Now, just knowing this basic premise from my research before watching the series, I immediately assumed that Decode was going to be one of those weird action-slapstick-comedies that I’ve never really been able to follow (but Japan seems to be so fond of making) with the body-sharing element as the central gimmick. In the meantime, Birdy must continue her investigation and track down the Ryunka, with Tsutomu – quite literally – in tow. Without a body to host it, Birdy’s only recourse is to transfer Tsutomu’s consciousness into her own body while the student’s body is repaired back on her homeworld. Seeing an opening, one of the criminals tosses Tsutomu into the path of Birdy’s attack, escaping and killing Tsutomu in the process. Birdy is an investigator for an interstellar government called the Federation, and she is charged with tracking down two criminals in particular, whom stole a mysterious super-weapon known only as the “Ryunka.” Unfortunately, the criminals escape from Birdy and make their way to a backwater planet on which they hope to hide – Earth.īirdy catches up with them in an abandoned building that our second protagonist, a student named Tsutomu, just so happens to be exploring.
We first meet Birdy as she chases down a transport ship suspected of harboring intergalactic criminals. And really, how can you go wrong with a name like “Birdy the Mighty?” Said character is the protagonist of the 2008 anime Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode, or, in English, Birdy the Mighty: Decode. I’m not exactly sure what it is about my native language that our friends over the Pacific pond seem to like so much, but if they keep giving me characters with names like “Birdy,” then I don’t really care. There’s something about English that Japan just seems to love.
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