Made In Abyss inappropriate fanservice?

GakutoDeathGlare said:
If you have a small frail beta ego, then yes, it might come across that way. It was obviously just leading up to the second short paragraph in reality, you know, the actual question I wanted answered lol. I didn't expect someone to be so nit picky, it's still relevant regardless, people vote lower thanks to the "fanservice".

GakutoDeathGlare said:
I was reading a couple of reviews about Made in Abyss about having inappropriate fanservice and/or sexualition of the main characters, hence why they gave them very low scores.

It's a favourite of mine and I watched it while it was airing, but can someone point me to where these scenes are? Honestly, I don't remember there being much/if not any at all in this series. If there was, it really took a backseat thanks to how great everything else is.

jal90 said:
The anime has a few nudity scenes. One, Riko's punishment, is not sexualized at all (apparently it was in the manga?), the others are a bit more debatable but I don't think sexualization is really that invasive. I think most of the complaints come from the manga and the anime is a tame version.

It's perfectly fine to watch in that sense. You get more sexual trigger warnings from a Doraemon episode. But it's violent and crude and uncomfortable because it's all happening to kids.

A0hi said:
I find it very disturbing that so many people normalize this kind of behavior and comments in characters that literally look like they're 8 years old (even though they try to convince you that they're 12, it doesn't make it better either way). The problem is not that we are shown nudity or even comments that are made by the characters from their innocence as children that they are, it's definitely not something to worry about. The problem comes when the comments just go a little bit further than they should, and we are slapped in the face from the very second episode when we hear Riko says she had introduced a stick in Reg's ass. That is just incomfortable to watch, just as much as the image of Riko tied up naked with some sort of shibari knots.

To be honest, if we weren't talking about a society that has such a HUGE rate of pedophiles and acceptance of pedo behavior, then we could speculate. But it is not the case. Tolerance of pedo content in Japan is real and making fanservice based on it is just disgusting. Some of the answers in this discussion just look like super crazy excuses to justify this kind of content. It's pretty straight forward: children making comments or behaving in a sexual manner is pedo content and pedo bite. The situations we are talking about are NOT based on character's innocence (which we also have in this anime and i repeat, those are not the problem, because they are children experimenting and that's okay, it's just not shown in an innocent light, doesn't manner how you want to look at it). It is what it is.

I am absolutely loving the storyline, the character design and I just fell in love with the series in an instant, but that doesn't mean I haven't felt extremely uncomfortable watching two 8y.o. looking characters making sexual comments. We are not talking about ecchi anime, because then we are talking about actual adults, we are talking about f children, for fucks sake. It is def not accceptable and I still love the story, but i completely get that people are thown off by this kind of stuff. And I have only mentioned stuff that is in the first chapters because i have just started with it. But I could already notice it, and now I know i'm going to keep finding content of the like.

son2380 said:


Riko's punishment is sexualized its BDSMit was supposed to represent sexual bondage that what it was supposed to be, that is the joke about the punishment