History Manga / TakopisOriginalSin

* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Azuma is denied a batch of pancakes by his mother every time he comes home with a bad grade. Since "bad" in her eyes means "not a perfect score", he never gets to eat them no matter how much he improves. All this accomplishes in him is a severe case of low self-esteem and a desire to do everything right, lest he get denied the affection he {{desperately craves|Affection}}.

!! ''Takopi's Original Sin'' includes the following tropes:

* AdultsAreUseless: Every single adult in the entire story is terrible at their job in ''some'' way. Shizuka's mom is never home and her dad abandoned her [[spoiler: to start another family]], Marina's father left her mother when [[spoiler: he was found to be visiting Shizuka's mother for prostitution]] and as a result her mother has become [[SanitySlippage highly volatile]], and Azuma's mother is demanding and emotionally abusive.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Marina, the girl who regularly bullies Shizuka, ends up getting murdered by the Happy Camera falling on her head. She gets better, but still..]].

* BittersweetEnding: Shockingly for such a dark story, but yes, there's light at the end of the tunnel. [[spoiler: Takopi sacrifices his life to repair the camera and sends Shizuka back to the day they met, but without any of the memories of Takopi or anything else that happened. During the scheduled confrontation with Marina that day, the two of them glance at a small doodle of Takopi in Shizuka's notebook and become [[ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy overwhelmed with emotion]]. Though both of them have forgotten about Takopi, his lingering kindness lives on, and the two of them bond over their mutual home lives and the loss of a friend who genuinely loved them. Similarly, though Azuma is still stuck under his mother's abuse, he can now rely on his brother for support and has a bunch of genuine friends to help him out.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: The story begins as a cute little tale about an adorable octopus alien trying to make a hurting girl smile, and escalates into a [[spoiler: psychological drama about two kids covering up the death of their classmate.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: A core part of the story is how Takopi, Shizuka, Marina and Azuma all change as a result of their interactions with each other. [[spoiler: Most of them change for the worse- Shizuka becomes selfish and deranged after Takopi's murder of Marina, Azuma becomes completely obsessed with doing anything for Shizuka, and Marina descends further into insanity before being killed. Takopi develops most of all however, as he slowly realizes his short-sighted and shallow attempts at making Shizuka happy can't really help her at all. By the end of the story, he sacrifices himself to give all three of the kids one last chance, realizing what they all really need is a companion.]]
* DeconReconSwitch: The entire story is a deconstruction of ''{{Manga/Doraemon}}''-style "magical buddy" wish-fulfillment stories, with Takopi's inventions often making Shizuka's situation much worse. Takopi can barely understand humans and has no idea how we really think, so his simplistic, short-term fixes to the problems the three main characters face just end up causing more problems in the future. [[spoiler: Before he lost his memories, he also adopted the idea of killing Shizuka to make Marina happy ''scarily'' quickly, which shows just how dangerous his shallow worldview really is.]] That being said, Takopi ''really does want to help'', [[spoiler: and he eventually fixes the situation by sacrificing his own life.]]

** Takopi's backstory is incredibly brief, being shown in all of a few panels. [[spoiler: We later learn this is because he's an amnesiac and has lost the memories of the real reason he's on Earth... to make a BadFuture version of Marina smile by ''killing Shizuka.'']]
** The first smile Shizuka gives Takopi is when they part at the end of their first meeting, having grown to become friends. [[spoiler: This sets up the eventual way that Takopi does get Shizuka to be truly happy, by making her and Marina friends.]]

* WhamShot: An infamous one that made the manga viral overnight. Specifically, [[spoiler: [[HarmfulToMinors Shizuka's swinging corpse after hanging herself in the first chapter.]]]]

* TraumaButton: In 2022, Marina hates looking at glass because it reminds her of the time her mother attacked her with a broken drinking glass. Seeing her mom point a broken bottle at her face makes her start sobbing, and [[spoiler:when her mom tries to attack her again, it causes her to lash out and kill her.]]

* TraumaButton: In 2022, Marina hates looking at glass because it reminds her of the time her mother attacked her with a broken drinking glass. Seeing her mom point a broken bottle at her face, and [[spoiler:when her mom tries to attack her again, it causes her to lash out and kill her.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Don't be fooled. It's about to get ''a whole lot'' worse from here...]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The story takes place in 2016, five years before the manga was published.

* ReligiousRussianRoulette: Shizuka confesses to Takopi that she wished on a star for her parents to stay together. When the divorce happened anyway, she lost faith in both magic and God.

Shizuka lives a hard life. Her father isn't living with her family, her mother is rarely home, and she's mercilessly bullied at school her cruel classmate Marina. But it isn't all bad- she has her [[BigFriendlyDog pet Chappy]], who makes everything okay. Unbeknownst to her, Shizuka is about to get a very special guest in [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Takopi]], an alien from another world! His first order of business is to spread happiness throughout our planet, and his first person to help is Shizuka. After spending some time together, Takopi promises to make her smile, and Shizuka accepts his friendship.

