Made in Abyss Season 2: Episode 3 Review
The title for this episode is Village of the Hollows, so at least we begin the episode knowing exactly who the creatures we met at the end of the last episode are. Our heroes are still following the robot who is being vague about what he wants them to see, but they don’t have any other leads as to where they are, so they figure they might as well follow him.
Nevertheless, Nana can’t read any minds due to the lack of a force field, so she warns Reg to be on the lookout for anything strange. After a brief side trip to admire a robot who has made a career in creating stone necklaces, we find out that the robot leading our heroes around is named Majikaja.
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It appears Majikaja wanted to show our heroes a thriving farmer’s market, where creators and robots live side by side to sell and trade goods. In the farmers market, one of the creatures is selling a piece of the journal Riko’s mom wrote in. Not having money on them and needing to barter to get the sheet of paper, the trio find themselves unable to buy the drawing and must walk away from it. This is where the characters – and, by extension, the audience – learns about the Hollow’s lives, their dreams, and what they think of their visitors.
As you can probably guess, they all want to meet in peace and offer to let their visitors stay with them, though Riko politely turns them down, as getting to the center of the Abyss is still the goal behind the series.
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This follows with a scene in which Majikaja ruminates on the value of life all while creatures around them tear each other apart, so they can barter body parts for goods and services. It’s all very strange if we're being
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