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Odd Taxi - Ep 4 (English Dub)

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00:00I'm in a big way.
00:06I'm in a car.
00:09I'm in a car.
00:13I'm in a car.
00:18What can I see?
00:21What can I see?
00:25What can I see?
00:40The way I see this problem is.
00:45I'm in a car.
00:50I got a rhythm for a new class
00:53I became somewhat flungy
00:56I'm so inspired by a self
00:59and I wanna know my memories
01:04The sky starts
01:05To the sky close to me
01:12I wanna know my feelings
01:15All the leads to the point.
01:34I'm serious.
01:42Hey, slow down.
01:44What are you trying to do?
01:45Our story begins four years ago.
01:49I had just started working for a game company.
01:52I was playing lots of free-to-play games from a competition for research.
01:56I don't care for modern games, honestly.
02:00Games are supposed to be an escape from reality.
02:04Having friends, money, and time gives you an advantage.
02:08It's no different than reality.
02:10Going back even further, when I was in the third grade, there was a brief period of time when collecting erasers was all the rage.
02:20This fad came about because our homeroom teacher was very firm teaching us about the wealth gap.
02:27Possessions were standardized, and students were told to stick to the average score.
02:31However, we came to discover there was one loophole.
02:36Stationary.
02:36Erasers of varying types are usually included with stationary sets, so our class became obsessed with collecting them.
02:43It was a contest of who had the rarest ones, one of the most.
02:46That alone determined our class hierarchy.
02:50No, that's an exaggeration.
02:52Actually, it's a lie.
02:54As you'd expect, athletic kids, smart kids, strong fighters, attractive kids, artistic kids, and funny kids naturally stood at the top.
03:05But for the rest of us who didn't have any of those qualities, collecting erasers was the last hope we could cling to for squeezing into the top.
03:13Nope.
03:14Still lying.
03:15Still exaggerating.
03:17Even among the kids who had nothing to offer, there were only two of us who took eraser collecting seriously.
03:23Me, and another kid named Sato.
03:26Sato was the bane of my existence.
03:29His parents frequently traveled for work, which meant he was lonely.
03:32He'd ask his parents to bring him rare erasers as souvenirs from their travels.
03:36He'd buy some with his allowance, too.
03:39I think the reason I decided to step into the ring and participate in this pointless showdown between the two of us
03:45was because I was fortunate enough to already possess one rare eraser who was shaped like a dodo.
03:51My relatives bought it for me while they were overseas.
03:55I loved birds.
03:57I read my bird encyclopedia again and again until the pages wore out.
04:01You're an unusual birdie, aren't you?
04:05One time, I begged my father to buy me a bird as a pet.
04:10He took me into the pet shop with the understanding that we'd just look around, but he ended up buying me a gray male cockatiel.
04:18I named him Maru.
04:20He told my mother he was trying to help cultivate my aesthetic sensibilities, and I think the low price tag helped.
04:26They bought my brother expensive computer games, so Maru must have been cheap by comparison.
04:33While doing my best to care for him, we bonded, and a relationship of trust between us was born.
04:40But back to my story.
04:41My dodo eraser was rare for sure, but the other erasers I could afford on my allowance didn't stand a chance against Sato's collection.
04:49A handful of students were always there to fawn over his new acquisitions.
04:53I found it unbearably frustrating.
04:55I'd smugly return to using an ordinary eraser after trying several other ones.
05:00Or say things like, this is what they use at art colleges instead of erasers while using bread.
05:05But these low-class techniques I tried to pass off as high-class ones were always a tragic failure, and I tasted defeat every day.
05:13Then, something happened.
05:16Hmm?
05:21A Tanraku eraser.
05:25This is it, I thought.
05:31There was only one of them in the whole world.
05:34This was my only chance to turn things around.
05:37I'd show him.
05:38I returned home, and once my family was asleep, I took my father's credit card from his wallet and wrote down its number and other info.
05:48Since there was no other way to pay for it, I needed a credit card to complete the transaction.
05:52It was a common card.
05:54Anyone could have one, even a student.
05:56When I realized that fact later, I became a little sentimental.
06:01But that's a story for another time.
06:03Check it out.
06:05My dad bought this one for me while my parents were involved.
06:07Just you wait.
06:08That day, after school, during the brief time before my brother got home, I prepped up and registered an account.
06:16Huh?
06:163,000 yen?
06:17There were zero bids with three days left on the auction.
06:21Since my time at the computer was limited, there was no time to strategize.
06:26I bid immediately.
06:27It was 3,000 yen.
06:29That wasn't cheap for someone like me, but I couldn't risk that the price would rise even higher.
06:34I erased the history and any other trace that I'd use the computer and ate dinner with my family like nothing had happened.
06:44Hey mom, any dessert?
