メイドインアビス 8

メイドインアビス [Made in Abyss] #8

by Akihito Tsukushi

リコ、レグ、ナナチの三人が辿り着いた深界六層“成れ果て村”。

離れ離れになった仲間二人を探す途中、リコは村の端の『目の奥』と呼ばれる場所で、捕らわれの女性・ヴエコと知り合う。

ナナチを取り戻すべく、ファプタの素性を尋ねるリコに対し、かつての三賢・ヴエコは村の成り立ちに関わる、壮絶な過去を語り始める――。

隊長のワズキャンのもと、過酷な冒険を続けたガンジャ隊の末路とは…!?

欲望と諦観が入り混じる大冒険活劇、第八巻‼

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Horror, Adventure, Seinen, Graphic Novels, Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published May 30, 2019

About the author

Tsukuji, Akihito (つくし あきひと) is a Japanese mangaka. He has works in Fairy Musketeers (TV) as a character designer, and is the original creator of Made in Abyss, a fantasy and adventure manga.

Reviews

[Elena Seymour · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is horrible. Made in Abyss is a horrible, horrible manga with a terrifying (although pretty exciting) world and a bunch of extremely violent characters. Bondrewd arc has left me really confused, but the current plot about City of Unreturned is even more confusing, but also boring, stretched out and wheel-spinning. So, in this volume we get a bloody flashback to the origins of the Narehate Village. And it's utterly dark. I mean, (spoiler), the Village is a barren girl, whose deepest dream was being able to birth children? Well, fuck me. Besides, the art quality has dropped from freakishly cute to just ugly smudges. I guess, I liked the idea of Mockwater being another bizarre creature of the Abyss. But the story is so overwhelming now. Please, jump to the bottom of the pit already.

[Abdalla Alkhalifa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very disturbing.

[Lauren Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s cool. I’m just a little dead inside. I’ll go...sit in the corner and stare at the wall...and cry.

[Riccardo Simini]

Dopo aver letto molti dei commenti a questo volume suggerisco a chi si sente urtato, stellina, di tornare a leggere Naruto o Dragonball. La storia del villaggio dei residui è semplicemente mozzafiato, profonda, intelligente, poetica e al contempo terrificante. Dietro al grottesco e al body horror sta tanto di ciò che gli esseri umani sono e fanno da sempre, per non capirlo bisogna essere ciechi o, più facilmente, ipocriti. La volontà di trovare una patria ad ogni costo, colonizzando (e devastando) anche i luoghi più inospitali e pericolosi. L'essenza predatoria insita nella natura e nel rinnovamento della vita, nell'evoluzione, nella semplice assunzione (divorandola) di altra biomassa per continuare ad avere l'energia per esistere ancora. La folle disperazione a cui conduce l'impossibilità di appagare i propri istinti biologici di base (e la conseguente paura della morte), con l'emergere della disumanità, dell'appetito da soddisfare (letteralmente) a costo della vita di altri esseri viventi (finché sono gli animali che compriamo già belli e pronti al supermercato la vostra sensibilità non rimorde, vero?). La discriminazione fondata su arbitrarie regole culturali umane, che conduce a traumi, emarginazione, pazzia. Il desiderio di essere amati, di essere in un posto che ci accetti, di creare quel posto se non esiste, a scapito di chi c'era già. Il triste e vigliacco desiderio di non esporsi al pericolo, di stare per sempre in pace, purché siano altri a soffrire per noi, possibilmente senza saperlo, perché vogliamo sentirci anche puliti moralmente (la morale umana che è essenzialmente un'utopia irrealizzabile inventata per sentirci bene). L'angoscia logorante della coscienza, per chi ne possiede una, che tormenta con sensi di colpa quando lo stimolo fisilogico impone di andare avanti anche sopraffacendo altre esistenze: la carne di una bestia ha un buon sapore per le papille gustative pure se il modo per ottenerla è macchiata da azioni eticamente aberranti. Il brivido della conoscenza ad ogni costo, quello che porta gli esploratori a perdersi in una landa selvaggia e mostruosa, ma anche che ha condotto agli orrori scientifici del '900, all'industrializzazione, alle guerre mondiali, alla bomba atomica, a devastare ecosistemi, a crisi ambientali senza precedenti, alla scomparsa della biodiversità in molti habitat. C'è tutto questo in Made in Abyss, se non lo vedete mi spiace per voi, perdete tanti stimoli per riflettere su quello che realmente siete: delle scimmie che parassitano la Terra e vogliono restare qui a scapito di tutto e tutti, anche dello stesso pianeta su cui viviamo. Proprio come gli abitanti del villaggio, che pur di continuare a vivere, a nutrirsi, a propagarsi, non esitano a predare impietosamente la prole e il corpo della landa che li ospita, senza riguardo per gli equilibri che solo l'essere umano, nel mondo, è in grado di sconvolgere così profondamente e drammaticamente. E proprio l'evoluzione della bambina da emarginata ed innocente creatura a ecosistema spolpato senza pietà dai suoi "ospiti" dovrebbe stimolare molte riflessioni: la metafora è inquietante proprio perché realistica, perché è ciò che siamo. I residui siamo noi. I mostri siamo noi.

