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Birdy The Mighty: DECODE Final Impressions – What Is This, World Destruction?

Omisyth — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:24:38 +0000

Hey, look, a reset end. I guess I didn’t waste my time at all with this show!

I had a more detailed look at the series done, but Yukan! had some downtime in the middle of me editing this post, so I’ll make this short.

Birdy will forever go down as one of my most disappointing series. The first episode had style and flair, great animation and a good premise, but as soon as we got deeper into the (if you could call it this) plot, everything started going down hill. Why? Because of the focus on Senkawa, a crappy lead, his relationship with Nakasugi, and their interesting boring and irritating high school compatriots. I can completely understand wanting to develope characters in a story, but when you take side-characters who have no relevance to the main storyline whatsoever, have no redeeming qualities and let them and their lives start to take centre stage, it’s not a good sign. But I could have even put up with that if it weren’t for Senkawa. He is a completely useless whiny weak sidekick that really dragged the show down. I thought it was going to be fun with mindless action and some comedy, but instead I got the 2dimensional character of Senkawa who has no idea what he’s doing half the time. He actually had trouble fighting statues in the last episode. Immobile objects.

The other characters are even worse. Half of them are completely irrelevant to the plot and did NOTHING in the overall scheme of things; if the creators had trimmed the fat cast wise, then maybe the story would have had a lot more momentum. Like the time they went to abuse space dogs, what the hell wasthat about? Or when we suddenly had some sort of random irrelevant ghost story. They should have at least kept the effiminate goth manager (poor Tute)/ Arita Shion angle just to keep some comedic value in the show.

Shyamalan ended up being a horrible protagonist, I don’t care about the ironic message him being destroyed by that which he created, I just thought that his was building up to a more significant climax only to see the guy who kept stripping off his glasses in an eviiiiil way and looked like a crazy badass to be turned into dust in seconds. Hell, the Ryunka was a better protagonist than him (and beter at being a crazy badass). It’s one of the few times I’d wished a series would have ended with the world being obliterated (like World Destruction). The music was good, except for the fact that what happened in the episodes was didn’t suit the grand scale of the soundtrack half the time (Senkawa! Running through a hall! PLAY EPIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC.) The art and animation was all over the place, great at some times, horrible at others.

Overall, Birdy’s potential was slowly being destroyed the longer Senkawa spent on screen, the longer we focused on his meaningless friends, and the longer the series went without a decent action scene (there weer actually 2 good fights out of thirteen episodes. What a severe underusage of Birdy’s crazy power). I’ll check out the second season in the feeble hope that it might return to the glory of it’s first episode, but there’s no way in hell I’ll blog it.

Birdy The Mighty: DECODE 7/8 – IT KILLS YOU WITH HUGS/Would Somebody Please Make Bandanna-Man SHUT THE HELL UP?!

Omisyth — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:28:53 +0000

The greatest weapons ever created./Seriously, someone punch him in the face.

I watched the episodes seperately as I like to see how my thoughts change episodically as the series goes on. Not much of a difference, though…

Edit: Seems the show’s over and I have no posts on 9-13, so I’m just going to do a series review for it. Look out for Xam’d 8-12 as well (in double-episodic format).

Episode 7

Short Summary:

Serial killings are going on throughout the subway systemat night, accompanied by a strange song. Birdy manages to lure the culprit into a trap and destroys it, discovering that it’s a marionette gone berserk. Shyamalan furthers his plans to use the Riunka by becoming associates with the womand who’s had a bird guardian on her shoulder, who Birdy believes is from the federation. Nakasugi continues to act weird, sleep-walking and the such, and Senkawa’s sister gets wasted several times.

