Babies? Those deformed slugs that didn't even had a digestive system that dye not long after birth . It was more of a food supply & medicine resulted from a twisted mix of the girl's desires.
@@lagopusvulpuz1571 you're not wrong, they used those birthed creatures how most would. However it was the intentions of the girl behind the births that made it fucked.
Except that weak *ss p*ssy b*tch who only cared about his own goals called Wazukyan, I'm disappointed with how he went out. I'm glad he's gone but he deserved worse than what he got.
Remember, many of those villagers weren’t from the original expedition. They weren’t the ones who initially consumed the children and founded the village. They’re cave raiders from well after the founding….people who made it to the 6th layer and can’t go anywhere else.
8:54 Vueko stopped transforming into a hollow not because she descended but because she went somewhere where the forcefield literally wasn't present. No forcefield, no curse.
Well, yes and no. The forcefield does work in such a way that the amount and the speed of which you ascend very much matter. That's why the cave raiders have to slowly ascend back up after an excavation to limit the negative effects they will have to suffer from. So immediately going back down again after you start feeling the effects probably do help, even with the curse of the 6th floor. But she does eventually die, so it didn't really matter that much. I realize all we can do is speculate, because things aren't really explained or even explored in the show. This is actually a serious point of criticism I had for season 1. They just rushed through the entire thing for no good reason. The mysteriousness of the abyss and the main characters exploring it and facing the dangers it contains should have gotten a bit more love, I think. Just rushing through the first 4 floors felt really anticlimactic to me. Even veterans, who have been doing this work for many years, struggle with this. And only a handful of people managed to get to the 6th floor and survive. Yet, these untrained and inexperienced children just ran down there like it was nothing. I think the descension we see in season 1 should have been spread out over 2 seasons instead so we could have gotten a closer look into what the abyss actually is and how it works. Right now the abyss seems a lot less mysterious and scary, which is a shame.
Majikaja was an absolute break-out character for me. Glad he got to, even if briefly, achieve his dream of having an actual body. He looked so happy at the end. Pouring one out for mah boi Majikaja.
The village was stagnant, unlike Faputa. The villagers couldn't leave their village. They were dead people walking and understood that. Faputa's legacy and freedom after being born in the village no one could leave made her precious to them. And they were happy to let her carry on in their place
...I'm surprised, Faputa instantly realised, that Riko's Soul isn't.... "normal". Maybe it's because Riko was stillborn on the 5th (or was it the 4th?) Layer, or because she was revived by the Course-Warding Cage... But DAMN IT, Vueko getting hit by the Curse of the 6th Layer AND Pakkoyan's Sacrifice to save her made my really REALLY sad... poor Girl. Aside from Irumyuui, she's the one with the worst Pasts in the second Season... But it was the Scene where Faputa gave her a "proper" Burial, where I broke down Crying... I love this Anime.
well yeah, both were created by the relics of the abyss that allowed them to live as without the wish Faputa would have been stillborn as well. Also fun fact: when she made the grave Faputa crushed the rock beneaeth her to burry Vueco under the sand since there was no soil under her
As Nanachi explained it in s1, the curse affects you as you ascend. Stop ascending, it won't affect you further. Vueko was thrown by Pakkoyan down into the village, where the force field could not reach. But the damage was already done, and while she didn't change any further, it still ultimately killed her. It's not explored, but I reckon Pakkoyan and Vueko were lovers previously. There's one single panel in the manga showing them, um, cuddling to say. I think it might have been discussed further elsewhere, but I haven't seen any of that. Another thing to remember with Wazukyan: Again, it's not paid too much attention, but everything came as a result of him. When Riko is attacked by the villagers and saved by Maa, Wazukyan asks if it was tough for her or something like that, implying he knew and maybe had something to do with it. It's also noted later that he planned to have Riko use a cradle of desire, the very thing that caused Irumyuui to changed this way, in order to allow the villagers to continue to roam the Abyss once more and no longer be trapped. Wazukyan was the secret villain, the whole way along.
I knew I wasn’t the only one that thought wazukyan was the secret villain! His intentions to make Riko use the wishing egg bc she was a pure child was what made me realize he was trying to create another version of irumyuui!
Nah she explains it hits you all at once when you break through the layers of the curse. She explains it with a blanket. The curse doesn’t hit you till you break through it, then it hits the exposed parts all at once.
I like to think that the villagers are willing to listen to Faputa because on some level they feel guilty for what they had done and that they deserve retribution. That or release in death...
I think that Wazukyan may have made the bridge to kill everyone inside the village because what he saw up ahead for Riko and her friends is much worse than death... a scary thing to think about.
I think the game and season 1 actually explain how the curse works. You can weaken the effeckt of the curse by decending or stop moving! We know the curse is a living beeing that actual does this as a selfdefense mechanismen against creatures that threat to penetrate it's organismen from below. Therefore it stops poisoning you if you stop "attacking" it or fall back! Thats also the reason their are some places were you can accent without worries. As the curse just didn't grow/life everywhere.
Vueko and Irumyuui were far and away my favorite Season 2 characters and I remember on the first video I said I wanted to see Vueko and Irumyuui have happy endings. Honestly, despite the bittersweetness of it I'm satisfied with what they got. Vueko getting hit by the curse seemed like a lame way to end it on the surface, but dig a bit deeper and it's fitting. By that point Vueko was questioning whether or not she was even still human and getting hit by the curse proved to her that despite everything she was still human, which I got the impression brought her at least some comfort in her final moments. But the thing that really got me in the feels was her last conversation with Faputa and that Faputa had no memories of Vueko because Irumyuui treasured her memories of Vueko so much that she wanted to keep them for herself. Vueko didn't die in misery; she died knowing just how much she truly meant to Irumyuui. She had been beating herself up thinking that she had let Irumyuui down by eating her kids (even under protest), not stopping the others from eating her kids and getting locked away, effectively abandoning her (even if she was inside Irumyuui's 'head'); so for her to learn that Irumyuui held none of that against her and still loved her more than anything brought her peace in her final moment and showed her that she actually had been there for Irumyuui all along and that through each other they both had in fact found what they had been looking for since Vueko escaped her fat bastard abuser and Irumyuui left the abusive natives all those years ago. That coupled with the shot of Vueko and Irumyuui's gravestones side-by-side, together forever counts as a happy ending in my book and was basically the 'Mitty Dies' of Season 2 for me in terms of emotional impact even though there was an actual Mitty Dies scene a few episodes earlier. I mean sure, they could have both not died, somehow reverted back to their pre-Mockwater human forms and lived happily ever after growing old together, but this is Made in Abyss we're watching here, that's not how it works. Peace and happiness in death along with burials symbolic of the two being together forever are as close as you're going to get. Pakkoyan's death also hit pretty hard, but the anime screwed it up pretty damn hard by not doing anything to show that they were an item prior to that scene, so when you see Pakkoyan crying for Vueko you might get the vague inkling that she loves her, but by that time the scene is already happening and some of the impact is lost. Luckily I knew they were a thing already due to people talking about a certain missing sex scene panel, but if you're an anime-only who doesn't know that then you're going to miss out on some of the impact the scene is supposed to have. Much though I love Season 2 I do feel it was an objective narrative flaw for there not to be anything showing their relationship in episode 7 or 8, even if it wasn't that specific panel. Pakkoyan threw Vueko out of range of the curse, which caused it to stop taking effect, leaving Vueko with some of her humanity still intact for her final scene.
