Ichinose-ke no Taizai
The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins

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What originally began as an intriguing memory loss mystery thriller premise with a 7 Deadly Sins motif quickly degraded to a monotonous repetitive torture porn entirely relying on shock factor and nonsensical volatile plot twists. While I didn't particularly like Takopi's Original Sin overall, the emotional gut punches there were at least coherent & to the point with somewhat llkeable protagonists. Ontop of comically evil school kids, there's not a single likeable character here or ANYTHING even worth remembering. The only thing that will remain in your head is the snot cheese tears that the author loves to draw whenever a character is even remotely ... sad. Taizan has this gifted ability of presenting you with a scrumptious-looking burger only for you to bite into it - realizing human feces were in between the buns.

>Tsubasa wakes up from a "dream"
>Tries to find out what his family members are doing
>Sota gives ominous and cryptic dialogue
>Random nonsensical plot twist
>Convoluted mess gets messier and more convoluted
>"Woaahhhhh peak fiction"
>Repeat for every chapter; even towards THE VERY END.

I despise this manga for undermining any emotional connection with the characters. The predictable and relentless stream of problems robbed the story of depth and impact, making it challenging to empathize with any character or plot point. Taizan's rushed storytelling and a relentless quest for shock value left me feeling overwhelmed and disenchanted. The blame partially falls on the rigid structure of weekly serialization, but the primary responsibility rests with the mangaka's inability to maintain a balanced and engaging narrative. The potential for exploring deep themes about family was squandered, leaving me frustrated and disappointed. The author's previous success in a more flexible format Jump+ highlights the challenges of weekly serialization. While some may hope for improvement in the future, the damage is already done. In the end, Ichinose failed to live up to expectations, and the blame falls on both the author and the constraints of the weekly publication schedule. It's a story that could have been so much more but ultimately left readers feeling disillusioned.

Undoubtedly one of the most aggravating weekly experiences ever.

I'm still yet to process my thoughts on this manga, but time hasn't given me an answer.

I've read every Taizan-5 work (except a miscellaneous one-shot), and I've come to grips with his narrative style, his themes, and his way of telling stories. Purposeful messiness, as I like to call it. “Ichinose-ke no Taizai” was easily the best the author had to offer up to this point. A narrative that messes with your head, purposefully putting you in a confused state, in which you need to piece together “What the hell happened to this family?”. It had comedy, tragedy, themes about family, friendships, and how ... it all helps one cope with a sad life that doesn't reign any fruits. It was stellar, and I still feel that it was stellar, even until the ending. Nobody seems to like the ending, and even state it was Axed, but that doesn't make any sense. The story came to an end, and the mess the family got into was resolved, even if it wasn't satisfying.

The story, as most Taizan-5's works, is about an innocent blindness. The eyes of somebody who doesn't know reality, and is kept in the dark because of a million reasons. Amnesia, a whole family, a seemingly broken home, with a framing of Inception. It was a banger, the entire time, wondering what was real, what wasn't, or if it mattered at all. How are the dreams connected? How is any of this happening to begin with? Why isn't this person here anymore? It answered with what you wanted, and another question, while still revealing REALITY. That's the point of this story. It wasn't about a cathartic ending that solved every question, but one that gave motive to the madness. The real story, is about learning why we're here, and going back to how things are.

I compare this story to “Sonny Boy”. A masterful story that delivers a thematic, even if abstract, gut-punch because of how hard it is for characters to change. It wasn't entirely well received, even called pretentious, or stupidly complicated by the community. Stories like this need to exist. Tales about the realities of escapism, about recognizing the faults in one-self, and sure, it wasn't perfect. Some parts left me more confused than intrigued, and once I got what it meant, it still didn't make sense from a logical standing. Some of these stories get abstract, and some parts get changed to fit a newer direction, which it did greatly.

The characters and art are probably what I loved the most here. Everybody has such a big motive to be where they are. The generational pain, how families push the members into becoming terrible versions of themselves, and how even by recognizing that, nothing gets fixed… yet. The art has this playful, but deceivingly disturbing aspect to it, where you feel that it could all go horribly wrong at a flip of a page. As if I anticipated a jumpscare, or a flip that could destroy me, similar to “Takopi's Original Sin”. It's so beautiful, with such detail in the eyes, and the shine on them. Extremely expressive, beautiful, with some beautiful spreads, and thematic meaning to every panel.

