Birdy the Mighty Decode

[Munsu]

First episode by I-Z:
http://a.scarywater.net/infinite-zero/%5BI-Z%5DBirdy%20The%20Mighty%20Decode%20Ep%2001%20(A48 1CE6E).mp4.torrent


Based on a shounen manga by Yuuki Masami, serialised in Shounen Sunday.

Tsutomu Senkawa is an average high school kid who is busy studying for his senior entrance exams. Tsutomu goes out for some fresh air, after a hard day's work studying for a big test, when he runs into a guy fleeing from a pretty young lady. The pursued man is actually an interplanetary criminal on the run from a Federation agent called Birdy Cephon Altera. Caught in the midst of this chase, Tsutomu gets thrown by the man at Birdy, which kills Tsutomu. Fortunately for Tsutomu, there is a way to keep him alive, although it comes at the price of discarding his body. He ends up merged into Birdy's body.

http://www.birdy-tv.com/
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=5722

There was an OVA that came out in 1996, this is an alternate retelling of the story...but here it is by a4e for those interested:
http://www.isohunt.com/download/12018555/birdy

[Board of Command]

The picture of the girl reminds me of Gunbuster 2.

[Kraco]

Based on the first episode this seems like a pretty funny series. I hope it keeps up the good work also in the future.

Although I wonder what kind of a final solution they will arrange for Tsutomu Senkawa's lost body. Not only is it quite inconvenient to share the same body with a galactic law enforcement officer but at some point they must go their separate ways. Unless Birdy really plans to stick around until she's an old bat...

It's also quite a dodgy plot device that the criminal would stay in that same city once discovered. Logic would dictate he changes his location to somewhere else for easier hiding. That would naturally mean Birdy would need to move as well, which would be somewhat troublesome for a high-school student.

[oyabun]

This show has some nice animation, I'm also thinking about that sharing body thing. just as kraco said. What resolution can they can up with? maybe they can make a marionette for senkawa?

[Yukimura]

I figure it will be revealed that he has no real ties to this world and he won't mind going off on some grand space adventure as a passenger inside Birdy's body.

Anyway this series looks interesting, Birdy certainly fits the bill as a heroine worth watching so far, hot, skimpy out-fit, violent disposition, super powers, and gadgets, all win. Definitely worth giving it the chance to pull me in to some sort of interesting (or at least entertaining) plot.

[shinta|hikari]

I just wish her costume wasn't so... retro?

[Kraco]

I figure it will be revealed that he has no real ties to this world and he won't mind going off on some grand space adventure as a passenger inside Birdy's body.


Hey, I have no ties to the outer space but I wouldn't hesitate a second to leave this planet behind if I could see the galaxy out there (especially if it had been proven there is indeed lots of life and stuff there). Now that you mentioned it in such a way, I feel now it would make a nice and a bit funny conclusion to the series. Although they said Earth is a hiding place for lots of galactic criminals so under these circumstances, maybe Birdy will be assigned to Earth permanently as a punishment and that's it.

However, it won't solve the immediate problem that the dude is still a high-school student and can't move around as freely as in a couple of years when he gets rid of the school and could in theory freely travel around the world with no questions asked.

[Munsu]

Just watched the first episode, and I really enjoyed it. Fun episode overall, and cool action...

Looks like it'll only be 13 episodes though... I wonder if they have plans for more because this series seems like it can go on for quite a while, especially if they increase the scale of things and go on a galactic adventure of sorts.

[Everon]

Any translators other than wyvern and IZ picking this up? Both of them seem to take liberties with the translations and ad-lib.

[Munsu]

Don't know of a better group planning on doing it, but here's episode 2 by IZ:
http://a.scarywater.net/infinite-zero/%5BI-Z%5DBirdy%20The%20Mighty%20Decode%20Ep%2002%20(639 9E5B6).mp4.torrent

[Kraco]

The body issue got answered. So, it's only temporary until they fix his corpse enough that the mind can be injected back into it.

Still, I wish Tsutomu would kick more ass and be less cowardly and whiny. Like, he should ask Birdy to allow him to control her body in it's original shape for a night... (And we would get the scene we always get in any fantasy where a guy is suddenly turned into a girl for a moment.) Another funny one would be Tsutomu watching porn and attempting some handiwork... Or would that also be sekuhara?

[Ryllharu]

Was Nakasugi possessed by the alien of questionable gender...or are they just playing a trick on us, and only trying to make us think that she is now subject to a similar situation that Birdy/Tsutomu are in?

