though

okay okay okay let's see what the recordings have

ooh so those mask people during taggers were also dealers

bets? oh it's D:

oh the game masters are even more fucked up here than in squid games fr these poor girls and the game masters' laughter while they're dying like i think the fact that it's so casual and crowded and not even given all the attention unlike squid games which had these horrific games as an Event makes it worse too

it's like 2am and I'm the only one awake in the house so this stuff is making me really scared

omg all the game masters are dead too? laser burns

oh the drawing that blond elf found has come to use

ohhh finding all the numbered cards means those people who aren't game masters but above dealers all died. so they were also in the game in a way

I like how the blond elf man's expressions are always of mild curiosity and a hint of smile. evil man I kinda like you

oh the executive Mina D:

that was fucking insane

Overall:

I think this is a fun show with cool games, intense moments, and some fun characters (specifically Kuina, followed by cool climber girl and Arisu. I also like scary elf man - Chota).

I binged the whole 8 eps in 14-ish hours, which I haven't done in a long time, so that shows just how engaging this was! Something that helped with that though was that the show wasn't very deep, it didn't take much thinking, some characters were good but I wasn't invested in them. So this surface level enjoyment + the threads of anticipation made me able to binge the show quickly without having to really sit with it for a few hours. Which is fine, just a contrast to something like Squid Game which I love so dearly and really burrowed into me.

Also, I finished watching this at like 2AM and the last 2 episodes had me frightened at the end when I had to go to the bathroom and then sleep lol

Rating: 7/10

Season 2

Starting this the next evening and I also haven't done any work since finishing season 1, just hung out with my friend. It is what it is.

I looking a bit at reddit and I spoiled myself about the ending reason of why they're in the game just a bit. Apparently they're in limbo (accidentally got spoiled) and there's a meteor that hit Tokyo and the writer was confussed if the bathroom scene in ep 1 s1 happened of not (this was spoiler that I sought out). So I guess they're all already dead from the meteor? Let's see I suppose

Ep 1 (May 1)

interesting parallel to Arisu playing the video game at the start of S1 Ep 1 as the killer and now running

King of Spades - just shooting at everybody

insane car chase and crash

The Tatta or whatever guy keeps hesitating, it feels like he's gonna die in the game they play or something

Ep 2 (May 2)

the king of clubs was a rockstar in the original world?

it's a life or death game for the citizens/kings as well so they're not quite the game masters

butt man is showing a lot of butt fr

it's dumb that this fight between Arisu and Usagi is taking up so much random screentime

bro why the fuck is the 100 point guy just walking out of range of the pole bro what if somebody just runs and battles you bruv, he should at least have been given 600 points so that he has a chance cuz man I'm thinking he's gonna die like so soon

damn are they gonna make us sympathetic to Nigari and then kill him off or are they gonna make the characters sympathetic to Nigari and give him a reason to betray them, which he will so that he lives

this must've been so intensive to shoot without ever showing this man's dick

man wouldn't it be fucked up if they all somehow survive except Tatta who has 10k points and didn't volunteer to be brave by going to the opposition pole

nah Arisu even told Tatta that he loves his positive attitude bruh no way Tatta's gonna make it out alive right

bro you did fucking try to rape her last season you fuck

bro Nigari is weak and dying and Usagi is strong and fast and capable, are we really doing this right now again?! i looooooooove the "bad guy tries to rape girl and she's saved by main guy love interest" trope it's so good every time and never boring and never annoying and never unnecessary

agh they're stopping in the middle of the game rip

Ep 3 (May 21)

I'm gonna stop watching this as soon as the game ends and whoever needs to die dies. they keep ending episodes on cliffhangers, so I can't rely on myself to stop when an episode ends

lol Tatta backstory, he's boutta die frfr rip

oh my god Tatta really fucked up a guy

okay so Tatta will sacrifice himself for the team to make up for his past mistakes?

on a reddit thread, I read a comment that Usagi was badass in s1 but had some damsel-in-distress moments in s2 and I guess randomly having to be rescued by Arisu here is one of them

is Arisu tricking the king of clubs by sweet-talking him, does Arisu know that he has more points or something like is another player gonna pop up hold hands and together they'll beat Kyuma like what's going on with this handshake and intensive talking

ohh Tatta sacrificing a hand just like he disfigured that guy's hand back then but he probably will also die bc of all this fucking bloodloss

hm Kyuma said so they finally lost, so that means they've been playing before? But they said this is the first time they're playing the king of cards or whatever right.

oh if someone wins all the games, then they just become a citizen

Kyuma's death is very christlike

oof Tatta's death has been foreshadowed for a while but still it's a rip

jack of hearts

damn they're really set for life with this game and food lol

so is the jack of hearts a random player or a citizen, I wonder?

