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It's been a while since I've seen a great anime. Odd Taxi starts to take a more serious turn about halfway through. Loved how the characters are anthropomorphized in a way that fits their personality/aesthetic. Highly recommend giving the show a watch if you think it's something you might be interested in.

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The ending really reminded me of Life of Pi's, where all of the characters are imagined as animals as a result of psychological trauma. At the end of Odd Taxi, it also becomes apparent the characters are anthropomorphized as a result of Odokawa's past trauma. Odokawa wakes up in the hospital and sees all the characters as human again.

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.

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