Takopii no Genzai

A squid-like creature, known as a Happian, leaves his home planet with the desire to spread happiness across the universe. He lands on Earth, but quickly finds himself in danger of captivity by its inhabitants. Fortunately, he is found by an unsmiling little girl named Shizuka Kuze, who feeds him and names him Takopii. Feeling indebted, Takopii decides to do everything in his power to bring a smile to her face.

The task is easier said than done, however. Shizuka is bullied by her classmates, she does not have a father, and her mother is never home—though the gravity of these issues flies over the naive Takopii's head. Even so, Shizuka does have one source of happiness: her dog Chappy. The connection Shizuka and Chappy share only increases Takopii's desire to make the girl smile.

While Takopii's attempts to lift Shizuka's spirits lead to unintended consequences, he is determined to take things into his own tentacles, test his understanding of human beings, and achieve his goal of spreading happiness.

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Takopii Main

Mamiya, Kurumi Japanese

Kuze, Shizuka Main

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Kirarazaka, Marina Supporting

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Azuma, Naoki Supporting

Nagase, Anna Japanese

Azuma, Junya Supporting

Oosaka, Ryouta Japanese

Marina's Father Supporting

Kawada, Shinji Japanese

Happy Mama Supporting

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

Shizuka's Mother Supporting

Taichi, You Japanese

Marina's Mother Supporting

Tsunematsu, Ayumi Japanese

Azuma's Mother Supporting

Uchiyama, Yumi Japanese

Igarashi, Kei Producer

Sudou, Koutarou Producer

Okamoto, Kenta Assistant Producer

Iino, Shinya Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition

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Aug 31, 2025

Drewgoza

Recommended

- This is My Anime of The Year -

After hearing such high praise about this anime, I decided to check it out. Seeing it was only 6 episodes, I figured, “Why not?” Didn’t think I’d stumble on another “12-episode” Masterpiece.

Takopis Original Sin is an anime that utilizes unique cinematics, top-notch animation, and gripping abstract storytelling to its fullest extent. It intricately creates a unique environment that only truly exists around the 4 main characters shown in the anime.

Not only does its story divert expectations, but it leads us as viewers on an emotional goose chase, dreading what may happen next.

It manages to create scenes where ... the watcher feels trapped in a space with whoever is on screen, mainly because of its high-quality sound design and the anime's style as a whole, which allowed for scenes to be more experimental with the artistic direction. Additionally, the voice acting was PHENOMENAL.

If there was another story I could compare this to, it would be "Goodnight Punpun." These two stories feature an out-of-place creature as one of the main characters, have darker themes, and explore existentialism in their own ways. However, Takopi can accomplish this in a light 6 episodes, compared to what would most likely be 2-3 seasons for Punpun.

Talopis Original Sin is a darker-themed anime on the surface, but at its heart, there is a real message it's conveying to its audience: Life is a struggle, and we all struggle in it. Instead of hurting each other, we have each other to lean on.

It's beautiful, it's heart-tugging, and most of all, it's reflective of the state of the world we currently live in.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 31, 2025

STK_Reaper

Mixed Feelings

I watched it because people were saying that this is depressing and dark, And for me yeah at first it felt like that
but however the story was great, but that is until the end. This is one of the worst endings I've seen in anime...
Because Shizuka who became happy at first because marina the bully was gone, and also marina who hated shizuka and regret not killing her until 2022 suddenly became friends with each other like nothing happened, it makes 0 sense, I get the idea what they are trying to say, just because takopi lingers around their memories and those memories alone made ... them friends...the ending was very unrealistic, just in 1 minutes whole problems got solved, yeah if you want a happy ending this is the one, but if you want a more realistic ending hell no
until 5th episode 10/10
but after the ending 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 29, 2025

Pursueth

Not Recommended

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This is kinda like the "13 reasons why" of anime. No, I'm not elaborating on that.

Actually never mind I'll elaborate a little bit. Takopi wrestles with three main ideas: inhibited trauma, inherited trauma, and inherent trauma. Children are used as vessels to portray the loss of innocence and the heinous capacities of evil that reside within them, mirroring the environments that raise them and cultivate differing modes of "values" (debt, perfection, etc.) This marks a bold and stark departure from the usual rose-tinted image of children we hold; of perfect angels with inherent capacity for good. Takopi, taking a chaotic neutral stance on this, posits ... time and again the value of "communication." In what begins as the premise of "Inside Out," Takopi exists as an ignorant "happiness merchant," a chaotic invoker of smiles who does not understand the broad spectrum of emotions. This creates numerous instances of "humour," childlike juxtaposition of adult life and childish ignorance. What thrusts Takopi into self-actualization parallels the reality of our three miserable children; in which its persistence in trying to iron things out via "talking" is met with the cruel reality of these ruinous lives.

At this point in the show, you wouldn't be wrong to expect the psychological probing to expand a little "further" than nature vs nurture. After all, there has to be a narrative value beyond just "life sucks, amirite?" The show then, in a desperate attempt to retain engagement, expands horizontally by dropping head spinning plot revelations about the supernatural machinations of Takopi. And while that lengthens the plot, the breadth remains paper thin. None of these events catalyze into a proper exploration of trauma or psychological degradation, or bullying, or anything really, instead discarding the odd juxtaposition of humour and tragedy, it goes full blown tragedy, with events upon events of loss in all forms imaginable. Then the show climaxes with magical self-sacrifice being the ultimate bringer of happiness. So, people can't heal on their own, can't reckon on their own, instead they need a third party to intervene, reset, and usher in understanding by turning into a ghost of influence... creepy.

The show in general has this odd sentiment regarding foils and equivalency between abuser and abused. Since the narrative at this point only successfully ties Naoki's perfectly realised one-episode arc, then disintegrates into timeline mumbo jumbo, it cannot handle contextual clues necessary to establish justice and catharsis between Shizuka and Marina. Instead, the show leans on its tacky "hurt people hurt people" messaging, reducing its foundation to a mere afterthought as the two forgive each other and bond over their mutual agony, supposedly.

Social commentary cannot work without establishing and analysing the structural makeup of people's lives. Takopi broadly gestures towards this by sketching out parental roles and negligence that brings about pain and hatred in otherwise pure souls. Yet this effort collapses every adult into cartoon caricatures. One might argue that this is wholly from the perspective of kids, but hyper-subjectivity without an established framework offers little insight. What does perspective reveal without grounding context? With no social blueprint bar implications? With neither precision nor scaffolding? The text then merely circles back to its single truism; trauma is cyclical. hammered home with no dramatic finesse. The result feels less like hardened social critique and more like kitsch at best, exploitation at worst.

Now the question is: what is the thesis of this show? The wrong answer is "communication may not heal us, but it is still a worthwhile step to take." The right answer is "children are all evil hellspawns. I hate children. Fuck them kids."

There is something to be said about how far this show goes in hyper engineering despair at every given turn. There needs to be some form of lapse that doesn't register as "haha this is all tonal whiplash btw wink wink" while you sit there in wait for the next gruesome scene of someone dying. Even Midori, for all its mundanity compared to its reputation, at least nourishes its scars with stretches of relief and hope. Takopi's attempts at any empathic maturity betray themselves as inauthentic and shallow. There's nothing more to be said. Nothing here unfolds with organic realism. It is inconsequential, and answers little in way of people dealing with similar issues. It's an exercise in obscene, emotional tedium. A seemingly proverbial examination of suffering conflated with cruelty manufactured to implausibility. Misfortune as pretext. Sensationalism: the anime.

Dope ass animation though phew. The merch sales are going to be through the roof for that pink octopus.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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