The voice actors are sufficiently suited to their characters, from what I sampled. It's a typical Funimation dub, which gives the audio an unobtrusive 5.1 upmix, allowing for a little more space for the action sequences. Sound You have the choice between DD 5.1 English, and DD 2.0 Stereo Japanese, along with the usual translated subtitles and a signs only track to accompany on screen text and song translations. Certainly, it happens at the same point in the opening credit sequence for each episode, suggesting that it is a creative choice (or that Funimation only uses the one credit sequence for all the episodes). I did note an odd striping effect in occasional frames, usually when a bright scene would transition to another, but this was intermittent, and I couldn't tell if it was an artefact of the transfer, or deliberate. Instead there is vitality to the animation that marks it as a recipient of a nice, generous budget.
This isn't one of those shows where exposition means the image remains static except for mouth flaps. At the same time the animation of the more sedate scenes is also imaginative and vivid. You can see some of the continuity in art style if you have seen Heat Guy J and Noein, but there is a lot to Birdy that is unique as well, the various aliens, the cetacean-like spacecraft and of course the action sequences which are top notch and energetic. The animation itself is bright and lively, with likeable character designs, and a colourful and detailed world design. The only issue really is the ever so slight aliasing around fine detail and sharp lines, but that's par for the course for anime. The image is clear and colourful throughout, there's no ghosting, and compression artefacts are hardly noticeable. Picture Birdy the Mighty: Decode gets a 1.78:1 anamorphic transfer, which courtesy of Madman in Australia is a very appreciable native PAL conversion, with the 4% speedup that implies. With that pedigree, Birdy the Mighty: Decode should be special indeed. Akane served as director on the anime classic, The Vision of Escaflowne, Heat Guy J, and the awesome Noein. Then I saw that none other than Kazuki Akane directs Birdy the Mighty: Decode. I didn't have high hopes for Birdy the Mighty's remake.
TETSUWAN BIRDY DECODE ENGLISH DUB TV
In fact, Ninja Scroll, when remade into a TV series, yielded one of the few anime remakes that I think follow the Hollywood lines, utterly irredeemable. Kawajiri has a singular style, a unique visual action ethic that no one else can match. When the review discs arrived, I did my usual reading around it, and learned that the story was originally released as a four episode OVA, directed by none other than Ninja Scroll's Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Birdy the Mighty sounds so much dafter than the original Tetsuwan Birdy that you wish that Funimation had kept to the original name. There is that instinctive aversion I have to the daft titles that Western companies insist on translating to. Yet I shied away from the property when I first heard of it.
On this basis, I shouldn't have been sceptical of Birdy the Mighty: Decode. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood has turned out to be a worthy successor to the first series, Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex opened up a wholly different dimension of storytelling in comparison to the original feature, and R.O.D The TV in addition to the original OVA just gives me feelings of joy. I expect the worst, and instead find something amazing. But my experience with Hollywood does tend to colour my expectations of anime remakes, to he point where I'm in a constant state of pleasant surprise when I encounter them. Not everyone seems to be as bad at it as Hollywood though, and many remakes, especially anime remakes add more to the original property, not detract from it. Plenty of exposure to world cinema has disabused me of that idealistic notion, as it turns out that everyone is at it, digging up relics and gems of yesteryear and polishing them for contemporary audiences. Introduction There once was a time when I thought that the remake was a uniquely Hollywood phenomenon.
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