Gacha Hell | ODDTAXI

[@crunchyroll]

Watch episode 4 here! got.cr/Watch-ODDTAXI4

[@xovye]

I rather not

[@JohanJimenez0120]

Great!

[@bigtom4279]

Im truly amazed at how criminally underrated this show is....

[@JohanJimenez0120]

Sadly yes

[@suzeray87]

It’s just a bad time for it to be released

[@davidedalterio4979]

@@suzeray87 Why should this be a bad time?

[@davidedalterio4979]

Actually, it's not that surprising. Like the OG Cowboy Bebop, Mad Bull 34 and the new Great Pretender, this show belongs to a category of niche anime inspired by the West culture - so it's pretty unpopular. Not to mention, if I remember correctly this is also the first time Crunchyroll does bring a SEINEN anime instead of a SHONEN series (excluding Isekai series such as Re:Zero and Tanya). A different target most of the viewers aren't very familiar with.

[@suzeray87]

@@davidedalterio4979 well I see Odd Taxi getting the Kaiji treatment. Where you just have to get your friends to watch it. Because this season everyone is watching My Hero Academia, Higehiro, To Your Eternity, Don’t toy with me Miss Nagataro, Tokyo Revengers, Eighty-Six, Vivy Fluorite Eye’s Song, Megalobox 2, Full Dive, Moriarty the patriot part 2, Mars Red, and just slightly below Super Club is Odd Taxi. It’s just a bad time and especially after Beastars season 2 just finish.

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

He broke the cardinal rule of Gacha games: Never celebrate. Ever.

[@alanch8944]

2:15 😢😭📱

[@kyrohowe3156]

Hello again!!

[@unlimitedslash]

Excuse me sir, but once i get Rosmontis in Arknights im gonna party so hard that my entire town will end up without electricity.

[@joaquincastellano3900]

At this point I think this guy is actually multiple people at once.

[@ItzCrossly]

If its an anime video hes here

[@maowwmeow]

the way this show depicts trauma and the resulting endless cycle of self-defeat addicts go through and applying it to a really relatable issue was scary but done really well. it's that hole that you just keep digging yourself deeper in because of the short-term feeling of being in control, or because of a deep-seated feeling of worthlessness. i think this show captured the cycle of addiction and self sabotage really well, and how it leads some people to do drastic things. or maybe im overthinking it :p

[@flaminyawn]

No, that sounds about right.

[@cantcommute]

It's also surprising seeing other people in the comments being like "how did he not learn his lesson?" like bruh were you *watching*??

[@michaelrobert6386]

Truthfully, I think your correct. It would seem that this show specifically had lots of realism put into it. I don’t think it’s a stretch to interpret real world effects of trauma and mental illness in the show.

[@jyavant]

It actually pained me for how relatable this entire episode was.

[@CyonisCyberFox]

Loot boxes

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

16 year I would have been done before then just like I stop play world of tank because of the grind lol

[@DIGITALGH05T]

I hope you're getting the help you need dude.

[@demareoprogamer9640]

Literally me in ever game

[@pinecone7280]

nah, me too

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

The first rule of Gacha games: The only winning move is not to play.

[@bobbic3011]

I seem to be losing then

[@orsaz924]

@@bobbic3011 I guess that makes two

[@FireCamp105]

That's why i dropped genshin

[@MilkmanAssassin]

Never play tf2 or Apex legends then

[@orsaz924]

@@MilkmanAssassin Apex isn't a gacha game

[@botmexicanpatriot]

Him losing that dodo was just the catalyst of everything that happened to him before that unlucky meeting.

[@fatcat1697]

Shouldn't he have his account linked? They do that so you can transfer to a different phone. At worst, he lost the phone, but not the dodo.

[@sherlockowiec1693]

@@fatcat1697 He said earlier he wanted to sell his account so it must be linked somewhere.

[@notafan5573]

@@sherlockowiec1693 No, he said IF he sold his account it'd be worth 'x' amount. He was speaking hypothetically. In fact, he decided against it coz trading up for an account with the Dodo wouldn't be the same as actually getting it himself.

[@sherlockowiec1693]

@@notafan5573 Like I care... The point is, it's possible, otherwise he wouldn't even consider it hypothetically.

