Short Synopsis: A certain someone with long dark blue hair starts killing people.
Highlights: Whoa, is this really the same Birdy the Mighty?
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
Really, this series is looking ten times better after that second season announcement. Everything finally makes sense. By far my biggest problem with this series wasn’t that it was bad, but rather its questionable use of its limited time of only 13 episodes. Five consecutive episodes did nothing but take their time to build up, and it often got distracted on things that didn’t really matter for such a short series. With 26 episodes, it makes perfect sense, though. With that kind of format, it makes perfect sense that the first episodes would focus more on building up.
Something tells me that that second season is going to rock. The director really has a knack for memorable character-development (ever since finding out that this series would only have 13 episodes, I kept wondering how he’d pull this off with such a small time-frame): both Noein and Escaflowne really began to shine once they hit their second halves. And now I finally realize the parallel of Birdy’s outer-space arc with Noein: that too showed La’Cryma surprisingly early in the series.
Incidentally, this episode also rocked. It’s the best episode of Birdy yet – at least since episode one – as it tells about a serial-killing android who bears surprising resemblance to Nakasugi. It turns out to have been infected by a bug that went wrong, that caused her to hug her victims too strongly, strangling them. Ever since, she’s been “hugging” everyone who looked like her original creator. Birdy’s rival ends up bringing it to the Indian-ish guy (I need to learn these people’s names) and the two seem to have made some sort of alliance.
Wait what? Birdy’s getting a sequal where did you hear that can we get a link becuase i would love that to be true.
The Indian-ish guy: you mean (M. Night) Shymalan? I blinked when I first saw that name in Birdy. I’m not sure if the creators deliberately named the character after M. Night, though the darker skin tone suggests that he was inspired by the (in)famous film director. Making him an antagonist; what a twist!
I have to say that I like what they’re doing with Nagasuki by making her a mirror image of what happened with the main character. I wish Hamamiya wasn’t quite as naggy as she has been so far and that the creators played up the love triangle thing a bit more, but otherwise with 26 eps to work with they have plenty of time to move things along now.
Terrus: the news source:
http://notes.moedosed.com/208/%e3%80%8ctetsuwan-birdy-decode-2nd-season%e3%80%8d-announcement
Reiter: I haven’t heard of the guy, but it’s interesting to put such a character as a cameo in this series.
MORE BIRDY!? I liked the original OVA, I’m “reading” the raws of the “new” manga, and I’m excited about this show. I’m just wondering if/when they’re gonna get Christella Revi or some other OVA/manga characters.
All right I guess we’ll get to see the good side of the Birdy series afterall.
This episode made it clear that Nakasugi doesn’t share the same body as the one who saved her unlike Birdy and Senkawa.