BIRDY THE MIGHTY DECODE FULL

As funny or weird as it sounds, it is shown in a very light and superficial way. So our blunt male archetype needs to study for exams as a guy during the day and hunt alien freaks as a girl during the nights… well that was the plan but the switch can happen without time restrictions. She decides to share her body with him, switching forms every time it is necessary. But if (like me) you do then it’s mostly bad news.The story and the cast are about a bounty hunter girl accidentally killing an indecisive dork while hunting aliens on Earth. If you don’t mind huge bulks of naivety in your scenarios, this will be ok. It has many nice ideas but most are hardly presented properly. The scores for music are OVA: 6, S1: 7, S2: 9 The story part is, um, well, a messy one. Adding to that the much more serious story and heavy dialogues of the second season and you got an easy winner. The first season of the remake had more funky beats, while the second season has a wonderful set of tunes, worthy of even buying the cd. The OVA show had mediocre and passable pop/midi BGM and soundtrack. The sound part is clearly improving with each segment. Birdy looks sexy and dynamic enough to win you over, the aliens are creepy, the battles are great. Otherwise the visual part is overall great. Some may see this as an artistic overtone but I don’t it’s clearly an attempt to cut down expenses during the fights.These are the reasons I can’t give more than 8 in any of the three segments. The result is like watching a different show, way minimalistic. From time to time the characters will look weird, with distorted facial features and bulky hands. That becomes even more of an issue in the major battles of the second season, where everything loses drawing detail in favor of frenetic speed. The first season of the remake has far better visuals and special effects but on the other hand the amount of still frames is much higher and the artwork more blubbery.

What felt bad there were the hand colored graphics and the fake visual effects, all caused by technology restraints of that time. In the original OVA show, the animation was throughout the duration quite solid and the action scenes equally good. Voice acting and soundtrack are great, especially in the second season.If I am to be negative here, that would be in the quality drops throughout the series. Alien sceneries are marvelous to stare at and fighting scenes have a wonderful choreography. The characters look and talk lively and backgrounds have a high amount of detail. Animation and music are quite good in this one.

BIRDY THE MIGHTY DECODE FULL

It is a show full of talking about death and sadness so if it ain’t your cup, don’t even bother.… Still here? Ok, let’s move on. Sadistic in an entertaining way but not something for everyone. It has a rather high amount of nude and occasionally really gory and bloody scenes, children are brutally beaten, heads are ripped off and hundreds of innocents are wiped out in an instant. It is not a show for children or the weak hearted. If you like any of those three shows, it will make this one a better watch.I will begin with a warning about the overall feeling. Birdy felt to me like Men in Black meets Cutey Honey and throwing a few Urusei Yatsura aesthetics in the pot. And here is Birdy, the simple tale of an intergalactic bounty hunter chick living inside a dork, searching for alien threats on Earth.Being the annoying prick I am, I constantly try to find comparisons to every show I watch. All the rest were up to presentation, which since there was no internet around yet, meant trying hard to make it look good without taking pointers by the rabid fandom. Back then all you needed were two lines of a plot and three lines of a backdrop. So Birdy is one of the thousands of “simple conceived, nicely made” stories of the 80’s. I’m too bored to write three different ones. This review covers the original OVAs and both the remade seasons of the show.

Birdy the mighty decode