Editing Disturbing Anime Series Featuring Child Torture Sparks Outrage Online

A scandal has erupted in South Korea after a number of the country's top K-pop idols promoted a controversial Japanese anime series containing child torture and abuse. <br><br>The series, titled Made In Abyss, first premiered back in 2017, but it's now receiving widespread attention and condemnation in both Korea and abroad for its disturbing content.<br><br>A number of top K-pop idols, including members of the chart-topping boy bands SEVENTEEN and TXT, have publicly praised the series, which has sparked outrage from countless K-pop fans across the globe.<br><br>Made In Abyss tells the story of a 12-year-old orphan named Riko, who befriends a part-robot boy named Reg.<br><br>Together, they descent into a mysterious abyss that leads to the centre of the earth in a quest to find Riko's mother, where they are subjected to various horrors. <br><br><br><br><br>A scandal has erupted in South Korea after a number of the country's top K-pop idols promoted a Japanese anime series Made in Abyss (pictured) which contains child torture<br><br><br><br><br><br>A number of K-pop idols, including a member of the chart-topping boy band TXT (pictured), have praised the series, which has sparked outrage from K-pop fans across the globe<br><br>According to IMDB, the series features a number of questionable scenes involving the young characters, from implied nudity to disturbing violence. <br><br>One scene sees Riko tied up naked in bondage-style ropes and hung from a ceiling, while another scene depicts an excruciating five-minute amputation of a limb. <br><br>'The second season is extraordinarily violent, featuring graphic scenes of murder,' a user wrote on IMDB's Parent's Guide. <br><br>'The carnage is taken to another level in the second season. It is highly disturbing.'<br><br>Another warning reads,  [https://filmero.club https://filmero.club] 'In the second season, some monsters lure a girl into a dark alley, where they begin to fondle her under her clothes and undress her.'<br><br><br><br><br>The series features a number of questionable scenes involving the young characters, from implied nudity to disturbing violence<br><br><br><br><br><br>In one scene, the show's two young characters are shown taking a bath together (pictured)<br><br>Since the scenes came to light, many K-pop fans in South Korea have condemned local K-pop idols for watching and promoting the series.<br><br>'This is honestly despicable...' one fan wrote in comments translated by Pann Choa.  <br><br>'They seriously treat this as some [https://www.exeideas.com/?s=innocent%20recommendation innocent recommendation]? The content of that anime makes me want to vomit,' wrote another.<br><br>The scandal has spread to the international K-pop community on social media, where many are condemning the series while others have defended it as art. <br><br>'This Made in Abyss thing is genuinely so [https://www.fool.com/search/solr.aspx?q=sickening sickening]... I don't even know what to say about it I'm so f***ing disgusted,' one person posted on X.<br><br>Another wrote, 'Anyone who fetishizes children and all those horrible themes deserves to rot in hell. Oh, I'm actually sick.'<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Many K-pop fans have condemned K-pop idols for watching and promoting the series