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Odd Taxi Fes was held on June 18th, 2022. There was an afternoon event and an evening event with musical acts and cast members discussing the characters and doing a skit written by Konomoto Kazuya (head series writer). As it seems we're not getting a release of the full script, much less a recording, I thought I'd document the summary so it's available somewhere in English.

The full report by Mixi User (id:429476) includes the reporter's thoughts and insights into the event, I'm just translating their summaries and dialogue. The reporter went to the evening event, of the two, and it was about 90 minutes total.

At the event were:

Iida Riho (Shirakawa)
Koizumi Moeka (Ichimura)
Murakami Manatsu ("Mitsuya Yuki"/Wadagaki Sakura)
Kousei and Asei of Miki (Daimon Brothers; Older and Younger, respectively -- only at the evening event)
Yuusuke and Tsuda Asahiro of Daian (Homosapiens; Shibagaki and Baba respectively)
Takashi of Trendy Angel (Kabasawa)
Murakami Tomoko or Morisanchuu (Taeko)
Phenix and Takai Keisuke of Girly Record (Bonnou Illumination: Kondou Shigeyuki/Cheetah and Fukumoto Daiichi/Panda respectively)
Sakai Koudai (Imai)
Horii Chado (Sekiguchi)
Meteor (Yano)

Special Guest Mukai Seitarou, who is an entertainer and seiyuu who had MCed a few radio events about the series. He does the Karaage shopkeep in the Shooting Star Skit.


Musical guests:
Skirt and Punpee who did the opening theme,
Tony Frank who did the insert song/ending about Manzai,
VaVa, and OMSB whom I don't know the relevance of to the series.

The MC was Inoue Yusuke of Non Style (a comedy duo with seiyuu Ishida Akira, also not related to Odd Taxi) who also doesn't seem to have direct relevance to the series. (The earlier event was MCed by comedy due New York, also with no direct tie to the series)




Introduction
Introducing the Cast )


Reciting Script: "Wish Upon A Star"

Odd Taxi - Wish Upon A Star Live Reading )

The shooting stars begin. Tony Frank plays just the guitar instrumental of Watare Bridge as everyone says their wishes:

Shirakawa: I pray Odokoawa-san is happy.
Taeko: I pray I can make spinach shirae as well as my mother did.
Imai: I pray Nikaidou Rui sells a lot.
Kabaswa: I pray to be acknowledged by people.
Yano: I pray Dobu-san dies!--No, I can't, he can't die!!
Sekiguchi: I pray that Yano-san's wish comes true.
Daimon Younger: I pray that all the bad people are gone.
Daimon Older: I pray to return to before that accident.
Ichimura: I pray that I can work as an idol without a mask.
Wadagaki: Even without wishing on a star, I'll do something about it myself, so it's okay.
(The reporter forgot Shibagaki's and Bannou Illumination's.)
Shibagaki: You're up, Baba. You're the last act, the last laugh!
Baba: Uhhhm, Uhhhh, I pray for world peace!
Shibagaki: What's funny about that?!



Odd Taxi Debates
Would you rather work under Dobu or Yano? )



Shirakawa vs Ichimura Worst Girl Wars )
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From the BD of the movie, 13 very short drama bits framed as interviews or hot mic recordings. All of them are spoilers to some degree with some being spoilers for the grand mystery. These tie in to the movie's investigative interview framing.

These are not necessary in chronological order. This is just the order of the tracks.

01 - Taeko, Sato, Rena
02 - Kabasawa, Rena
03 - Kakihana, Satou
04 - Shirakawa, Satou
05 - Daimon (Ani), Rena
06 - Shibagaki, Baba
07 - Dobu, Satou
08 - Wadagaki, Ichimura, Kanon, Rena
09 - Nikaidou, Yamamoto
10 - Daimon (Otouto), Tanaka
11 - Yano, Sekiguchi, Yamamoto, Nikaidou
12 - Nikaidou, Rena
13 - Satou, Rena
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 Link to the Odd Taxi Character Album translations.

