Short Synopsis: The new enemies prove that they’re not so useless after all.
Episode Rating: 9/10 (Fantastic)
Jezus Christ! This show just keeps on getting better and better, and it was already among the best of the season! The first season is looking like one of the most generic series ever in comparison, for god’s sake. I’m so astounded as to what this series managed to do with only four freaking episodes.
In this episode, Birdy already finds out that something’s up with Natoru. It turns out that the two of them had to flee to earth because they were major suspects on a bombing of the headquarters of Birdy’s organization, while in fact one of their friends was behind it. That same friend who belongs to the group of aliens that Natoru has been killing off so systematically. I’m not exactly sure what they have to do with Ryunka, but they seem to be taking care of a new version of it.
And holy balls, this episode showed that they’re not as helpless as we originally believed, as they end up killing Natoru’s father in this episode (with the same brutal animation of the second season). To make matters even more disturbing, Natoru gets even more violent because of this, and brutally kills one of the frog-children of that group.
I must say that I had a lot of doubts about Kazuki Akane. Sure, it was a nice series and all, but it just didn’t live up to his previous works. Right now, I’m taking all of that back. The guy definitely hasn’t lost his touch yet, and he’s definitely my favourite director out there. It’s because of guys like him that I’m still watching anime.
Seeing the Frog Iceclimber Boy get dismembered and crushed was insanely disturbing, but quite awesome.
And yeah, what the hell is up with this second season? Who exactly stepped in and said “alright, let’s make this stuff awesome”
Frankly, if they kept introducing all these new plotlines, I could keep watching DECODE forever.
Animation is still awesome, as well.
Woah…that was really awsom episode. The plot is developing really well.
Can’t wait for all the other episodes.
I hope anything doesn’t happen to Tsutomu and Birdy since I knew something is going to happen because of Tsutomu’s gloomy face in the opening, and the reason seems to come up in the next episode. ;_;
It’s probadly about the two minds in one body, and I don’t think Tsutomy is going to let anything happen to Birdy. I like Tsutomu, he is pretty much a normal person who has become Birdy’s buddy. Hope anything bad doesn’t happen.