Short Synopsis: Senkawa&co visit a refugee camp for a school project.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 (Awesome)
ZOMG, is this really the same Birdy the Mighty as the first season? That first season was a nice series and all, but the teen-aged romances got into the way, with especially Senkawa being annoying. And here the second season comes and it’s been consistently awesome so far, with still no signs that the series has hit its height!
This episode may not have been as dark as the previous one (there was quite a bit of comedy there), but nevertheless it was a very important one: it showed where the people who lost their homes thanks to Nakasugi ended up, and with such detail! It’s awesome to see that the creators take their time to show these things: it shows that this isn’t a show where buildings are simply made out of cardboard: if you destroy a building once, it’s simply happens to be a building where no people live and magically disappear by the next episode. It’s simple, but I see many series forgetting this. It really adds more believability to the setting.
And yet again, this episode featured some gorgeous animation. Especially the scene where Natoru got beaten up by those punks was downright brutal, but also the quiet scenes were full of life (and really reminded me of Noein’s animation, which is ALWAYS a good thing ^^;). It’s also amazing how much depth the relationship between Natoru and Birdy already has. As it turns out, Birdy always used to save him when they were kids, and it looks like this still hasn’t changed a bit now that they’ve grown up, even though Natoru changed so incredibly.
This really reminds me of Escaflowne (again directed by the same guy, and again one of my absolute favourites): the first half of the series was good, but didn’t exactly catch my attention, but the second half showed an incredible increase in quality. Here too: the first season was nice and all, but the second season seems to be improving on it significantly in every single way!
Whilst the first two episodes of Season 2 were good, I never expected the series would particularly carry it’s setting very far, but this episode was superb. The themes and general compostion was great to watch, and it really has made a strong impression that this series could become something acclaimable.
Looking forward to see what else happens in this series. Birdy Decode has shown that it wants to explore some concepts that don’t have to connect the main story on several occasions, i’m wondering if it will be done again.
I must say I was also very pleased with this episode. I only watched the first season on a whim, mainly since I had heard of the OVA back when I first started watching anime many, many years ago, but I was still a kid and not interested in it.
… Yet it’s just so nice to watch. When Natoru was first introduced, I was afraid he’d ruin things, but he’s actually adding more to this. Thank goodness I didn’t decide to skip the second series.
I too am pleased with this series and enjoying it a lot.
The first time I saw Natori I thought that he might be the culprit, then I thought that no way they would show us this early who it is but they did.
Even so they have done wonderfull job with this series, it feels so good.