It was serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from April 2020 to August 2023, with its chapters collected in seven tankōbon volumes.

[1] Oshimi has stated that Welcome Back, Alice is about deconstructing male sexuality, with the author drawing from personal discomfort with manhood.

[2][3] Oshimi claims to have felt the need to begin an introspective journey through "the hell of sexuality" after reading Masahiro Morioka's Confessions of a Frigid Man, and that led to Welcome Back, Alice being conceived.

[2] Rebecca Silverman, writing for Anime News Network, criticized Oshimi's Kei as an amalgam of negative stereotypes about LGBTQIA people.

[3] Jean-Karlo Lemus, also writing for ANN, stated that the manga deals with dark subjects, such as frustration and confusion, and their relationship with sexuality, as well as freedom from norms, and expressed interest in how the characters develop.