I love this manga, which is something I realized while writing this. I didn't wanna be the weird guy who gives it a positive review when everybody seems to hate it or be mixed on it after the ending. Don't care. This manga is a damn near masterpiece that talks about family in one of the most realistic ways I've ever seen. It isn't a series of tragic events which fragments it, it's a matter of personalities, and negative aspects carried by the past. Will a little trip fix it? No, but it's all you need, a step in the right direction. I'll miss the family, but specially Tsubasa. One of my favorite protagonists in recent memory.

9.3/10. Again, it does have some faults that can't allow me to give it a 10/10, specially how some aspects weren't used for the ending. Still, I wish for people to give it a chance. Taizan-5 is an incredible author.

• PREFACE

Mangaka Taizan-5 debut in our beloved Weekly Shōnen Jump was received with high expectations. The young author began his career with ''A Story After Everything Went Well'', a one-shot published in 2020, and soon afterwards published two other good one-shots;''Hero Complex'' and ''Kiss Shitai Otoko''. But it was in 2021 that he achieved his first success, in his very first serialization, the excellent ''Takopii no Genzai''. His fantastic art style together with his engaging narrative ensured the young author's initial success, and his new publication in Japan's biggest comics magazine was a sure bet by Jump's editorial staff, who seemed to have found an ... outstanding talent, it was unlikely to turn out wrong. Unfortunately, that's what ended up happening. Due his incapacity in some aspects, in others because of external circumstances beyond his control. What went wrong with Taizan-san's new work, and why did it go wrong? Is Taizan-五 a deceptive farce and its stories were never any good? Was Ichinose Family a horrible, shitty work that past the damn time to be canceled? Perhaps editorial and public pressure has hampered the progress which has been treated unfairly? I don't know, maybe we'll find out. And before you, the spoiled and immature reader who treats your favorite story as a personality trait feel offended, I'm going to give you a trigger warning:

I DON'T LIKE Ichinose-ke no Taizai.

I have several problems with its narrative and I intend to elaborate on them in the following paragraphs. So if you're someone who gets frustrated at discovering that other people don't share your tastes and can only absorb positive things in your life as a poor, helpless little baby, avoid reading what I have to say. Now, if you don't like Ichinose Family, here you'll find refuge, come with me on this fun and enjoyable adventure that is talking shit about things.

• The First Sin - Overdrama

You see, my life is already a drama. It's extremely dramatic, I don't have any money, I don't have a car, no bitches, I haven't finished college yet, I'm not 1.90, I'm not famous and I was born Brazilian, it's not easy. I don't need more drama than necessary. Everyone loves a good dramatic and engaging story that you feel compelled to continue, chapter after chapter, and Ichinose's debut delivered just that, a promising world, art with personality and an interesting mystery to be solved. We see from the very first chapter that this close-knit family isn't all that close-knit, and that even before the accident and the loss of their collective memory, they already had a ton of problems and were far from being a happy family. And knowing Taizan-san's former work, it was nothing new to expect heavy themes and a family drama in the middle of this whole mess. And that's fine, despite the drama of my life, I still have more room to appreciate the drama of other lives, I love stories with heavy drama, everyone does. Now, there's a limit to everything, just as my personal drama is supported by my routine, I couldn't bear to see my problems tripled and repeated, again and again, without interruption. What I don't want for my life I don't want for my stories, and it's a narrative waste to destroy an entire dramatic construction by delivering one problem after another, without pause, and with more and more layers of problems interspersed.

I UNDERSTOOD, I must be sad Ichinose-ke no Taizai!!! I'm supposed to cry at this point, I'm supposed to be shocked, YES, SHIT, I didn't expect a story that delivers a different Plot Twist in EVERY chapter and escalates the protagonist's problems non-stop, to deliver another Plot Twist and another problem in the next chapter, you've really got me with my pants down this time. The biggest crime that an unpredictable story can commit is to become predictable, to naturalize the unexpected in such a way that everything becomes absurdly obvious. You know that nothing matters because every discovery is going to be emptied soon after by a different problem, you don't have time to breathe and internalize the problems that the story solves, because as soon as it's over you're faced with a new problem, even worse, more abrupt and even more confusing, and that's not the problem in itself, the problem is knowing that this new problem, which was the amplification of the past problem, will become outdated in 7 days with the release of a new chapter, which will make the urgency of this new situation pointless, because now I have another concern in front of me, which will also soon lose its validity, in another 7 days.

