Made in Abyss

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Door of the abyss opened.

Made in abyss has one of the best world building I have seen in a while in the manga/anime sphere, it truly feels out of this world and manages you to immerse you in it, it feels mystique and mysterious and even at the latest chapters we only have a grasp of what it could hide.
The art is pretty good and gets even better as the story progresses and the feeling of grandeur only gets amplified as the story progresses, the world is truly living whether our characters are part of it or not.

One critique that could be made to Made ... in abyss are the sexual representations of minors at multiple times, while I agree this is weird and it also annoys me (Some argue that its related to made in abyss world but I don't fully agree while there is ¨some¨ merits to this.)

It is for these reasons that I give the manga a 9/10 or a golden door based on my ratings.

Door closed.

Oh boy, this is a tough one.

As many people have noted prior, this story has an issue with drawing suggestive art of minors. Nudity itself doesn't have to be problematic, but the feelings it invokes is anything but innocent, especially since it's not a one-time thing.

However, if you can stomach that, an interesting and unique story awaits, with a meticulous and beautifully crafted world and inhabitants.

The suggestive art is one of the biggest score detractors, personally. There are also some character plots that feel unresolved or missing, but the series isn't concluded yet, so that is subject to change.

It's basically the anime version of: ... "Roadside Picnic"

First of all I can't deal with the blatant borderline pedo shit. Justify or ignore it all you want, it's clearly meant to be titillating and the mangaka opted to draw it once every few chapters. I'd rather not participate.

On top of that the worldbuilding which is always described as being so great is just ... it's a video game. They go progressively deeper in a hole finding magic items and encountering various monsters and essentially NPCs. It's not that unique or interesting. Just play Etrian Odyssey III. The story is also not that great. Lots of heavy-handed emotional manipulation involving characters you really haven't ... given me much of a reason to care for since their personalities are pretty thin tbqh. Riko is your typical tries hard shonen protag who has a mission she will not be deterred from at any cost!!! Yeah, it's boring. Emotional or "fucked up" or "twisted" scenes don't work if you haven't made me care at all if your characters live or die.