[@lightsondeck3165]

@@fatcat1697 Even after getting a new phone, the dodo wasn’t there so I’m guessing he didn’t save the game.

[@BeastOrGod]

I love how it showed the screen cracking to make sure that we know even if it was waterproof, now it isn't anymore.

[@fadyamr7662]

This is relatable to a non-healthy level

[@moonlightsonata5794]

Cant w8 4 Eula

[@xone_mi]

@@moonlightsonata5794 what

[@moonlightsonata5794]

@@xone_mi End user license agreement

[@Verte7]

Please don't shoot a taxi driver

[@yesikanarvaez5027]

I know, it took me weeks to get my phone back

[@marc64895]

This was a scary episode. This guy is definitely the scariest character to show up in this anime and I feel like he won't have a happy ending, but oh well, we'll see what happens next

[@alconnow6104]

I thought the yakuza chimp would be the scariest but the gacha-addicted Tanaka is way worse.

[@Stryfe52]

I’d usually say you’re being a bit dramatic but he scared me a little too. Especially when he was just aimlessly walking around with the monkey’s gun in his bag.

[@diogodiogo2219]

a violent man causes fear, an empty man causes despair.

[@MechTechGunna]

My guess is that Shirikawa unwittingly saved Odokawa because she gave him the red eraser Tanaka wanted in his childhood.

[@Stryfe52]

@@MechTechGunna That’d probably just trigger him more

[@WJen8]

I totally feel for him but at the same time it's a potentially good thing. I used to be addicted to this mobile game that drained everything from my life: time, money, my social life. I was obsessed. One day my phone was stolen and since the company only linked accounts to a specific number and ID, I couldn't get the account back (customer service was horrible and wouldn't bother). After a month of grief I started recalibrating my life and it felt so liberating. Addictions suck.

[@diogodiogo2219]

this is the first time i hear about an addiction thief xD

[@--i-am-root]

Glad to hear you got out of that. so many things we think we want end up just being a burden on us. I've cut out a lot of entertainment and it's freeing. In fact, this is one of the few modern animes that has appealed to me, and I want to find a way to watch it after dropping all my streaming sevices lol.

[@SomethingWithZ]

He’s trying to shoot the taxi driver. There’s almost no way he heals from this now.

[@amazingmrpig6369]

Just like this character!

[@lettuce1626]

@@SomethingWithZ lol, what I thought. But realistically speaking, OP is correct because people aren’t that stupid/desperate well mostly

[@yahirc5958]

Who would’ve thought an eraser could’ve caused a whole *catastrophe* in *Gacha* life... But I still can’t believe he spent *100,000 yen* for an eraser lol.

[@neonoah3353]

And i cant believe that after being scammed, beaten by his dad, and acknowledging that all the trouble that he put into getting that eraser would have amounted to nothing... He's still repeating the same mistakes again.

[@kz7496]

@@neonoah3353 that’s why I have no sympathy for this character.

[@maowwmeow]

@@neonoah3353 self-sabotage is common for those who've experienced trauma and abuse. his dad had the capacity to beat him over his mistake, and i think that abuse tends to fester in someone instead of teaching them any sort of lesson. i feel like since the beginning, he was dissatisfied with his school life, his job, his status and place in the world, and so began an endless defeatist cycle. it's what leads victims of abuse to drug use (and his addiction to gacha is practically the same). i do feel for him, but ofc we don't think about this when it comes to criminals and addicts, people who should be getting help.

[@neonoah3353]

@@maowwmeow i dont think "abuse" is the case here, maybe theres some trauma caused by being scammed (the ideia of revenge/justice by beating ditch 11 on a farm sim gacha), but the fathers "abuse" didnt really incentivise the gacha addiction, he actually didnt even think that "oh, i made a mistake" until he got beaten by his dad, it literally took him more than a month to figure out that he was scammed. Imo, hes just a slow person that only realizes his mistakes after he has done them, more so if someone points it out to him, probably due to a severe disconnect from reality. (the ideia of a eraser hierarchy, the total disregard to the value of money, petty revenge agaisnt someone he doesnt even know or has any ideia if it is the person he thinks it is, the thought of killing someone over a game item, etc...) I would say that thats due to his family/school being very passive on his upbringing.