See that character? His life is sad, you have to care!!! See this situation? Look how bad it gets, look how bad it gets in the next chapter! Look at the incessant, artificial and infinite suffering imposed on our suffering and poor protagonist, our 2d poor soul, suffer with him I beg you pleaseee. That's what Ichinose-ke no Taizai tries to do every single chapter. It's not going to happen bud. I'm like a spoiled child who only does the opposite of what's asked, if you try to convey a message through insistence, it gets lost due to annoyance. I learned this when I was blocked by my ex-girlfriend who couldn't stand receiving anymore of my messages saying that I miss her.

• The Second Sin - Overplot-twist

We understand Ichinose's first major problem, the destruction of all immersion and empathy for the characters through overdrama, which stupidly naturalizes problems in such an idiotic way that any conflict delivered becomes extremely predictable and with no impact. Now let's discuss an aggravating factor, the overplot-twist. As if it wasn't enough to annoy me by pushing dramas with no weight on a weekly basis, Ichinose likes to spice things up with another annoyance, his twists.

Okay, now I don't have my memory, okay my brother is behind all this, no no, it's actually my grandmother, no, she's doing it only for my grandfather, it's my mother who's behind it, no no, it's actually none of those, it's someone else, okay now I'm actually dreaming and I'm in a coma, ok now I'm out of the coma but actually my coma was shared with the dreams of my life and everything was real, ok now I know that someone is manipulating my coma and my family's memories, ok my brother actually has another family, oops, this family is fake and they split up, let's go back to our real Souta family. STOP, LET ME BREATHE. My man writes as if his life were on the line, racing against time, afraid of being axed, and that fear will catch up to him. I can't keep up with you Ichinose (the story and the character), my CPU can't process information at this speed, it's old, I no longer know what to be surprised by because there are too many surprises, my birthday has passed and I keep getting presents nonstop, it used to be fun to be surprised, but it's become inconvenient, I don't want to anymore. What I DO know is what NOT to be surprised by, and that's this story. Once the whole mystery thing is trivialized, once the unexpected becomes routine, why in the hell should I care? It doesn't matter anymore.

• The Final Sin - Fucking Weekly Shōnen Jump

If the two initial problems were the only ones, I wouldn't be writing this review. I've had this same problem several times with other stories that have similarly irritated me with their overdrama; Hanebado, Violet Evergarden, Kiznaveir, Hyouka, I could name movies, series, books, games, there's no end to it, the point is that my patience for whiny people is short, I'll only care about your problem if it's a real problem, not one specifically fabricated to make me empathize. My suspension of disbelief is here, but it's fragile. For me, this kind of story is like watching bad acting, you see the actor crying, but it's so fake and poorly executed that you become disconnected from the story. This has already been covered in the other two problems, my final problem is structural, it's the foundation that sustains the ills of this story and thousands of others, that is the Weekly Shōnen Jump and its outdated and archaic weekly model.

Naoki Urusawa (you have to know him, that's the minimum) has already said in an interview, and I quote:

''Every chapter needs to compose its own story, with a beginning, middle and end, being able to be enjoyed to its fullest, by itself as an individual story, without depending on its connection with the other chapters''.

