#made in abyss season 2

[felixcloud6288]

I was watching Made in Abyss Season 2 but I think I'm going to have to stop for the night due to the screaming.

[takosan]

Not me realizing months (months!) after watching Made in Abyss that Wazukyan eating bugs and rats in episode 1 were Easter eggs, …Chekhov loading his damn gun, ….Foreshadowing with a big F slapped on it

[killerkittyart]

Made in abyss is such nightmare fuel but the characters are so cute how

[innqufocus]

nothin like a good fart bug in these trying times 🪲🦴🍵

[bigre-fichtre]

On why Vueko did not join Riko and Reg's team.

Vueko represent the past, Faputa the present.

Vueko wish is to be with Irumyuui, not having an adventure. If Irumyuui dies, she wants to die with her.

Like, sure Nanachi wants to find Mitty soul at the bottom of the Abyss, because she wants to find her full joyful soul and not just her torture body. I'm not sure Vueko has the same belief, or even it's not the same scenario. To her, Irumyuui was there, whatever her form was, she did not lost her soul to the abyss, the craddle of desire "just" change her physical form.

Also, about that first point. Faputa (future?) story is to find yourself past the inherited trauma. Vueko story is to be loved even if your trauma is still there mostly unresolved. So, it's mostly being with one person more than going on an adventure.

[softsinnamonart]

i watched both seasons of made in the abyss and it’s really just ‘the children yearn for the mines (gigantic pit underground that’s cursed)’ the anime

[darkvioletcloud]

To Break The Natural Order - On Vueko, Irumyuui, and Faputa

[romb-thankyoub]

For some reason, I had the urge to draw *him*, and it was initially just gonna be a sketch, but then it turned into a full piece, haha- I miss drawing Made in Abyss characters, especially my boy Belaf and his crew 🥲

I'm gonna post an alt version as well where you can see him clearer, so look out for that!

[nemo-namikaze]

Inktober attempt day 10: Irumyuui

Nothing much to say about this one, I like how it came out.

[aryysiveart]

Drew precious Irumyuui from Made in Abyss, practicing to be the best mother she can. 🤍

This series means so much to me and Yuui and the other characters are so close to my heart, so I’m glad I also enjoy drawing them so much. And I’m very happy with how this came out ♡︎

[takosan]

Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun (S2) was a struggle to get through. Too many ideas, so much violence. It was gut wrenching. I started and stopped so many times. One of the things this storyline gets right is the depiction of trauma and how it affects people.

1. Nanachi meeting Mitty’s copy and Vueko seeing the protector of the village (Juroimoh who takes after the man who abused her) both show how traumatic moments recur and manifest. This is a fundamental aspect of trauma, that the incident(s) which caused the trauma will return to the person’s mind against their will and force them to relive their trauma again and again. (Think about vets and fireworks for example). Seeing Mitty again felt like a physical blow - after everything Nanachi went through with her, and the incredibly difficult decision to ask Reg to use his incinerator….here is Mitty again. It was a gut blow.

2. Irumyuui’s trauma (her exile from her village and implied mistreatment because she is infertile) shapes her wishes when she is given the cradle of desire. Her first wish (to have children) deforms her body and reduces her entire being to a birthing vessel. This is unresolved trauma corrupting her wishes. Trauma will consume you if you don’t have a productive way of coping with it. You can’t live a full life when your life is oriented around trauma. Irumyuui also shows us that sometimes love, family, and friends are not enough for healing. This is such a painful truth (as I am sure many of us have experienced in our lives). Despite the wonderful relationship she builds with Vueko (and Belaf too I think), her life’s desires remain oriented around what she was told she was lacking… Or perhaps it is that healing does not happen fast and Wazukyan’s actions to save all his people take away the chance for Irumyuui to heal in her own time…

3. We know that trauma is inherited, and generational trauma is real. Irumyuui’s trauma is literally inherited and internalized by her child, Faputa, and nearly consumes Faputa too. (Faputa’s one burning wish is to destroy the village and its inhabitants...)

4. Traumatized/oppressed people can be both victims and perpetrators. Wazukyan and the Ganja squad are an example. A group of misfits/abandoned people, searching for their home and a place to belong, who end up committing/condoning horrific acts against Irumyuui in order to survive. Sometimes homes are built on violence. Victims can/do use trauma or their own survival as justification to oppress others. Even though some of them feel guilt, Vueko is the only one who attempts to remove herself from the situation - unfortunately by trying to commit suicide. (Wazukyan feels like Christopher Columbus sometimes, and the indigenous people living near the abyss as parallels to the indigenous peoples in the Americas… Wazukyan is an important reminder that power dynamics are not static. I’m not sure if he is traumatized/someone who has experienced violence like other members of his squad but even if he has, he is the leader now. He exploits a child, imprisons Vueko, and uses their relationship against them.)

