Made In Abyss is Vile Garbage

So someone decided to @ me about it which got me thinking about Made in Abyss again and because im a reasonable person with any amount of common sense im putting all this shit under a readmore but heres a pretty short list of reasons why Funny Manga / Anime of the Year Made in Abyss is fucking awful & why i dont care about offending people who enjoy it.

Sorry about this if youre a good person who follows me but apparently i need to make this post.

CW: Pedophilia, Gore, Blood, Rape

For real dont click on this if youre a good person and want to keep having a fun day. This isnt a joke it sucks really bad.

Don’t click on any of these links if you dont want to see some truly disgusting things. I cannot warn you enough this stuff is gross. This is gonna be a bulleted list in no particular order except chronological, loosely. so.

Like one of the first gags in the comic is that the children at an orphanage are punished by being tied up naked. This is drawn, it looks like shibari.

The author seems to really enjoy drawing the 12 year old protagonists naked, actually. Or at least shirtless. This I will admit isnt necessarily a suspect thing to do however in this case and with the context of Everything Else that happens it absolutely is.

The author makes us absolutely sure that the robot Reg has a penis. And that it gets hard when he’s aroused. (Also note the Funny Joke implying that Prushka, the girl in the hat, is having sex with her father.)

Moving away from the specific variety of evil that is child porn, Made in Abyss is also pretty expressly Just Misery Fetishism. It exists so that children can be sad on screen, and so that it can have horrific and brutal things happen to those children.

To be transparent, I read the comic to see how bad it was but I refuse to watch more of the anime than the few scenes I already have. My understanding is that a lot of this sexual content involving literal children is either cut or made less severe in the anime, which is good. However, if youve been reading so far and thought “Oh well this is only the manga the anime is good actually” you can eat shit bc what I’m about to describe fully happens in the anime, and is made even worse.

So when it comes to this stupid bullshit there's two big scenes early on to talk about.

First, the scene where Riko screams and begs Reg to break her arm and cut it off while she bleeds from “every orifice” and hallucinates wildly. [one] [two] [three]

Second, the scene where Mitty experiences “Loss of Humanity” in that she melts into a blob of flesh while screaming for Nanachi to kill her. [one] [two] [three] (Also note here the fact that Mitty, a child, is drawn with developed breasts.)

So looking at that I’m sure its possible to think “Well that’s bad but its okay to have bad things happen in your comic if you examine them or use them deliberately” and in response Id say A) fuck you they’re children and B) Made in Abyss never ever does that. Riko’s arm being injured never comes up after chapter 26 and its revealed almost immediately that Reg didn’t need to break her arm at all.

Similarly, once Mitty dies, she barely comes up, and her death does not drive anything. Nanachi doesn’t join Riko and Reg out of thankfulness for Reg killing Mitty, they join the group because Reg and Riko were headed towards Bondrewd anyway. Bondrewd doesn’t let them in just because Nanachi found a way to kill Mitty, he was going to let them in anyway because he was interested in Reg. Mitty serves no purpose other than being a tragic and arbitrary backstory for Nanachi and an early introduction to the exact kind of shallow and thoughtless Gray Morality that Bondrewd is supposed to exemplify.

Anyway if you need more than that, after the point where the anime ends it only really gets worse and i dont have the stomach to do more than some rapid fire points

Bondrewd cuts up children and stuffs them into boxes to absorb the curse [one] [two]

Prushka fondles her breasts.

This incredibly pornographic scene happens.

A group of Narehate attempt to rape Riko.

I could go more if i needed to but I feel like this is kind of overwhelming evidence as to the quality and ideology of the work and like. Hey even if you saw and enjoyed it somehow I don’t really get how you still could.

To sum up, Made in Abyss is horrid and does not deserve any degree of positive attention. There are things that I think would be interesting or cool in other works but any merit they have is outweighed by basically everything repugnant about it.

That’s my post!