Bacillus tries to eliminate Birdy by luring her into a movie shooting as cover. Birdy's commanding officer, Magius, informs Tsutomu that his original body is being restored and it will be some time before he can live outside of Birdy's body. Tsutomu thought that it was all a dream until he found that he was unable to control his body one night after he was supposedly dead.īirdy and Tsutomu try to cope with existing by sharing one body, but leading two separate lives. When Birdy realizes that she has accidentally fatally wounded him, she decides that the only way to save his life is to share a body with him in order to keep his consciousness alive. During one night on a routine mission to apprehend the said criminal, a civilian named Tsutomu Senkawa is used as a human shield. While pursuing alien criminals named Bacillus and Geega, Birdy Cephon Altera and Tuto infiltrate Earth under the cover of a rising Japanese idol and her manager. The opening theme is "Sora" by Hearts Grow, while the ending theme is "Let's Go Together" by Afromania # This season uses two musical themes: one opening and one ending. To save his life, Birdy merges her body with his.Īs the two work together on maintaining their lives, a mysterious person wishes to uses the Ryunka in order to commit genocide on the entire Earth. In the midst of her work, she accidentally kills a Japanese national named Senkawa Tsutomu. Episodes Birdy the Mighty: Decode īirdy the Mighty: Decode starts when Birdy secretly entered Earth to track down an alien criminal named Geega as an Earth Federation police officer. A trailer for Birdy the Mighty Decode was announced on its official website. It was then revealed in the Tokyo International Anime Fair that the show would be aired in the summer as Birdy the Mighty: Decode. īirdy the Mighty: Decode was first announced under the name Birdy the Movement. The show was licensed to North America by FUNIMATION, scheduled for release in 2010. It's rare for a sequel to better a prequel but Birdy S2 most certainly did.The following is a list of episodes for Birdy the Mighty: Decode episodes, which aired on various Japanese television stations on 4 July 2008. Oh well - at least S2 didn't come across anywhere near as fillerish as S1 and didn't end with plot reset / memory loss rubbish. but, since S2 credited the new, 2008 sequel manga, I'm guessing S1 butchered / altered the source material to the point that the two aren't recognisable when placed alongside each other. The only positive is that the Birdy II manga is currently being translated at a reasonable pace. It makes the events of S1 appear even more pointless. There's no real chance of S3, and that means we'll never get to know what the deal is with Gomez and Revi. It's a shame both S1 and S2 sold poorly - S2 only coming to be because the budget for both seasons had been set when S1 was made. I wasn't really fond of it but I was still able to get into the action, and it beat the shounen speed-lines treatment! I mean, why did the female villain kill her commander, after it was shown that he'd saved her in the past? That didn't make a whole lot of sense especially when Gomez didn't keep his word.Īnd as for the animation, the staff picked movement over consistent art - hence lots of 'off' / ugly faces when the focus shifted to action. But, then, it simply ran out of momentum and the characters' actions started to become hard to accept. And I was very appreciative of the fact that Birdy's backstory was tied into it all, alongside some good old fashioned childhood love cuteness. The bullet-in-gut time reversal bit is one of the best anime moments my eyes have seen, and tales of brutal vengeance ALWAYS have an edge of intensity that makes up for their simplicity. Until all the cards had been placed on the table, the series was great. Nataru fight just wasn't very good, and some lip-sucking action didn't make up for it.Īlso, what was with The Butterfly Effect / The Terminator moment? Wouldn't Nataru's adult self have had to exist in the past to begin with in order to save himself - as well as Birdy - from death in the explosion?. It didn't come across as if it was well-planned in advance, and the way Nataru regained his sanity by talking to a kid he barely knew - after Birdy's begging fell on deaf ears - was another '.What?' moment. so good, in fact, that I'm gonna kill my woman! MUHAHAHA!!!!" went against his character. Nataru suddenly going all "It feels good to kill. The "blob animation" issue aside, this was my main problem with Birdy's end-game. Senkawa pops up out of Birdy's body and almost talks to Nataru, and suddenly Nataru decides he's not a psycho anymore?
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