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Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth
I'm surprised nobody (among characters I mean) has any issue with Taeko handing out bugged pen. That seems highly unethical and likely illegal thing to do.

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Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Forgall posted:

I'm surprised nobody (among characters I mean) has any issue with Taeko handing out bugged pen. That seems highly unethical and likely illegal thing to do.
Given that most of the regulars at Yamabiko seem to be misfits of some sort, they're probably all like "Eh, not even the worst/shittiest thing that's happened today"

Solitair
Feb 18, 2014

TODAY'S GONNA BE A GOOD MOTHERFUCKIN' DAY!!!
Had to watch the last three episodes today because I kept accidentally reading spoilers in this thread. It's a good show.

Epi Lepi
Oct 29, 2009

You can hear the voice
Telling you to Love
It's the voice of MK Ultra
And you're doing what it wants

Solitair posted:

Had to watch the last three episodes today because I kept accidentally reading spoilers in this thread. It's a good show.

I'm glad I fell behind and stopped reading the thread until I finished the show. Avoiding spoilers and speculation made the ending way better for me.

GyroNinja
Nov 7, 2012

Sankara posted:

What a lovely show, and a fantastic finale. Reminded me of the church fight episode of Cowboy Bebop.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this, I definitely had this song playing in my head as Odokawa's car went off the bridge.

Supersonic Shine
Oct 13, 2012
Binged this entire series yesterday and I don't regret a second. I knew a few of the major plot points, like the characters not actually being animals, but it was a pleasure to watch everything fit together so neatly. I'm still trying to figure out my own interpretation of what happened after that deliciously ambiguous ending.

Supersonic Shine fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jul 12, 2021

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Well, if we're looking at the ending, the next episode previews take place at the party at the end of the series.

Apparently, Baba's still dating Rui, and trying to find more work so he has the money to pay for a good legal defense. Meanwhile, in the full context, it definitely seems like Odokawa planned to set up a sting to catch Sakura.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Sankara
Jul 18, 2008


GyroNinja posted:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this, I definitely had this song playing in my head as Odokawa's car went off the bridge.

Exactly!

roomtone
Jul 1, 2021

i enjoyed this but looking at some of the posts i think i was barely paying attention.

i was mostly there for the interesting/funny observations the characters made so i liked the earlier episodes more when there was less plot going on. i wasn't really following all the details of how it all interconnected. seems like i could have made more of a mental effort there and got more out of it, maybe, but i liked it as a comedy and odokawa was a really good character. dobu and shirakawa were really likable, too.

the reveal he was just seeing animals didn't really do anything for me. i'm glad it was kept to the last episode because i like his Walrus Form a lot more.

it seems like that girl who murder-replaced the mystery kiss girl killed other people at the end there, which i didn't pick up on, except that the last shot being her was weird. i suppose it means she's going to kill odokawa? i don't get why. it was obvious she killed the original because she was the only one with a narrative reason to do it, but i figured that was where her relevance ended.

like i said, i should have paid more attention early on because by the second half, things were moving fast and i hadn't made the initial connections.

Ignis
Mar 31, 2011

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


roomtone posted:


it seems like that girl who murder-replaced the mystery kiss girl killed other people at the end there, which i didn't pick up on, except that the last shot being her was weird. i suppose it means she's going to kill odokawa? i don't get why. it was obvious she killed the original because she was the only one with a narrative reason to do it, but i figured that was where her relevance ended.



She knows he has the dash cam data tying her to the crime scene, since he drove her to the building.

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



roomtone posted:

i enjoyed this but looking at some of the posts i think i was barely paying attention.

i was mostly there for the interesting/funny observations the characters made so i liked the earlier episodes more when there was less plot going on. i wasn't really following all the details of how it all interconnected. seems like i could have made more of a mental effort there and got more out of it, maybe, but i liked it as a comedy and odokawa was a really good character. dobu and shirakawa were really likable, too.

the reveal he was just seeing animals didn't really do anything for me. i'm glad it was kept to the last episode because i like his Walrus Form a lot more.

it seems like that girl who murder-replaced the mystery kiss girl killed other people at the end there, which i didn't pick up on, except that the last shot being her was weird. i suppose it means she's going to kill odokawa? i don't get why. it was obvious she killed the original because she was the only one with a narrative reason to do it, but i figured that was where her relevance ended.

like i said, i should have paid more attention early on because by the second half, things were moving fast and i hadn't made the initial connections.


Some of it comes from the audio drama episodes. She wasn't confirmed to have killed anyone else yet, although she did threaten and at least injure the bar owner to get the pen. In the call, she's joking (for the moment) about doing another murder to be a solo act.

She's after Odokawa since he, as mentioned, could tie her to the murder.

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHbYaNoxaLI

The full Yano track dropped and its siiiick.

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

AS KNOWN AS

Y A N O

YA KNOOOOW!?

Desperate Character
Apr 13, 2009
rofl the cover art is a reference to the album by Joey Bada$$

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIO4e_JCsd8

I like the J cole version of this sample better :toot:

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

https://twitter.com/JoeRikiichi/status/1418458357799784448?s=20

Ignis
Mar 31, 2011

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


Oh hello there thread
https://twitter.com/oddtaxi_/status/1421033323002880003?s=19

Sounds like it might be a low print so you might want to get it

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

ah poo poo, ah gently caress

well they'll get my money now. wish the stars had aligned so this could've happened with heybot's bluray crowdfunding... 😭

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

dogsicle posted:

ah poo poo, ah gently caress

How could they bamboozle me like this

Teriyaki Koinku
Nov 25, 2008

Bread! Bread! Bread!