I can unterstand they cut out the sex scene. The Anime already barely dodges the Lolicon blames people throw at the author. Having a yuri sex scene with character that drawn in a chibi style would not make a good case for the anime^^ I also liked Wakuyan as an "antagonist". Seeing his trying to somehow save the village even though he knew it would end like this. And seeing him accepting that Fabuta would carry on their dreams. This was a truly good written antagonist. As someone who did was seemed nessesary to protect Vueko and his people.
@@mrcaos999 "people throw at the author." Not people, just westerners. Japan doesn't care as a whole, just the woke minority. This is why I read the manga years ago for this arc, I knew the anime will simply censure shit and sure enough, they made it woke friendly. People die and melt, that's ok, violence is ok. But show 2 girls under a blanket with a boob pressed by a finger and aww hellll naw. Y'all screwed in the head
@@kysfggt cutting out yuri would be the opossite of woke! But i now unterstand your position if "woke" is your problem. Its more like that people don't like how he draws his underage character and some of the joke. The anime plays it save and just cuts it out. I can unterstand it.
@@mrcaos999 I just hate censure and double standards, which western speech is full of. But the most fucked up thing is, they don't even care about what they say they care about, as I exemplified in the earlier comment. You don't want to protect kids, you just want to sperg
Great review! Wazukyan made the bridge because that was what was in his prophecy to do. All his decisions he made was due to his prophecy and he thought it would lead him to his dreams and desires or exploring the Abyss as a true adventurer but the prophecies weren't for his goals they were for the creation of Faputa. We dont know what gave him these visions but whatever it was it was to create Faputa who has a greater purpose in the story than she does now
I don't think Wazukyan truly saw the future. I believe he had an unshakable resolve that gave him the confidence to make decisions and see them through, regardless of the cost to himself or others. His goal was to protect the people who placed their trust in him, and at that, he succeeded. Others saw him as a prophet for his skill as a leader, but he had no mystical powers, and he was certainly no saint. A truly morally grey character, whose abhorrent actions were pursued for the noblest of goals. Masterful writing in this arc.
I’m calling it. Lyza somehow transferred her soul/spirit into Riko. That’s why she constantly wants to go back to the abyss since Lyza’s physical form can’t leave until Riko returns. It’s the reason the whole 7th layer being the darkest part is because everything Riko believes about her mom is going to be a lie and find out she’s super evil now. And the reason Reg had his name in the first place is because Lyza named him Reg, and when Riko named Reg it’s actually Lyza remembering what she named him. The whole reason Reg went to the surface in the first place, to return Riko to Lyza so Reg can have Lyza back. But he forgot. I swear I think something is gonna happen along those lines. Not Riko being a reincarnation, but kinda like a vessel like how Bondrewd uses his umbra hands.
And then I come smashing in out of some random stained glass window and then I proceed to say "it's ultrakilling time" then I ultrakill all over the place, everyone gets a happy ending... I hope.
My favorite character of Made in Abyss S2 is Maaa. This dude became the protector of Riko from a stuffed animal obsessed creepy dude. I wanted him to join Riko's crew.
Maaa was a little girl. This season was kinda meh to me I couldn't relate to the characters' motivations. But Maaa was my favorite when Riko gave her the plushie and Maaa disappeared I cried my eyes out. It was the saddest scene this season for me ahaha
@@jouz7959 I'm still think Maa was male because of his right arm looks like "that" IMO. Either way I don't have any issue if Maa was a girl though. It was good character.
@@jahpass the right arm only looked like that after it got skinned to rebalance the value. She also followed Riko bekause she was the only one that gave her companionship in in a cold world obsessed with value, even after she hurt the pet
If the episode was around 45 minutes long not counting the OP/ED, I think I cried for like 30 of them lmao. I'll just say I'm gonna miss Majikaja for the rest of my life. Did I accidentally find my HAKU, I wonder... HADImae...
I can't stop crying, Vuekoooooo. This arc is really about Vueko and how she got a family (Irumyuui and Fafuta), and she learned to value herself. It really made me cry once you delve deeper into each episode.
irumyuui was so far my fav character in the whole series, her story was most painful like how she was most loved person in her old home, just to be hated, when again when she found her happiness it was taken by people she truly loved and replaced with infinitely long period of misery and pain
12:34 but in this moment she actually does know Vueko because now she has Belaf memories, but she don't know what to do because this is information she never knew for all those years this her mom left hidden from her, this is a shock for her because she thinked she had all her mother's knowledge.
