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[@Mark_o_Helm]

Spoiler . . . . . . . . . . . Maa is gone.😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭

[@andrescalderonsanchez6515]

Where is ma? No villager survive out side the village. Hu this is the darkest season of animal crossing

[@chadgrimwell8380]

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. 😢📶😵

[@Klaaism]

Tried the newest Gundam: Witch From Mercury? Even just the 24minute prologue is brutal on the feels... "Happy Birthday to youuu!"

[@TheRasenmaehermann]

But they made a new "party member" in the film ;)

[@gardenhead92]

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.

[@saisibi6708]

God why dont more people know this. It makes the whole show that much better..

[@ausaskar]

lol it's not Riko, Reg has made a huge mistake and they're only going to find out when they reach Lyza.

[@darksunrise957]

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...)

[@Eat_shit--die_mad]

@@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?

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

With the sheer number of fan theories, one is bound to be correct. Maybe yours?

[@joogleplus6244]

"The city itself is pretty much a character in its own right" You can drop the "pretty much".

[@buragi5441]

And the "in it's own right".

[@zartexkrontaculys1097]

"The city itself is a character"

[@ConvincingPeople]

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.

[@vipulkumar4513]

Now I think may be abyss is also a character. A living being.

[@brooksie9999999999]

Convoluted reason to draw an immortal 3 year old basically in a bunny costume to please the pedos

[@vashviper9346]

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.

[@PackRodent7]

makes sense considering how much faputa screamed

[@Niebert]

tbh i really loved the double-episode , it felt so good 49min min without pause or something

[@MrsBeakley]

Say…That WAS fun!

[@gerardoaguirre5227]

Japanese or English voice actress?

[@tylerprevost4383]

Less fun fact, they made a perfume based on the smell of faputas butt😭

[@Only_Ameen04]

Don't you just love seeing someone slowly having mental breakdown just from talking about Made In Abyss

[@Gahanun]

SUBARASHII

[@ducks7015]

It's amazing

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

Kinda like the Belaf manga chapter cover panel.

[@arturomanuelreispons9440]

YES i do.

[@johngreen8921]

I just look in the mirror for that

[@jasonschubert6828]

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.

[@weeveferrelaine6973]

Instead of "Rose tinted" glasses, perhaps a pair of "Tragic mutilation" ones, Lol.

[@xXGoreGrinderXx]

Yeah akihito is definitely a little disturbed lol

[@marinellovragovic1207]

To take this a bit more literally, but yes, he is actually color blind.

[@scipiovp921]

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.

[@Sinsystems]

This is the only series where I can say "The baby eating solution actually worked" without any irony.

[@bigpappa2041]

HUSH! BAD!

[@dvaVivy]

Yes hutao-sama

[@MichaelWutsch]

Subarashi

[@lewa3910]

way to put me off watching

[@dotaapso]

ugh Abyss is literally hell. I would not be surprised if there is in total 9 levels.

[@corgansmate]

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.

[@Exel3nce]

Tbf, most of the Tracks were reused from s1, so i wouldnt really put it on nomination

[@RonnocFroop]

@@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.

[@qoki2244]

@@Exel3nce After listening to the OST, i can say that this comment is cap.

[@Wiwwia]

@@Exel3nce 34 new tracks, what are you on about? xD

[@Amaling]

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

[@CleanUpNick]

Me Before: MiA season 2 can't be that bad... Me After: Gabu...

[@kingdoom5022]

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 🥲

[@strike732]

Gabu is best girl 😢

[@dvaVivy]

@@kingdoom5022 Same here. I didn't have that sort of connection to Vueko..

[@shironasama0445]

Definitely someone was cutting onions during ep 11, what a masterpiece of an anime

[@raccoonchild]

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*

[@okimura690]

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.

[@SergioGonzalez-yf4ob]

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.

[@moonfolkrapid]

I like how they added Prushka. She is a joyful companion.

[@jacewhite8540]

Practically sings

[@Datsyoashley]

Manga Spoilers ahead! . . . . . . . . . . Riko can still talk with Prushka in her sleep and interact with her and Faputa can talk with the souls in the white whistles

[@ConvincingPeople]

@@Datsyoashley I was about to say: She seems pretty upbeat about the whole thing.

[@riakun]

And she definitely loves whistling

[@jnliewmichael4235]

(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... :(

[@lolbuster01]

Much like arcane, I'm willing to wait if it preserves the quality.