[@MissyMona]

@@neonoah3353 Could you not treat what his father did as anything other than abusive? Putting it in quotes like that implies that you don't take it seriously. His mother literally had to hold his father back and the kid's face was swollen from he brusies all over his face because he told his dad he wanted to look something up on the internet. Say what you will about the character, acting like that wasn't abuse sounds ignorant.

[@varonexgamer668]

"It's called the gacha HELL for a reason" FGO, Genshin impact and several other gacha's player

[@Gingo00-b7z]

Nono, FGO is a even lower hell

[@varonexgamer668]

@@Gingo00-b7z vietnam flashbacks intensifies

[@Cezzmart67]

Lol Destiny Child, Seven Deadly Sins Grand Cross, Exos Heroes, Genshin Impact

[@Zindakku]

All Idolmaster mobile games.....

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Their I reason I don't really play gotcha

[@EnmAnime]

There's a 0.0000000000% chance you'll be satisfied playing a gacha game

[@butterbot333]

Maybe but im still going to get them waifus

[@k4tzz_cc]

Nah theres a 0.0000000548% chance

[@BeastOrGod]

F2P can't even be satisfied, cause of how pathetic you feel without the ultra rares.

[@letherobr3178]

Genshin impact; haha stoopid

[@iseetheendisnear2416]

There’s a 1 tacked on somewhere on the end of the 0’s... nope - that’s a lie

[@justinl.994]

I love how Paranoia Agent-esque this episode got. Gave me chills.

[@Trademarked26]

I like how relatable this series is, despite everyone being cute animals...

[@soko4710]

1:27 is this a reference to the Japanese belief that crows mock foolish people?

[@phlaryx7145]

Nice detail

[@CyberLance26]

Probably. Crows call people ahos in animes all the time.

[@mexicanduckxii9168]

Is no one gonna talk about those air buds staying on when he fell ? Those are some good air buds .

[@random_d00d]

Dude has airpods but not a waterproof phone lol

[@aino-kaisav5504]

Tanaka's story made me really feel bad for him. Because it feels so real. Addictions are real. I can see this boy turning from a well-functioning little guy into this mentally unstable person and it feels so real. It wasn't just about losing the dodo. It wasn't just the death of his pet. It wasn't just the fact that his father beat him. It wasn't just the eraser that he didn't get. People don't just "go crazy", with no reason. There's always something much more complicated than what people looking from the outside view can see.

[@justarandomweeb4833]

0:06 i wish i could have that amount of food at my desk and no one would care

[@Tick-tock-death-is-near]

Dude!!!!

[@Tick-tock-death-is-near]

You wrote the number

[@corvanj8766]

*_"all it takes is one bad day..."_* -the joker

[@brandoncastillo_05]

It looks like tanaka is going down that path...

[@MGhammer123]

They were real clever with this episode. Went through his whole life and then the taxi came through 😱 Damn good episode 👏🏿

[@LivingGuy484]

Back then, people would have said anime featuring animals was for furries But this is truly, unironically, a piece of art

[@GalekC]

Stuff for furries can’t?

[@SamsungS23Ultr]

@@GalekC nope

[@serily4524]

animals aint furries

[@CyberLance26]

American and European media used to have stuff with animal characters all the time in the past but i guess the reason why its not as common anymore as it used to be is because people will make fun of it for those kind of reasons nowadays.

[@RukilEngetsu]

kids...lets this be a lesson. NEVER play a gacha. take it from those of us that have suffered 😢

[@AtlasBlizzard]

I learned that playing Tokyo Afterschool Summoners.

[@demareoprogamer9640]

True wise words

[@gaelx3d674]

Me playing Housamo, LaH, and Arknights at the same time 👁️👄👁️ Although I'm F2P

[@commiealivent1664]

bro housamo LAH sdorica and more is draining my sanity

[@acid360delta7]

Its like lootboxes, nothing but an addiction where you spend money on pixels.

[@LeIouch.]

“Gacha hell” never seen a title more relatable.