I like this evil fake-nice girl she's terrible she's evil she's a killer. idk if she's too obvious as the jack or not though

poor bullied guy though first he got beat up by the bully -> then got told to kill the bully off by someone else -> then thought he was being recruited into a team but is getting killed by them oof

i like the girl in red but she chose the wrong fucking group to ask as 2nd choice T.T

the jack of hearts troop all ended up killing each other ah

the crying overall dude being the jack would be wild lol he's the only non-suspicious one left (well the abused girl also)

pls elf man whose name i can never remember is so funny "looks like I'm screwed"

Ep 5 (May 21)

Not only did I not stop in the middle of last ep, I'm also continuing to watch the next ep agh it's 11pm when will I actually figure things out

oh hoooo so the 2 most suspicious ones are gonna die this round? and I'm guessing that elf man just gonna guess correctly

okay interesting outcome but the endless talking and explaining is like bro dialogue

i don't get Banda and suit man's convo like "why are you in this country and here playing this game" like huh? cuz you don't wanna die i guess

bro when elf man walked out by himself i thought for a second that he was Jack since the other two didn't walk out with him like what

aw Kuina is also leaving, so we really just gonna get Arisu and Usagi? be serious

this filming of a settlement reminds me of dystopian novels for real, specifically The Knife of Never Letting Go and Station 11

ooh the fireworks?

man fuck she really died before we got to hear about the fireworks?

oh alive Aguni

Ep 6 (May 21)

man fuck I missed my Memrise streak cuz I was too preoccupied with this show agh and also obviously haven't done any action work rip yet here I am starting a new 1h+ ep at 12am

was the high school girl flashback the girl who was shot at previously or this new girl who is with Aguni

oh the girl with Aguni I guess

wtf is that shot we get to see up her skirt or what

i wonder if we'll get to have the lovely trope of new girl wants male character's attention and then her and usagi will have a little fight off because ofc, esp since she used to be boy crazy. prove me wrong pls

that's so fucked, I forgot kids could be here

lmfao plsss Aguni also used Arisu as bait, first elf dude and now this. these Beach executives will forever use Arisu as this

Oh, I just understood what is meant by "limbo" right now. i was like how did everybody die but only these people are here and they're playing games for what reason but I'm guessing all the people who were able to go to heaven or hell just got sent there, which is why everybody disappeared. however a certain percent were in limbo and their behaviour in the games will determine whether they go to heaven or hell afterward?

Time really is strange here how is every building covered with this much moss and tress and vines

I kinda don't get this game, like if the challengers become queen team and then queen team wins, do the challengers on that team win or lose? like can't they all just tag each other and become queen team so that they're all queen team by that round and win? i guess then they haven't defeated the queen and so they haven't progressed?

oh i see, so people do stay with the queen but they have to keep playing with the queen

Ep 6 (May 21/22)

Idk what to call this date cuz it's 1AM on May 21 but I haven't yet slept or taken break from binging

Also this is the longest episode yet ah 75 minutes

the queen of spades death of jumping is quite pretty

man I feel like I should like this couple more but I just don't care yknow

oh diamonds is wit. have we played a diamonds before?

bruh number 2 is king of diamonds? so we have mira and number 2 who are higher members, though mira is def higher than #2

horrifying sulfuric acid deaths like what happened to 1 laser shot quick deaths bruv

bro this explanation of how elf dude chose the number is so dumb

oh elf dude was a doctor? but why are we getting his backstory now is he gonna actually die this round wtf um

oh true number 2 could know momoka was a dealer and the witch

oh, mira says "at last it's our turn" so is she also a face card citizen?

finally an end of an episode that I can actually finish watching on ah it's already 2am again rip

Ep 7 (May 22)

2 episodes left, it's 5pm the last day of the long weekend, still haven't done any homework/chores but i did do a lot of driving okayy hope it's a satisfying and fun ending

queen of clubs (team) kuina and ann my girls yayy

now why are my girls saying "just a few more games, we'll make it to the end" that just speaks trouble

oh deadly dodgeball

okay at least they survived this yes cool girls leaving as the blimps are aflame behind them

okay sad we won't get King of Hearts but think we might get queen of hearts since that hot air balloon is still up. i wonder if it'll be Mira

what the fuckkkkk Niragi elf dude can't die by his hands right? like he survived everything by himself and nearly died so many times no way Niragi of all fuckers is taking him out

this gun-off between Niragi, elf man and Arisu is so boring goddamn just kill Niragi why are we fucking having this long ass convo be serious

is Niragi's shot really killing Chishiya >:((( agh he deserves a more interesting death than to die by Niragi's hand and then this fucking monologue

bro wtf so did Chishiya die after that monologue and then what? it's just him closing his eyes and then immediately us getting fucking Niragi monologue? but no right like we didn't actually see his proper dead body right he wasn't still and non breathing?