[@SilverAlex92]

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

[@shockers12512]

there is the scale of fuck around and find out; then there's Faputa.

[@kingdoom5022]

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 🤩

[@swd6430]

And that scene when reg promises faputa and it turns into scene of him crying. Mah heart, mah soul

[@Exel3nce]

I cant even remember that ep that much:/

[@Kenpachi1900]

My thoughts exactly!

[@Indeeee]

Ep 1, 7 & 8 were my favorite ones.

[@onesmileybaldy8303]

@@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.

[@VVVU2x]

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.

[@ProtagonistOfficial]

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.

[@kingdoom5022]

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 🤩🔥

[@kaiheps]

easily best of the year

[@Exel3nce]

@@kingdoom5022 wth rlly, how?

[@learranufotable3177]

@@Exel3nce Bondrewd and The Princess.

[@oscar95237]

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)

[@samwill7259]

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.

[@KrazyBean14]

This season is one of the best adaptations I've ever seen in anime. They killed it.

[@NaBa.O3O]

They sure killed many, many many things. 😂

[@KrazyBean14]

@@NaBa.O3O Truuuuuu

[@MegaShinobi2011]

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.

[@TheMickellPickell]

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 🙏

[@rubysu9265]

Nice seeing you here Mickell Pickell!

[@TheMickellPickell]

@@rubysu9265 Nice seeing you here too Ruby! :D

[@SkoomaBoi.]

The "but we are not talking about the film" jokes were the best part of the video 😂

[@fabiomora6491]

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.

[@ChaseWyler]

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.

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

Afterall....riko belongs to the abyss all along.

[@SilverAlex92]

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

[@buragi5441]

"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.

[@SilverAlex92]

@@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).

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

And called Riko to where she belong all along. Or everybody forget Riko is a loli zombie?.

[@TheLoneWorg]

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.

[@cataclysmicbane9068]

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. 😢

[@kingdoom5022]

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

[@DCG909]

@@kingdoom5022 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.

[@davidnemoseck9007]

How often does the manga come out?

[@Terrabreak133]

@@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.

[@davidnemoseck9007]

@@Terrabreak133 Wow, seriously. You would think the author would get chapters out more quickly for something this popular.

[@kingdoom5022]

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 🥲

[@MGengarDude]

Just having a new season was beyond a treat as a manga reader I hope everyone who watched it had a good time.

[@NaBa.O3O]

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! 🙃

[@Zuyaha]

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.

[@MrMuel1205]

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.

[@lunokhod3937]

RIP vueko she was my favourite mashed potato

[@denske1272]

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.

[@RealRaven6229]

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

[@denske1272]

@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.

[@RealRaven6229]

@@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

[@denske1272]

@@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.

[@Julien-Limosino-87]

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

[@harrellt1405]

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.

[@tasogarerubica]

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.

[@JohnYannoulas]

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.

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

Afterall, he have to dug into his deep dark fantasy to serve us sufferings in silver plate, eh?

[@harrellt1405]

Another 5 years xD or so

[@princessthyemis]

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!

[@Lugmillord]

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).

[@MunkyX12]

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"

[@spegynmerbles3993]

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

[@insanianevi8089]

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!

[@TienNguyen-ky4dx]

this season deserve anime of the year, again. Fuck AOT

[@luispereztasso]

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.

[@flafla8210]

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 ?

[@RonnocFroop]

@@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.

[@kjkcomics]

"The city itself is pretty much a character in it's own right." 👀

[@ohamatchhams]

The opening is really good and underrated too, it's lyrics translations thematically fits the story of the spotlight characters and themes

[@HY-zd1ku]

The season where things really get cooking…

[@LitoraLee]

The season where the plot thickens, like stew...

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

Just becareful of the water

[@liiivi3432]

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.

[@OzzieStorm]

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!

[@Rcodes10]

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.

[@renookami4651]

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

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Flesh mommy stairs

[@miguellopes7627]

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

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

As a manga reader, I have to say something… **I TOLDYA SO!!!** (Whew, that feels good)

[@princessthyemis]

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

[@WhosArtorias]

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

[@WarKastel]

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)

[@davidjonas9874]

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...

[@WarKastel]

@@davidjonas9874 It's nice to hear that) What chapter of Umineko have you settled on so far, if it's not a secret?

