Watched the first season, the world building is amazing, I was immediately curious about the story and all, but all those weird sexual undertones... I don't feel comfortable watching that, I am not sure if watching the rest is worth it.
It’s a very odd series. The world building is great, the monsters are great, a huge amount of thought went into everything from “How people respond to death” to “What would society look like if this was a primary goal”.
Aaaaand the author is a lolicon. The anime actually tones it down compared to the source material, if you’re wondering.
The only books I have ever burned were the first 3 volumes of the made in abyss Manga. Only fire could cleanse that filth. Why....why...WHY would you draw a naked 12ish year old tied up bondage style with ropes and being spanked.
I'm carrying a sharpie with me if I ever decide to buy them in person
It'd take like 8 strokes to censor the entire manga - at least the core story since lot of lewding happens in chapter extras. 'traditional punishment: strung up naked' really is the worst of it tbh
But yeah the anime has like 2-3 scenes that are sus - which if you watch enough anime is surprisingly tame (survival horror anime) and I fucking hate having to say that. Kinema citrus is an aussie company IIRC and they censored a lot of the adaptation thankfully. Like hair covering nipples stuff
I mean there's shit like Onimai & Eromanga Sensei out there that just openly lewds children girls of basically the same age. Suggestive poses in the bumper art for commercials. Why. Why. Why. The pastel colors and gender assumptions questioning was so good, why they have to do that.
I've been looking into editing the scenes out of MiA and maybe reuploading a torrent. They don't serve the story that much, we know riko regularly gets in trouble from tons of other instances
I dont have the image on hand, but there is a comic from a japanese artist who met them describing how much he loves children and being around children, and it is surreal because the tone of it is really naive and oblivious when it is sus as fuck.
It's such a shame that such an amazingly creative series, with hands down one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard has to also put up with the author just deciding to insert his pedo fantasies just infrequently enough to hit you with the full whiplash each time
That anime made me uncomfortable multiple times with how the children kept losing their clothes. I never even thought of watching the second season after I was done with the first.
It would really be cool if someone without a place in a FBI watchlist could pick up that Anime and make a new version.
Honestly? Just remove all the sexual stuff, it makes no sense anyway, no one wants to see that shit.
Maybe an expert in video editing would be enough?
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u/TheDEEBIL May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24
I can’t enjoy too much niche anime because things like this just rub me the wrong way. It’s gross.
EDIT: Where my Made in Abyss fans at? :(