Takopi's Original Sin becomes first anime to have each episode rated over 9 on IMDb

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For me this checks out. It's my AOTY so far!
In all fairness, though, it's just 6 episodes. It's less likely that the standard 12 episode anime is gonna get all 9s. Let alone anything longer than that. Regardless of how good people say One Piece is (I haven't seen it so I can't say whether I agree with that statement or not), it's never going to get all of its episodes over 9 on IMDB simply because it has over 1000 of them.
Having just watched it, I find myself wondering why.
It was okay. It tackled some difficult subject matter in an interesting way, and it has a very distinctive and effective artstyle, but all in all, it ended up oddly unsatisfying.

That's fine as far as it goes, but I'm not sure how that rates 9+, much less how each episode does, especially since each episode ended up going somewhere that ultimately didn't matter. Is it just that they tended toward shocking twist endings? If that's the case, a whole lot more people need to watch Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, which did shocking twist episode endings much better.
It was odd enough that it made me think, and is still making me think, and I guess that's something, but I could say the same, just off the top of my head, for Madoka Magica or Kaiba or Wonder Egg Priority or Mushishi.
I dunno. I certainly didn't dislike it - it's among the more interesting and unusual anime I've seen. I just don't get how each episode is 9+.
- My rating of Vivy is 9, and thought Takopi is much, much better overall. I may agree with you that in terms of twist endings, Vivy (and also 86) could be better. As to why? Perhaps it's better explained there. Certainly, in terms of the plot twist, Death Note and Steins;Gate did it better than both of them.
  As to why I would rate it a 10 (not just that, but the best anime, period), I took into account the totality of the work. Long story short, once all factors are considered, the conclusion is that Takopi's just built better.
  Format: It didn't force itself to last a whole season. The staff deliberately chose to adapt a whole story in six episodes. Remember how we wish Death Note ended sooner?
  Consistency in storytelling quality. Partly why I thought this work outranked my previous #1 Violet Evergarden is because its episodes 12 and 13 are relatively weak, dragging the "quality average" down somewhat.
  Consistency in art style and quality. Even more impressive is the studio choosing to stick to 2D. Their 3DCG in Spice and Wolf (2024) is ass. They made the right decision to keep that to a minimum. I may be biased on hand-drawn animation styles since upon retrospect, I tend to rate those works highly (Frieren, Ghibli and Shinkai's works, the WMT series, etc.).
  Amazing episode direction, all of them
  Amazing music direction. Very few times do discordant music (the mood of the scene does not match the music) work. They did it. Very well.
  Comparing the manga and anime ratings, I don't recall another animation that stayed faithful to the source material AND elevating the experience at the same time—except music anime, which should be straightforward why.
  Takopi made me feel emotions that I'll remember long after I watched it. Vivy didn't evoke the same. Perhaps a lot of those who rated Takopi that highly thought likewise. I cried hard twice in the most recent rewatch of Violet Evergarden the Movie. Takopi's total length is similar if you combine all episodes. I cried hard in 5 out of 6.
Interesting. Mostly because I didn't like it. I don't think it's bad though. Just don't think it's all that good. Above average, if only because it's so dark.
Is there something about it I'm missing?
- If you're genuinely curious to know why it's so good the Quest for the Best podcast has announced they'll be discussing that on this monday's episode.
- the story is short. and each episode is impactful

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