Cast of Alice in Borderland

Alice in Borderland, based on the manga series by Haro Aso, returns to Netflix for a second season starring Kento Yamazaki, Tao Tsuchiya, and Riisa Naka.

A third season of Alice in Borderland has not yet been confirmed - however the series has proven very popular so it’s likely that it is in the works with Netflix. But it Usagi and Arisu do get through the final tests, it’s still not clear whether they will be allowed to leave the Borderland alive. Alice in Borderland was watched by an estimated 18 million households in the first 28 days of its release in 2020 - and was renewed for a second season two weeks after it premiered.

Just when Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and his comrades thought they were home clear and free, the gamemaster drew a doozy of a card from the stack: the Joker.

We won't make you battle your way through a series of games to find out the answer but sadly we have no good news for you on this front. In doing so, it's likely that a new game has already started unknown to them all and they'll have to break free. Though thoroughly battered (Niragi more so), they made it out of season two so we expect to see them in season three. It could be that all the contestants are in a virtual reality environment, much like the one Arisu found himself in the final episode. We fear Arisu and co are in for a big shock next season. Here's everything we know about Alice in Borderland season three.

Will there be an Alice in Borderland season 3? Here's everything we know so far, and what to expect in the possible third season of the Japanese sci-fi ...

Will there be an Alice in Borderland season 3? It could even involve a whole new set of games that could be even more sick and twisted than the ones before it. Season 2's final moment shows a deck of cards on the table. If the show does well with viewers and reaches the Top 10 charts across the world, there's a strong chance that Alice in Borderland could return for season 3. In the final scene, we see Arisu and Usagi meet. We'll likely know more when (or if) season 3 is confirmed and production begins.

Last season ended with former gamer turned best boy Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), climbing enthusiast Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya), and the rest of the survivors making their ...

It’s implied that everything that happened in Borderland was a limbo of sorts, either a collective hallucination or a realm between life and death that Arisu experienced during the single minute he was “dead.” We even see what happened to the little kid Arisu and Usagi protected during the Queen of Spades challenge. Only the fireworks that Arisu, Chōta, and Karube saw weren’t fireworks but a meteorite. Only two people — the winners from the Jack of Hearts, Banda and Yada — decided to stay in Borderland. All of this misery started the day that Arisu and his friends Chōta (Yūki Morinaga) and Karube (Keita Machida) saw fireworks around the Shibuya train station. She explained that if this was all part of Arisu’s imagination then he wouldn’t actually care about her, and that simply wasn’t the case. The only people able to tackle the final face card were Arisu and the barely-able-to-walk Usagi. Usagi, Arisu, and a very unlucky kid managed to face off and win against the Queen of Spades. Chishiya tested his intellect against the King of Diamonds, a man who sacrificed himself so that Chishiya could live. He was taking on the Jack of Hearts. The suit of each refers to the type of game — Spades are strength, Clubs are team battles, Diamonds are battles of wits, and Hearts are games of betrayal — and the number refers to the level of difficulty. First up was the King of Clubs.

Now that the show's second installment is here, you may be wondering: when is 'Alice in Borderland' Season 3? Here's what we know.

However, there’s reason to be optimistic that a potential Alice in Borderland Season 3 could premiere earlier than December 2024, which would be the same amount of time we saw between Season 1 and Season 2. Game Revolution also [reports](https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/930872-who-dies-alice-in-borderland-season-2-deaths-netflix) that the second season [(like many shows)](https://www.bustle.com/p/when-does-greys-anatomy-season-17-premiere-coronavirus-may-delay-things-22793042) experienced COVID-related filming delays, which could help to explain the two-year gap between seasons. “Our service picked up on this connection and started recommending Alice to more members who hadn’t already seen the show,” Netflix executive Michael Smith said at 2021’s Tokyo International Film Festival, per [Business Insider.](https://www.businessinsider.com/netflixs-alice-in-borderland-gets-squid-game-viewership-boost-2021-11) And perhaps most importantly, will there be an [Alice in Borderland Season 3](https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/netflix-alice-in-borderland-about-manga-ending-explained)? “I read [the manga] inside and out, trying to find the essence of what would make this material really fun,” director Sato Shinsuke told [What are the borderlands,](https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/alice-in-borderland-season-1-theories) anyway?

They attack the game with a fighting spirit that Arisu's ragtag bunch lacks, apart perhaps from Arisu himself, who retains the determination to protect the ...

Just a handful of points have the King’s team in the lead by the time we cut to black — definitely a small enough deficit to overcome, depending on whether Usagi can get away from Niragi or if Tatta gets his act together. But once Arisu heeds Kyuma’s words and decides to go for broke, the game gets a lot closer. As the King of Clubs he presides over a teamwork-based game, driving Arisu to find the best way to distribute the game’s points, divvy up assignments, and so forth. Not the rules of the game that Arisu and company are playing mind you — those are the most convoluted in the history of the series, though you can get the hang of it quickly. They attack the game with a fighting spirit that Arisu’s ragtag bunch lacks, apart perhaps from Arisu himself, who retains the determination to protect the lives of others at all costs rather than sacrifice them as he (ultimately unwillingly) sacrificed his friends back near the start of Season One. The in-it-together nature of a struggling band winds up being what gives the King his strength as an opponent: Not only does his team only act when everyone agrees rather than relying on a majority-rules vote or a single leader calling the shots, but they’re also ready and willing to die for one another.