[Cassie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This volume took all of the bleak, terrifying parts of the series and amped it up by 100. It is so endlessly disturbing, and so terribly depressing. It’s so uncomfortable. Not only that, because if warranted it might make sense, but it doesn’t seem to even add anything to the plot. It leaves so many questions and no answers.

In general, i didn’t pick up Made in Abyss to focus in on deformed creatures, etc. I liked the main characters journeys, the (short but meaningful) visits on each level, and the ultimate goal of discovering new treasures (curiosity) and searching. I feel like the direction is just totally lost at this point. If someone asked me what the point was of these chapters, I wouldn’t have a clue.

[Dandy ˙ᵕ˙ · Rating 4 out of 5]

best volume of this series so far! amazing backstory with vueko, faputa, and irumyuui... its unqiue, sad, and just great all together. plus, there was no sexualization of underage characters in this one. so that immediately earns a point.
4/5 (i don't think ill ever give a five for this series due to the underlying sexualization of kids...)

[Aleksandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is the last volume my library has and it’s the last volume I’ll read in this series. I do not enjoy Made in Abyss, despite its many interesting things going for it, its faults are glaring and uncomfortable and in your face.
This volume focused on Veko’s backstory and it mirrored Nanachi and Michi story. I don’t know about you but I have enough of tragic sapphic-esque story about two abused girls one of whom loses its human form, humanity and presence of mind. I have enough. I am very happy to be finally done with this story for good.

[Bethanie Ehrhardt · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I wonder why all these reviews are of people that just forced them selves to read this dark series at all. Why torture yourself if you don't like it then don't read it. You should have realized from volume 1 that it would only get worse this manga/anime with dark themes.

As for this series I like this series I dark manga physiological horror. Reminds me of Ellen lied and future diary. It's not perfect but it's plot seems to be all planned out.

This is not everyone is going to like it. If you don't like it don't read it.

[Emerald · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really don't know how to feel about this volume, Vueko's backstory isn't bad per se and I'm glad that this time author didn't shoehorn character's development in the last moment (I'm looking at you, Prushka). But it's like third arc in a raw about little girl, who was tricked and horribly mutilated by some morally compromised guy. Honestly, I don't care about any of those poor lolis, they are pretty much the same sorry excuse of character with the same "shocking" fate.
It was great to learn a bit more about Abyss origin and creatures, but I genuinely tired from terribly overused break the cutie trope and I miss adventure atmosphere of early chapters.

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story takes a sideways turn.....which it probably doesn't need right now.

Plus plenty of mentions of diarrhea.!?!

[Pflanzis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Krasse Vorgeschichte.

