If you’re looking for that old 80s charm, the OVA’s ‘hand-drawn’ look and less saturated colors and designs may be more up your alley. Keeping in mind that the Birdy the Mighty OVA debuted back in the 80s, it makes sense that the two Birdy series would boast their own strengths. Thanks to the first season’s villain, Sayaka and Nataru’s arcs end up just as bittersweet as they are intertwined. It turns out that Sayaka (whose arc concludes the first season) is, in fact, tied to Birdy’s childhood friend Nataru Shinmyou (whose arc concludes the series for good). Sayaka Nakasugi is a fragile classmate of Tsutomu’s whose tentative friendship with the latter slowly shifts to love but unfortunately for these two, their story is tied to Birdy in a way unrelated to the whole ‘sharing a body’ thing. While Birdy and Tsutomu’s combined efforts are very much the heart of the show, I think it’s worth mentioning our pair’s respective love interests as well. ![]() Which is a darn shame considering our male lead has some interesting dynamics aside from his with Birdy, but characters in his vein are meant to be palatable POV characters first and foremost. Speaking of Tsutomu, his role is greatly reduced from that of the OVA to the reboot. She’s a woman of justice, the fiery passion to Tsutomu’s grounded normality. It helps that she’s a member of an alien race of supersoldiers on top of balancing a cover job as the idol Shion. Needless to say, the pair’s ‘buddy cop’ dynamic and the show as a whole are charming, fast-paced, and funny, but still have their share of high stakes and tension.īirdy Cephon Altera hits several marks befitting a magical girl despite her more ‘grown up’ job as a professional crime-fighter. Their journey is one of adapting to an unexpected situation and saving the planet from alien ne’er-do-wells in the process. Their bond is a platonic one in which Birdy takes the reins 99% of the time, especially in Birdy the Mighty: Decod e. However, as rom-com as Birdy the Mighty’s premise sounds, our oddball pair don’t end up the endgame ship. I revisited Makoto Shinkai’s wildly popular Your Name not too long ago, and to Birdy the Mighty’s credit, it manages to deliver on a lot of similar beats. In order to save said civilian, high schooler Tsutomu Senkawa, Birdy hosts his body within her own.Īnd this isn’t your typical ‘body-swapping’ situation either! Birdy and Tsutomu share the same body, but the switch itself doesn’t always happen when it should (or shouldn’t).Īs you can imagine, cultural misunderstandings and gender gags ensue. Our story opens with the titular Birdy Cephon Altera, an agent/police officer from space, who makes the fatal mistake of shooting a civilian while apprehending a pair of criminals on earth. This OVA was then adapted into the full-length anime Birdy the Mighty: Decode by A-1 Pictures of Black Butler and Sword Art Online fame from 2008 to 2009. ![]() Masami Yuki’s action/sci-fi manga Birdy the Mighty ran from 1985 to 1988 before being adapted into a four-episode OVA by Madhouse studio of Death Note fame in 1996. The same goes for a unique manga-turned-anime called Birdy the Mighty in which a boy and a girl from different worlds must endure a similar trial together. She completes her arc of saving China as herself, and that self has layers. The best of the Disney Princesses, the titular Fa Mulan, maintains a balance between a traditional upbringing and her tomboyish spirit without sacrificing either. Having grown up during the late 90s to early 2000s, or as I call it, the age of corporate ‘strong female protagonists’ (i.e ladies framed as ‘strong’ because they could fight, but otherwise possessed little to no independence or personality), Mulan stood out from the rest. If I had to pin down the exact moment I took a liking to androgynous designs and stories about female characters disguising themselves as men, I’d say Disney’s Mulan (and to a lesser degree, any arc having to do with Haruka Tenou/Sailor Uranus from the original Sailor Moon anime) was just that.
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