06:46I felt like I'd gotten away with it and was stoked.
06:48I was like a super spy and a super hacker.
06:57The next day...
06:59It went up.
07:03I had a rival.
07:05In hindsight, this piece of shit was hardly worth it.
07:08I entered 3,600 yen into the field and clicked to bid.
07:13Then, on the final day of the auction...
07:164,000?
07:20My rival was stubborn.
07:22I felt like they were determined to win this, no matter the cost.
07:25Battling an opponent with unknown intentions and budget is the charm and the curse of online auctions.
07:30However, I was determined.
07:33I typed 4,100 yen and pressed bid.
07:36There's no time.
07:49It was as though I'd been arrested on false charges and was desperately trying to prove my innocence, while the police kept presenting more and more physical evidence against me.
08:09No, that too is an exaggeration and a lie.
08:14But it's true that the despair I experienced is hard to describe.
08:18That's when it happened.
08:20I'm home.
08:21This jerk...
08:27This jerk...
08:28I know they're gonna outbid me...
08:30This jerk...
08:47This jerk...
08:49Hey...
08:50There was...
08:52Something I wanted to look up?
08:54I told you not to touch my stuff!
08:56the message confirmed it i definitely won the auction i'd lost my mind you guys want to play
09:09soccer sure in japan a group of citizens once staged a revolution due to their discontent over
09:19the economic divide in this classroom our teachers efforts to prevent the wealth gap
09:24from widening produced an unexpected and twisted backlash in exactly one student it wasn't organized
09:30like an uprising or a rebellion it was a revolt brought about by a single individual i called it
09:37tanaka's revolution once again i returned home and messaged the seller regarding the shipping
09:42address for the eraser all that remained was to wait for my danraku eraser to arrive
09:47one week passed no delivery
09:56soon one month passed my danraku eraser hadn't arrived and the policy was no refunds no returns
10:05i know there were plenty of things i could have done but at the time i believed that the no refunds
10:10no returns policy was just another way of saying i was screwed besides i bid on the eraser of my own
10:17free will i had no right to demand compensation and i had nothing to return sato and the rest of my
10:23classmates had already lost all interest in erasers third graders sure do grow up fast don't they
10:33when my father reviewed his credit card statement he beat the living hell out of me
10:37as he was doing it i began to wonder whose fault was this my teacher my classmates sato
10:47my brother my father the seller the bitter me my country history civilization the government god
10:57no matter how i looked at it it was clearly my fault there was only one loser in this situation
11:04and without a doubt it was me and so tanaka's revolution ended
11:12returning to a previous topic i've since come to despise competing with others as well as anything
11:16without a real form have a good night oh thanks you as well games are meant to be played all alone
11:23just you doing battle against the developer
11:25that's when a certain game caught my eye zoological garden commonly known as zuden you raise unique
11:35animals and put them in exhibits you're a zoo director and you compete for ranks on a worldwide
11:40scale i had plenty of fun playing as much as i could for free i think collecting erasers back then
11:47became the basis for this my rank was awful but i didn't care i was happy when i gained guests
11:53and when i acquired a rare animal my brain tingled dangerously there was one character i was
11:59determined to get the dodo the game is set up to where the rarity of animals is ranked using terms
12:06such as normal or rare as an extinct species the dodo was special super rare it could be pulled from
12:12the free gotcha but the odds were extremely low looking back i took part in eraser collecting
12:18because i had the dodo now i was playing zoo den in order to acquire the dodo when i made that
12:24comparison i felt as though this was my destiny i was meant to acquire it maybe i'd spend a little
12:31money i figured that would be it i added 500 yen to my account and pulled the gotcha
12:40the dugong endangered species super rare i pretty much lost all restraint by this point
12:46i checked out my ranking it was terrible as usual but out of curiosity i looked to see who was number one
12:52the name that conned me out of 100 000 yen
13:07no maybe it didn't arrive because of shipping issues or something besides i didn't bear them any resentment
13:14at all there was no guarantee it was even the same person but still maybe it couldn't just be a
13:22coincidence that i'd been reunited with this string of letters i felt that it was destiny if i took revenge
13:29it'd be on my past self and it would be my present self who would save my past self
13:35if i took revenge if i took revenge it'd be on my past self and it would be my present self who would
13:50save my past self that was four years ago i'm still playing zuden thanks to the addition of new systems
13:59and events reflecting the real world keeping the game fresh its content is still popular around the world
14:05a real big win for the development team good morning
14:11i've now spent over five million yen on this game i'm still ranked in the triple digits
14:17and i still don't have a dodo good idea the whole budget on research i hear you but we have to
14:23hey tanaka are you listening uh tanaka tanaka tanaka tanaka tanaka perhaps i was projecting myself onto it
14:34i mean when you think about it it was just like me
14:38no if i died without achieving anything i wouldn't even be rare i'd just be normal