[@mexicanduckxii9168]

Lesson of this weeks episode : If you collected shaped erasers as a kid , don’t download a gacha game or it will completely get rid of all your sanity along with 5 million yen

[@ben9579]

Should be titled: "The future life of Garnt"

[@F1reBeat]

ahhhh the rabbit hole that most of us fell into for anyone that didn't, play a gacha game and become one of us you will know the feeling one of us one of us ONE OF US also I love the titles on these lately

[@tquicken]

I've played way too many gacha games. Thank god I barely spend much on them, if at all. Sucks that his game didn't have a guaranteed dodo at a certain mark [Edited because I cant spell]

[@ReccaWolf]

I played Spelunker World before, and they had a gacha game on there. I was almost hooked, but got out of the habit. It doesn’t pay to see you frustrated over one item in a limited timed event.

[@orsaz924]

@@tquicken F2p is the way to go

[@krow3518]

such a painful truth of gacha games in my opinion, makin us spend an spend more and more. is a sin of hell of its own

[@V.U.4six]

Micro transactions are dumb yeah But it’s just a game, you gotta draw a line for yourself I would say this is a good reminder to people that are a bit too addicted to these games

[@jevs1555]

@@V.U.4six a drew mines after unintentionally spending 100$ for a Gacha character and just realized how dumb it was.

[@aaronmeade5435]

0:49 that lip smack just says it all a puma who is fed up and just shouts for the sake of shouting to entertain himself

[@RralRonaldo]

Exsqueeze me but that is not a lip smack, more like a tongue click

[@TheOneWhoDings]

This show has some dope as$ writing, I love how they connect the events seamlessly.

[@jira9286]

Literally me when i pulled venti in genshin impact

[@bdpSovietafr0]

Lowkey, best episode of anime this year... Oddtaxi SHOULD be on peoples radar, but isn't

[@darthplagueis13]

Now that's just straight-up cruel. Then again, maybe it's gonna be beneficial in the long run.

[@sirregenalde3029]

Phone: *Falls into water* Everyone: 🎶Hello Darkness my old friend...🎶

[@goctagonrecovery3270]

This is my favorite episode of the series, so painfully relatable and tragic to watch this character's downfall into madness.

[@SpellAintSleep]

I relate to this video on a spiritual level

[@agn8433]

of all the episodes that have come out, I thought I was the most realistic and thoughtful of the series

[@nikolamilicevic2117]

He should have had linked his account on Twitter

[@ChaosSepher]

Never play a gatcha that doesn't have some manner of account backup link.

[@carter6922]

@@ChaosSepher Never play a gacha game period.

[@lilforty6037]

I relate to this guy sm, the addiction to gacha/avatar games, taking my parents cards when I was younger for imvu and Gaia online , ameba pico. It started with the avatar games then gacha games came to mobile and I got addicted to Line play....It's the brief satisfaction of getting an ultra rare item, it's so hard to quit because it feels like nothing else can satisfy you in life so you just keep throwing away money, ridiculous amounts of money. I was able to stop myself for 2 years but then 2020 came and idk what happened, the addiction came back.

[@thomaz3235]

Try to hide your credit card, F2P is a Lot more fun

[@12exstar]

It just seem like a comedy back in the end of eps 3 that Odokawa accidentaly 'crush' (sorry idk the word of that) him. But when they focused it on him as POV oh man.

[@officegossip]

You can tell this show is for an older audience. So to those who are worried it isn’t getting a limelight: that’s just the way it is with stuff that isn’t marketed towards children. The fact that it exists and has a nice anime is good enough for the people who want this kinda stuff.

[@LoneWolfOtaku]

"That's hell you're walking into" -Every FGO player

[@AegisAuras]

I’ve learned to not get emotionally invested in getting the units I want in gotcha games. Sometimes it’s not guaranteed no matter how much you grind. Play them if you enjoy the general flow of the present experience, but don’t have the mindset that you NEED a particular unit. Buy a real game if you’re a completionist.

[@JhelleMies]

1:39 when u get ur waifu after a long wallet torture. 😂

[@harb_7393]

Gacha games: even when you get what you want, you're still not happy

[@hazelXin223]

I told my little sister to watch this show and she Googled it and started drawing Tanaka.

[@kenpoarniceguy1]

Aw cute

[@instantgin3861]

We ve been doing gacha as kids before gacha games became popular with pokemon and yuhioh cards

[@iseetheendisnear2416]

Stay strong. There are others like you. We can find the strength to quit, together!

