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Maa is gone.😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭
Where is ma? No villager survive out side the village. Hu this is the darkest season of animal crossing
As a hard core fan my self, I have been waiting for your take and reaction on Season 2 of Made in Abyss. And yeah, we're pretty much the same. 😢📶😵
Tried the newest Gundam: Witch From Mercury? Even just the 24minute prologue is brutal on the feels... "Happy Birthday to youuu!"
But they made a new "party member" in the film ;)
This is the only series where I can say "The baby eating solution actually worked" without any irony.
HUSH! BAD!
Yes hutao-sama
Subarashi
way to put me off watching
That sounds so SO wrong in a good way. Man this anime 100% has one of the sickest world's I definitely wouldn't wanna live in.
"The city itself is pretty much a character in its own right" You can drop the "pretty much".
And the "in it's own right".
"The city itself is a character"
People talk about the setting of a story as a character, but they never talk about what the setting wants and feels. Which in this case is "revenge" and "despair" respectively, but I digress.
Now I think may be abyss is also a character. A living being.
Convoluted reason to draw an immortal 3 year old basically in a bunny costume to please the pedos
Fun fact! The voice actress of Faputa lost her voice in the last couple episodes of Made in Abyss season 2.
The crew were kind enough to give her an extra week to recover and only made her do her last lines in ONE TAKE, so only one chance at recording to get things done. Props to her and the crew for the fantastic performance.
makes sense considering how much faputa screamed
tbh i really loved the double-episode , it felt so good 49min min without pause or something
Say…That WAS fun!
Japanese or English voice actress?
It was actually heavily hinted at why Reg was traveling up the Abyss. He mentions to Faputa that he is going to fetch someone's "Haku" and bring them back down. This almost certainly refers to Riku, and Lyza was the one who asked Reg to retrieve her (as she can't travel back herself). It also explains why he was already named Reg despite Riku naming him that after her dog. Lyza also happened to name him after their dog! He also tells Faputa he can't open the village with his incinerator as it only has one charge left and using it would cause him to lose his memory. And we see Reg use this last charge in Episode 1 to save Riku from the Crimson Splitjaw, thus causing him to forget his past and mission.
God why dont more people know this. It makes the whole show that much better..
lol it's not Riko, Reg has made a huge mistake and they're only going to find out when they reach Lyza.
That would actually make a huge amount of sense why he used his incinerator to save her. He wasn't just going around saving everyone on his way; his mission IS her.
So there's a very good chance he would have left any other cave raider die in the same situation... (Though as we see with Faputa, he really is a sweetheart in his core, so I'm sure he would have tried...)
@@ausaskar why would reg ruin any chance of him completing his mission just for some random girl if that was the case? We have seen from post dawn soul that reg is powerful enough to fight without it against some very powerful foes, so why then??? How would he even know who she if she wasn't it?
With the sheer number of fan theories, one is bound to be correct. Maybe yours?
Don't you just love seeing someone slowly having mental breakdown just from talking about Made In Abyss
SUBARASHII
It's amazing
Kinda like the Belaf manga chapter cover panel.
YES i do.
I just look in the mirror for that
You know, jokes abound about the "Power of Friendship" in this context, but I think there's more to it than that. One of the themes of Made in Abyss seems to be that the world can be a dark, horrifying place, and that our only hope is to reach out and show kindness to others even when we think they might not deserve it. That clinging onto each other, holding on tightly to what's precious to us, and surviving just a little longer is victory in itself.
It's the most optimistic horror series I think you'll find. Despite how horrifying and twisted the series is, it never becomes cynical; and no matter how many characters die or suffer other horrible fates, it never treats them like they just exist to suffer. They suffer, and they die, but their lives were still precious along the way. There was still meaning in the way they lived, even if their endeavors may have been in some way doomed. And to those who still live on, that's treated as a triumph. The pain always turns out to have been worth something, and every effort to live and go a step further is repaid, even if it's not with what the character may have been looking for.
Underrated comment
Amazing coment
it's especially haunting if you count the many that perished before Riko as part of her "friends" list. like all the adults in the show said, the power in Riko and Faputa has is the "culmination" of everyone before them, and that their success is inevitably the success of everyone else that they have encountered.
it's beautiful in a way, because if we apply that to real life, i wouldn't be here typing away comfortably if it wasn't for every else in the past that made an imprint, good or bad, in history. at the same time, like Riko and Faputa, our efforts and struggles IRL aren't necessarily downplayed, but a sign that we too am going to be part of somebody else's culmination.
This history is like the Abyss itself: it gives us, spectators, life and death, curses and blessings: all that it have. Is very generous in that sense
I think you just perfectly described why, despite all the pain this series brings, it's one of the most beautiful pieces of media I've had both the pleasure and displeasure of watching.
One of the things that struck me, especially with this season, is the world building. I just can't believe how anyone could make this stuff up and have it hold together so solidly! They certainly must be seeing the world through different eyes than most.
Instead of "Rose tinted" glasses, perhaps a pair of "Tragic mutilation" ones, Lol.
