The Reason for Violence in Made In Abyss

I fully agree with your views on the purpose of violence in media. I personally dislike Gore for the sake of gore. However, I feel like it should be included in all its awfulness, only when it reinforces the point the creator is trying to make in that moment or scene. It should be an intelligent addition when required. Not a crutch to be relied upon.

"Raise your head Nanachi. May your adventure overflow with curses and blessings." I always liked how the Abyss isn't just a pessimistic hell hole. It can be beautiful at times and I think that the adoration for that beauty is what powers people like Bondrewd and Riko to endure whatever the abyss throws at them.

This show is about suffering. Not in a shock value kind of way, but forces us to be confronted with the inevitability of loss and the value of what we have. In a way suffering forces us to reflect and to heighten the value of things that we already have and the things that we had lost. Life is a period of great joys but also of great suffering, it comes to reason therefore that in a fictional world where there are promises of unparalleled wonders and treasure there will also be an equally great amount of suffering that comes with that. After Riko's experience with the orbed piercer both Reg and Riko form a stronger bond whereas before I believe that Riko treated Reg as a means to entering into the Abyss more than a friend. After Nanachi's elevator experience only then did she fully define for herself what Mitty meant for her. After Prushka's sacrifice to her father did she realize that she had dreams beyond Bondrewd's dawn. It took going down into the Abyss and being abandoned by their homelands for both Vueko and Irimyuii to find each other. And this "blessing" is not presented as a gift after conquering the "curses" but as a part of it, an integral part to the treasure of the Abyss. Because that is life, happy memories are not apart from or completely divorced from the traumas, although our memories may separate these things we often have our happiest moments during the darkest periods of our lives and that's the main theme of the entire show. As Bondrewd would say "May your journey be filled with both curses and blessings." And (spoilers for the next episode) only after Faputa was rendered helpless by the creatures of the Abyss was she forced to reflect on what she values beyond her duties as the daughter of Irumyuii. Just had to add that because this arc is going to end very soon and I think her story in particular makes this theme abundantly clear if it wasn't already.

Your reason about the show being so good because Riko experienced an immense amount of pain is justified, but I gotta agree with my senses more. There's no way I would've made it to episode 10 or even close to, if the show didn't intrigue me. I don't know for how many I'm speaking right now, but from the first episode, showing us the great pit, the main characters of the arc, their attitudes, and experiencing the abyss in the first few minutes of the start of the show. That kept me going because of it's mystifying allure and possibly deep history.

Only when the characters are right in front of you, dying in an extremely visceral (and in this case slow) fashion, and the people around them reacting to it, do you realize just how much you actually care about them.

honestly reg's arm scene made me way more uncomfortable. They wouldn’t even let him keep his pants on 😔

Unfortunately Nanachi has extensive medical knowledge. Even Riko being smart for her age just didnt know how to handle the situation. Nanachi stepped in and explained proper cpr( if heart is active supply air with windpipe open. If heart stops focus chest compression) Its goes to show not to over react in emergency. Just basic first aid really can save a life.

I feel the same. Violence just for violence feels really cheap.

I felt so lost and sad when I saw Riko bleeding from the curse.

one of the things I love about Rikos injury plot is that it highlights that this injury isn't something you just heal from and are fine it's sever and needs time to heal but then you still have body recovery and time to regain feeling and movement in the arm

Bro i cant hear the word "value" the same anymore ever since s2

I once had to recommend Made in Abyss to someone, the best way I could come up with to explain it is simply "There can sometimes be beauty in despair." The Author mentioned this in a quote once about the manga.

In episode 9 Riko started to halucinate while trying to ascend just a few feet. Really think about how dangerous that could be.

The corpse weeper picking up Riko is exactly what happened to that Ganja Squad member on the 6th Layer. Except Riko was lucky enough to be on a layer with a "light" curse.

I felt more connected to the characters in season 2 than season 1. Especially faputa. spoilers ahead At first when I found out about irumyuui I felt faputa’s anger and wanted the villagers dead. Then when faputa started killing them i realized that maybe I had been too harsh. I wanted them to suffer and die but not like this. I also sympathized with the villagers who were just trying to survive and those who had come later and become targets for sins they didn’t even know about. Faputa is my favorite character because I feel a deep connection to her. If I were feral (she’s highly intelligent though) and out for revenge, I believe I would seek revenge the same way she did

There are just a few Animes /Mangas that hit me right in the feels but Made in Abyss is the one which pushed all buttons... I feared for Riko's dear life after she got poisoned AND suffered the Strain of the fourth Layer, i thought we lose her for sure, i panicked real hard, Nanachi's Story, this abusement from Bondrew, her loss of Mitty and all and all loneliness and being powerless to help her friend end her suffering made me tear up for good BUT the Story of Vueko, Imuryuui and the Pilgrims and later citizens of the nowadays known settlement of Ilblu broke me, i cried during the whole Storyline! Tragic, there is no other word than tragic for the story... Tragic reflected by all of its Characters: -> the Children of Orth -> in Fear of the Abyss' Curse of the ''Birthday Death Disease'' -> the Robot-Boy Reg -> Amnesia ridden, he does not now where he belongs or where he comes from -> Lyza the Annihilator -> lost her Husband, traumatized by giving birth to a dead daughter (even the fact Riko was revived, she got traumatized by getting a stillborn child) -> Ozen the unmovable Sovereign -> broken shell of a woman, the continuous exposure to the strain of the Abyss took a toll on her physically and mentally, made her cold, prone to be sarcastic, cynical and cruel, who knows what shes been through in her old age, maybe even traumatized to some degree -> Marulk the Lookout -> the last survivor of his kin, affected by the crash of the Airship of his people -> Nanachi the Hollow -> the constant witnessing of Mitty's suffering gnaws on her, her past as a ''Testsubject'' and getting transmutated into a Hollow changed her completely, because of fear she's avoiding any contacts to Humans -> Mitty the Hollow -> transmutated to an seemingly immortal being by the sixth layers curse, tortured for experimenting on her by poisoning / impaling and such -> Prushka, Daughter of the Novel -> butchered and turned into one of her fathers cartridges, cursed by the sixth Layer to let her Father be blessed by the Abyss -> The Sage of Ilblu Vueko -> abused and violated as a little Girl, suffers as former Foster-Mother griefing her somehow adopted ''Daughter'' Irumyuui who sacrificed herself to safe her ''Mother'' and Friends of the Ganja Corps during their venture into the sixth Layer, died a horrible death by being only partially transmutated by the sixth Layers curse which presumably caused multiple Organfailures while conscious -> Tribe Outcast Irumyuui -> presumably raped / ''used'' for sex to get to know of her infertility by her tribesmen, cast away and branded as a sacrifice for the Abyss, lost 2 families after another, transmutated into a suffering Brood-Mother like creature, saw her ''babies'' die after a few hours over and over again, saw them being butchered alive by Wazukyan -> The ''Princess'' Faputa -> born as the incarnation of Vengeance, left alone until she found her companion, Heartbroken because she lost her love Reg who doesn't recognized her after he promised her to be with her again upon his return In midst it all -> Riko, our Heroine -> who suffers through all the heartbreaking fates she encountered

im just gonna throw this out there. in the case of some series (not made in abyss) the showing of needless violence can show a progression from a normal person to a madman looking for his next goal or want, my best example for this is kratos. kratos was always brutal but as the games move on he reaches a breaking point, this progresses until he has zero empathy for anything and is willing to do anything to rip zeus apart.

My dude, you deserve more than 800 subscribers for this level of content quality.

made in abyss have been amazing since ep 1

I think this is one of the best analysis I've seen so far