The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins: Part 1: Unedited Audio and Recording Notes

Manga Details

• Author: Taizan 5
• Author’s other works:
  • Takopi's Original Sin which is very good and should be read
  • Bunch of other one-shots
• Run dates:  14, 2022 to Nov 6, 2023
• Chapters/Volumes: 48/6

About the Manga

• Plot
  • Tsubasa Ichinose wakes up in the hospital one morning surrounded by his family when he realizes that he has amnesia and doesn’t know who he or anyone else is. It’s okay though because the rest of the family also has amnesia. Aside from Tsubasa there is Minaka, his mom, Kakeru, his dad, Sachie, his grandma, Kozo, his grandpa, and Shiori, his little sister. They were apparently all in a terrible car accident and when they woke up they forgot everything about themselves. When they return to their house they find it in a horrible state with trash everywhere. They each have their own rooms and when Tsubasa walks into his he discovers that the walls are covered in one Japanese character that I can’t read and the other members of his family are very mysterious about what is in their own rooms. The next day Tsubasa goes back to school eager to discover what kind of person he was only to find that everyone hates him.
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  • One of the kids, Nakejima, says he’s his best friend before bullying him relentlessly. Tsubasa retaliates and calls him a dickhead, leading to the school turning on him instead. Tsubasa feels bad though and tries to help him, making them actual friends this time. While collecting charity for the environment as punishment for throwing trash everywhere, Tsubasa sees Shiori in the arms of a much, much older man. After tailing them for a bit Tsubasa confronts Shiori who says that when she unlocked her phone she discovered texts from him asking to meet up, and when she did she just immediately started fawning all over him to her own horror. She also pushes him into her own room by accident which is covered in creepy stuffed bunnies. Tsubasa confronts the 28 year old man with his ~13 year old sister and he runs away when he realizes someone saw him with a minor. Soon Kakeru goes on a business trip and takes the whole family with him but seemingly intentionally drives off the guardrail, recreating the same crash from the beginning. Tsubasa wakes up in the hospital with amnesia and the entire first chapter repeats itself except for the fact that Kakeru is now replaced with a different person who claims to be him.
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  • Tsubasa however soon starts to remember his father and notices inconsistencies but the fake dad tells him he’s crazy. Then Tsubasa discovers his real dad working at Burger King but he doesn’t remember him. His mother goes to meet him but tells Tsubasa to stop talking to him. Kakeru has a girlfriend who has a child and Minako starts to remember that she had found out he was having an affair. She goes to kidnap the child, planning on killing him, but is caught by Kakeru who interprets the situation as her finding him and thanks her. Minako goes back home and reads her diary from before she lost her memory and it heavily implies that she had killed the child. Fake dad then approaches Minako to tell her that time’s up and she disappears. The next day Tsubasa discovers that her room is just straight up gone and fake dad assures him that he never had a mom. Kozo then pulls Tsubasa into his room which has a ton of papers and a chalkboard covered in notes. He tells Tsubasa that according to these notes he was a physics professor and this is the 2000th time loop they’ve had. However, by killing them all in the accident, Kakeru did something in the previous time loop to change this one. They then confront fake dad and demand answers,
• Characters

Family

• Tsubasa
  • MC
  • Amnesia
  • Seems like a nice guy
  • Apparently is a piece of shit
• Minaka
  • Mom
  • Thinks her husband is lame but still loves him
  • Tried to kill a child
• Kakeru
  • Dad
  • Coward
  • Cheats on his wife
  • Gets replaced
• Sachie
  • Grandma
• Kozo
  • Grandpa
  • Master of physics
  • Remembers it
• Shiori
  • Little sister
  • Realist one
  • Very upset about the situation
  • Creeped on by adults

Other

• Yuuki Nakajima
  • Tsubasa “best buddy”
  • Asshole to him
• Fake Kakeru
  • Not really their dad
  • Creepy
  • Minako knows who he is but doesn’t say

Why it failed

• This feels like a bit of a slow start
• I can tell this is not a manga for everyone and WSJ was not the right magazine for it
• I feel the art is really inefficient like the panels are huge with a lot of double spreads so the pacing is slow
• The bully porn is a bit excessive
• The author doesn’t black gutter the flashbacks which makes it kind of confusing to follow things, I get it’s part of the point but like yeah
• I feel I get this emotional yoyo which makes it hard to fully digest a chapter
• The second amnesia felt a little forced I wanted some more pieces of the puzzle we didn't even do anything with all the family members
• The plot is complex yet isn't binge friendly as it feels so emotionally draining

What it did well

• The artwork is fine but it takes some interesting creative angles on things, you can just tell how it would have been animated
• This just seems so silly and quirky
• This is a cool creative idea for a manga
• That first chapter pulls ya in at the end
• Comedy is tight
• I really like this idea for a series

Misc Thoughts

• This feels like an anime that would have aired on adult swim in 2005 after FLCL