He obviously didn't say it in those words and I don't have the source to assure you that he said this, but that's the idea, trust me, he did say it. The weekly structure allows a comic to be organized in a totally different format from the conventional one. The Japanese comic's production doesn't allow the same flexibility that a novelist or a book writer, where their story is thought out with a beginning, middle and end, with time for several revisions until the conclusion of their complete material. A Japanese weekly manga doesn't have this freedom, it lives by a goal where you establish a beginning, a direction of what you're aiming for, and a vague and distant ending that you may reach in God knows how many years, all of this only, of course, if your story isn't axed. What the conclusion will be like and the path to that distant end is often not even known by the author himself, weekly manga are nothing more than a thematic controlled-freestyle. It has its benefits, its variations and its problems, which are quite a few. Obviously, it's a system that considers countless variables, they take into account possible abrupt endings. They think, and they think A LOT about everything. But the thinking and organization are outdated, obsolete. The only reason Oda hasn't finished One Piece yet is because he can't, he's been trying for 10 years to produce an ending that hasn't yet been theorized by the fans, if it weren't for that we wouldn't have this thousand-year-old story still being published, I'm sure of it. Not to mention that I'm deflating the issue of weekly serialization to a narrative problem, as if the problem were solely the quality of the story, when actually there is a bigger problem, which is the maintenance of the authors' health. We have the recent example (2023) of Black Clover, which was removed from Jump due to the health of its author, as well as other mangaka who put down their pens and never returned simply because of the trauma of living through years of inhuman suffering on a weekly basis. This format is not exclusive to Shōnen Jump, but without a doubt, the country's largest magazine has enough responsibility to dictate trends in the industry, thus influencing the best way to produce manga, or in this case, the worst way.

The same man who produced Takopi's Original Sin produced Ichinose-kun. Everything he managed to do well and with quality in his previous story, which, by the way, was published in Jump+, was only possible because of the more flexible structure in terms of publication and pages that the author was given, a much healthier format for both authors and readers. It's not surprising to realize that only 26% of the top 50 mangas in anilist are weekly stories, and only 6% of the top 100 are Shounen Jump stories, many of your favorite stories are stories that have not always been published weekly, and when they have, they have been kept away from Jump eyes. Of course, the biggest hits came out of there, Death Note, Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, it's not for nothing that it's the biggest magazine in Japan, but for every one of those hits, another 50 authors died on the beach, it's a totally cruel and unfair filtering, imposed by an broken formula that makes no sense to still be maintained. Is it the one that makes the most money and is the most successful? That's exactly right. And it's also the least likely to ensure the quality of the story. If you don't want to be radical and break up the weekly rhythm, simply introduce a rotation system, establish obligatory breaks throughout the month (Like Shonen Sunday). I don't know, it's not my job to fix it, my job is to complain. DO SOMETHING

This review has been written taking into account the first 40 chapters and ending with those 40 chapters, the show is still at enormous risk of being canceled and has a good chance of ending before it even reaches the one-year mark. If that doesn't turn out to be the case and the story improves from here on it, I don't care, im not reading and i doubt it. A team that loses the first 30 games of the season only to win the last 8 games continues to be relegated.

Taizan-五 has already demonstrated his competence, he has a fantastic artistic style capable of carrying a story on its own, but it's a pity that this time it wasn't enough. May the author return soon enough with a new story, this time treating me less like a complacent, ultra-empathetic idiot, and for his own sake, i hope that he can free himself from the shackles of the damned butcher named Weekly Shōnen Jump.

This manga started out really intriguing. There was a lot to like about it. The characters were solid, the premise was interesting, and there were lots of mysteries to unfold. Unfortunately, a little over half way through, things became repetitive and the narrative began to suffer. There were moments of decent insight into familial relations but they could not overcome the fact that the manga needed to move towards its ending with a plan instead of petering out until Jump decided to cancel it. The ending is a bit of a let down, but it at least closed things somewhat. It makes me wish that ... we could know if this was the original plan for the story of if there was a different ending in mind.

I cannot recommend this series, but I also wouldn't say that I wouldn't recommend it depending on the type of reader asking. I think if you're the type of person who likes to study writing, it'd be a good piece to look at and analyze it for the things it did well and the slow slide into mess. However, if you're looking for something that will feel satisfying when it ends, this probably isn't the manga to read, though it will be a quick read.

It strays away from your typical shonen format and tries to be different and acts as a breath of fresh air in a sea of repetitiveness, its the first time I've been this excited for a manga to come out with its next chapters.

I wouldn't recommend this for newcomers as its quite dark in some aspects of its story, so I would suggest stuff like 'Mount Hua Sect' or 'Return of the Frozen Player' which are easier to digest.