''Takopi's Original Sin'' is a drama/comedy/psychological horror manga from TAIZAN 5. It began serialization in ''[[Magazine/ShonenJump Shonen Jump +]] in December 2021, and ended in March 2022 at 16 chapters. The story deals with a number of extreme topics including parental abuse and self-harm, so know that it is not for the faint of heart.

''Takopi's Original Sin'' is a drama/comedy/psychological horror manga from TAIZAN 5. It began publication on February 24th, 2022, and ended just a month later in March of that same year. The story deals with a number of extreme topics including parental abuse and self-harm, so know that it is not for the faint of heart.

Shizuka lives a hard life. Her father has abandoned her family, her mother is rarely home, and she's mercilessly bullied at school her cruel classmate Marina. But it isn't all bad- she has her [[BigFriendlyDog pet Chappy]], who makes everything okay. Unbeknownst to her, Shizuka is about to get a very special guest in [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Takopi]], an alien from another world! His first order of business is to spread happiness throughout our planet, and his first person to help is Shizuka. After spending some time together, Takopi promises to make her smile, and Shizuka accepts his friendship.

* TheBGrade: Azuma's mother puts immense pressure on him to get perfect grades like his brother.

Shizuka lives a hard life. Her father has abandoned her family, her mother is rarely home, and she's mercilessly bullied at school her cruel classmate Marina. But it isn't all bad- she has her [[BigFriendlyDog pet Chappie]], who makes everything okay. Unbeknownst to her, Shizuka is about to get a very special guest in [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Takopi]], an alien from another world! His first order of business is to spread happiness throughout our planet, and his first person to help is Shizuka. After spending some time together, Takopi promises to make her smile, and Shizuka accepts his friendship.

''Takopi's Original Sin'' is a drama/comedy/psychological horror manga from TAIZAN 5. It began publication on February 24th, 2022, and ended just a month later in March of that same year. The story deals with a number of extreme topics including parental abuse, self-harm and [[spoiler: suicide]], so know that it is not for the faint of heart.

Shizuka lives a hard life. Her father has abandoned her family, her mother is rarely home, and she's mercilessly bullied at school her cruel classmate Maria. But it isn't all bad- she has her [[BigFriendlyDog pet Chappie]], who makes everything okay. Unbeknownst to her, Shizuka is about to get a very special guest in [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Takopi]], an alien from another world! His first order of business is to spread happiness throughout our planet, and his first person to help is Shizuka. After spending some time together, Takopi promises to make her smile, and Shizuka accepts his friendship.

* BittersweetEnding: Shockingly for such a dark story, but yes, there's light at the end of the tunnel. [[spoiler: Takopi sacrifices his life to repair the camera and sends Shizuka back to the day they met, but without any of the memories of Takopi or anything else that happened. During the scheduled confrontation with Marina that day, the two of them glance at a small doodle of Takopi in Shizuka's notebook and become [[ImCryingAndIDontKnowWhy overwhelmed with emotion]]. Though both of them have forgotten about Takopi, his lingering kindness lives on, and the two of them bond over their mutual home lives and the loss of a friend who genuinely loved them. Similarly, though Azuma is still stuck under his mother's abuse, he can now rely on his brother for support and has a bunch of genuine friends to help him out.]]

* YouCantFightFate: While Takopi was able to help Shizuka get through a week of school, he's not able to stop Marina from spotting Shizuka walking Chappy, getting bitten, and Chappy's getting sent away.

* DeconReconSwitch: The entire story is a deconstruction of ''{{Manga/Doraemon}}''-style "magical buddy wish-fulfillment stories", with Takopi's inventions often making Shizuka's situation much worse. Takopi can barely understand humans and has no idea how we really think, so his simplistic, short-term fixes to the problems the three main characters face just end up causing more problems in the future. [[spoiler: Before he lost his memories, he also adopted the idea of killing Shizuka to make Marina happy ''scarily'' quickly, which shows just how dangerous his shallow worldview really is.]] That being said, Takopi ''really does want to help'', [[spoiler: and he eventually fixes the situation by sacrificing his own life.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first smile Shizuka gives Takopi is when they part at the end of their first meeting, having grown to become friends. [[spoiler: This sets up the eventual way that Takopi does get Shizuka to be truly happy, by making her and Marina friends.]]

* WhamShot: An infamous one that made the manga viral overnight. Specifically, [[spoiler: [[HarmfulToMinors Shizuka's swinging corpse after hanging herself in the first chapter.]]]]

* DeconReconSwitch: The entire story is a deconstruction of ''{{Manga/Doraemon}}''-style "magical buddy wish-fulfillment stories", with Takopi's inventions often making Shizuka's situation much worse. Takopi can barely understand humans and has no idea how we really think, so his simplistic, short-term fixes to the problems the three main characters face just end up causing more problems in the future. [[spoiler: Before he lost his memories, he also adopted the idea of killing Shizuka to make Marina happy ''scarily'' quickly, which shows just how dangerous his shallow worldview really is.]] That being said, Takopi ''really does want to help'', [[spoiler: and he eventually fixes the situation by sacrificing his own life.]],