The official website of the Odd Taxi television anime announced an anime movie on Saturday. The movie, titled Odd Taxi: In the Woods, is scheduled to open in theaters in Japan on April 1, 2022. The website also revealed a teaser visual (pictured above) and teaser trailer. The lead cast and production staff are returning for the movie.
The movie will reconstruct the episodes from the television anime and take place after the finale. Scriptwriter Kazuya Konomoto (Setoutsumi manga) wrote a new scenario for the movie. Asmik Ace will distribute the movie.The mystery anime series aired in 13 episodes in Spring 2021. Amazon Prime Video streamed the anime exclusively in Japan, while Crunchyroll simulcast it with subtitles in North America. The latter will begin streaming an English dub on January 16, 2022.
Baku Kinoshita directed the series at animation studios P.I.C.S. and OLM, with assistant director Norio Nitta (Inazuma Eleven episode director). Kinoshita also drew the character designs with Hiromi Nakayama (Pokemon Movie: Ring no Choumajin Hoopa key animation).
Japanese hip-hop MCs and producers PUNPEE, VaVa, and OMSB composed the music. Production company P.I.C.S. is also credited for the original story and planning.
Synopsis (TV series)
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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Teaser Trailer
Official site: https://oddtaxi.jp/
Official Twitter: @oddtaxi_
Official Instagram: @oddtaxi_
Source: Comic Natalie
Odd Taxi Movie: In the Woods on MAL
