Made In Abyss To Continue As Movies

I guess Demon Slayer isn’t the only anime adaption to switch venues midway through. Kadokawa, producers of the series Made In Abyss, have announced plans for a continuation beyond what was last seen in 2022…but not as another season, as a series of movies.

Don’t be fooled by the chibi designs of its main cast — Made In Abyss is a horror anime with a creepy premise and visuals that get GROSS. There’s this gang of orphans that lives nearby a dark chasm that is the last unexplored territory on Earth…the Abyss. No one knows how far it stretches down, they just know the deeper you get, the harder it is to survive, with the native monsters becoming more powerful and bloodthirsty.

In addition, the deeper you descend into the Abyss the harder it is to get back up. Descend one layer and you might experience mild discomfort walking back uphill; two layers and you’ll get headaches; three and you’ll be nauseated. Eventually if you go far enough it becomes impossible for a regular human to turn back, as going any direction but down causes them physical injury. Sounds like fun, right?

Well, one of the orphans is determined to make a one-way trip all the way to the bottom: Riko, whose mother is believed to have journeyed that far herself. Accompanying her is Reg, a robot kid of unknown origin, believed to have been created by whatever’s at the bottom of the Abyss. Since Reg has an extendable arm, blast attacks, and can walk uphill (being a robot and not a human), Riko just might stand a chance sticking with him. But they don’t know how nasty the Abyss can get.

To be fair, this series has flipped between the television and the cinema before. After the first season was released in 2017, it was followed by a feature film in 2020, and then the second season in 2022. So it’s not unprecedented, but like the Abyss itself, there is no knowing if it will come back. It might be movies all the way down.

The first of the new Made In Abyss movies, which is yet to be titled, will hit Japanese theaters in 2026. Most of the folks involved with the previous seasons and movie will return to produce the new stuff, including studio Kinema Citrus, director Masayuki Kojima, series composer Hideyuki Kurata, and the voices for Reg, Riko, Nanachi, and Faputa.