Warning: episode 4 spoilers about a character named Tanaka.

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Odd taxi was an anime that wasn’t very high on my plan to watch list this season, mainly because 1. Art style looked like it’s target audience is kids and the fact that one of the studio behind the anime is OLM who I only know because of Pokémon and Inazuma eleven which happens to both be “kids” anime so that didn't help. 2. I assumed this was going to be a short episodic anime because of how simple the art style looked. But after watching the anime like most people I was surprised by how good and well thought out this anime was. Odd taxi went from an anime I gave 0 fucks about to an anime that is definitely my favorite of this season.

Plot/Characters Odd taxi begins by telling us about a high school girl that has gone missing and our main character Odokawa who is a taxi driver seems like the man behind the disappearance of this high school girl. Weather he’s the guy who is responsible for this or not is something you have to watch to find out. But that’s not the only thing Odd taxi is about. Odd taxi is also about many characters and all these characters have interesting stories that plays into the main story in someway and still manages to keep the story cohesive. For example Dobu, Dobu is a wanted criminal who for some reason knows our main character Odokawa the taxi driver seems very close to him, another character is Big daimon who is a corrupt cop that works with Dobu and he also knows Odokawa so right away our main character is super suspicious and makes me wonder about his back story and weather he is responsible for the disappearance of the high school girl.

Like I said earlier Odd taxi is about many characters and every single one of them is facing issues that somehow ends up playing into the story. Tanaka is a character who has had 1 unfortunate event after another since he was a kid. as an adult tanaka is now a gacha game addict and his goal is to get the dodo bird which is super super hard to get. One day after spending way too much money on this gacha game Tanaka finally pulls the dodo out the gacha pack, right as he was about to claim this dodo a taxi driver speeds right in front of Tanaka almost hitting him. Tanaka being freaked out by this taxi, accidentally drops his phone and the phone ends up in water, broken, and Tanaka never received his dodo. This was the last unfortunate event for Tanaka before he went crazy and swore he was going to find and kill the taxi driver who was responsible for this, and of course the taxi driver was Odokawa.

Other than tanaka was there is kakihana a man who is desperate for love and will do anything to find love even if it means he’s digging himself into a hole that’s too deep to climb out of. Another character is Kabasawa who wants to be internet famous so badly he will put himself in danger just to get likes and retweets on Twitter. Yamamoto is the manger of the mystery kiss idol group and he is willing to do whatever it takes to make his idol group succeed. diamon brothers are twins and both happens to be cops 1 is a corrupt cop while the other is very lawful citizen who just wants justice in the world, but sadly he is too dumb to realize his own brother is evil. Those aren't even all the characters, there's a couple more with their own story that contributes to the main story.

Dialogues between characters are my favorite part about this anime because there’s so much hidden behind what looks like casual conversation but after you watch the mystery unfold you start to realize that majority dialogue in this anime was foreshadowing certain events.

Execution

Odd taxi executes so many things perfectly. The way they introduced characters, to these characters having their own story, and each story somehow merging into the main story was executed very well. Even the ending was amazing, we’ve gotten so many great anime’s this season that has gotten a very lack luster endings cough Wonder egg priority cough but thankfully this wasn't one of
them.

Final Thoughts

I made the mistake of judging odd taxi by its art style but I’m very happy I ended up watching it, because not only is this my favorite of this season but this might be my favorite of this entire year depending on what other anime’s come out. I enjoyed every second of this anime I enjoyed watching every character, story, plot twist, opening, and even the way they wrapped the anime up was amazing. This anime truly is one of the best this year. I highly recommend everyone to check this out.