I don't think the fall killed Wazukyan i think his abilities had a limit, when he was projecting the village from the rain of iron he says that he almost has no more of those branches, and when they found him he said he was empty. I think he used all his value and his body in those weird branches and then he died. Edit: actually all the villagers died by using all of his value, Belaf used his value to give Nanachi and Faputa the memories and other things, the other villagers give his value to Faputa by feeding her their bodies, even Magikajiya gave all his value to use Faputa's body and btw his was his most precious desire, to have a body and not only a recipient, and as Vueko once said: when you found your most valuable treasure then you lose your own value and your adventure stops. (But I don't think this is necessarily true for all characters, but I think it was true for all the villagers)
Faputa has to be my favorite character of MIA s2 because of how complex the character was. She was born with revenge in mind yet also was innocent and playful with Reg. She is very temperamental, only dealing with the extremes of her emotions. But the character became much more complex when Belaf gave her all of his memories. She starts to regret what she did but at the same time not because she still has a purpose. On top of all this, she has to deal with her friend who gave her a promise and a gift but doesn't remember her. In my eyes, Fabuta is an emotionally immature little girl who gets thrown all these different emotions simultaneously and doesn't know what to do with them. I enjoyed seeing how she wrestled with her goals and the new memories she got. Finally, I really enjoyed how Faputa pushed aside any feelings and focused on ask Veuko about her Mom. At the end of the day, Faputa is a girl who never got to meet her mom.
about the girl that saved vueko and died. if the villagers leave the village and touch the curse they die thats why she died it was even explained in the anime. altho a little hidden i manage to grasp it.
its not even that they die because of contacting the curse. As Belaf says, what was created by the village - cannot exist outside the village. They are literally part of Irumyyui, and cease to exist if they leave her. Once transformed, they ceased to be separate beings.
I think others are corrupted by the Abyss and she’s immune to the corruption because her soul is of the Abyss. There’s a reason that the floor of the Abyss pursued her while everyone else is pursuing the floor. I think that’s because she embodies the soul of the Abyss.
Fullmetal alchemist episode with the chimera, father merged his daughter with the dog, turned into a series with dantes inferno levels of hell as motif.... jeez...bet they end up abruptly with more questions than answers left behind...like the promised neverland...
thanks for the recap this was a confusing episode tbh, a confusing season to me, but i enjoy the anime quite a bit, despite the oddness, i think it's the oddness of it that i find most intriguing. what is at the bottom of this abyss!? ugh!
Man I had all this trauma tucked away and this just dragged all of it out again. I forgot how brutal this anime is overall but you got to admit it was a wild ride 🥲 I loved this anime when it first came out !
after watching one of your made in abyss videos, I went to go watch everything from season1 and the movie up till season 2, pretty good anime. I really like Reg in the anime.
he did not made the bridge, the bridge already existed it just got reforced bacause wazukyan usedhis body to PROTECT the city from the iron rain the and that was also what killed him not falling down but using his body to cover the whole city.
I am surprised more of those villagers weren’t killed off, poisoned, and eaten by monsters before getting sick by that water. That giant spiny thing that almost killed Riko should have gotten one at least.
I really thought that vueko having a human body despite supposedly being a hollow is just some fan service from the series lol. Also, i feel like cooking some iru kids.
It's not that the villagers don't mind dying, it's that they're part of a whole and Faputa is "collecting" their value. They become a part of her. e: my fav is Faputa, she's just wonderful. I mean, I wish Vueko had some happy resolution but I just love Faputa, especially after we got to see more of her in the last episodes.
i mean better give your body up to your god then get mauled by the wild creatures. Its also just fair to give the reincarnation what you took from the sacrifice to keep on living
Oh to answer your question: although Reg is still the my favorite character in the show and I loved finally learning [a little] more about his backstory, my favorite of this season is Faputa. I just love that a creature seemingly born with the sole purpose of revenge and destined to a life of hate and misery could find greater meaning in even their lives. This ties back to Reg as it is mainly him that makes her see that. In such a dark story it seems to be a cool ray of hope in the midst of all that dispair. While she doesn't skirt her fate the resolution isn't nihilistic but surprisingly hopeful, and I hope she does in fact truly join their party.
There some clues about Riko's soul in that episode that's what I want know about and hearing the other girl's voice from the white whistle was like hearing her voice once again I do feel bad for Vueroeruko because of the curse got to her and turning her or deforming her into a hollow.
I don't really see the ending as unfortunate. The village lived past its natural end by taking from Irumyuui. They survived over a hundred years in their unnatural bodies and the end of their little bubble was inevitable, even deserved.
I don't think she just "passby" there, she wanna suicide ... again since the guy also hold her to not let her going suicide again with her despair, that's why that dude(forgot the name) cage her in with the roots IMO
I can’t get over how overly the top this series was with how dark and gory it got. I always liked Mitty I felt so bad for her to not only for her having to go through that horrific transformation but to then have some part of her humanity alive trapped inside her monster form.
i really enjoyed the narahate characters and i wish there was more info on why they look so different from nanachi and bondrewd's blobs. i love moogie, kaja, the innkeeper, and pakkoyan, they're all so cute, but them and the other villagers don't really look humanoid, do they? and pakkoyan had a ~LEWD HISTORY~ with vueko when they were part of ganja, i want to know what was up with that
i would have loved to see belaf in a fight either against the creatures from the abyss or faputa even tho it would not make much sense to fight her from a narrative perspectivve
Honestly, I don't understand why Vueko should die. I mean, why not just let her get into crew? It feels just wrong like the author decided to kill her just because all her previous crewmates died. Such a shame, now there will be this yet another loli moth-like creature that will work essentially as a tool for more pedo scenes. For fuck sakes, why it should be like this?...
For our front seat experience of the curse :) Riko has taken the curse for every layer but she can't come back from the 6th version. So she had to take the role
Vueko's arc was fulfilled. She blamed herself for everythink that happened to Iyumi because she can't make decisions. But thanks to Riko she regocnized she did make one important decision and how much she enjoyed her time with all the other. At this point there were not many storys left he could tell with her. Vueko also had no reason to continue further into the abyss. Her destiny always was the golden city. She had fullfilled her desires. (What usually means character die in this plot)^^ If she survives it actual makes not much sense Fabuta continues downwards either. Because it would be a perfect set up for a happy end for the two. (Both staying together to rebuild a new home) PS: She is also an adult. And this far only children joined the crew. I think he also just doesn't want to add a adult to the group:) Riko is the frail human of the group. Having a frail adult that can't do much either would weaken Riko's character as the optimist that moves forward despite her weakness.
She had to die with the rest of the villagers. It's in a way poetic justice for what had happened long ago with Irumyuui. While I agree Vueko did nothing wrong but tried to be there for Irumyuui, she just felt so guilty to watch Irumyuui suffer so much. The villagers knew their time would come eventually.
Lyza was already a white whistle even before meeting and marrying Torka - so well before Riko was born. Also - manga spoiler: we do get to know the name of Lyza's whistle, later on.
