Series Continuity

The Made in Abyss story has seen multiple adaptations. To help guide fans of the series, we have compiled a list of notable changes made between different media.

Volume 1
Chapter 1: Orth: The City of the Great Pit
 * The beginning sequence with Riko, Nat, Shiggy and Kiyui originally takes place in the classroom of the orphanage while in the anime it takes place inside Riko's room chronologically after the introduction of Reg's character; Nat and Shiggy also do not make fun of Riko.
 * The sequence where Riko and Kiyui hang out in Laffi's shop takes place chronologically after Reg's character introduction in the anime.
 * Riko is shown to prepare for her trip the night before.

Chapter 2: The Abode of Trees and Fossils
 * After being saved by a strange light from the Crimson Splitjaw, Riko finds that Nat is safe and makes up an excuse to go look for the source of the light.

 Chapter 3: Riko's Room: Former Torture Chamber 
 * Reg notices a symbol on his helmet, unlike in the anime where he doesn't try it on.
 * Reg hides alone as Jiruo comes back for Riko, who had escaped.

 Chapter 4: Belchero Orphanage 
 * Reg's name is revealed during his introduction to Jiruo.

 Chapter 6: Premonition 
 * Riko reveals Lyza's Letter to everyone and her plans of leaving into the Abyss in Reg's recollection of the previous night.
 * Reg remembers Riko likes to hoard relics for herself like the Scaled Umbrella, Sun Sphere and Star Compass; even a Blue Pendant she found.

 Chapter 7: Eve of Departure 
 * Reg and Nat visit the relic appraisal shop after the trip to the Abyss where Reg finds out what a Princess Bosom is.

 Chapter 8: Here We Go! 
 * Reg looks for Nat in his room before meeting up with Riko and Shiggy.

Volume 2
 Chapter 15: The Unmovable Sovereign 
 * Ozen notices the door is open after Reg shoots the Incinerator.

 Chapter 16: A Vile Mentoring Method 
 * Ozen recalls her relationship with Lyza, leading up to Lyza's face-reveal.

Volume 3
 Chapter 17: Survival Training 
 * Ozen also mentions that there are creatures living along the path to the bottom of the netherworld called "Gatekeepers."

 Chapter 18: The Depths' Third Layer: The Great Fault 
 * Riko uses a Sun Sphere to bait the Crimson Splitjaw, remembering they eat relics, and Reg does not use his Incinerator, instead he drives the Crimson Splitjaw away with a headbutt and a strike with his two hands.

Volume 4
 Chapter 26: A Fresh Start 
 * Nanachi is shown measuring the Backpack on Reg.

 Chapter 27: The Forbidden Field of Flowers 
 * The Umbra Hand receives the signal from Peijin that the burning agents have been planted but the Umbra Hand determines that he won't make it back in time and reveals to Reg that the Moon Whistles he entrusted that duty to weren't able to return in time.
 * Reg shows his frustration about the burning of the field.

 Chapter 28: The Entrance to the Sixth Layer 
 * Riko is astonished by the width of the 5th Layer, recalling they say it's tens of times the size of Orth.
 * Reg wonders if he came up through the Altar of the Absolute Boundary as well, Nanachi replies that he can hold his breath so he probably just swam up.

 Chapter 30: Unseen Peril 
 * Nanachi asks about the other White Whistles to which Bondrewd replies that they both went down to the 6th Layer; Srajo left without a notice and Wakuna left using their own personal relic.

 Chapter 31: Despair and Hope 
 * Prushka gets surrounded by Umbra Hands after letting Riko's team use the boat to escape.

 Chapter 32: The End of a Fierce Fight 
 * Nanachi takes Riko's glasses to concentrate after being struck by the curse of the 5th Layer.
 * Hablog gives an account of Bondrewd's deeds to Nat and Shiggy as Bondrewd is shown to have survived the Stingerhead's ambush.

Volume 5
 Chapter 33: The True Nature of the Mask 
 * Riko pictures the relics from the compilation of recorded relics trying to figure out what relic was it that brought Bondrewd back alive. Nanachi prevents Reg from looking at Bondrewd's Corpse.
 * Reg enters Ido Front from inside by diving in the water, he then finds the Failed Umbra Hands roaming around doing menial tasks, wearing Prushka's paper mâché whistles. Reg then shows compassion for what would happen to Prushka.

 Chapter 34: Counterattack 
 * Bondrewd assumes that Team Riko came to create the raw material for Your Worth; since Nanachi is a blessed child and Reg a mechanical boy he concludes that Riko must be the one to be used as offering.
 * Bondrewd refers to the 6th Layer and beyond as the "pivotal area of the netherworld, from which one can never return."

 Chapter 35: Clouded Memory 
 * Nanachi endures the curse of the 5th Layer and needs to concentrate before regaining their senses.
 * Reg pictures both Lyza and a Human-looking silhouette as he tries to express what happened to Nanachi.