Thoughts:

Well, that did nothing to advance the plot whatsoever. The whole Naksugi being the killer angle was just a red herring, thought you could probably figure that out as they kept shoving it in your face so much that you had to think otherwise. Plus the animation just seems to be getting progressively worse, though I have ano idea where the budget must be going as there was no real action in this episode either. I could talk about this being an interesting individual case with the crazy marionette killing people with hugs of doom looking for its Mama, but even with that partial distraction from the other glaring problems in the show, my lack of enthusiasm for the series is definitely increasing. Nothing so far has measured up to the first and third episodes, and the lack of real plot developement since then is irritating. I just learned there’s a second season in the works, so maybe the writers are planning to drag things out with filler such as this, which would be a huge blow to the series as it had good pacing up until the whole “Let’s go to Birdy’s home planet and hurt dogs” thing. It’s really declining in quality, and next episode doesn’t look any better; it’s called “Ghost Village” where everyone seems to be going to Nakasugi’s other house (god forbid she’d have another “party” at her own home) and we’re looking more at the stupid love affair going on between Senkawa and her (which BORES me). Oh yeah, Muroto’s still useless and it’s nice to see how much of a lightweight Birdy is at drinking.

Girlfriend? Senkawa? DOES NOT COMPUTE.

Episode 8

Short Summary:

Senkawa and friends spend the first sixteen minutes of the episode exploring abandoned buildings. Then Nakasugi FINALLY turns into at least a partial form of the Riunka and starts vaporising things. Birdy chases her but somehow manages to lose the glowing harbinger of doom in the forest and the next day the authorities are everywhere in the aftermath of the disaster.

Thoughts:

That was just painful to watch for the first 16 minutes. Nothing significant happened AT ALL. Since when the hell did this show turn into “Days in the Life of Senkawa’s Friends: Scooby Doo Edition”? Do we really give a damn if there are footsteps on the ceiling? This shows about kick-ass alien fighting action and doomsday chemicals, it’s not supposed to be the retaraded love child of Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted. If the episode was meant to flesh out the characters so I thought they were even more annoying and generic then I believe applause is necessary; I’ve already forgotten half their names, but Bandanna man stikcs out as the only anime character who has made me wish to kill him within 20 seconds of hearing him speak. He juist doesn’t have any sort of volume other than SHOUT REALLY LOUDLY ALL THE TIME AND WHINE AND WHINE ABOUT EVERYTHING AND ENERGETIC PEOPLE ARE SOMEHOW LIKEABLE EVEN IF THEY’RE IRRITATING AND TALK ABOUT BULLSHIT. Ugh, I hope Nakasugi kills him, I really do, and I hope she makes it extremely painful. Senkawa also has one of the stupidest sounding ringtones ever.

But anyway, on to the good about the episode (bet you didn’t see that coming). It was interesting to see a plot hint about Shyamalan’s early life, he looks as crazy and sinister as a kid in rags as he does as an adult buisnessman. Nakasugi = crazy killer disintegration psycho, which = good. Not much else to say, though I did like the lok on mysterious bird woman’s expression when Nakasugi threw a shockwave of death in her face. The way they revealed her to be the Riunka makes me think they believe their audience is completely comprised of slowpoke.jpg’s as they made ot out to be SUCH A TWIST! Not sure how Birdy could just completely give up on looking for the Riunka though; we somehow managed to skip past a good chunk of the night to the morning where Senkawa’s just chillin’ with his friends while everyone’s questioned by the police, and Nakasugi’s completely back to normal. I guess doomsday items aren’t that much of a threat anymore.

Get me a really huge painful spear to shove into his stomach.

Birdy The Mighty: DECODE 6 – It’s Party Time!

Omisyth — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:37:32 +0000

Too bad the party sucks.There isn’t a chance in hell I’m doing a longer summary for this episode.
Short Summary:
While Birdy and Senkawa investigate the scene of Senkawa’s death for clues about a marionette robot, his classmates enjoy Nakasugi’s party. Shyamalan talks with yet another blond-haired man with glasses about the Riunka and “raising” it, Sanada meets with Muroto to discuss Shyamalan’s powerful hold on her companies’ members, the old maid Yoshio believes Nakasugi’s acting odd and Senkawa shows up and has a touching time with Nakasugi where they both understand each other as they both “died” somewhat, blah blah blah Nakasugi completely loses it and tries to kill the cyberbird which belongs to the mysterious woman (and can also speak telepathically, it seems).