He brought mitty before he did experiments on her like before nanachi even knew bondrewd was using mitty so thats why she still has 2 eyes, and thats how belaf rememberd mitty so thats how he brought her back it wasnt a real mitty thats why she couldnt live outside the village and dissapeared like the rest, but thats pretty powerful maybe the same type off thing lyza has and thats why she send regg
You can see Irumyui in her village state a bit like mitty. Cant communicate, cant move, cant do anything really. Not much left of her mind at that point either. She tried to help the villagers and thus became the village. But then Vueko was hooked up to her and that made her understand the horror of what was done to her. That anger then spawned Faputa. It took Faputa a long time to destroy the village because she grew up feral really, and couldnt get into the village. It's only when belaf let her kill him that she got any idea of what happened before she was born. And i guess she also needed to absorb the power out of all the villagers, because only then with basicly all villagers dead is when faputa could destroy the village/irumyui. That is when she finally died.
I wanted to watch this, but the weirdo factor (Mostly Reiko being nude and Dick jokes about Reg) makes it impossible to enjoy normally. I appreciate your commentary.
I’m also like is she 100% truly Irumyuuis will that is probably what he is going for but I just can’t truly buy it. Sure Vueko and Faputa are certain of it but they are both so unreliable. Broken characters and broken mechanics sort of bug me in that way.
This anime just seems like a constant ripping of the watchers feels. I've never watched this anime an I don't think I want to. Its like they introduce a character and make you get attached to them only to force you to watch them die in the most painful and excruciating fashion possible and I'm not down for that. If anyone feels like they can persuade me otherwise, feel free.
I don't think anyone can persuade you to like it if you decide its not for you. Narrative pain is an acquired taste, for sure. At the end of the day, what makes it bearable for me is that the despair isn't all encompassing. You have both pathos and levity and the contrast of those bright moments with the dark ones. It almost verges on the edge of diabolos ex machina sometimes, but manages to pull just short of it in my opinion. That's why I keep reading/watching at least. I'm working my way through The Black Company book series right now and whoo boy, that's some good despair and hopelessness right there. Delicious.
For real, i felt like the destruction of the entire village they had was a very unnaseserily cruel plot development. But i suppose this anime wants to teach you to not get attached to the characters at all so that you wont feel bad about them dying horribly
Honestly I don't watch it, it looks a bit pedophilic & sadistic. I only watched the first season before I gave up on it. I never cared about fictional characters, they aren't real. The way the children are put in situations & how they were drawn, let's just say it was inappropriate. I only see recaps or clips of the anime to see where the story was going.
This season was a let down. I was very excited for the weird, corrupt village rules showing a child like innocence coupled with adult depravity. I wanted more despair and I only got a slight taste of it in the middle and then everything turned into standard fare by the end and I was forcing myself to finish the last 3 episodes.
Are you telling me that a child forced to become a food source for a dying group of villagers while she suffers constantly from her babies and humanity is being taken away day by day was a slight taste? Or how Maaa literally got ripped to shreds due to the balancing? Veuko melting because of the curse? Not to mention the beautiful score, the lovely character designs, the emotional beats. I am extremely impressed by your standards.
@@__yam1502 Vueko and Maa had little effect on me. Had that been the end of Maa right then maybe it would of felt different and Vueko getting iced by the curse seemed ok as well given how protected she was for so long. My understanding is that the manga fleshed out parts of characters for this arc better which could of made a difference in the emotional impact of losing just about everyone.
@@thorinhannahs4614 I have to agree that the manga did a better job with having really good emotions. Especially the one part in the manga when Wazukyan looked at Veuko with a completely terrifying face. The one part I thought the anime did a really good job was the first time Faputa started tearing the citizens up. Overall, I felt the season did a really good job even if it wasn’t as emotional strong as it could have been.
anybody else cry when vueko got curse of the 6th layer?
i did... I wanted them to live and possibly join the gang. But ey my favorite joined instead so I guess it's fine
Yeah I teased up a lil😢
no... who cares? shes such a minor character whos been hiding in seclusion for so long, who gives a fuck
Yeah I've read the manga but even then it still hit like a truck. The voice acting and music made it a thousand times sadder
Sometimes you do forget going up is no longer an option unless the abyss just has a portal at the end that pops out of the other side of the world
Remember how the villagers consumed the babies that the girl birthed? It came full cycle when Faputa consumed them. I thought that was poetic.
Babies? Those deformed slugs that didn't even had a digestive system that dye not long after birth . It was more of a food supply & medicine resulted from a twisted mix of the girl's desires.
They were more than happy to be eaten by her in the end. Knowing full well what they took from Irumui must come back to her (her child) after all.
@@lagopusvulpuz1571 you're not wrong, they used those birthed creatures how most would. However it was the intentions of the girl behind the births that made it fucked.
Except that weak *ss p*ssy b*tch who only cared about his own goals called Wazukyan, I'm disappointed with how he went out. I'm glad he's gone but he deserved worse than what he got.
Remember, many of those villagers weren’t from the original expedition. They weren’t the ones who initially consumed the children and founded the village. They’re cave raiders from well after the founding….people who made it to the 6th layer and can’t go anywhere else.
8:54 Vueko stopped transforming into a hollow not because she descended but because she went somewhere where the forcefield literally wasn't present. No forcefield, no curse.
Well... its still pretty cursed.
Alright, Alright..... I see myself out.
@@hakimdhaou 😂
Well, yes and no. The forcefield does work in such a way that the amount and the speed of which you ascend very much matter. That's why the cave raiders have to slowly ascend back up after an excavation to limit the negative effects they will have to suffer from. So immediately going back down again after you start feeling the effects probably do help, even with the curse of the 6th floor. But she does eventually die, so it didn't really matter that much.
I realize all we can do is speculate, because things aren't really explained or even explored in the show. This is actually a serious point of criticism I had for season 1. They just rushed through the entire thing for no good reason. The mysteriousness of the abyss and the main characters exploring it and facing the dangers it contains should have gotten a bit more love, I think. Just rushing through the first 4 floors felt really anticlimactic to me. Even veterans, who have been doing this work for many years, struggle with this. And only a handful of people managed to get to the 6th floor and survive. Yet, these untrained and inexperienced children just ran down there like it was nothing. I think the descension we see in season 1 should have been spread out over 2 seasons instead so we could have gotten a closer look into what the abyss actually is and how it works. Right now the abyss seems a lot less mysterious and scary, which is a shame.
