Today's fan, it is estimated that many people will be dissuaded by the first impression.
It is cute in style, and it is easy to misunderstand it as an animation for sub-supply.
At the same time, completely different from the general bloody manga, its story core is not bright, and it exudes a sense of decadence and mourning at all times.
However, its low-grade painting style and cute animal figures bring out a suspenseful thriller and an adult-oriented atmosphere.
So much so that many European and American comic fans praised: "It's like watching a Martin Scorsese or Quentin movie!" ”
There is a lot of staying power ——
Kit Kat Taxi
ODD TAXI
At present, Douban has a score of 9.5.
The neon sign on the poster is a list of producers.
"This Moto kazuya" in the lower right corner is the screenwriter of this anime, and it is also the original author of the acclaimed "Seto Inland Sea".
The neon sign above it reads "Natsuki Hanae" is the voice of the driver of this animated taxi.
Friends who are familiar with voice actors may notice that it is also the voice actor of the gentle teenager Tanjiro in "Devil's Blade".
In today's anime, it's the lonely driver uncle.
The driver, Odogawa, looks like a walrus and is 41 years old.
It is a bare stick, has a sleep disorder, has a somewhat mean personality, often frowns, and relies on a taxi to make ends meet.
When he can't sleep, he drives a taxi and listens to his favorite manga to pass the time.
His only friend is a monkey who works as a nurse in a hospital.
Monkeys are not as Buddhist as Otogawa and ask for marriage on marriage websites all day long.
The two of them had nothing to do at the izakaya, drink some wine, steam the sauna, and talk about each other half-heartedly.
Sometimes I also run into orangutans, a doctor who treats Otogawa's sleep disorders.
It was only treated for a long time, and the symptoms have not improved.
Every time the doctor asked him, "Otogawa, what am I in your eyes?" ”
He answered honestly, "Orangutan." ”
The days seemed to catch their heads until their peaceful lives were shattered by a case of a missing female high school student.
In 2021, Nerima Ward, Tokyo.
The disappearance of a female high school student suggests that the case is not simple.
Surveillance equipment showed that at ten o'clock in the evening she got out of the convenience store and got into a taxi, and there has been no news since then.
The police judged that she was most likely killed...
However, the taxi in which the girl was taken happened to be driven by Otogawa.
Since he was the last person the female high school student saw, everyone speculated that this matter was inseparable from the driver.
As the plot develops, Otogawa's suspicions grow.
Even more bizarre, in recent times, neighbors have often heard, and the voice of inexplicable speech often comes from the room where he lives.
But Otogawa lives here alone, with no father, no mother, no children, and no daughters.
He has few words, plus as long as he speaks, he can't avoid being mean and sarcastic, so he has no friends.
Passengers take the initiative to talk to him, and the silence time he answers questions will directly make people lose interest in talking to him.
He has sleep disorders, and even if he takes sleeping pills and squints for a while, he often dreams of the red crime scene.
And his friend Monkey will also say when chatting with the doctor orangutan that Otogawa used to be very strange, after all, he was abandoned by his parents, and his heart will naturally be twisted.
The orangutan went home and received a call from a colleague who, when he said the statistics, found that there were about six thousand fewer antipsychotic drugs, and the person who was scheduled today happened to be a nurse alpaca.
At this time, the alpaca happened to be in Otogawa's taxi, and Otogawa said slowly, "It's really good to make money as a nurse." ”
One day after work, Otogawa returns to his empty home, and the news is repeated over and over again about the missing female high school student.
At this moment, he suddenly turned off the TV, and then said slowly with his back to the room that had left a slit:
you... Happy? You can escape at any time, I didn't imprison you, I didn't tie you up, you yourself have to rely on here.
Why did you come to my house?
By the way, will you be hungry?
I'm going to work now, you can anytime... You can escape if you want.
The house was silent and no one answered, and then Otogawa put on his hat and went out to solicit customers.
Each episode of the anime is 23 minutes long and is an anthropomorphic animal work.
It uses a kind and cute painting style and a suspenseful storyline as the main line, presenting a true portrayal of modern society that people can't bear to look at.
Otogawa's reclusive personality leads him step by step to the heart of the event.
His seemingly bland taxi solicitation daily life, a personal figure in the car moments, forming a human stage.
Find a way to desperately rely on the internet to rely on likes, forward data to become popular, and hope to get affirmation of the young hippos;
An idol group that has just debuted and has many troubles about the future;
A fanatical fan who saves money every day, but buys and buys for the idols he likes;
A cat who is addicted to the game world and spends a lot of time and money but ends up with nothing;
Or a monkey who makes friends online with false information;
As well as the combination of wild boar and horse that dreams of getting the recognition of the market and has made a lot of efforts for this, but is still eliminated by the market.
All the characters involved are inextricably linked to the disappearance of female high school students.
All sentient beings project that you and I can understand the feeling of confusion and powerlessness.
Obviously, he was also full of enthusiasm for life, but he was somehow confused by the real world.
In addition, because the screenwriter is very good at the dialogue performed by the manga, he can see a variety of characters complaining.
Such a --
And there's this —and this.
These dialogues, while adding laughter to the suspenseful story, will also send out soul torture questions to you in front of the screen:
Extreme denial and disgust for oneself, this is the so-called narcissism, the average person is not so interested in themselves.
There are no more spoilers about the ending, and it is certain that when you see the last episode, you will be amazed by the exquisite design of the plot!
It's a good habit to like it!