History Anime / OddTaxi

-->-- '''Odokawa'''

* PersonalDictionary: Yuki Mitsuya refers to fried chicken as her "soul food". While it is often associated with the specific African-American cuisine known as as soul food (stereotypically, even, which is awkward considering that she's a black cat), Yuki seems to mean "comfort food".

** How a single coincidence can have a ripple effect on so many lives. The entire plot happens because of a string of very unfortunate ones, but a lot of the wins by the good guys come about because of the universe aligning just right. [[spoiler:This extends to the main thread, the Nerima Girl disappearance: it happened in the first place because of total blind luck and it gets sidelined by the end of the series for the same reason. The show ends with its two coincidence magnets, Odokawa and Sakura, facing off with the outcome unclear]]. [[spoiler:In the movie, Sakura outright refer to their standoff as them pitting their luck against each other, as they've both gotten to this point through a sheer number of happenstance moments. In the end, Odokawa proves to be the luckier of the two, only sustaining apparently minor injuries before subduing Sakura and turning her in to the police.]]

** How a single coindicence can have a ripple effect on so many lives. The entire plot happens because of a string of very unfortunate ones, but a lot of the wins by the good guys come about because of the universe aligning just right. [[spoiler:This etends to the main thread, the Nerima Girl disappearance: it happened in the first place because of total blind luck and it gets sidelined by the end of the series for the same reason. The show ends with its two coincidence magnets, Odokawa and Sakura, facing off with the outcome unclear]].

** [[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 her father to grieve and Mystery Kiss in pieces.]]

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:It's left open just why Sakura hopped into Odokawa's taxi in the end. She could either be trying to leave Tokyo before she's discovered as Yuki's killer or [[HeKnowsTooMuch to kill Odokawa because he's a loose end]].]]

''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 onto five volumes.

''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.

** Tanaka ''does'' eventually [[spoiler:get the opportunity to have the one-of-a-kind Donraku eraser when Odokawa offers to give it to him]], but by that point he's lost so much more over the course of his TraumaCongaLine that he hardly cares anymore.

* NumericalThemeNaming: The members of Mystery Kiss are Shiho '''Ichi'''mura (1), Rui '''Ni'''kaido (2) and Yuki '''Mitsu'''ya (3). Ichimura stands out for using a different kanji (市) instead of the one for the actual number 1.

** In the final epsiode, [[spoiler: Odokawa drives his taxi off a bridge and plunges into the water, where he lies, passively, seemingly accepting his death as it fills up with water, until Shirokawa dives in to save him, breaking the car window and carrying him out.]]

*** The shot of Mystery Kiss dancing strangely leaves Yuki's face uncovered by credits, while the supposed lead Rui is ducking from behind them. [[spoiler:This signals her importance early on, in addition to one of the backstory's instigating events: that the real Yuki Mitsuya was meant to take over as the group's leader]].

** Near the end we see a figure that looks like Odokawa dropping into water. [[spoiler: This hints at his backstory in how his mother tried to commit murder-suicide with him and his father. Which likewise lead to his mental condition in seeing everyone as animals.]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Tanaka's Revolution" follows an entirely new character who is tangentially related to the plot, but nonetheless adds further mystery and tension [[spoiler:when he coincidentally finds Dobu's buried gun, and in the grip of mental instability, is hunting after Odokawa.]]

*** The Daimon brothers jump on their counterparts' from Homo Sapiens' heads. [[spoiler:The four of them end the series the same way - the aggressive, driven Shibagaki and older Daimon end up humiliated and dependent on their meeker, seemingly stupid partners Baba and younger Daimon who proceed to grow as people and shed their first impressions]].

* CallingYourAttacks: Shirakawa always announces her "queixada" capoeira technique. [[spoiler:Even under water.]]

* SleeperHit: * Originally there were no plans to make any Blurays at all due to low projected sales. As the series slowly grew in popularity, they eventually promised to make a Bluray box set as long as they got at least 300 preorders. In the end, they ended up gathering over 6000 preorders, surpassing all the goals they listed on their website, and eventually greenlit the series for a movie.