Yeah akihito is definitely a little disturbed lol
To take this a bit more literally, but yes, he is actually color blind.
There were actually quite a few books back in the day with a similar "fantastic" world building. Unfortunately that is a dying art since most fantasy is based on existing or known structures. And the amount of work and creativity necessary to create something similar are no joke.
Me Before: MiA season 2 can't be that bad...
Me After: Gabu...
For some reason gabu death makes me cry even more than veuko , I don't know but his last words saying that his days with faputa was his haku with that phenomenal soundtracks makes me cry so hard 🥲
Gabu is best girl 😢
@@kingdoom5022 Same here. I didn't have that sort of connection to Vueko..
Definitely someone was cutting onions during ep 11, what a masterpiece of an anime
Me before Ougonkyou: I love this show but I can't say I'm super attached to any character, Bondrewd is my favorite but I wouldn't say I 'love' him y'know
Me after Ougonkyou: *Obsessed with
Majikaja beyond help*
A big shout out to Kevin Penkin, his score has to be one of best of year, taking a great anime and elevating it to one of best of all time.
Tbf, most of the Tracks were reused from s1, so i wouldnt really put it on nomination
@@Exel3nce New seasons almost always use a fair bit of music from what came before, and there's plenty of new music with the new season.
@@Exel3nce After listening to the OST, i can say that this comment is cap.
@@Exel3nce 34 new tracks, what are you on about? xD
Well yeah, one of the best kinda goes without saying with this series. Personally I think Chainsaw man will end up with a better soundtrack by the end of the year because Kensuke Ushio is on another level, but we’ll see
Wazukyan's dilemma revolving around the survival of the explorers was such a dark concept. It's rare for a show to have such thought provoking and horrific choices.
And Vueko desperetaly begging "Why do I not just go insane?" was so f'ed up. She just didn't want to be aware, she didn't want to know anymore, but she was there, fully conscious of what happened.
(Being an anime only) There is no worse feeling than that of skimming through the manga right after finishing a season of anime, then finding out that there's like ~5 chapters left unadapted which means it'll take years for a continuation...
:(
Much like arcane, I'm willing to wait if it preserves the quality.
I like how they added Prushka. She is a joyful companion.
Practically sings
Manga Spoilers ahead!
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Riko can still talk with Prushka in her sleep and interact with her and Faputa can talk with the souls in the white whistles
@@Datsyoashley I was about to say: She seems pretty upbeat about the whole thing.
Everyone calls this series masochistic but deep down you know it’s healing. Despite everything Riko pushes further and somehow make friends and feels good about it all. If she can do it in the Abyss I can do it here
yeah!
Similar to Berserk. The difference between gore porn and good dark fantasy is in it's use of hope.
@@godhand291 yeeeeees! And even if all is lost, it was all worth it, “tanoshikatta na” (it was fun).
Not really - that’s such a naive way of looking at it. It’s just the author having enough of torture and wanting to move on. No real life person would be the same after getting their white whistle.
Yeah, her optimism has nothing to do with the fact that she is useless & relies on everyone else around her to sacrifice themselves for her
I loved the 9th episode. Faputa's return to the village, the amazing final boss music playing as she enter the village, and her speech was peak anime. The delivery on the voice actress was so danm well done
there is the scale of fuck around and find out; then there's Faputa.
If a story, show or franchise has made you cry. It CAN do it again.
It's just often good at convincing you that you've hit the bottom before it snaps open the trap door.
Ep 10 of this season might be my favourite anime ep of all times , reg and faputa relationship was so perfect and so well done and seeing them fighting each other was heart breaking , the constant back and forth transition was insane and the soundtracks were phenomenal , made in abyss truly my favourite anime ever 🤩
And that scene when reg promises faputa and it turns into scene of him crying. Mah heart, mah soul
I cant even remember that ep that much:/
My thoughts exactly!
Ep 1, 7 & 8 were my favorite ones.
@@Exel3nce sure,but I for example saw this episode almost 4 months ago and I instantly knew which one he was talking about. It seems like you have this hobby of triggering people that are fan of something,either that or you just really love to talk about stuff you don’t like,either of those options make you look just as stupid. Just let people enjoy what they like and quit trying to act like your taste is superior.
honestly the part where the group arrives at the Golden City in the first episode, i started crying even when nothing happened because the music and my experience with s1. I was emotionally preparing for the worst.
So glad someone is talking about this season. This season is currently best of year for me. It is incredible. IMO, it managed to improve on almost every aspect of the first season. Which was already amazing.
Season 1 makes made in abyss enter my top 5 , the movie make it my favourite anime and this season makes it my favourite piece of fiction ever 🤩🔥
easily best of the year
@@kingdoom5022 wth rlly, how?
@@Exel3nce Bondrewd and The Princess.
