History Anime / OddTaxi

A manga spin-off, ''Manga/RootRouteOfOddTaxi'', began publication on February 24, 2023, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives working under the Ibusuki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga came out.

''Odd Taxi'' is an original anime produced by Creator/OLMIncorporated. It is the directorial debut of Baku Kinoshita, with Kazuya Konomoto as the writer. The series aired in the Spring 2021 season, with {{Website/Crunchyroll}} currently holding the English streaming rights. The anime also got a manga adaptation that started releasing on January 15th, before the anime's actual release, with art by Takeichi Abaraya and story by Kazuya Konomoto. It was compiled into five volumes. A manga spin-off, ''Manga/RootRouteOfOddTaxi'', began publication on February 24, 2023, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives working under the Ibusuki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga came out.

''Odd Taxi'' is an original anime produced by Creator/OLMIncorporated. It is the directorial debut of Baku Kinoshita, with Kazuya Konomoto as the writer. The series aired in the Spring 2021 season, with {{Website/Crunchyroll}} currently holding the English streaming rights. The anime also got a manga adaptation that started releasing on January 15th, before the anime's actual release, with art by Takeichi Abaraya and story by Kazuya Konomoto. It was compiled into five volumes. A manga spin-off, ''Manga/RootRouteOfOddTaxi'', began publication on February 24, 2023, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives working under the Ibusuki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga out.

''Odd Taxi'' is an original anime produced by Creator/OLMIncorporated. It is the directorial debut of Baku Kinoshita, with Kazuya Konomoto as the writer. The series aired in the Spring 2021 season, with {{Website/Crunchyroll}} currently holding the English streaming rights. The anime also got a manga adaptation that started releasing on January 15th, before the anime's actual release, with art by Takeichi Abaraya and story by Kazuya Konomoto. It was compiled into five volumes. A manga spin-off, ''Route of Odd Taxi'', began publication on February 24, 2023.

On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga ''Manga/RootRouteOfOddTaxi'' came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives working under the Ibusuki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl.

On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga ''Manga/RootRouteOfOddTaxi'' came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives working under the Ibusuki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. Trailer [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8w7j10 here]].

On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga ''Manga/RootRouteOfOddTaxi'' came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives working under the Ibusaki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. Trailer [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8w7j10 here]].

On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga ''Manga/RootOfOddTaxi'' came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives working under the Ibusaki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. Trailer [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8w7j10 here]].

Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/CrazyTaxi''

On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga ''Route of Odd Taxi/ROOT'' came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives working under the Ibusaki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. Trailer [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8w7j10 here]].

On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga ''Route of Odd Taxi/ROOT'' came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives recruited, working under the Ibusaki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. Trailer [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8w7j10 here]].

On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga ''Route of Odd Taxi/ROOT'' came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives recruited, working under the Ibusaki Detective Agency, looking into the missing girl. Trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl42ekPQYR8 here]].

On April 2, 2024, a live action version of the manga ''Route of Odd Taxi/ROOT'' came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives recruited, working under the Ibusaki Detective AGency, looking into the missing girl. Trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl42ekPQYR8 here]].

''Odd Taxi'' is an original anime produced by Creator/OLMIncorporated. It is the directorial debut of Baku Kinoshita, with Kazuya Konomoto as the writer. The series aired in the Spring 2021 season, with {{Website/Crunchyroll}} currently holding the English streaming rights. The anime also got a manga adaptation that started releasing on January 15th, before the anime's actual release, with art by Takeichi Abaraya and story by Kazuya Konomoto. It was compiled into five volumes. A manga spin-off, ''Route of Odd Taxi'', began publication on February 24, 2023. A TV drama version is due to air in Japan in April 2024.

Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/CrazyTaxi''.

On April 2, 2024, a live action version, ''Route of Odd Taxi/ROOT'', came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives looking into the missing girl. Trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl42ekPQYR8 here]].

In April 2024, a live action version, ''Route of Odd Taxi/ROOT'', came out, retelling the story from the point of view of two detectives looking into the missing girl.

* AnAesop: "Tanaka's Revolution" warns about needlessly throwing money left and right just to be the number one player in gacha games.

** During Odokawa visit to Goriki's clinic, they have a winding conversation about ''Music/WeAreTheWorld'' and the different artists in it.

''Odd Taxi'' is an original anime produced by Creator/OLMIncorporated. It is the directorial debut of Baku Kinoshita, with Kazuya Konomoto as the writer. The series aired in the Spring 2021 season, with {{Website/Crunchyroll}} currently holding the English streaming rights. The anime also got a manga adaptation that started releasing on January 15th, before the anime's actual release, with art by Takeichi Abaraya and story by Kazuya Konomoto. It was compiled into five volumes. A manga spin-off, ''Route of Odd Taxi'', began publication on February 24, 2023.

