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Average 3.3
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| 90% recap with very minor scenes added in between. The anime ending is expanded a bit. Little disappointed that we had to wait so long for basically 5 minutes of new content. |
| Hmm, well so much for the idea that this would reframe the show to follow the journey of the pen. That would've been nice, especially since I think there's still no official translation available for the audio dramas? |
| so its true only the last 5-7 minutes of the movie is new content lol anyway glad to know Odakawa survives the murder attempt against him and the girl murderer was jailed |
| I can analyze this movie in 2 ways, as a solo product, "excluding the existence of anime" or in view of the anime's history. To be more fair I will consider it as a separate project even though I was looking forward to seeing the movie hoping it would have more original content, but it only had about 8 minutes of original content. So come on like I gave the anime an 8 there's no way I can give it less than that because it's basically the same story, and even taking the original content and treating it as a small 8 minute OVA that continues the story is a decent thing to do. do, did I expect more? I was hoping, considering that the movie is a ctrl+c ctrl+v of the anime, I could have spent a little more to animate at least 24 minutes there to close the story round instead of passing some slides as credits. But the anime is very good, and maybe if there is someone who prefers to watch movies instead of 13 episodes of 24 minutes the movie will come in handy. PT-BR Eu posso fazer a analise desse filme de 2 forma, como um produto solo, “excluindo a existência do anime” ou tendo em vista a história do anime. Para ser mais justo eu vou considerar como um projeto a parte mesmo eu tendo ficado ansioso para ver o filme esperando que tivesse mais conteúdo original, mas só teve uns 8 minutos de conteúdo original. Então vamos lá como eu dei 8 para o anime não tem como eu dar menos que isso porque é basicamente a mesma história, e até mesmo pegar o conteúdo original e tratar como uma pequena OVA de 8 minutos que continua a história é algo descente de se fazer,eu esperava mais? Esperava, tendo em vista que o filme é um ctrl+c ctrl+v do anime, dava pra ter gasto um pouco mais para animar pelo menos uns 24 minutos ai para fechar a história redondinha na vez de passarem uns slides como créditos. Mas o anime é muito bom,e talvez se existir alguém que prefere ver filmes na vez de 13 episódios de 24 minutos o filme vai vir a calhar. |
| Fake Mitsuya got just go attempt murder and assault. She still got away with murder. Good to know that Ichimura is friend with the group in the end. |
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| The ending was a perfect way to close it... the problem is that well, the rest... it's a 2 hour recap. Just watch the last 15 minutes and you are fine. Or wait more time, watching a recap so soon is boring and the show is too fresh. I hate cliffhangers, so this end is really apreciated. Making an OVA for the ending or 2 recap movies with new scenes + true ending would've been perfect, but well, this is enough imo. |
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| Odd Taxi was a 10/10 for me, so the way they changed the cliffhanger ending was just not right for me. Otherwise, just a recap. If you haven't watched Odd Taxi yet, just watch the series, not the movie. |
| For a recap movie it wasn't bad, of course the best way to watch the series is still through the tv show. I liked the idea of having the characters tell the story through interviews. The ending was a pretty cliche happy ending, so it turned out the girl failed in murdering Odokawa, and so he got a happy ending with Shirakawa. Tbh I just enjoyed experienced this show yet again and seeing a conclusive ending. I heard there was talks about a season 2 if the movie did well, but I honestly can't see a continuation after this. |
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| Basically the problem with this is presentation. The recap is pporly presented, just play it straight instead of making it like the characters are talking to the audience while confusing them where each testimony is supposed to fit chronologically in the story. There's also the new content and finale which aren't bad but felt like they could've been added on the final episode by just making it longer, or even a new episode. It could also have been expanded so they wouldn't have to do this cut making the resolution in the car feel lazy. All in all, just a weak cashgrab movie. |
CaptainKenshiroSep 10, 2022 10:36 PM
| People are super cringy here. Yeah, it was a bit disappointing how fast they resolved the remaining plotline. And it is a bit of a pity that most of the epilogue was shown as credit stills. But I liked the whole style how the recap part was made and it still added a bit to the story. For example, they added a bit of context to why characters got to their decisions during the scene with Odokawas taxi falling in the river (in the TV it just looked stupid out of contewxt). So I don't get the whole criticizm. |
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| I understand that those who paid for a ticket to watch it at a theatre, maybe also expecting a lot of new scenes, were deeply disappointed. I watched it at home knowing it was almost entirely a recap and I liked it, despite being inferior to the main series: Odd Taxi's best trait is the witty small talk and that had to be cut out to fit the movie runtime. 7/10 is the score I usually give to recap episodes of anime I rated 9-10/10, since I do enjoy them more than a 6/10. |
| I just saw the expanded ending and enjoyed it but I'm just giving it the average 5/10 since the rest is just a recap/worse version of the anime. |
