Jiruo

Jiruo is one of the many hands that keep Orth running at the edge of the Abyss — a cave raider or townsperson whose life is shaped by the pit's gravity long before Riko and Reg ever descend. He goes about his work with the practical wariness of someone who has grown up in a place where the ground itself is dangerous.

Made in Abyss is built from figures like this: people whose ordinariness makes the extraordinary danger around them feel lived-in rather than exotic. Taishi Murata gives Jiruo an unshowy, grounded voice, the kind that lets a viewer feel the weight of Orth's everyday risk without a single dramatic speech.