Made in Abyss
Made in Abyss (Japanese: メイドインアビス, Hepburn: Meido in Abisu)
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by
Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized online in Takeshobo's digital
publication Web Comic Gamma since October 2012, and has been collected in
13 tankōbon volumes. The story follows an orphaned girl named Riko, who
finds and befriends a part-robot boy named Reg, and descends with him into
the titular "Abyss" that leads deep into the Earth, in hopes of exploring
it and finding her mother. An anime television series adaptation produced
by Kinema Citrus, aired from July to September 2017. A sequel film,
subtitled Dawn of the Deep Soul, premiered in Japan in January 2020. A
second season, subtitled The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, aired from
July to September 2022. A sequel to the second season has been announced.
A Western live-action film adaptation began development in 2021, with
Kevin McMullin hired to write and direct. An action role-playing game
developed by Chime Corporation and published by Spike Chunsoft was
released in September 2022. By February 2020, the manga had over three
million copies in circulation. In 2023, it won the 52nd Japan Cartoonists
Association Award.
Characters
- Riko
Riko (リコ) is a 12-year-old orphan from the town at the edge of
The Abyss, Orth, and the main protagonist of Made in Abyss.[1]
She is the only child of the White Whistle Lyza "The Annihilator".
When she was only two, her mother began her Last Dive to the bottom
of The Abyss. Since her father, Torka, had died before she was even
born, she was left in the care of Belchero Orphanage.[2] Her dream
is to become a White Whistle, a legendary type of Delver, and explore the depths of The Abyss with her group in order to learn its many secrets and to find her mother.[3][4][5]
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