The film will recount the events of the TV anime that aired in 2021 plus feature the events after the final episode.
By: Nicole S. Castro on March 24, 2022 at 17:19 PHT
The anime film Odd Taxi: In the Woods has released a new trailer with additional scenes ahead of its Japan premiere on April 1, 2022.
The film will recount the events of the TV anime that aired in 2021 plus feature the events after the final episode.
After summarizing the 2021 TV anime, the scene shifts to Hiroshi Odokawa (CV: Hanae Natsuki) getting a passenger from the past whom he doesn't immediately recognize.
Odd Taxi, stylized as ODDTAXI (Japanese: オッドタクシー), is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuya Konomoto and illustrated by Takeichi Abaraya. It is currently being serialized under Shogakukan's Big Comics imprint.
The TV anime was produced by animation studios OLM and P.I.C.S. and aired on TV Tokyo and AT-X in Japan from April 6 to June 29, 2021. The series revolves around taxi driver Hiroshi Odokawa becoming involved in the disappearance of a little girl, thus attracting the attention of the police and even the yakuza.
Staff
Planning, Original: P.I.C.S.
Script writer: Kazuya Konomoto
Director: Baku Kinoshita
Deputy director: Norio Nitta
Character design: Baku Kinoshita, Yumi Nakayama
Art director: Kenji Kato
Color design: Tatsue Ozeki
Cinematographer: Miyabi Amada
Editor: Yoshiki Ushiroda
Sound director: Kohei Yoshida
Sound production: Pony Canyon Enterprise
Music: PUNPEE VaVa OMSB
Music production: Pony Canyon
Music production assistance: SUMMIT, Inc.
Animation production: P.I.C.S. × OLM
Distribution: Asmik Ace
Produced by: Movie Otogawa Transportation Partners
Synopsis
Eccentric and blunt, the walrus Hiroshi Odokawa lives a relatively normal life. He drives a taxi for a living, and there he meets several unique individuals: the jobless Taichi Kabasawa who is dead-set on going viral, the mysterious nurse Miho Shirakawa, the struggling comedic duo "Homo Sapiens," and Dobu, a well-known delinquent.
But Odokawa's simple way of life is about to be turned upside-down. The case of a missing girl the police have been tracking leads back to him, and now both the yakuza and a duo of corrupt cops are on his tail. Set in a strangely familiar city filled with unusual individuals, Odd Taxi is a bizarre story about a humble taxi driver and the mystery of a lost high schooler. (from MyAnimeList)
Source: Odd Taxi official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie
NICOLE S. CASTRO
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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.
