History Manga / MadeInAbyss

** There are living Hollows in the Sixth Layer that are over 1,900 years old.

* TheAce: Bearers of a White Whistle are considered {{Living Legend}}s, the absolute best of all the cave raiders, and the most capable of exploring the Abyss' mysteries. With access to the Sixth Layer, they must be able to easily traverse hostile landscapes and confront the most dangerous monsters, spending months if not years at a time in the pit's lower layers. Furthermore, they must possess incredible tolerance to the harshest symptoms of the Curse. Many aspire to rise the ranks and earn a White Whistle of their own, one of them being Riko. Lyza the Annhilator in particular was described to be a standout even among the elites. Indeed, her prowess is hinted at by stories of her feats with Blaze Reap, the Everlasting Pick, and a flashback by fellow White Whistle Ozen.

A video game by Chime Corporation, titled ''Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness'', was made for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/Playstation4, and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows. It released on September 1, 2022 in Japan, published by Creator/SpikeChunsoft, and September 2, 2022 in North America and Europe, published by Creator/AksysGames and Creator/NumskullGames respectively. Like the work it's based on it pulls no punches, having violent content warnings in all regions' video game ratings.

* GenderIsNoObject: Orth's society is meritocratic, and female delvers are seen as often as male delvers. Two of the introduced White Whistles are also female. The Abyss itself also doesn't care what gender its victims are.

An anime adaptation by Kinema Citrus aired in Summer 2017, covering the first three volumes. Volume 4 and 5 were adapted in a feature film called ''Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul'', released on January 17, 2020. A second season (with the subtitle ''The Golden City of the Scorching Sun''), as well as a video game by Creator/SpikeChunsoft, titled ''Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling Into Darkness'', have been announced for 2022. In January 2022, it was announced that the first season will air on Creator/{{Toonami}}.

* MatureWorkChildProtagonists: The manga features a very cute PuniPlush art style and initially presents itself as a light-hearted adventure story about a young girl named Riko and a robot boy named Reg exploring into the unknown titular abyss. It doesn't take very long before the series stops pulling its punches by having the main characters thrown into literal life-or-death situations; trying to survive against barely-known creatures who are absolutely ruthless in their own existence; having to deal with all manner of sickness, vomiting, nausea, [[PottyFailure involuntary loss of bladder control]]; BodyHorror caused by a literal curse created by the depths of the abyss; a completely deranged MadScientist who performs all manner or horrific experiments ForScience, and many more mysteries and horrors all PlayedForDrama the deeper they go down.

* MegaDungeon: The titular Abyss is a multi-layered cave system that is regularly challenged by explorers for its relics and unique wildlife. Just the known locations are deeper than any discovered place on Earth and from certain point it becomes a OneWayTrip.
* MercyKill: As a rule, Cave Raiders kill people who have gone to the Sixth Layer and tried to come back since they are warped by the effects and lose their humanity. [[spoiler:Reg does this for Mitty, after Nanachi explains they don't want her left alone when they eventually die.]]

* MundaneUtility: While helping out at a shop in the village, Reg uses one of his grapple-arms to snag a jar from a high shelf. Bear in mind there were two adults in the room, and his identity as a RobotKid was still a secret. Luckily, neither of them see his flying hand, and the shopkeeper [[WeirdnessCensor doesn't question how he retrieved it mere seconds after the customer asked for it]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All the white whistles can qualify as this on some level. [[spoiler: Bondrewd]]’s lead-up feels dreadfully understated after seeing the full extent of his depravity. Lyza the Annihilator’s reputation portrays her as a violent hot head, and alcoholic. Its kind of horrifying to know she’s one of the [[FromBadToWorse more liked]] white whistles.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Nanachi on at least two separate occasions reflects with concern on a couple of quirks Riko shares with [[spoiler:Bondrewd]], and the man himself sees her as a kindred spirit after she [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike instantly figures out the purpose and inspiration of his experiments.]]

* OrphanageOfFear: Downplayed. The Belchero Orphanage exploits child labor, but the kids are no more afraid of their instructors then they do a strict parent. In fact, some even enlist into the orphanage to undergo training as cave raiders, hoping to gain a better standing in life.

