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At Otakon, we had a chance to sit down with Mizube Chika, the artist of the manga version, and Nakamura Kanna, who plays Melphiera in the anime adaptation. There, we talked about shoujo manga, creating adaptations, and just how much everyone loves Sawashiro Miyuki.
The greatest works about childhood must excavate the harm that our systems do to them. Takopi’s Original Sin stretches my tolerance of this excavation to its absolute limits–depicting how abuse and neglect can break the minds of children, with very little in the way of meaningful solutions.