Next Time:

The shit hits the fan.
Nakasugi starts killing people.
Something vital to the main plot actually happens.

Thoughts:

God, this was boring. Nothing happens at all that hasn’t already occured until the last 30 seconds. To our surprise it turns out that ZOMG NAKASUGI IS THE RIUNKA!!! And then we had an extremely cute and emotional stupid and pointless talk about death and how they’d both died and empathy and how they want to have hawt secks. The whole thing was just emo interweaved with “Days in the Life Of Senkawa’s Friends: Extended Edition”. They are completely useless, until the show’s climax anyway, when they’ll probably all band together for a fight against the, at the moment, nonexistent big bad boss.When Shyamalan and Sanada showed up I thought things would get interesting, maybe a few revelations but instead they each said respectively “I know what I’m doing” and “People are scared of Shyamalan’s power”. Yay for covering new ground -_-.

The animation took a huge dip as well. We’ve gone from awesome fight scenes full of explosions and high speed action to weird character designs for everyone but the two main characters. Hayamiya’s face looked like it was going to collapse in on itself at one point.

Fortunately next week looks mildly interesting, with Nakasugi’s late night trips as a werewolf killing people. I may be sound obsessed with her killing people but that’s because I want someone to die in this show so the characters can do something other than have one of the most distinguished crappiest parties I’ve ever seen.

These characters are some of the most deeply developed and useful I’ve seen in any show.

Don’t you see it?

Swimming is a metaphor for facing and conquering your fears.

Bet you never thought of that, did you?

Birdy The Mighty: DECODE 5 – Girls Do The Craziest Things

Omisyth — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:17:43 +0000

Like hang out with terrorists when they don’t want to kill people.

Short Summary:

After the explosion, which seemingly killed the Union Council General, Bay Gelabu Belashi, Birdy heads into a Red Light District looking for an Ulugarian, who seem to be a race who are heavily affiliated with terrorism (I still don’t understand the reasopn they targeted him specifically). On opposite sides of the silver river, the Union and the Federation, are arguing over the neutral zone Aolis and this has lead to many conflicts between the two. She finds the Ulugarian in a bar and tries to coax information out of him along with his partner but they figure out what’s going on and try to escape. Just as the Ulugarian corners Birdy, Nejula shows up and kills him. She tries to kill the partner as well, but Birdy stops her, and in the meantime one of the dancers from the bar, who turns out to be his ally, casts a smokescreen and airlifts him out of the area. Though Birdy complains about Nejula’s actions to the Megius Investigation Department, there’s nothing she can do about it due to Nejula’s rank. At that time, it’s revealesd that the terrorist King-Zero, who, though he’s sent a message that he’s going to blow up the Union consulate unless Birdy and Nejula become enoys to convey the fact the Federation give in to his demands, is actually going to attack the “commitee” (could be the federation, though subs weren’t that clear) with a satellite. At the M.I.D, Skeletsu, Weegie and Bugman discuss what’s going on, and as the Union fleets are lining along Aolis, there’s a danger of this ending up in war.

Nejula meets Birdy at the scene of the explosion, where we learn that the white-haired woman from her memories was actually the marionette mother who raised her named Violin, as she didn’t have her real parents growing up. The two head to the meeting point, but it’s a trap, and though Nejula escapes, Birdy ends up stuck under the rubble of the building they were in. Later, Senkawa wakes up to see the terrorists and King-Zero himself in front of him. He’s saved only by the pleas of the dancer we saw earlier. At their stronghold, it’s later revealed that Gelabu faked his own death to justify King-Zero’s true attack, dropping the satellite on the commitee. Senkawa manages to sneak out of his cell and grab the control for the satellite, but he’s discovered. Luckily, Birdy choses this time to wake up and kick ass. At the same time, Gelabu tries to make his escape but Nejula’s waiting outside; behind Gelabu appears the partner of the dead Ulugarian, who turns out to be a double agent, and Gelabu realises there’s no way out, and that if this incident is exposed to the public the Union’s reputation would be ruined. Therefore, he kills himself so that his “death in an explosion” story rings true. Back inside the King-Zero’s stronghold, the dancer gets a hold of the control, and Birdy fights Zero, who’s in a robot suit. After learning how many people will die, the dancer blows up the sattelite with the control, and Zero and his subordinates are defeated and arrested.

