Just finished the anime. (Marked as spoiler since ending is mentioned)
As well as marking the post as a spoiler, I'm also marking the ending points I made as a spoiler, just as a final warning.
So I started watching episode 1 while I was at work, and as of 2:16 AM EST, after nonstop watching from episodes 2-6, I finished Takopi's original sin, and what a watch it was.
I originally was watching it with a bunch of coworkers, but as we reached the point of Shizuka hanging herself, everyone split off but me. I kept watching, and as the episodes kept playing and my attention became increasingly more focused, I felt a wide array of emotions, shock, sadness, genuine sympathy for every character (save for the parents, with very very minimal sympathy for Marina's mom.)
Now the reason why I mentioned this, is because there's only been one anime that's made me feel extreme emotions, and that was cyberpunk edgerunners, and that was solely at the end. Yet this anime, it made me feel something throughout the entire show, my emotions went up and down and up and down.
FINAL WARNING, BELOW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING.
>!And the ending, whereas I was a little confused when it happened, a couple minutes of reflection helped me understand what happened, and how bittersweet it was. I'm genuinely happy to see that Azuma has a proper attachment with Junya, rather than his emotional dependency and him being hellbent on "saving" Shizuka, which in my opinion, definitely led to his downfall in the murder timeline. !<
>!I'm also happy to see that Marina and Shizuka grew to be friends and learned to lean on each other, thanks to Takopi's sacrifice. Now, I don't usually cry, as I mentioned above, yet hearing Shizuka and Marina both talk about Takopi, despite him not existing in this version of the 2016 timeline, seeing them cry together, watching them in 2022 talking in a store and seeing the rabbit from Saturn pen, them both quoting Takopi, genuinely made me fucking bawl.!<
I genuinely needed to get this out because for a show to hit me hard like this, it's genuinely impressive to me. Now I probably won't be able to continue my watchlist anymore lol. Feel free to ask me any questions about my thoughts or opinions on the show too, there's no guarantee I'll respond right when you comment though lol