Alice in Borderland illustrated by Haro Aso is a typical Isekai, a Japanese manga in which the protagonist is transported to another fantasy world. With 18 volumes, the entire story is a quick but substantial read. Unfortunately for Alice, this alternate reality is deadly. Every experience readers watch him go through can be thrilling, emotional, or satisfying when the characters combine their strengths to overcome challenges of brute force, intelligence, mental fortitude, and flaws in our nature itself. A plethora of life-or-death games ranges from showing the reader logic-based problems to exploring the psychology and decision-making process of human beings. Themes such as self-worth, relationships, and regret arise in the manga’s imperfect but likable cast. Almost all of the characters in the story are one-dimensional and have unnaturally abrupt developments by nature of the story’s length and genre. However, the protagonist himself has gradual and satisfying changes throughout the manga, which results in differing outcomes even in similar situations. He encounters and surmounts moral, intellectual, and psychological dilemmas that he could not have survived earlier in the story. Following Alice through feelings of glory and despair is meaningful, and brings up thought-provoking topics such as the meaning of life, death, and whether either is worth questioning at all. The ending of the story brings closure but does not stop the reader from thinking about what Aso’s message is and what connection Alice’s experiences have to our own. Alice in Borderland is a fantastical, thrilling, and interesting story even at a glance, but digging into its deeper themes begs more questions about human nature and thinking.