The third episode of Alice in Borderland's second season is a terrific hour of television that should probably have been two terrific half-hours of...

Given all the heartstring-pulling that went on during the end of the King of Clubs game, it’s a smart move to make the Jack of Hearts game comparatively squalid and nasty. It’s a mood that befits the prison setting, which is the closest to the urban-wasteland aesthetic of the Saw franchise (another obvious influence on the story) than the show has ever gotten before. There’s one more important thing to note, about the King of Clubs game: Other than putting as much distance between themselves and the King of Spades as possible, Arisu’s big reason for choosing an ultra-difficult King game was his theory that the Kings are high-ranking enough in the game’s architecture to have information to share about the game masters and how to beat them and escape. Then, with a literal boom (the blimp carrying the King of Clubs banner blows up and crashes into the sea), we’re off to the second half of the episode. The nudity is both funny and sexy of course, but it’s just as obviously a metaphor now that we’ve gotten to know the guy: He lived his life with no regrets, completely comfortable in his own skin. Here he mostly watches from the sidelines with his usual preternatural calmness as players fitted with explosive collars (those things again!) must trust one another to tell them the randomized card suit that appears on a screen on the back of the collar. Before long, only the alpha and his gal, the manipulator and his new friend, and Chishiya himself survive. (It also ties directly to Tatta’s introductory flashback, in which he causes an accident at the auto shop where he works that costs his supervisor his hand and his job.) Indeed, Tatta dies from his injuries even as the rest of his team survive — including badly beaten Usagi, who looked like another casualty for a moment, and even Niragi, whom Arisu beats up before he slinks off with a reluctant but heartfelt thank-you to the late Tatta for saving his life. A great deal of credit must go to the actors playing the two team leaders. Well, maybe not nothing: For the scheme to work, Tatta must pulverize his hand in a shipping container door so badly that his crushed bones allow the bracelet to slip off. It’s true that beyond the overall conceit of people being forced to play lethal games the two stories don’t have a ton in common, whether in terms of game mechanics or the underlying fears and desires being exploited by the game masters. But, he reasons, if he can somehow get his point-tallying bracelet off — there are no rules against it, after all — and hand it to someone else, that person would be playing with both sets of points, and therefore be able to beat Kyuma or anyone else.

The cast of hit Japanese drama 'Alice in Borderland', led by Kento Yamazaki as Arisu, features some of the biggest actors in Japan.

[Inowaki](https://www.instagram.com/kai_inowaki/?hl=en) (opens in new tab), 27, who made his acting debut with a main role in the acclaimed 2009 film Tokyo Sonata. [Sato](https://www.instagram.com/honami__s/) (opens in new tab), 33, who's also known as Hona Ikoka, the drummer for the J-rock band Gesu no Kiwami Otome. [Tsunematsu](https://www.instagram.com/yuri_tune/) (opens in new tab), 24, started out as a child actress and has appeared in numerous films and dramas. [Yamashita](https://www.instagram.com/tomo.y9/) (opens in new tab), 37 (also known as Yamapi or Tomo) is an actor, TV host, active solo singer, and former member of the J-pop boy band NEWS from 2003-2011. [Sakurada](https://www.instagram.com/dorisakurada/) (opens in new tab), 31, is an actor, model, dancer, and singer. [Miyoshi](https://www.instagram.com/miyoshi.aa/?hl=en) (opens in new tab), 26, is an actress, model, and former J-pop idol, who was a member of the girl group Sakura Gakuin from 2010-2012. His recent series and films include the 2020 dramas An Incurable Case of Love and Yokai Housemate, and the 2021 drama 5 Meter Radius. His other recent projects include the 2020 drama Mothers In Love, and the 2022 films Plan 75 and The Fish Tale. [Tsuchiya](https://www.instagram.com/taotsuchiya_official/) (opens in new tab), 27, started her career as a model before branching into singing, dancing, and acting on stage and film. Her recent works include the 2018 drama Holiday Love and the 2020 drama Mothers in Love. He has also starred in the 2015 live-action adaptation of the anime Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, as well as the 2017 TV series Dead Stock and the 2020 film Soirée. His most well-known series and films include the 2014 film LD-K, the 2015 film Orange (where he co-starred alongside Tao Tsuchiya), the 2015 TV adaptation of Death Note, the 2016 drama A Girl & Three Sweethearts, the 2018 Japanese TV remake of Good Doctor, and the 2019 film Kingdom (which was also helmed by AiB director Shinsuke Sato).

Will we get 'Alice in Borderland' Season 3? Read about the Japanese survival drama that has become a global hit — and the chances of another season.

Kento Yamazaki (Death Note) plays Arisu in Alice in Borderland, while Tao Tsuchiya (Rurouni Kenshin) plays Usagi. [Alice in Borderland](https://www.distractify.com/p/alice-in-borderland-card-meaning) Season 3 seems like a lock, considering the show’s impact so far. The remaining games are only the Jack, Queen, and King cards, but will they be able to collect them all and return to the real world?” “It might be a little frightful for some viewers, but the stakes do have to be high in these games,” the actor added. 22 — is the final season. And there’s reason to believe Season 2 — which started streaming on Thursday, Dec.