Here we are, after the first season full of adventures and a movie full of action and tears, we have reached the golden city. The second season of Made in Abyss is truly and without a doubt the greatest media in video form I've ever been able to get my hands on, I couldn't be happier about it.
After the events in the movie (Dawn of the deep soul) we are now in the golden city, the place that is supposed to even turn dust to gold. In this arc we will see a lot of Reg's past, get a few infos about Riko's mother (and Bondrewd) and Nanachi will have her time to shine as well.
But this arc isn't about them. This arc is about a past they don't even know about, it's about why all the people in the city are the way they are, why the city is the way it is, and when all is and done: we'll go back to adventuring.
I could go full fanboy and write some eloquent stuff about how it was about lost, about desires, about regrets, about love, about the tragedies of the past, about the punishment for our sins, about duties and an inevitable fate (and it was) but no speech, no matter how long, could really summarize just how much I loved this season and how meaningful the story is to me, so I'll have to go the easy way and write it so that everyone understands what I mean.
This arc was about the princess who won't perish: Faputa. It's about the city of those who did what they had to do to survive and how inexcusable it was to do it. We saw abyss divers who set out to find the city before Riko, Reg and Nanachi, how they ended up and then we saw it all end. It was glorious, accompanied by an awesome opening AND ending, as well as great soundtracks, cool character and enemy designs, followed by an incredible end to all of it.
I feel like Made in Abyss started out as just a slightly gore adventure anime and then here it turned into a masterpiece of storytelling, I just can't describe how I feel.
Every episode was like a fragment of the whole puzzle but no episode felt like they forced a cliffhanger, even though it made you want the next episode, the episode itself was closed and finished and that in an enjoyable manner. The characters we met (in the present and the backstory) were all either unimportant or interesting as hell, except Maaa maybe and I feel like even Maaa played it's role (of being a cute side-kick for the arc) well. Faputa was just the greatest character throughout the whole season, from the first real encounter to the entire development in the last 2 episodes, she was just a great character and reminded me a little bit of Stitch from Lilo and Stitch (yes, they are very different, no I won't elaborate) and it was just a perfect way to finish the arc because I feel like everything else would've been against everything they've built throughout the season, so yeah.
I hope that the next season will be at least half as good, which would still be a 10/10, and that we'll see lots of their adventures in the future, sosu.
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