Japan has always been a big producer of animation, and the animation films produced are deeply loved by audiences, or hot-blooded, or youthful, or cute, or magical, all in all, Japanese anime works have made countless people crazy.
Recently, I have occasionally dug up a very special cartoon, the painting style is well, very general, it can even be said that it is not eye-catching at all, and there are not many people who pay attention, but the solid plot, interesting dialogue, and what happens to us every day are reflected in the play.
Douban score 9.4, not at all artificially high -
Kit Kat Taxi
ODD TAXI
The story takes place in an anthropomorphic world of animals, where everyone is an animal head, and recently, a female high school student in Tokyo disappeared.
The police found that the girl went to the convenience store to buy something after going out from her home, and then got into a taxi, and then lost her news, and the police deduced that she may have been killed.
According to surveillance video, the taxi on the girl was the car of the male protagonist, Otogawa.
Otogawa is a chubby walrus who is a taxi driver who carries all kinds of guests every day, but he is a strange walrus.
As soon as he encountered a passenger chatting with him, he sweated, said no more than two words, and threw the other party to death, leaving the other party dumbfounded.
Living alone, dull, and taciturn, 41-year-old Otogawa seems to have entered the old age life early.
In fact, Otogawa suffers from severe mental illness and insomnia, often has nightmares, is not interested in everything around him, and either dreams of drowning himself or lies in a pool of blood in human form.
The orangutan doctor who treated Otogawa advised him to find a companion as soon as possible, but he was abandoned by his parents since he was a child, and his heart was twisted and full of holes.
Odogawa's vigilance against outsiders was so great that Miss Shirakawa, an alpaca at the hospital, wanted to associate with him, and his first reaction was, "What are your intentions, what do you want to do?!" ”
Completely rejected by thousands of miles away.
In the first episode, Otogawa meets a Hippo college student who wants to be an Internet celebrity, and opens his mouth to ask him what is new recently?
When an Internet celebrity, the prerequisite is how to make yourself popular, hippo is hollowing out every day to think about how to publish hot tweets.
In his world, the number of likes and the number of fans determine a person's value, so he dreams of becoming famous in one fell swoop.
Finally, Hippo made up a tweet on the social platform about the driver encouraging frustrated youth, and forcibly took a group photo with Otogawa before getting off the bus.
As a result, because Hippo was too excited, he dropped the phone off the car, and when he called Otogawa, he was not concerned about whether the phone was there or not, but whether the tweet he had just sent had been spread wildly.
The little bit of caution that Internet celebrities want to become famous is obvious.
The disappearance of the girl caused panic throughout the city, and the police first suspected a baboon of a mafia nature.
Fights and fights do everything, no one is his opponent, the police can't do anything about him, but in fact, the most important point is that baboons and some police officers are privately taught.
For example, the police took Otogawa's car recorder on the pretext of investigating the case, and threatened him not to speak out, and the recorder was quickly handed over to the baboon.
For example, Otogawa was kidnapped by a baboon with a gun, and he was worried that he was in danger and turned on the distress lamp on the roof of the car, but as soon as the police came, they saw that it was "his own person" and walked away in confusion.
From this point of view, the baboon is also suspected of kidnapping the girl.
Each episode of the show is only about 20 minutes long, and each episode looks independent, but in fact it is a complete story, and there is a small reversal at the end of each episode.
For example, at the end of the first episode, the hospital found that 6,000 antipsychotic drugs were missing, but the orangutan doctor chose to hide it.
Because he had long known that the alpaca was short of money, he stole medicine, but he was afraid that he would change from a victim to a perpetrator, so he could only act as if nothing had happened.
And the harmless-looking alpaca and the baboon are actually a pair of lovers, and she doesn't really like Otogawa, she just wants to get close to him to get information.
And working in the hospital can get a lot of patient information, she can take the opportunity to take out the patient information to sell money.
Watch it slowly, and you will find that everyone in the play is not a good bird.
For example, Otogawa's good friend, Ape Persimmon, has never been in love, but he is eager to make a girlfriend when he is old.
So he went online to get married, met a 17-year-old beautiful crush, and only chatted for a few days to see the other party as a marriage partner.
Arrogantly meet with the little girl, invite people to eat high-end Western food, but in fact, they are swollen face fat, borrow money for dating, just so that the other party can see themselves.
For example, the idol group "Mysterious Kiss", composed of three three-flower cats, one day they played a game of Truth or Dare together, and each of them had to write down a small secret, a big secret, and a lie.
The results of the results are: plastic surgery, saying bad things about other members, fishing for golden turtles, unspoken rules, killing people, married, in love with funny artists, doing special services, and abandoning corpses.
This is clearly a dark poke at the chaos of the entertainment industry.
For example, the useless tanuki cat, because there is no shining point, has been very inferior since childhood, but after growing up and working, he found a sense of existence in the virtual game world.
He constantly recharges the game, adding up to almost 5 million in recent years, but his points ranking has only risen to three digits, and he has not drawn his favorite game characters.
In order to get revenge and save himself, he constantly invests money in the game, constantly circulating in the anxiety of chasing the goal.
One day, when he actually drew his beloved role, Otogawa drove past in a taxi, and before he could press the confirmation, the phone fell into the ditch.
The character is gone, his world is collapsing, and he begins to have extreme thoughts, deciding to take revenge on Otogawa.
There are a large number of golden sentences in the play that resonate, such as "a woman's heart is a needle, the iron should be hot, chasing girls can not be too anxious, women's minds are really difficult to grasp";
"When you get older, your heart fades and you no longer expect to find the right person";
"Nowadays, when I step into social work, the first thing to look at is appearance, and the second is the ability to work" and so on.
The whole play consists of a large number of dialogues or narrations, which make up the key to the case.
Each of the characters who appear seems to be related to the disappearance, but the most suspicious is Otogawa, who obviously lives alone, but the neighbors have heard him talking to himself in the house lately.
"You can escape at any time, I didn't imprison you, it's you who you have to lie here", who Otogawa is talking to, I don't know, I believe that the plot will be revealed later.
Some netizens commented: "There are all kinds of deep pain buried in the plain dialogue, there are no gods and idols, only Homo sapiens who try their best to hide themselves."
Take off the animal's head as if it were you and me. ”
Such a realistic Japanese animation deserves Amway.