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April 23, 2022 -

Episode 2 - Resurrection Festival

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Comment of the Day goes to u/Lemurians for succinctly analyzing everything that the opening scene accomplished:

What an opening sequence this was, it did so many things well. That’s how you do a hook. Introduces us to the characters, our heroine, and the world by just dropping us into a seemingly-ordinary day and bringing us along for the ride, getting little clues about the nature of the world along the way to hint that things aren’t as beautiful and idyllic as the pretty setting would have us believe. You’ve got all that, a life-threatening encounter with a horrifying monster, and the discovery of a mysterious boy. All in 7 minutes!

Questions of the Day

What did you think about the Resurrection Festival, and the culture of idolizing White Whistles? What did you think about Lyza’s backstory?
Between learning about the Whistles, the Curse of the Abyss, the Special-Grade Relics, the Resurrection Festival, and all the backstory we got, what was your favorite new piece of lore or world mechanic we got this episode and why?

If you are a rewatcher, tag your spoilers properly, and please refrain from alluding to future events, so that everyone else watching for the first time can have a completely blind and organic experience!

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FIRST TIME RED WHISTLE ”At the Netherworld’s bottom… I’ll be waiting.” Well, that’s a Hero’s Journey Call-To-Action if I’ve ever heard one! So, the thrust of the show is going to be descending to the bottom of the Abyss, and based on the symptoms we’re told about that come with ascending, there’s going to be no coming back. ”Is being a [White Whistle] really all that great?” I love that we get someone questioning Riko’s grand motivation in just the second episode. Normally in stories we’re meant to take for granted that “greatness” and establishing a grand legacy are what everyone should strive for… but what if they’re not? You’re glorified, but at what cost? Is what you give up worth it? There was a film last year, The Green Knight, that grappled with this very question, and had a key bit of dialogue: Essel: This is how foolish men perish. Gawain: Or, how brave men become great. Essel: Why greatness? Why is goodness not enough? Fantastic film, by the way, was my favorite of last year. Anyway, I like that Made in Abyss then adds some additional motivation for why Riko wants to be a White Whistle – to live up to her mother’s legacy and sacrifice, and now, to find her. The mere pursuit of greatness is a flimsy motivation, but family? That’s everything – as Lyza understood. Live Notes/Reactions: “That’s right, I’m at it again!” Love a character that knows their tendencies. Her signaling this as the start of an adventure is a fun wall-break, seeing as they’re children who would naturally have this whimsical view of things A lovely OP! I dig the music. A couple things caught my eye – Riko floating upward into the light while Reg sinks below the water, and what’s with those brief picture breaks near the end as they’re walking? The Curse of the Abyss… how deep do the layers go? I don’t think normal physiology backs up those symptoms, so something weird probably is at play Translation question: Why are “loss of humanity” and “death” differentiated? SHE WENT UP HIS BUTTHOLE AND INSPECTED HIS PENIS SO CASUALLY. RIKO! Shout out to that one dude for taking out the stick, at least. This peaceful music playing over her being strung up naked… the fuck. No wonder she has such a lack of sense of bodily autonomy. Kiyui just casually accepting that Reg won’t grow at all. The blind acceptance of a child of what an older boy tells him Wow, the discovery of the whistle is the equivalent of Riko getting confirmation of her mother’s death, the mother she didn’t even have a chance to know. Fuck, man. Of course the orphanage is also hawking merchandise haha, they’re so enterprising A baby being born in the fourth layer seems… inadvisable. This country’s healthcare standards are fucked. Then again, they don’t seem to care much for the welfare of children in general. That’s a heavy weight Leader is putting on Riko’s shoulders… “This life that the legendary White Whistle Lyza the Annihilator left you with… how will you use it?” He even notes to himself he could have lessened the burden by mentioning that Lyza went and tied up the mission’s loose ends, but chose not to. Hm. Um.. what are those cages hanging in Guild HQ for? SHOT OF THE DAY: Tucked away from the festivities glorifying a legend, two souls quietly talk about the actual person

