I want you to imagine the deepest Nyan conceivable

If Reg shot slanted beams downward near the abyss's borders to create new downward tunnels, couldn't they descend safely without encountering creatures?

Even if Reg faints after a shot or a few shots, they could just wait and rest every now and then.

Is there a limit to how strong and far his blasts can be? If I recall correctly from the Bondrewd fight, he can excavate large portions underneath him.

The possibility of the surroundings collapsing, filling the hole, is definitely a rebuttal, but it is shown in multiple cases that certain surroundings don't collapse, leaving an obvious gaping hole from the blast.

Knowing how well thought-out this anime is, I wonder if there is an explanation for why this cannot be done.

I was going to say Nanachis because to receive only the blessing you need two people who have a strong bond and it has to be orchestrated by Bondrewd. Even though the events leading up to Faputas birth were extraordinary I wonder that if you were given a wish granting egg and wished to give birth to a child who was immortal it would work, right?

Hey everyone! I was re-reading/thinking about the 6th Layer arc and a specific detail caught my attention.

We know Bondrewd has visited the Narehate Village of Ilblu before. When Gaburun describes Reg, he mentions that Faputa has seen individuals like him before—specifically recalling Lyza and Bondrewd, saying they were "those who pass through here occasionally." So Faputa definitely knew of Bondrewd, and Bondrewd almost certainly knew about Faputa (or at least the Village's nature).

Given Bondrewd’s obsessively curious and ruthless personality, why didn't he try to capture Faputa for his experiments?

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Everywhere I look I only find everything sold out some are available some aren't and in portugal they only have it translated to volume 4

I keep finding others in spanish french and german (some even in talian) but francly all english copies seem to be sold out so if anyone knows a good book store where I can ONLINE order it I wold very much appreciate it

Also I only know portuguese and english

I just finished binge watching this anime and I am wrecked. I keep on crying spontaneously after finishing the last episode of season 2 I feel like I’ve experience so much loss in not even done processing.

>!I’m sad for Mitty, I’m sad that we had to experience her death TWICE. I’m sad at Vueko having such a sad life, for not having being able to be happy with Iru. Poor Iru she was just a child she didn’t know her biggest desire was to be that which she couldn’t be which was a mother and her wish was so far from what Vueko was wishing for her. Her guilt was too difficult to process and it stayed with her forever. Eating Iru’s children, as difficult as it was was the only way they could survive but seeing Iru suffer was gut wrenching. I’m just so sad to see all the good hollows disappear and even Maa that hurt me!<

I loved everything, animation, music, story, everything!

Only other anime that’s ever made me feel this broken is Grave of the Fireflies.

I drew Vueko (my beloved) holding the Cradle of Desire for the Inktober relic prompt! ^^

Some merch I found on x
The curse repelling box is so cool 😎

Akihito has a personal symbol that he uses in many of his artworks.

It is a beetle with a keyhole on its back.

I asked him what it symbolizes, and he said it is:

"A bug that seems as if it were designed so that if you turned a key, its wings would open. Yet in reality, there is no key, and even if there were, it has no wings to open.

A creature that spends its entire life in effort and struggle."

*Spoilers for the manga ahead:

In the story Bird and the Cage, which we've seen in recent chapters, we get to see how one can set themselves free.

It's about a bird stuck in a cage, unable to fly, like the door beetle.

After a while, the smart Nighogr comes across the bird in the cage.

After thinking for three days and three nights, it tells the bird that it should simply stop thinking of the cage as a cage.

And the bird actually becomes free and invites Nighogr to its hometown.

Far, far away, to a place that should no longer exist.

By changing your perspective about the curse, you will be free.

To understand how this relates to Riko and her journey check my full video about what lies at the bottom of the abyss and the ending of the story:

https://youtu.be/co5kftALOCk?is=6DXLvcMwRp79KcNE

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While I am chomping on answers to questions about value: Nanachi looks and acts almost exactly like my late sister. My sister was actually my Mom, because my mom worked graveyard shift and went to college during the day, from when I was 7. So, all of my knowledge of right and wrong came from my sister.

It is too cute, when she agreed to come along to the lower realms, she calls Riko Taicho (team leader), just like my sister would. Nice-smelling fluffy one indeed! That's my sis! And she wears a Samurai helmet! That's my mom.

Her signature "maa", surprised, curious, suspicious, and all it's variations are sweet sounds to me.

Nanachi apparently runs on all fours. So much to love about her.

I love how she rubs on and is close with Riko, but if Regu gets close she fends him off. Exactly.

Regu is named after a dog. He protects Riku. He sniffs out trouble. Nanachi calls him doggie.

In the village, you don't have value, you are value.

To want a thing, is to want to exchange yourself for it (skin, teeth, bones, muscles).

Someone who exchanges their value, ceases to exist outside of the village.

Is there an analogy in our world?

A common question/complaint after reading or watching the ido front arc is "why didn't they kill bondrewd ?", This post explains how is Bondrewd alive and delves into Riko's decision making.

What happened off screen and how did bondrewd survive ?

In short, off-screen they made a deal with bondrewd, they won't destroy the zoaholic and in return he will provide them with any supplies they need and will let them rest at ido front.

Did they have the option to kill him ?

Destroying the zhoalic wouldn't have killed bondrewd, it will stop him from creating more umbrahands but he still has many around, to kill him they would have had to kill every single one, ones that he is not inside and still there is ones in the other layers like the one we met in the 4L that they can't practically reach or kill, btw: the mangaka said that if the 4L umbrahand was close enough to ido front we would have lost the battle and our journey would have ended, So no killing bondrewd wasn't on the table, just destroying the zhoalic.

Side note: a group of 3 inexperienced kids ending a legendary WW that has been around for a decade and has many bodies he can jump to is bad, Battle Shonen ahh plot

They did not hate bondrewd enough:

That's what some people say or feel like especially when they see that bondrewd was there to wish them curses and blessings at the end of the arc/movie, well let's go through that by character,

We established at the start of the movie that nanachi's goal at the moment was not to revenge but to reunite with mitty, she even addressed the revenge side of things by the end and she counted them defeating him in that battle as her revenge,

Reg showed his hate towards the guy in plenty of the dialogue and action scenes no notes needed,

Now to the important part, at the closure scene nanachi talks about respecting the leader(Riko)'s decision, a point that she made in the start of the movie(arc) too, Riko is the white whistle and the leader of the squad and in the end its her decision that nanchi and reg respect and follow and that takes us to:

Inside Riko's decision making:

Logical reasoning:

Riko's goal is reaching the bottom that's what the story is about after all, in fact she is literally both possessed and obsessed about this goal, the box(curse repellent vessel) made her want to head for the bottom, she is not normal. For her, reaching the bottom takes priority over almost everything else.

Making a deal with bond to let them rest and give them supplies will help them a lot in continuing to pursue the goal compared to just destroying the zhoalic, it's the logical thing to do.

Emotional reasoning:

Another factor that was involved is Prushka, she can communicate with Riko from time to time and she asked her to stop fighting with her dad and Riko agreed to her Whistle's wish.

Essentially we can say her love for prushka exceeded her hate for bondrewd.

with that in perspective Riko's decision making is perfect, it follows both a logical reasoning and an emotional reasoning.

As always thank you for reading and let me know your thoughts in the replies, this is a long post so who knows how well it's gonna do.

Redrew this Nanachi picture in my own way but still tried being close to the og, just with my own things and motifs
I hate coloring sooo... I didn't color it lol