Birdy: the mighty decode.

I watched this anime for the first time months ago. I went back to watch it some more today and there were four episodes of it dubbed. It is amazing. the soundtrack is amazing, ranging from orchestrated high octane peices, to slow relaxed piano melodies, even some elements of hard Jazz and Guitar centric rock being mixed in.

The animation for the show is top quality, smoothly and seamlessly transitioning from frame to frame. The art is also top notch. Almost everything in the art of birdy is highly detailed and refined. I must say that personally, I don't think the Dubbing could have been much better as far as Voice actor choice goes. The main character is dubbed by Micah Solusod, most famous for his role as Soul in Soul Eater.

The difference between his character then and his character now is that Tsutomu Senkawa (the other main character besides birdy herself) is a lot more of a recluse and anti-social person. Micah plays this off by giving him a much gentler tone of voice, which is very fitting. Birdy Altera is voiced by Luci Christian, who is also Nami from One Piece fame. I thought Luci did a great job of switching between being a false air-head and a galactic police badass. although I am a bit skeptical of how false she sounded at times. It wasn't supposed to be blatantly false, and it normally wasn't, but some mistakes did slip through the cracks.

I also noticed one of the main villains with little screen time was voiced by Todd Haberkorn. Another person of soul eater fame, this one hailing from his role as Death The Kid. I can't really say anything about him other than he did a great job of sounding sinister. He didn't get enough screen time for me to say otherwise.

The dialogue was far from the strongest, there were times when it was chock full of cheesy lines you'd normally hear in a chase or fight scene that lacked little originality in writing. thankfully the delivery of the lines mostly makes up for that. the story is interesting enough, but not too original. Unfortunately the major developments start in the first episode and continue on from there. Even if it isn't that original, it's definitely a strong story.

Overall, birdy is a strong show that mostly makes up for its flaws, and I would personally recommend it to anyone looking for action or sci-fi in their anime.