Also if your trying to look for a wholesome manga about family then definitely try something else as there's quite alot of surprises which I won't spoil.

Ichinose-ke no Taizai's first twelve or so chapters do an outstanding job at tricking you into believing it will be good. The art is fun, the dialogue poignant and the mystery interesting above all else. I won't get into deep spoilers as the point of this review is not to waste the time of those who already know just how magnificently this manga declined, but to instead save the time of those who are lucky enough to have never had any hope in it in the first place. Of course, that means I can't say much past chapter one, but so be it—I would much ... rather it just remain a memory anyway.

At first, the story of Ichinose-ke no Taizai presents itself as an exceedingly simple one. Following an accident, a family of six all wake up in a hospital to find themselves riddled with amnesia. The character we mainly follow is one of these six—Tsubasa Ichinose. And to give the manga some credit, the dynamic between him and his family is one of the few things I did enjoy even in its more recent chapters.

However, that simple plot quickly becomes convoluted. Favouring twists over sensible storytelling, I left every chapter feeling more annoyed than the last; whereas a good mystery will have me asking questions, I can't do that with Ichinose-ke no Taizai as I just know it will give me a migraine. I'm not even sure what the end goal is anymore. And so instead of checking back every week with pain medication in hand—unsure as to how long the author plans on making me suffer—I will be dropping this for now.

The series started extremely strong, got weird in the middle and then it was over. I would say reading it wasn't a complete waste of time ... but yeah. It's such a let down, the whole story was a trip to nowhere.

My OG review:
This manga is about a family who wakes up with amnesia after a car crash. I really enjoy the concept of discovering the truth of the family members past. We do this along side the son who also tries to solve the problems, so their family can be happy together.
It's definitely a dark manga and the themes can be triggering for some. ... As of now (ch. 9) we had bullying and underage dating.

The art is nice and detailed. It's a bit incosistent but the artist is really good at conveying certain emotions, especially horror (it's not graphic, no gore, nothing explicit).

I'm anticipating every new chapter but I don't expect the manga to last very long based on how things are progressing at the moment. If you want to read it in one go, come back to it in a year or two.

Edit: After reading chapter 10, I just want to say that you shouldn't get to comfortable. My last sentences about the progression can basically be ignored.

Edit 2: I'm at chapter 33, this series leaves me baffled with every new chapter. You think you reach some sort of clarity and on the last few pages it gets thrown out due to another plot twist. It was fun at the beginning but I'm just getting more tired and confused because of it. I will continue to read but I don’t even know what is going on anymore.

It starts off following with the amnesia trope, where all the characters have to figure out who they really are and recover their memories. We eventually start to discover each of their past personalities as well as the family themselves. There is some "dark" stuff involved like bullying and underage dating but all at a low level.

Art is pretty good, above average but not outstanding. However, I strongly suggest you take your time to read each panel, as some characters' designs may confuse you, and it may take some time to adapt to the panel's structure as some are actually memories and may be ... hard to differ from the current events.

The story leads you to feel comfortable with the phasing and even seems like it's gonna be short and predictable until ... Chapter 10 happens...

We're up for a ride boys.

As of 28 November 2022, there are only 3 chapters currently available. Nevertheless, it looks to be quite a fun yet deep and thoughtful ride, so here I am!

This series starts off with the Ichinose family, comprising of a son (the main character), daughter, mother, father, grandad and grandmother, of whom all lost their memories in a car crash. From what the story has set up so far, it looks like this manga will be these characters discovering their pasts and ‘sins’ (as the name suggests), so if you’re into amnesia plots and finding out who you really are, this is just the manga for ... you!

There are some mildly triggering themes, like bullying, and the details in the panels can be quite disturbing sometimes (not graphic, you can just see the horror of the situation. It’s not body horror or anything, just imagine backgrounds and stuff), but I would still recommend to those looking for a dark amnesia story :)

The art’s a little inconsistent but it reminds me of Haikyuu!! In a way, so take that as you will. It will probably grow on you.

I won’t delve into any more details, for fear of spoiling (even though there’re only three chapters, but it still takes away the mystical experience of reading it with no knowledge), but I will just say so far? It’s looking really, really good. A dark story with some light hearted scenes? Brilliant.