How? This season was so frustrating, like the video points out it just flat out ignores the motivations of all the main cast to tell the story of the village ppl that I don't care about, they try to present them as immoral at first (and it gets worse when you know the backstory) but then try to make me care of their fate or being friends with the main cast? They try to draw a corralation with Riku in the adventure of going in the abyss but there is not really a connection, in the story nor emotionally bcs we don't actually see them suffer near a fraction what the main cast suffered to even get that deep and they had a fucking op robot. (their tragedy starts at the 6th layer and that's where they give up on going deeper, they have no simolited to Riku, and the show tries to trick you into thinking that)
They reopen Nanashi CLOSED conflict for no reason at all, and to worse offense it doesn't even add to the story it's just a distraction, filler and cheap emotional triggers.
This season has a lot of aggregious plot holes, like if all the monster are so afraid of Faputa that making those stuffed corpses with the scent mixed made the main cast immune to monster attacks then why in the end the monsters attack Faputa so carelessly without being afraid at all.
If this season was a completely different story (another show or a prequel series) and they just flat out delete Riku, Nanashi and Reg it would have been better or at least less frustrating to watch but this was Made in Abyss, and that's why tossing aside the main cast and ignoring their motivations for plot reasons is just bad. (Also they did Nanshi so dirty this season)
Man, this season was amazing! It made me happy, angry, and it made me cry! And Reg's transformation is legit one of the coolest I've ever seen and it's just a color swap and slight skin change! Faputa, Vueko, Irumyuui and everyone was so well written!
it's telling when just reading those 3 names in a row sends shivers down my spine and makes the hair on my arms stand up.
man.
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
Faputa wazukyan and riko became my favourite characters in the series along bondrewd
I hated it because it's hard to ignore author's pedophilic tendencies :(
It's so disturbing and i love the world building, but it's just not worth it for me
I feel indifferent I guess with how much everybody is giving praise to this season. IMO, the first season was a 9/10 and this fell to a 8/10. I personally felt that the story, world building, visuals and soundtrack were the strong points whereas character development and dialogue was lacking, aside from vueko and that whole story told, even if a bit kind of messy, I did enjoy it. Though was certainly not an anime that made me tear up
@@SparkMediaProduction "aside from vueko and that whole story"
that's... kind of the entire season's thing though?
that'd be like saying "well see i didn't really like most of the story in houseki no kuni, but i did really like the evolution of phos over time and how this changed how she viewed and interacted with the rest of the cast and enemies."
like
there's barely anything left narratively speaking, if you like that you liked the season as much as you should have as much as the author oughta have expected from it, unless you wanted to seee more about reg and riko, but... that wasn't the goal of the season(and it did anyway, even if only a tiny bit)
I was definitely worried when I found out this season would only be 13 episodes but man... the pacing was top notch, and the tragedy still hit...hard even though I knew all of the main beats.
Maaa is a good girl, I hope nothing bad happens to her........
Maa is genderless.
....you sure a joy to be around...
I was so confident that I can handle this season, I even decided to eat some food while watching an episode...... it was the one with the baby eating.
I can never look at curry the same again.
This season is one of the best adaptations I've ever seen in anime. They killed it.
They sure killed many, many many things. 😂
@@NaBa.O3O Truuuuuu
The "but we are not talking about the film" jokes were the best part of the video 😂
Super happy you covered this absolutely incredible season and it had such a profound impact on you! Made In Abyss is truly something special ❤️
May your journey be filled with curses and blessings 🙏
Nice seeing you here Mickell Pickell!
@@rubysu9265 Nice seeing you here too Ruby! :D
I really like the part where reg goes “Wow, we did it, we finally Made in Abyss!”
S1E1 Riko: where are you from?
S1E1 Reg: I don't know.. but I was Made In Abyss
I like it when Mr. Abyss was like, "it's time to make in abyss" and abyssed everywhere.
I've had almost a spiritual experience with this second season. Even after all the tears caused by the show, I ended up feeling better than I have in weeks when it finally ended. Irumyuui's story spoke to me so much and somehow she helped me process some feelings I had been having regarding my identity and self worth due to me having a disability and several unrelated health problems that I was diagnosed with at a young age.
I haven't read the manga, but from this season of the anime alone i think we learned a fair bit about Reg's past and why he traveled all the way to the surface mostly by 2 facts we learned: (mild spoilers ahead)
1) Reg's name before Riko named him Reg was actually Reg! We learned this from Faputa, Reg was always Reg even before losing his memory, and in my second viewing I noticed that one of the first things Reg remember us and Nanachi when they got to the sixth layer was that Riko named him Reg before a dog from her early childhood. Then how can this be?! Is not like there can be someone in the bottom of the Abyss that also knew that dog from Riko's childhood and somehow had the same idea as she right? Right?
2) Reg was traveling up the Abyss searching for something or someone and he was planning to bring that with him down to the bottom of the abyss. He told to Faputa that he needed to go up to find this haku (the thing of most value) because someone asked him to do something, and then he would return and fulfill his promise to her and then they can travel together. Even more, we know Reg didn't wanted to use the incinerator because he had not much energy and he didn't knew what would happen if he fired it, and he says that the Haku he is looking for can help with that. And when Faputa found Reg one of the first things she wandered is which of his partners was his Haku, she was expecting Reg to return with his Haku.
