HIDIVE’s November 10 announcement places the new Made in Abyss movie in its screening programme at Anime Frontier in Fort Worth, Texas. The December 5, 2026 showing gives event attendees an early look ahead of next year’s release. Details of the 2027 distribution plans will follow later.
Awakening Mystery opened in Japan on October 23. It is the franchise’s first new film in six years and continues the journey from the second anime season, The Golden City of the Scorching Sun. For viewers who followed Riko to the sixth layer, the film takes her search farther down into the Abyss.
Riko continues the search for her mother
Made in Abyss is set in a world whose surface has largely been explored, leaving the vast vertical Abyss as a source of unanswered questions. Riko enters it in search of her missing mother Lyza, an explorer known as a White Whistle. Reg and Nanachi accompany her, with Faputa joining the group later.
Awakening Mystery takes the group onward from the sixth layer. As Riko continues looking for Lyza, familiar allies, enemies and new arrivals meet in the next adventure.
The returning team and voice cast
Masayuki Kojima directs at Kinema Citrus, with a screenplay by Hideyuki Kurata. Yuka Kuroda and Kazuchika Kise handle character design. Miyu Tomita voices Riko, Mariya Ise plays Reg, Shiori Izawa plays Nanachi and Misaki Kuno plays Faputa. Sumire Morohoshi joins as Tepaste, alongside Takanori Hoshino as Cravagli.
The anime adapts Akihito Tsukushi’s manga, which began in 2012. HIDIVE has been associated with the adaptation since streaming the first season in 2017, making the planned film release part of its tenth year with the franchise. The confirmed early showing is at Anime Frontier, with the wider 2027 schedule still to be announced.
