Imawa no Kuni no Alice (2020)

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Uno dei miei jdrama preferiti, sì somiglia da altri prodotti televisivi giapponesi, ma questo non toglie nulla dalla sua validità e inventiva. Sì abbiamo già visto giochi mortali in tv, che indagavano la psiche umana e cosa sarebbe disposto a fare un uomo pur di sopravvivere, ma questo è comunque innovativo nel suo immaginario, nella psicologia dei personaggi e ha veramente un ritmo incalzante pur senza sembrare mai frettoloso. Anzi, queste 8 puntate mi hanno regalato le stesse emozioni di altri drama di 16 puntate. I cambi di scenario, i personaggi tuutto risulta interessante e coinvolgente.

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Inesperadamente atrapante

Primero de todo, yo había visto antes "El juego del calamar" por lo que tenía una idea preconcebida. Pero a todos aquellos que les pase como yo, les digo que borren esa comparación porque esta serie es cien mil veces mejor (sin desprestigiar El juego del calamar, la cual también es una buena serie).

Los actores hacen un trabajo increíble, en especial Arisu (protagonista) que es capaz de transmitiste y hacerte sentir igual que él. Además la trama te mantiene en constante alerta y atención a no perderte nada; sabiendo como mantenerte intrigado durante todos los capítulos. E incluso consiguiendo sorprenderte en cada uno de ellos. Al igual que al presentarte nuevos personajes te hacen simpatizar con ellos al instante.

Así que para terminar, a todos aquellos que os gustó "El juego del Calamar", sin lugar a duda le daría una oportunidad a esta serie, no os va a defraudar.

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I just watch it in 1 DAY

My sister reccomeded it to me but i was like ... 'i am not sure if its my type of drama that i watch usually', i had no expectations

BUT

I WAS WRONG

◇The story... the only word that come to my mind is WOW, ITS JUST DIFFERENT/UNIQUE it fantastic. I really loved the fact that the games were like riddle.
◇ It was addicted as you can see(when i finish it, i was like 'where am i - i want MORE')
◇It was like i played there, especially in the second episode which is my favorite episode
◇The acting was really good & the ost
◇The production was ?
◇FULL OF ACTION


YOU SHOULD WATCH IT !!!

(WHY NOBODY TOLD ME THAT THE GUY WITH THE YELLOW HAIR - one of the 3 friends- WAS KURΟSAWA FROM CHERRY MAGIC LIKE ???
AFTER I FOUND IT, I HAD 10 HEART ATTACKS but now i am ok )

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Don't get me started

Caution!: I never read the Manga nor watch the anime so this is purely based on this experience!

The Characters? Great! The actors did their job perfectly and the whole experience was great! I binged it right after I binged Sweet Home and both were the best thing I ever watched.

There is only ONE thing that bothered me. Nijiro's (Chishiya's) wig. Like whoever made that happen like THIS, jail time for you. But fortunately it didn't influence the top notch acting.

I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed the actor portraying Karube is the same as the one from Cherry Magic (watch it, it's great) and the one portraying Arisu is L from the 2015 Death note drama! (Must watch too ;3)

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Decent show, but falters badly after episode 3

This show is compared to Squid Game a lot, and as a fan of SG, I gave it a shot only to realize the comparisons make no sense whatsoever. The two shows have nothing in common other than having death games as a major plot point.

Overall AIB is entertaining with lots of fantastical elements. It starts off strong, and some early episodes hit me in the gut, mainly due to excellent acting. But the story takes a weird turn around halfway through the season, and, in my opinion, loses its appeal. Plot twists are cheapened and unnecessarily confusing, and the character development is shallow and uninteresting.

It's a good show for a weekend binge, but not one that left a deep impression on me. That being said, I'll still be watching season 2 :)

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Don't watch Squid Game first.

Ok, i liked the series it was really good but there's just something missing.
I know there's a manga about it but i never read it and i don't plan to honestly.

