Táxi do Tempo

"If only I had chosen a different path...” Life can be full of regrets. But Time Taxi is a mysterious taxi that can take its passengers back to a point in time where they can “retry” different actions, and make different choices. Edawakare, the stubbornly chatty driver, is their host and helper.

Time Taxi turns into a getaway car carrying hostages! Hirano, a room-and-board owner is the passenger in this episode, who still can’t get over the one big mistake in his youth. Can Hirano save himself? Does a sad fate await him and his hostages?

Edawakare drives Marina to no particular destination; she just wants to drive aimlessly as she tries to mend her broken heart in the back seat. She had been in an illicit relationship with a married man, but if she could do things over, what decisions would she make? She now has a chance to change things around...

Asakura picks up a lottery ticket worth 100-million yen, and takes the Time Taxi to rush back in time to the bank, because the deadline was over an hour ago! But things do not go as smoothly as he had hoped. Will Asakura get to redeem the winning lottery-ticket? What will he lose along the way, and will his efforts be worth the price?

This episode’s passenger is a doctor, Misako, who is looking to find a potential husband at a marriage-finding party. She finds her ideal man sitting at her table, and yet, a rival enters the scene to steal her thunder. She decides to take Time Taxi to the past to wreak revenge against the rival.

Edawakare is a maniac manga-fan of the weekly series “Gullible Treasure.” But its illustrator is a flake, he has already taken three weeks off of publication. Misora of the magazine’s editing department must get his manuscript this week or else she’ll get fired. Will she convince him to finish the manuscript? Edawakare, the fan that he is, decides to actively take part in making it happen...

This episode's passenger is Mari who is about to become a big time celebrity, but dirt from her past rises to the public surface, tarnishing her reputation; it also puts her marriage-engagement in jeopardy. Will going in back in time undo the tangles, will Mari's choices bring her a happy ending?

This week is chock full of passengers -- Yuka, a passenger from a previous episode, calls the Time Taxi again to try to help her grandmother return to a time when her husband was alive so that she can grant her husband's dying wish. And that's not the only passenger making a reappearance...