
ODDTAXI
a review by CulturedWhamen

a review by CulturedWhamen
Oddtaxi is a masterpiece
well its close to being a masterpiece as I gave it a 98/100
well starting off odd taxi was an anime that no one was talking about and I only decided to watch after seeing it in a video by a youtube called mothers basement and I watched and it became my 3rd fav anime. well that escalated quickly. so oddtaxi is a story that happens in japan (a real shocker i know) it follows the life of a walrus called odokawa who just so happens to be a taxi driver and is a bit ODD ok I'm sorry that was a bad pun. well moving on. oddtaxi starts of as this kinda slice of life anime but quickly evolves into this thriller with a mysterious murderer and an entity that livesin odokawas closet (wtf is this fnaf 4). well so basically oddokawa meets all these interesting people and eventually all of them all gets trapped in a tightly woven mystery with the death of a girl to support it. i hoestly thought I knew who was the villain/murderrer but was surprised to see I was wrong and when I thought it made sense it mad ALOTTA sense. Now for the dialogue... its amazing it feels like a Tarantino movie with some of the most interesting dialogues out there in anime. now for the production values. its relly good and by really good I mean good. its not one punch man or demon slayer levels of animation but its good. i mean I don't think the could've done a better job (other than the cg taxi and a certain scene where a character was punching another character but its minor so nothing to worry bout). the cg taxi is done really well and stuff.
now for the mystery aspect its executed perfectly I feel like the entire subplot of the missing cat girl and the cat in odokawas closet is amazing the way it weaves all o it together is muah.
now for the characters . each character is lovable and 2 or 3 are hatable and one of them I despise. lets start with odokawa the protag
Odokawa is a 40-something misanthropic taxi driver with no family, who spends most of his time having mundane conversations with his customers.oh also he is a walrus. as odokawas past is revealed everything stats to make sense and the way its presented is soo amazing and I honestly feel like they couldn't have done a better job.
then there is characters like tanaka and others whim I won't go too deep into but all the characters are crafted with utmost precision.
now for my biggest an maybe only problem is the ending . don't get me wrong the ending is superb but I feel like it did everything perfectly except one thing a certain character who is interesting want explored enough. yea that's my problem I think the biggest problem is that thee is only 13 eps . well that's all for my review thx a lot for staying with me
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