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The spring 2021 anime series
Odd Taxi is getting its home video releases handled by Pony Canyon. At the moment, they’re opting to work on some DVD-singles for the release with a Blu-ray box set likely to be solicited later. The DVD releases for this thirteen-episode series are set as a four-volume release that begins on May 19th, 2021. Each set is priced at 3,850 and we have the packaging for the first set below.
With no Blu-ray solicited, the official site updated to reveal that it was due to the recent slump in sales in general. So they’re doing a preorder plan where if they receive enough preorders, they’ll produce the set. The plan is for at least 300 orders priced at 27,500 yen with it set to arrive in March 2022. The preorder plan is open through September 30th, 2021 and there are a variety of stretch goals:
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Nicholas Dupree
I m gonna be real original and say that yeah,
ODD TAXI is indeed rather odd. While there s been a noticeable uptick in crime dramas starring anthropomorphic animals the last couple years, even in that nascent subgenre this show feels like an odd duck. Or, an odd walrus, I guess.
Where
BEASTARS featured simmering drama and BNA sported high flying action,
ODD TAXI goes for a supremely sedate atmosphere, following Odokawa the taxi driving walrus as he cruises the city streets late at night. He drives a younger passenger across town and gets his photo turned into a semi-viral tweet. He gets hassled by a pushy police officer at a roadstop. He visits his doctor and gets into an argument about Bruce Springsteen s part in (in)famous charity single “We Are the World” for some reason. It s a sedate, mundane story that, save for being populated by characters straight out of Animal Crossing, could feel at home on any line-up of US TV crime dramas.