While it was a feminine hand that had blood leaking off it, and now she comes back to school totally fine, I'd be leaning towards she is. Then again, the Alien of Questionable Gender was standing on a nearby building.

EDIT:

Ah, I got it. The Alien of Questionable Gender stuffed the Ryunka into her body in order to keep it alive. But which side is the A.o.Q.G. on?

(Whatever the hell a Ryunka is...)

[Kraco]

I-Z seems to be taking a vacation so here's ep three from some unknown group:

Episode 3 - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=11269)

The picture quality is poor, the font is too small and the subs could have used some QCing but other than that it was watchable. I hope I-Z's hibernation won't last too long anymore, though.

[animus]

Been awhile, I think there's 5 raw episodes out already.

[NeoBear]

hmm i really like the sound track to this show the song they play whenever Birdy starts fighting is catchy =O

[oyabun]

At first I was really wondering how will they make Birdy less powerful. Because if she retains her original strength in the first episode, it will be easy for her through the series. I guess the excuse they made was the mind fusion thing. I like the idea, Its new and interesting,. the more sync you are the more powerful the body is.

[Kraco]

Far away from home yet troubles tag along:

Episode 4 - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=11461)
Episode 5 - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=11542)

[Darknodin]

I gotta say the last two eps surprised me. (btw... ep5 is HQ). the story might be rather deep with some sort of Union Vs Federation Cold War and WMDs. not just an "alien in school" series.

[Kraco]

Yeah. It might do good for the series if it had a bigger picture. So, let's hope what happened in these two eps won't be limited to these two eps, even if the Union now seemingly was forced to back off. Still, we always have those villains back on Earth. Who knows how many of them are actually some extraterrestial creatures in disguise, or are being influenced by aliens for whatever purposes.

I any case Birdy is still cool and keeps kicking ass, and that's the most important thing.

[Kraco]

Arita Shion de arimasuuuuu:

Episode 6 h264 - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=11657)

[Darknodin]

OOOH... awesome ep.

so. Tsutomu is in love with the Riunka
Tsutomu's friend died in the first ep too but Altarian girl II is using her form.
Shyamalans probably knows where the Riunka is... so does Secret Agent Guy.
how exactly does the Riunka work anyways?

[Kraco]

What exactly is the Riunka? I think that's the most important question. Since it could perfectly heal Nagasuki's broken body, it's clearly not simply a weapon of mass destruction. I have a suspicion the Deities know what it is but aren't telling Birdy, and they showed Tsutomu only one aspect of the truth.

[Yukimura]

Has anyone been watching the EMiNA releases? If so any comment on quality?

[Kraco]

No idea about the quality of Emina but the next ep from AoShen is here, nonetheless:

Episode 7v2 h264 - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=12545)

[oyabun]

Is it just me or the art is somehow getting bad?

[Shadow Skill]

I thought it was the quality of the raw. You could be right, could be the art.

[NeoBear]

episode 8

http://tracker.anirena.com/download2.php?id=12533

hmmm i seem to have missed 7 and cant find a working link anybody have one ?

[Kraco]

I updated a different, working link to the older post above. I don't know if the new one has any seeders, though, as even AoShen's own home page points to the old, malfunctioning one. If you can't get it from there, I suggest visiting their irc channel and getting the ep from a bot.

[NeoBear]

thanks for that Kraco

[Kraco]

For those who want the tougher encoding:

Episode 8 h264 - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=12570)

[Kraco]

Kya~wawa:

Episode 9 HD - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=13285)



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A jolly good episode. A good fight, even if it was against another android (or marionette like they call them). And finally it looks like things will move forward. To be frank in the past eps it hasn't looked like Birdy would be living up to her reputation as an investigator but according to the next ep preview they will finally start to realise, with that one dude's helpful hint, what's behind Nagasuki suddenly healthy body. Perhaps we will finally learn something new about the Riunka itself, as well. Would be about the time...

[NeoBear]

15:38 i loled so hard

i liked how during the fight it looked like birdy was totaly surprised the android was all over her and she just could not catch her breath in the end though it was no match for the bird man...um girl ...whatever lol

[Kraco]

Looming distress:

Episode 10 - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=13745)






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Edit: It's going pretty much as expected. Nothing really revealing in this episode, but in the next one things should happen. Though I wonder how well Shamalayan calculated Nagasuki would crack and thus the plentiful evidence (fingerprints and such) he most likely left behind wouldn't need any covering. I have to say, though, that I'm more than thankful the old geezer maid was finally removed. Nagasuki's father must have kept her employed only because it would have been cruel to throw such an old person to the streets. Can't imagine any other reason, so annoying she was.

