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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- The idol group Mystery Kiss may have made its debut earlier in the show, but we haven't got to see from their manager: the fox Yamamoto's POV. But if there's one thing: Mitsuya's helping the distraught Tanaka trace down Odokawa's taxi, and with Shiho trying to imitate Nikaido's ways of making it big in the idol business. That business is very lucrative, and for all 3 to shine as a group, might as well shine like a diamond, rather than a carbon gemstone. Of course, Odokawa doesn't care about the pleasantries of anything idol-related, and he's purely the same social commentary character. Using Odokawa's taxi as an advertisement publicity campaign, he may not be interested, but count it as helping someone out. Doctor Goriki calling in Odokawa to check on him, and it's confirmed that his medicine are slowly being stolen out of his clinic (see Episode 1). Trying to pin the blame on Shirakawa is the only likely suspect in Odokawa's sight since her back-end deal with Dobu, and the questioning in his taxi pretty much affirms his suspicions about Dobu wanting to get back at Yano. Thankfully, Odokawa is getting better at trying to evade Dobu's threats, and with each passing step, the latter is getting more attention to be targeted. Kakihana sure is having a good time with Shiho for a date, and both have a common theme in being poor chaps...just that Kakihana tries TOO hard to impress Shiho with whatever he can muster. The hardcore fan of Nikaido, Imai winning a million yen lottery aside, it's Twitter wannabe Kabusawa who steals the spotlight by proclaiming his capture of the criminal Dobu. THAT'S...A PRETTY BOLD CLAIM, given that it went viral easily. AHHH that loan repayment... The mystery is slowly racking up... |
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| Was hoping to see what Tanaka is going to do to our taxi driver, but seems like not much so far except placing a GPS in the car. Haha he got loaned that money... yeah was kinda expecting that once he kept getting confused the whole time at the restaurant. Though about that, I feel like he will be looking for other ways to get money; might tie into the whole story as well. Can't help but feel that Kabasawa might just die somehow, probably to be silenced. Who knows. |
| Oh, I like how this episode ties in with the previous ones The stolen medicine, the ticket bought by Imai and Kabasawa wanting to be famous, I feel like he's going to get into big trouble Kakihana's date doesn't even seem to be going well, I can see the girl's real intention from afar 0.0 |
| I'm getting more and more into this show now 5 episodes in. Like the interactions, the subtle mystery elements surrounding Odokawa and the city itself while having a mellow, relaxing tone to the whole show. That OP really does set the tone so well for the episodes to come after. The whole experience with this anime was average at the start, but now, it's getting pretty good. Good to see that, making this season an even stronger one as a whole. |
| Odokawa sure has to take some interesting bunch on the daily basis. Well, it can be said about any taxi driver but we'll just talk about our MC. Firstly, that manager from Mystery Kiss and his all ruckus about buying all the data from Odokawa about the girl he dropped by a few weeks ago. Then, we saw Tanaka tailing him with another Taxi. That's creepy. Poor Doctor wants to close his clinic because he can't blame Shirakawa for medication stealing and it would be interesting to see why's she involved with him in the first place. Odokawa can't stand that she's been stealing medicines from Doctor's clinic and why she didn't tell him about it. Kakihana really is in blind love. He can't even see that he's with a gold digger at the moment. I hope he gets over it soon and not ruin his own life. This show is really something in terms of storytelling, nothing too superficial but still makes me wanna watch more of it. Another good episode. |
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| Shiho can be or not be a gold digger. I have the feeling that she knows about Kakihana bluff, and want to see until when he will keep with his lies. |
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BlichoBoy said: She definitely is - context from another point in the episode shows that. She mentioned having to talk to older guys with her manager. I think that she is being put up to find wealthy men so that they can spend money on her CD's.Shiho can be or not be a gold digger. I have the feeling that she knows about Kakihana bluff, and want to see until when he will keep with his lies. |
| Wow that guy hit the lottery with the numbers that Odokawa gave him, which were from the photo that Eiji took. The idol girl hid a phone in between the seats, I wonder why she did that. |
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z00nex said: Wow that guy hit the lottery with the numbers that Odokawa gave him, which were from the photo that Eiji took. The idol girl hid a phone in between the seats, I wonder why she did that. She did it so Tanaka would be able to track Odokawa using GPS. But I do wonder how Tanaka knows the idol girl |
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Hyskoa_Morroh said: Oh. I must've missed it then. z00nex said: Wow that guy hit the lottery with the numbers that Odokawa gave him, which were from the photo that Eiji took. The idol girl hid a phone in between the seats, I wonder why she did that. She did it so Tanaka would be able to track Odokawa using GPS. |
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Girls that age especially ones trying to be idols, all look the same to me. Truer worlds have never being spoken. |
