Made In Abyss (Anime Discussion)

I too hang around there. We might be getting Chapter 43 sometime in February according to a tweet.

Hhhhhhhhooboy. Well good luck everybody.

Also a bit late but, anyone remember that pendant from Reg's brief memory flashback? You should.

Made it through all the eleven currently aired episodes in my free week of Anime Strike.

Me the whole time watching episode 10: "Oh, fuck. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh my god. Oh, okay, okay it's fine OH SHIT". Definitely one of the best/most intense single episodes of anime so far this year.

I also feel like this article which was written based off the first six episodes needs to be taken down immediately.

Well that dude was an idiot. I saw the dark themes coming a mile away. Even if you didn't read the manga it was obvious.

edited 20th Sep '17 9:54:22 AM by ReynTime250

When the second episode talks about people dying in battles, giving birth somewhere near that battlefield, and bleeding from every hole on your body...

EVERY. HOLE.

Yes even those ones.

Now. Who wants red beans and rice?

So why are people surprised? This isn't even that dark. I barely even found any of it shocking. The losing an arm might have been, but they didn't go through with it.

Or maybe I'm desensitized. But in all honesty there's nothing that's permanently damaged the adventurers so far.

I mean, speaking for myself, I was desensitized because people keep talking about how this series was just gonna get, like, super dark you guys.

Like, the whole sequence was pretty graphic. And it did have me wondering if they were gonna kill Riko. But it's gonna take a fair sight more than that to phase me after what the hype's been like.

I wasn't expecting her to die, and I had already been spoiled on what was going to happen in general, but given that injuries in anime tend not to go very far beyond 'has a red patch on their stomach' even when someone gets their internal organs punched out, I wasn't expecting the realism.

Desensitized. Very. Seek help, you lost the ability to feel or react.

Might be overstepping just a touch there man.

Me, I was caught off guard by it because while I've seen plenty of blood and gore in anime and manga, it was rarely in something as cutesy as this, nor was it drawn out in such a deliberate way. Episode 10 got tense during the fight with the Piercer, and then kept up the tension and amped up the gruesomeness for what was essentially the full remaining 10-15 minutes of the episode. I had not however been hyped up for how dark things would get, so that might have helped, since I wasn't expecting it.

edited 21st Sep '17 7:48:54 AM by Alfric

Visually, the scene wasn't that extreme. It was Riko's screams and the buildup where it really looked like Rem was going to have to cut her arm off that really made me squirm.

Oh I think that could stand to go a bit farther.

It is true that, all things considered, the gore wasn't the most extreme seen even within the last two years. But you don't need gallons of blood and piles of butchered long pork to make a scene scary. Just gotta get that mood right.

Just two very close friends getting hurt, one physically, one emotionally. Spend an entire series building up a relationship and you can make an audience wince in pain with the characters when something really bad happens. If. If you can get that presentation right.

Bad fiction desensitizes. Good fiction will hurt like a new hurt every time.

edited 21st Sep '17 1:30:22 PM by Ikiniks

You guys seem like you're having fun.

New episode's coming out soon, should be an easygoing one.

......Hahahaha. Very funny.

I mean, if Kira Yoshikage is in the episode, what could possibly go wrong?

Watched episode 12.

"Please kill Mitty for me." There's a Wham Line if I've ever seen one!

I'm glad I got caught up for the last two episodes. I am beyond hyped for an hour-long finale next week.

It's nice they continue to develop the world beyond the main duo, though it seems a lot of the justification for everything that happens is "force field" (but is made in a pretty well thought manner).

I guess my theory that Mitty is Riko's mom got debunked. A good and interesting episode to treat the (mental and physical) wounds of episode 10.

22 minutes. Fucking hell.

Quite a bit of chapter juggling this episode, but it worked out really well. I can only imagine what would warrant an hour-long slot for the final episode. Actually I can, and as I've said before, it's gonna make people not shut up about it for a long time.

(episode 12 is out)

OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!

What the heck was that dream sequence with Riko and Mitty…? At any rate, I really like how the anime takes its time to linger on the reactions and expressions. Like Nanachi's bafflement when she realizes she might not exactly be a cordon bleu. And that last line is still a punch to the gut even the second time, and even when you saw it coming the first time.

…I wonder how the black whitles who go down to the fourth layer go back up… Do they have to go through mass bleeding every time?

12. More relaxing stuff. Including a bit of revenge. I suppose no one will complain if the orbed-piercer takes a break for awhile. Nanachi wanting someone to kill Mitty for her didn't really shock me. It would likely be a mercy kill she herself can't go through.

Yeah, basically. Pretty damn metal.

Hold onto that thought.

Damn it, I wasn't expecting Mio to be this cute animated.

There's actually a pun that was a little Lost in Translation as explained in Orby's data entry: It was nicknamed Tamaugachi by delvers, or Tama-chan, because it had a nasty tendency to make you lose both your treasures and your soul.

edited 22nd Sep '17 3:02:24 PM by ChefFailure

Your body never stops getting the effects of the curse. You get headaches. You get nauseous. You get hallucinations. And you bleeeeeeed so much. And the only thing you can do... is get used to it. That is experience, the second most important thing for a delivery, and the thing that defines your rank as a whistle.

The most important thing is luck. Murphy'sLaw is in full effect. Common sense is BS. Believe everything and doubt nothing. There is no avoiding danger, there is only escaping it and hoping the next thing doesn't happen so soon. The Abyss decides when you die and you have no say in the matter, and that is that.

That black whistle who just got saved is one of the luckiest bastards in this tale of human impulse and wonder.

I really hope we get to see more Artifacts actually being used. So far the only ones we've seen are the Blaze Reap and the Thousand-Man Pins - both of which are nifty, but neither of which are worth dealing with bleeding from your entire body, especially since the Blaze Reap is falling apart.

Fog Weave's a relic, but unfortunately, I don't think we'll get to see much more relic usage for the rest of the anime season. You're just gonna have to read the rest afterwards for a good showing.

Manga Spoilers: Because Bondrewd hoarded a lot cool toys for himself.

edited 22nd Sep '17 6:16:01 PM by ChefFailure