Anime Odd Taxi Announced with Cast, Staff, Promo Video, Manga

The new website launched on Friday to reveal a new original anime named Odd Taxi, which will be premiered on TV Tokyo and AT-X in April. The website announced the promotional video of the anime, the graphic trailer, the cast, the personnel, and the manga adaptation.

The story of Odd Taxi follows Kotogawa, an eccentric, reticent 41-year-old taxi driver who has no relatives and does not have much to do with others. He does have conversations with his customers, including a college student who wants to go viral, a nurse hiding a secret, an unsuccessful comedian, a street rough, and an up-and-coming idol. These conversations lead him to a girl who has disappeared.

(Note: Romanization spellings not confirmed) Odd Taxi Cast:

• Natsuki Hanae as Kotogawa 
• Riho Iida as Shirakawa 
• Ryohei Kimura as Gо̄riki 
• Kappei Yamaguchi as Shika 
• Suzuko Mimori as Louis Nikaidо̄ 
• Moeka Koizumi as Shiho Ichimura 
• Manatsu Murakami as Yuki Mitsuya 
• Kо̄hei (Miki comedy duo) as older Daimon brother 
• Asei (Miki comedy duo) as younger Daimon brother 
• Yūsuke (Diane comedy duo) as Shigaki (Homosapiens) 
• Atsuhiro Tsuda (Diane comedy duo) as Baba (Homosapiens) 
• Takashi (Trendy Angel comedy duo) as Kabazawa 
• Tomoko Murakami (Morisanchu comedy trio) as Taeko 
• Keisuke Takai (Girly Records comedy duo) as Fukumoto (Bannо̄ Illumination) 
• Phoenix (Girly Records comedy duo) as Kondo (Bannо̄ Illumination) 
• Kenji Hamada as Dob 
• Kōdai Sakai as Imai 
• Sōma Saitō as Tanaka 
• Makoto Furukawa as Yamamoto 
• Chado Horii as Sekiguchi 
• Takaya Kuroda as Kuroda 
• Amane Shiomiya as Kano 
• Chika Kagura as Reina 
• METEOR as Yano 

Manga writer Kadzuya Konomoto (Seto Utsumi) authors an anime. Mugita Kinoshita directs the anime. Norio Nitta is the director’s secretary. The characters are modeled by Kinoshita and Hiromi Nakayama. Kenji Katō is the director of sculpture. Tatsue Sanzaki is responsible for the creation of the colors. Miyabi Amada is a photography director.

Source: website, Comic Natalie, Twitter