The villager threw her so the others would find her too
@@darkaquatus well, Reg do all the fighting job, that´s why Riko can decent so easy, no other veterans had this relic
Majikaja was an absolute break-out character for me. Glad he got to, even if briefly, achieve his dream of having an actual body. He looked so happy at the end. Pouring one out for mah boi Majikaja.
yeah, good boi Kaja looked as if he finally got inside a girl he liked. Even if briefly.
@@michajastrzebski4383 hell naw maji got caught lacking.
HADImae
Vueko actually assumed that her humanity was lost just like everyone else and was surprised that she still had it after all that time
The village was stagnant, unlike Faputa. The villagers couldn't leave their village. They were dead people walking and understood that. Faputa's legacy and freedom after being born in the village no one could leave made her precious to them. And they were happy to let her carry on in their place
True, it's still pretty wild to just let yourself be eaten lol
@@smileyp4535I guess it’s because they see Faputa as a god figure.
@@smileyp4535 well they are free now..i think
...I'm surprised, Faputa instantly realised, that Riko's Soul isn't.... "normal". Maybe it's because Riko was stillborn on the 5th (or was it the 4th?) Layer, or because she was revived by the Course-Warding Cage...
But DAMN IT, Vueko getting hit by the Curse of the 6th Layer AND Pakkoyan's Sacrifice to save her made my really REALLY sad... poor Girl. Aside from Irumyuui, she's the one with the worst Pasts in the second Season...
But it was the Scene where Faputa gave her a "proper" Burial, where I broke down Crying...
I love this Anime.
well yeah, both were created by the relics of the abyss that allowed them to live as without the wish Faputa would have been stillborn as well. Also fun fact: when she made the grave Faputa crushed the rock beneaeth her to burry Vueco under the sand since there was no soil under her
As Nanachi explained it in s1, the curse affects you as you ascend. Stop ascending, it won't affect you further. Vueko was thrown by Pakkoyan down into the village, where the force field could not reach. But the damage was already done, and while she didn't change any further, it still ultimately killed her.
It's not explored, but I reckon Pakkoyan and Vueko were lovers previously. There's one single panel in the manga showing them, um, cuddling to say. I think it might have been discussed further elsewhere, but I haven't seen any of that.
Another thing to remember with Wazukyan: Again, it's not paid too much attention, but everything came as a result of him. When Riko is attacked by the villagers and saved by Maa, Wazukyan asks if it was tough for her or something like that, implying he knew and maybe had something to do with it. It's also noted later that he planned to have Riko use a cradle of desire, the very thing that caused Irumyuui to changed this way, in order to allow the villagers to continue to roam the Abyss once more and no longer be trapped. Wazukyan was the secret villain, the whole way along.
I knew I wasn’t the only one that thought wazukyan was the secret villain! His intentions to make Riko use the wishing egg bc she was a pure child was what made me realize he was trying to create another version of irumyuui!
Nah she explains it hits you all at once when you break through the layers of the curse. She explains it with a blanket. The curse doesn’t hit you till you break through it, then it hits the exposed parts all at once.
I like to think that the villagers are willing to listen to Faputa because on some level they feel guilty for what they had done and that they deserve retribution. That or release in death...
I think that Wazukyan may have made the bridge to kill everyone inside the village because what he saw up ahead for Riko and her friends is much worse than death... a scary thing to think about.
I think the game and season 1 actually explain how the curse works. You can weaken the effeckt of the curse by decending or stop moving! We know the curse is a living beeing that actual does this as a selfdefense mechanismen against creatures that threat to penetrate it's organismen from below. Therefore it stops poisoning you if you stop "attacking" it or fall back!
Thats also the reason their are some places were you can accent without worries. As the curse just didn't grow/life everywhere.
Vueko and Irumyuui were far and away my favorite Season 2 characters and I remember on the first video I said I wanted to see Vueko and Irumyuui have happy endings. Honestly, despite the bittersweetness of it I'm satisfied with what they got.
Vueko getting hit by the curse seemed like a lame way to end it on the surface, but dig a bit deeper and it's fitting. By that point Vueko was questioning whether or not she was even still human and getting hit by the curse proved to her that despite everything she was still human, which I got the impression brought her at least some comfort in her final moments. But the thing that really got me in the feels was her last conversation with Faputa and that Faputa had no memories of Vueko because Irumyuui treasured her memories of Vueko so much that she wanted to keep them for herself. Vueko didn't die in misery; she died knowing just how much she truly meant to Irumyuui. She had been beating herself up thinking that she had let Irumyuui down by eating her kids (even under protest), not stopping the others from eating her kids and getting locked away, effectively abandoning her (even if she was inside Irumyuui's 'head'); so for her to learn that Irumyuui held none of that against her and still loved her more than anything brought her peace in her final moment and showed her that she actually had been there for Irumyuui all along and that through each other they both had in fact found what they had been looking for since Vueko escaped her fat bastard abuser and Irumyuui left the abusive natives all those years ago. That coupled with the shot of Vueko and Irumyuui's gravestones side-by-side, together forever counts as a happy ending in my book and was basically the 'Mitty Dies' of Season 2 for me in terms of emotional impact even though there was an actual Mitty Dies scene a few episodes earlier. I mean sure, they could have both not died, somehow reverted back to their pre-Mockwater human forms and lived happily ever after growing old together, but this is Made in Abyss we're watching here, that's not how it works. Peace and happiness in death along with burials symbolic of the two being together forever are as close as you're going to get.
Pakkoyan's death also hit pretty hard, but the anime screwed it up pretty damn hard by not doing anything to show that they were an item prior to that scene, so when you see Pakkoyan crying for Vueko you might get the vague inkling that she loves her, but by that time the scene is already happening and some of the impact is lost. Luckily I knew they were a thing already due to people talking about a certain missing sex scene panel, but if you're an anime-only who doesn't know that then you're going to miss out on some of the impact the scene is supposed to have. Much though I love Season 2 I do feel it was an objective narrative flaw for there not to be anything showing their relationship in episode 7 or 8, even if it wasn't that specific panel. Pakkoyan threw Vueko out of range of the curse, which caused it to stop taking effect, leaving Vueko with some of her humanity still intact for her final scene.
I can unterstand they cut out the sex scene. The Anime already barely dodges the Lolicon blames people throw at the author. Having a yuri sex scene with character that drawn in a chibi style would not make a good case for the anime^^
I also liked Wakuyan as an "antagonist". Seeing his trying to somehow save the village even though he knew it would end like this. And seeing him accepting that Fabuta would carry on their dreams. This was a truly good written antagonist. As someone who did was seemed nessesary to protect Vueko and his people.
