Made in Abyss

Made in Abyss (Japanese: メイドインアビス, Hepburn: Meido in Abisu) is a Japanese web manga series written and illustrated by Akihito Tsukushi. It has been serialized on Takeshobo's Web Comic Gamma website since October 2012, and its chapters have been collected in 15 tankōbon volumes as of August 2026. The story follows an orphaned girl named Riko, who finds and befriends a part-robot boy named Reg, and descends with him into the titular "Abyss" that leads deep into the Earth, in hopes of exploring it and finding her mother. An anime television series adaptation produced by Kinema Citrus aired from July to September 2017. A sequel film, subtitled Dawn of the Deep Soul, premiered in Japan in January 2020. A second season, subtitled The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, aired from July to September 2022. A sequel film to the second season has been announced. A Western live-action film adaptation began development in 2021, with Kevin McMullin hired to write and direct. An action role-playing game developed by Chime Corporation and published by Spike Chunsoft was released in September 2022. By August 2025, the manga had over 22 million copies in circulation. In 2023, it won the 52nd Japan Cartoonists Association Award.