Back in M.I.D, it’s shown that the Union have withdrawn their forces as the blame for Gelabu’s death has been placed on the terrorists. The double agent, Kashugeza, is introduced by Skeletsu as his subordinate and it turns out not even Bugman knew of his existence. Though Birdy says it would have been better if Kashugeza reported back earlier so that he explosion wouldn’t have happened and people wouldn’t have died, Kashugeza says that if they had done that they wouldn’t have learnt of Union’s plot . Birdy, obviously angry, makes to punch him, but Skeletsu takes the punch and the blame as they were his orders. Birdy and Senkawa leave the planet, and on Earth, he talks to Hayamiya who tells him to go to Nakasugi’s party.

Next Time:

At Nakasugi’s party, Senkawa drowns?

I can hope.

Thoughts:

King-Zero, that is one poorly put together terrorist organisation. Your bitch (literally) betrayed you and one of your best subordinates was a double agent.

Megius Investigation Department, that was one poorly put together investigation. One of your Deities almost killed the double agent without whom the Union’s plot wouldn’t have been foiled.

Senkawa, you still suck. Even if you had the least screentime of every character this episode. Except for the Ulugarian who’s death was surprisingly detailed and painful-looking; imagine having for arms chopped off and then a needle thrown in your head, ouch.

Anway, gripes aside, this episode was slightly better than the last one, but unlike the last one absolutely nothing happened to advance the plot (they killed some terrorists and went home, possibly stopping a war, but I don’t care about all that, I want more info on what’s happening on Earth) and it lost points as it focused on politics, factions and war, and I hate politics, factions and war (unless it’s within the idiotic confines of the world of Code Geass). However, we did see a little more of Birdy’s past with her marionette mom. The terrorists were just odd and forgettable, they’re one-shots for sure, and we didn’t even get any decent action out of it; when you look at the first episode and compare it to this, it’s really not up to par, and I hope that the animation budget hasn’t just been sunk into the first epsiode to grab more viewers. What was said that was interesting is that spies are being sent to Earth, which’ll most likely include Kahugeza things may get started nest episode.

Anyway, back to the real plot next time and though I hoped they’d keep “The Days in the Life of Senkawa’s Friends” to a minimum, that seems impossible after seeing the preview.

New and Improved Senkawa, now with Amazing Stealth Action Skills.

Birdy The Mighty: DECODE 4 – Catching Up Along With The Fansubs Is Fun

Omisyth — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:56:54 +0000

Especially when they increase their RAW quality from crappy to good.

Short Summary:

The interview with Shyamalan goes ahead as planned, and he claims he wants to make everybody in the world happy. Senkawa and Birdy continue living as normal, complete with arguing and banter, until the bastard he decides to insult the Birdy’s memory of Tute, and she somehow manages to get him to knock himself out (which was quite skillful). When he wakes up they’re shooting through space towards Birdy’s planet (on a kickass 3D whale ship) as she’s been called there in regards to Senkawa’s body. On Earth, the schoolmates plan to attend a party at Nakasugi’s house. When they arrive on the planet’s surface, they have an examination performed on them where Senkawa sees some snippets of Birdy’s memory, including a white/blue-haired person. Senkawa acts like a little kid, marvelling at everything that’s around him (and not in a cute way) and generally acting idiotic. Senkawa’s told about hopw his personality might absorb Birdy’s by the bugman hey met in episode two (though then he was in holographic form) and a dog-woman named Weegie Hayo, and that his body’ll be done in three months.