Of course, this series is still updating so you never know; maybe it won’t be any of the stuff I mentioned, or it’ll turn out to be mediocre. Take what I say with a grain of salt, BUT this does seem like a very intriguing and unique manga. I, personally, recommend you to read this if you want a dark, yet hopeful (?) manga.

(This is based on little content so I can’t say it’s accurate, but do give it a read)

um okay... i have a few words to say about this story.
i just want to start by saying that i binge read this in like the middle of the night so my brain could just be like absolutely fried when reading but, half of the time reading this manga i had no clue what was going on.
i don't even think i could give a summary of the story because i genuinely had no clue what was going on?? like they kept introducing a bunch of plot points that were huge in the moment then suddenly later on literally nobody talks about it... it's a ... shame because i really did like the begging and first couple chapters but later on it just started to make no sense and suddenly a whole nother plot point with absolutely no forshadowing no nothing.
all in all it just... started off strong then railed off the track into the ocean, but once in the ocean just continued going forward.

btw sorry if this makes like no sense i wrote this right after reading and its like 2 am rn sorry

I came upon Ichinose after reading Takopii and loving it. I think a lot of people missed the point here - I believe the confusion and the lack of direction is on purpose.

We have seen from Takopii that Taizan is capable of a storyline, capable of character depth. This work could have had so much potential as a seinen psychological manga because it captured severe mental illness in a way where the reader is pulled into it. You experience his confusion and and dread first-hand whilst knowing the threat of blind optimism. And yet you begin to cling to it as well. Despite some ... parts being rushed, it was so well done. Where the more you thought about it, the worse it got. It implores you to adopt the same mindset and just accept what's happening. Because it feels so much better to not make sense.

Taizan (across both Ichinose and Takopii) uses ignorant optimism incredibly well - which is furthered by the art style and focus on children as protagonists. The contrast of severe mental illness and hopeless cheer offers a sense of desperation that just tastes so good but so sickening to read. The way Taizan is able to express how family issues and childhood trauma cause mental illness feels so disgustingly raw and real, all whilst being able to keep the idea that children are innocent - though at times exaggerated, children are a product of their environment. Which contributes to my belief that the story and structure of this manga was honestly genius. To also give innate happiness to a character who has descended below rock bottom - Taizan has so accurately grasped the delusions of uselessly trying, hoping to be worth even the smallest amount, anything to justifying remaining alive and staying around despite an overwhelming need to end it.

Another aspect I really enjoyed was the correspondence of the 7 deadly sins to each family member. This may seem obvious, but I believe the translation of the Japanese title sounds something more like 'Stay with the Ichinose Family' rather than the actual English title: 'The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins' and it's a shame the author was unable to flesh this out further, because the way they combined each deadly sin with actual mental illness or deterioration was so good and could have been great.

Unfortunately, it was serialised in Shounen Jump and ended prematurely.

Overall, it's not going to be an enjoyable read. It's not even going to be a good read. It's going to leave u feeling worse - especially if you make it to the end and you get the most incredibly flaccid last chapter.

But if you've read my whole review, it sounds like you might just be interested enough to give it a go.

Very strong opening, and leaves you hungry for the answers it sets up, but I have to comment that it's extremely miserable after the strong first chapter. The next few chapters are paced like a nightmare you can't wake up from and it's unsettling. I can barely follow what's going on among the panels of similar-looking middle schoolers being forced to wallow in trash over and over, which I did not expect from chapter 1. I almost never write a review for something unless it's finished, but this time I was so baffled I had to write something for those looking to pick this ... up. I hope it finds its feet and gets into the other family members soon because a non-stop parade of middle school bullying is not a great read!

UPDATE: It gets interesting again after Chapter 8 - definitely worth looking into based on how the story evolves beyond the above mentioned very off-putting chapters.

This manga both lacks charm and yet is filled with it, it is so difficult to get into but yet keeps you reading by using tricks to make you believe like things are going to happen only for some random plot twist to set us back to square one.

Tell me, what is the point of mystery stories? Wheter novelized or cinematic experience? It is to make you question wtf is happening and how the mystery could even occur, it slowly trickles bits of pieces, clues that drive you closer to the finish line and possibly figure everything out even before it is told to you ... in a satisfying manner.