Bread! BREAD! BREAD!

Ignis posted:

Oh hello there thread
https://twitter.com/oddtaxi_/status/1421033323002880003?s=19

Sounds like it might be a low print so you might want to get it

Just take my money! :shepspends:

Ignis
Mar 31, 2011

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


The extras will depend on the number of preorders. The list of extras unlocked so far is here, the campaign runs until September I believe. https://special.canime.jp/oddtaxi/

I hope that means the extras will also be subtitled. :pray:

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

still waiting for English news 😔

https://twitter.com/hoehoeojisan/status/1422918163079913472?s=19

Yawgmoft
Nov 15, 2004
Lol one of the tiers is the freaking eraser.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


i hope they find an excuse to make more episodes of this

even if it's just mr walrus driving people around and occasionally talking to them

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime
Finished it yesterday. Really good show. Kind of struck me as an apolitical Crash.

Other than a few glaring plot holes otherwise really enjoyable and I kinda hope there is an OVA extra or something

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Tabletops posted:

Finished it yesterday. Really good show. Kind of struck me as an apolitical Crash.

Other than a few glaring plot holes otherwise really enjoyable and I kinda hope there is an OVA extra or something

Care to elaborate?

I can only think of one bit that stood out in that regard.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

chiasaur11 posted:

Care to elaborate?

I can only think of one bit that stood out in that regard.

Shirkawa just happening to be in an empty construction lot in the middle of the night.
The connection between Tanaka and fake-Yuki. He gave her a phone to plant in his cab, but how did they know each other and how did he know she would be getting into Odokawa's cab? It's never brought up again after that.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

POV: Yamamoto Fuyuki has just killed you to protect the future of Mystery Kiss

https://twitter.com/hisbam_hisbam/status/1423958431216508931?s=19

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
I thought Shirakawa's whole thing is that, while she does like Odokawa, she was still under Dob's thumb up until very late in the "endgame" so she needs to keep tabs on him for angry Yakuza enforcer #1.

Tabletops
Jan 27, 2014

anime

chiasaur11 posted:

Care to elaborate?

I can only think of one bit that stood out in that regard.

one is the super bad shirakawa in the middle of a construction site

one is (i guess imo) the whole genesis of the crazy sad gatcha fiend (him somehow not receiving his dodo despite it being an online game)

another is pretty minor in retrospect but once again shirakawa saving odokawa by kicking a window in from outside underwater which is really really unrealistic


there were others i can't remember but were fairly minor overall. the first one though is, in my opinion, huge.

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth

Tabletops posted:

one is (i guess imo) the whole genesis of the crazy sad gatcha fiend (him somehow not receiving his dodo despite it being an online game)
I wouldn't put it past gacha devs to do something like not actually giving you a reward until you click confirm button.

Ignis
Mar 31, 2011

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


I've never seen or played a gacha that didn't give out rewards the moment you press the roll button, having it in any other form would probably set you for disaster (your players could just infinite roll until you get something you want). I imagine the writer wrote it that way for the emotional impact, it isn't something I would call a plot hole necessarily imo

I guess they could've just had Gacha lose his phone completely, and make Zooden one of those gacha that need a friend code for backups instead of tying it to an email (like fgo). It would've been a bit more contrived though

Ignis fucked around with this message at 11:26 on Aug 8, 2021

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD
Yeah, I remember thinking at the time, "Wouldn't all the info be server side in the first place, and be saved no matter what happened to his phone?"

Terrible Opinions
Oct 18, 2013



Not from gacha stuff, but I have had plenty of only games accidentally wipe stuff that should be stored server side require client side input. Specifically I have seen more or less the exact scene from Odd Taxi occur in Mechwarrior Online due to an internet connection drop. Hell I've seen it duplicate reward crates due to bad internet connections too. I also recall people complaining about this with limited time Dead by Daylight cosmetics not properly being associated to their account.

The game being poorly programmed isn't really a plot hole.

Terrible Opinions fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Aug 9, 2021

Mix.
Jan 24, 2021

Huh? What?


There've also been issues with gacha games in the past where the app crashes or freezes or whatever and when you boot it back up your currency just got eaten with nothing for it, but that's not a particularly common event (and is usually tied to a larger issue with the app, so they usually compensate players when it's fixed regardless).

What's more unbelievable is that the game doesn't have any kind of spark system considering pretty much every game has one at this point as some kind of capstone for spending money since I guess executives realized people talk about games that don't have that in any form

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

FGO has such a lovely pity system it may as well not exist so lacking one is not that far a bridge for me

there is no pity or guarantee for getting a 5*, you just have to hit the 1% success chance of getting one (which further has a 20% chance of being a non-banner 5*). once you've maxed a given 5* by rolling 5 copies, any additional dupes give you one of a special currency. once you've collected 10 of those you can then exchange for a single copy of what 5* you actually want.

Ignis
Mar 31, 2011

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


Preorders open, you've got til the end of September to order a copy

https://twitter.com/ponycanyonshop/status/1425748948111675392?s=21

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth
Showed this to my mom who never watched anime before, she liked it :3:

Izzhov
Dec 6, 2013

My head hurts.
I was doing some research to find out if anyone knew how Shirakawa got to the construction site and came up empty, but I did end up finding this post which explains how Tanaka and Sakura got in cahoots.

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KidDynamite
Feb 11, 2005

Ignis posted:

Preorders open, you've got til the end of September to order a copy

https://twitter.com/ponycanyonshop/status/1425748948111675392?s=21

Isn’t this insanely expensive for a blu-ray? am I missing something special about it?

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