** After knocking out Yamamoto with her UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}, Shirakawa threatens him with giving him a ''martelo'' to the face the next time. In reality, a ''martelo'' to the face is the very same kick she uses to knock him out in the first place, as the word is actually an umbrella term for all types of roundhouse kicks that target the head (she just did a jumping variation, which incidentally is not very typical of capoeira).
** Also in-universe. Every time Shirakawa shows off her capoeira skills, ''Indian'' music starts playing, feeding on Odokawa's earlier confusion with it being a Bollywood dance number.

** Kuroda, the Yakuza boss with a heart of gold [[spoiler:whose one rule is not killing people]], is voiced by Creator/TakayaKuroda, the voice of Kiryu Kazuma of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' franchise, who happens to be a former Yakuza chairman with a heart of gold [[spoiler:who also strongly dislikes killing people]]. [[spoiler:Kuroda is also revealed near the end of the anime to be running an organization helping out troubled children, for which he seems to genuinely care about. This mirrors Kiryu's care of the children he raises in his orphanage]]. [[spoiler:In addition, his human design is very similar to Futoshi Shimano, one of the Yakuza franchise's antagonists.]]
** In Episode 6, Imai takes Odokawa to Kabukichō, the real life red light district on which Kamurochō (the main district in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' games) is based. The episode includes a shot of the iconic Kabukichō Ichiban-gai gate that closely resembles shots of Kamurochō's version of the same gate, often used to introduce it in the games. Furthermore, Odokawa is taken to the cabaret club that Imai works at. Cabaret clubs also happen to be a very important part of most of the Yakuza games' side content and minigames.

''Odd Taxi'' is an original anime produced by Creator/OLMIncorporated. It is the directorial debut of Baku Kinoshita, with Kazuya Konomoto as the writer. The series aired in the Spring 2021 season, with {{Website/Crunchyroll}} currently holding the English streaming rights. The anime also got a manga adaptation that started releasing on January 15th, before the anime's actual release, with art by Takeichi Abaraya and story by Kazuya Konomoto. It was compiled into five volumes.

A two-hour anime movie, ''Odd Taxi: In The Woods'', was released on April 1, 2022 in Japan. The movie is mostly a retelling of the series, with some fragments from the point of view of other characters, and additional scenes which show what happened after the end of the series.

** Another piece of foreshadowing appears in a more meta example, on [[https://nerz.jp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Untitled-2.001-5.jpeg this piece of promotional artwork]]: [[spoiler:There's a hole in the center of the Mystery Kiss lineup, while Yuki Mitsuya is standing off to the side, because she's not one of the original members.]]

*** A meta one; during the music cover for the opening, where all the character are replaced with real-life people, when Odowaka looks at the singers through his mirror, [[spoiler: they look like animals.]]

** The ending song "Sugarless Kiss" is notably sung by Rui's VA, and said song as noted below in SuspiciouslyAproposMusic contains lyrics about pursuing one's dreams, but also about hiding one's self and being jealous and selfish. [[spoiler:Said feelings turn out to be very relevant to Rui, especially as her own jealousy of Yuki replacing as Mystery Kiss's lead in her desperation to pursue her dreams unwittingly caused the entire series to happen. But on another level, the song is also very much the fake Yuki aka Sakura's ImageSong, as the vague lyrics are also her confession to being Yuki's murderer.]]

** In the finale [[spoiler: Shirakawa dives into the river to save Odokawa using her caporiea skills to break the window on his taxi. She succeeds and is seen swimming Odokwa back to shore seemingly no worse for wear, only to be revealed later she injured her foot in doing the act (likely due to the water resistance and having to put more energy in the kicks to compensate) and had to get it bandaged later.]]

->''"How it started? [[JigsawPuzzlePlot What would you even call the start of this?]]"''

** After knocking out Yamamoto with her UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}, Shirakawa threatens him with giving him a ''martelo'' to the face the next time. In reality, a ''martelo'' to the face is the very same kick she used to knock him out in the first place, as the word is actually an umbrella term for all types of roundhouse kicks that target the head (she did a jumping variation, which incidentally is not very typical of capoeira, but it was one nonetheless).

** Unfulfilled ambitions. Almost every character has a dream that seems just within their reach - in the end, the weight of those ambitions causes them to do utterly reckless things to achieve them, which only makes them more trapped and miserable, if not outright ruining the chances of accomplishing those dreams. Notably, Odokawa doesn't really have one [[spoiler:which is what makes him so dangerous]].

** [[spoiler:The movie's extended ending resolves Odokawa's ambiguous fate from the anime, revealing that he managed to overpower Sakura after Sakura tried to kill him, taking her to the police to be arrested. However, while he and his friends are able to live their lives happily afterwards, and Sakura's arrest opens up the possibility for Rui to be cleared of her charges, that doesn't change the fact that Sakura still murdered Yuki, leaving Yuki's father to grieve and Mystery Kiss in pieces.]]

** [[spoiler:The audio drama's also leaves Taeko's ultimate fate ambiguous. The last we hear of her, she was attacked by Sakura in order to retrieve the pen that recorded her, with it being unclear if she died or not.]]