[Rereader · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yeah, I'm done. I read 8 volumes, I've done my civic duty towards this series and toughed it out as long as I could. I'm dropping this series, but I want to make something clear:

If you like this series/want to continue you with it, GOOD. This is a well thought out and complex series with incredible worldbuilding and lore. I can totally understand why people would be invested in this series or sing its praises. Personally, I'm not a fan of a series where its doom and gloom EVERY FUCKING VOLUME plus the constant child abuse and horrific situations they were put in really soured my enjoyment. I don't think the manga-ka's wrong for writing the story this way and I do understand the themes they're going for, this is simply not a series I can enjoy but I can appreciate what it's trying to do.

That's all I've got to say, really. A real shame I didn't like this more, it had a really awesome world and concept going for it.

[Sol · Rating 2 out of 5]

This volume ought to win an award for most misleading cover. Layer six is still boring me out of my skull but this volume at least had some actual horror content with the mockwater and the origin of the village, rather than just gross-out with the villagers. Still don't care about anyone in it or Faputa. Get this show on the road and for the love of god, only bring along Wazukyan (he didn't do anything wrong), and only if there must be a new party member. He can take Nanachi's place when they leave her behind in Belafu's jar.

Maybe by the time the next volume comes out in 2 years or so I can completely forget this manga exists and be free.

[⋆୨୧⋆ anniesmu ⋆୨୧⋆ · Rating 5 out of 5]

i don't understand all these negative comments. ‘made in abyss’ was never only a fantasy manga from the beginning. it's dark, it's raw. there is almost horror here. for me this volume explains better the history of some characters and i don’t find anything wrong with that. if you don't like this mix, stop reading it.

[Flora · Rating 5 out of 5]

Honestly my favourite volume of the series, the flashback story told here is so touching and disturbing, it really stays with me.

[Eressea · Rating 3 out of 5]

後面有點看不懂劇情了
感覺作者為虐而虐...
在故事上就....略嫌鋪陳不足

電子書畫質不是很好
又有不少疑似彩圖轉灰階看不清楚的頁面
這樣可能也是看不懂的原因之一

[Floriane · Rating 5 out of 5]

chaque tome est la PLS mais celui-ci particulièrement. on atteint des niveaux de glauque/malsain avec un dessin de la cuteness ultime que j'en ai des frissons a chaque page.

[Lenakoko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sehr heftige Backstory, die die Motivationen Charaktere besser erklärt. Ich bin gespannt wie es nun weitergeht. Die Story mit Irumyui nimmt einen sehr mit und wirft aber an einigen Stellen neue Fragen um den mysteriösen Wazukyan auf.

[ilaria]

traumi insuperabili

[thecharlieroger]

A great story and manga, or would be if not for the fact that the author is a full p*d*ph*le. The manga features some disturbing and/or gross depictions of children right in your face from time to time (which, in case anyone wonders, do not add anything to the deeper meaning of the story and come literally out of nowhere). Do not read if not ready to scroll past such imagery, and please do not buy. A censored version is available on reddit.

[erigibbi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uno dei migliori volumi di questa serie. Vueco, personaggio conosciuto nel volume precedente, racconta la sua storia – e non solo la sua ovviamente. Volume che chiarisce molte cose – ottimo considerando che non avevo capito una mazza del volume precedente – ed è stata una bella storia da leggere. Cioè. Non bella perché la storia in sé è gioigioiosa, quello mai, le gioie non esistono in Made in Abyss, bella perché fatta bene ed è interessante.
Certo che non vedo la luce in fondo al tunnel. Io ero rimasta che il 10 era l’ultimo volume e invece mo’ scopro che l’undicesimo esce ad aprile 2023. COS’È ‘STA STORIA? QUANTI VOLUMI SONO IN TUTTO? AIUT.

