afterlife

"I had internalised these beliefs. I had convinced myself that the afterlife was better and that I desired it."

And of course the very name of Borderland points to the purgatory-like nature of the realm, not existing in the real world nor in the afterlife.

“I wanted Ryuji to be a character who embodies this huge question, ‘What is the afterlife?

Shadows of death and the afterlife commingle in the darkness.

But it still managed to have an afterlife without one, as fans obsessively continued to watch it in syndication or on streaming platforms.