While Japan generally delivers knock-outs with anime, it lacks ever so slightly in the series department. However, Alice in Borderland became an exception and did a great job with the adaptation becoming one of the most popular thriller series.
The story mainly focuses on obsessed gamer Arisu who suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games to survive.
While season 1 revealed almost nothing, season 2 gave us enough hints to understand the story. The ending however left most of us confused. So here’s me giving you the most probable explanation for the ending.
Season 2 Ending: Explanation!
At the end of season 2, almost all the players finish the game and are given a choice to stay there in Borderland or leave it. When players choose to leave the Borderland, they wake up in real life without any memories of the incidents of the Borderland.
However, the players who weren’t able to finish the game and died in the Borderland also died in real life.
The players who survived in Borderland through the choices they made which had an impact on the outcome ended up being alive in the real world. So it’s still not sure whether the Borderland was real or not.
But the players did feel some connection towards other people who they met in the Borderland even though they don’t remember anything which took place in Borderland.
The Explanation!
In Alice in Borderland, players are victims of the “Tokyo Meteorite Disaster” who suffered cardiac arrest and ended up in the Borderland. They all come to the Borderland as “immigrants” and are forced to extend the visa that allows them to stay alive on the Borderland.
Is Everything That Happened in Borderland Real?
The show suggests that the events in Borderland were real but doesn’t confirm or deny it. No one remembers what happened in the Borderland when they woke up.
But Usagi and Arisu get the sense that they have met before, which would suggest that even if they don’t remember, everything they experienced together throughout the games did happen.
About Alice in Borderland
Alice in Borderland is a Japanese suspense manga series written and illustrated by Haro Aso. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in April 2015 and finished in March 2016.
Alice in Borderland was adapted into a 3-episode original video animation (OVA), released in 2014.
Ryōhei Arisu, a male high school student is done with his everyday life. He and his two friends meet up and hang out in the town. However, After one blindingly bright explosion, they find themselves waking up in a different world.
Finding themselves in a different deserted world, the trio is forced to participate in survival games or die right off the bat. The three fight to live, as well as to find a way back to their own world
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