Let's start with its best aspect: the dialogue. People have compared this anime to Tarantino movies quite a lot, and just by the first few episodes, it's easy to see why. Tarantino likes to give people unique dialects (sometimes switching dialogue styles between interactions) and sometimes add in quirky topics to "bring" a lot of character out. This gives the dialogue a next level of authenticity, with the drawback that not a lot of story will happen. Odd Taxi replicates this style well. Since this style is not commonly used, it does give a unique feel to the anime.
However, it might've done it a little too well. For the first half of the series, Odd Taxi tries to set up its characters with Tarantino dialogue, while ever so slowly building the story. It's so slow that I claimed nothing was really happening. And while the dialogue is good, it's not engaging or charming enough to really see into the characters, much less engage you for five episodes straight.
When the story actually gets going, it's very clear from the start that the writer had an end goal in mind, and everything is set up to make the end goal work. In that sense, the story is quite good. However, some of the storylines were not as interesting or even fell flat for me. It takes so long to get the story to even start, and trying to juggle so many story arcs... sadly some of them were going to fall flat. This goes for the characters as well.
I binged all 13 episodes in one sitting. And now that I have, I can finally see the flaws in recommending this anime after the runtime is done. Odd Taxi is a mystery anime to those that take its time to learn the mystery. The faster one gets through the anime, the less time one has to figure out the mystery before it is revealed. By the time Gigguk uploaded the video and recommended the anime, I was already too late.
Overall: 6/10. Decent end and decent dialogue, but the pacing is quite slow, mediocre story, and meh characters. It is in an ironic spot where you want to binge it to get through the slow pacing, but you shouldn't binge it too quickly so that you can figure out the big mystery.
