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REVIEW: Made in Abyss Episodes 1-13 Streaming

And nudity in Made in Abyss,what now?

There has been no full on nudity in Made in Abyss,closest you'll get is Riko taking a bath with her hair covering the naughty bits.

Nordhmmer wrote:

And nudity in Made in Abyss,what now? There has been no full on nudity in Made in Abyss,closest you'll get is Riko taking a bath with her hair covering the naughty bits.

Let me chime in with my personal thoughts on this topic. I have zero problems with how the nudity is portrayed in the show and it appears to be innocent. However, I do have issues with how the more sexual situations are being slotted into the story. Examples such as references to penises or Reg getting flustered at the sight of Riko getting undressed (simply for health reasons) kills the serious tension the story builds up at that point. Honestly, the show come have done without those in my opinion. Made in Abyss is no doubt a great show and executes many aspects well, but it does have its own share of flaws too. Even if this is a minor flaw, it won't stop me from enjoying the series.

Silent-Ninja wrote:

Nordhmmer wrote: And nudity in Made in Abyss,what now? There has been no full on nudity in Made in Abyss,closest you'll get is Riko taking a bath with her hair covering the naughty bits. Let me chime in with my personal thoughts on this topic. I have zero problems with how the nudity is portrayed in the show and it appears to be innocent. However, I do have issues with how the more sexual situations are being slotted into the story. Examples such as references to penises or Reg getting flustered at the sight of Riko getting undressed (simply for health reasons) kills the serious tension the story builds up at that point. Honestly, the show come have done without those in my opinion. Made in Abyss is no doubt a great show and executes many aspects well, but it does have its own share of flaws too. Even if this is a minor flaw, it won't stop me from enjoying the series.

Shows like this NEED comic relief and lighter moments for the tension, trauma, and violence to work as well as they do. The author's chosen method of comic relief just happens to be 12-year-old-boy penis / "this is lewd!" jokes. It hardly even counts as fanservice or a true "sexual situation" tbh.

I mean, anime generally gets a bad wrap for underage characters, but look at how the 12/13 year old boys talk to each other and behave in a movie like It or The Goonies - they are pervs / curse / feel awkward yet attracted to girls, etc. I don't think it's unusual that Reg/Riko would be curious about that kind of stuff.

I am not saying this show should never have any lighter moments or comedic relief at all. My original comment was my own expression of personal dissatisfaction with how it was executed. That was all. I think it could have done better. No need to get defensive over my difference in opinion. The last thing I want is to have this civil discussion to be turned into an emotionally-driven argument. So, let's leave it that.

I've seen a couple people say this but people are assuming the chapters are equivalent in length, this is not at all the case. I have all 6 Japanese volumes and the anime cuts off at 1.5 chapters (page 33) into volume 4. In terms of actual page count we're almost precisely at half way through the available material. A couple chapters (3-4) and we'll have enough for another series. Every volume so far is almost exactly 160 pages with variable number of chapters per book. So for another series we need another 66 pages or so of content beyond Volume 6 (which I think already exists?).

I'd say it's more that there isn't an appropriate stopping point yet for a new season rather than required chapter or page numbers. The story arc following where this season left off is too short for a full season even if they really padded it out and the current story arc has only just begun. Even with the increased page numbers per chapter, I don't see the current story arc coming to a close so soon. But anything can happen over the course of the next chapters so we'll just have to wait and see.

@Silent-Ninja


The body & potty humor are for Japanese audiences.But I see where you're coming from,found some of the potty humor in the later chapters cringe worthy myself.

But the manga really does provide a context for these scenes.
Riko is not just simply naive about sexuality,the knowledge is not there.her being so heavily focused on the Abyss.
Reg's motivations stem from a deep rooted loyalty,he feels the embarrassment Riko should be feeling herself.


Highly recommend reading the manga,the current arc has only just begun.

I'm sort of curious... I'm not a parent so I don't have a great grasp of figuring out what content may be too upsetting for children to watch. Given some of the genuinely scary, harrowing and sometimes sad content, what do people think is the youngest a child could be and watch this without being scarred for life? I'm not sure I'd be comfortable recommending it to a child who wasn't at least 11.

@ meiam - I think that it’s shown well at that part that both Rico and Reg would have needed each other to make it as far as they did and that was partly why it was paced the way it was. The middle helps to establish their good partnership and when Ep 10 happens, it hurts more than it would have initially. The pacing did not make the middle portion weak at all and the staff did a very good job of keeping us invested in their journey through the end of the anime thus far.

I'm sort of curious... I'm not a parent so I don't have a great grasp of figuring out what content may be too upsetting for children to watch. Given some of the genuinely scary, harrowing and sometimes sad content, what do people think is the youngest a child could be and watch this without being scarred for life? I'm not sure I'd be comfortable recommending it to a child who wasn't at least 11.