HIDIVE announced on Tuesday that it will distribute Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery (Made in Abyss: Mezameru Shinpi), the first entry in a new Made in Abyss anime film series, in 2027. The streaming service also confirmed that the film’s North American premiere will take place on December 5 at this year’s Anime Frontier event in Fort Worth, Texas. An English-subtitled trailer has been released.

New Cast

• Sumire Morohoshi as Tepaste
• Takanori Hoshino as Cravagli
• Nana Mizuki as Srajo
• Akeno Watanabe as Nishagora
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Yataramar
• Nao Tōyama as Sherumi
• Yume Miyamoto as Menae

Returning Cast

• Mariya Ise as Reg
• Miyu Tomita as Riko
• Shiori Izawa as Nanachi
• Misaki Kuno as Faputa

Staff

Masayuki Kojima (Black Bullet, Tibetan Dog) returns to direct at studio Kinema Citrus (My Happy Marriage, The Rising of the Shield Hero). Hideyuki Kurata (Samurai Flamenco, The World God Only Knows) is again handling scripts, while Kazuchika Kise (Ghost in the Shell: Arise Alternative Architecture, xxxHOLiC) and Yuka Kuroda (Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun) return as character designers.

Additional Staff

• Design Leader: Takeshi Takakura
• Art Directors: Osamu Masuyama, Teru Sekiguchi, Asaki Nakamura (Inspired)
• Color Key Artist: Miyao Yamashita
• Compositing Director of Photography: Tsunetaka Ema (T2 Studio)
• Editing: Masayuki Kurosawa
• Sound Director: Haru Yamada
• Sound Effects: Tōru Noguchi
• Music: Kevin Penkin
• Music Producer: Hiromitsu Iijima
• Music Production: IRMA LA DOUCE (in collaboration with Kadokawa)

Series composer Kevin Penkin feat. Mori Calliope perform the film’s theme song, “Chain of the Abyss.”

A second film in the series has also been greenlit.

Series Background

Kadokawa announced in January 2023 that a sequel to Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun (Made in Abyss: Retsujitsu no Ōgonkyō) was in development. That second season aired from July to September 2022, with HIDIVE streaming it simultaneously with its Japanese broadcast.

The original 13-episode television anime premiered in Japan in July 2017. Two compilation films — Made in Abyss: Journey’s Dawn and Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight — opened in Japan in early 2019. The original theatrical film Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul opened in Japan in January 2020, earning 102,284,000 yen (approximately US$929,300) in its opening weekend.

Story

In the world of Made in Abyss, a vast pit and cave system known as the Abyss is the only unexplored place on Earth. Its depths are home to strange creatures and precious relics that modern humanity cannot replicate. Adventurers who dare to descend are called Cave Raiders. The story follows Riko, a young orphan girl living in the town of Ōrth on the Abyss’s rim, who dreams of becoming a Cave Raider like her mother. During one of her explorations, she discovers a robot that resembles a human boy.