well i just watched the original Birdy the Mighty OVAs, and they were great! it was like watching a good assed movie with a good ending, plot, character development, and foreshadowing on a sequel.
then i watched the first episode of Decode expecting a sequel or GOOD remake.....i was RUDELY DISAPOINTED!!
they made the main male character into a complete scrub who i cant even really relate to anymore, he's not interested in his female classmate like he was in the OVA. Hes soupossedly a normal good high school student yet in the OVA he was late alot probably would have barley made it into his good highschool, if not for Birdy. Plus the OVA version of him looks older to me and had a better attitude. Not to mention they remade the way birdie looked, which is sorta okay though the original version of her seemed more practical. She had flats on(obviously MUCH better then heels for running) she had multicolored pants (one purple one white, one shorter one longer) and when she transformed it looked as if her clothes just changed hella fast as if to not attract attention. The new transform and Birdy is unpractical, Flashy, and not as cool IMO then the original. When the lead male dies in the original it made alot more sense and had a ton more depth. The new death seems less likely, it seems to me like she coulda saw that it was a human and not a monster not to mention the dieing scene wasnt as deep.
In the original, the monster was in human form and no one could tell. theres many other changes for the worse, there all over the fuckin place!
The other HUGE BAD change was his family! His family in the first one was so much more interesting and funny. His sister was younger then him and often messed with him about the strange things he did, and getting into a good high school. This new shit completly flips all that around! He lives alone? WTF!!
its like they took the cool master piece movie they had and SHREDDED it into tiny, lame, whackness. i almost feel like i shouldn't have spent all that time downloading it, since i expected it to be like the original or AT THE LEAST, original they turned the lead male into a stereotypical Keitaro character (i.e. Small, nerdy looking, with glasses). The animation style is cool, but thats about it. Its like what happened to Kuro Kami when it turned to an anime (It was GUTTER TRASH!).
I was hoping for so much from the series, oh so much, i mean remakes can be good. the coulda cleared up some of the plot holes the first one suffered from, due to episode constraints. They 'did' clear a few of em' but they did more for worse then for better.
Even as a series the show seems dry (other than the animation), but ill continue ill give it half a season to be good or make up for its losses IMO.
EDIT: Oh yeah and i liked how birdy pretty much worked alone, in Decode she has help.(LAMENESS)
(sigh) all in all i hope the show at least can be good. ill continue watching for now....
