RoOT/Route of Odd Taxi
RoOT/Route of Odd Taxi is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuya Konomoto and illustrated by Takeichi Abaraya. It is a spin-off to the Odd Taxi series. It was serialised on Shogakukan's Superior Dalpana website from February 2023 to April 2025, with its chapters collected in six volumes. A television drama adaptation aired on TV Tokyo from April to June 2024.
Plot
Taking place at the same time as the events of Odd Taxi, two detectives from the Ibusuki Detective Agency, Rena and Sato, are tasked to investigate whether a banker's having an affair. But when a yakuza gangster named Dobu steals the evidence, the two are forced to take up another job when Taeko Harada wants them to tail Hiroshi Odokawa and find out the extent of his involvement with the missing girl in Nerima.Rena subsequently gets involved because she knows the missing girl on a personal level.
Media
Manga
Written by Kazuya Konomoto and illustrated by Takeichi Abaraya, RoOT/Route of Odd Taxi started in Shogakukan's Superior Dalpana website from February 24, 2023, to April 25, 2025. The first volume was released on May 30, 2023, and the sixth and last on May 30, 2025.Drama
In January 2024, it was announced that RoOT/Route of Odd Taxi would be adapted into a television drama, which premiered on TV Tokyo on April 3 of the same year. The show is also available on various streaming sites in Japan including Netflix, U-NEXT, TSUTAYA DISCAS, Hulu Japan, ABEMA, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and DMM TV.The show stars Yuumi Kawai as Rena and Ryota Bando as Satō. It is directed and written by Takafumi Tsuchiya.
The series' opening theme is "Chikagoro" by, while and Sumin performed the theme song "Roller Coaster". Crunchyroll has licensed the series for worldwide streaming outside of Japan in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS countries.