A show that cosplays itself as a profoundly written story using mature themes as it's costume. This show is proof how people often consider a story to be great simply because it consists of distrubing tragedies/traumatic themes. This is a directionless, depthless nothing burger wrapped in some amazing art style and animation. It's a shame because the premise of this show could've been amazing with the themes it tries to tackle but it only uses them as a frontier and not something that's intertwined within the story itself. There's so much potential in this show but for whatever reason the writer couldn't or didn't bother with it. The whole timeline/time travelling shit only hurt the storyline and the ending is another hot mess by itself. The worse part is the show is very, very predictable. I mean if you have watched even a minimal amount of anime, movies, shows etc.., this show becomes so easy predict. The pink alien was probably the most boring character in the show. He's more of a plot device than his own character. I mean I've seen too much of this trope where a character is completely dumbfounded of how human psychology works and as the story progresses they learn that humans are very complex and reside in a much gray area. While I don't hate that trope itself when it's done right, but the way this show handles it feels so cliche or lackluster. It's very distasteful with the way it handles such sensitive topics. It uses these topics as more of a shock factor than something it's trying to tackle with. Takopis character especially makes the events so insignificant because the whole changing timelines stuff just drove the plot to a corner which the writer couldn't get out of and that's how we end up in the final episode. In the final timeline two characters who have so much conflict and hate towards each other now suddenly make up because of a fucking doodle in a notebook. This type of trope isn't exclusive to this anime but incorporating it in a story like this is so nonsensical. All of the traumatic events that take place in the show felt more like a to-do list that the writer just made a montage out of. It feels artificial and in my opinion felt like they just happened because the structure of the plot just needed it to happen. Every episode was just me waiting to see what the next disturbing tragedy is gonna take place.

Takes a few minutes to just sit and realise how almost every topic this show raises is simply a display of it and not something it actively goes in depth with. The 6 epsiodes mark was never gonna work if you're gonna bring up so many different themes into your story without ever delving into them properly. It may not be another one of those trauma porn shows but it's still not as great as it's fans claim it to be. I've especially noticed this with anime fans who think only depressing and negative feelings of humanity is more complex as compared to happiness or positive feelings and since takopi is a show with so many depressing themes people are tricked into thinking it's a well written show when in reality it's simply masquerading as one.