[@V.U.4six]

Idk if you mean real people or him but he needs to *wake up* first

[@ShinyDiscoBomb]

Account backup exists for a reason, bro. :)

[@Tsugandate]

that bit is shown right after this scene but... spoiler for how that goes

[@lusisaalva3110]

He doesn't click in confirm, so dodo left rip

[@zerobudgetgamer]

@@lusisaalva3110 I mean, normally in gacha games as soon as you press the Pull/Summon button the character goes into your roster, but hey, this is anime, and we gotta make this poor man suffer.

[@michaelirazori9214]

As a former English Tales of the Rays player, I can relate to the pain of collector’s greed.

[@michaelpitter9193]

SpongeBob Narrator: Oooohhhhhh, I felt that.

[@Tenko72]

Relatable. I'm getting Magia Record flashbacks and now, I'm sad all over again.

[@JohanJimenez0120]

Oddtaxi went from being the anime that maybe I would stop watching after 1 episode to being the main one, the reason why I will pay my subscription again this quarter, also a dubbing of it is welcome!

[@matthewmiller7207]

@1:55, Kami-sama be like, "HA HA, nope!"

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

2:16 well that’s four years of your life literally down the drain. How unfortunate.

[@V.U.4six]

Yeah exactly He wasted his life on that 💀

[@dracul2282]

I celebrated when I pulled Majin Okita and Hijikata at the same time. RNGesus has punished me with low drop rates and illness

[@dayman7136]

People going "this is relatable" and then move on, don't do that, if you relate to something that's wrong it's a perfect opportunity to do something about it

[@dylanpaterson4250]

This is simultaneously one of the most tragic and funniest things I’ve seen in any anime ever.

[@Queen-oe8bx]

This guy has the worst luck, I feel so bad for him 😭 he was beaten by his father and lost the things he was appreciative of 💔 and then he becomes a murderer 💀

[@phlaryx7145]

This is like a wake up call for me with Genshin lol. Though I didn’t spend nearly as much money on that game as this guy has XD.

[@XxThatGuyOverTherex1]

This is why you should never pay large amounts for intangible things

[@V.U.4six]

Whenever I’m tempted, I ask myself: do I really want to waste money on this? *nope*

[@TreyDobe]

I felt this on a spiritual level, that there is usually my luck when it comes to anything

[@ReccaWolf]

Imagine playing a gacha game on your phone all your life, not getting that ONE item you’ve desired until that fateful day, you finally get that item, but suddenly your phone breaks along with your game’s data. Sucks to be you. :p

[@gamingwithazian1453]

Amazing how this update came out on zhongli banner release..

[@sakuramathic]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot this is a Martin Scorsese movie with anime tropes and talking animals.

[@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

I never descended into gacha hell because I ALWAYS BELIEVED IN THE HEART OF THE CARDS. That said this kinda threw me into resource hell instead, so balance in all things.

[@dandyluigi]

I feel like with that level of commitment there should be some way he can access the account again by logging in; either way my heart would break in a million pieces

[@Tsugandate]

there is, in the case of most gacha games at least, but that's shown right after this scene and it's uhhh, painful

[@WTFninja671]

"NOOOO!!! MY DODOOOOO!!!!!" *buys new phone* *inputs backup password* 'Account Recovered' "YEESSS!!! MY DODOOOOO!!!!!"

[@lusisaalva3110]

But, there is not dodo It needs to confirm, i guess

[@MissyMona]

You uhh haven't watched the episode have you? He actually tries that, because he JUST got the dodo it for some reason registered so when he put his password in everything else was there except the dodo.

[@thehsushoe]

At first, I didn't even want to finish this episode, but I kept watching. I'm glad I did, it's good.

[@nosehairsoffury2067]

Top 10 saddest anime endings of 2021.

[@wakisa0514]

Me start the video and see a cat eat noddles Okay im going to sleep

[@vxjessi]

“YES I DID IT! A DODO!”

[@lenhimcook]

This is so relatable 😂

[@marmackerel]

My guy loosing his dodo hurt me more than watching my fave characters die,,

[@Zare2care]

Damn I’ve started playing Genshin again but only paid $15 and that’s it. I’m already satisfied of the characters I’ve got (Childe, Diluc and Zhongli) and probably be a f2p player for the rest of the game.

