#dawn of the deep soul

[thegodhand7]

[serakatto]

"I want to go on adventures with you!" (2020)

[hummelig]

PRUSHKA NOOOOOOO

[fancypantsrecords]

Kevin Penkin - Made In Abyss Original Soundtrack 2 -Dawn Of The Deep Soul- | Irma La Douce | 2022 | Clear with Red Splatter + Clear with Blue Splatter | /2393

[thatalienrabbit]

I probably never finish that lol

[thatalienhare]

Riko and her Whistle girlfriend

[crushedcookiebutter]

going into the Made in Abyss movie. Finally a wholesome interaction

halfway through. Weird way to discover he's a furry but ok I guess (also iconic rage scene, making a pfp out of it one day)

after the credits.

[azurevalley]

Made in Abyss - Dawn of the Deep Soul Thoughts (Spoilers, duh)

You know, I really wonder about people's taste in media sometimes. First it was Strictly Come Dancing, then Love Island, and now this. I have been meaning to catch up on Made in Abyss for some time now, I probably watched S1 back in 2018 and I'd heard great things about this film when it came out.

Unfortunately, I simply do not get it. It's at 8.6 stars on MAL, which bemuses me as the whole film is objectively worse than S1, I really thought that people would be annoyed at how wasteful this whole film is with its time usage and characters.

Bondrewed could have been such an amazing antagonist, if he was given either less time or more time onscreen, which is a strange thing to write out but I digress. He was in the uncanny valley of character development, on the one hand everything was rushed and I had to go to the wiki to really understand what he was on about, and on the other he felt like he was this grand final boss of an arc... despite only having like 5 mins of screen time in S1 and only being brought up as a player towards the end of the season.

Prushka was also taken too seriously by the plot for some random girl who shows up and is brutally dismembered like 3/4 of the way into the story. I really wish she could have been part of the group, although given the mangaka's generally disgusting depictions of children it is likely for the best.

Nothing really had any weight to it, and I'm not 100% sure why. It's something I've noticed with other anime flicks, there's an awful lot of content but it lacks weight. It's disappointing how the writers make the same sort of mistakes over and over again. It's not impossible to make a feature-film of a story that is split into separate parts, Harry Potter did it well enough and The Hobbit trilogy had its problems but each film felt separate (although I can't really remember the last one).

Last minor thing, (I'm watching dubbed if that makes any difference) but it really irks me that Reg is explicitly stated that he gets turned on by Nanachi's fur. I thought Nanachi just liked their personal space, which I could really respect, but no the mangaka just wants to see children fucking I guess. What a cunt, I say.

[takosan]

Had to look up Bondrewd’s Japanese VA because he honestly knocked those “oya oya oya” moments out of the park. The surprised “whoops” when he tells Nanachi that he *may* have already embarked on robot murder/experimentation had me crying.

In the absence of facial expressions, body language and voice are so important in how Bondrewd is presented in the anime. His voice absolutely lacks any malice or anger. Instead we get surprise, delight, and pride at the “accomplishments” of “his” children. There is no doubt that Bondrewd commits horrendous actions but his voice is so disarming. The armor is intimidating, the body language veers between gentle (the head pats) and violent (riffling through Reg’s intestines so casually) but the voice is consistently polite, encouraging, and, I hesitate to say this, kind. It is fatherly. And that makes him so much more scary.

Anyway, the VA is Toshiyuki Morikawa. He has also voiced Ubuyashiki in Demon Slayer, Isshin Kurosaki in Bleach, Naraku in Inuyasha, and a whole bunch of other characters.

[theglamorousferal]

Absolutely love the idea of the tradition of trading locks of hair amongst people you care about. The idea of having two strands of your hair embracing one of theirs. Chopping it off as a sign of betrayal/vengeance.

I have this polycule where one of my oc’s that I live vicariously through has two partners and a missing brother. I like to think that it’s a tradition their brother started with them when he left on his first voyage and he’s been missing six years. I like to think that they passed that tradition on to their partners and maybe even their crew. They still only has two braids, one with their brother’s hair and one with both their partner’s hair.

I also have an oc from a backstory of my owlin d&d character that has a lock of their half-elf deceased spouse braided in his hair. He’s a dwarf who took her in when she was stealing from him.

