So yeah, good show, worth rewatching in a year or so, but not a favorite by any means. The best episodes of Birdy the Mighty: Decode Federation investigator Birdy chases the space criminal Geega through space to Earth, where he hides in the. The other role worht noting was the guy played by Norio Wakamoto, one of his best roles in recent shows. He literally utters the words ‘keikaku doori’ at one point, too. He’s calculating, confident, and want to cleanse the world. The siuation with Shyamalan was vrey Death Note – he gets alien powers he doesn’t really understand from an extra-terrestrial who’s just in it for entertainment. That’s right, the villain was a middle-eastern looking American named Shyamalan… a reference if I’ve ever seen one!!! He was a good villain, though he never had a real opportunity to step out of the shadows. Birdy and love interest girl were fun, however the real money was M NIGHT SHYAMALAN. I can’t complain hard, though.Ĭharacter wise, the show was mostly average with a few exceptions. I did think the resolution was a bit too anti-romantic, especially considering various mentions of Senkawa’s ‘youth’. It’s unfortunate that the fights thinned out as the show progressed, but the one between Birdy and Undine was fucking awesome and worth rewatching on it’s own (please be on youtube!) and the finale was as epic as it needed to be with plenty of city-eradicating lasers. Big lasers knocking people into buildings and creating huge craters – that’s what i like to see. Not only well animated and fast, but they were over the top which is what I love to see out of fights. The resulting plot made the first 5 episodes into a believeably intentional exposition and not like the series just suddenly turned into something different, which shows skill on the writers’ part since ordinarilly ruining wha they had going would have sent me into no end of bitching and complaining.īy far the thing that attracted me to the show the most was the fights. In retrospect, I sort of which it had kept up the SF pulp of the first 5 episodes, but it transitioned so well into a normal story that I almost didn’t notice. The feeling is extremely similar to seeing a movie in the theater which you enjoyed, and may even buy on DVD to watch again, but don’t put on the top shelf of your collection.īirdy was a ton of fun and felt very complete. The ‘above average’ shows are usually really well-rounded, sort of memorable, fun, and great for rewatching. There’s nothing wrong with that – some of the shows on my favorites list have glaring flaws caused by the same risks that pushed them into the list. This catgeory contains shows that appeal to me in some ways but don’t stand out, usually because they don’t take any real risks. Past occurences of this phenomenon are Tsukihime, Tokyo Majin, and Niea_7 among others. It’s pretty rare for me to really enjoy a show without considering it a favorite. For those who don’t know, if there’s so much as one thing about a show that I particularly like it’s likely to join my favorites list even if just as an honorable mention. Superman fight in the movie Man of Steel, very few people in Hollywood make references to anime, let alone obscure anime like Birdy the Mighty: Decode.Tetsuwan Birdy Decode is one of the rare shows to fall into my sort of grey ‘above average’ categoty. It also caught the attention of Hollywood director Zack Snyder, and he used the fight in Birdy the Mighty: Decode as the storyboard for the Zodd VS. The amazing choreography combined with fascinating experimental animation make Birdy the Mighty: Decode a memorable anime with animation that stands out for doing what they could on a dwindling budget because this was their passion project even though the first season didn’t sell well at all in Japan. While I love animation that looks good, when it comes to fight scenes, for example by Ufotable, they tend to look really good, but depending on who is directing the adaptation the fight can be flashy but unmemorable. Anime fans assume because the animation looks nice that the fight is actually good. This is because action oriented anime is usually animated by Studio Bones, Madhouse or Ufotable.
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