Yes Wazukyan please explain how trapping Irumyuui in her own body and Veuko inside her adopted child’s body is ‘crushing injustice.’ The abyss may have enabled what took place but the choice and decision was firmly Wazukyan’s.

5. And in an opposite case, Vueko’s trauma actually leads her to be more empathetic to Irumyuui. Vueko is running from her trauma (she says so plainly in the first episode when she says she is looking for a place where she will no longer hear her abuser’s voice in her head). And her nurturing connection with Irumyuui is one which seems to be healing her. The very first line of the episode has Vueko saying this to Irumyuui about the compass: “Until I met you, there was something I was looking for…” I think she means that the compass led the ganja squad to the abyss but it led Vueko specifically to Irumyuui - as it was meant to. When she hands the compass over to the elder, the panning shot immediately shows us Irumyuui appearing in the dark behind her. Wazukyan and the others needed to descend into the abyss to find their ‘home’ but Vueko has already found what she was looking for in Irumyuui. Relationships can be an important part of healing from trauma but unfortunately, Wazukyan’s actions and the power of the Abyss combine to turn their relationship into a co-dependent one and utterly infused with guilt on Vueko’s part.

[the-prince-of-pigs]

someone needs to take that popular sound that’s the anime girl singing “dorimae” and remix one with Majikaja

HA DI MAE

MAEN, FAU APTA

HA DI MAE

[starrbar]

So as soon as I saw the Vander reunion scene tbh, I thought of this shot (under the cut) from Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (which is an absolutely incredible movie btw, but is a continuation of season 1, so don't start with it). I didn't know for certain that Isha was going to die, but I know I wanted to draw this once I saw her fate.

I didn't end up finishing it, though. Just got tired of looking at it. I find most of the characters here look stiff to me because I'm not used to Arcane's art style at all and I got burnt out. But might as well share what I did get done, which is the full sketch, so that's neat I think.

Spoilers for Dawn of the Deep Soul:

This image from the movie is a pre-death dream of Prushka's (the girl in the green dress and hat), being shown as she concludes a heart-felt inner monologue about how she wants her father (who is an absolutely horrible man) to get along with her friends (the kids) and to go on adventures with all of them. I think Jinx wanted something very similar with Vi and Silco, her two worlds. And later Isha and Vander. She would have wanted to keep their family together and to have Silco back and for everything to be wonderful. But alas....

And I think this tragedy was already cemented at the end of season 1. Even when Silco and Vi were the only two clashing over Jinx, they never would have been able to make peace even for her sake. One of them had to die.

[alethianightsong]

Made in Abyss is great if you like extensive worldbuilding, adventure, trauma, fantasy, horror, mystery, and more horror.

If HP Lovecraft and Jules Verne had a baby and that baby could only draw cute characters, then you'd get Made in Abyss. To summarize, a 12-year-old girl named Riko wants to meet her long-lost mother who resides at the bottom of the Abyss, a giant chasm in the earth. Being a squishy little human, Riko is subject to lots of injuries and physical trauma cuz "reality ensues." No matter how plucky and optimistic a child is, throwing them into a pit full of wild animals is not a good idea. The Abyss itself defies space, physics, and time. Imagine the Burj Khalifa times 3 sunk into the earth. Now imagine if that superstructure was split into 7 stories or "layers" and each layer has its own ecosystem and weather patterns. Now imagine if that superstructure was a giant trap with downward-facing teeth so the further you went in, the more painful it becomes to get out. Now imagine if that giant trap was sentient on some level and gives you an irresistible urge to literally get to the bottom of it not caring if you can never return to the surface.

[heetedheely-um]

Since I've opened commissions, I'd like to share some of my favorite illustrations as examples of my art style! I have a versatile art style, so I can adapt to many requests!

[barnabyboppins]

Watching Dungeon Meshi is the complete opposite of watching Made In Abyss but they’re built around a very similar structure if you get what I mean.

Most notably and most enjoyably, Dungeon Meshi has fascinating and detailed worldbuilding and all characters involved in stuff that happens (outside of flashback) are adults!