[Kraco]

Tougher reality, tougher decisions:

Episode 11 - AoShen (http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=14106)

[Buffalobiian]

I haven't started watching this yet. Should I wait for I-Z, or is AoShen good enough?

[Kraco]

I-Z hasn't released anything but the first two eps ages ago. I don't think it's a feasible plan to try to rely on them. AoShen isn't exactly a quality subber but they are good enough, especially when there are no alternatives.


Edit: Gotta love a dude who would let the world be destroyed in exchange for a remote chance to score. Priorities at their best!

[Kraco]

Wouldn't it be already time for Tsutomo to cut himself?

Episode 12 - AoShen (http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=download&id=14359)

[oyabun]

His decision to not help Birdy caused many people to die. I guess he should really cut himself now.

[Kraco]

Birdy should have left him a knife as a farewell gift. He was majorly pissing me off saying all that to her. I wouldn't mind if Riunka killed him as well, though I suppose that's not going to happen.

The spaceship had quite a nice cannon, I have to say!

[Kraco]

Birdy's last deciphering:

Episode 13 Final - AoShen (http://forum.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=download&id=14640)



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Edit: It wasn't a bad ending, which is even somewhat surprising considering I really hated Tsutomo already. Perhaps the fact he "died", or lost his body, again to Birdy's mighty fist compensated for all the faults in his personality. It was also rather funny and ironic how Nakasugi forgot all about Tsutomo, barely even remembering his name anymore, after the sacrifice he made for her sake.

Still, a few things were left somewhat unfinished, like the whole conspiracy behind the riunka issue. Of course the focus was Earth and Tsutomo and in that sense the story is concluded even though we never learned why and how and who, but in the light of these last episodes and Tsutomu's extreme emo moments I'd have rather watched anything else...

[Kraco]

Berserker Killer Birdy is back, to greet a mean company:

S2 Episode 1 - AoShen (http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php?action=download&id=18549)

[Munsu]

I need to finish the first season... heard AoShen sucked ass, so I haven't bothered. Those EMiNA releases looked decent so I'm waiting for theirs, but they're only in episode 7 of the first season.

[Kraco]

Based on this first episode AoShen still could invest into QC. Or rather should. Fortunately the series itself looked decent. Lots of blood and wickedness in the first episode is always a good sign.

[The Heretic Azazel]

What the F. I can't see the subs or turn them on, is there something different about this release?

[Kraco]

I didn't notice anything strange about it. Maybe your player / splitter just didn't like it? Although there's no crc and I got my episode from a bot, not using the torrent, so I can't be 100% sure it's the same, but I doubt it could be a different version.

[Kraco]

Marginally better than AoShen:

S2 Episode 1 - Nuke (http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents/%5BNuke%5DTetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_01%5BF85F31ED%5D.mkv.torrent)
S2 Episode 2 - Nuke (http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents/%5BNuke%5DTetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_02%5B3027B7C2%5D.mkv.torrent)
S2 Episode 3 - Nuke (http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents/%5BNuke%5DTetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_03%5B9932FB4B%5D.mkv.torrent)
S2 Episode 4 - Nuke (http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents/%5BNuke%5DTetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_04%5B15A317AE%5D.mkv.torrent)

And the latest sub out, where Tsutomu no doubt did something not shown to the camera while he was at it...
S2 Episode 5 - Nuke (http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents/%5BNuke%5DTetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_05%5B78ED9EE5%5D.mkv.torrent)

But since AoShen doesn't believe in QC (they are all the time recruiting translators and editors but never quality checkers, though those are what they would need the most), anything's better than them. I relaced my AoShen eps with these, and of course AoShen never released #5 anyway.

I still like this season more than the first one. The strange mix of goofiness and bloody violence continues as strong as ever, plus at least so far there has been none of the emoness that plagued the latter half of the first season.

[The Heretic Azazel]

I was wondering why people stopped watching this show as well as Kurokami (well I guess that one isn't turning out so great) I always really liked the animation of the Birdy series and also prefer this season, it better balances the humor with seriousness.

