Alice in Borderland Season 2 Trailer
Netflix has released the official trailer for the long-awaited second season of the hit Japanese sci-fi thriller Alice in Borderland.
As the first season of Alice in Borderland left off with a cliffhanger, we see the main protagonists, Ryōhei Arisu and Yuzuha Usagi, going deeper into the rabbit hole. Based on the popular manga written and illustrated by Haro Aso, the Netflix show tells a story of random people selected throughout Tokyo and transported to a world called the Borderland. Each player needs to compete in a set of deadly games in the hopes to come out alive and return to their own world.
Co-stars Kento Yamazaki (Arisu) and Tao Tsuchiya (Usagi) will unravel the mysteries in Shibuya, the setting of the first season, now densely filled with overgrown plants. Only two other characters survived with Arisu and Usagi – Shuntarō Chishiya, played by Nijirō Murakami, and Hikari Kuina, played by Aya Asahina. The games, each associated with a playing card, throw the players into chaos and madness. The suit and number of the card at play establish the difficulty level. Since all games except face card missions have been completed, it is anticipated that the games will be more dangerous this time around.
In the final moments of Season 1, Arisu uncovered part of the mystery as to who was behind the game, but there was a greater challenge in store: the face cards.
The “level up” to the face cards is in fact an artifact from the manga the series is based on. While other tasks are run from afar, face cards have, quite literally, faces to them, and have to be personally defeated much like a final boss in a video game.
Alice in Borderland the manga has a number of endings, including a simulation theory one that’s so complicated it makes The Matrix look like Speed Racer. Another suggests the entire game is in Arisu’s mind, and Mira is nothing but his psychiatrist. But the theory it settles on that everyone involved in the game is actually a victim of a meteorite attack on Tokyo. Should they choose to return to the real world, only a minute would have elapsed.