From this 2 things I deduced that there is someone on the bottom of the abyss that knows Riko's past and that asked Reg to go to the surface and bring something (or more probably someone) to the bottom. And you can think even more, Reg fired his Incinerator to save Riko and lost his memory in the process knowing that this was his last shot of the incinerator, maybe he did that because his Haku was always Riko, maybe what he is doing right know is the thing he was supposed to do all this time. To bring Riko back to the bottom of the abyss.
I've had this theory for years that Reg is in a timeloop, since Lyza is a terrible mother and has been absent for most of Riko's life I actually don't think Lyza would know Riko had a dog named Reg. One way that the theory could work is that the Reg that's travelling up the abyss still has his old memories and that's how he's able to recognize Riko when he reaches the first layer, also I may be misremembering but I swear Reg told Faputa he was looking for his haku and Gabu later confirms this by telling Faputa that Riko is Reg's haku. Another side thing is that we do know Reg spent some time with Lyza but the makeshift grave with the blazereap and the fact that Ozen threw shade at the legitimacy of who or what wrote the note to Riko makes me think there's a good chance Reg witnessed Lyza die and there's something else down there past the point where the pit turns into a lovecraftian monster that wants Riko down there. Both theories are probably wrong but I'm surprised that there still hasn't been any information that outright disproves either theory.
Afterall....riko belongs to the abyss all along.
Just having a new season was beyond a treat as a manga reader I hope everyone who watched it had a good time.
I had a horrible time but I don't regret a second. 😂
Afterall, nobody who's read the manga and/or watched the first season of the anime would watch the second season expecting for sugar and spice and everything nice. GR has a point in the video, though: SOMEONE GIVE NANACHI GOOD THINGS! FLUFFY BUN-BUN DESERVES A BREAK! 🙃
If Riko aka Bondrewd and Wazukyan number 1 fan is the nicest and more empathetic character then we're screwed. This is exactly why i love this series.
Literally everyone has plenty of darkness and beauty within just like the Abyss itself. I think just Prushka and Vueko were completely innocent and that's precisely why their stories are as they are.
From the manga it's pretty clear Orth is completely ok with whatever the white whistles do, even Habolg who we think was a great fatherly figure to the kids back in the surface.
The story it's going to get dark af, with still 3 white whistles waiting and whatever lies beyond the Pivotal Ring. Danm i have tens of horrible theories like many do. Peak anime journey.
I read the manga and this is definitely a series that is greatly improved in the anime. The music, art, colors and voice acting add so much. Now to wait probably 4 years for season 3. 😢
I say its improved 80% of the manga and 20% not , mainly faputa birth scene and the petals falling from the sky were much better in the manga , the rest is almost completely better
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I think you might like "super eyepatch wolf"'s video's on dragonball :)
I don't quite remember the birth scene, but the manga scene of the flowers was insane, I just went "wtf is happening up there....) and I still hope we get that answered.
How often does the manga come out?
@@davidnemoseck9007 Every "Whenever the author feels like it".
In a year he has released 4 chapters (One being a side story a bit shorter than your regular chapter) so on average once every 3 months.
@@Terrabreak133 Wow, seriously. You would think the author would get chapters out more quickly for something this popular.
While Hunter x Hunter is my all time favorite anime, Made in Abyss is the one I most want to see the ending for. Everything about this show is perfect, and Bondrewd makes me feel like I can never write an antagonist that good
A few years ago I got to ep 60ish of Hunter x Hunter and just couldn't get into it, stuck with it because of all the praise. Does it it get better? Or maybe it's just not for me?
@@willmartin4234 the same thing happened to me, I probably dropped the show 2 or 3 times up all the way through the Greed Island Arc. That said, the Chimera Ant arc (episodes 76-136) is one of the most renowned story arcs of all time by the anime community for good reason. I would recommend sticking through with the series, if you're at all a fan of the battle shounen genre.
@@thenew4559 thanks for the reply! Now I've seen it, I have looked back and realised that I have viewed up to ep 75. Will keep watching!
@@willmartin4234 Sweet. You won't regret it! :D
@@Blindingstarshine I have watched it all since and can say it was great 😊
We also went a season without a new white whistle. Which is good - the show could get formulaic if it just went from White Whistle to White Whistle. And having still not seen Srajo and Wakuna, how they will be involved in the story is just more intriguing now.
I see a lot of parallels between this season and the Golden Age arc of Berserk. At the "beginning" of Berserk, we get the Black Swordsman arc which sets up the world and the post-eclipse characterization of Guts, much like S1 of MIA gives us a good amount of information about the abyss and the hollows and all that. Then it goes back in time to show us how the original adventurers made their way deeper down and discovered the darkness and magic of the Abyss, much like how Guts' life gradually begins to involve the supernatural until the Eclipse where everything changes so suddenly. It's a great narrative device to draw the viewer in with the initial spectacle, then pull back and show us how it got to be that way. We have the knowledge of how things turned out and want to keep watching to see how the dots are connected.