And Arita Shion is hot

[shinta|hikari]

I'm still watching this, but having no one to discuss it with kind of prevents me from posting anything.

[Kraco]

Shadows hidden in the past

S2 Episode 6 - Nuke (http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents/%5BNuke%5DTetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_06%5B000F2E1C%5D.mkv.torrent)

[KrayZ33]

Hmmm I wonder if I should start watching this, I don't like the idea that the main characters share a body, but it seems like (from what I could read here) that the guy's body is being rebuild? But then again, I haven't read good things about this show in other forums, they say that the quality is getting worse and that the story doesn't move forward at all.

btw is there some love-interest between the main characters or something? Will the boy get his body again, or how does the 1st season end? Because from what I can see here it seems that season 1 and season 2 are exactly the same.

[shinta|hikari]

It's a good show. Watch it. The art quality is a style choice, not just schedule or low budget problems.

[Kraco]

that the story doesn't move forward at all.

There are no problems such as that. The latter half of the first season had a bit too much emoness for me, but the story was certainly progressing. What comes to this second season, I like the story even more.


btw is there some love-interest between the main characters or something? Will the boy get his body again, or how does the 1st season end? Because from what I can see here it seems that season 1 and season 2 are exactly the same.

They certainly share some similarity. Tsutomu has an unfortunate tendency to get his body annihilated and so Birdy needs to host his mind in her body until a new one is built.

The first season never gave any love-interest a chance between those two, Tsutomu having somebody else filling his mind, but who knows yet about this second season. I'd hope so but I won't be expecting too much.

[shinta|hikari]

I think its pretty obvious that they will eventually end up as a couple, but not in these 2 seasons. The first focuses on Tsutomu, while the second focuses on Birdy. Only after that can there be an arc about the relationship between the two.

[Kraco]

Some eps from the ever varying sources of ever varying quality available for this show:

S2 Episode 7 - PHT (http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=53487)
S2 Episode 8 - PHT (http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=56486)
S2 Episode 9 - PHT (http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=56955)
S2 Episode 10 - PHT (http://a.scarywater.net/phantom-subs/%5BPHT%5D_Tetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_10_%5Bh264%5D%5B85D5E397%5D.mkv.torrent)


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Edit: Some really cheap graphics in ep 7. Looks like they sacrificed drawings for movement. Still, it was good enough getting the plot forward. Other than such technical aspects I can't really say a whole lot would have happened in episode 8 (7 being still Birdy flashbacks) other than at the very end. Looks like the story will again run forward starting from the next ep.

[Kraco]

The last decodes:

S2 Episode 11 - PHT (http://a.scarywater.net/phantom-subs/%5BPHT%5D_Tetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_11_%5Bh264%5D%5B66F3D7AB%5D.mkv.torrent)
S2 Episode 12 - PHT (http://a.scarywater.net/phantom-subs/%5BPHT%5D_Tetsuwan_Birdy_Decode_2_-_12_%5Bh264%5D%5BD6F186D1%5D.mkv.torrent)



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I don't really know what to think about this ending. It was highly unconclusive in many ways, and I'm not altogether happy with that. The criminals went unapprehended, aside from those Nataru slew of course, and furthermore it was established Birdy and Nataru love each other, yet Nataru jumped away, leaving that open in a manner that shouldn't allow anything between Tsutomu and Birdy even if a third season happened. And as if that wasn't enough, bloody Nagasuki (the Riunka girl) made a comeback. She has got nothing to do with anything anymore so why couldn't she just stay away... Without Riunka she hardly has anything to offer anymore anyway.

[Archangel]

I just finished this

The first season was nice, had a little romance going on with a Romeo and Juliet ending to it all ( kinda ). Did a good job of introducing the characters and i took it as a twist of the "sudden girlfriend appearance" genre.

The OVA was more of that, added a bit of closure to the relationship.

The second season started strong, then became pretty angsty but not really in a bad way. I share Kraco's lack of enthusiasm with the ending, i already predicted who the stranger carrying Birdy would turn out to be but they never really explained WHY he jumped when he did. I guess i can assume that he recognized his present self in that suicide bombing that never was and knew he had to be there ( which is a big motherfucking paradox but i'm used to those ) but that doesn't explain why he didn't come back or even where he went after that. Birdy made it sound that he could be saved in her ship so the lack of closure just seemed off to me.

Regardless i enjoyed every but of it, i'll archive both seasons and the OVA and keep a faint hope for a third one.