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Netflix Posts Live-Action Alice in Borderland Series' English-Subtitled Teaser
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Imawa no Kuni no Alice) manga on Friday. The teaser highlights the characters' arrival to a deserted Tokyo.
The series will debut on Netflix on December 10 in 190 countries worldwide.
The series will Aozora Yell) as Yuzuha Usagi.
Other cast include:
- Nijirō Murakami as the mysterious Cheshire
- Yūki Morinaga as Chōta, Arisu's friend who was sent to the Borderland along with him
- Keita Machida as Karube
- Ayaka Miyoshi as the rational and logcally minded An
- Dōri Sakurada as the crafty Niragi
- Aya Asahina as Kuina, whose motives align with Cheshire's
- Shuntarō Yanagi as the Last Boss with a disturbing tattoo on its face
- Yūtarō Watanabe as Tatta, who is rescued by and then accompanies Arisu
- Ayame Misaki as Shibuki, the first being that Arisu meets in the Borderland
- Mizuki Yoshida as Asahi, a high schooler whose life has been toyed with by fate
- Tsuyoshi Abe as Kuzuryū, whose poker face betrays no emotion
- Nobuaki Kaneko as the charismatic Hatter
- Shō Aoyagi as Agni, a powerful player in the game
- Mira
Yoshiki Watabe and Yasuko Kuramitsu are penning the scripts with Satō. ROBOT is credited with planning and production.
The manga centers on Ryōhei Arisu (pronounced the same as "Alice" in Japanese), a male high school student who is irritated with his intolerable everyday life. One night, he tags along with his bad friends Karube and Chōta to hang out in town. However, the town is suddenly covered in giant fireworks. When he comes to his senses, Ryōhei notices that no one else is around. Finding themselves in a different world, Ryōhei, Karube, and Chōta are 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.
Aso began serializing the manga in OVA) episodes.
A spinoff series titled ended in February 2018, and Shogakukan published eight volumes for the series.
Aso will launch a new spinoff manga series titled Imawa no Kuni no Alice Retry (Alice in Borderland Retry) in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine on October 14. The manga will debut with a 59-page chapter.
Sources: Netflix's YouTube channel, Comic Natalie