* PowerTrio: Nanachi joins the team in chapter 26 after Reg does them a favour, making the protagonist's team effectively a RagtagBunchOfMisfits composed of a [[spoiler:resurrected]] girl with barely any combat prowess [[spoiler:holding another girl's SoulJar after chapter 38]], a HollywoodCyborg [[spoiler:with a SuperpoweredEvilSide]] who will likely never grow up and a jaded formerly human Abyss mutant bunny person who can see the Curse and is highly experienced with the Abyss' tribulations.

* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Bondrewd's first depicted death]]. He's shot with a crossbow bolt injecting parasitic larvae that eat you from the inside, taken down to the sixth layer and back up, which causes death or horrible mutation, and finally his lower body is crushed with a giant boulder.

* RuinsForRuinsSake: Wild nature dominates the Abyss landscape, but there are traces of civilization left standing to be explored, be it a lonely tomb from past millenia, a pirate ship embedded in a cliff-side wall, or the grand remains of an ancient city. None if it is connected by any hint of infrastructure or makes any sense. The Capital of the Unreturned is a mostly-intact ruin, but looks melted and warped.
* RuleOfSeven: The Abyss is divided in seven layers: The Edge of the Abyss, the Inverted Forest, the Great Fault, the Goblets of Giants, the Sea of Corpses, the Capital of the Unreturned, and the Final Maelstrom.

* SpoilerOpening: The ending animation clearly shows that [[spoiler:Nanachi will join Riko and Reg on their journey]]. This doesn't happen until the the final few scenes of the first season, and Nanachi doesn't even appear outside of the opening/ending animations until episode 10. It's partly a LateArrivalSpoiler; Nanachi is prematurely featured in the ending because of their [[BreakoutCharacter popularity]].
* StartingANewLife: [[spoiler:After discovering that it is impossible to return from the Sixth Layer as human beings, the members of the "suicide squad" that Veko was a part of decide to begin a new life in what they call the Golden City of the Shourou. Its members eventually become the founders of the Hollow village, Iruburu]].

* TraumaCongaLine: In this universe, your childhood is / was / will be awful. No exceptions. It can be anywhere from creepy BDSM stuff, to tattoo’d with a ‘rejected’ message because you’re not ‘birthing stock,’ to straight up mutilation.
* UndeadChild: To her own extreme horror, [[spoiler:it turns out that Riko was stillborn in the depths of the Abyss. The curse-warding box didn't help her to survive the Curse in the traditional way, but in fact brought her back when the lifeless infant corpse was placed inside during ascent]].

** On the surface, Orth has a funeral tradition which involves dropping flower petals and plaques with the name of the deceased into the Abyss. Reg stumbles across where they land on the sixth layer. The time dialation is so strong, the plaques fall like rain.

One day exploring the murky depths Riko stumbles upon a unconscious little boy, who turns out to actually be a DeceptivelyHumanRobot. Upon awakening the robot turns out to have a meek, but friendly personality and suffering from severe memory loss, having no idea who he is, where he came from, and how he came to be where he was found. Riko befriends the robot and takes him under her wing, giving him the name "Reg", and brings him along to the surface. Not much later, a mysterious letter for Riko arrives from the far depths of the Abyss. The writer of said letter claims to be Riko's long lost mother, Lyza, a famously bold and hardy Cave Raider and explorer, [[CallToAdventure telling her to come the to bottom of the fabled seventh layer of the Abyss, where she is waiting for her]]. Included in her letter are descriptions and drawings of beings found on the lower levels of the Abyss, which much to Reg's interest include a sketch of a figure who closely resembles himself. Compelled to find her mother, Riko then bids farewell to her friends and departs to the Abyss along with Reg in search for her mother, despite knowing of the risks and the fact that due to the Curse of the Abyss, she will never be able to return.

* RRatedOpening: Unlike the first season which initially maintained the illusion of being a light and soft story before revealing its true colors later on, the second season's first episode ''starts'' with Vueko recalling how her adoptive AbusiveDad would torture her both physically and strongly implied to be sexually, setting the tone for how the story will continue ramping up the nauseatingly dark atmosphere the the first season and third movie built up.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: Unlike whenever the first season where we got several {{Vomit Discretion Shot}}s, the first episode of Season pulls no punches and directly shows Vueko puking her guts from seasickness.

* UndressingTheUnconscious: After Riko gets vomit all over her clothes and faints, Reg takes off Riko's clothes in order to clean them.

