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!