Worth mentioning that this season DOES hint at Riko's Mom. When Reg appears in Faputa's flashback we learn a couple of very important plot points:
1) That he cant use the incinerator because he only has one charge left, and he needs something from above to recharge it
2) That his teacher(Riko's mom) sent him to search for that something or someone, very likely that person being Riko.
3) That he was already named Reg, and the obvious reasoning behind that is that Lyza simply named him after her dog. Which would also be Riko's dog. Also it could be so when he reaches the surface Riko would more easily believe he was sent by her mom.
4) He's shown going up with some kind of weapon, which looks like the pickaxe that was found on Lyza's fake grave on the fifth layer. Its very likely he was instructed by her to make said grave.
5) A white whistle is needed to get from the fith to six layer, and is regarded as the a delver's biggest asset. Yet lyza sent her white whistle with Reg up. So wherever she is, she either no longer needs her white whistle, or she's stuck and was super confident Reg would come back with Riko, a fully charged incinerator and her white whistle to keep going.
So we did learn a lot of stuff about the overall plot about Lyza, but its nothing super ground braking, just more hints and confirmations of things previoously thought. Like it would make sense that Reg rescued Riko on the first ep, even if that was his last incinerator charge and wanst even aware of the risk involved. Like for all he knew he could be like any other limited uses relic and just stop functioning after his last shot (and that was exactly what happened. Fortunately he runs on electricity too and Riko recharged him). If he went up with the explicit mission of bringing Riko back, using her last shot would make much more sense than him risking everything Lyza asked just to save a random kid. I mean if that was his thing he would probably had stopped to pay a visit to best dad on his way up.
Edit: F for Maa
"So wherever she is, she either no longer needs her white whistle, or she's stuck"
She's supposed to be at the bottom, of course she is stuck. Sixth layer and onwards is the point of no return.
@@buragi5441 I meant stuck as unable to move forward without reg's incinerator. When she presumably sends him up he had only one charge left (the one he uses to save riko and wipes his memory on ep 1 season 1).
And called Riko to where she belong all along.
Or everybody forget Riko is a loli zombie?.
Oh man I was waiting for this review, you are one of the few anitubers who has expressed how much they adore and anguish the brilliance of this story.
I hope you kept track of Tsukushi's tweets while this was airing because the amount of info he dropped each episode made such an intriguing viewing experience.
Also hear that Tsukushi worked with the studio to iron out this arc because the production started way before this arc even finished. I'm guessing that's why both took so long to come out. I'm imagining that's the same course of action both parties are gonna take for the next season. Lastly Takeshobo aren't gonna let one of the biggest cash cow they published in recent years prematurely end due to unfortunate circumstances, one of the biggest factor being the health of Tsukushi. Dude looks like he's 50~60 but he's still 43. Those damn pork back lard covered ramen ain't doing favors for his lifespan.
A couple very interesting realizations I had this season was that bondrewd isn't a typical antagonist as he helped our main characters in a few different ways. Bondrewd is just an unfortunate necessity given the horrid nature of the abyss, a keeper of the lowest levels. He is there to test people to see if they have what it takes to delve down to the last levels of the abyss and if they do, it is necessary for them to have a white whistle which requires an extraordinary sacrifice in the form of death of a loved one. He's treats them just like ozen did at first, but more deadly because he guards a deeper layer.
I don’t think you can blame her death on Riko when Bondrewd willingly cut her into pieces and stuck her in a cartridge. Even if he’s meant to be a keeper, it ain’t Riko’s fault that he commits war crimes
@Raven the Dragon OK I forgot that detail that he killed her to use her as a cartridge for his mortality, not to make her into a white whistle for riku. Misremebered on my part.
@@denske1272 Damn, when I saw the notification, I was so ready for the most head ass take about how actually it's Riko's fault that Bondrewd tortures people. I'm almost disappointed that it was just a forgotten detail lmao
@@RealRaven6229 the thing that made me think that is that there have been a couple of mentions of bondrewd by other characters who didn't seem to think poorly of him...I think it was the captain wazukyan (the guy that could see the future) who mentioned him...regardless bondrewd is obviously become extremely self centered and egotistical but the farther down most people go the more they lose of their humanity in other ways apparently, even people as noble as belaf find a way to betray their morals and lose themselves even without the curse hitting them trying to go back up.
I find it fascinating how each season seems to focus on a particular horror as i call them
Season 1 is the horror of the abyss
season 2 is the horror of human progress and season 3 is the horror of human will to survive
maybe im looking to deep but really is fascinating.
I think that is definitely a legitimate lens through which to view the series so far. Good observation. :)
Nah, as with most things in life, it really is "the more you look, the more you see"
prententious idiot.
Season 2 is a masterpiece, I was as much disguted as I cried. Faputa is so well developped! If you don't know if you must hate or love her, that's, I think, the normal reaction. Everything was well made. Now it's gonna take years before we have season 3 or the next movie
I might be bias since its been a while since i watched s1, but i prefer this sequel than the original season..which is rare.