I came in here with really high expectations because people in my entourage and people on the internet said that Squid Game was over hyped and that Alice in borderland was in fact better. I watched SG when it came out and really, no death game, no series of that genre was better than this... STILL.

Maybe if SG never came out AIB would've been the best series of that genre out there no discussion, but SG ate AIB up sorry not sorry.

First off, how the story takes off makes no sense. Literally no sense. Arisu doesn't even really go at it with his brother or father to leave, he just finds an excuse to get off the game and leave. And then he says that he got "kicked out"... What ? No, your spoiled ass didn't get kicked out, you ran away like an ungrateful kid.
Then you got Karube kissing his boss wife, seems like it's not the first time but oh my oh my, he suddenly gets beat up and fired THAT day. At least with Arisu we somehow got a hint of his background but with Karube it was like "ok, he has a job but we need to make him leave the job and show that the 3 bestfriends are all losers in some way"???? A whole bunch of nonsense put together.

Talking about their friendship, it was boring. Really boring. None of them are funny or interesting. The only one that was at the very least charismatic was Karube and I think he made the whole friendship.

It took half of the first episode to really get into it and i don't mind taking time to really set the story up. But now stories were boring, briefly cut to let place to 3 boring guys struggling to find something to do (pretty sure the director did that just so he can gain more minutes because he didn't know what to do). Then the story starts with electrical power just cutting off, phones too, people disappearing. To me that was really unrealistic and it's an overused method to start a death game story. It's always either you see people but they don't see you or people disappear. Always that "isolating" start.

Arisu is the character that pissed me the most off, especially during the 7 Hearts game in the botanical garden. He ran away with the wolf "mask/title" and then hid and acted like he was sorry and then when only 3 minutes were remaining, he suddenly "changed" his mind. But at the same time i was glad he was there during certain games. And also can we talk about Shibuki? She was so useless omg. Can somebody just tell me what did she do for the story? Except explaining some of the rules they could've figured out themselves ? If the story went without her, it would've made absolutely no difference.

In my opinion, the series got interesting only from episode 7... meaning the end since there's 8 episodes. I just feel like the rest was so passive, nothing was really happening. Chota was a really passive character, if the friendship was just Arisu and Karube, it would've made no difference as well.

Japan really has a thing for sects. Chota's story was about that, and "The Beach" was definitely a sect or just had a sect-ish vibe.
The way you would see every other girl in bikinis, being victims of attempted rape really made me uncomfortable.

This series felt like there was no story whatsoever, especially for the main characters. I don't even like any of them. Like i said it got interesting from episode 7 to 8 and the male lead wasn't there for most of it. That tells a lot.

The set up was good, i can't really say anything on that. It's just Tokyo streets, they are really cool. Fortunately we got to see other players because if it was the 3 guys from the beginning all along... i don't know.

The actors did really bad acting in my opinion. They succeeded to carry the show but I wasn't really sold about it.

I'm definitely going to compare this with Squid Game because almost every AIB fans i talked to literally DRAGGED it.
I think Squid Game was better. First of all, in AIB, Arisu is from a rich family, he can stay home and not do anything, it won't affect anything, so i don't feel bad or any type of way for him. In SG, the game was made for the players to naturally reveal their true self, while in AIB it felt like they had no choice but act evil. The story of each character in SG was meaningful and left a memory on you, while in AIB you could get stories about a girl that loves her father??? Ok? Or a bullied boy that grew into a villain... Ok?? Still want you dead tho. Unnecessary moments like that made me mad. Or you could get sex/nudity scenes that absolutely nobody needed to see. Like wtf does it add to the story? I'm talking about you Shibuki.
The series (AIB) lacked action and suspense in my opinion. During most of the games i wasn't really impressed. I had a little tension because the games were difficult to clear but that's it. I didn't sweat, I wasn't stressed out, I didn't feel any pressure. It was just like watching white wall, not impressed. And it's really sad because i LOVE feeling stressed out and pressured because this indicates that the show is really good to me.

