Takopi's Original Sin
Is An Okay Story
2025.7.12
It's having an anime adaptation this season and this brings the original manga back on my radar again. Have to say that by Okay
I don't mean mediocre
okay, but a well done job
okay. I completed it this morning - it's delightfully short, short enough to complete in one sitting without feeling you're wasting too much of your entire day, unlike Goodnight Punpun which is God fucking long and renders you mentally unwell for days. The shortness comes with its own implications: the story has the kind of cleanliness that I doubt you can achieve by any means other than making your story short.
Takopi
really isn't a Goodnight Punpun Lite
, and it doesn't do it justice to call it that; but a good amount of it still feels like that to me (and to a lot of people, I'd imagine) - it's the Cruel Youth
genre again, this time with somewhat of a salvation. Who knows that the title is accurate and Takopi does come with its own Original Sin? I've seen comments saying that it's the characterization of people asking who's to blame for this?
; I'd say it's the embodiment of (at least a kind of) reader - don't you like to imagine going into the story and save le weak
from le bad
? If you judge anything too fast and if you don't think, you'd commit the same sin, and it would become a state where whatever the characters in the story has went through is partly due to you; and my opinion is that it's exactly because of that this manga has its inherent merit to beome a part of your collection in your memory.