[@davidjonas9874]

@@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 😂

[@WarKastel]

@@davidjonas9874 Oh-ho-ho~☆! Trust me, it will be even more dizzying ;D

[@Cyndersparx]

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...

[@minway3829]

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).

[@LinkMountaineer]

Why are the best anime the ones that tear you apart emotionally at the same time?

[@FringedHorizon]

Look, I just caught up on the Chris-Chan documentary,and I don't want ANY Fanta called "Mystery Flavor".

[@shanewex]

Maa got unceremoniously off-screened lol

[@thegraveyardgeek7770]

Maa is what they always were, what everyone in that city was from the moment they stepped foot in it. DEAD. Iruburu was a ghost city of living corpses who could only continue to exist within the city itself. Maa left the city, so they reverted to their natural state. It hurts, I know, maa was a precious bean, but we have to mourn them properly.

[@GinoGabriel-t5c]

The 1st season was a masterpiece, the 2nd season?...... Is still a masterpiece. One word - "Faputa". Man oh man she is a BEAST! Love this anime, it's among my top 5 of all time!

[@weldernick3750]

Just finished season 2 this minute… I’m still ugly crying! And probably going to restart the anime again now!

[@shuckletamergaming]

One of the reasons I find Made in Abyss so fascinating is the same reason I find To Your Eternity fascinating. All of the most prominent characters in the series are prominent because they by some fashion or another, no longer exist.

[@RealRaven6229]

"They do add a new paarty member with every arc." ...I mean, I GUESS the film still counts!

[@mariyajaveedkhan159]

How do you freaking pick up such words!!???? The best narrator so far in youtube

[@amaanfullmetal9091]

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

[@phoebevaughan5095]

Made in Abyss is a unique experience for me. It is beautiful, gross, horrific, and heartwarming! I've never seen anything like it before or since!

[@armandokintanar7786]

GR: Where the hell is Ma? Faputa: *burp* -sosu

[@charlestonjew7587]

At least these characters get to live on in merch and figurines.

[@LATasKara]

the passion you have for this anime, shows in the quality of your review, it's a blessing! ...and a curse.

[@PandaHug11]

Honestly for me the worst has been Bonedread, because while the origins of the village are horrific there’s at least a sense of retribution that a lot of other characters in made in abyss didn’t get. I also just have a lot more hate towards bonedread because he has directly hurt our main party while someone like Wazukyan has hurt people for his own purpose but he also has a sense that he would go to any extremes to protect his people no matter the cost and not just for science 😅 Not to say this season didn’t hurt me, that moment at the end of the season with Vueko had me blowing into a tissue. 😢

[@RikoPlaysGames]

my favourite scene in this season is when maaa was taking care of riko one last time before she disappeared... having read the manga and just seeing her disappear suddenly left me confused, but what they did in the anime made cry a little too much

[@soyanchd5439]

Sir, I didn’t know you, but I’m glad I do now. Great review

[@TheLeftistOwl]

This series is incredible and I wish it didn't have certain......elements so I could encourage everyone I meet to watch it. The animation is insanely good, the OST is just beyond words, and the story is so engaging and at times, touching. It is one of the few anime that keeps me watching and wanting more people to experience

[@Hipp0campus_1]

It's a happy adventure story to watch with the whole family. It certainly doesn't include any fetishized sexual elements.

[@Zarastro54]

@@Hipp0campus_1 Don’t even mention the manga itself lol.

[@tearlach47]

The cliffhangers throughout the 2nd half of the season were masterful

[@MortalMercury]

3:50 That's my favorite piece from all the seasons OSTs

[@RecoveringMusicAddict]

I saw season 1,2 and the movie and was so fckn surprised. Fantastic that i truly recommend

[@motivatedposter3980]

Bonedrewd is best dad! He helped and adopted so many children from the poorest regions of the surface world!

[@raisarabbani5543]

I appreciate your effort for reviewing this sosu.

[@chiggomckekllecuck5117]

First season enraptured me with the world building and mystery and by its conclusion I was impressed with the level of severity juxtaposed with the whimsical. The movie made me wrongfully assume that the story couldn't get any darker. This season, at times, left me gasping aloud and mouth agape. I read somewhere that the anime is close to being caught up with the manga and the author has a release schedule that is akin to something like HxH or Berserk (pre Miura's passing). So I can only sit and wait for a series I hold in a high regard and that is the true horror of the Abyss imo. P.S. Not going to read ahead because of how incredibly well animated the series has been thus far. EDIT: oh yeah left the comment before your bit about the amount of manga that is unanimated as of yet. I Feelsdumb.

