(CR) Odd Taxi

[Last Sinner]

It's not completely out of the question but the 'benefactor' really smells like 'compensation.' The aardvark is the real wildcard. He is probably linked to the benefactor but I don't think he's siding with whoever that is.

[SeijiSensei]

Originally Posted by Funkatron

I kept thinking for some reason he had killed his own parents

Wasn't Odakawa only about four when the accident happened?

[Last Sinner]

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

Wasn't Odakawa only about four when the accident happened?

Either 10 or 11. The doctor said he read it for the first time in 30 years when Goriki came to see him. Odokawa is listed as 41 years old currently.

[SeijiSensei]

Ah, my recall of the scene between the doctors was wrong. When Goriki was reading the newspaper account of the accident, it refers to young Odakawa-kun as being in the fourth grade, not age four, so 10-11 sounds right.

[SeijiSensei]

My nominee for episode of the year.

Then again there's always next week.

The scene between the Daimon brothers on the bridge was perhaps the emotional high point, but there were many highs all through these twenty-four minutes.

Spoiler:

Odokawa could care less about Dobu as he bleeds out on the ground. I suppose someone heard the gunshot, and maybe the police and an ambulance were mobilized, but Odokawa didn't call anyone. Dobu suggesting he would kill Shirakawa-san solidified Odokawa's anger toward Dobu. (Perhaps "hatred" is a better term? With Odokawa it's tough to tell).

A lot of threads converged in this episode, but there's still a lot of ground to cover in the final episode.

[Last Sinner]

What an episode. This is coming together well. If they pull off the final episode, this is the best series I've seen in 3 years.

Dobu was the cause of dodo boy's grief all along. Serves him right for being a bank addicted dodo robber. Best villain I've seen in ages.

So...why is the guy who runs the orphanage so important...and why an orphanage specifically for orphans from car accidents? That's very specific. And what kind of orphanage keeps helping someone for that long? And why would his daughter be killed?

There was no mention of Odokawa's supposed issues during this episode. But supposedly Goriki will learn something in the final ep. Whatever happened with the idols and why one of them was murdered needs resolving. Are the comedy duo meant to be significant since they appeared this ep?

And there's the whole issue that Yano probably wants Odokawa dead in the worst way right now.

This title sure knew how to build and make sure the last ep would be climactic. May it come together...please...

[SeijiSensei]

I started over from the beginning. The first episode covers an enormous amount of ground and introduces most of the extensive cast. You can see how occasional bits of dialogue foreshadow future events. Such a tightly-written script. Hope we get to see more from this team.

One thing bugs me though. Why do most of Odakawa's passengers never close the cab door when they leave? And Odokawa never asks them to close it either.

[Funkatron]

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

I started over from the beginning. The first episode covers an enormous amount of ground and introduces most of the extensive cast. You can see how occasional bits of dialogue foreshadow future events. Such a tightly-written script. Hope we get to see more from this team.

One thing bugs me though. Why do most of Odakawa's passengers never close the cab door when they leave? And Odokawa never asks them to close it either.

Odakawa can close the door from his seat, I believe

[Dop]

Oh my god, that ending.

Yeah, that seals it, I think this is my anime of the year right here. I also think it'll be a show which merits rewatching to catch things you might have missed the first time viewing.

There was one point where I was half expecting the entire cast to start singing Aimee Mann's "Wise Up".

Absolutely great ending.

[Nachtwandler]

Damn, while the

Spoiler for spoiler:

theory about Odokawa just seeing everyone as animals

was obvious, I was shoked that my presumption

Spoiler for spoiler:

that replacement girl is a killer was actully true

.

I really hope we'll get more of this. But, on the other hand, I am not sure if it will be a good idea.

What I can say still is that this anime deservers all the best. I will be sad if it flops.

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

One thing bugs me though. Why do most of Odakawa's passengers never close the cab door when they leave? And Odokawa never asks them to close it either.

It was actully shown in one of the first eps that passengers door is automatic. They just only showed it like once or twice as it is a pretty minor detail.

[Thor's Hammer]

Spoiler for Episode 13:

The girl who killed Yuki intends to kill Odakawa to deal with the last loose end that could ruin her perfect crime. And Odakawa probably doesn't recognize her since he doesn't see everyone as animals anymore. The poor guy just can't catch a break.

[foxbox360]

Originally Posted by Thor's Hammer

Spoiler for Episode 13:

The girl who killed Yuki intends to kill Odakawa to deal with the last loose end that could ruin her perfect crime. And Odakawa probably doesn't recognize her since he doesn't see everyone as animals anymore. The poor guy just can't catch a break.

A oddtaxi indeed but I'm sure the universe will work it out.

[Frontier]

Spoiler:

I guess the moral of this story is it doesn't pay to be an idol that covers up a murder to further your career (sorry Rui) but it pays to be the idol who commits the murder (Sakura).

[Kakkou]

It's a shame the audio dramas that were released weekly on youtube are not translated. They're not necessary to enjoy the show but add to the overall experience and with the release of the last one this week, also makes the finale have even more... impact.

Spoiler for Audio drama:

The gist of the audio dramas are that Satoshi, the giraffe high schooler, had hijacked the transmission of a listening device planted in a ball pen that has been shown switching hands throughout the anime if you look for it. This is actually his main part of the narrative as opposed to the small bits he had in the anime. Every week has him stream clips of conversations of the person who holds the pen, giving bits of supplementary information to the audience. By the end...

Spoiler for Final audio drama revelations:

It's revealed that the original owner of the listening device is Taeko, the izakaya owner, and because the pen has recorded some rather unsavoury details about a certain killer idol, you hear Taeko presumably being offed by her as Satoshi livestreams the audio and it cuts off as killer idol threatens to kill him next, being aware of what he's been doing. In the epilogue of the anime you see her in possession of the pen as she makes her way to Odokawa, on top of Taeko and Satoshi never being shown in the present as the ED theme plays....

[Yu Ominae]

Spoiler for Ending:

Odokawa is gonna be doomed. There's no way he can escape her now that she's in his cab.

[Last Sinner]

Yeah, THAT is an ending. 9.5/10, best series I've seen in 36 months. The art of telling a very cohesive story with a bounty of good characters has not been completely. I wonder how long it will be before I see anything else from the present/near future reach its level.

Hell, I'll give it extra props for depicting idols as the utter scum they are.

[Yu Ominae]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/int...orders/.174658

There's a Blu-Ray order campaign done. The anime production committee staff said that there weren't plans to do one since sales have plummetted lately.

[SeijiSensei]

I think some props are due to Crunchyroll's translation team for this show. I can't speak to the accuracy of the translation, but it certainly conveyed the clever wordplay throughout this show.

[Cloudedmind]

I'm not sure how to feel about that ending. Please be safe Odakawa.

[Yu Ominae]

A review done on the show.