The first time a heard about this show, I thought it was a silly slice of life where the protagonist rides his passengers and they some funny conversation or something like that. After I read the sinopsis, I thought I was going into a thrilling criminal drama about a taxi driver investigating the disappearance of a girl. And the show actually gave me exactly that, but also so much more.

Such a immersive narrative on an anime that looks so goofy at first glance should be illegal. The way the writer make a story where every dot connects perfectly creating such a cohesive plot is impressive. The narrative gets more and more complex and intriguing as the anime goes on deep in its plot and as the writer keeps throwing foreshadow after foreshadow at us to, in the end, give us the full picture. The show links every minimal detail into each other in a way that don't feel cheap as other animes would.

As we see the outcasts trying to make it, we follow some of the most beautiful relationships that I ever saw in an anime. From the Homosapiens to the Daimon brothers, Odd Taxi show off such natural and realistic bonds beetween the characters. Even the relatioships like Dobu and Odokawa are kinda wholesome to see. I got so intimate with the characters that even the sight of them getting along with each other kinda of cheers me up. For a show with a cast made out of anthropomorphic characters, this has some of the most human interactions I have ever seen out of real life.

For me, Odd Taxi is about success, failure and finding a propose in life. During the whole anime we follow characters struggling in achieving their goals. Be it fame, money, love, etc. Odd Taxi shows that you won't always achieve your goals and maybe you will never be able to make it in life. However, that's okay. Almost every character of the show is a failure. We see them struggling and hustling to achieve such futile achievements because they want to have a place in society. They try over and over to succeed and when they fail, they beat themselves and starts becoming more obssessives with their goal what makes them fail even more. But the characters learn later in the show that you need to first accept who you are to be able to change. Characters like Baba show that when you stop obssessing over success and accept your flaws and your fate, life becomes easier, smoother. We see characters sinking into a spiral because they wanna be someone that they are not, and then they start holding on to fake hopes and fake solutions to their problems to cope with their failure. And, in the end of the show, we get a beautiful ending where every character accept their flaws, who they are and stop obssessing the futile things of life like internet fame, characters in a game or some bullshit like that. Watching the show, you grow with the characters, because it's impossible you don't relate to any of them.