With a second season in the works, we learned earlier this year that the first Made in Abyss season is being reworked into two compilation films. They’ll be released under the subheading of Journey’s Dawn and Wandering Twilight with the first film coming out on January 4th, 2019 and the second on January 18th, 2019 in Japan. Now, Sentai Filmworks has revealed that they’ve picked up the rights to it and are intent on bringing it to the big screen in North America, which should look spectacular. Details regarding those plans will be coming in the near future.
Check out our review of the series.
The show was directed by Masayuki Kojima based on the series composition by Hideyuki Kurata. Character designs were handled by Kazuchika Kise with Kinema Citrus on board for the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Miyu Tomita as Riku, Mariya Ise as Regu, Shiori Izawa as Nanachi, Mutsumi Tamura as Natto, Manami Numakura as Shigi, Manami Hanawa as Kiui, Taishi Murata as Jiruo, and Maaya Sakamoto as Raiza.
The opening song is “Deep in Abyss” as performed by Miyu Tomita and Mariya Ise while the ending theme song is “Tabi no Hitarite, Saihate no Migite” by Miyu Tomita and Shiori Izawa.
The original work is by Akihito Tsukushi which began in 2012 and has six volumes out as of the end of 2017 as serialized in Web Comic Gamma.
Plot Concept: The enormous cave system, known as the Abyss, is the only unexplored place in the world. Nobody knows how deep down this titanic pit goes. It is inhabited by strange and wondrous creatures and full of mysterious ancient relics whose purposes are unknown to modern man. Generations of bold adventurers have been drawn by the cryptic depths of the Abyss. Over the course of time, those bold enough to explore the dangerous pit came to be known as “cave raiders.”
In Oosu, the town at the edge of the Abyss, there lives a little orphan named Rico, who dreams of becoming a cave raider as great as her mother was and solving the great mystery of the pit. One day while exploring the murky depths, she stumbles upon a little boy, who turns out to be a robot…