Sometimes there will be twists and misdirections here and there to add to some curves rather than keep it a straight line but in the end your mind is still building towards the finish line that explains everything

This manga utterly fucking fails at that and delivers way too many twists for any possible satisfaction to occur. Whenever the plot progresses it goes two steps back. Whenever we get endeared to a character it takes three steps back. And whenever it seems like we are getting a clue to explain the mystery it takes a million steps back.

The art style is very nice, and since this was by the same author of Takopi no Genzai I had high hopes. But it is just way too random and constantly resets story progress. It also doesn't help that you CANNOT get attached to any characters considering...well that would be spoilers, but let me tell you there is a certain plot point that really pissed me the fuck off. Especially as I was just starting to get attached to the family members.

Perhaps it could get better, perhaps it is building to a really great conclusion that somehow makes all the nonsense worth it, but I'm not counting on it.

BunnyBaronBarma was right though I'm not as critical as him though regardless of that a have mixed feelings about this.

Story 4/10

All over the place you cannot establish reality here or you can but you have to read take notes and cross reference them. Inception within inception and inception multiplied 100X.
At some point I gave up, i didn't care. Author is playing with us and basically any "revelation" seems to be fake or can be made fake when he wakes up.
It's a soup for me now i simply scrolled through reading but not giving a damn about comprehension. At this point ... why should I care? Maybe up to chapter 32 he's still dreaming or maybe not or maybe yes.
I'm not emotionally invested to take notes or cross reference, I simply don't care, author overused "Inception" troupe to the point of it being mass produced garbage.
While interesting Ultimately it fails to "hook" me up. BunnyBaronBarma said something about goal....Maybe I didn't understand what he meant but I think the goal of the story is to finally uncover his memories and to wake up? Maybe yes, maybe not. For me it was clear but who knows....

Art 8/10
Not the best not the worst, but kinda ok and maybe even pleasant. Characters have a wide range of emotions a lot of details beside characters and etc. Panels and speech bubbles up to standard.

Characters 7/10
I don't know actually, because of thousands of "Inception" troupes hard to tell, but for the most part a quite colorful representation of struggles, psychological problems, damaged people and etc.
I will not delve to deep since I simply do not understand where the anchor is so by that definition it's hard to understand where character journey starts. Basically people here change and develop but in a warped way going up, back, sideways and through another dimension.

Enjoyment 5/10
Hard to enjoy something that tries to be "intelligent" and "deep" while using a cheap trick. Hey maybe I'm a dumbass or lazy a hole who didn't delve too deep and b*tch about something that i cannot comprehend but nevertheless, enjoyment from eating a soup with nails, chalk, iron and carrots is not my favorite dish.

Overall 6/10

Would i recommend it ? Well it's hard to recommend something like that it has it's charm. If you like something psychological with dark theme behind the curtains with puzzles that you have to solve then yeah might be a good read but if you want to relax and enjoy...Well stay away this manga ain't for you

after the series was over, one would think any issues has been fixed. NOPE, not even close, if not worse. I'm not gonna add anything more, all my 6 months old complaints permanently exist because taizan was not capable of fixing it till the end. Every aspect is still 1/10.

-the story. wth is this, it's not complicated if you think about it (EDIT: I take that back, it's so all over the place now it's not even funny) but there's no end goal even after +20 chapters. Even if there was one depending on the interpretation, it was not strong enough to feel that is ... the where the author want to establish. Story, it goes all over the place and do stuffs in a most sluggish way possible. even after the revelation, nothing seems to have changed regarding to the end goal. (EDIT: And no, regaining the memory is not a goal. That's a process. What comes after that? Why is that necessary? Why should I be interested with that? None of that is ever answered.) And lets be real, the first 10 chapters MUST establish what the end goal would be to at least draw the readers. If that part is not made straight, none of the revelation seems impactful because they all leave the question "how good/bad is this for the plot?" No depths, no impact, and becomes irrelevant immediately. If you don’t know where the series wants to land, nothing seems relevant for you. Imagine going to a store and bought something, except you weren’t known what it’s for. You would think, “why did I bought this, what is this for, or how is this gonna benefit me”. And well you just so happened to find out about the usage and what it's for. At the end however, what matters the most is how it benefits you. If that's not fulfilled, a whole essay of good reviews or manual is nothing. This manga has that part missing from the very beginning. The scale of surprise is also nothing, because all of them are not unusual to see in real world. You're honestly gonna make me laugh if you say this is dark: it's pathetically weak because as I said none of the "tragic" element is tragic and is typical to see even irl. Heck tons of real life incident is much worse than what I've seen here, this family is doing better than most of the African family.

