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  • Alice in Borderland

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Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #159282  by Don
 Wed Dec 26, 2012 3:46 pm
Picked this one up completely at random. In the near distant future, aliens seized a stack of Microsoft interview questions and nuked Tokyo with a death ray at 4am, and those who happened to be awake at this time to see the death ray got abducted instead and are forced them to answer Microsoft interview questions or die. Well actually we don't know if there are aliens involved but there are definitely Microsoft interview questions and there are death rays. The games are rated using a deck fo cards, where ace is the easiest and king is the hardest. Clearing a game gets you time equal to number of days to the card (ace would be 1 day) before you get nuked by a death ray. The suits correspond to the genre of the game and heart is the toughest category.

Our main character, Alice (who is a guy, because apprently there are a lot of Japanese guys named Alice just like there are a lot of Japanese guys named Light), gets abducted and joins up with the female lead, Usagi (which means rabbit). They found this faction called "The Beach", led by a guy who used to sell hats in real life. The guy who sells hats reveals that you have to gather all the poker cards to escape from this world. The Beach currently have all the cards minus the face cards and 10 of hearts. By the way, Alice specializes in heart-type games, which should be no surprise whatsoever.

Currently the serial is at the 10 of hearts. This seems to be one of the three current things that are in serial that's vaguely related to Alice in Wonderland. By the way, every member of The Beach dresses like they're at the beach even while wrestling with bears or solving death defying Microsoft interview questions. Although most of the characters gets brutally murdered it looks like the ones with the best looks (female-wise) survives fine.
 #159283  by Flip
 Wed Dec 26, 2012 4:04 pm
What the hell is this? An anime?

Sounds so super weird, but i kind of want to watch it, too..
 #159284  by Don
 Wed Dec 26, 2012 4:15 pm
Only manga so far.

It's actually meant to be pretty dark but there's something really funny about a girl in swimsuit doing the lightbulb interview question (there are two switches, one of them turns on a lightbulb in an adjacent room but you can't see/go into the other room while the switch is on) with a death timer.