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Dispatches from the Abyss
When Riko sends a mail balloon to the surface in Made in Abyss‘ first season, the framing is that of a cave raider’s ascent. The balloon travels through every layer we have seen Riko delve from...
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Visual bookending from Made in Abyss to The Golden City of the Scorching Sun
Made in Abyss’ second season begins with a sort of chronological bookending, placing Riko’s imminent arrival at The Capital of the Unreturned side-by-side with the journey of Vueko arriving at the...
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Reg’s mystery and more on animating the monstrous in Made in Abyss
Kou Yoshinari’s monster designs in Made in Abyss were visibly meant to be different than the humans of Orth and the Abyss from the first moment that a crimson splitjaw chased down Riko in the series’...
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“Longing sometimes gets the better of instinct”— revisiting the desires of...
“Unlike us, you’re a hollow from the old ritual site, aren’t you? You have a real life. You must have been protected by a very powerful desire.” -Majikaja to Nanachi, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of...
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Miorine’s Sunlit Garden: Flower Language and Shades of Utena in The Witch...
Take my revolution. There are a few specific things you can say to me that will make me check out an anime faster than “This draws from Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Revolutionary Girl Utena.” Utena is a series...
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Lady Prospera and “the tempest” of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury
My history with the Gundam anime franchise is surprisingly lengthy for someone who doesn’t consider themselves a Gundam fan. I was first recommended the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy in a...
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We are all Dollars, we are all animals — Durarara!!, Odd Taxi, and “the big...
The other day, one of my coworkers posited that one’s favorite moment or piece of media is almost always going to be one of your first big experience — something that ties you emotionally to that...
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