
Birdy the Mighty’s athletic protagonist Birdy Cephon Altera gets a typically erotic rendition of her in mid-cavort, with plenty of fleshy detail preserved by her skintight suit.
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When it was broadcast, fans were incredulous at the level of quality on display in the seventh episode of Tetsuwan Birdy Decode 2, and many started to speculate that is was an artistically stylised special sequence, rather than the work of starving South Korean animators overseen by Japanese incompetents.
The newly released DVD edition puts any notion that this was anything less than a legendary debacle to rest, as the comparison below plainly illustrates what transpired throughout the entire episode:
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A rather convincing collection of Birdy the Mighty cosplay, featuring Birdy Cephon Altera, aka Arita Shion. Interestingly, this is done not by a professional cosplayer, but by a gravure idol, Aya Kiguchi.
You may recall the set from the earlier Birdy 2D vs 3D cosplay showdown; see there for appropriately sexy 2D art.
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Sexy acrobatic oppai anime Tetsuwan Birdy Decode: 2 has astonished fans by reaching a new level of animation quality. The seventh episode looks set to enter legend as a supreme expression of production quality taken to extremes:
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Not too much art of Tetsuwan Birdy / Birdy the Mighty seems to circulate, despite it even managing a new season, so seeing this striking study in naked bathing I though it might be interesting to introduce.
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Here we have quite an impressive effort at cosplaying ero-gymnast Birdy Cephon Altirra, of 鉄腕バーディー / Tetsuwan Birdy / Birdy the Mighty. The results are compared below.
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Favourably received action anime 鉄腕バーディー DECODE / Tetsuwan Birdy Decode (or Birdy the Mighty) is to get a new season, set to air in January 2009. This was announced on a staff blog, as well as at Comiket. Further details are promised later.
You may recall that the author of the source manga recently had some publication troubles, with his serialising magazine shutting up shop, so this must come as a relief to him.
Via Moon Phase.

It seems the treatment meted out to lowly mangaka by the high hand of magazine management continues to know no bounds; now we hear that Young Sunday (relatively famous for Patlabor, Tetsuwan Birdy, etc.) has opted to cease publication (temporarily is what they say, but this may just be a way of softening the impact) due to financial difficulties, and has left its serialised mangaka in the lurch.
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