| It seems like every character will be involved with the "girl-disappearing" mystery towards the end of the series. |
| I want to know why Shiho is going out with Kakihana. She talked to the manager about not wanting to talk to older guys anymore. Strange |
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| A True Villain puts rocks on railway tracks and steal bicycle seats! That was one of the best parts of this episode. LOL I still look forward each week to this series. So good! |
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| Things keep on building as more characters become entagled within each others’ lives. This anime is going to be crazy once shit starts to go down. It was strange that we didn’t see what happened with Tanaka when he arrived at Odokawa’s house. Maybe that will be shown next episode. Eiji is doing some stupid shit taking out loans to impress that girl. You feel bad for him, but this is all stuff he is doing willingly. |
| Odd Taxi might as well be titled Bad decisions - the anime, lmao. Another fantastic episode. It's pretty clear that Shiho is dating older and especially rich men cause her manager told her to. Someone's gotta buy those CDs. The hippo kid is literally the embodyment of cringy gen z tik-tok kids ^^' Threatening an actual criminal on the internet just for fame, might as well eat some tide pods. |
There's no possible way you can steal my heart    I want to drown in this sweet Melancholy |
| This was a nice episode. I like the direction this anime is taking after this episode. I don't know if this goes against something, but Shiho is soooo cute >w< However, I'm interested in what her intentions are, because she looks like she has something pretty elaborate planned. |
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| Everything is CONNECTED!!! Can't wait a whole week for another episode :/ |
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| It's nice to see how everything here is connected. This is only getting better. We haven't seen nothing yet! Lol that guy hit the little jackpot with the numbers that Odokawa gave him. Good for him! |
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| The money Eiji loaned was probably from the same people that Shirakawa loaned money from. |
| Getting better and better. I saw the 3 PVs last week and there's good content, probably this will be complete on 3-4 more eps. |
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| Its getting more complex and well connected, i believed. The idol industry intricate mostly accurate, with how the manager told himself as a jewelry designer. I feel instantly bad for the girls with a big dream, trapped inside that devil circle. Welp, that's how the real life works. No other sympathy cause the girl also trapped the others under the devil circle circumstance.... Anyway, that Nikaido fan hitting the lottery really make me smiled widely. While in the other side, poor monkey got dissed completely without him even realized. Dobu also got what he wanted to knew. But he getting the risk by being too popular. The revolutioneer, Tanaka, successfully planted something inside Odokawa taxi. While Shirakawa case slowly getting the revealed, and Odokawa discomfort looked even more serious. Things are getting more heated. A little detail like the previous eraser, and now the money issue, can be the problem solved of those messed up. However, let the story flow first, from the incoming episode.... |
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| the dots are increasing yet connecting. i love how we're getting little insight stories on every character |
| Another great episode! As each episode passes, the more the characters and plots connect with each other. Damn, I am very afraid of Tanaka and what he will do, and looks like he's in cahoots with Miya, the calico cat. Intetresting, that manager is definitely involved in the missing girl case, in fact all of them are probably connected somehow lmao. The way Ichimura said that Nikaidou would do anything to get up, like say kill someone. I am assuming the missing girl was also an idol and Nikaidou did some crazy shit to her, so the manager is trying to cover things up. I don't could be wrong. Ichimura is definitely gold digging, probably under that manager's orders. Poor Kakihana though, but it's his fault for actually getting a loan just to impress a girl he met on a dating app. And judging by the preview for next episode, it's not gonna end well. It's confirmed now that Shirakawa is the one indeed that was stealing medicines to pay her debt through Dobu. I knew it was Kabasawa that made that video proclaiming he was gonna capture Dobu when Dobu mentioned it, that damn Hippo's got a death wish. Things are getting even more spicier, looking forward to the next episode. |
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| Great episode. It's kinda too convenient for the story how everything is tied up to Odokawa though. |
| Slowly but surely, to me it seems like most of the characters from the cast are getting involved in a pretty serious situation. The old guy getting in debt, the gorilla closing his clinic, the idols with their own business, the hippo leaving school, and it's all connected. This kind of storytelling in a way reminds me of Durarara!! and that's great though the comparison might be far-fetched in some ways. PS: I still stand by the mentioned theory that only the MC see rest of the cast as animals, as he's the only one yet again that makes comments of the sort. |
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| So we finally find out what happen to the stolen medication from the clinic. I really liked this episode and how it continues from the last episode. |