For some reason gabu death makes me cry even more than veuko , I don't know but his last words saying that his days with faputa was his haku with that phenomenal soundtracks makes me cry so hard 🥲
RIP vueko she was my favourite mashed potato
Just coming here to say I LOVE your use of a meme as the thumbnail. That's so genius and caught my attention immediately! I'm in LOVE with season 2 and only have one more episode left! This season made me go "and I thought Bondrewed was a bad person..." which is something I NEVER thought I'd say... at certain reveals I felt so sick and disgusted!
Personally one of my favorite arcs in all of japanese media ever. Chapter 51, the one adapted in episode 8 of the season, is probably among my top 10-5 manga chapters I've read. Vueko's last line makes me tear up every single time without fail, I don't even need the context, or text for that matter, just simply the picture of Vueko's bittersweet smile has me almost bawling.
And I love how the anime elevates the already existing eeriness that is present in the manga by adding some really unsettling music or other sound design. The whole adaptation shifted a few things around with how they told the events compared to the manga but that contrast we had each episode between past and present only benifited the show's pace.
Definitely my anime of the year without anything coming close to it any time soon.
Also fun fact: The season adapted up to chapter 60 of the manga, right now there are 63 chapters released with very irregular releases, so yeah it's gonna take a while for a potential season 3
Made in abyss takes, "Hello darkness your my old friend" to another level. It just throws everything at you. "And you get use to it". Something is true and uncomfortable at the same time. When you think about it.
I would love to see a full on spoiler heavy review, given your passion for the series.
I loved season 1, but in season 2 I legitimately grew infatuated with this story, only to find out it's going to be a painfully long time before the next animated installment. Apparently Akihito Tsukushi releases chapters on a very lax schedule, if with any schedule at all. I mean good for him for not burning himself out, but it's probably going to take 2 years before there is even enough material to animate a season.
Afterall, he have to dug into his deep dark fantasy to serve us sufferings in silver plate, eh?
Another 5 years xD or so
This is the second anime that made feel like there is a hole in me after I finished watching it 😞
Dear Tristan, I just finished watching Made in Abyss season 2 yesterday and even though Higurashi had been my favorite series for over a decade, it now has to share the top spot with MiA. I don't remember how I discovered the show back in 2017 but it *could* be your video about it. I watched 8 episodes a week ago and then had to wait for 6 days and that was unbelievably hard. I haven't been this hyped for anything in years. Each day I was constantly thinking about how it might continue. How did people survive watching one episode a week? That sounds like torture. And I wondered why my favorite shows are about endearing cute characters who suffer a fate worse than death. Some scenes were so hard to watch but I think that struggle is what makes me get so attached to these characters. You just want them to be happy. When Nanachi ate Riko's cooking for the first time, my eyes opened the floodgates. And I was hoping for Vueko to have something pleasant waiting at the end. ...yeah, I should have known better. And the ending song! My God, it fits so well with half the cast. This show has stolen my heart (and ripped it into a hundred pieces over and over again).
As thankful as I am to have found many new content creators through S2's reviews or just, videos themed around it-
I'm glad to see YOU make a vid on it now- since yours is the first I've seen on MiA years back.
Knowing it was probably a heavy one to leave lying for the right moment, I kinda just - didn't watch it. It's been years, seeing endless praise, memes, and overall not knowing exactly what it is.
I decided to give it a watch this September. The last night I had to spend time with my ill dog before we put her down next morning.
What better time to have something to cry to between the last night with a dog, that's practically a sibling to me, and best friend.
Oh boy. Apart from the obvious, I'll get to why I'm mentioning this.
I then even noticed I haven't heard much about the series after it's initial few years of praise, and movie- and only that night found out S2 was up to 9 episodes already.
And the lack of well, bigger folks on the youtubes saying anything about it, sorta worried me. But thankfully that feeling was extremely wrong.
The series blew me out of the water, my emotions might've muddied up what my "true experience" would have been. But still I feel it enriched the show for me, overall.
Despite the horrific scenes, as emtpy as I felt at the time, it really was what I needed exactly then. Tears and all.
And the series has an oddly, hopeful look on death (so far)- or rather, mourning.
And the music hits me still, even listening to it now there's something more to it than the usual OST.
The show just gives an odd beauty to life, death, nature, the unknown, and human nature (even the ugly stuff). It just yanks at the heartstrings.
Love it, one of my favourite stories ever.
You are easily one of my favourite people on UA-cam nowadays, I always look forward to watching videos you post. I loved season 1, and to find out through your video that season 2 is out now I know what I'll be doing today.
This season was truly something special. IMO, the backstory of the village and the Ganja Squad was the highlight of the whole season and I binged all of it just wanting to know more about them and what happened. I loved the way the entire story was told in snippits throughout the season and how it eventually all tied into the current-day events with Riku and crew. While this season didn't hit me as hard as the Elevator Scene or Mitty's farewell, the narrative of the backstory was pretty brutal and raw and just really interesting to me.
