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6 Episodes 2025 - 2025
Episode 1
Thu, Sep 25, 202561 mins
Five years after the meteorite, Arisu has an interview about his experience in cardiac arrest, with Dr. Ryuji investigating his trip and Borderland games, but Arisu does not remember that. Ryuji goes to a seminar to obtain "a sensation close to the dead", playing the first lady, with the eliminated player dying electrocuted. Ryuji wins the game and is presented Banda, citizen of Borderland, and transports him there. Usagi has deja-vus about The Beach massacre; she calls Arisu and disappears, with Arisu discovering Usagu in a coma with Ryuji. Arisu is visited by Banda, who tells him that he will remember Borderland and his time there, also revealing that the games will resume with Usagi participating. Arisu goes to see Ann, who spoke to him about Borderland and how to go, telling him that he only has 2 minutes to save Usagi; Arisu supplies the drug when Usagi enters cardiac arrest. Arisu enters Borderland and goes to the first game pitch in a temple.
Episode 2
Thu, Sep 25, 202555 mins
The first game is called "Fortunes." There are ten rounds, and each player can only draw a card once. In the second round, the fortune has a math equation. The woman answers incorrectly and is shot by a flaming arrow. In the following rounds, every player gets the question wrong, which sets the temple on fire due to the flaming arrows punishment. Arisu draws in the last round, and his incorrect answer results in a one hundred million arrow barrage. He is able to use the clues from the fortunes and deduces there is a hidden tunnel. He is able to safely guide the rest of the group, and they take a break in a nearby building. They then walk to the laboratory arena, where they play a deadly card game.
Episode 3
Thu, Sep 25, 202562 mins
Arisu is revealed to have been one of the original zombies and has been secretly infecting his allies, ensuring a majority zombie win. Rei joins Arisu's group as they travel to the next game arena. Elsewhere in the Borderland, Usagi and Ryuji win a game together. Ryuji, knowing that Usagi is haunted by her father's death, invited her to join him as part of a secret deal with Banda. The pair join others for "Runaway Train", where players have to enter the sequential cars of a train that might be filled with nerve gas, with the choice to wear a gas mask with limited oxygen cartridges. With three cars and two cartridges left, Usagi decides to wear her mask, but her guess is wrong.
Episode 4
Thu, Sep 25, 202561 mins
Using the knowledge of a train hobbyist player, Usagi leads Ryuji and others to jump off their train to safety. Usagi spots Arisu playing the same game on another train, but the pair are unable to reunite. Ryuji tells Usagi that he caused the death of his student who was as obsessed with death as he is, when their experiment to simulate a near-death experience with a drug went wrong. For the semifinals, Usagi and her team clear "Tokyo Bingo Tower" which requires climbing Tokyo Tower, while Arisu and his team clear "Kick the Can" with exploding cans, although three of them are killed. Ryuji meets with Banda, who tells him to kill Usagi in the final game, which he believes will make Arisu choose to stay in Borderland as a citizen.
Episode 5
Thu, Sep 25, 202577 mins
Arisu and his team enter the final arena by following projections of their possible future lives, with Arisu reuniting with Usagi in his. The final game is "Future Sugoroku", where the players are inside a labyrinth of rooms and have to find the exit, with dice rolls deciding the number of people allowed through each door. The players all wear bracelets with points, which are deducted depending on the chosen room. Usagi's unborn child is included as the tenth player of the game, and she is given a second bracelet. The walls project images of the players' potential futures, either good or bad, which emotionally influence them on which door to choose. Arisu tries to direct the players when they have to split up, but Ryuji encourages them to spread out to find the exit faster, while others decide to go on their own. Tetsu dies after an emotional Nobu does not enter a room depicting a possible death for his mother, whilst Sota only removes points from his own bracelet to protect Yuna. Thus, when he and Yuna are forcibly separated, he dies in front of a projection of her wedding. The remaining eight players deduce the location of the room with the exit door, but realize they do not have enough points to ensure everyone's survival.
Episode 6
Thu, Sep 25, 202576 mins
Arisu successfully guides everyone to the exit but only seven can leave, so Arisu sacrifices himself by staying behind. Ryuji attempts to kill Usagi but can't go through with it. Arisu is told that he's the winner and is met by Banda, who reveals that the new games were his plan to convince Arisu to become a Borderland citizen. Arisu rejects him and escapes to help Usagi and the others when the Borderland starts falling apart. Banda is about to kill Arisu when he himself is killed by a game laser. A Watchman reveals himself, and tells Arisu that the Joker is merely a symbol of the in-between, and as such he merely watches over the Borderland, a place "between life and death". The Watchman says that a bigger catastrophe than the Shibuya meteor is coming, and asks Arisu to choose; Arisu chooses to live, and saves Usagi. Arisu wakes up in the real world, thanks Ann, and rushes to Usagi's side as she wakes up. Some time later, Arisu and Usagi are expecting their baby, while warnings abound of a major earthquake.