The Wonderful Horror of Made In Abyss

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• FU

  @fuyufx · 6 years ago

  He really just started to say “the real treasure of the abyss is the relationships you build along the way”

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• GO

  @GoodwillWright · 6 years ago

  Apparently they basically just gave Kevin pictures and said, "make music to this". He was pretty much told to do his own thing as they trusted and respected what he could bring as an artist and as himself.

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• SI

  @sirius6738 · 6 years ago

  The true horror of Made in Abyss is the hiatus between chapters

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• VE

  @Vespuchian · 6 years ago

  I adore Ozen&apos;s character design, it&apos;s a fantastic balance between elegant and deeply unsettling (especially when she leans over like her spine has too many segments or worse, gets her horror face on).<br>Has anyone else thought the Abyss map looks like the outline of a human silhouette?

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• MR

  @MrMuel1205 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Re-watching this video, I&apos;m increasingly of the view that the Abyss is some kind of civilisation-devouring pitcher plant. There&apos;s a 2000 year cycle and Bondrewd understands this and wants civilisation to survive the cyclical apocalypse. He wants to be the Lord of the Dawn - the sunrise after the dark night of the Abyss&apos; feeding. The praying skeletons are the survivors of the last civilisation it ate. And every 2000 years it adds a layer. Orth is next. <br><br>Truly, this is cosmic horror done right.

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• AB

  @aboringotakuwhoisntnamedkyle · 6 years ago (edited)

  The ultimate unofficial twist would be is that the abyss is empty at the bottom and that there was no actual meaning

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• CA

  @Catslug · 6 years ago (edited)

  Have you ever been on a high ledge, like a building or cliff, and had that one horrifying thought: &quot;what if i jumped?&quot; At first, i thought i needed help, but it turns out it&apos;s not too uncommon. The term used to describe this phenomenon is &quot;call of the void&quot;, and I couldn&apos;t think of a more accurate way to describe it. It feels like death itself is calling to me, and i have to resist that temptation, because i know what awaits me at the bottom. That is what i imagine the abyss to be for those who are near it. A death trap so obvious that no one would dare enter, right? But they do. Time and time again, and they die. They always do. But they likely only die with one regret: &quot;i wish i could&apos;ve seen what was at the bottom.&quot; Even on death&apos;s door, they want to go further down into the very pit that killed them in the first place.

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• DE

  @deltalord6969 · 6 years ago

  Some of the creatures in made in abyss are pretty nightmare fuel worthy.

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• NE

  @NekogamiKun127 · 6 years ago

  There is always only one answer for why people explore. Why humans, out of all creatures, are driven to seek out the most dangerous and wild places in the world, and to put themselves in peril just to see what happens when they take one more step. Why the unknown reaches of space, the depths of the ocean, or the place just beyond the horizon are so alluring that even those who can&apos;t physically go there want to know what exists in that place.<br><br><br>The reason is: because it&apos;s there.

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• AC

  @acarter9806 · 6 years ago

  I think that what the Abyss eats is not the bodies of the raiders, but their &quot;souls.&quot; It&apos;s not a &quot;living&quot; creature, in the conventional sense. It&apos;s simply anchored to a physical place, and it perhaps is expressed partly in the forcefield. The physical pit itself is just part of the bait mechanism, the antlion&apos;s hole or pitcher plant&apos;s funnel that allows prey to slide downwards towards the place that eats them, drawing them deeper while making return increasingly impossible. <br><br>But it&apos;s not just that. It&apos;s more than just a predator, it&apos;s a gardener. On the large scale, it fosters civilizations around its mouth, to birth the individuals who will enter its body, and then every 2,000 years it undergoes an upheaval and swallows them entirely. On the individual level, it cultivates the strong-willed, empowers them, has them make bonds and connections that allow them to make their way deeper than others, and then when they are fully ripened with personal strength, human connection, love, and the admiration of others, it harvests all that it has grown. The Abyss doesn&apos;t care that Lyza and Ozen&apos;s bonds allowed the two to carry the baby Riko out of the pit alive. It&apos;s patient. It knows that all three will come down to its doorstep in due time, because what&apos;s a decade or so to something that&apos;s quite possibly as old as human civilization itself?

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• HA

  @Harshhaze · 6 years ago

  I&apos;m scared to watch this show<br><br>1) Because it&apos;s good and finishing it means I can&apos;t watch it anymore<br><br>2) Because it&apos;s scary

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• DA

  @dartwada · 6 years ago

  Fun fact: Nanachi was never actually explicitly assigned a gender within the text. People just applied gendered pronouns to them after reading/watching

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