@@mrcaos999 "people throw at the author." Not people, just westerners. Japan doesn't care as a whole, just the woke minority. This is why I read the manga years ago for this arc, I knew the anime will simply censure shit and sure enough, they made it woke friendly. People die and melt, that's ok, violence is ok. But show 2 girls under a blanket with a boob pressed by a finger and aww hellll naw. Y'all screwed in the head
@@kysfggt cutting out yuri would be the opossite of woke!
But i now unterstand your position if "woke" is your problem.
Its more like that people don't like how he draws his underage character and some of the joke.
The anime plays it save and just cuts it out. I can unterstand it.
@@mrcaos999 I just hate censure and double standards, which western speech is full of. But the most fucked up thing is, they don't even care about what they say they care about, as I exemplified in the earlier comment. You don't want to protect kids, you just want to sperg
Great review! Wazukyan made the bridge because that was what was in his prophecy to do. All his decisions he made was due to his prophecy and he thought it would lead him to his dreams and desires or exploring the Abyss as a true adventurer but the prophecies weren't for his goals they were for the creation of Faputa. We dont know what gave him these visions but whatever it was it was to create Faputa who has a greater purpose in the story than she does now
I don't think Wazukyan truly saw the future. I believe he had an unshakable resolve that gave him the confidence to make decisions and see them through, regardless of the cost to himself or others. His goal was to protect the people who placed their trust in him, and at that, he succeeded. Others saw him as a prophet for his skill as a leader, but he had no mystical powers, and he was certainly no saint. A truly morally grey character, whose abhorrent actions were pursued for the noblest of goals. Masterful writing in this arc.
@@spencersdh1 if he wanted to protect them why the fuck did he create the battle horse bridge? Faputa could barely handle one
I’m calling it. Lyza somehow transferred her soul/spirit into Riko. That’s why she constantly wants to go back to the abyss since Lyza’s physical form can’t leave until Riko returns. It’s the reason the whole 7th layer being the darkest part is because everything Riko believes about her mom is going to be a lie and find out she’s super evil now. And the reason Reg had his name in the first place is because Lyza named him Reg, and when Riko named Reg it’s actually Lyza remembering what she named him. The whole reason Reg went to the surface in the first place, to return Riko to Lyza so Reg can have Lyza back. But he forgot.
I swear I think something is gonna happen along those lines. Not Riko being a reincarnation, but kinda like a vessel like how Bondrewd uses his umbra hands.
And then I come smashing in out of some random stained glass window and then I proceed to say "it's ultrakilling time" then I ultrakill all over the place, everyone gets a happy ending... I hope.
My favorite character of Made in Abyss S2 is Maaa. This dude became the protector of Riko from a stuffed animal obsessed creepy dude. I wanted him to join Riko's crew.
I think Maa was a girl too.
Maaa was a little girl. This season was kinda meh to me I couldn't relate to the characters' motivations. But Maaa was my favorite when Riko gave her the plushie and Maaa disappeared I cried my eyes out. It was the saddest scene this season for me ahaha
@@jouz7959 I'm still think Maa was male because of his right arm looks like "that" IMO. Either way I don't have any issue if Maa was a girl though. It was good character.
@@jahpass the right arm only looked like that after it got skinned to rebalance the value. She also followed Riko bekause she was the only one that gave her companionship in in a cold world obsessed with value, even after she hurt the pet
Man, I was so tired of seeing Maa cheeked up every week for no reason
If the episode was around 45 minutes long not counting the OP/ED, I think I cried for like 30 of them lmao. I'll just say I'm gonna miss Majikaja for the rest of my life. Did I accidentally find my HAKU, I wonder... HADImae...
Pakkoyan sacrificing herself for vueko... Such a powerful scene
I can't stop crying, Vuekoooooo.
This arc is really about Vueko and how she got a family (Irumyuui and Fafuta), and she learned to value herself.
It really made me cry once you delve deeper into each episode.
irumyuui was so far my fav character in the whole series, her story was most painful like how she was most loved person in her old home, just to be hated, when again when she found her happiness it was taken by people she truly loved and replaced with infinitely long period of misery and pain
Also isn´t it kinda weird the chief named one of the sages after her abuser?
@@PancakemonsterFO4 no, he named himself. Irumyuui created him from vuekos memories of her abuser
@@DaTLMusic that explains why it was part of irumiyuis goop bunny system
12:34 but in this moment she actually does know Vueko because now she has Belaf memories, but she don't know what to do because this is information she never knew for all those years this her mom left hidden from her, this is a shock for her because she thinked she had all her mother's knowledge.
I don't think the fall killed Wazukyan i think his abilities had a limit, when he was projecting the village from the rain of iron he says that he almost has no more of those branches, and when they found him he said he was empty. I think he used all his value and his body in those weird branches and then he died.
Edit: actually all the villagers died by using all of his value, Belaf used his value to give Nanachi and Faputa the memories and other things, the other villagers give his value to Faputa by feeding her their bodies, even Magikajiya gave all his value to use Faputa's body and btw his was his most precious desire, to have a body and not only a recipient, and as Vueko once said: when you found your most valuable treasure then you lose your own value and your adventure stops. (But I don't think this is necessarily true for all characters, but I think it was true for all the villagers)
Faputa has to be my favorite character of MIA s2 because of how complex the character was. She was born with revenge in mind yet also was innocent and playful with Reg. She is very temperamental, only dealing with the extremes of her emotions. But the character became much more complex when Belaf gave her all of his memories. She starts to regret what she did but at the same time not because she still has a purpose. On top of all this, she has to deal with her friend who gave her a promise and a gift but doesn't remember her. In my eyes, Fabuta is an emotionally immature little girl who gets thrown all these different emotions simultaneously and doesn't know what to do with them. I enjoyed seeing how she wrestled with her goals and the new memories she got.
Finally, I really enjoyed how Faputa pushed aside any feelings and focused on ask Veuko about her Mom. At the end of the day,
Faputa is a girl who never got to meet her mom.
about the girl that saved vueko and died. if the villagers leave the village and touch the curse they die thats why she died it was even explained in the anime. altho a little hidden i manage to grasp it.
its not even that they die because of contacting the curse. As Belaf says, what was created by the village - cannot exist outside the village. They are literally part of Irumyyui, and cease to exist if they leave her. Once transformed, they ceased to be separate beings.