[@leonardoa5201]

If that game has cloud-based saving like 90% of online games now, then there should be no problem. Aside from losing his phone, of course. But his account info is still there.

[@Cqjoker73]

You loose as soon at you consider paying the $0.99 fee.

[@faidou9954]

2:15 *cue Seinfeld music*

[@icecontrol1]

This video misses is that he managed to save his phone but he lost the dodo which is not how gacha games works as your rolls are saved from the server side

[@unlikelyhydra92]

Crows signifying the death of the Dodo 😭

[@MetalSonicReject]

Joke’s on the gacha games: I’ve never spent a single cent and, more often than not, I get the characters I want from the games I play.

[@poloap4275]

Case in point: Dragalia Lost Been a day 1 player and didn't spend a single dime on the game.

[@dienstaghd5815]

Fgo players: "thats hell you're walking into"

[@poeticsorrow]

1:30 me pulling a new LR in Dokkan.

[@darriushayward7852]

This describes FGO pretty well here

[@cathrynm]

If he'd really gotten a dodot, there would have been server logs of this, and a call to customer service could have recovered it.

[@TheJoigoman]

It's ok! He can get it back with the inquiry code :D ... He saved it... *Right???*

[@alaamo840]

BTW, his seiyuu is the one who voiced JoJo's Doppio

[@madambutterfly1997]

If I Was An Architect from the show Good Place. I would create a hell geared toward gacha gamers. theyd spend the rest of Eternity playing gacha games and never getting the characters they want and roll for

[@leonardosousa628]

you are satan but even him have morals still

[@Yozora_Ultima]

The first rule that the player has learned : Always NEVER Celebrate after getting what you want. The second rule that the player has learned: Always back up your account

[@endergolem9977]

I played Illusion Connect, a really great gacha game that I love. I would go back, but I'm too busy. I'm glad I never felt this pain.

[@Luccasneo]

Literally me pulling Gilgamesh in Fate Grand Order

[@ino579]

In reality he only lost his phone, not his account. No one playing a game for four years wouldn't have an account bind code for security. Gacha games also have highly responsive account retrieval services, especially if you have proof of purchase. Don't believe the lies.

[@joeimjoe]

I will trust the man with an fgo pfp

[@FoxInTheFridge]

I love how easy it is to tell who hasn't seen the anime

[@Fooligan23]

He never clicked to confirm and collect it though. In the show, later he goes to get a new phone and immediately checks his account only to see it didn't save.

[@quirkyeggmuffin]

For some reason watching this makes my ramen taste better

[@err0rc0degames]

This episode made me even more convinced on my stance of refusing to play gacha games

[@cosmo7238]

I play Genshin Impact and I am not addicted to Gacha. I just build characters I have and I did not pay anything. Patience is important.

[@wmcfate]

This and Fumetsu hands down the best shows this season.

[@cyechan50]

It's all connected. and relatable. *looks at my FGO account*

[@Cococrash11]

Awesome Odd Taxi Video.

[@LuminousOriens]

I've 5 gachas downloaded and 2 of them I actually enjoy playing. Destiny Child and Arknights. Been playing Destiny Child for +2years completely f2p and have no regrets.

[@LuminousOriens]

Advice based on experience: TRY not to spend money even if you REALLY want the character. Buying the monthly pack is fine if they're a pretty good deal, but directly buying gacha currency gets expensive fast and if close to whale territory. The feeling of getting characters when you've spent money will never compare to when you were f2p. This makes me sound like a lucky pretentious guy, but just roll the gacha and be fine with what you get.

[@LuminousOriens]

Advice based on experience: TRY not to spend money even if you REALLY want the character. Buying the monthly pack is fine if they're a pretty good deal, but directly buying gacha currency gets expensive fast and gets close to whale territory. The feeling of getting characters when you've spent money will never compare to when you were f2p. This makes me sound like a lucky pretentious guy, but just roll the gacha and be fine with what you get.

[@mexicanduckxii9168]

@@LuminousOriens clearly this guy didn’t know this tip, he ended up spending 5 million yen