Kuina saving Ann yes girlfriends

bro the blimp isn't fucking down yet don't celebrate so quick aksl;dfj

omg fireproof king of spades

why can't someone scale the walls and try to just shoot him in the head

fuckkkkk Heya and Ann within a few seconds of each other D:

sorry Aguni just punching and dragging the king of spades and throwing him around is killing me so bad he's so funny and then he just keeps

bro where's fucking Usagi with her gun or smth why does she keep getting fucking injured every time except like the queen of spades thing

nooooo Kuina tooo my beloved the stabbings D: and Usagi too?

nah did Aguni miss D:

i need king of spades ripped apart limb from limb for real for real seriously

oh brother Aguni is actually invincible lmfao

damn they really blew up that bomb huh

so will the blimp finally come down or nah is the king of spades still alive wtf

damn wtf does the king of spades mean by "sorry. that was the only way i knew how to save you" as his dying words

Aguni's mission to kill king of spade fulfilled and Hatter finally came to him in a hallucination to dissuade him from killing himself

noooo Ann and Kuina sharing dying promises of being friends if they meet again T.T

I wonder why Aguni-Heya and Ann-Kuina's deaths and relationships are all more important and touching than Arisu crying over Usagi's injured body like why do i not give a single shit

oh okay Chishiya elf dude isn't quite dead yet

Arisu's reiterations that he's gonna protect Usagi are so boring like bro you and your friend group are protecting each other, that's what y'all do. When Usagi was protecting him during the queen of spades game or whatever it wasn't like she kept saying yeah I'll protect you! the fuckass hero having to protect the female love interest all the time and repeatedly talking about it is fucking annoying

as expected, Mira is the queen of hearts

Ep 8 (May 22)

an hour 20 minutes longest episode, hope it answers everything pls

Aguni, Kuina, Chishiya, and Nigari are still alive and waiting

damn are these 2 the only competitors

why is Mira stalling so hard man

Is Mira lying or is this the truth about 1000 years into the future and VR? I feel like on reddit someone was like "at least it wasn't stupid VR"

oh lol she was kidding x2

oh Mira created 7 of Hearts, so did the face cards create the games

hmm is this "it's all in your head and you're creating memories, Arisu" this correct, no right? like me knowing the answer about limbo and meteor hitting Tokyo is making all this a bit anticlimactic and meandering

oh interesting very elaborate mind games

actually not that interesting,this boring mindgame is being stretched out so much. talk less stupid stuff and do more or talk about real actual things nowwww we're legit at the halfway mark of episode

Arisu and Usagi love confessions and romance so boring goddamn

ohh so the last time they cleared all the games, that's when the face card masters cleared all their games and chose to become citizens

denies: Aguni, Heya, Kunai, Chishiya (lol his I think), Niragi, Usagi, Arisu

accepts: the pair from Jack of Hearts,

aw, Aguni and Heya :<

ahhhhh Kunai holding Ann's hand and saying let's go back together

so are they assuming they get to go back to their own world now? if they decline?

20 minutes left before credits ah will they wrap it up properly

ohh they were all there that day when the fireworks happened - but I'm assuming just the new players? and not the face cards bc they've been there since before?

and then got fucking blasted by meteors along with everybody else (or is it meteorites? what's the one where they actually hit the planet)

wait, so Arisu did live after the meteor explosion?

oh never minddd so the whole borderlands thing happened already? but in a single minute where Arisu died/was stuck in limbo?

so whoever died in the game also died in real life but if you made it through all the games then you did get to go back, though what happens to those who become face cards? Do they die irl too?

ohh so they're all getting to meet each other again at this hospital. Chishiya and Nagiri (why did this fucker not die man), Aguni and Heya, then I'm sure Arisu and Usagi will meet too

all their injuries irl are the same ones they got during the games

omgggg Ann?! I was like oh no Kuina gonna be by herself but nah Ann has also been resuscitated and Kuina's mom also here

I actually don't really get the time because it's been 2 days or a week and they're all just waking up, so did all of them briefly die or what? Like Ann was just resuscitated but it's been a few days. Maybe it's not that you have to die, just that you have to be unconscious?

also I justttt realized they don't have memories of the time lol before I was like oh? Why did Heya say she doesn't know Aguni? bruh my stupidity. I think it's cuz Nagiri and Chishiya spoke like they know each other

why is there Joker on the table

Okay, the conclusion did conclude and it also made general sense.

Overall:

This sequel was worse I think... but interesting it its own ways too. I liked getting more Kuina my beloved <3 and also Chishiya's parts were fun. The Jack of Hearts with Chishiya and team game with King of Clubs were pretty much the only engaging games, and number 2 with Chishiya was also alright. A whole bunch of games were boring and I was so meh about Arisu/Usagi like I just did not care and I feel like both characters became more boring this season?

Pretty interesting ending though, I kinda knew about it because of my spoiler consumption but yeah it made sense, though it's sad that they didn't remember each other.

Rating: 6.5/10

#ep by ep commentary #alice in borderland

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