The Jump Festa ’25 event on Sunday revealed the main cast and staff for the anime adaptation of Taizan 5‘s Takopi’s Original Sin (Takopii no Genzai) manga. The event also revealed a video for the anime, and revealed the 2025 debut.
The anime will star Kurumi Mamiya as Takopi and Reina Ueda as Shizuka Kuze.
Shinya Iino (director for Dr. Stone, Dr. Stone: Stone Wars) is directing the anime and overseeing the series scripts. Keita Nagahara (key animator for Violet Evergarden, Sound! Euphonium, Sonny Boy) is the character designer. ENISHIYA is producing the work.
© タイザン5／集英社・「タコピーの原罪」製作委員会
Viz Media licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
Deceptively cute alien Takopi lands on earth and meets a depressed earthling, Shizuka. Determined to make her smile, Takopi learns quickly that time travel can’t heal all wounds.
Taizan 5 debuted the manga in Shueisha‘s Shonen Jump+ in December 2021, and ended it in March 2022. Shueisha published the second and final compiled book volume in April 2022. The manga is also available in English on Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus.
The manga was nominated for the 16th Manga Taisho Awards and the 27th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes in 2023. The series received the Manga Kingdom Tottori award at the 51st Japan Cartoonists Association Awards in 2022. The manga ranked at #3 in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Amazing!) guidebook’s top 20 manga for male readers list in 2022.
Source: Jump Festa ’25 livestream
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