[Nickonero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Compré este tomo hace tiempo y me enfadó, porque la historia en el tomo anterior había sido muy interesante y encontré esto. Un octavo volumen que traía como único contenido un flashback de cuatro capítulos. Lo leí en diagonal y lo dejé en la estantería. Me he acordado de él hoy porque se lo he recomendado a una amiga y le he dado otra oportunidad. Resulta que es de los mejores tomos de la serie.
Salvando las distancias y teniendo en cuenta que son unos personajes que van a ser utilizados para dar cierto contexto a la historia principal y que por ello el autor se puede permitir ciertas licencias al abordarlos.
Es cruel, como siempre. Made in abyss se caracteriza por parecer una serie para niños y luego ser drástico, crudo, explícito (he tardado 10 minutos en encontrar esa palabra) y sangriento hasta lo desagradable. No sé si es el dibujo o el hecho de que no parezcan niños que hayan llegado a la adolescencia, pero esta serie es más que adulta y, por suerte, trata los temas que he venido aquí a buscar con mucho respeto.
El interior de las solapas siempre tienen algún que otro dibujo de desnudos que deberían estar prohibidos, pero allá este señor con su mente. Al menos no deja que esas cosas se cuelen en la historia principal.

[Dama]

Review contains spoilers for volume 8.

It's been so long since volume 7 came out, I realized midway through 8 that I'm going to have to reread 7 in order to recall what's going on.

Which sucks, because I'm not enjoying this arc.

It's not that it's not interesting, but we really do feel trapped on the sixth layer without much reason.

Volume 8 focuses on the backstory of the sixth layer, and a character introduced in volume 7, (I think; like I said, it's been a hot minute since volume 7.)

And when I say that it focuses on that backstory, I mean... it's almost the entire volume. From Vueko's early life, to the three sages of Ganja seeking out the Golden City (the sixth layer) all the way to the birth of Faputa.


The suicide squad makes it to the sixth layer, which they find is not the paradise they were hoping for. With the help of some polite automatons wandering the layer, the Ganja squad sets up camp and sets about finding water.

Unfortunately, the safest water source they find is full of parasitic creatures that wreak havoc on the settlers, making most of them ill--including a young girl native to the island, who Vueko has adopted and become bonded to. The girl, Irumyuui, was banished from her home for being barren. A relic is found which grants wishes, but which the abyss robots warn shouldn't be used by adults--so the gang gives it to the little girl, with the expectation that she will somehow fix all this.

More unfortunately, Irumyuui's wish appears to have been to have children, and as she begins to transform and mutate into something much less than human, she continually gives birth to small furry creatures that are doomed to die not long after birth. Wazukyan starts feeding these creatures to the sick, harvesting them immediately after birth to cure what ails the group. Belafu, who is ill, attempts to refuse to eat the meat, but is unable to.

Time passes; Irumyuui grows in size, becoming the amorphous village of Ilblu and turning Belafu into a narehate when he offers himself up to her and enters her massive body. The other settlers, believing them will be forgiven for the sin of eating her children, do the same. Vueko attempts suicide, but Wazukyan stops her, and she awakens inside of Irumyuui, in the dark pit where Riko finds her in the previous volume.

Irumyuui's last child is Faputa, born of her mother's last wish and containing all of her wrath and pain. Then, we're returned to the present for a couple of panels, followed by a few more pages of Faputa.


It's nice to have a little more backstory, but at the same time... I kept going hoping that at some point, the story being told would end and I could get back to Riko and the situation at hand; instead it just kept going and going. Half the volume felt like it could have been snipped off. If you were hoping beyond hope for Vueko's entire life story, here it is.

I also have to agree that some of the art isn't great this volume. That's not a big deal to me, but it does sometimes make it harder to tell what's going on.

And of course, it contains all the regular horrible stuff that comes standard for Made in Abyss. If you're on volume 8, it shouldn't still surprise you.

Overall, I just feel stuck in this layer, and this arc. I need volume 9 to move the gang on. Get out of Ilblu and continue on the journey already! Seriously, what has this been now, three volumes in the Narehate village? Move on!

[Patrycja · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ten tomik to jakaś pomyłka... :/

[David Doel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well that's it for this series! There was almost zero Riko or Reg in this volume -- literally a couple of panels. Instead, it told a story that I didn't give a damn about. Such a disappointment after a good start.

[Matthew Manchester · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was 1/2 better than the previous volume. But still, get me out of this arc. Please.

Reread: it's super dark, but the reread is helping.

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I cried. Like a lot.

[Benjamin Bauer · Rating 4 out of 5]

MiA returns! This time with a staple in the realm of fantasy manga - The prolonged flashback!