Always appreciate how the go-to for sad music is still Pokemon Mystery Dungeon D/T/S: "Don't ever forget".
This season was truly something special. I remember reading the arc and loving so many moments and panels of it, specially the Ganja sub arc and Vueko, so I was looking a lot for them and now being able to say it truly delivered on them just feels so good and satisfying. Episode 10 by itself deserve some kind of award or something because lord that was peak everything. One of my favorite and best anime experiences not of this season, year but of these past years and in general. I also can't wait for the OST that is releasing on the 26th!
this season deserve anime of the year, again. Fuck AOT
The opening is really good and underrated too, it's lyrics translations thematically fits the story of the spotlight characters and themes
Just thinking about the show, the characters, moments and sound track whirls up a storm of emotions in me. I’m not sure if I am just buying into hype or I am overselling this show, but I really really love it. The world feels so real and the pain from the characters is so palpable. I am so glad I gave this odd looking anime a shot. Right from that opening montage I was hooked and now I am emotionally drained from this show. Truly one of my favorites
07:22 mmmmmmmm yes who could forget the completely normal absolutely peaceful scene of the field of flowers 😐
Fr tho the opening by itself was worth the wait, the music was absolutely amazing, art was top notch and story was horrifically beautiiful as ever. Can't (but am forced to) wait for more!
I can't wait for the end of the manga when Bondrewd appears with Maa on his back wielding Makipaja's new chainsword body.
This series has been so emotionally draining and yet profoundly beautiful simultaneously. I both dreaded and excitedly anticipated every episode. I've never had an experience like that watching anything before
After the last episode aired I read the manga to get more insight of what really happened. Maaa's fate is pretty clear there, damn it hurt.
Isn't it clear enough in the anime ? I mean, I don't have any doubt about their fate, without reading the manga, but I might be wrong ?
@@flafla8210 Given that it was shown that all of the Hollows of the village would disappear without the village, I thought it was clear enough.
i finally got to watching made in abyss and the whole time im just shouting at my laptop "stopp it you precious children just go back to the town and stop all the hurtt pleasee"
I just watched through Made in Abyss for the first time S1 movie and S2 all through yesterday and needed this video. I have been mentally occupied all day thinking nonstop about the series. Oh my good gracious its way too good.
The first time I saw the new characters I was wondering if it was the past or if there was another entrance to the abyss in their equivalent of Australia.
7:48 and that's why I LOVE made in abyss! I've NEVER experienced a series of anything else that can make REGULAR STAIRS genuinely terrifying!!! /pos
It warms my heart to know that there are others out there who love Made in Abyss as much as myself. Thank you for the video.
Dang, I already read the manga, why did I make myself suffer a second time? Why did I give myself PTSD every time I listened to that beautiful opening? It’s because I’m a masochist who also just so happens to like brilliant storytelling
I can't even figure out how to process my thoughts right now after just finishing season 2. So gut-wrenchly heartbreaking, so incredibly brutal, yet still so beautiful. I can't get over how good the score is in this show and movies. Emotionally, I can't wait to get more of it, but realistically if i want a good conclusion I'm prepared to take a break from the story. I hope they keep up the good production and don't rush akihito tsukushi, and I hope he doesn't spend too much time working on his questionable artwork, and focuses on the plot lol js
Absolutely loved this season of made in abyss! So happy you made a video on it :)
right at the start when we see the suicide expedition in the past I new it wasn't going to end well, and at the end when I thought there was even the smallest possibility of vueko not meet faputa the anxiety was killing me, still cryed even when it happened and still there was the silverlining that they actually met
The final curse for us viewers is gonna be the first viewing of the last episode of this series. The fresh experience now made in the past. It will bring a new type of depression i never knew before. Its beautiful, a gift, and a rug pulled out from under you. Abyss, thank you.
the passion you have for this anime, shows in the quality of your review, it's a blessing! ...and a curse.
This show's gettin better and better, and so do your videos man!!
1:00 famous last words.
Bro I legit thought the same thing before I ended up crying over almost everything past episode 9
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!
I haven’t watched a Glass Reflection video in a while but OH BOY was this a treat to come back to
Quality review, thanks mate👍🏼
"The city itself is pretty much a character in it's own right." 👀
You pointed out somethings fascinating about how the concept of exchanging value has been present throughout the series but just became shown in a very direct way now. I hadn't noticed that. I have realized that as the series goes on, so many aspects shown in the beginning mean a lot more than we thought they did, and there have been a ton of fascinating parts of this world that have been introduced in a more subtle way that are becoming more relevant and are being shown in more detail as the series goes on. Everything's building on everything else, and I'm realizing more things this applies to all the time. Also, I think that the ancient ruins are technically the Golden City because they are crystalized gold tinted, but you are also probably right as well about the village being it too. It's left a bit ambiguous, and there might be another one at the bottom or at least farther down too.
"The city is pretty much a character in its own right."
😏
Made in Abyss is my favorite anime as well. I rarely find a show so interesting that I want to continue in the manga. I ended up buying the manga to support the show, and I love the manga even more now
Your deep love for nanachi made me follow you. I‘ll help drawing the manga if that helps q.a as long as we get new chapters soon.
