Manga 'Takopii no Genzai' Gets Anime

by DatRandomDude
Dec 9, 2024 9:17 AM | 19 Comments

Television broadcasting company TBS opened an official website for an anime adaptation of Taizan 5's Takopii no Genzai (Takopi's Original Sin) manga on Tuesday, revealing a teaser visual (pictured). More information for the anime will be announced at the Jump Festa event on December 22.

Taizen 5 serialized the sci-fi drama manga in the Shounen Jump+ website from December 2021 to March 2022. Shueisha shipped the second and final volume in April 2022. The manga has a cumulative 1.4 million copies of its volumes in print.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in February 2023 and released it as a 2-in-1 omnibus volume in November that year

Takopii no Genzai ranked third in the Male readers' category in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 rankings and was nominated for the 16th Manga Taisho Award in 2023.

Synopsis
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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Announcement

Official site: https://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/takopi_project/
Official X: @takopi_pr

Source: Comic Natalie

Takopii no Genzai on MAL

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People should pay attention to these before watching:
Genres: Drama
Theme: Psychological

This won't be a joy-ride. But I'd still recommend going for it.

This may get 3-4 episodes, or a single short movie perhaps IMO.

As for the ending. Without spoiling much, it'll be

Dec 21, 2024 4:55 PM by Sigmar-Unberogen

Whoo boy, this one gets dark. Some people won't be ready for this.

Dec 12, 2024 9:34 PM by malvarez1

@bastek66

Dec 11, 2024 7:08 PM by RobertBobert

I remember this manga. Very wholesome experience.

Does anybody else think that her legs in the preview art is comically skinny?

Dec 11, 2024 6:31 PM by deerox

oh so it sounds like the kind of cute that i usually don't mind consuming, thank you for the recommendation @texasfangirl1999

Dec 11, 2024 7:36 AM by Fario-P

am i ready to be hurt again? ....maybe

Dec 10, 2024 11:07 PM by DARM11

@RobertBobert (+Tokyo Revengers) Yeah because it's hard to take seriously MC that is small cartoony octopus alien

Dec 10, 2024 3:05 PM by bastek66

@RobertBobert I haven't read that manga, so I can't speak on that haha

Dec 10, 2024 1:42 PM by texasfangirl1999

@texasfangirl1999

Dec 10, 2024 1:38 PM by RobertBobert

@texasfangirl1999 I'm guessing it'll be a movie, but we used to get 6~ episode OVAs all the time back in the 90s, kinda miss that.

Dec 10, 2024 1:15 PM by RippleLover

@RobertBobert They don't, the story is very dark but the ending is extremely rushed and makes no sense, not gonna spoil but it's basically a forced "happy" ending that comes out of nowhere and doesn't really fix the main issues the plot originally set out to resolve.

The fact that this even got an anime is bizarre to me, the manga is very short with only 2 volumes so unless it's going to be a movie or a short OVA series I don't know how they'd even adapt it.

Dec 10, 2024 10:33 AM by texasfangirl1999

@Fario-P Trust me, this series is NOT cute at all, the fact that neither this nor the manga has the horror/gore tags is very misleading, this manga is extremely dark with a lot of heavy topics like child suicide, murder, child abuse, and domestic violence, all handled with the subtlety of a brick. It's very much edgy for the sake of being edgy, if you're into that kind of thing you might like it, but otherwise it's not really worth reading and definitely not cute.

Dec 10, 2024 10:31 AM by texasfangirl1999

This manga looks cute, considered buying the omnibus when it finally came to America... maybe I should wait for the anime?

Dec 10, 2024 9:41 AM by Fario-P

This was a great short form manga. One of the few ive actually read, definitely brings out the emotions.. can't wait for this. Either ova or movie most likely.

Dec 10, 2024 8:35 AM by Imi_wakannai

Oh wow this got actually an anime adaptation. Might be a short form 3-5 min TV anime or an OVA.

Dec 9, 2024 6:58 PM by Antagonized

I've heard good things about this manga, so I'm definitely going to watching this.

Dec 9, 2024 6:25 PM by detarameMAL

Manga ended 2 years ago, and it finally gets an anime. Expecting a complete adaptation, seeing that it's such a short manga. Probably a movie rather than a TV anime.

Dec 9, 2024 11:16 AM by wildhood

I hope this is one of those dark stories where the characters eventually get rewarded for their suffering.

Dec 9, 2024 11:12 AM by RobertBobert

Damn, this got adaptation. Movie probably.

Dec 9, 2024 9:58 AM by E-Satie