![]() ![]() But even then, it's not staged to be funny. And there is one scene where Tsutomu's father barges into the bathroom as the boy is supposedly bathing only to encounter a nude Birdy. Yes, there's a scene or two where he switches genders in front of his high school girlfriend, but it's never played for laughs. Besides, the comic potential of a high school boy coping with the presence in his body of a beautiful, voluptuous intergalactic space warrior is never adequately explored. There's never any suspense as Birdy fights one android or cyborg per episode in the first three episodes, none of which represent any significant threat to her. It's slow going and lacking in any of the excitement that we usually find in anime sci-fi action. Nor is it ever clear why some space federation is involved in all of this. Her motive is never spelled out and the implications of Japan's involvement in research like this is never dealt with. Eventually-and way too late in the narrative for anyone to care anymore-we learn that it all has something to do with secret experiments in creating super-soldiers that were begun by the Japanese during the war and are now being revived by a high-powered villainess, Christella Revi, who comports herself like a fashionable corporate head and directs her team to poison Tokyo's water supply with a serum derived from those experiments. In the first three episodes she fights various cyborg and android creatures, for reasons that are never terribly clear. (incl."Birdy the Mighty" is a four-part anime OAV (made-for-video) series about a super-powered intergalactic policewoman, Birdy Cephon Altera, who takes over the body of a hapless Tokyo high school boy named Tsutomu and has to switch back and forth with him when danger approaches.
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