[@virginiafernandez6846]

It was SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! Faputa is the cutest little monster ever, and every time I see her part of me screams 'Someone adopt this child!'

[@BFG93]

The editing on this killed me off. Spat my drink out and everything. Great video. If you know, you know..

[@kelsier1662]

W opinion made in abyss is such an underrated masterpiece

[@LittleKawaiiT]

No other series destroys me like this one, start to finish of the movie buckets of tears but its one of the best series to come out in the last five years and I will always recommend

[@Omegateck16]

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO!

[@sorenkair]

11:35 but the people that created the village came looking for the golden city, so that can't be right. I'm guessing the ruins are all that's left.

[@itsaUSBline]

Having read the entire manga so far, I was fully mentally prepared. But heck, I can't get my friends to watch it. Showed one friend the first season of the show and he said it was really good, but also really disturbing. And so when I said the movie is even more disturbing, he was like, "yeah I don't know if I can." And so now I'm sad without people to share it with but oh well. And if my friend wasn't up for the last arc, he's certainly not going to be up for this one.

[@euomu]

I think it was a very good season, but I found it weird that Riko didn't even so much as try to ask about her mom lol. Because there's just no way Lyza passed through the 6th layer without coming into contact with the villagers.

[@AlexLintMeow]

I'm pretty sure the mangaka has been in the hospital for a very long time, hence the lack of updates.

[@humourlessjester3584]

It's easy to tell who will die in this show, not because the story is predictable, but because whoever you pick (even if it's a main character) you're probably right. I mean, it hasn't happened to our main characters yet, but y'all know that's where the story is headed right?

[@jasonycw1992]

I remembered "Do you avoid watching your favorite anime?" video you made before you watch the Made In Abyss movie. I now ask myself "Should I avoid reading one of my favorite manga". Since I finished this arc way before it being animated, it didn't get the "gut feeling" like when I watched S1. I know all the plot that's will be shown since episode 1 and I feels like I didn't give S2 it's justice. Although I really want to know what next right now, I also really want to be "stabbed" by S3 in animated form when it eventually comes out... sosu

[@NicolSD]

Although I love Maid in Abyss, the one that truly pulled at my heart strings and made me swear at the creators is Clannad.

[@The0Flaming0One]

11:37 they don't refer to Iruburu as the Golden City, it's just located near the entrance to the Golden City. It is a city from even before the Ganja squad went to the abyss (which they did so in order to find it).

[@Raktus]

Having just finished the show... You do get a Lyza nugget in the form of that note the one vendor had. Also, Bondrewd may live in the 5th layer... but even he's been down to the sixth layer. The Maa vanishing scene was where I broke down crying. The author made a comment about how they "Better start cranking out chapters pretty quick"

[@masterclockwork4436]

I can make people that have seen this anime cry with one word. Mitty

[@dianacarolinaorozco1702]

The bait was the perfect duality of what a y person whatching the series feel, its beautiful and will break your soul at the same time

[@Padenjs]

Spoilers: I still love this season. And it's still maybe my favorite series of all time, but it didn't really live up to 1st season or the movie for me. Rehashing the whole nanachi/mitty thing felt pretty cheap. It felt like we stayed a little too long in one place when the rest of the series moved at such a fast pace. And we didn't really learn much in terms of questions the earlier seasons posed to regards to the overall story like with rikos mom, regs origin and whose waiting for riko in the abyss. Also way to overt with the mangakas fetish stuff leaking in. There were always some sus moments before. But his pedo/fetish stuff just becomes super obvious at this point, and man thats a bummer because it makes this series really hard to recommend to anyone who hasn't already built up a tolerance for that kinds bs being so common in anime.

[@vollavolt1712]

You know in your heart that Maa died with the village.

[@alexdings1725]

1:35 I'm hearing a good taste in video games there. music title: 'Don't ever forget'

[@skyness_engine]

this guy really loves the pronunciation of the letter ¨S¨

[@buragi5441]

Golden City doesn't refer to Iruburu, but to sixth layer (and potentially whatever is down below on the seventh layer).

[@ISawABear]

Made in Abyss Season 2 was the best Season 3 of Spice and Wolf i could have asked for! ... I think.