-the characters. They develop nothing for a reader. “Nothing" may be too far, though it's not an exaggeration because of the revelation in later chapter. It makes you think "who am I to believe if this person did this or was like this?" even without that, some of them just doesn't feel like they exist due to lack of dialogue. Give them a dialogue and I'd still don't understand what's their role and what's their purpose of existing. Reveal the family member's so-called sin or whatever and it's something I can care less. Here’s one example for sake of credibility. Grandpa has an alzheimer. Okay then, what's the big deal? Am I supposed to be surprised? Like it may be element of surprise, but so what? Is this series gonna go anywhere with this piece of information? It doesn’t, heck just after a chapter or two this piece of revelation becomes irrelevant. But what about the context behind him being alzheimer? There’s nothing. You find about it, the protagonist knows about it, and oh great its the next chapter that has nothing to do with grandpa. it's like this for every family member, some do get into some heavy stuff though not enough for me to NOT say “what do I care“. The introduction for each one of them ends up with, “I now know this person”, but nah you and protag know nothing at the end. Not that it doesn't feel like you want to know more either. Oh and tsubasa is down right the worst protagonist, same level as takemichi in tokyo revenger. He cries and it somehow fix whatever situation he was in, has a mind of a ignorant child, and actually brain dead since he did not fix a single damn thing but thinks he can.

-The title. What about it, you say? Even after 24 chapters the title of this series (specifically the word taizai), there are no real connection between the family and the sins they caused. People speculated each family member resembles 7 deadly sins. Well suppose that's the case, again, so what? This ain't an isekai or some other worldy developed world where you get a power of some sort. But anyways lets get along with the deadly sins, the revealed "sins" so far is not a big deal if you know the context. Might as well say nearly all of them doesn't fit to the deadly sin, let alone be classified as a sin. Making this series realistic is fine, but it ain't getting anywhere and gives little to no impact if all I see is the family members causing some small shenanigans. Even the most abysmal isekai has more straight forward titles, as you would know what the generic protag is gonna do. (as well as letting me know not to go near that thing).

-the art. it's bad, no sugarcoating. Why all of the people got the googly eyes. Why every chapter have one eye squinting and one eye wide open (basically the rock eyebrow raise). I have never seen the most disgusting looking teary eyes in my whole life, they don’t look watery. Alright fine, this is subjective. If you think this is good art, whatever.

I seriously want to know what makes people like this for continuing this far.
EDIT: after 8 chapters and...wow. Story structure is still abysmal, it's not even trying to make sense but think it can make layers like Inception. Obviously it doesn't, the author is not capable of doing such thing let alone make it consistent. The title can't be anymore irrelevant, no such thing as sin or anything because the whole family is in a certain world. Every discussion made is bunch of nonsense and repetitive, or might as well say pathetic because no one tries to solve the problem. What am I supposed to expect when anything they do may end up as "oh it was a dream", or some suspense happening while in middle of suspense? As per usual...who gives a sh*t? Oh but then there's the family past, so at least that would have some cherry on it yeah? Wrong, none of the family's past become anything but an eyesore. Remember how I said grandpa's trait becomes irrelevant? That's still going on after 32 chapters, and just a chapter ago we found out grandma + pa's past. I don't know how many times I've been saying this but wth do I care? Also here's a question: why was that not introduced like in the first 10 chapters? up until now we knew next to nothing about her, except that she pushed off that "guy" off a cliff for no reason. But we only knew about that, so what's the normal reaction about learning her past on top of that? "Why should we ever sympathize you? Why should I care?" Side note: her past doesn't redeem anything, color me surprise.