Episode 4 revolved around Tanaka’s past and showed us how he failed to acquire what he desired over and over again. You must be thinking about how is such a person related to Odokawa and the missing girl.
It was due to Odokawa’s reckless driving, Tanaka lost the Dodo he craved for. With this loss, Tanaka has hit the rock bottom of life and is desperate to do anything to fill the void within him once gain.
Now that he found a gun, he is after Odokawa to make him pay for what he did. But why was the gun buried there? Is it really God’s work, or Tanaka just got involved in something dangerous?
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1. Episode 5 Preview and Speculation
Episode 5 is titled “Don’t Call Me an Idol.” In the preview, Kakihana takes Ichimura for a date in an expensive cafe. He is certainly faking his financial condition before the girl.
Episode 5 “Don’t call me an idol” Otogawa still carries various customers today. Date 5/3 (Monday) 26: 00-Broadcast on TV TOKYO Television
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Meanwhile, Odokawa gets two new customers, who seem to be related to the music industry. We are heading towards yet another interesting conversation of Odokawa’s customers that will somehow get connected to the missing girl case.
2. Episode 5 Release Date
Episode 5 of the Odd Taxi anime, titled “Don’t Call Me an Idol”, has been released on Tuesday, May 04, 2021.
Since this anime runs on a weekly schedule, new episode releases are seven days apart.
I. Is Odd Taxi on Break This Week?
Episode 5 of Odd Taxi will be released as per schedule. No such delay has been announced.
3. Episode 4 Recap
Episode 4 takes us to Tanaka’s past and gives an overview of his entire life. Tanaka wasn’t particularly good at anything from his elementary days, neither at academics nor at sports.
Despite being mediocre at everything, he dreamt of standing out from the rest and having his own identity. At that time, collecting different kinds of erasers was a popular hobby among the kids.
Luckily, he had a rare Dodo-shaped eraser that his parents bought him from abroad. But he cannot reach the top spot just with that since his rich friend Sato had a variety of erasers from different countries.
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Episode 4 “Tanaka Revolution”
It will be broadcast on AT-X from 23:30 today 📺
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🚕 Synopsis 🚕
Otogawa still carries various customers today. Sometimes I drive a little in a hurry.
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He had to do something to step up his eraser collection, and coincidentally he finds a super rare eraser in an online auction. He was desperate, so he stole his father’s credit card and placed a bid.
The next day, he found out that he had an opponent who is ready to pay a larger amount for the eraser. After a reckless auction, Tanaka ends up bidding 100,000 yet for that silly eraser.
He waited and waited, but his parcel was never delivered. Soon, his father found out about the transaction and beat him to a pulp. He knew it was all his fault but refused to believe it.
16 years later, Tanaka is now working hard in an office and trying to recover from his childhood trauma. He soon gets addicted to an online game to fill the void within him.
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Episode 4 “Tanaka Revolution”
Broadcast on AT-X from 11:30 today 📺⚡
🚕 Synopsis 🚕
Otogawa still carries various customers today. Sometimes I drive a little in a hurry.
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The game is called Zoological Garden or simply Zooden. Here, players rare animals and put them in exhibits. The Rank 1 player has the username ditch_11, the same name as the seller of that rare eraser 16 years ago.
He feels that it cannot be a mere coincidence and believes that it’s God’s act. He takes the game seriously to dethrone ditch_11 from the first spot and accomplish his revenge.
Among all the rare animals, the one he craves for is a Dodo. It reminds him of the Dodo-shaped eraser that he treasured as a kid. After investing a lot of money for four years, he finally unlocks the rare animal.
But it seems that luck isn’t on his side, he trips over Odokawa’s taxi, and his phone falls in the gutter. He loses his precious Dodo, just moments after acquiring it.
An online distribution event, a recitation drama written by Mr. Konomoto. Goriki and Tanaka’s Another Episode “What I Really Want”I snooped on the script and it’s insanely interesting. You should definitely see it.
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He comes back home devasted to find that his pet bird, Maru, has passed away. This is the final push that makes him go insane. He goes to the park to bury his bird and finds a strange box with a revolver in it.
Considering his current mental state, he can do anything for a moment of dopamine release, and this includes making Odokawa pay for that little accident.
4. Where to Watch
5. About Odd Taxi
Odd Taxi is an original Japanese anime series produced by OLM, Inc. and P.I.C.S.. The series aired in Japan on April 6, 2021.
Odokawa is a taxi driver who lives an ordinary life and as a slightly eccentric stranger who has no relatives nor any relations with other people, Odokawa’s hobby is listening to Rakugo on the radio before going to bed.
Although, he does have a conversion with his customers – Kabasawa, a college student who wants a buzz, Shirakawa, a nurse who’s hiding something, comedian group Homo Sapiens, who isn’t selling well, and the city hoodlum Dobu.
The conversations with these people, which should not have meant much, lead to a girl who disappeared.
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