TAKOPI'S ORIGINAL SIN: Episode 3 FULL LENGTH Reaction!
Added 2025-10-22 13:00:07 +0000 UTC**CONFESSIONAL HEADPHONE WARNINGS**
If last episode had me fired up and ready to dive into this one...THIS episode made me intensely terrified and dreading what's to come! As Azuma becomes associated with Shizuka and "involved," we learn more about his own trauma...and Takopi realizes that it maaaaay have made a *in the voice of Gob Bluth* "huge mistake." Ruh Roh.
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Thank you for the comment and kind words! We’ll see where those 5 stages take us! XD Yeah, Junya seems caring…I’m curious to see how he connects with the mom’s actions and what he’s witnessed or not. Thank you for the added perspective - I know from previous anime-viewing that education is extremely competitive for Asian families and them being brothers with the eldest being successful isn’t helpful for our sweet Azuma. I can totally relate to your story - I am a first-generation college student and my parents were dead-set on me getting all “A’s” in school and being towards the top of my class. Luckily, my brother did not have to be in my shadow. I appreciate you sharing your story; I can definitely DEFINITELY relate…but luckily, mine were not abusive like Azuma’s mom is. She just irks me so much in this episode with her tactics. At least there’s not - so far that we’ve seen - verbal AND physical abuse, like with Marina and her mom. And yeah, I really felt that Azuma is suffering in such a good set up otherwise. And oof, Takopi’s realization of what they’ve truly done in taking Marina’s life was so heart-breaking! I don’t blame ANYONE for tearing up! Yeah, we don’t see a lot of Shizuka’s personality…I wish the show would give us more of it, personally, but we only have 6 episodes and she’s still processing all the trauma thrust upon her, so I *get it* but it’s just a minor critique. Everything you said in the last two paragraphs I totally agreed with in the discussion so thanks for the comment - we shall see where this goes!
Romaniablack
2025-10-24 23:19:06 +0000 UTCVery interesting thought to compare the episodes with the 5 stages of death! So far it seems quite accurate XD. Junya seems like a loving and caring brother to Azuma. At least he is interacting with him friendly and tries to show that he cares for him with buying him something with his part time job wages. Whether or not he is positively inclined towards the "raising methods" that are used by Azumas mother on Azuma is not really clear at this moment. It is also not clear whether or not he himself experienced or internalised the same raising method as Azuma. Education is however also really competitive in asian countries. I myself have Chinese parents and grew up as migrants in Europe. My parents pushed me very hard to take school and grades seriously. The reason is simple: My parents themselves did not have the opportunities to educate themselves enough and life was very hard for them. Working very much for little money. Meanwhile households with the capabilities to provide their kids with proper education did not starve and earned money and stability. So from experience my parents knew that education was everything for a good and easier life. So they drilled me to study and learn things and be better than the other kids at school since it can only be good to be prepared. Of course sometimes it felt like pure conditional love by my parents but here is the difference between Azumas mother who only gives conditional love and parents who value education and achievement really high: They worked really hard and did everything for me! Making me healthy and good food. Supporting me and asking how I feel when I seemed to be sad. Reminding me to take breaks and do social activities as well as initiating them for me so that I did not neglect my health when studying to much especially later in life etc... So always cared about me and were maybe a bit harsh in childhood and adolescence to build a good foundation for my future. And when it worked I was very thankful in retrospective. Of course I sometimes "hated" my parents in my childhood when they said that my cousins or so where much better and more independent than me. But they always explained why they said such things to me. And with more independence and self awareness what I want to achieve in life and showing my parents that I was motivated was something that calmed my parents and the higher the education the more relaxed my parents got since they themselves could not support me at this point anymore but with the good foundation and habitation to study that they already built for me the rest followed smoothly. So the more shocked I was watching Azumas experience with his mother. That is psychological conditioning with the reward being parental care and love. I do not know how Azumas mother presents her son to friends and in public. But i hope she at least praises Azuma there to others since he is objectively quite achieving. What is also sad is that Azuma in an good environment would have a nice rolemodel: his brother. But the mother asks why he cannot achieve stuff that Junya could. Instead the mother should ask whether or not Azuma would like to be as good as his brother and then let them bond together. I always helped my little sister study who of course was also compared to me the older brother and first child but it always endet in me supporting my sister and so spending time with her. So in conclusion: Azumas mother wants that her children have good lifes in the future however either her experience with her first son Junya changed her way of thinking with Azuma or rather she herself is projecting frustration and failed achievements onto her own children and does not really realize all the other stuff besides achievements and succes or rather lost the real motivation behind climbing in society! Takopi's realisation at the end and really understanding the world a little bit better and what Marina's death really means and impacts although there is much subtext that he clearly did not get, made me tear up! My childhood conception of death or rather what my memory of it was is that after we die we get the knowledge of the world and hence will finally understand everything that happened to us in life. Because as kid you have many questions and adults do not know everything. You would finally understand why there are bad things in the world or why the neighborchild is bullying you. You would finally understand how your classmates viewed you and so on and so on. Takopi living Marina's life was actually something that triggered this memory of mine and it was unlocked due to the urge to understand the things in the world which Takopi slowly does. So I found this idea to give Marina's death more emotional meaning very powerful. Like really caring for her at least by the audience in retrospective by the viewer. Shizuka being a little bit selfish I would call it and rebellish does make sense. To be fair we do not really know how Shizuka's personally would be if she were not that apathetic towards living ans always being passive. Stealing the ring of Azumas brother so that he is hurt and his life collapses is purely on an structual point of view really comparable with Marina's thoughts towards her family and Shizuka being dead. It was made pretty clear that she is still apathetic towards living in a society but due to her succes of eliminating Marina from her life her problem-solving skills activated I guess. Nevertheless she is passive and apathetic. She uses Azuma like you said and has to maybe still learn how to learn empathie when Azuma cried for example she just stood there. She does not ask Azuma afterward or shows any interest in him. Shizuka suggesting Azuma to steal his brothers ring is also just a test to verify her new unlocked problem-solving-approach. In conclusion: Abused and/or disadvantaged people are of course not guaranteed to be people with good charactertraits. And they are still children so yeah. Really interesting to see whether or not the following episodes will connect to the 5 stages of death which would be depression for the next!
Slendercucumber
2025-10-22 16:29:10 +0000 UTC
