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 Its a noir slice of life anime about a middle aged man who is a cab driver. Also highly likely to be mentally ill and possibly a kidnapper Characters:  Odokawa: The cab driver mc Shirakawa: I knew this dame was trouble the second i walked into her office. An alpaca like that, in a neighbourhood like this?  Gouriki & Kakihana: Finally some representation in anime, the mc's middle aged loser friends    Nikaidou, Rui & Ichimura, Shiho & Miya, Yuki (or is it??) & Imai: Three idols, a fan, and a possible kidnapping. are they really who they say they are? Dobu: A wanted criminal, but is that all?  Daimon & Daimon: Good, bad, no matter what when they stop your taxi its trouble  Shibagaki & Baba: Always on the radio, but who they are I don't know. For these Homo Sapiens I hope their popularity will grow
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 also a character chart from the website
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Apr 13, 2021 17:01
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Good OP imo https://twitter.com/kbsw_t/status/1314943016344453122 Hippo guy's real twitter account, it's from last year and his last tweet was back in November 
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Apr 13, 2021 17:08
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I’m so mad you’ve made me aware this has good line stickers
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Apr 13, 2021 17:11
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also lol at this character chart dropping by stuff I don’t remember
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Apr 13, 2021 17:12
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the character chart is a bit ahead of the show, we haven't learned a few of those yet this is really good so far. reminds me a bit of durarara structurally but using the taxi for the 'baton passes' so everything stays centered on our unreliable MC.
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Apr 13, 2021 17:23
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i get sort of a Yakuza vibe from it too but that might be because my reference pool is fairly limited the web of intrigue and long, melancholy conversations do call Yakuza's story scenes to mind, though, minus the constant punch-ups and exploding helicopters
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Apr 13, 2021 17:28
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This show turned out to be exactly what I hoped for at first glance, so I'm pretty pleased with it I don't know what it is about cute talking animals and gritty urban drama. But it's a winning formula.
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Apr 13, 2021 18:27
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OnimaruXLR posted:This show turned out to be exactly what I hoped for at first glance, so I'm pretty pleased with it Obviously a juxtaposition conditioned from years of Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons
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Apr 13, 2021 20:21
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furries and noir do seem to go together often. this, blacksad, beastars (when it's not being totally loopy), and who could forget chicken police? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGo3312N28A
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Apr 13, 2021 20:23
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 furry versions of the cast drawn by the director
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Apr 14, 2021 11:09
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This show is pretty funny and I look forward to mr cab driver roasting more of his idiot friends/acquaintances/customers
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Apr 14, 2021 12:05
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Music video for the full OP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKMw0hBDBUw Might be a spoiler for the show in there, I'm not sure.
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Apr 14, 2021 15:14
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This promises to be interesting. I like that it doesn't seem like it will rely on plot twists all that much, despite the intrigue-laden backstory; and the artstyle is great. Request for OP, could you add the names of the characters? I keep forgetting those, probably because it's so easy to think of them as "the alpaca", "the boar" and so on 
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Apr 15, 2021 20:36
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tough request as i had no idea what their names are, but done
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Apr 16, 2021 11:13
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oddtaxi
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Apr 19, 2021 15:18
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For all his tough posturing, Dobu seems rather out of his depth here.
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Apr 19, 2021 22:26
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I hope some fool gets capoeiraed before the end
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Apr 19, 2021 22:29
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Apr 19, 2021 23:30
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Man these cliffhangers are gonna kill me. That Daimon reveal was tense as hell.
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Apr 20, 2021 00:33
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Nice, alpacas in anime are great since its avatar material
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Apr 20, 2021 00:48
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I really hope Kakihana isn't about to get mugged. I didn't expect this show to be this good. Also do we have two concurrent "high schooler runaway living with a grown-rear end man who doesn't want her" animes this season? The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Apr 20, 2021 02:38
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This is somehow the most realistic-feeling show I've seen in a while.
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The Islamic Shock posted:I really hope Kakihana isn't about to get mugged. I didn't expect this show to be this good. I suspect he's about to be scammed since I'm pretty sure half a dozen Yakuza substories start like this.
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The Islamic Shock posted:I really hope Kakihana isn't about to get mugged. I didn't expect this show to be this good.
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Apr 20, 2021 07:46
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LostRook posted:I suspect he's about to be scammed since I'm pretty sure half a dozen Yakuza substories start like this.  i had figured at least at first that he was getting targeted because he lists a crazy high income and seems desperate enough to buy idol merch for her
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Apr 20, 2021 12:30
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The Islamic Shock posted:I really hope Kakihana isn't about to get mugged.
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Apr 20, 2021 12:45
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LostRook posted:I suspect he's about to be scammed since I'm pretty sure half a dozen Yakuza substories start like this. Totally some sort of honey trap going on. The Shiba Inu faced guy is Shiyo's manager, who apparently has mob ties? I'm guessing they either want his (fake) money, or to use him for his connection to Odokawa. Judging by the narrative's direction my guess would be the latter. Or maybe manager just thinks Kakihana is a huge creep for trying to get with a teenager and he brought his yakuza friend to have a 'talk' with him. He wouldn't be wrong! I'm also leaning towards all the animal people being in Odokawa's head. The conversation with the doctor that went: "What do I look like to you?" "A gorilla," "Well you aren't wrong," seems a huge clue. It's just not a conversation they would have if the doctor was actually a gorilla. That and a nurse laughing at being called an Alpaca. Maybe the car crash the policeman flashed back to was the cause of his mental break?
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Apr 20, 2021 20:54
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What's neat about the flashbacks is the latest one happened with the cop brothers and everything is normal, there's a lot of details you can pick up on and it's kinda clear what happened. Compare it to the two that happened with Odokawa the artstyle is completely different, it's very chaotic looking, barely any detail beyond vague shapes, gonna be honest it's very unnerving. I love perspective tricks like this.
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Apr 20, 2021 23:34
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really enjoying this show
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Apr 21, 2021 09:06
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I love that this is a series made up mostly of people having conversations, and yet there is this undercurrent of dread that I can't shake off. Also Kakihana is 1000% being scammed.
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Apr 21, 2021 15:47
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I'm glad that Odokawa isn't too much of a stoic hardass. He can have a laugh and worry over his potential love interest being taken hostage by a baboon with a gun.
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I've heard multiple people and several content creators straight up call this Tarantino-esk. Goon opinion: Yes or No?
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Apr 24, 2021 20:26
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There's a sizable, interrelated cast following several plot threads that will presumably all be related in the end and a lot of quirky conversations so it's a fairly apt description.
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i don't get that from it, sounds more like a case of people grabbing the easiest reference point for live action crime drama, since the dialogue is so un-anime-like
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