Alice on Border Road 02

今際の路のアリス [Imawa no Michi no Alice] #2

by Haro Aso (story), Takayoshi Kuroda (art)

Sebelas pria-wanita tersadar di Kyoto yang sudah jadi reruntuhan. Mereka yang memegang kartu remi bergambar wajah memutuskan ke Tokyo tapi beberapa orang berpisah. Seorang terbunuh, seorang menghilang, dan seorang memutuskan tinggal. Kedelapan orang lain melakukan perjalanan yang tidak lazim dalam mobil kemah dengan menyusuri jalur kereta cepat. Di antaranya, seorang siswi SMA, Alice Kojima, yang menemukan dua lembar kartu tersembunyi, termasuk milik korban yang terbunuh. Apa ini berarti pembunuh ada di antara mereka berdelapan?

Genres: Manga, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Seinen, Psychological, Graphic Novels

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 2016

About the author

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Reviews

[Libbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's still not super clear how this story is linked to the series Alice in Borderland. I think potentially these are the first visitors to Borderland and they help create what it is in Arisu's story? Unsure.

Despite that I'm quite enjoying the story for what it is. A lot of deception and logic and it's quite fast paced. Developing well.

[inra · Rating 3 out of 5]

it’s starting to become clear to me that this may be a story following the first ever visitors to “borderland”, before it became what we come to know in the Alice in Borderland books. there doesn’t appear to be games or lasers in this world, but it’s being hinted at that they may be created by some of the characters. how they achieve such massive degrees of human development is beyond me, so i’m still reading eagerly to find out where this story is going.

the first volume was a bit slow, but i still enjoyed it. here, action is picking up as the group who has left to go into japan encounter difficulties with their journey and with each other.

i don’t truly understand why Alice had to run away with one of the cards, leaving the japan group with an incomplete set and a reason to come after her. i guess we’ll see how that ends up in future volumes.

[Titis Wardhana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Satu per satu wajah asli kedelapan orang ini akhirnya muncul. Selesai sudah main teman-temanannya, sekarang saatnya main diktator-diktatoran.

[Paola C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aún no termina de arrancar pero se lee deprisa y los dibujos están bien hechos. Tengo mil teorías así que habrá que seguir leyendo para ver cómo evoluciona

[curiouskat_books · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better than the first volume, finally starting to get somewhere in the story.

[Kyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picks up the pace a little bit more than the first book

[diariodeletras · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si hay algo que amo de las series de Alice in Borderland en general es que las cosas tardan 0.1 segundos en irse a la mierda. La presión psicológica a la que se ven sometidos los personajes debido a la falta de conocimiento de su entorno y los ardides de algunos, que no dudan en sembrar la discordia para ver el mundo arder, no tarda en hacerlos explotar, revelando la fragilidad del vínculo que los mantenía a todos unidos.

A pesar de que el misterio que rodea a algunos personajes se mantiene, podemos conocer un poco más de ellos a medida que los acontecimientos se van desencadenando. Queda ya claro que no todos son tan inocentes como pensaban e incluso los personajes más "inocentes" dejan mucho que decir.

La cosa se pone serie y al fin se empieza a sentir ese ritmo de vida o muerte tan característico de Borderland. Ahora queda ver quién usa mejor sus cartas (y también tengo muchas ganas de saber más del rey de trébol, espero que aparezca pronto, aunque sea un vistazo random).

[reese ♡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

The action I was looking for from my previous review was here, but to my dismay, it did not give me any more reasons to look forward to the future of the story at all. I don't know if it's because I was expecting a lot from this or I'm just sleepy while in the middle of reading the volume.

[John A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good survival suspense! I’m really enjoying it!