Alice in Borderland season 1

Only eps 1,2,3,4

s1

1

Tokyo. Arisu spends his days playing video games, without even trying to find a job. Tired of his father and brother complaining, he leaves home to meet his friends, but Karube just lost his job because caught kissing the boss’ wife. Chota just gave some money to his mother, and now joins them to go get a drink. They play like idiots in the middle of the road, causing an accident so they run away from the police and hide in a train station’s bathroom. All of a sudden it all goes dark. And silent.

They go out and the place is deserted, the busy train station, the streets of Tokyo, all silent and without a soul in sight. Probably something they have never seen in their life. They look around: cars left on the road, food and drinks on the tables, still warm… they don’t know what’s happening, when suddenly a message appears giving them instructions. They follow the arrow to a building, where they are given a phone and they start the ‘game’. They are joined by a woman and a girl. The woman seems to know what is going on, and shows them that they can’t go back or they’ll die. The first part is choosing the right door to walk through, and the girl opens first, but it’s the wrong door and she dies, and now they get how serious it is.

Arisu is the one good at games, and figures out which door to open just in time. Chote gets his leg burnt because not fast enough to leave the room, but all in all they are ok.

Once outside the building, they find a card, 3♣︎, and discover they have three days of rest. They see a man, who is so tired of the ‘game’, says it never ends, and is just relieved that his last days of rest are over and he is instantly killed in front of them, just like the girl in the room, by a laser beam from up above. Now they know that they must keep playing the game if they want to live.

2

Since nothing electronic works anymore, Chota thinks maybe an electromagnetic weapon on the city did that. Saori tells them that she arrived here three days ago and already survived a game, the only one in that group. So, to her, people disappeared three days ago, to them only yesterday.

Chota’s leg hurts a lot, so Karube tells Arisu they should join a game just the two of them, to gather more information and skill and meet other people, so they’ll be able to help Chota in the next game and maybe even find a doctor. He can still rest, and Saori Shibuki stays with him, and gets close and has sex with him, probably to secure him on her side as an ally.

They enter a building, and eleven more people are there for the game. 5♠︎, and they learn that ♠︎ means physical game, ♣︎ is a group game?, ♦︎ I think means one to ponder on, and ♥︎ messes with your feelings. The number is how difficult it is.

This time the game is, escape the Oni and find the safe room, in that big apartment building. The Oni turns out to be a person with a big horse head and an automatic gun, who shoots anyone they see. Six people are shoot because they make any progress. 

Other than the two friends, there’s an athletic girl, I’m sure we’ll see more of her, and there’s a guy with white hair who stays put until he figures out the solution, then joins Arisu at the door of the safe room, but there’s a second Oni in there so white-hair can’t help much. Arisu gets in but there are two buttons so he shouts for help and the girl gets there in time. White-hair gives her his stun-weapon so she can stun the Oni, then she and Arisu press the buttons stopping the bomb. At that point they win, and the two Oni lose, so they get killed. They were people forced to play, just like them (although, if the Oni had won, the bomb would have gone off and they would have died anyway, right?)

3

The next game is 7♥︎, a game of betrayal and feelings, and there are only four people, them. One plays the wolf, the other should hide, but the thing is, whoever is the wolf at the end wins, so at first Shibuki tricks them into looking at her, becoming the wolf, then she runs and Karube goes after her and they fight, but Chota stops her, then Arisu arrives and sort of accidentally becomes the new wolf and runs, telling them that they should work together and find a solution, but he can’t find one, and they all remember their great friendship, and when Arisu says he can’t find a way and gives up, and searches the place for them, they hide to let him win, and he keeps looking but sees Karube when it’s too late, and sees him die, and the others die too, hugging each other.

4

Yuzuha Usagi, the survivor-girl, remembers her father. She finds Arisu lying on the street, shocked and resigned, much like she was when her father didn’t come back from the mountains, and she helps him, brings him to her refuge. Tells him he helped her in the game they played together, the one with the Oni, so now she helps him. They go together to join a game; they enter a bus and there are three guys, they met in a game and became friends to help each other, and after four games together, Takuma is hurt at an ankle. The game is a 4♣︎, distance, they must reach the goal, and the phone reads distance 0, and Takuma is worried, if the game is running he can’t do it, so he tells his friends to go without him. Arisu (I think it was him) is puzzled because it looks more like a ♠︎game, physical, but he starts running like the others. After a while, they are attacked by a beast (something like a panther) and one of them, Seizan, is killed, but he also manages to kill it. Three keep running until Arisu finds a bike with fuel inside, so he tells the others he’ll go back, put fuel in the bus and drive back with Takuma. Usagi and the other guy, Yamane, wait at the end of the road, but right before the deadline, the wall behind them breaks letting through water, lots of it, so they run but the guy falls and is submerged. Usagi keeps running back, desperately, and she sees the bus going towards her, Arisu with his arm towards her, she runs to him and he pulls her inside the bus. Takuma turns the bus and it’s hit by the water and turns on its side. The three of them survive, and on the bus they read: goal. They were at their goal from the start, the distance was how distant from their goal they were. It was a brain game, not a physical game after all.

5

Arisu wants to find the ‘beach’, the one Karube heard about on a walkie talkie. He wants to find who runs the game and stop it.