Anime Like Takopi’s Original Sin

A squid-like alien creature comes to Earth from Planet Happy with a mission to spread happiness across the universe. The first person he meets is Shizuka Kuze, a neglected, bullied child who feeds the creature and names him Takopii.

Feeling indebted to her, Takopii makes it his mission to make her smile. When faced with an escort mother who is never home and a classmate who is brutally bullying the girl, making Shizuka smile is easier said than done.

After the death of her best and only friend, Ai Ohto became a shut in. One night while on a walk, she is convinced by a mysterious entity to buy an egg.

In a world that only materializes in her dreams, she breaks the egg. This summons a person haunted by fears, regrets, or otherwise some trauma.

There, Ai is tasked with saving them, and by saving them from their trauma, she can perhaps save her friend, too.

Keiichi Maebara just moved from Tokyo with his family to the small town of Hinamizawa in the summer 1983.

As the town is so small, school children of all ages are lumped into one class. There he becomes fast friends with four girls where he spends his days after school idly playing games.

However, as the town’s annual festival approaches, he learns about a series of murders, disappearances, and other mysteries that surround it.

When he confronts his friends, he finds them mysteriously tight-lipped.

The Abyss is an enormous cave system and the only unexplored place in the world. No one knows how deep it goes, but generations of bold adventurers have descended into it.

In the town at the edge of The Abyss, an orphan named Rico dreams of raiding, as her mother did before her. One day while exploring the murky depths, she meets a boy, who turns out to be a robot, kicking off the start of her epic adventure.

Kasuga Takao is a bookish normal student, but when he goes back to look for his book in the classroom one day, he instead finds the gym uniform of his school crush. Without thinking, he takes it.

Now, all his classmates are on the lookout for a pervert, and he is being confronted by a friendless girl in class that saw him do it.

After becoming friends as the only two boys of their age in a small, rural town, Hikaru and Yoshiki were inseparable. However, one summer when Hikaru disappeared in the mountain woods, he finds his friend returned a little different.

The Hikaru he knows and spends all his time with now is not his friend. It is a mountain creature that took over Hikaru’s body and is living his life disguised in his skin.

Wracked with grief and unable to let go, an unsettling chaos begins to fall over their town as the creature grows closer to him.

Three years ago, humanity made first contact with alien life when an ominous giant mother ship full of invaders suddenly appeared in the sky over Tokyo.

However, while the invaders remained inside their ship, the Japanese government scrambled to fight back, investing heavily in weapons production to target the mother ship and any smaller craft that may come out of it, sparking controversy among pacifist movements.

While the day that the mother ship appeared changed everything. In reality, it changed nothing. Kadode Koyama and Ouran Nakagawa live their final days as they always have – hanging out with friends and doing what any care-free high school girls would do.

Unfortunately, as they grow up and graduate, moving onto college, the situation with the mother ship grows increasingly more dire. As time begins to count down for humanity, they come to realize that the real threat to humanity is humanity itself.

During her summer holiday with her grandparents, Tamia Shiina meets a strange-looking creature. She names it Hoshimaru and takes it home with her after the summer.

However, to her surprise, she finds that other kids have a creature like Hoshimaru. Even more shocking is that not all masters of these creatures are friendly.

At only 58 years old, years of overwork and stress has Inuyashiki Ichirou looking like he is well into his 80’s.

Ignored and disrespected by his family as well as diagnosed with cancer, all seems hopeless. However, a light descends from the sky and strikes Ichirou where he stands.

When he awakens, he finds he is a new man, one augmented with alien technology. He sees this as just the power he needs to become a hero and earn the respect of his family.

In a rickety old building in Akihabara, mad scientist Rintarou Okabe and his lab assistants work on so-called future gadgets.

However, their most successful contraption to date, the Phone Microwave, a machine that can turn bananas into gel, also has the added function of sending emails into the past, thus altering the flow of history.

Yuki Takeya is in love with school life. She loves it so much that she joined the School Living Club with three other girls, their supervising teacher, and the club dog Taroumaru. This club makes the most of living at school.

However, Yuki’s blissful school life is all a delusion.

The real purpose of the School Living Club is to prevent Yuki’s fragile reality from shattering. In reality, these girls are surviving the zombie apocalypse by barricading themselves within the school.