It's all fun and games until someone dies

If you are planning on watching this show, just be prepared to see a lot of blood, killing, psychological trauma, and gore. I started watching this Jdrama very late into the hype and since I kept having it on my watch list, I gave it a try. It was very entertaining and it really makes you think about the next move of the players.

If you don't want to see any spoilers please skip this review. At first, I thought that Arisu's friends were going to make it to at least halfway through the show or at least that Arisu was going to find a way to save them but I guess that just made it more interesting. I didn't think that the show was going to be that interesting and that it was overhyped but it was totally worth it. Watching the show made me want to read the manga since I know for sure they probably changed some of the details from the original manga.

The acting, I have to say that it was great. I love Arisu's acting and at some point, his acting made me want to be the one solving the games (not really since I, for sure, would die). One actor that I didn't really understand was Chishiya, he was always lurking around in the shadows, just observing and kinda not helping but I guess that was his role. He did help here and there but not as much as I thought, and the betrayal part really made me want to kill him. On the other hand, Sakurada Dori (Niragi) was so good, I mean I have only seen him act in another drama and that was a totally different type of role that he played here. It was great to see him going from the caring and kind acting in Coffee & Vanilla to a crazy and maniac acting in Alice in Borderland. At first, I couldn't believe that it was the same person in those two dramas but A great actor is someone that can do any role.

One thing that really caught my eye was the stories that were revealed for some of the characters during the last few episodes. As for the title, it was very clever to name it Alice in Borderland. Which if you think about it really resembles a lot of Alice in Wonderland. Both main characters went into a different and alternate dimension, they had to play games and think critically about the answers, there was even a [mad] hatter in both and they had cards that in the main story appears. At first, it didn't really connect the dots that Arisu sounds very alike to Alice in English, which was very mindblowing to me when I found out. Overall it was a great drama to see, I really recommend it for anyone that has the stomach to watch it.

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