Youtube Full Playlist

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ndividual Tracks - 

TAXIDRIVER - Odokawa Hiroshi - Hanae Natsuki
Acchi Kocchi Justice - Daimon Brothers - Miki
Panama - Sekiguchi Tougo - Horii Chado, Punpee, Metero
Asebi - Mystery Kiss  - Mimori Suzuko, Koizumi Moeka, Murakami Manatsu
Sabitsuita Glass - Yamamoto Fuyuki - Furukawa Makoto

All are spoiler free, but Panama ties with Ya Know! Mega Mix from the 2019  Yano concept album which does have (marked) spoilers.

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Odd Taxi Quality of Life Improvement Subtitles

These are the Pony Canyon official subs for Odd Taxi, only I've added song lyrics and culture notes. They synch with the DVD/BD, but if you're using Crunchyroll rips you might need to adjust the timing as streaming rips tend to come with an intro.

I might've accidentally corrected a line here or there because while inside the file I was thinking of it as if it were my own subtitles, but the official subtitles aren't bad or in need of a complete overhaul. I was just already inside the files adding song lyrics.

They should go onto your source files smoothly with MKVToolNix or play in any major media player that supports .ass subs.

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As an aside while you're here, there is a Discord Server for Shiki translations but I also drop an update of any unpaid translations I do there. (Or paid if the payor doesn't mind it being shared and doesn't want exclusive claims to it, and it's not porn, or is porn of a franchise I'm otherwise known for translating and so of interest to general audiences.)

Other translation projects in various stages:

Hamatora Stage Plays - I've tried offering people $5.00 to just make a raw timed file for me so I can jump right to the dialogue/signage but nobody's working that cheap. I will eventually do these, if nobody else has done it for the requestor first, but that's the main hold up. My graphics card is crap and it stalls out a lot when trying to load videos in Aegisub, whereas if it's pre-timed I can just translate off the audio and then go through and touch up on visual stuff after the bulk is completed.

Banana Fish Stage Plays - I started on the older ones, but they wrote Max so annoyingly I dropped it. If anyone's really interested, I might pick it up again but the 2021 ones seem of better quality and more interest. Same deal, if someone pre-times a blank .ass file for me, the odds of me getting this done in a reasonable time frame are a lot higher. Otherwise this franchise is very popular so I bet someone else will get it done.

Tokimeki Memorial 4 Girl's Side - I'm not any kind of official translator or organizer or such on this, I'm just going to grab sections as they're available and time allows, but there is a Discord Server about this translation project if you're interested. This is also a popular franchise so whether I do anything or not it'll get done.


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2019 is a tie in album for the anime Odd Taxi centered around Yano. All of them take place before episode 1 chronologically, but some contain spoilers. 

2019 - Short Prelude Comic (Twitter Release)

2019 CD -
1. My Name is...
2. Killing Joke (Spoilers)
3. Dobu no Aniki (Skit)
4. Dobu no Aniki

5. Ya Know?! Mega Mix (Spoilers)

Track 5 is made up of portions of Yano's raps from within the series, working backwards through the episodes. The licensed subs which managed to rhyme most of the time aren't terrible, but I did translate it fresh and accurately for completion. It also has a musical allusion to Sekiguchi's character song Panama.

It's worth noting that most Japanese songs and poetry don't rhyme. Yano's raps in particular have quite a few rhymes, but sometimes what makes it lyrical rather than plain dialogue are puns, alliteration, meter, or tongue twisters. The Japanese lyrics are included so that you can analyze and appreciate that as your skill level allows rather than having it lost in translation. Unlike many languages, Japanese is phonetically consistent enough that this is much more possible to do for a beginner or non-speaker by sight reading.

The guidebook included a four page short story/rap written by head script writer Konomoto Kazuya. It's titled Forbidden Fukuru Toji, the name for the print style where you have to break the seal to read it, to prevent in-store browsing. In the book itself you have to tear the pages open to read them.  Included here as it's thematically related to the 2019 translation commission. 

Forbidden Fukuru Toji (Spoilers)
- For those interested in the lyrical aspect
- For those not interested in the Japanese lyrics

Those interested in the Japanese lyrics or the Fukuro Toji can hear parts of it performed here:
2019 Drama CD (Youtube)
Download (MediaFire)

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