Defy the darkness

A continuation of the epic adventure of plucky Riko and Reg who are joined by their new friend Nanachi. Together they descend into the Abyss' treacherous fifth layer, the Sea of Corpses, and encounter the mysterious Bondrewd, a legendary White Whistle whose shadow looms over Nanachi's troubled past. Bondrewd is ingratiatingly hospitable, but the brave adventurers know things are not always as they seem in the enigmatic Abyss.
In Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “abyssal descent”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing survival, identity, memory.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Tokyo Ghoul (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Body Snatchers (1993)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Help! I'm a Fish (2000)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Encanto (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · looseOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Oblivion (2013)consciousness in machines · post‑apocalyptic AI colony
Extinction (2018)consciousness in machines · synthetic exile
Stand by Me Doraemon 2 (2020)consciousness in machines · robotic companion world
Transformers (2007)consciousness in machines · mechanical war
Alien Resurrection (1997)consciousness in machines · cloned‑android starship
Wifelike (2022)consciousness in machines · android afterlife marketThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Toy Story 3 (2010)consciousness in objects · identity, memory
Spirited Away (2001)consciousness in the dead · identity, memory
Madagascar (2005)consciousness in animals · identity, survival
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · identity, memory
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · identity, survival
The Host (2013)consciousness in aliens · identity, memoryShared director or cast.
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (2012)Shinji Kawada
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)Inori Minase
Your Name. (2016)Sayaka Ohara
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)Toshiyuki Morikawa
A Whisker Away (2020)Sayaka Ohara
My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission (2021)Tetsu Inada