Anyway, just throwing this into the aether. I do have ideas for certain ships I think would have this dynamic. Everlasting Trio most likely. Possibly Everlasting Insomniacs. Either romantic or platonic Team Seven. Honestly platonic Sannin I could see as well. I could see Spike allowing a small bit to grow out to have a rat tail or a temple braid with Buffy’s hair and she would have some of his braided behind her left ear because he’s always covering that side of her. They both probably would also have braids with Dawn maybe.

I feel like it has to be a soul-deep love that gets these braids. Anyway, it’s bed time. I’m gonna tag everything mentioned in this post in the hopes that somebody picks it up and runs with it.

[animebackgroundmusic]

"Stairway to the Fifth" by: Kevin Penkin from: Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul

[sunlessea]

FINALLY. AT LONG LAST. GODS TAG DROP. FREE ME.

[avionvadion]

“Please, don’t make me do this! Don’t make me do this!” - Irene to Sora, probably. 

Holy smokes, content for the Kingdom Hearts fic I haven’t updated in an eternity! Le Gasp! In all seriousness, Epic: The Musical has been living rent free in my head and the one line gave such KH Maria vibes, which in turn made me think about the planned battle for Hollow Bastion that takes place after a certain character’s death. Which in turn made me think of Riku vs Irene. 

Irene straight up snaps and attacks Sora, but Riku!Ansem interevenes. He distracts her by telling her that he was the one she wanted, as he was the one who killed Zexion and Lexaeus, and it works. Her attention is solely on him now. She loved Zexion. Lexaeus was like a father to her. She’s wants to kill this stranger. To add to her rage, she recognizes him as the one that stopped her from saving Roxas. 

As Sora is running through killing the Heartless, Maria appears. She wants vengeance. Has from day one upon learning about Castle Oblivion. She doesn’t win, though. Mickey probably appears (another subject of her hate) and gives Sora a chance to escape after surviving by himself for so long. 

Irene almost defeats Riku, but hesitates when she goes to deliver the final blow, believing she would be just like him (who murdered Zexion and Lexaeus) and Riku nearly kills her in that moment after taking advantage of her hesitation to knock her down, slashing at her, but decides to heal her when he goes to leave and takes her unconscious self somewhere safe to recover. She has severe burns after the fight, seeing as foreign darkness is poison to her, and he had used dark firaga against her. Burns carry over all the way to KH3. 

(The gauntlets Irene is wearing is actually her staff transformed, via an item Lexaeus gave her. Maria and Irene are both able to transform their weapons based on the accessories they’re given and/or are able to use a very specific trick. Marluxia’s lets Irene throw out seeds that bloom and grow into vines, trapping whoever is within range. Axel’s lets Irene throw out what’s basically akin to deadly fireworks, lol. 

Lexaeus’ gift is just more physical than magical because he’s an earth elemental, and Irene uses her own earth element to strengthen her body and deal great physical damage. One of the gauntlets shatter in her battle with Riku, though, which resulted in her facial burn as she was using the gauntlets to guard against his attack. With Zexion’s gift, her staff transforms into a type that specializes in illusion magic)

Riku literally broke the bloody cycle surrounding the Keepers of Heart by choosing to spare Irene in that moment. 

He could have very well added to it, but doesn’t, and will later learn this in Dream Drop Distance upon seeing little Micheal and Rachel, the previous Keepers of Light and Darkness, in Fantasia. He’ll also realize that the burn he gave Irene parallels the one Rachel was given by Micheal when he was failing to learn offensive magic. Sora meanwhile gets to learn the messed up origins surrounding Maria growing up in the Mysterious Tower.

And then Irene and Maria have mental breakdowns upon seeing Ienzo, Aeleus, Dilan, and Lea. Woo! Irene is paired with Zexion/Ienzo and Maria with Axel/Lea and Saix/Isa. 

[sleephearts-archived]

i will never get ovr anyfing kevin penkin composes (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

[cospinol]

Rewatching made in abyss this time around (we went through the whole rest of series first when we watched s2 last month) really made me completely reconsider my oc associations wwww like, anyio to riko-reg still stands (even moreso than before, even), but hbtw elements that mostly didn’t exist yet in 2017 when I was first thinking abt this are a) ro as Consciously Complicit in her main villain’s work (to the tune of ‘can’t let him keep doing as he pleases’) and b) hi fuelled by an unfulfillable desire to do right by aka as a [mentor] who she feels a larger system has personally victimized, by re-performing its violence in reverse… also io as [the person who should remember you but doesn’t]… it’s not Neat but the general strokes of so much of it hmmghfbf