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juushikaTitle: Made In Abyss
Author: Akihito Tsukushi
Published: 2012-2025
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 2200 (153+162+162+164+164+165+165+160+160+160+144+160+128+154)
Total Page Count: 543,695
Text Number: 2004-2017
Read Because:rushthatspeaks wrote about the anime here and here
Review: Review of chapters 1-70, a.k.a. the series entire as of time of writing. After meeting at the edge of the endless abyss, an orphan and a robot travel downward together to seek their respective origins. There's something humiliating about having read this pervy little manga; also, it's pretty great. The premise is as fantastic as it sounds; the art dense and dreamlike, and unfortunately borderline incomprehensible in the action sequences and landscapes, dizzy with scale. And, best or worse, the embarrassing horniness is thematically inextricable: in a way that reminds me of Corpse Party's tropey focus on the abject, these children are vulnerable in body and in social role, as much to plot as to lens and via overlapping means; it's shota/loli fan service that can't be read around, which is formative and multifaceted and ruthlessly cruel. This took me an age to read, the early chapters of the fan translation are a struggle (although it looks like Seven Seas Entertainment is licensing it now), it feels obligated to come with apology or caveat, the anime is probably an easier & more palatable inroad although I haven't watched it, and I freaking loved the whole thing. I hope the next arc is completed in my human lifetime! Guess we'll see.
Author: Akihito Tsukushi
Published: 2012-2025
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 2200 (153+162+162+164+164+165+165+160+160+160+144+160+128+154)
Total Page Count: 543,695
Text Number: 2004-2017
Read Because:
rushthatspeaks wrote about the anime here and hereReview: Review of chapters 1-70, a.k.a. the series entire as of time of writing. After meeting at the edge of the endless abyss, an orphan and a robot travel downward together to seek their respective origins. There's something humiliating about having read this pervy little manga; also, it's pretty great. The premise is as fantastic as it sounds; the art dense and dreamlike, and unfortunately borderline incomprehensible in the action sequences and landscapes, dizzy with scale. And, best or worse, the embarrassing horniness is thematically inextricable: in a way that reminds me of Corpse Party's tropey focus on the abject, these children are vulnerable in body and in social role, as much to plot as to lens and via overlapping means; it's shota/loli fan service that can't be read around, which is formative and multifaceted and ruthlessly cruel. This took me an age to read, the early chapters of the fan translation are a struggle (although it looks like Seven Seas Entertainment is licensing it now), it feels obligated to come with apology or caveat, the anime is probably an easier & more palatable inroad although I haven't watched it, and I freaking loved the whole thing. I hope the next arc is completed in my human lifetime! Guess we'll see.
