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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Well uh I liked the ending up until the last shot.

I was really confused by the first shot of the killer since she looks like 8.

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Fat and Useless
Sep 3, 2011

Not Thin and Useful

Wow.

I have never felt such dread in the last 90 seconds of an anime before, holy gently caress...

Tanon
Mar 14, 2011

I has a hat..
Holy hell, what a way to end a show.

DurosKlav
Jun 13, 2003

Enter your name pilot!

I dont think they showed the human form of badger game girl.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD
Whelp I guess Shirkawa saving Odokawa from the manager was just a good ol' fashioned plot hole. Same with little Diamon being at the docks to shoot Dobu. I also still don't know why new Yuki placed the phone in the cab and why Tanaka was using it.

Ignis
Mar 31, 2011

I take it you don't want my autograph, then.




audio drama spoilers: Fried chicken went after Mama too, who had a pen presumably with audio incriminating her. She's going after Giraffe-kun next.

Kung Food posted:

Same with little Diamon being at the docks to shoot Dobu.

Didn't Odokawa forward Daimon the info before texting the hippo?

Ignis fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jun 28, 2021

Kaiser Mazoku
Mar 24, 2011

Didn't you see it!? Couldn't you see my "spirit"!?
Jesus Christ she really did kill her

Qwertycoatl
Dec 31, 2008

Amazing that like the audience and rest of the cast Odokawa had no idea whether there was someone is his closet

Kaiser Mazoku
Mar 24, 2011

Didn't you see it!? Couldn't you see my "spirit"!?
Does this mean he freaks out every time he sees someone walking their dog or whatever?

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

Qwertycoatl posted:

Amazing that like the audience and rest of the cast Odokawa had no idea whether there was someone is his closet

Makes me wonder what was he feeding it? Was he giving cat kibble to something he thought might be a human? Or was he giving people food to a cat?

Protodude
Dec 10, 2013

Fun Shoe
What the gently caress. Like seriously, what the gently caress?! Definitely a bold final scene to go out on, especially if there's never going to be a follow-up to it.

Tales of Woe
Dec 18, 2004

i think people deduced basically everything in this ep beforehand but it was nice to see it all confirmed, and the taxi jump was a wonderful climactic scene. good show

Doodles
Apr 14, 2001
Holy poo poo.

Best anime of the year, hands down.

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth
Wasn't Odokawa going to tell the cops he drove Sakura to the MK office that night? Guess that didn't happen.
Also I can't believe Tanaka just went back to his job like nothing happened.

Kaiser Mazoku
Mar 24, 2011

Didn't you see it!? Couldn't you see my "spirit"!?

Forgall posted:

Wasn't Odokawa going to tell the cops he drove Sakura to the MK office that night? Guess that didn't happen.
Also I can't believe Tanaka just went back to his job like nothing happened.


Well the Daimons are apparently the only cops in town and they were too busy to chase after him at the time.

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth

Ignis posted:

audio drama spoilers
Is there a translation somewhere?

DemoneeHo
Nov 9, 2017

Come on hee-ho, just give us 300 more macca


Masterpiece, is all i have to say.

Actually i have a lot more to say, but i'll need time to ruminate.


Also, i wasn't expecting my and other peoples' guess that Fake Yuki killed Real Yuki would turn out to be true

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012
Holy GODDAMN what a finale. This has been by far the best surprise of this summer.

WrightOfWay
Jul 24, 2010


Goddamn that last shot. Great show all around, definitely my AOTY so far.

ConanTheLibrarian
Aug 13, 2004


dis buch is late
Fallen Rib
Excellent, excellent. I wasn't expecting we'd get to see everyone's actual faces, so that was a nice bonus. In the final minute I thought the cops would pull up alongside fake Yuki and arrest her. Her getting into Odakawa's taxi instead was a bit D:


The plunging car shot was a nice piece of artistry.

Davincie
Jul 7, 2008

Ignis
Mar 31, 2011

I take it you don't want my autograph, then.



Good headcanon. :perfect:

Forgall posted:

Is there a translation somewhere?

Wiki isn't updated yet, but the TL should be here later https://oddtaxi.fandom.com/wiki/Odd_Taxi_(audio_drama)

PhysicsFrenzy
May 30, 2011

this, too, is physics
Not exaggerating when I say that was one of the best shows I've ever watched. I hope people who skipped out this season binge it now that it's complete.

