Taking A Break From A Big Fat Stressful Fic To Write Something Shorter And Almost Comforting

MURAKAMI NIJIRO as CHISHIYA SHUNTARO

ALICE IN BORDERLAND 1.03

sorry i have a bone to pick with people who say that chishiya manipulated his way into winning against kuzuryu.

look at the difference. LOOK AT HOW MUCH IT CHANGED HIM. LOOK JUST FUCKING LOOK PLEASE IM GONN

ALICE IN BORDERLAND : SEASON 3 THEORY

It's always 'who's the joker??', never 'how's the joker??' What if, in a perfect world, where everyone's read the manga, we asked the real questions regarding season three : What's the joker going to do? Straying from the idea of who the Joker is opens up a lot more possibilities as to what season three could hold for us and what its symbolization might be. So for today, we're taking a step away from all the 'who' theories and thinking about the whys and hows. And that starts with a single panel of the manga all the way in chapter 60.

The Sanzu River. WHAT EXACTLY IS THE SANZU RIVER ? : In Japanese mythology, the Sanzu river is a river representing the border between life and death. It is a river with three different paths for three different kinds of souls- a bridge for those who have done good, a deep section filled with poisonous snakes for those who have done bad, and a ford for those in between. The borderlands represents the Sanzu river. MORE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS CLAIM : - The Sanzu river is said to be located somewhere on Mount Osore, which might be what the mountain terrain that began to surround Tokyo is meant to represent. Continuing on with the Sanzu river references, at the end of the Sanzu river, the travelers enter Meido, where they will experience a number of trials to determine whether or not they are deserving to go to Tengoku (heaven), or doomed to go to Jigoku (hell). Judging by going off of Alice in Borderland being a sort of big reference to the Sanzu River, continuing on with this, the next step after borderland with the theme in season three being the joker card, could be Meido. So in theory, the next season could be the series of trials that our characters will overcome before they finally die. JOKER CARD SYMBOLISM : - The joker card is likely to represent that the characters in borderland aren't fully out yet, and we don't know if they ever will be. In history, the joker card is described as a wild card that represents UNPREDICTABILITY and CHAOS- a fitting description of the foreseeable events to come in season three ---- While the joker represents the ferryman of the river in the manga that might allude to this theory being incorrect, the mountains that began to surround the city possibly indicates that the sanzu river symbolization has not changed, but the joker's symbolization has. ---- In this case, it might be that the joker is to represent that souls might BELIEVE that they are finally to the afterlife after crossing the river (just like how the characters in borderland seem to have finished their terror), but there's still one last challenge left for them to overcome, meido (in borderland's case, the joker card.) - Joker card is also sometimes compared to the fool in tarot, which also represents unpredictability as well as the start of a new journey. - It also is sometimes believed to symbolize CHANGES IN FORTUNE, once again relating to the belief that the characters have left borderland, when they actually still have one more thing to go. I'm going to refer to this as the RIVER THEORY.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR READING !! I had the realization for this while yapping with a friend about how I thought people thinking the most random characters were the joker was stupid, started talking about the joker in the manga, and realized I actually didn't know what exactly the end of the Sanzu river was supposed to be. So it had me thinking- if AIB netflix is continuing with this symbolization, how would they go about it? Please let me know what you guys think and if you have any other evidence or theories to go along with this !! Have a great day and happy theorizing ! SOURCES : https://www.curiousordinary.com/2022/11/sanzu-river.html https://yokai.com/meido/

“Such human desires this silver color embodies. Symbol of death.”

toru nishikawa (½) ✦ the gun (2018)

I miss you pre-borderlands niragi😭

"i hate namgyu!!" i scream as 3840284 photos of namgyu fall from my bag. "no!! these arent mine!!!!" i desperately try to explain

hey

happy valentine’s day !

what do you think the adap butchered the most, compared to the manga? is there anything you think it did better, though? very curious since people have different takes on this

Definitely Niragi's character as well as the King of Diamonds ending. Niragi is self explanatory but the King of Diamonds ending pissed me off, making him decide the value of life even though his point was that he literally DIDN'T WANT TO. That got on my nerves I think they might've done the Tatta scene better ngl. Arisu finding him hit WAYYY harder than Tatta taking Arisu with him. It felt more shocking and it was more emotional that way, like the ominous slam of the containers followed by seeing Tatta's bloody hand was way more emotional to me than him straight up just asking. Thanks for the ask !!! This was a really good question ! :3

imagine...

an AU where somebody else played queen of hearts before arisu could get to it and they killed mira in rage so now they're all stuck in borderlands until their visas run out what do yall think would happen?