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| In this episode we got the manager and members of Mystery Kiss riding in the backseat of Odokawa's taxi. It seems like the idols have their own share of problems off stage and how they are dealing with it. That producer might have something to do with that girl's disappearance since he was asking Odakawa about the cam data in his taxi. Kakihana is too busy simping Ichimura who is clearly not interested in him and has to resort to borrow money from the loan sharks which is not going to end well for him when he is forced to pay it back. |
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| This anime just gets better and better. The pink pen, or heart pen, is really a “Concert Watch” device with microphone. A giraffe named Nagashima makes up a weekly podcast with what these microphones supposedly pick up. Yes, the Odd Taxi crew puts out a weekly podcast (on YouTube). One podcast featured the backstage conversations of Mystery Kiss, and… Well you can read it yourself. https://www.cbr.com/odd-taxi-hidden-details-twitter/ I noted that the heart pen in Odokawa’s taxi was in the driver’s visor in the 3rd episode ride with Dobu. Also, at the beginning of the ride the security camera looked normal, but when Dobu got out, it looked like the wires had been cut. So the whole ride with the gun was not recorded? Also there’s the character relation chart on the Odd Taxi website: https://oddtaxi.jp/ The two girls in the lower right were snickering at Kakihana during the dinner scene. They were also in the ep 6 preview. So there is a lot going on with Odd Taxi that isn’t even in the anime. And Dobu is in the middle of a lot of things. |
| NGL Kakihana really just wanted to impress a girl, poor guy, hope he doesn't get into any trouble Shit, I'm 100% sure that Ditch-11 is Dobu. Dobu's kanji translates into Ditch, Shirakawa had the Eraser thing on the first episode which Tanaka tried to purchase, and this episode proved Shirakawa's relation with Dobu. I wouldn't be impressed if Dobu was Ditch at this point lol |
i fucking hate manga (keeps reading manga discord ~ ganjithedude |
| This show is really ODD! but there's really sublime tense moments underlying in this show! and that's what's making this show great! 5/5. |
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| That cringe ass video from the hippo was praised? |
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| The writing of this show is so airtight. It's so well thought out. Everything connects in a way and you always get a lot going on. I like how everyone in the cast has something to do. Today's episode we get to see what Mystery Kiss is up to and it's not pretty as this idol manager is playing favors on top of playing dirty to sell them as a group. I knew shiho was the star of that group when you got the other two wearing masks. It's not shocking to me. Next we got Mitsuya helping Tanaka track Odokawa. My boy Odokawa already got a crazy monkey on his ass. He doesn't need some gacha loser trying to ice him. This man can't catch a break. Lastly, my man Kakihana taking out loans to impress girls. LOL! I don't know why he would take that much out. Now 1,000 dollar loan isn't bad that but that interest rate and annual rate is fucking brutal. He is a fucking idiot. |
| I haven't updated in years but now I have changed that. I'll be free soon. |
Inferno792 said: That's the idea. This kind of writing was done in a lot of older cartoons like Hey Arnold for example. The idea is that it is written in a way that everyone we see interacts with our main character. They do this to show you how he interacts with them and helps them grow from it.... I Don't think that's happening here though. IT makes sense though since everyone lives within the same area. Great episode. It's kinda too convenient for the story how everything is tied up to Odokawa though. |
| I haven't updated in years but now I have changed that. I'll be free soon. |
| I'm so embarrassed for Kakihana oh my goddd A LOAN just to impress a liar. And Kabasawa too. Pleeeease he doxxed himself and put a target on his whole life just for clout. The murder plot is coming to a head huh. Whew. Wonder just how ruthless Nikaido is, and how depraved Tanaka will become. |
| i love the whole vibe of the ost and the show more and more each episode, it's gotten pretty serious and it broke my heart to see the monkey guy getting in debt just for a girl he barely knows |
| Since the beginning I kinda thought that one of the the masked members could be that missing girl. It would make sense if that girl wanted to be an idol but her parents were against it so she ran away and now has to wear a mask so that no-one recognizes her. Whenever someone brings up the car camera in a conversation Odokawa kinda has a flustered look on his face, is there something that Odokawa doesn't want others to know...? The manager looked skeptical when Odokawa said “she's a calico cat” that supports the theory that everyone in here is actually human They still haven't revealed who Odokawa was talking to at his home back in episode 1. That weirdo is here. I hope nothing happens to Odokawa. Shirakawa seems suspicious. Apart from her stealing medicines and illegally selling them, I feel like she might be hiding something more. |
| I like how the taxi driver happily followed the taxi after being told and did not even bothered to question it. Maybe he felt some kind of suspense like he's some spy from a movie. XD And poor Kakihana, he should atleast do some research about the costs before going in tho. |
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