 Chapter 37: Flower of Dawn 
 * Gueira tells Prushka he's heard that creatures from the Absolute Boundary possess the ability that let Prushka reveal things where she couldn't see.
 * Prushka remembering the time she learned about Cartridges and tells Bondrewd she'll help him, as Bondrewd has lost some valuable collaborators.
 * Though not adapted into the movie version, the scene where Prushka and Gueira gift the Failed Umbra Hands their paper mâché whistles appears as part of the OVA, Together with Papa.
 * Prushka remembering when Bondrewd died and promising to love him forever so he doesn't go away.

 Chapter 38: The Challengers 
 * Nanachi notices Bondrewd's already gone by the time they say their last words to him.

Volume 6
 Side Story Chapter 1: Reg 
 * This entire chapter is manga-only content.

 Chapter 42: Princess of the Hollows 
 * Reg notices he forgot to ask Faputa about Prushka and the Mail Balloon, wonders if he should send his worries in a balloon too and about Nat and Shiggy's condition.

 Side Story Chapter 2: Mio 
 * Nat and Shiggy slack off and talk about the Praying Skeletons found at the Burial Tower. When Laffi asks about Kiyui's condition, Mio overhears talk about a strange illness called the Birthday-Death Disease and is intrigued. Nat and Shiggy bring her back to the Orphanage to take a look at Kiyui. Jiruo explains the situation to her and is upset that Kiyui might go down without living his fullest in the pit.

 Side Story Chapter 3: Jiruo 
 * Jiruo descends to the Seeker Camp and chats with Ozen about the Birthday-Death Disease, Menae speaks to a corpse of Sherumi.

Volume 7
 Chapter 44: Hollows' Restaurant 
 * Maaa lifts Riko high-up so she can see the restaurant since it is very crowded.
 * Riko explains she bought the old-style delving helmet from Gaume.

 Chapter 45: Captive 
 * Vueko answers in the language of Iruburu to Riko's question.

 Chapter 46: The Luring 
 * During the Luring, it is shown that the Fuzosheppu is being balanced as it attacks the villagers.
 * Majikaja tells Riko to calm down, as getting too worked up makes Riko smell strange.
 * Vueko tells Riko to leave the Fuzosheppu to the sticky balancing and not worry as it's alright as long as the overall value of the village increases.
 * Majikaja answers Riko's question saying that it would be "enormous value that can make all sorts of things move."

 Chapter 47: The Secret of the Village 
 * Riko faints of exhaustion before Reg takes off again.
 * Vueko first tells a summary of their arrival to the 6th Layer before being interrupted by Moogie and asks who of them know the common language.

Volume 8
 Chapter 49: The Golden City 
 * The water-tasting squad follow the Interference Units to 2 water deposits before visiting the Pseudowater pond. One shows no signs of life around and is poisoned with rust from a fallen tower, the second one is extremely hot that not even the Interference Units can approach.
 * In a quick sequence of events, an unknown creature is seen looming over the Ganja camp, the Ganja squad eat a bad-tasting soup and Vueko is seen in bed with a woman as Irumyuui accidentally steps in.

 Chapter 50: The Cradle of Desire 
 * An Interference Unit mentions that relics appear where they once were not after Wazukyan asks where the food survey team might've found the Cradle of Desire.

Volume 9
 Chapter 52: Faputa's Promise 
 * Reg notices Vueko being taken by Wazukyan.

 Chapter 55: Faputa and Reg 
 * Riko tells Reg she understands there was no other option and Moogie is torn between her feelings about the drying area, where she'd chat with familiar faces, being destroyed and her inherent feeling of wanting to be touched by Faputa. Reg asks Riko to assist him in stopping Faputa somehow.
 * Multiple villagers try to approach Faputa as she's distracted with Reg.
 * Faputa says she doesn't let Gaburoon exchange more than twelve words with the villagers.
 * Faputa takes a moment to play with the real Reg instead of her dolls before he leaves for his "Haku."

Volume 10
 Chapter 57: Value 
 * Some villagers wonder what one type of these creatures are, as they've never seen them during the Luring.
 * The villagers look in terror as Faputa is being eaten and they can't do anything about it since they'll just disappear if they go to help.

 Chapter 58: Towards the Path of Flame 
 * Majikaja says the person who helped him move into the strong body disappeared.

Season 1
Episode 1: The City of the Great Pit
 * After luring the Crimson Splitjaw and falling down a hole, instead of staying in place Riko gets chased until she is ultimately saved from the Crimson Splitjaw by a mysterious light.
 * Nat's state is not revealed until after Riko finds Reg.
 * After hearing Jiruo coming back for Riko, instead of hiding and letting Riko take further punishment, Reg makes use of his extendable arms and helps Riko escape.
 * Riko names Reg after they escape from Jiruo, instead of being part of Reg's first meeting with Jiruo.

Episode 2: Resurrection Festival
 * The explanation for the curse is narrated by Shiggy instead of being a recollection of Jiruo's lecture by Riko.

Episode 3: Departure
 * Riko reveals to everyone the night before Reg's first trip as a Red Whistle Lyza's Letter and her plans of leaving into the Abyss, instead of happening as a recollection of Reg.