Just finished watching Abbys season 2 yesterday. I will also wait with interest for season 3. I hope Ciconia 2 phase VN will be released by this time x)
My god, I'm still slowly nibbling at Umineko, but I do NOT look forward to joining the hiatus gang with the rest of Ciconia fans...
@@davidjonas9874 It's nice to hear that) What chapter of Umineko have you settled on so far, if it's not a secret?
@@WarKastel I'm about halfway through episode 6. Well, I planned to do a break after finishing ep5 since that was a rollercoaster, but after reading that ??? tea party I just couldn't stop 😂
@@davidjonas9874 Oh-ho-ho~☆! Trust me, it will be even more dizzying ;D
I never had seen this channel but I loved the presentation and everything
You’re awesome! Subscribed.
Dude I appreciate that you explain made in abyss with it's first OST
Stairs...Probably the scene that stressed me out the most during the season. Which is weird considering the level of way more disturbing stuff that happens... xD
Flesh mommy stairs
The season where things really get cooking…
The season where the plot thickens, like stew...
Just becareful of the water
I enjoyed this review 👍✨
I haven't seen much of your stuff, but I just want to say thank you for talking about MiA. It's definitely not the kind of anime that'll appeal to everyone, but it's undoubtedly special and one of my all-time favorites, now, for its characters and music and worldbuilding and overall story, so I'm glad to see you shine some well-deserved light on it.
I also went into season 2 thinking that things couldn't get much worse! But the past season and movie have numbed me to the point where I was more kind of impressed than horrified with what's revealed; like "wow, the creator of this managed to prove me wrong in the worst possible ways!" You can't help but admire someone who's managed to make something that's as compelling and awe-inspiring as it is deeply, deeply disturbing and downright fucked up. The only downside to that is that I can't recommend MiA to many people, lol. Anyway, thanks again for the lovely review! I'd kill for a spoiler-filled one, just to hear your thoughts on certain characters and plot events, but I'd also get not wanting to give stuff away to encourage more people to watch it on their own. It's so worth it.
Now to read the manga as I wait for the next season, I s'pose...
Glad to see one of my favorite reviewers review one of my favorite anime. Sad to say, we’re almost completely caught up to the manga now.. I will patiently await the day the manga releases enough material for an adaptation for a third season!
I’m glad you are still going after all these years
Made in Abyss, the only anime that makes you gag while you cry, MAAAAAAH....
Soon after completing the 2nd season, my copy of the Made in Abyss game arrived.
Soon after getting the last trophy to the game, this video came out.
It is so refreshing to find someone else with the love and passion for this series.
Good to know there are others waiting with me to get answers and see what lies in the last layers.
Sir, I didn’t know you, but I’m glad I do now. Great review
As someone who watched season 1 on release and then the movie and S2 when S2 came out, the wait is fine. It's such a nice vibe of a world to be in. Bittersweet.
great review
I appreciate your effort for reviewing this sosu.
Just finished season 2 this minute… I’m still ugly crying! And probably going to restart the anime again now!
Made in the Abyss is a masterfully and efficiently written metaphor on life and ambition. The journey is like following a dream, while the dangers are the reality and troubles of dealing with the hardships of life. When a delver stops diving for an extended period of time, you can think of it as a stumbling in life, and often the most grotesque things are a result of mortal desires to be greater than a simple traveler. Delvers are smitten/obsessed with the allure of marching in one direction towards death. They start in safety and many stumble early and stay with what is familiar, finding satisfaction in small accomplishments, but ultimately becoming mindless cogs in the machine of society. Others are driven to go further and called heroes all at great cost to themselves. The events of the movie showcase the endeavors of someone who gets halfway stuck on his journey because of his own delusions of grandeur. He could've gone further, but chose not to, instead choosing to concern himself with the fate of humanity. To the abyss, the author, and the world, no individual person is special, nor responsible for all of humanity, and his endeavors to concern himself outside his own station is revealed as a secret grotesquery. One which ultimately stops his descent and takes his down a deviant path, towards madness and sin. Season 2 is similar, the explorers go down to the 6th, and instead of continuing they long to return to the safety and simplicity of their origin (youth). But no man can return to the past, and in their longing for days gone by, they lose their way and instead commit a horrible act, consigning themselves to a grotesque fate. The main characters are children, and must be children. That is because only the purity of purpose of children can truly to weather the horrors of the journey. Only when you cast off the shackles of mortal desire/affection can you keep climbing down. They lack the extraneous concerns that adults have that would lead them astray mid journey. They won't be sidetracked by loss, anxiety, social conerns, position, need for safety, etc. Just the pure single minded drive to dive deeper towards teh unknown, appreciate what is on the way, and move on without letting it affect them (no real judgement).
I highly vouched for season 1 for best anime of the year and I’d do the same for this one. The storytelling in Made in Abyss is like no other anime, and then there’s still an unbelievably beautiful score