![]() ![]() I picked this up on a whim, like most of my obscure titles, and while the first episode was pretty boring, the 2nd-4th were really good. She's tough, and she don't take no crap- which sometimes ends in billions of dollars in destruction of property, but she makes sure to kick enough intergalactic ass to cover the bill. They're able to switch at will, and both have their own lives to attend to, which often leads to some pretty funny results.īirdy herself is a confident and capable fighter, but impulsive and hot-headed, a trait she vehemently denies, then tries to fight someone over for saying, hah. As punishment for ending the poor kid's pathetic life, Birdy is instructed by her giant Radroach of a boss to ressurect Tsutomu by morphing bodies with him. Tsutomu is a weenie and a giant loser who lucklessly happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and ends up dead while the Intergalactic supercop Birdy is chasing a criminal. There is another villain who is explored, but not resolved, which hurt the show, but in a way left it open ended for an eventual revisitation.Ĭharacters: 7 -*minor 1st episode spoilers*. The mastermind has created a serum through a series of genetic tests on himself and others which turns the recipient of it into a hulking reptilian psionic rage monster (think Akira- it definitely had some influences here). It's nothing original- an investigation into a growing series of crimes perpetrated by an intergalactic criminal intent on creating psionic soldiers with which to destroy the intergalactic police organization hunting him. ![]() The first episode is just an intro to Birdy and Tsutomu, but 2-4 cover the plot. A lot of the music sounds like it came straight out of Super Mario Kart, but the ending themes are pretty groovy.īeing that Birdy the Mighty is incomplete, it's natural to say that it's got a poor story, but I disagree. Half the VA sound really bored, or phoned in, it's just this side of bad cheesy, but not bad enough to laugh at, since it takes itself seriously. They also apparently didn't know what pop filters were, and you can hear their lips smacking together as they talk. Well, when the actors are speaking, you can hear hard mic cuts, where the only sound mixed is that of their voice, then it cuts back to "silence" which resumes the static scratching sound, which is a bit jarring. When there's no music (which is usually mixed at a higher level than the voices anyway, making it hard to hear), there's a slight static that everything made before the digital age has. My biggest problem with this is on a technical level, and it's partially a result of the technology at the time, and partly because they used junk equipment. This is where the problems begin, and it's mostly on the voice acting front. While there are some lazy moments with stillframe, the action was as good as it was going to get for a show of this budget, and it is very easy to watch. This came before the big CGI boom in the late 90s/early 00s, so we're saved from those horrors, and blessed with some very slick hand drawn animation. Madhouse, true to form, delivers a very high quality, fluid, and fast moving product that looks great for a mid 90s show. Unfortunately, the licensing in NA was handled by Central Park Media, known for their schlockiness and giving dubs a bad name. Unlike their peer Production IG, who had an absolute turd of a show in 1996 called "Panzer Dragoon" (we daren't speak that name), Madhouse delivered a quality animation. (it was probably the cocaine, that he along with everyone else back then did, 'the 80's, mannnn'.) Well, Birdy was turned into a 4 episode OVA series by everybody's favorite studio Masami Yuki, a guy who's done literally nothing else of note, started Birdy way back in the mid 80s, which he mysteriously and abruptly stopped writing. Well, I'm back again with another obscure, bargain bin title review, this time: Birdy the Mighty.īirdy the Mighty 1996 is a precursor to the more popular BTM: Decode series, which aired more recently. “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.” - Roald Dahl ![]()
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