On the overall, I'll leave a 7.5/10. The show is definitely good but if I recommend this to someone that seen Squid Game first, they're definitely going to be disappointed. So i suggest watching this first and then SG.

Oh and if in season 2 it happens to be all a virtual game imagined or being played by Arisu or anothe person it would be the most boring series i've ever seen hands down.

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Disappointing

Being very honest, as a manga reader, I didn't enjoy this drama that much.
They failed in a lot o aspects in compariso to the source material.
I couldn't bring myself to care for any of the characters. On episode 3 (which in the manga is the part that absolutly destroyed me) the only feling I had towords the characters was desapointmant, it wasn't nearly as emotional as it should have been.
Not to mention the rest of the games and how they changed them, making them simpler and less interesting. Also putting the main characters in games they didn't participate in the manga, basically ignoring Arisu's traumatic experience in the hide and seek game and the ways it affected him psychologically.
Though I liked some especific changes, like the addition of celphones and the aged up main character(witch are teenagers in the manga).
But in the end it wasn't enough to make me enjoy the story.
I will give it someo extra credits for the production, which was quit impressive for a J-drama.
In conclusion: Wouldn't waste my time re-watching and don't know if I would watch a second season.

*Just want to end apologising for any gramatical mistakes*

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This is me mostly talking about s2 lol

This goes in the same category as squid game for me. It really is well done and i enjoyed every episode that aired. I cant help but think there will be another season even if the show was technically concluded but also that joker card at the end... if it actually ended then why would they show that and leave the ending so open? Its not a solid ending, even though i actually love the plot that this was all just borderland between life and death, its so clever and i loved that so much. People fighting for their lives for 1 minute...while it felt like an enternity for them. Wow. Jaw dropping.

Hope there will be another season just to solidfy everything again!

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Gritty & Violent AIW Retelling

While I have never been an Alice in Wonderland fan (not of the book or any of the retellings), I decided to give this show a shot because it reminded me of The Hunger Games and Battle Royal. The gritty setting and horror elements were truly the best part of the series. The further Arisu descended into the rabbit hole, the more explicit the violence become. I never felt the violence was gratuitous for shock value, but served as an immersive experience for both the characters and audience alike. While the show certainly put its characters into interesting survival and moral quandaries, I felt rather ambivalent about the character's fates. I'm not sure if my detachment stemmed from the genre itself (don't get too connected to the characters because they could all die at any moment) or if it was from a storytelling perspective. I'm not sure I would rewatch this series, but I certainly will give the second season a try.

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Worth Watching

Alice in Borderland is the best thing that Netflix had ever made. Everyone has done so well. The whole cast is outstanding. This show is really a Masterpiece.
It really keeps the heart of audience beating fast. The Games are on another level. These are the most deadly games and the deaths are very unexpected. These games of survival are the best which are so hard to play. The players had to win the games to survive. The Theme of the series is fantastic. Each Game is based upon the deck of cards & difficulty level increases from Ace to 10th Card & Face Cards are the real deal that we will see in 2nd Season.

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Hollow plot premise with hope of redemption in Season 2 *fingers crossed*

Compared to Squid Game, this drama comes across as just a senseless survival game drama. The players appear to be merely transported to the games arena and forced to participate in bizarre games to survive. Weakening the already hollow plot premise (for gamers to play and survive) is the beach utopia. There appears suggestion of inner desire of the players (esp for the FL) to escape the current world that they live in. I hope Season 2 provides a compelling motive for the players, or a premise for the existence of the games arena. The games played in Alice are comparatively smarter and need not result in casualties. And perhaps, the simpler sadistic games in Squid Game provides a wake up call to the brutal and blatant reality of life at extreme ends of society, that is sorely missing in Alice in Wonderland. It is otherwise an entertaining watch.

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