Content & Trigger Warnings for Made in Abyss (2017)

Multiple child characters die in deeply distressing circumstances

Children die on screen in disturbing ways. The death of child characters is a recurring and emotionally devastating element.

The protagonist's quest is driven by the loss and search for her missing mother

The protagonist's journey is motivated by her missing mother, and parental loss and abandonment are major themes.

Devastating losses are experienced by child characters with intense emotional weight

Characters process devastating losses with raw emotional intensity

Intense scenes of grief over lost companions and loved ones, especially heartbreaking given the young age of the characters.

Mass destruction and deliberate annihilation of an entire community is depicted

Children are kidnapped, captured, and held captive by various antagonists throughout the series.

Copious amounts of blood in nearly every action sequence; bleeding from eyes, wounds, and orifices is shown in graphic detail.

Grotesque bodily transformations and creatures with disturbing anatomical features

Extensive body horror with characters fused, deformed, and transformed against their will

Severe body horror including forced bodily transformations, loss of limbs, organ exposure, and grotesque mutations affecting child characters.

Characters navigate tight underground tunnels and cramped cave passages

Tight underground environments and enclosed spaces feature prominently

Characters navigate extremely narrow and claustrophobic passages within the Abyss.

The entire setting revolves around descending a massive vertical chasm with constant fall danger

Vertigo-inducing descent sequences continue into deeper layers of the Abyss

The Abyss is a massive vertical chasm; characters frequently face dizzying heights and the threat of falling into the void.

Crude surgical procedures are performed on children in dire circumstances

Invasive medical experimentation on children shown in disturbing detail

Giant insectoid predators attack characters in the deeper layers

Characters experience severe nausea and vomiting from the curse of the Abyss

Physical illness and vomiting from the Abyss curse continues

Characters vomit blood and other fluids as a result of the Abyss's curse when ascending from deeper layers.

Uncomfortable undertones in how certain adult characters interact with child characters

Uncomfortable dynamics between adult and child characters persist in subtext

An adult character's obsessive and possessive relationship with a child has strong predatory overtones.

Creatures are killed graphically and animals suffer visible distress

Creatures suffer and are killed in graphic ways during encounters

Creatures in the Abyss are killed graphically, and animals suffer violent deaths on screen.

Children suffer horrific physical injuries, mutilation, and prolonged suffering

Children endure systematic experimentation and horrific physical harm

Children suffer extreme physical trauma, are experimented on, mutilated, and subjected to horrific conditions. A central and deeply disturbing element of the series.

Extremely graphic depictions of dismemberment and evisceration throughout the series

Gore intensifies with even more graphic body destruction and visceral imagery

Extremely graphic violence including dismemberment, disembowelment, and detailed depictions of horrific injuries sustained by characters including children.

A character chooses death to avoid a worse fate; themes of sacrificing oneself appear throughout the series.

Implied sexual abuse of a child character by an authority figure is strongly suggested though not explicitly shown.

A character is subjected to prolonged physical torment as punishment

Extended sequences of characters being subjected to agonizing physical torment

Characters, including children, endure prolonged torture sequences. The Abyss itself inflicts escalating physical punishment as characters descend.