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| Done watching. I get that majority of the movie was a recap but I think it's necessary for people who didn't watched the series. If new scenes are just the content of the movie, it would be very hard to understand the previous events due to it's very eccentric and very seinen-ish writing. Nevertheless, I also got bored in the recapping but excited on the new content. I thought the story would be still hanging because of the attempted murder of the girl until it was shown in the credits what happened after. I think that the interviews of each cast on the restaurant was not needed. Thanks to the staff for this story. π |
| bro wtf it's not even 10 minutes, more like 3 minutes of animations and 3 minutes of still pictures they could have fit that in the original tv show FOR ANYONE WHO HAVEN'T WATCH IT YET, DONT DO IT JUST SKIP TO THE END |
Interestingly, the bar owner is seen at the hospital in the credits for no apparent reason. |
| As a recap I felt it didn't really manage to capture much of the fantastic atmosphere from the series and the interviews were pretty lame, but was still nice to revisit this. Wasn't expecting substantial new content, but yeah, really would have preferred that it was just in the series itself, or even a just a small extra special. I did like that extra content, and it's nice to see the psycho get caught, although I did like the ambiguity/the adventure continues vibe the series left off at too. Oh yeah, and we got a reason why Wadagaki planted the phone for Tanaka. I think that the only big burning question that was left over. |
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| I say this because I care. It's a goddamn travesty. I get they at least tried to play it off as a documentary-esque retelling but even then it's flat. There's no narrator, no new scenes, and we aren't even given a clear timeline as to when this takes place (appears to be towards the end of the series and onwards?). This is what happens when people cry over not having a bow on their expensive present. Avoid this shit. Just stick to the mystique of the original. |
| Well, skip instantly to the last 10 minutes and its you get new content and quite important ending, imo ...but yeah. Not only they have hidden the full ending behind a recap - they also haven't animated it properly( Thats when they found the time to animate some bonus pointless animal talking through the recap. Nonetheless, it's nice that at least in this form the ending exists. Some people simingly like vague left-open ending (but why?), yet I would prefer the story finished properly |
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| Pretty cheap of the TV series to end on a cliffhanger and then blow the movie almost entirely on recap. What a cash-grab. They don't even give voices to the interviewers, which would be new characters. Even the private investigators I think were recycled character designs from the hostess club scenes. The whole thing is quite lazy. Even the resolution of that cliffhanger isn't very interesting and the rest is just sugar (that sometimes dosn't make sense; why is Ichimura partying along with anyone else there?). This recap cuts the Homosapiens duo almost entirely out of the story, which just proves how irrelevent they are...and yet it still spends time showing them doing the last round of the comedy contest and arguing over dissolving the partnership. Pylgrim said: Interestingly, the bar owner is seen at the hospital in the credits for no apparent reason. She was attacked in the last of the audio drama extras, which are apparently considered to be an integral part of the story. The "pen of happiness" is only explained in those and that explains why Wadagaki get arrested; she was actually being recorded when she attacked Oddkawa. |
| I want a complete ending...but not in form of power point presentation. They extend the conversation with the killer, couldn't they just give us the ending there....why go same status quo and PPT ending. Also who saved odakawa....one of the pic of that police ceremony was so blurry...i have no idea what was that. Is younger police brother getting awarded? Also attempted murder! Wtf! Are they gone still blame rui? |
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| Hmm if all they wanted was to properly conclude the interaction between Odokawa and Wadagaki they could've just added it to the final episode. The movie didn't do much other than change the perspective of how it's presented to us, that being Odokawa explaining it to the police. Adampk said: Also attempted murder! Wtf! Are they gone still blame rui? Nah in one of the later end credit pictures Rui is seen having a picnic with Odokawa, Shirakawa et, I reckon they let her go, especially after arresting Wadagaki, their manager and the other two. |
PrOxAntoJul 30, 2023 6:52 AM
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PrOxAnto said: That was not rui. The girl seen in the picnic was shiho (the girl who was doing the badger game and tricked odakawa's monkey friend)Hmm if all they wanted was to properly conclude the interaction between Odokawa and Wadagaki they could've just added it to the final episode. The movie didn't do much other than change the perspective of how it's presented to us, that being Odokawa explaining it to the police. Adampk said: Also attempted murder! Wtf! Are they gone still blame rui? Nah in one of the later end credit pictures Rui is seen having a picnic with Odokawa, Shirakawa et, I reckon they let her go, especially after arresting Wadagaki, their manager and the other two. |
AdampkJul 30, 2023 7:03 AM