14:45as a game with worldwide popularity its market size is naturally large there are even intermediaries
14:51who buy and sell entire accounts my triple digit ranked account that i'd spend over five million yen on
14:57would only sell for a few hundred thousand if ditch 11's account appeared on the market it'd be worth a lot
15:03an account with a dodo could be mine for tens of thousands of yen but that's not it it's not the
15:12same what's it about then i ask myself the romance the catharsis the release from oppression social
15:22recognition a sense of superiority i tried on highbrow words for size no the truth is i already
15:30know i know those fancy words and phrases don't apply here it's simpler than that yes a sickness
15:39it's a sickness shut your mouth i didn't say anything i dropped thousands of yen on a game like it was
15:46nothing i'd gone numb my one desire was getting my hands on a dodo as vengeance and salvation for the
15:55boy i was years ago and to get closer to ditch 11 who continues to reign from the number one spot
16:01ditch 11 i'm coming for you
16:25no no my 16 years oh my work finally paid off i did it i did it
16:51i don't know
17:04i don't know
17:18sir your backed up data has been restored
17:34i was stunned my mind went blank i couldn't think i don't remember walking home
17:43the loss i felt over the dodo i definitely acquired robbed me of all my willpower
17:50but fate is cruel and in my darkest hour god had taken something else from me
17:56i think that was the moment the blue flame inside of me finally came to life
18:06and i knew it wasn't god who took my dodo from me it was that taxi it's not as though someone took
18:13maru away from me either the life expectancy of a cockatiel is about 15 years he lived a full life
18:20it just happened to end today but sometimes thinking about this unfortunate coincidence makes me wonder
18:27if there really even is a god
18:29in games at a dead end the player often acquires a valuable item it's convenient of course it is
18:39after all someone made it that way it's possible someone made this world too
18:44who knows maybe they even programmed it looks like there is a god hello there
18:52this happened three days ago
18:59my maru the dodo taxi taxi kill my maru ow watch where you're going buddy
19:11and when you bump into someone you should apologize it's common sense
19:16wait hold up just a second what's wrong you've got the face of a serial killer
19:27just curious my job has made me inquisitive you sound rural what made you come into this city
19:34rural well i guess everywhere is rural compared to tokyo huh you chasing a dream or something that's
19:40right i came to tokyo for fame and fortune and to leave my mark on the world but you haven't done
19:47that yet not yet but rome wasn't built in a day you know what do you think you need to succeed if i
19:53knew that my life would be easy my partner tells me that it's dumb luck though your partner yeah sort of
20:00a business partner look huh maybe he's right well maybe he is and maybe he isn't either way i don't want
20:08to leave anything behind if i can control it if you're trying to make it to the top in a place
20:11like tokyo there are plenty of things to consider besides luck so you're saying that dodo isn't lucky
20:16is that it huh what do you mean by that i thought we were on the same road but now i don't know if we're
20:26on the same planet i feel like i've always been searching for something and yet at the same time my
20:36life has always been lacking something and desperately acquiring that something yields only a brief
20:42moment of fleeting pleasure far from being any meaningful good fortune it's simply a moment of
20:49happiness produced by the release of dopamine and that's the single word that always follows after
20:58i've acquired something i want and so what my other self always asks me in those moments it's always
21:06there hand in hand with nihilism a truly formless pleasure but right now i'm experiencing being alive
21:15it's because i found what i wanted the moment i lost my dodo it wasn't just an addition to my collection
21:22that ended once acquired so then what shall i do next the possibilities excite me it's a rare item
21:31with potential for development i believe we all possess the impulse to attack an impulse that grows
21:37more exciting by the moment especially when it seems like no one would blame you i've been walking for
21:44three days since then i'm used to chasing odds far steeper and more mind-boggling but this time it's
21:51different i felt something like a premonition earlier i said i could seize it if i let go of my attachments
21:58but there's another way to acquire what i want and that would be by holding tightly onto a powerful
22:05attachment that transcends all else hey slow down
22:24uh
22:45so
22:45somebody jump on it to the night we go take me
22:49a mind that can do sweets like ocean more retrofit you and me
22:53gone see is it banksy got to show more or spicy
22:57ooh what's the love inside my heart open the windows wind i need
23:03dancing dancing with the star looking into your eyes
23:08as well when i kiss you dancing dancing without stop melting into the night
23:16from being hard i'm feeling you are you are moving like a cloud
23:22tonight i don't wanna be going home
23:26a night being pretending to be a story in the true distance
23:35i've never seen someone actually point them out when they say something is full of mistakes or flaws
23:40why not carefully verbalize each and every one huh probably too stupid to do so you're pretty drunk
23:45uh maybe i'll win the lottery your job is like a lottery
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