KidDynamite
Feb 11, 2005

drat that last shot was brutal.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
:catstare:

Holy poo poo. Like there's probably a few other shows that might be worth catching up with, but I legit don't think anything is going to top this as AOTY for me. This is basically like in the same ballpark as A Place Further than the Universe, Little Witch Academia or similar shows in that it's A) An excellent standalone show and B) An incredible gateway anime.

Sakura is loving scary, man. :stonk:

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!
I'm a little confused now.

What was Fake Yuki's motive for killing real Yuki? I guess she's going around murdering people who could tie her to the murder? I thought her motive was jealousy from being fourth place at the auditions, but from her last phone call I guess she's just a serial killer failing downwards as an excuse to murder people? :confused:

Regardless, what a fantastic show! Bravo! :golfclap:

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

Teriyaki Koinku posted:

I'm a little confused now.

What was Fake Yuki's motive for killing real Yuki? I guess she's going around murdering people who could tie her to the murder? I thought her motive was jealousy from being fourth place at the auditions, but from her last phone call I guess she's just a serial killer failing downwards as an excuse to murder people? :confused:

Regardless, what a fantastic show! Bravo! :golfclap:

she wanted to be an idol and her mom told her to do whatever it takes to chase her dream. she has no morals is all

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

Kung Food posted:

Makes me wonder what was he feeding it? Was he giving cat kibble to something he thought might be a human? Or was he giving people food to a cat?

he's had canned fish sitting on his counter the whole show

Ignis
Mar 31, 2011

I take it you don't want my autograph, then.


Maybe he just wasn't sure if the cat was a hallucination, since his brain has replaced humans with animals for his entire adult life

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!
Something else that I found funny:

The blue hippo guy was taking a selfie just before the taxi launched off the expressway after which he swung around to try and snap some photos for his second attempt at a big viral breakout hit. It's implied he hosed up and took more selfies instead. :mmmhmm:

Pootybutt
Apr 5, 2011

lmao kabusawa's tweet. World-class bitch.

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

Shirakawa is a straight up legend

Capoeira ftw

Tanon
Mar 14, 2011

I has a hat..
In one breath, she swam down, kicked out the window, got him unbuckled, dragged him out of the car and to the surface. In the winter; so that water was freezing cold.

Very impressive lol

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

ah,

cropoval
Feb 17, 2020

Ah, Baba really did have a horse face! I was honestly really charmed by how closely everyone looked to how I imagined them- I think the only ones I was surprised by were Shibagaki and, actually, Odokawa himself. You can tell Odokawa had internalized a lot about being called a walrus as a kid; otherwise it actually doesn't seem that fitting.

My initial reaction to the end of the episode was not being sure I liked it, but I'm feeling better about it the more I think about it. I don't like it in terms of wanting Odokawa to be happy and everything, but I can't say it didn't all come together perfectly (I was wondering how they'd have time to fit everything in the last episode, but it turned out the missing girl storyline seemingly going by the wayside was the point). In terms of everything else, nothing was a big surprise, but sometimes you just need everything to tie up just right.


So excited to see what this crew makes next. I haven't watched a lot of shows like this in general, both in terms of anime and non-anime. What a treat.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Oddest (but sorta not important) thing, though? Hearing Natsuki Hanae (Odokawa's voice actor; also the voice actor for 9S in NieR Automata and Alm in Fire Emblem, among many many other things) use his "boyish"/more commonly used voice for Odokawa's flashback. I had grown attached to his more moody, sorta "plain" voice for Odokawa, it came as quite a surprise.

Mix.
Jan 24, 2021

Huh? What?


Kid Odakawa was really cute though :3: I'm glad we got to see it, as well as a direct look at everything that happened with his childhood and the initial accident.

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

This is amazing. :swoon:

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Doodles
Apr 14, 2001

Mix. posted:

Kid Odakawa was really cute though :3: I'm glad we got to see it, as well as a direct look at everything that happened with his childhood and the initial accident.

"accident?" It's damned obvious that she killed herself and tried to take her family with her, with Odokawa barely surviving.

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