Picking up immediately where 07 wrapped up, Vueko recounts to Riko how the village of Iruburu came to be, and her own role in it. Of a time long before Orth, and seemingly even before Cave Raiding was considered a profession. Of a group she was once part of, Suicide Squad Ganja. Harrowed people united in their being rejected by and having rejected their own respective homelands. People who have shucked off their past lives, all towards finding their heart's desire in the depths of the Abyss...

After the bombastic assault of weirdness that was volume 07, volume 08 feels surprisingly down-to-earth by MiA terms. Vueko herself is a more subdued viewpoint than either Reg or Riko. A woman who's endured immense trauma, and found herself made the fulcrum in the family of choice that Ganja assembled in their no-turning-back quest. It's the first time the story's been driven by a more adult perspective, and I liked that it imbued this volume with a different flavour than any that preceded it.

This volume also aptly fulfills the promise of the series' overall concept, and all of Riko's cave-raiding fantasies. We finally get to see a full-partied adventuring expedition into the Abyss. One of the OG attempts at it, no less. Tsukushi really manages to capture that feeling the best tabletop RPGs and rogue-like videogames of this sort have to offer. That frisson of setting out on an adventure that may or may not claim your life, or worse! Yet the siren song calls, and really, what is there on the surface that can compare to not just the glint of treasure, but of immortality within the annals of myth and history?

Of course, this being MiA, things take several decidedly fucked up turns for Ganja. My criticisms of this volume mostly lie with how particularly heavy-handed the doom and gloom felt in this volume. I'm not sure if I would describe it as forced. Maybe tired. Not to mention certain elements of the world-building seemed wholly inspired by Miura's Berserk. There were also the usual FMA-esque quandaries about wishes and dangerous pacts. All thematically resonant, even rich. But familiar. The book remains also relentless in its beating down of its characters. So if you're holding out hope for MiA to eschew the usual existential body-horror trolleyology that's permeated the preceding volumes, well, keep on hoping.

The emotional monotony of the despair aside, the origins of Iruburu are truly fascinating, and amazingly horrific. There's also a clear conflict brewing, that's veritably pregnant with tragedies and horrors to come. Even though I'm somewhat dreading where this series is going, I know I won't be able to resist volume 09. Much like the ill-fated characters within these books fail to resist the allure of the Abyss itself...

[Justin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Getting back to this series after having caught up to what was translated way back when volume 7 was first released. And...man, Tsukushi still doesn't pull any punches.

Volume 8 is largely a flashback from Vueko's point of view, and initially I wasn't sure how I felt about that. But the more I read of it, the more it really helped flesh out Vueko, the Three Sages, Faputa, and even the Golden City of Iruburu, itself, as characters. The latter in...more ways than one. The history of all of them is really, really messed up and horrific in a gothic/cosmic sort of way. It also sets up what has the potential to be a very violent confrontation in the near future.

That said, this current arc is shaping up to be my favorite in the series, so far. The journey down through the previous layers kept new and novel things coming at Riko & Reg; the tense standoff and eventual fights against Bondrewd made for an engaging ramping up of the stakes after that. But finding this city, with all these interesting characters and strange rules--and then learning how it all came to be--has really provided an interpersonal element I didn't know I wanted from this series. Sure, Reg, Riko, and Nanachi have had interactions with other folks leading up to this point, but they always felt like stepping stones to their continued descent. In this arc, Iruburu is such an established presence in the Abyss, itself, that their time spent among the denizens there feels like it carries more weight.

There's some excellent (if incredibly disturbing) worldbuilding in this volume, and it sets the stage for events that could have a real impact on people who live in the Abyss. Up until now, that sort of thing hadn't even really seemed like something to consider. That's part of what makes Made in Abyss so engaging: you never really quite know what it's going to throw at you. And while a lot of it is...distinctly uncomfortable, Tsukushi generally makes you care about the characters involved. It's not quite at the same level of human drama as Berserk, but it's at least in the same ballpark. And that's pretty high praise, in my book.