Comments on: Tetsuwan Birdy Decode DVD: Eternal Shame Unveiled

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:17:24 +0000

I really enjoyed that scene in the anime to be honest. REALLY. Thought it really fit into the mood cause I mean she's just a little kid at that time and it really looks like some lil kiddo drew the whole thing. I liked it.

By: Unicogirl

Unicogirl — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:56:45 +0000

XD and it still looks crappy, even with DVD.

what a shame

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:24:50 +0000

Srsbsns.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:29:36 +0000

By: jj

jj — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:36:59 +0000

zero

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:49:01 +0000

No, the show actually had very expensive animators (in fact, I beleive so expensive that they spent less time on the 'art quality and more on animation.

The show has good animation, this one scene is different.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:45:57 +0000

no, watch the youtube link. The one you are referring to was not done by Matsumoto.

There was, however, a homage to Enter the Dragon in one of his fight scenes.

By: Mechwarrior

Mechwarrior — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:26:52 +0000

Considering that the guys who animated the show probably earned below poverty level, I can understand the poor quality of some of the sequences.

By: Shuu

Shuu — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:32:15 +0000

LOL, because of some still shots...

Well, enjoy staying ignorant then.

By: anonymous bastard

anonymous bastard — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:30:40 +0000

pfft i liked that. it was so trippy, fitting for a dream.

then again, i'm also, like, the only person who likes gurren lagann episode 4.

By: asianprostitute1500

asianprostitute1500 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:45:26 +0000

So did this ever surpass Okaeri QUALITY?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:36:27 +0000

He said "Hahaha and to think there were some who said it was on purpose! But anyway, when there isn't enough money one can't do anything; it's still a very good show." There's my American World Languages education for you. :)

By: QnWorks

QnWorks — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:31:10 +0000

LOL xD Fuckup xD I don't know the anime and I think I don't ever wanna know after seeing this xD

By: TheAndySan

TheAndySan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:48:19 +0000

Normally, I don't whine about the production quality of anime. However, that was just plain awful!

It's good that they fixed it for the DVD release though.

By: Howling

Howling — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:05:39 +0000

What's the matter? Not moe enough?
Those messy visuals were important to the show.

By: Atsuke

Atsuke — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:22:59 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:18:09 +0000

Btw, I'm the anonymous poster that DmonHiro replied... If you read my post, I don't deny that the director or someone that responsible for this anime is making a mistake for the broadcast version... It just that most of the people dis it without seeing it in motion. You can't deny the fact that some people doesn't mind it... and I can't deny that lots of people hate it.... Whether it is design decision or not at that time, we can't really know. What I did see is that the worst stuff happen when the scene is heavy on action, which is why I think it's a design choice at that time to prioritize motion over drawing accuracy, especially since this is a 'dream scene'. To add to that, Birdy ending really make it natural for me to think that this 'dream scene' were made as intended at that time and not some starved korean animator deliberately doing this without the consent from A-1. And I've watched Kemonozume, Windy Tales and Mind Game... those animes probably make me kinda forgiving when I encounter stuff like this. And unlike you who doesn't accept the possibility that this is a deliberate design choice, I can accept the possibility that someone make a mistake... It just that I'm leaning more towards the other way. Unless someone can provide an evidence that it was not intentional, then I'll keep my stance. And btw, I don't recall writing 'arts'.. I'm writing that it's intentional (whether it is because of arts or time constraint or budget). Now you could argue if it indeed because time and/or budget constraint then it would be unintentional, thus a mistake.. which of course I can understand that. It's just a matter of pov.

By: Djisas

Djisas — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:02:39 +0000

The artistic side might not have been the best, but i do admit that those scenes where quite awesome and felt very fluid, the ep had lots of action...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:01:17 +0000

Intentional or not, I liked the original better.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:00:39 +0000

You mean those excellent Naruto fights ripped off from other series? (Cowboy Bebop etc?)

By: De JaY

De JaY — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:32:36 +0000

Oh god that looks so awesome. I think I should start watching this. D:

By: liveevil

liveevil — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:13:29 +0000

LOOOOL. Fucking sucky quality. I can imagine the animators coming back from a drinking party to cram for this episode. Good thing they fix'd the dvd version.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:44:54 +0000

see, the comment about laymen criticizing professionals should have been a reply to this instead

By: ListenGuys

ListenGuys — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:38:14 +0000

COOL STORY BRO TIME

Man. I'm tired of people putting down the show because of the aniamtion in EP 7.

Everyone talks about that one scene in episode 7. Yes, I don't know if they did that for artistic reasons or did it for budget reasons, BUT that doesn't mean you can put down the whole episode much less the WHOLE SHOW, based on that little scene. The show as a whole had very good animation albeit sacrificing the art quality a bit. In fact, there were actually a couple of gem animation scenes even in the dream sequence done by some pretty well-known animators.

Here's a scene done by none other than Norio Matsumoto from episode 7 of Birdy (hint: he didn't do the shitty part): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD60WVsyy_I

And here's a good fight scene from episode 12 done by the same animator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK27cD8Dfks

In case you don't know who he is, Norio Matsumoto is the guy who did the animation for those excellent Naruto fights that were the only reason to actually watch the show (Naruto vs. Sasuke, Sasuke vs Orichi, Rock Lee vs Garra).

Here's some of Norio Matsumoto's other stuff including that sex scene from Tenchi, those excellent Samurai X/Ruroni Kenshin fights, Tei Rei changing into her undies, and those really awesome Naruto fight scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ZTlbr-nlU

No one can rationally say the whole show/episode 7 blew because of that one little dream sequence; they could convince me that the show isn't as good based on the plot etc BUT definitely not the animation.

Tetsuwan Birdy Decode 02 as a whole has very good animation, medium to low art quality, ok story but not as good as S1, and excellent music.

Also: Those who like the show BUY THE DVD, maybe we might get a more quality S3.