9:00 - as far as I can tell those that were made in the village can't exists outside of it. The copy of Mitty was an earlier example of this.
Did anyone notice the guardian has Vueko step dad name and that had a pole that glowed red hot. 😱
I think others are corrupted by the Abyss and she’s immune to the corruption because her soul is of the Abyss. There’s a reason that the floor of the Abyss pursued her while everyone else is pursuing the floor. I think that’s because she embodies the soul of the Abyss.
As long as Faputa stays with the main party, that's all that matters to me.
Little tiny bit almost insignificant SPOILER that will make you happy
she will stay with the party
Fullmetal alchemist episode with the chimera, father merged his daughter with the dog, turned into a series with dantes inferno levels of hell as motif.... jeez...bet they end up abruptly with more questions than answers left behind...like the promised neverland...
thanks for the recap this was a confusing episode tbh, a confusing season to me, but i enjoy the anime quite a bit, despite the oddness, i think it's the oddness of it that i find most intriguing. what is at the bottom of this abyss!? ugh!
Man I had all this trauma tucked away and this just dragged all of it out again. I forgot how brutal this anime is overall but you got to admit it was a wild ride 🥲 I loved this anime when it first came out !
Great review. Faputa MVP of this season the best and cutest Digimon ever 😂. RIP Ma too 😭. One of the top anime of this year
after watching one of your made in abyss videos, I went to go watch everything from season1 and the movie up till season 2, pretty good anime. I really like Reg in the anime.
he did not made the bridge, the bridge already existed it just got reforced bacause wazukyan usedhis body to PROTECT the city from the iron rain the and that was also what killed him not falling down but using his body to cover the whole city.
I cried watching this video when Faputa felt sad about Vueko man :(
finished the anime, cried over the same scene
my favorite character ez Faputa i know its a basic answer but she's way to cute and cool i also love how she used to be with Reg
I still can't get over how the mfs always wanted to touch vomit or diarrhea
I am surprised more of those villagers weren’t killed off, poisoned, and eaten by monsters before getting sick by that water. That giant spiny thing that almost killed Riko should have gotten one at least.
I really thought that vueko having a human body despite supposedly being a hollow is just some fan service from the series lol. Also, i feel like cooking some iru kids.
If she join, the team is going to be Op af
not if the beasts keep getting tougher that is, althrough Reg can get boosted now so he doesn´t soely rely on his blaster to do serious damage
True, but make a good tracker
Faputa is my favorite character
It's not that the villagers don't mind dying, it's that they're part of a whole and Faputa is "collecting" their value. They become a part of her.
e: my fav is Faputa, she's just wonderful. I mean, I wish Vueko had some happy resolution but I just love Faputa, especially after we got to see more of her in the last episodes.
i mean better give your body up to your god then get mauled by the wild creatures. Its also just fair to give the reincarnation what you took from the sacrifice to keep on living
Wow the first one I see, that gets why.
Oh to answer your question: although Reg is still the my favorite character in the show and I loved finally learning [a little] more about his backstory, my favorite of this season is Faputa. I just love that a creature seemingly born with the sole purpose of revenge and destined to a life of hate and misery could find greater meaning in even their lives. This ties back to Reg as it is mainly him that makes her see that. In such a dark story it seems to be a cool ray of hope in the midst of all that dispair. While she doesn't skirt her fate the resolution isn't nihilistic but surprisingly hopeful, and I hope she does in fact truly join their party.
Faputa and ren are my favorite duo
There some clues about Riko's soul in that episode that's what I want know about and hearing the other girl's voice from the white whistle was like hearing her voice once again I do feel bad for Vueroeruko because of the curse got to her and turning her or deforming her into a hollow.
Vueko deserved better
@@UyakNo I agree with you 100%
I don't really see the ending as unfortunate.
The village lived past its natural end by taking from Irumyuui. They survived over a hundred years in their unnatural bodies and the end of their little bubble was inevitable, even deserved.
A lovely bittersweet ending of season 2.
I cry so loudly every time I rewatch Made In Abyss that my roommate shouts at me for watching it😭
I don't think she just "passby" there, she wanna suicide ... again since the guy also hold her to not let her going suicide again with her despair, that's why that dude(forgot the name) cage her in with the roots IMO
I can’t get over how overly the top this series was with how dark and gory it got. I always liked Mitty I felt so bad for her to not only for her having to go through that horrific transformation but to then have some part of her humanity alive trapped inside her monster form.
i really enjoyed the narahate characters and i wish there was more info on why they look so different from nanachi and bondrewd's blobs. i love moogie, kaja, the innkeeper, and pakkoyan, they're all so cute, but them and the other villagers don't really look humanoid, do they? and pakkoyan had a ~LEWD HISTORY~ with vueko when they were part of ganja, i want to know what was up with that
4:28 what's going on with Maa-san proportions xd
you should make a recap of this season
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Yeeeea if you haven't figured out by now that every arc is probably going to have traumatic ending..... you haven't been paying attention. 😕
I'm already getting sad again while watching this.
i would have loved to see belaf in a fight either against the creatures from the abyss or faputa even tho it would not make much sense to fight her from a narrative perspectivve
I wonder where are all those viilagers came from before residing in the village.
What causes this curse? Why do people either melt or turn into monsters?!?
Really enjoy these made in abyss vids man, and i don’t want it to end 😭😭😭 any interest in playing the game?
Nah, I do have a few more made in abyss videos to make though
Rikos Mother went to the bottom to get Riko soul which is why riko has to met her at the bottom . 😅
I wonder why Lyza sent Reg to get Riko
A few of your thoughts on the season are incorrect, but still a good review.
I thought the same and missed out most of the important stuff 🤷🏾♂️
Honestly, I don't understand why Vueko should die. I mean, why not just let her get into crew? It feels just wrong like the author decided to kill her just because all her previous crewmates died. Such a shame, now there will be this yet another loli moth-like creature that will work essentially as a tool for more pedo scenes. For fuck sakes, why it should be like this?...
For our front seat experience of the curse :) Riko has taken the curse for every layer but she can't come back from the 6th version. So she had to take the role
Vueko's arc was fulfilled. She blamed herself for everythink that happened to Iyumi because she can't make decisions. But thanks to Riko she regocnized she did make one important decision and how much she enjoyed her time with all the other.