Episode 4: Edge of the Abyss
 * Reg faints after Riko's description of the Incinerator.

Episode 6: Seeker Camp
 * Reg asks directly whether Marulk is a girl.
 * The sequence concerning Riko's discovery of the headless monster and telling Marulk and Reg happens chronologically, not in flashback format.

Episode 7: The Unmovable Sovereign
 * Hablog's account about Ozen is shown before the reveal of Riko's birth.
 * Ozen only reminisces of her first encounter with Lyza and Lyza becoming a Black Whistle as she leaves her private room.

Episode 8: Survival Training
 * As Zapo mentions how Reg and Riko best learn to depend on one another, Ozen reminisces of her adventures with Lyza and the sequence of events relating to Riko's birth.
 * As Riko and Reg depart into the 3rd Layer, Ozen reminisces of Lyza leaving to the bottom of the Abyss and her promise to reveal the truth to Riko, leading up to Lyza's face-reveal.

Episode 9: The Great Fault
 * Nat notices Shiggy drawing on a map he copied from the director's office; Shiggy tells Nat that he estimates Reg and Riko are already in the 3rd Layer.
 * Riko and Reg encounter a Madokajack first inside the imprisoned pirate ship before the Crimson Splitjaw. Reg fires the incinerator at the Madokajack, leaving himself unconscious after escaping from the Crimson Splitjaw.
 * Reg wakes up and strikes the Crimson Splitjaw with a headbutt, Riko hands the Blaze Reap to Reg. Riko doesn't use a Sun Sphere and Reg does not strike the Crimson Splitjaw with his fists.

Episode 13: The Challengers
 * Nanachi recalls the time in Sereny before traveling with Bondrewd, they're reading a book that contains an updated Map of the Abyss that is not available even to Red Whistles. Whereas in the manga the book only contains the old map.
 * The scene where Bondrewd checks that Mitty's Lamp has turned off occurs at the end of the episode, instead of right after Mitty's soul has been released.
 * Riko, Reg and Nanachi send a Mail Balloon, passing through every layer they've been so far and the people they've met until it reaches the 1st Layer where Nat and Shiggy pick it up. Nat and Shiggy return to Orth, where an abundance of Eternal Fortune petals lie on the streets.

Season 2
Episode 2: Capital of the Unreturned
 * A shot of Faputa's figure looking at Riko's team when they send the Mail Balloon.

Episode 3: Village of the Hollows
 * Reg and Nanachi wonder what "Value" is.

Episode 4: Friend
 * Nanachi hears the ruckus made by the balancing against the alley perpetrators but tells Majikaja to keep on guiding them.
 * Riko's perspective is shown continuously up to Wazukyan's introduction.
 * Majikaja is shown to bring Nanachi inside Belaf's House.
 * Vueko is revealed to be imprisoned with the balancing before Riko finds her in Doguupu.

Episode 5: Concealment
 * Reg's perspective is shown continuously up until they reach Iruburu.

Episode 7: The Cradle of Desire
 * Vueko tells the events when the Ganja Squad discovered they could no longer leave the golden city in order.

Episode 12: Gold
 * It is made clear what Mepopohon was talking about to Reg.
 * Maaa puts the glasses on Riko, she wakes up and Maaa is gone leaving the doll Riko made.

Movie 1: Journey's Dawn

 * A scene describing the first discovery of the Abyss 1,900 years ago and the development of what is now called Orth.
 * On the mission to retrieve the Unheard Bell, Torka serves a stew to Lyza, who is holding a foreign delver's helmet. Ozen approaches Torka, who misunderstands Ozen for not liking the stew where she seemed to have been asking for more, as stated by Lyza. Torka says they're going past the Garden of the Flowers of Resilience, which Lyza was intending on showing Torka and her unborn daughter.

Movie 2: Wandering Twilight

 * Nat notices Shiggy drawing on a map he copied from the director's office; Shiggy tells Nat that he estimates Reg and Riko are already in the 3rd Layer.
 * Riko and Reg encounter the Crimson Splitjaw inside the imprisoned pirate ship and are chased into a cave, Reg hesitates on whether to fire the incinerator but Riko hands Reg the Blaze Reap. Riko doesn't use a Sun Sphere and Reg does not strike the Crimson Splitjaw with his head and fists.
 * As Bondrewd watches over the lamp for Mitty being turned off and congratulates Nanachi, Prushka comes running to see what he's doing.

Movie 3: Dawn of the Deep Soul

 * As the team travels down, Nanachi climbs down a pillar into a pad while Reg brings Riko down with his arms. Reg reassures Nanachi that they can trust on their information regarding the layout of the abyss, Nanachi says they've got to respect their leader's opinion.
 * Reg can be seen zooming in to the collapsed delvers.
 * Nanachi throws with vigor the Amaranthine-Deceptor that bit them.
 * A water support can be seen collapsing, opening a path.
 * Prushka is shown watching the group as they arrive.
 * Reg sees a figure of a Human-looking silhouette as he looks at Bondrewd.
 * Nanachi says they've come to an understanding of sorts with Bondrewd, respecting their leaders decision.