made in abyss

It may not look like it from the outside, but Made In Abyss is technically a horror anime. Its chibi visuals disguise a rather creepy premise: 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