* AmputationStopsSpread: After Riko get's stung by a poisonous barb in her hand she attempts to have Reg amputate her arm to prevent the poison from spreading to the rest of her body. [[spoiler:The only reason she kept the arm was due to Nanachi's intervention]].

* TheLostWoods: The Forest of Temptation on the Second Layer. Like the version of the GhibliHills on the First Layer, the setting is beautiful but has a definite surreal element to it (particularly when it flips upside down, and the waterfalls start falling up). Also like the First Layer, it is considerably more dangerous than it appears.

* AdultFear: The entire town of Orth is bordered by a pit that goes down for literal ''miles''. Kids become orphans on a regular basis because of this pit, and yet they're expected to scale and mine it for resources before even reaching adolescence, typically without adult supervision. In Episode 1 alone, Nat, a child, is knocked unconscious and nearly gets eaten by a giant snake monster, only for it to be distracted by the sound of Riko's whistle... upon which the monster chases after her instead.

* AttractiveZombie: [[spoiler:Riko was stillborn in the depths of The Abyss, but was revived through a Relic. She still looks like an adorable little girl despite this.]]

* NothingIsScarier: An in-universe example. As the group makes their way down into the sixth layer, they come across the body of a fellow delver with a black whistle. Most of the group reacts with curiosity... save for Faputa, who refuses to get anywhere near the body, saying, "He's dead... but he's terrifying!". The group then notices that, despite being dead long enough for the elements of the sixth layer to effectively mummify the corpse, the creatures of the Abyss haven't touched him, making it clear there is something imperceptibly but profoundly *wrong* with him. The effect is extremely unsettling.

An anime adaptation by Kinema Citrus aired in Summer 2017, covering the first three volumes. Volume 4 and 5 were adapted in a feature film called ''Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul'', released on January 17, 2020. A second season and a video game, ''VideoGame/MadeInAbyssBinaryStarFallingIntoDarkness'' have been announced for 2022. On January 15, 2022, it will join the Creator/{{Toonami}} lineup.

An anime adaptation by Kinema Citrus aired in Summer 2017, covering the first three volumes. Volume 4 and 5 were adapted in a feature film called ''Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul'', released on January 17, 2020. A second season and a video game, ''VideoGame/MadeInAbyssBinaryStarFallingIntoDarkness'' have been announced for 2022.

* CapitalismIsBad: You have the child labor at the top... then there's Iruburu, the city that turned body horror into an economy. The local currency ''is'' body parts; either someone else's or the trader themselves. It's strictly enforced, even with an "equal value" justice system. If you decrease the value of someone else's possession, the city itself will proceed to rip the flesh from your body until your "value" is reduced by the same amount as the damage you caused. Its handled in such a "matter of fact" way by the locals, they all come off as violent psychopaths. GoodThingYouCanHeal...

* NotSoDifferentRemark: With [[spoiler:Bondrewd]]; Nanachi on at least two separate occasions reflects with concern on a couple of quirks the two of them share, and the man himself sees her as a kindred spirit after she [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike instantly figures out the purpose and inspiration of his experiments.]]

One day exploring the murky depths Riko stumbles upon a unconscious little boy, who turns out to actually be a RidiculouslyHumanRobot. Upon awakening the robot turns out to have a meek, but friendly personality and suffering from severe memory loss, having no idea who he is, where he came from, and how he came to be where he was found. Riko befriends the robot and takes him under her wing, giving him the name "Reg", and brings him along to the surface. Not much later, a mysterious letter for Riko arrives from the far depths of the Abyss. The writer of said letter claims to be Riko's long lost mother, Lyza, a famously bold and hardy Cave Raider and explorer, [[CallToAdventure telling her to come the to bottom of the fabled seventh layer of the Abyss, where she is waiting for her]]. Included in her letter are descriptions and drawings of beings found on the lower levels of the Abyss, which much to Reg's interest include a sketch of a figure who closely resembles himself. Compelled to find her mother, Riko then bids farewell to her friends and departs to the Abyss along with Reg in search for her mother, despite knowing of the risks and the fact that due to the Curse of the Abyss, she will never be able to return.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:Bondrewd's curse preventing cartridges contain orphan children that he has surgically reduced to the minimum collection of flesh and organs needed to be alive.]]