Alice in Borderland is a high-stakes psychological survival thriller manga that drops ordinary people into a ruthless parallel world where deadly games decide who lives and who dies, following Ryohei Arisu, a bored and directionless young man who suddenly finds himself trapped in an abandoned Tokyo and forced to participate in sadistic trials that test intelligence, teamwork, physical endurance, and the human will to survive, escalating from clever puzzle-based games to brutal confrontations that expose fear, betrayal, morality, and the fragile value of life as Arisu and his allies search for meaning, answers, and a way home, unfolding through relentless tension, shocking deaths, and philosophical questions about reality, purpose, and human nature, praised for its sharp mind games, dark atmosphere, and constant unpredictability that made it a cult classic manga and a global hit through its live-action adaptation, also known as Alice in Borderland manga, Imawa no Kuni no Alice, 今際の国のアリス, Alice in Borderlands, Arisu manga, death game manga, survival game manga, and psychological thriller manga.