Alice in Borderland - Reviews

And a bloody good start it is, because I love the shit out of the manga. The everloving crap out of it. So they would have had to make this all CGI, unfaithful and make it look like absolute fucking shit for me to hate it. Fortunately, there is no shitty ass CGI (That I remember), it's faithful, and it looks good. And looks faithful to it, complete with horse head mask, which would have looked great in a suit but packs quite a punch.

Straight up, boners for survival games. That is my sub-genre of anime/manga: death games. This has killer hide and seek, more killer hide-and-seek, a killer... kinda like a riddle game, but also a really douchey riddle game. You can think of it as one game per episode and covers a good part of the manga in those three episodes. Has some good suspense and it's pretty interesting in how the games go about themselves and how they react to it. The card numbers offered per game is a highlight, as it determines what challenge it'll be, from physical, mental, something and my favorite, Hearts. Or psychological, which is another thing I enjoy: Psychological death games. Those are great.

What you don't get, is backstory on the Borderlands itself. That, or any explanation for anything apart from what veterans of the Borderlands know and what they tell the MCs. You're left in the dark about the whole ordeal and the best you'll usually get is about what's currently going on, as in the current game.

And one thing I absolutely loved was the intermission cut to the anime title. I loved that shit.

Overall, it's a good three episode OVA, although you can just read the manga and have the same experience but in triple quick time. For an adaptation, it's just darn spiffy and fans of the manga would enjoy it.

DAMC Presents: A Damn Bloody Good Start to the Marathon

This is my first review and english is my second language so please just ignore my  mistakes.

This three episode ova is about a bunch of guys who sucks in the real world being warped in another world where they are force to participate in a survival games. These games are exiting and actually make sense.

Story

Story is pretty fast paced. You would find cliff hanger at the centre of each episode which will make your heart go crazy. Despite it being unique in many ways there are still plenty of story lines so one might find it to be a rip off.

Art

The art is pretty good . It does not have that dark and scary feeling. It emphasizes on light and harmony in colours, bringing forth brilliant details.

Sound

Nothing special except preview music I liked it very much.

Characters

The characters are likeable. You can see the layers they are hiding. They make some progress and discover thier hidden abilities, but it does not take long as expected from three episode long anime.

Overall

The ejoyment is lot more than what you expect from a three episode long ova. As a matter of fact it is absolutely perfect and will  leave you wanting more.

The last episode is kinda screwed, also lack of good opening songs however first and second episode very very solid

As trippy as fu<k!

No explanations for the setting or plot. Little to no character development.

Logical inconsistencies that make your brain have multiple whip-lashes.

Overall a 2/10. I’ve actually seen worse “Play or die'' anime and movies, but this one was pretty bad. Just trust me and skip it. 

It's honestly not terrible, the problem is that I watched the live-action version first. If I hadn't done so, maybe I would've liked this slightly more, but if you want a real story, the live-action can be found on Netflix containing two seasons.