Alice in Borderland Season 3 arrives Sept 25 2025 with Joker plot

After nearly three years away, the Netflix drama Alice in Borderland returns on September 25, 2025, with a third season that promises both high-stakes spectacle and narrative risk. The new episodes reunite Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya as Ryōhei Arisu and Yuzuha Usagi, and pivot from the manga's concluded arc to an original storyline centered on the Joker card, a mysterious stage that was teased at the end of Season 2.

The series, adapted from Haro Aso's manga and directed by Shinsuke Sato, first debuted on Netflix in 2020 and expanded with a second season in December 2022. The earlier seasons followed Arisu and a shifting ensemble of survivors through lethal games in an abandoned, alternate Tokyo. Season 2 closed with Arisu and Usagi apparently leaving the Borderland, their memories wiped, only for a Joker card to appear in the final shot, leaving viewers with lingering uncertainty.

Promotional materials and a full trailer released this summer confirm that Arisu and Usagi have returned to the real world, married, and are living a quiet life punctuated by dreams and flashbacks of the Borderland. That life is abruptly upended when Usagi disappears. Arisu receives a Joker card...