Takopi’s Original Sin has taken everyone by surprise. The anime premiered on June 27, 2025, and its first episode now holds the joint-highest IMDb rating of the yr, sitting at 9.7 with around 2.8K votes, as of July 10.
In line with CBR, about 84 percent of viewers gave it a full 10, pushing it to the identical level as Solo Leveling Season 2’s twelfth episode, which had also been at the highest with a 9.7 rating. Even the second episode of Takopi’s anime impressed with a solid 9.6.
‘Takopi’s Original Sin’ Episode #01 Debuted with 9.7/10 on iMDb making it one in all the very best rated Anime Episodes of the yr. pic.twitter.com/WCfKU7XcEB
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What Makes Takopi’s Original Sin So Special?
The unique manga had already earned a fame for being brutally emotional, and the anime has not held back on the subject of delivering. Viewers are already calling it one of the vital painful yet powerful series of the season, and tone and impact are being in comparison with titles like Madoka Magica.
Solo Leveling Still Dominates In Popularity
Nevertheless, despite the surprising development, Solo Leveling hasn’t lost its massive fanbase or momentum. Its second season continued to dominate streaming platforms and has gathered over 828K rankings on Crunchyroll, making it the most-rated anime ever on that service. It also won multiple awards, including Anime of the 12 months, on the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards.
Solo Leveling reached an almost perfect 10 (9.9) when Episode 12 of the favored anime’s second season premiered back in March. It steadily dropped to 9.7 as more rankings poured in. A drop like that shouldn’t be unusual, and Takopi’s debut episode might follow the identical pattern over time but as of now, Takopi’s start is undeniably strong.
‘Solo Leveling’ has won Crunchyroll’s Anime of the 12 months Award for 2025! pic.twitter.com/N7xpsb3zAr
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What’s Takopi’s Original Sin About?
In 2016, Nnu-Anu-Kf, an alien from the Pleased Planet, crash-lands on Earth to spread happiness. Taking the name Takopi from a bullied 9-year-old girl, Shizuka, they fight to cheer her up using Pleased Gadgets.
Shizuka suffers every day abuse from her classmate Marina and finds comfort only in her dog, Chappy. After Marina manipulates events to have Chappy taken away, Shizuka, being devastated, uses one in all Takopi’s gadgets to finish her life.
Takopi, shocked and guilt-ridden, realizes the depth of human pain and uses a time-travel device to return and check out to vary the course of Shizuka’s tragic fate. Whether Takopi can sustain this momentum or match Solo Leveling’s reach continues to be unclear. But for now, its emotional punch and unexpected popularity have firmly placed it at the highest of 2025’s anime rankings.
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