#ODDTAXI

[kewpiekills]

happy holidays!! put that old man in a skirt this year!

[fizzstix]

messaging... texting even... communicating........

[haveyouseenthisanime-poll]

[mclovinballz]

Tanaka in My outfit pt 2

[meanderingmoles]

very fun awesome anime (i’ve been doodling nothing else for days)

[lordofdestructionm]

Its hilarious that before the full story of Odd Taxi and all the side materials came out people assumed that Sekiguchi must HATE working for Yano.

The constantly rapping , rude, bratty, childish, scrawny little gangster, bossing around this massive mountain of a man that could pick him up with one hand. That he must have only been doing it for the money and inside just constantly rolling his eyes and cursing his lot in life

When really

The guy is the biggest simp/malewife I have EVER seen

[bl0ss0mlily]

was feeling silly and kinda missed drawing them

[skunkdex]

Shun Imai from Oddtaxi has been added to the skunkdex!

[yanoharuhito]

my sekiyano collection (not pictured: sekiyano poster, 3 foot polar bear plush)

[kewpiekills]

i have totally normal feelings about miss shirakawa

[mclovinballz]

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Side B Round 1 Match 10

Propaganda:

Yano -

"he speaks EXCLUSIVELY in rap. dances all the time. has a poor diet, his safefood is candy. speaks very directly to people, others tend to not understand what he's saying (hence the rap.) wears headphones very often and travels via his scooter. not autism related but he's also a criminal."

Komaeda -

"Has feelings of insecure and is very stubborn with his thinking of if something good happens, something bad will always follow it up. Often says strange or unsettling things without realizing the effect they may take on others. Tries to be helpful but sometimes gives off uneasy vibes."

[lordofdestructionm]

Yano and Sekiguchi

More than boss and bodyguard?

These two Yakuza gangsters are a big part of the Odd Taxi manga and anime. In the show itself it is made clear that the large and intimidating Sekiguchi has a LOT of respect for his small, eccentric, rapping boss, to the point it borders on reverance.

While this could just be deference to his boss and respect for the hierarchy, he does not behave this way towards anyone else, even other higher ranked Yakuza members like Dobu. While Yano for his part is never shown seriously scolding or losing his temper with his henchman, even when the latter fails in some way, like not stopping Dobu from taking their hostage, or not checking the money they recieved was real before their arrest at the end of the series

But its the extra content for the series that makes it very clear how close this bond is.

Yano tells us in his song that Dobu refused to take him to a Yakiniku (BBQ) place because they are "the kinda place you'd take someone on a date", only for Sekiguchi to reveal in his song that Yano took him somewhere like that

Sekiguchi is shown to have a violently intense jealousy of Dobu and his history with Yano...

His talk of “being left behind” implying that he thinks he is just a "rebound" from Yano’s falling out with Dobu and that if things improve between them ("Black crows can turn white") Yano will throw him away, and that "violence is neccessary", meaning he feels he may need to "prove himself" to Yano by defeating Dobu.

This seems to be an entirely uneccessary jealousy and a paranoia of someone taking Yano away from him

Later in the same song Sekiguchi starts making clear just how much he looks after Yano, to the point he seems to behave like his butler/valet rather than just a bodyguard or hired muscle. Meaning he is going far beyond his job description to be close to him

He even gives Yano advice on buttoning up his shirt, raising the question of why Yano is shirtless in his bodyguards company

This "malewife" side to the usually terrifying enforcer is further backed up by this official art

Yano saying in his song that he "hates Dobu making him look bad in front of Sekiguchi" specifically which parallels Sekiguchi not wanting to look weak in front of Yano in the show.

They are both very concerned about looking their best in front of each other

Yano is his audio while rapping at Sekiguchi while unconscous from the fight with Dobu, and instead of being angry he lost the fight makes clear that he is hungry but that he usually relies on the big guy to help him with this sort of thing, not beinf used to using Uber etc

Tellingly he say he doesn't want to ask another henchman to bring food to their warehouse hideout as the place is "secret", impying its a place only for them

Yano calls Sekiguchi his “family”,  promises him he "won’t let him say he is lonely anymore" and that he sees them as underdogs that will rise to the top together, and that "eveyone else is fake", and therefore that they can only rely on each other

Other details include the scents sold with the Odd Taxi brand had this line attached to Sekiguchi’s bottle

Then of course there are things the Odd Taxi director himself has posted

[bl0ss0mlily]

ya know?

[charlituoso]

Chicago X ODDTAXI

Original scenes

[rin-henricov]

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