Birdy The Mighty: Decode
Birdy the Mighty: Decode starts when Birdy secretly entered Earth to track down an alien criminal named Geega as an Earth Federation police officer. In the midst of her work, she accidentally kills a Japanese national named Senkawa Tsutomu. To save his life, Birdy merges her body with his.
As the two work together on maintaining their lives, a mysterious person wishes to uses the Ryunka in order to commit genocide on the entire Earth.
This season uses two musical themes: one opening and one ending. The opening theme is "Sora" by Hearts Grow, while the ending theme is "Let's Go Together" by Afromania
| # | Episode Name | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "One Plus One" | 4 July 2008 |
| While pursuing alien criminals named Bacillus and Geega, Birdy Cephon Altera and Tuto infiltrate Earth under the cover of a rising Japanese idol and her manager. During one night on a routine mission to apprehend the said criminal, a civilian named Tsutomu Senkawa is used as a human shield. When Birdy realizes that she has accidentally fatally wounded him, she decides that the only way to save his life is to share a body with him in order to keep his consciousness alive. Tsutomu thought that it was all a dream until he found that he was unable to control his body one night after he was supposedly dead. | ||
| 2 | "The Partnered One" | 11 July 2008 |
| Birdy and Tsutomu try to cope with existing by sharing one body, but leading two separate lives. Birdy's commanding officer, Magius, informs Tsutomu that his original body is being restored and it will be some time before he can live outside of Birdy's body. Bacillus tries to eliminate Birdy by luring her into a movie shooting as cover. Keisuke Muroto tries to take photos of Bacillus and Birdy, but falls unconscious when he was knocked out by debris. A wounded Bacillus took over Geega's Earth body as his first one was damaged from deterioration and from fighting Birdy. | ||
| 3 | "View of Life" | 18 July 2008 |
| Bacillus tries to locate and eliminate Birdy, while she, Tsutomu and Tuto argue over the constant separate lives that they were trying to hide from the public. Tuto gets wounded by Bacillus before he gave Birdy an Elemental Destructor capsule bomb to kill Bacillus and eliminate the threat of him killing an Earth-born civilian in Japan. Birdy mourns Tuto's death when he can't heal his wounds from Bacillus' attack. | ||
| 4 | "A Stranger from Earth" | 25 July 2008 |
| Birdy returns to her home planet Altaria to attend a trial of one of the smugglers that she had arrested. She and Tsutomu were questioned by a deity named Nechla Geeze regarding Ryunka. Nejula reveals to Tsutomu that Ryunka is used as a nuclear weapon, killing off the inhabitants of a planet named Bilugema. While Birdy visits her hometown, a terrorist bombing destroys a convoy of vehicles. | ||
| 5 | "Another World" | 1 August 2008 |
| Birdy fights with Kinzel Hower as Nechla corners Bay Gelabu Bela, to which he ultimately commits suicide for his "pride" or "honor." Birdy is able to convince Nimukay Bow to detonate the falling satellite which was targeting the Union, after knowing that many people will die from the attack. Kashu Geeze turns out to be an undercover agent under Skeletso's direction. Birdy is quite frustrated with the fact that Skeletso tolerated the deaths of many Altarians in the terrorist attack in order to get a lead on Kinzel. | ||
| 6 | "Both of Us" | 8 August 2008 |
| Sayaka Nakasugi invites her classmates to her mansion for her welcome back party. Birdy investigates the site where she had killed Tsutomu in order to locate a marionette of non-Earth origin. Sayaka's maid, Yoshie Suzuki, finds strange things have happened to her, which started to worry Sayaka's grandfather, Chairman Katsutoshi Nakasugi. Meanwhile, Sayaka disappears from the mansion after encountering a parrot, which is later recognized as an alien in disguise. | ||
| 7 | "Night Walker" | 15 August 2008 |
| A string of murders with dead female victims with short hair and glasses leads Birdy to investigate them with Tsutomu. The culprit is revealed to be a rogue combat marionette, which is killing the victims through a loving "hug" that is unfortunately fatal because of its super-strength. They are targeted based on their similarities to its "mother", the main programmer when the marionette was placed under her care. Birdy attempts to retrieve it, but is attacked by supposedly a Federation-based person with a guardian robot that attacks her to keep her away from acquiring the disabled robot. | ||
| 8 | "Ghost Village" | 22 August 2008 |
| Sayaka invites her friends including Tsutomu to her family village in the Sawajiri Village in Nagano. But on one evening, Sayaka succumbs to the Ryunka implanted on her by an unknown force who returned the renegade marionette back to her owners. A small number of Ryunka explosions rattled the village, forcing the Federation Police to mobilize. | ||
| 9 | "The Champion of Justice" | 29 August 2008 |
| An investigation team under Satyajit Shyamalan's orders investigates the ruins of Sawajiri Village, even killing a policeman when Muroto and Natsumi Hayamiya decide to investigate. Birdy saves them from some of the armed men and fights the reconstructed marionette before she gets injured during an encounter with Georg Gomez after defeating the marionette again. | ||
| 10 | "You're the One" | 5 September 2008 |
| Tsutomu and Sayaka go on a date, to which Tsutomu receives a kiss from Sayaka herself. Meanwhile, Shyamalan meets with Chairman Nakasugi and kills him during the meeting. When Yoshie discovers his body, she thinks that Sayaka killed him. This, in turn, activates the Ryunka within Sayaka, as she causes Yoshie to evaporate. | ||
| 11 | "Bye Bye Buddy" | 12 September 2008 |
| Birdy confirms that Sayaka is the host for Ryunka. But Tsutomu wants to protect her, no matter what and so he takes control of Birdy's body when she tries to get close to Ryunka. Nechla knocks them out before their minds fuse completely. When they wake up again, Tsutomu has his own body back and needs glasses again. From now on, Birdy and Tsutomu go separate ways. When Birdy and Nechla arrive at Sayaka's villa, she is already gone because she went to Tsutomu's place. To protect her from being pursued by her greedy relatives, Tsutomu leaves her in Shyamalan's care. However, Tsutomu eventually discovers Shyamalan's true intentions when Nechla confronts him. | ||
| 12 | "Doomsday" | 19 September 2008 |
| Shyamalan releases a recorded television announcement, saying that he intends to wreck genocide on Japan to weed out the weak. The government, though slow, has begun to take steps to contain the Ryunka that is beginning to spread throughout the Greater Tokyo Area. Tsutomu, though advised not to go out of his house, decides to do so and save Sayaka. Nechla suggests that a faction of the Federation Police may have not decided to quickly respond to see the power of Ryunka. Muroto decides to help Tsutomu after he finds out that the ship is the Lost Bird, where Sayaka is held. Shyamalan is killed when the Ryunka inside of Sayaka is activated, with a segment of the Japanese public. Meanwhile, Birdy is moving in on her own to stop the Lost Bird from moving any further. | ||
| 13 | "Stand by Me" | 26 September 2008 |
| Birdy and Tsutomu head to the Lost Bird to figure out a way to purge the Ryunka out of Sayaka's body. The two were able to do so, at the cost of Tsutomu's own body when he sacrificed it to allow Birdy to fatally wound him again and purge the Ryunka parasite out of his body with Nechla in charge of containing it. The Japanese government had covered up the events as the Federation Police had mobilized in Roppongi. Due to the events, Sayaka loses some of her memories including her encounters with Tsutomu. Birdy once again merges with Tsutomu until a new body can be readied. Meanwhile, Gomez and his boss, Christella Revi, had a conversation about whether Birdy is a threat, with Gomez telling Revi to take some precautions against her. |
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