Alice in Borderland

Alice in Borderland
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Ryōhei Arisu
今際の国のアリス
(Imawa no Kuni no Arisu)
Genre
Manga
Written byHaro Aso
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runNovember 25, 2010March 2, 2016
Volumes18
Manga
Alice in Borderland: Side Stories
Written byHaro Aso
Published byShogakukan
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runJuly 11, 2012February 4, 2015
Original video animation
Directed byHideki Tachibana
Produced by
  • Tomohiko Iwase
  • Hiro Torimitsu
  • Ryō Ōyama (1)
Written byRyōsuke Nakamura
Music byHiroaki Tsutsumi
Studio
Licensed by
Released October 17, 2014 February 18, 2015
Episodes3
Manga
Alice on Border Road
Written byHaro Aso
Illustrated byTakayoshi Kuroda
Published byShogakukan
ImprintSunday GX Comics
MagazineMonthly Sunday Gene-X
DemographicSeinen
Original runAugust 19, 2015February 19, 2018
Volumes8
Manga
Alice in Borderland: Retry
Written byHaro Aso
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runOctober 14, 2020January 20, 2021
Volumes2
Live-action series

Alice in Borderland (Japanese: 今際の国のアリス, Hepburn: Imawa no Kuni no Arisu) is a Japanese suspense manga series written and illustrated by Haro Aso. It was first serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Sunday S from November 2010 to March 2015, and later moved to Weekly Shōnen Sunday, where it ran from April 2015 to March 2016. Its chapters were collected in 18 tankōbon volumes. Alice in Borderland was adapted into a three-episode original video animation (OVA), released from October 2014 to February 2015.

A spin-off series, Alice on Border Road, illustrated by Takayoshi Kuroda, was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Sunday Gene-X from August 2015 to February 2018, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes. A sequel, written and illustrated by Aso, Alice in Borderland: Retry, was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2020 to January 2021, with its chapters collected in two tankōbon volumes. A live-action television series adaptation, produced by Netflix and directed by Shinsuke Satō, premiered worldwide with an eight-episode first season in December 2020; it was followed by an eight-episode second season in December 2022.

  1. ^ "Alice in Borderland". Sentai Filmworks. Archived from the original on June 18, 2021. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Loo, Egan (July 9, 2013). "I.G. Makes Anime Ad of Suspense Manga Alice in Borderland". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on July 11, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2020. Shogakukan began streaming an anime commercial for Haro Aso's survival suspense manga Alice in Borderland
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ova was invoked but never defined (see the help page).