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Adampk said: PrOxAnto said: That was not rui. The girl seen in the picnic was shiho (the girl who was doing the badger game and tricked odakawa's monkey friend)Hmm if all they wanted was to properly conclude the interaction between Odokawa and Wadagaki they could've just added it to the final episode. The movie didn't do much other than change the perspective of how it's presented to us, that being Odokawa explaining it to the police. Nah in one of the later end credit pictures Rui is seen having a picnic with Odokawa, Shirakawa et, I reckon they let her go, especially after arresting Wadagaki, their manager and the other two. Whoops yep, I mixed up the names, I just noticed myself before seeing your response lmao. Hmm, I would like to believe she'd be let go since they have the actual killer and people that covered it up but I guess we'll never know. |
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| I was hoping there would be a little more to the series. It was not as much as I had hoped, but I feel revenged! I still have trouble understanding what exactly happened between Odokawa and Sakura. |
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| Hoo boy. For a recap/compilation movie, having all the characters give exposition like they're being interviewed was a pretty cool idea actually. But that also meant that the movie was structured in a way that it assumed the viewers had already watched the series. So, it wasn't newcomer-friendly at all. I did watch the series, but I watched it long enough ago to forget some of the details. So, this was a little confusing to watch. I probably should've watched this much sooner but I couldn't bother until now. One of the reasons I wanted to watch this film was that I wanted to rewatch ODDTAXI but didn't feel like committing the time to watch the whole show again. That's like, the only redeeming feature of these compilation movies. The other reason is of course the "true" ending. Pretty scummy of them to make you watch a movie to catch the real ending of the TV series. And well, it was kinda weird. I really wanted to see how Odokawa managed to survive the attack with the killer. But they didn't show how it happened. I had no doubt in my mind that Odokawa would survive the attack. Mainly cause I didn't watch the series while it was still airing but after this movie was out. So I had advance knowledge that the story would somehow continue after the cliffhanger. So it was disappointing to see the movie only confirm what I thought instead of showing us how it happened. I did enjoy his date with Shirakawa. Tho I would've preferred it if it wasn't shown in a collection of photos. The entire epilogue shouldn't've been a slideshow of still photos. The movie did have some new stuff to justify its existence I guess. Some of the interviewees said more about their motives and stuff during the events of the show which I thought was interesting. But it doesn't feel canon because of the presentation. And I don't remember Odokawa being interviewed near the end so I guess that's part of the original scenes of the movie. The interviewer being the audience doesn't work that well after that since in the last minute it seems like it's an in-universe character. Dunno what they were doing with this. Should've just committed to the interviewer being the audience till the end. I know it's just a 2-hour movie so it can't show everything but it sucks that the backstory of the cat who stole Dobu's gone was basically cut. That was one of the most exciting parts of the series. They should've just cut the parts with Homosapiens as another comment above said since their presence felt pointless even in the series. Oh well. This interview style also helped to keep the runtime low by just explaining stuff that happened instead of showing it like in the series. But they should've committed to it a lot more. And it still sucks that most of the dialogue which made the series such an interesting watch got cut. I think the movie was a bit pointless and they should've crammed all the stuff from the last couple minutes in the show itself. But that's how it always goes with these types of movies. Kakushigoto comes to mind. Instead of doing a movie they should've made a brand new special OVA as a bonus for those who bought the Blu-ray or something. With proper epilogue. That would've been far more interesting. It was also a bit strange how Kabasawa and the dog girl who scammed Kakihana also joined the main cast in their picnic. Did they forget everything and become friends or something? I guess it's possible. Would've been cooler if they showed the whole interaction tho. Decent movie but disappointing. Wish there were more new stuff or the last scenes were longer. |
| Wow, watching this movie was a waste of time. So much recap and for what? At least Odd Taxi the show was nearly perfect... |
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| I feel like the recap didn't get the essence of the tv series which is a miss but it expanded on the conclusion of the anime which was much needed! Given that Odokawa was shown alive in the hospital with Wadagaki Sakura arrested in the background tv, I suppose it suggests that he is indeed alive. Good to see Rui-san in the picnic after the zoo date too, glad she didn't have to spend time behind bars for that misunderstanding. She did do our MC's friend dirty but it was under the influence of the other two in prison already, so I suppose it's a fair deal. Tanaka-san getting away scoot free is still a complaint of mine from the tv series, a bit too lucky that, no? I like how one of the interviewees was one of his dear old eraser-competing friend. Good to see that he wasn't forgotten completely, ig. All in all, I'll have to go with a 6/10 for this one. I was aware a lot of it would be a recap so that helped me not be bitterly disappointed. |
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