Outside again, they meet Birdy’s Director/Mentor Skeletsu, who gets into a short fight with Birdy and calls Senkawa cute. They continue to a court room, where a woman known as the Deity Nejula begins questioning Birdy, in a rather hostile manner, in the middle of another criminal’s case, about her investigation and failures in the Riunka case. Long story short, we find out that the Riunka is some sort of extremely powerful weapon that destroyed the planet of Bilugema in the medieval age (also during this time, Senkawa also puts a poor legal defence for Birdy that wouldn’t hold up in any self-respecting courtroom). Fortunately, the Deity wasn’t targeting Birdy specifically; she was just trying to give the Megius Investigation Department some information on the Riunka. Birdy receives a mobile/tool of some sort from the M.I.D and decides not to take a new partner and to stick with Senkawa (though why she’d do that, I have no idea). They walk around town for a short while when there’s a car explosion. On Earth, Shyamalan’s claiming that activating the world-destroying Riunka will make everbody happy, while a middle-aged blond man with glasses sits in the room.

Next Time:

Dogs. LOTS of dogs.

Image from Tenka Seiha.

Thoughts:

There’s definitely a problem with me when I’ve got three posts one after the other on this blog.

Anyway, this episode wasn’t that interesting. I’ve decided to just do short summaries for this series as not that much happens to advance the plot each episode. I’m not a complete action-freak (I just got done watching Kaiba which is BLOODY AWESOME) but one of the main attractions of the series was the well-animated fight scenes, and there were practically no fight scenes here, nor was the single one that made it into the episode well-animated.

What important new information we did get can be summarised as:

Riunka destroys worlds.
Body recovery’ll take three months.
New Characters: Deity Nejula and Director Skeletsu Get.

Nothing else was really worth learning about, except for possibly the blue-haired person in Birdy’s memories, butthere’s barely anything to be gotten from that. And the court case was drawn out and very uninteresting.

Senkawa continues to be annoying as hell, especially with him being so amazed at everything like a kid with a brand new set of toys. Nyanko-sensei sums it up well and Senkawa is definitely the latter. He’s becoming increasingly useless, especially as I thought that this was supposed to be more of a partnership than anything else, but he just…sucks. He needs to become more manly, quick. I’d even settle for not as annoying.

Shyamalan’s crazy, that’s for sure; his logic that activating the world destroyer will save the world reminds of Morte’s. Nakasugi’s party is going to be the happening location of major events (and that horrible english was done on purpose) and will hopefully signal the conclusion of “Days in the Life of Senkawa’s Friends”. The mysterious person with a bird on their shoulder didn’t even show up, what happened to that plot thread? Reporter Man is still meaningless, with the accumulation of about 30 seconds of screentime, and Interview Lady (Sanada) even less so with around 15 seconds of screentime. I’m just waiting for something major to happen. And a car explosion at the end of the episode doesn’t count.

Finally, I hope the brand new tool made from Tute’s corpse parts will means he’ll be resurrected somehow.

Stop hitting yourself, Senkawa.

Actually, just keep doing that.

Birdy The Mighty: DECODE 3 – Now I Know There’ll Be A Huge Twist At The End Of The Show

Omisyth — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:47:32 +0000

M.Night Satajito Shyamalan’s in it, after all.

Short Summary:

Senkawa continues to complain about sharing Birdy’s body and despite Tute’s attempts Birdy continues to ignore Senkawa’s pleas. Tute decides to make lunch and do general housecare to make things easier on Senkawa. Nakasugi’s friendhip with Hayamiya leads Senkawa to get a bit closer to her and meanwhile Muroto (the reporter) tries to guilt his former teachers into buying his books. An important trading partner with a company, Satajito Shyamalan, arrives for an important interview with a woman named Sanada.

