In episode seven, for instance, Birdy is investigating a string of murders connected to the Riuvia when she’s spotted by the journalist after her, and must escape by turning into Tsutomu in a private moment–which, of course, is noticed by the gosurori robotic mannequin of one of the conspirators. In fact, Tetsuwan Birdy Decode is one of those series that interweaves several interconnected plot threads (there’s what’s going on with Birdy, there’s the Riuvia conspiracy from the point of view of the perpertrators, and then there’s the reporter chasing after Birdy in an attempt to get under mysterious goings-on in the city) that all happen to crop up at the least convinent moment for various characters. However, nothing is as it seems (this is anime, okay?) and there are some rather inventive plot twists thrown in, and things don’t always seem to progress the way you’d expect them to. Of course, Tsutomu is carrying on a totally normal school life (he even has a girl he likes!: Nakasugi Sayaka), but Birdy also can’t let her investigation slide, as Geega is involved in a massive plot involving the Riunka, or “invisible death”, which, basically, is a weapon capable of destroying all life on Earth. The whole premise of Tetsuwan Birdy is fairly simple: boy, Tsutomu, accidently stumbles into a dilapidated building where alien crime boss Geega is doing Evil Things and alien investigator Birdy is trying to stop him: Long story short: Birdy, living up to the English title of “Birdy the Mighty”, tries to punch Geega with her blazing fist of fury and instead hits (and kills) Tsutomu, and the audience has Minky Momo flashbacks Birdy is left with no choice but to merge Tsutomu’s consciousness with her own, while his body is shipped back to Alturia to be reconstituted for his consciousness to re-enter. Especially not when it’s fluff authored by one of the minds behind semi-underground hit Mobile Police Patlabor: Yuuki Masami. I still kind of waffle back and forth on it, depending on the episode (the two-episode Alturia arc, for instance, was extremely bizarre for me, despite Wakamoto Norio giving his best James Earl Jones impersonation as a giant anthropomorphic lizard with a mask ), but overall it’s incredibly entertaining, even if it is somewhat on the fluffy side. So I’ve watched seven episodes of Tetsuwan Birdy Decode (also known as Birdy the Mighty Decode) without any prior experience with the original OVA series (a two-episode deal based on a prototype of the Tetsuwan Birdy story that later became a full manga that Decode is based on), and it’s been surprisingly enjoyable. More important question: Why aren’t you watching this?
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