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First timer’s experience First of all, I think I owe an apology to the veterans of this thread. I don’t know how it slipped past me that the orphaned children are the guild members’ children. When it was brought back during this episode, it was like a punch in my gut. Your parents died exploring this hole and now they send you to do the same, how fucked up is that? It’s another example of how the worldbuilding is so spectacular, it’s all the little things. For example, THIS ENTIRE FIRST PART. Holy shit, this woman is speaking about all the unspeakable things she did to Reg in front of him. This scene had me in stitches. And thanks, man Also sweetie, you wear glasses. (This is me in the future telling myself this will make sense further down the line, don’t you worry.) Last episode, Riko looks with longing at the gondola with the “people who descend to 600 m”, the same people she wants to be a part of. And I was thinking, ‘huh… Is it because there are even scarier monsters out there that the children are confined to the surface level?’ Turns out, probably yes. But also, there’s something even scarier: the ascent. As Shiggy’s matter-of-fact voice explains how you lose your own life if you dare try to come back from the sixth layer, it really dawns on you how dangerous the abyss truly is. No wonder it’s almost 2000 years and no one has explored the bottom of it yet (that we know). So, are these monsters humans who tried to ascend? Is this what he means by “loss of humanity”? This sequence kept returning to me as the episode progresses, because I keep thinking, “then why, WHY people explore the Abyss?” It doesn’t make sense. It’s a dangerous, inhuman place from which you’re promised to not come back alive, and yet, there’s an entire city of adventurers around it and everyone is gleefully throwing themselves into cave-raiding. Even the opening is cheery in melody while its lyrics are all about how fun and wondrous exploring the Abyss feels like, even if that is a curse . I echoed the auntie’s thoughts, “is this really such a good thing?”. But it seems they truly want that adventure for some reason, Riko being the most glaring example of it. But those are undertows, that strangeness lingering underneath. The part where Reg becomes a member of the orphanage is deceitfully sweet. So is the festival in honor of Riko’s mother, the greatest White Whistle of all, who was in the Abyss for the last ten years and, in the absence of a body to bring back up, has her Whistle be the proof she has “completed her last dive”, which I suppose is an apt euphemism for death? Everything in Orth is about the Abyss, man. I told you, it’s the little things. Riko’s origins, as one can imagine, also have deep links to the Abyss. Her mother had her in the fourth layer, sometime after the death of her Black Whistle father… Now, how can an infant survive the strain of ascent when it’s dangerous even for adult cave-raiders? Apparently, it’s all thanks to a relic. But does it mean that she’s every bit as free of consequences as it looks? For example, this bad eyesight of hers… Is it a consequence? Is this strangeness in her a consequence of being born in the depths too? I have so many questions, yet again. But the thing I have much more than questions right now is love in my heart. REG IS SO FRIGGIN’ CUTE, I CAN’T DEAL WITH HIM. And apparently he's a thing of the Abyss indeed , BUT WHO CARES? HE’S CUTE. Lyza’s words closing this episode are so ominous. “I’ll be waiting at the bottom of the Abyss”, it’s what she says in the letter. This sounds more like a curse than a promise, but of course Riko would never see it that way. She’d explore the depths even before this letter, but with it? Oh man, now I can see WHY she’ll probably leave the orphanage and kick this story in motion. Episode 2 built the momentum started by episode 1 magnificently. I can’t shake off the feeling that I’ll be screaming “WAIT, THIS IS ALL PROLOGUE??” again very soon… There’s so much packed into every scene, every small detail seems to matter. I'm seriously impressed at the worldbuilding, at all things converging to invite them to the depths. What a series. Answers of the day: What did you think about the Resurrection Festival, and the culture of idolizing White Whistles? What did you think about Lyza’s backstory? It's so fitting for a place like Orth to idolize White Whistles. I was also weirdly touched by the fact they celebrate their demise with festivities instead of somber reflection. These people are all wrong in the head, and yet they're all understand each other because of it. Between learning about the Whistles, the Curse of the Abyss, the Special-Grade Relics, the Resurrection Festival, and all the backstory we got, what was your favorite new piece of lore or world mechanic we got this episode and why? Gosh, I really, really liked the atmosphere of Shiggy explaining how you literally die in that hole after a certain point. It puts everything in a strange perspective.

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I like the opening scene where Riko is describing her analysis of Reg and Reg is getting progressively more disturbed by the second. Like, what the fuck did you do to me. Riko has no boundaries..

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I'm up to date to ch.42 as well but jesus christ manga readers really need to just shut up. Literally no-one cares if you're excited for x or y to be animated - we can all circlejerk about it elsewhere in the /a/ or r/manga threads. Even if you spoiler tag it, it serves zero purpose besides ruining the show for anyone who accidentally hovers over it because it doesn't even incite any meaningful discussion for manga readers. For now, just let the anime watchers discuss in peace - I respect that some of them had the willpower to not just power through the manga in one night and follow the animated version instead.

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February 16, 2022 - In this episode the world is expanded, as we learn about the problems with exploration of the Abyss. It makes since that robots like Reg would exists in the world with the harsh conditions, however, it seem strange that no one thinks robots exists or that they shouldn’t be created for everyone. Made in Abyss is too comfortable with sexual inuendo towards children and even nudity.

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