

While there’s nothing as cheap as a jump scare, there’s plenty of gore in here, with explicit scenes of torture that may make a lot of people uncomfortable. In Dawn of the Deep Soul, things go dark fairly quickly, as the film opens with a sequence that turns a beautiful field of flowers into a death trap filed with insects that eat you alive, and it only gets darker from there, often feeling like a horror movie, filled with a creepy and foreboding atmosphere as we are plunged into the corridors of Bondrewd’s laboratory where it feels like some horrifyingly unknown creature could jump out at you at any second.

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Unfortunately for our adventuring trio, Bondrewd knows they are coming, and he has worked them, along with his adopted daughter Prushka, into his plans to enable him to overcome the Curse.ĭespite its cute and colourful characters, Made in Abyss has never been completely fluffy and cuddly, with the series excelling at showing how brutal nature can be. In order to pass through the barrier however, they first have to face Bondrewd, the man who is not only the gatekeeper, but the crazed scientist who experimented on Nanachi, Mitty and countless other children, turning them into Hollows in the process. We catch up with our adventurers immediately where the TV series left off, as bunny-eared Nanachi joins the party and they prepare to venture down to the fifth, and ultimately sixth layer of The Abyss, passing through the Curse of the Abyss’ point of no-return for being able to make it back up to the surface alive. In Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul, Riko and Reg’s grand adventure to the bottom of The Abyss takes some dark and sinister turns in a horror movie-esque arc that is very emotional and engaging, even if it feels a little formulaic.
