HIDIVE Sets Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery for 2027, With Anime Frontier Premiere on December 5

HIDIVE announced Tuesday that it will distribute Made in Abyss: Awakening Mystery (Made in Abyss: Mezameru Shinpi) in 2027. The film's North American premiere will screen December 5 at this year's Anime Frontier in Fort Worth, Texas.

The company also released an English-subtitled trailer.

The film opened in Japan on October 23. It is the first entry in a new Made in Abyss anime film series, and a second film has been greenlit.

New cast members include:

• 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 members include:

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

Series composer Kevin Penkin, featuring Mori Calliope, performs the film's theme song, "Chain of the Abyss."

Kadokawa announced a sequel to Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun (Made in Abyss: Retsujitsu no Ōgonkyō) in January 2023.

The first Made in Abyss television anime ran for 13 episodes and premiered in Japan in July 2017. Sentai Filmworks licensed it and released it on Blu-ray Disc in October 2018.

Amazon's Anime Strike service streamed the English-subtitled version in the United States. HIDIVE streamed it outside the United States.

The Golden City of the Scorching Sun, the second season adapting Akihito Tsukushi's Made in Abyss manga, premiered in July 2022. It ended with a one-hour finale in September 2022.

HIDIVE streamed the second season as it aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks licensed it for digital and home video release.

Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (Made in Abyss: Fukaki Tamashii no Reimei) opened in Japan in January 2020. It ranked ninth during its opening weekend, earning 102,284,000 yen (about US$929,300) in its first three days.

The film also received 4DX and MX4D screenings. Its planned April 2020 U.S. premiere was delayed due to COVID-19.

Sentai Filmworks premiered it in select U.S. and Canadian theaters in August 2020. The company screened it again in September 2020.

The first compilation film, Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn (Made in Abyss: Tabidachi no Yoake), opened in Japan in January 2019. Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (Made in Abyss: Hōrō Suru Tasogare), the second compilation film, followed two weeks later.

Sentai Filmworks premiered Journey's Dawn in Los Angeles in March 2019, ahead of its theatrical opening later that month. Wandering Twilight premiered in Rosemont, Illinois, in May 2019, before reaching U.S. theaters later that month.

Both compilation films stream on HIDIVE.

The story centers on the Abyss, an enormous pit and cave system that remains the world's only unexplored place. Its depths hold strange, wondrous creatures and precious relics that present-day humans cannot make.

Drawn by its mysteries, adventurers called "Cave Raiders" descend into the pit. Riko, a young orphan living in Ōrth at its edge, dreams of following her mother as a Cave Raider and solving its mysteries.

While exploring the caves one day, Riko discovers a robot resembling a human boy.

Returning production staff include:

• Director: Masayuki Kojima (Black Bullet, Tibetan Dog)
• Animation studio: Kinema Citrus (My Happy Marriage, The Rising of the Shield Hero)
• Scripts: Hideyuki Kurata (Samurai Flamenco, The World God Only Knows)
• Character designer: Kazuchika Kise (Ghost in the Shell: Arise Alternative Architecture, xxxHOLiC)
• Character designer: Yuka Kuroda (Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun)

Additional staff include:

• 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
• Music production collaboration: Kadokawa