Tute discusses Geega’s disappearance with Shion’s manager and Birdy reveals to Senkawa she doesn’t actually know what the Riunka is. Geega/Bacillus meets with a different man than before (which may have been Shyamalan in the first episode, with the many dolls in his room) to discuss giving the Riunka to them instead of Shyamalan, but his priorities seem to be centered more around eating Birdy. He shows up at school an manages to damage Tute before going after Birdy. He interrupts Senkawa and Nakasugi and captures the girl; Senkawa manages to fight (albeit poorly) in his own form long enough to get back Nakasugi and to transform into Birdy. She heads to the swimming pool, fights Bacillus and ends up being saved from being eaten by a damaged Tute. Unfortunately, Tute ends up heavily damaged, but gives Birdy permission to exterminate Bacillicus. Afterwards, the mysterious person with a bird on their shoulder looks on, approving of the decision to kill Bacillicus, and Birdy remembers how she first met Tute while the robot shuts down permanently.

Next Time:

Return To Birdy’s Home Planet.

Thoughts:

TUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!! It’s a shame the most entertaining character in the show has been killed off at episode 3, his weird goth persona juxtaposed with the stoic (yet also emotional) robotic one was great to watch. I’d have thought that Bacillicus’ HUEG FIRE BLAST (which came out of NOWHERE) wouldn’t have harmed him, especially as he’s survived lots of blasts like that before, but perhaps the damage he already sustained was too great. Hopefully, he’ll be back in some way, shape or form but I’m not going to get my hopes up.

Senkawa becomes an even further annoyance, still complaining about the situation and I wish he’d just hurry up and get used to it; the whole school life thing is continuing to wear thin as well, as his friends aren’t interesting at all now (except for miscontruing Tute’s relationship with Senkawa as a homosexual one har har) and I also don’t normally care about love interests in shows and Nakasugi’s no different. The only possible use this could have is if, as I said before, the Riunka comes into play somewhere in their relationship, but even so that seems a long way off.

There was some subtle plot developement as well, with more being revealed about who’s after the Riunka. It seems there’s one group, including that guy with the sunglasses talking to Bacillus, Mr. Doll Fetish Satajito Shyamalan with his company and the mysterious person with a bird in their shoulder (who still hasn’t done anything but stand on buildings). It’s nice to see that things are developing slowly outside of the Birdy and Senkawa situation and still giving a nice dose of action to accompany this (though the point of Reporter Man still completely eludes me).

As we’re going to infinity and beyond into outer space next episode, that means less Days in the Life of Senkawa’s Friends (woot) but more of Senkawa complaining (crap).

Love Bentou. A parting gift from Tute ;_;

Birdy the Mighty: DECODE 2 – Zombie Alien

Omisyth — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:54:11 +0000

Exactly what I wanted to see…

Summary:

Nakasugi (the girl Senkawa likes) is involved in a crash with two employees of Geega, the criminal alien, who are carrying the Ryunka. This crash is overseen by the mysterious figure from before with the bird on his shoulder. Senkawa wakes up to see he is within Birdy’s body and she tries to explain what happened to him, but is interrupted by bugman a galactic official who does this for her. He shows Senkawa his dying body and explains that his consciousness will have to remain inside Birdy until his body can be repaired. Tute returns Senkawa to his bedroom, saying Senkawa can get in contact with him through Birdy.

The next day, Senkawa gets into all sorts of hilarious stupid misunderstandings as he must talk to Birdy out loud rather than telepathically, to prevent their minds from being merged. He discovers what has happened to Nakasugi and his classmates make an appointment to meet at the hospital after school. Meanwhile Geega is talking with another alien, Bacillus, who has the ability to eat people and absorb their memories. He’s batshit crazy and quite hungry, determined to get back the Ryunka, which he thinks Birdy has, for Geega. At the same time as the hospital meeting, Shion has had an appointment set up for her by her talent agent; this is overheard by the reporter seen in the previous episode.

Shion/Senkawa/Birdy and Tute arrive at the shoot but no one’s there. Tute’s outer shell is shot by a blaster from behind; it turns out to be a trap by Bacillus to lure out Birdy and get the Ryunka back. He and Birdy fight, all the while being watched by the reporter taking pictures. Bacillus is weakened due to the fact his body is fragile (as it’s from a human) and tries to escape. They end up destroying a building that falls onto the reporter, Muroto Keisuke, and Senkawa guilts Birdy into helping him rather than chasing Bacillus.

