My sibling-in-law and their husband are big film buffs who we’re always trying to get to watch anime. Sometimes it seems as though my husband and I belong to a different world, where we’re constantly talking about the latest, greatest anime yet don’t have the time to watch much Western media, while his sibling is in the exact opposite boat. Recently we went out to eat with them and Odd Taxi came up in conversation as an anime series we thought they’d like, and it’s one of the few cases where I feel like, once the show is done, I might insist on it. As much as I like anime in general, it often feels as though it plays a little fast and loose with stories. How to explain… it’s like sometimes the choices made in adaptation (since so many anime stories are adapted from other media) make the storytelling feel less intentional than it might otherwise. Odd Taxi feels like a story that works well as an anime-first production, for reasons that I suspect are starting to become more obvious… It’s because of that that I think I could probably convince someone who isn’t normally into general anime fandom to watch (and maybe even like) it.
My previous write-ups are linked below as usual. Even if you’ve just stopped by after searching for information on a specific episode, I hope you might feel like sticking around a little bit longer to see what I’ve had to say!
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Episode 7