At this point there were not many storys left he could tell with her. Vueko also had no reason to continue further into the abyss. Her destiny always was the golden city. She had fullfilled her desires. (What usually means character die in this plot)^^
If she survives it actual makes not much sense Fabuta continues downwards either. Because it would be a perfect set up for a happy end for the two. (Both staying together to rebuild a new home)
PS: She is also an adult. And this far only children joined the crew. I think he also just doesn't want to add a adult to the group:)
Riko is the frail human of the group. Having a frail adult that can't do much either would weaken Riko's character as the optimist that moves forward despite her weakness.
She had to die with the rest of the villagers. It's in a way poetic justice for what had happened long ago with Irumyuui. While I agree Vueko did nothing wrong but tried to be there for Irumyuui, she just felt so guilty to watch Irumyuui suffer so much. The villagers knew their time would come eventually.
@@johnogawa5100 atleast she is with irumyuui again tho
Im pretty sure Riko's mom used her as a fetus to get her whistle, and then resurrected the babe...which is why her soul is odd to others.
That's not how that works. Becoming the whistle is something that the future whistle has to choose.
And it takes their body and turns it into pink juice
Lyza was already a white whistle even before meeting and marrying Torka - so well before Riko was born. Also - manga spoiler:
we do get to know the name of Lyza's whistle, later on.
How did Bondwred get a whole of Mitty? Did she come to him after she was torched by Reg? Did he have extras after Reg destroyed his basement?
He brought mitty before he did experiments on her like before nanachi even knew bondrewd was using mitty so thats why she still has 2 eyes, and thats how belaf rememberd mitty so thats how he brought her back it wasnt a real mitty thats why she couldnt live outside the village and dissapeared like the rest, but thats pretty powerful maybe the same type off thing lyza has and thats why she send regg
Reg develop backstory-lore hype
HERESY /// ACT 2 CRECENDO
AESTHETIC OF HATE
Faputa is my haku
This could be called a recap video. And just a bit explanatory.
is irruyumi dead? never understood what happened to her after she moved.
She's no longer herself the moment she became "that" creature. More curses and blessings for this growing crew though.
She has lost her humanself but Fabuta claims she still suffered are this years. So she wasn't fully death i think.
You can see Irumyui in her village state a bit like mitty. Cant communicate, cant move, cant do anything really. Not much left of her mind at that point either. She tried to help the villagers and thus became the village. But then Vueko was hooked up to her and that made her understand the horror of what was done to her. That anger then spawned Faputa.
It took Faputa a long time to destroy the village because she grew up feral really, and couldnt get into the village. It's only when belaf let her kill him that she got any idea of what happened before she was born. And i guess she also needed to absorb the power out of all the villagers, because only then with basicly all villagers dead is when faputa could destroy the village/irumyui. That is when she finally died.
Imagine Pixar makes adult animation. This would be epic. I feel this is a perfect story for Pixar with all the sadness and brutality.
I refuse to watch the show but I enjoy your reviews :)
Thank you!
You don’t make any sense
I wanted to watch this, but the weirdo factor (Mostly Reiko being nude and Dick jokes about Reg) makes it impossible to enjoy normally. I appreciate your commentary.
Vueko ?
The girl that was hit with the curse while walking up the stairs
Pretty sure, Maa is a dude😂 nice recap.
This was a recap, not a review.
great anime tho
I’m also like is she 100% truly Irumyuuis will that is probably what he is going for but I just can’t truly buy it. Sure Vueko and Faputa are certain of it but they are both so unreliable. Broken characters and broken mechanics sort of bug me in that way.
This anime just seems like a constant ripping of the watchers feels. I've never watched this anime an I don't think I want to. Its like they introduce a character and make you get attached to them only to force you to watch them die in the most painful and excruciating fashion possible and I'm not down for that. If anyone feels like they can persuade me otherwise, feel free.
I don't think anyone can persuade you to like it if you decide its not for you. Narrative pain is an acquired taste, for sure. At the end of the day, what makes it bearable for me is that the despair isn't all encompassing. You have both pathos and levity and the contrast of those bright moments with the dark ones. It almost verges on the edge of diabolos ex machina sometimes, but manages to pull just short of it in my opinion.
That's why I keep reading/watching at least. I'm working my way through The Black Company book series right now and whoo boy, that's some good despair and hopelessness right there. Delicious.
For real, i felt like the destruction of the entire village they had was a very unnaseserily cruel plot development. But i suppose this anime wants to teach you to not get attached to the characters at all so that you wont feel bad about them dying horribly
Honestly I don't watch it, it looks a bit pedophilic & sadistic. I only watched the first season before I gave up on it. I never cared about fictional characters, they aren't real. The way the children are put in situations & how they were drawn, let's just say it was inappropriate. I only see recaps or clips of the anime to see where the story was going.
This season was a let down. I was very excited for the weird, corrupt village rules showing a child like innocence coupled with adult depravity. I wanted more despair and I only got a slight taste of it in the middle and then everything turned into standard fare by the end and I was forcing myself to finish the last 3 episodes.
Are you telling me that a child forced to become a food source for a dying group of villagers while she suffers constantly from her babies and humanity is being taken away day by day was a slight taste? Or how Maaa literally got ripped to shreds due to the balancing? Veuko melting because of the curse? Not to mention the beautiful score, the lovely character designs, the emotional beats. I am extremely impressed by your standards.
@@__yam1502 Vueko and Maa had little effect on me. Had that been the end of Maa right then maybe it would of felt different and Vueko getting iced by the curse seemed ok as well given how protected she was for so long. My understanding is that the manga fleshed out parts of characters for this arc better which could of made a difference in the emotional impact of losing just about everyone.
@@thorinhannahs4614 I have to agree that the manga did a better job with having really good emotions. Especially the one part in the manga when Wazukyan looked at Veuko with a completely terrifying face. The one part I thought the anime did a really good job was the first time Faputa started tearing the citizens up. Overall, I felt the season did a really good job even if it wasn’t as emotional strong as it could have been.
omg such a bad analisis and recount of the events jesus christ
My boy is one punch man for real one hand fights everybody
There is no good or bad experience its just experience
People who have not read the manga and try and make analyses on what is happening annoy the shit out of me.
This is not the end of the 6th layer. They still have to go hang out with the cursed fleet