Later, Bacillus is severely weakened and decides to eat Geega in a last attempt to stay alive. At school, Senkawa sees that Nakasugi all right and he walks onto the grounds for another day of misunderstandings and conversations with himself Birdy.

Thoughts:

Well, Senkawa pretty much had the reaction anyone could have predicted in this episode. He’s still a bit of a wimp, especially compared to the awesomeness that is Birdy, but hopefully he’ll come to enjoy having a huge amount of power at his fingertips. The preview shows him using Birdy’s power in his own form, so that could be interesting. (It also shows him making out with Leeron Tute)

I’m still curious as to what this Ryunka thing is. We know that Birdy didn’t take it and it was in that car crash which to me looked like it killed Nakasugi. One of the pics shows her in the middle of a crumpled mass of metal with her arm bloodied up; I doubt she would be fine so soon after such a severe accident. The figure with the bird said that something may make a “good host”. Could it be the Ryunka at work on Nakasugi?

What’s the deal with Reporter-man anyway, he’s just going to end up getting in the way at this rate. He may end up getting some sort of powers or something but other wise, he’s completely useless. But not so much as Hayamiya and the school group. At the moment the less we see of them, the better in my opinion. It’s hard to mesh alien-pounding action with school-life and not make the latter seem boring as hell. Hopefully, we can speed past all that nonsense in the show’s limited time frame and get to a more prominent over-arching plot quickly.

The fight itself had relatively good animation, though not as good as the first one. In my opinion, choreography is the greater concern; if you can make a fight flow naturally then the animation dosn’t matter as much.

You are really starting to suck, Senkawa.

Kick his butt, Hayamiya-chan!

Birdy the Mighty Decode First Impressions: Stupid name, Great show.

Omisyth — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:26:07 +0000

This town ain’t big enough for two birdys…

Hehe.

Awesome show is awesome. Horrible pun is horrible.

Bullet Summary:

The Federation Investigator,Birdy, along with her companion Tute, spend a year on earth undercover in search of the alien criminal Geega. Upon finding him, a fight breaks out, in which a young boy named Tsutomu is seemingly killed by Birdy by accident. However, he wakes up in his bed the next day, completely fine. That night, he hears a voice, and later discovers that he has “changed” into Birdy.

I love this show and will be blogging it from now on. I can’t think of many things I dislike about it. The action scenes are well-animated, fluid and well directed. Its just sweet to watch Birdy pound the crap out of things.Birdy’s attitude and “tough girl” demeanour (though she can blow things up by just punching them, so less of a demeanour, more of a reality) and Tsutomu’s indifference towards girls (except the school aidoru) is also entertaining. As long as he isn’t Rito a complete pushover I’m happy. Tute’s deadpan/goth gay characters are equally admirable as well. I don’t know enough about Hayamiya, but I’ll be annoyed if she turns out to be “the best friend who wants to be the girlfriend”. So far, though, I’m happy with her character.

Classic.

The BGM is great and really goes wih the setting of scenes in the show, especially during the acton scenes. Don’t know enough about the overall plot to make a judgement but it seems like things’ll start moving along after more ass-kicking by Birdy/Tsutomu. Although this guy is clearly going to be a large protagonist.

You wouldn’t think that he has a doll fetish, would you?

Also loved the OP but the ED only sounded alright, animation wasn’t much with Tsutomu just walking while basically saying “Yo” to the other characters (while they were all in shadow). Overall, it was a great first episode with subtle plot hints and excellent fights; slated at 13 episodes, I don’t expect the animation budget to decline much (which would annoy me. So very much.)

Don’t let me down, Birdy.

Obliteration.

It’ll screw up your whole day.

If anyone wants would like me to do a more detailed summary from now on, its fine, just make a request.

EDIT: Well, I apparently just completely stole the show from otou-san so disregard everything about blogging the show. Please don’t hurt me, otou-san ;_;