Anime Reviews (2020s): Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun (2022)

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TITLE: Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun (Season 2)

DURATION: Episodes 14-25 (325 Minutes)

BLU-RAY INFORMATION: 1080p High Definition, English Dolby TrueHD 2.0 and Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, Subtitles: English

COMPANY: Sentai Filmworks

RATED: TV 14

Release Date: August 22, 2023

Originally created by Tsukushi Akihito

Directed by Kojima Masayuki

Series Composition by Kurata Hideyuki

Script by Kurata Hideyuki

Music by Penkin Kevin

Anime Production by Kinema Citrus

Featuring the following voice talent:

Tomita Miyu/Brittany Lauda as Riko

Izawa Shiori/Brittney Karbowski as Nanachi

Ise Mariya/Luci Christian as Reg

Ichinose Kana/Annie Wild as Maaa

Hirata Hiroaki/Brandon Hearnsberger as Wazukyan

Kuno Misaki/Cat Thomas as Faputa

Goto Hiroki/Jay Hickman as Majikaja/Kaja

Hara Natsuko/Juliet Simmons as Meinya

Terasaki Yuka/Kristen McGuire as Vueko Eluko

Saito Kimiko/Marcy Bannor as Moogie

Takeuchi Ryota/Matthew David Rudd as Gaburoon

No one has ventured into the sixth layer of the Abyss and remained unchanged. No one returns from their Last Dive, and no one knows what happened to those who delved further. Even with the possession of a White Whistle, an ominous specter hovers above Riko, Reg and Nanachi as they advance down to the sixth layer, the Capital of the Unreturned.

The pathways are more treacherous, the environment harsher, and the creatures even more dangerous, but the most unsettling thing of all is the ruins of the Golden City. Here each of the delvers will be forced to forge their own destinies and paths as they investigate the city’s mysterious origins and the strange beings who still dwell there. The answer to their questions, as always, lies somewhere ahead, down and forward.

Back in 2012, Tsukushi Akihito’s manga series “Made in Abyss” was published in Takeshobo’s digital publication “We Comic Gamma”.

By 2017, the anime series adaptation featuring 12 epsidoes would air on television followed by an animated film “Dawn of the Deep Soul” released in 2020 and then a second season titled “Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun” which aired in 2020.

And now the anime series has been released on Blu-ray courtesy of Sentai Filmworks.

With the original series, the storyline featured an orphaned girl named Riko who lives in an orphanage in Orth. In the two of Orth is a giant hole which is known as the Abyss.

Many Cave Raiders go down the Abyss to find relics but it’s dangerous and many believe that those who come back from the Abyss, may come back with a mysterious, fatal curse.

Those who are legendary Cave Raiders are known as White Whistle and for Riko, she hopes to become like her Cave Raider mother, Lyza, who is presumed dead after taking her last descent into the hole.

Riko is determined to be like her mother and become a White Whistle and she and her robotic dog, Reg head to the Abyss and meets Nanachi, a Hollow with rabbit features who joins them on their adventures.

In this second season, the three now are in the Golden City and it focuses on how the three learn from their time in Golden City.

For the most part, this is another season of exploration and growth for each of these characters.

The animation and music is well-done but for a series which many fans waited five years for a new update on these characters and for the most part, the series works well in showing how through the years, we learn and we grow.

There is one thing I found unfortunately and it was really not needed, and that is the cringy perverse scenes that really shouldn’t have been included. Yes, I’m sure the writer wanted to incorporate that but that’s one thing for anime series I do not want to see, especially when it showcases younger characters.

While fans will no doubt enjoy this series, I hope Sentai Filmworks will one day include seasons 1-2, plus the film in one complete collection.

But for the most part, the second season of “Made in Abyss” is more about adventure, learning and growth. And that’s the positive of the series, but unfortunately, with perverse scenes included, the series didn’t need that, esp. with younger characters featured.

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