Birdy the Mighty

Tetsuwan Birdy (Japanese鉄腕 バーディー, Tetsuwan Badi, also known under the English title Birdy the Mighty ) is a manga by Masami Yūki, was first published in 1985 in the magazine Shōnen Sunday Super. Masami presented early in 1988 his work on the manga one. However, the manga was adapted by an eponymous anime OVA by Madhouse, which appeared in 1996.

In 2003, Masami began to make a remake of the manga, which was published in the magazine Weekly Young Sunday. . , Where the series ran until 2008 Building on the remake was a animated by A-1 Pictures television series, July 4, 2008 under the title Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode was aired. This closed on 9 January 2009, the second season of Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode: 02 to.

After the conclusion of the manga in 2008, this continues under the title Tetsuwan Birdy Evolution. Signer is again Masami Yuki.

Action

In a world that is plagued by interplanetary crime, Birdy Chiffon Altera is to pursue some criminals down to the ground. On the hunt for the criminals they accidentally kills the high school student Tsutomu Senkawa. Touched it saves his life by merge their minds with his own and takes over her body, but must meanwhile can escape the criminals.

As long as the body is restored by Tsutomu and it can be transferred back his spirit, he must therefore remain in the body of Birdy. Since Birdy has the ability to take the shape of Tsutomu, he tries to maintain life with his friends and family while Birdy uses the free time to turn to go hunting criminals. In this case, both are increasingly further and further into the machinations of aliens who carry on the earth in those experiments.

Manga

Mangaka Masami Yūki, who is best known for his many years of work on the manga Kido Keisatsu Patlabor began in 1985 with characters working on the manga series Tetsuwan Birdy. This was published in the shōnen magazine Shōnen Sunday Super, which was published by Shogakukan. There, the manga was published monthly until 1988, but not completed because Masami Yuki gave the manga itself. First summary chapter appeared in the form of a tankōbon in connection with the release of OVA in July 1996.

In 2003, Masami began with larger ambitions, the preparation of a remake, which appeared in his magazine Weekly Young Sunday from this year. Publisher was also in this time Shogakukan. In the magazine, the individual chapters appeared until 2008. Summarized chapter published on 5 June 2003 to 3 October 2008 in the format of 20 tankōbon editions. Since 20 June 2007, the manga is also available in a French version published by Pika Édition.

After the completion of the series Masami began in the same year with the work on the sequel Tetsuwan Birdy Evolution, which has been published since October 11, 2008.

Anime

OVA

Building on the aborted first manga was created in 1996 produced one of Madhouse Anime OVA with a length of 30 minutes, which was published on 25 July 2008. The screenplay was written by Yoshiaki Kawajiri is well known for his involvement in Vampire Hunter D and Ninja Scroll. From the Head of the Animation Kumiko Takahashi also comes also the character design.

Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode

The remake of the manga was adapted by A-1 Pictures, Aniplex on behalf of, in the form of two anime television series, each with 13 episodes. Originally, the series was announced under the title Birdy the Movement. On the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair ultimately changing the title was announced. So the first season of Tetsuwan Birdy was: Decode first aired on the Japanese TV station Saitama since July 4, 2008. In addition to this the series on various other channels like Animax, BS11 Digital, Chiba TV, Chubu- Nippon Broadcasting, Hokkaido Broadcasting, KBS Kyoto, Okinawa Television Broadcasting, Sun TV, Tohoku Broadcasting, Tokyo MX, TV Hokkaido, TV Kanagawa or TVQ Kyushu was transferred Broadcasting. On these, the series was shown at weekly intervals. The last episode was first broadcast on 29 September 2008.

The series was directed by Kazuki Akane ( also director of The Vision of Escaflowne ) staged. The screenplay was written by Hiroshi Onogi. The newly designed character design was designed by Ryo Timo, who also took over the management of the animation.

Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode: 02

The second season of Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode: 02 (鉄腕 バーディーDECODE: 02) is transmitted since 9 January 2009. On the occupation of any significant changes been made.

Synchronization

Due to the time difference, the OVA and the TV series of different speakers ( seiyū ) were spoken.