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Birdy the Mighty (OAV)

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[ adapted from Birdy the Mighty (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Tetsuwan Birdy (Japanese)
Wspaniała Birdy (Polish)
鉄腕バーディー (Japanese)
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Tsutomu, an average middle school kid busy studying for the final exams to enter high school runs into a man running from someone and gets caught up in the chase. In all the confusion he is accidentally gets killed. Luckily Birdy (an interplanetary agent) knows a way to save him, unfortunately that means joining bodies to become one. So now he is stuck with this officer and along for the ride capturing criminals and saving lives.
User Ratings: 276 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 9 votes (sub:8, raw:1)
 Excellent: 17 votes (sub:10, dub:6, Por.dub:1)
 Very good: 56 votes (sub:32, dub:18, Spa.dub:4, Por.dub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 91 votes (sub:49, dub:31, Spa.dub:3, Spa.sub:3, ?:2, Por.dub:2, Fre.sub:1)
 Decent: 61 votes (sub:32, dub:28, Rus.sub:1)
 So-so: 24 votes (dub:13, sub:8, Por.dub:2, ?:1)
 Not really good: 9 votes (sub:3, dub:3, raw:1, Spa.edit.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:5, dub:3, Spa.dub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 651 users, rank: #884
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.801 (Good-.19), std. dev.: 1.4447, rank: #2036
Weighted mean: 6.734 (Good-.26), rank: #2019 (seen all: 6.80 / seen some: 6.47 / won't finish: 4.83)
Bayesian estimate: 6.761 (Good-.23), rank: #1730
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 4
Episode titles: We have 4
Vintage: 1996-07-25
Releases: We have 5
Ending Theme:
#1: "Future Shock" by Cherry (eps 1-3)
#2: "Sayonara Kara Hajimeyou (サヨナラから始めよう; Let's Start with Goodbye)" by The s.h.e (ep 4)
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Related reviews:
    Birdy the Mighty VHS 1 - Double Trouble
    Birdy the Mighty VHS 2 - Final Force

Related releases:
    Birdy the Mighty - Double Trouble (DVD 1) 2004-03-09
    Birdy the Mighty - Final Force (DVD 2) 2004-05-11
    Creator Spotlight: Kawajiri Brick Pack (DVD) 2004-10-26 (from $29.99)
    Birdy the Mighty - Double Trouble (Dub.VHS 1)
    Birdy the Mighty - Final Force (Dub.VHS 2)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Screenplay:
Chiaki J. Konaka
Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Music: Kô Ôtani

Original Manga: Masami Yuuki

Character Design:
Hirotsugu Hamasaki
Kumiko Takahashi

Art director: Masashi Aoki

Animation director: Kumiko Takahashi

Director of Photography: Hitoshi Yamaguchi

Producer:
Fumio Ueda
Kazuhiko Ikeguchi
Masao Maruyama
Satoshi Yoshimoto
Tsutomu Sugita

Creature Design: Yutaka Izubuchi

 

Kotono Mitsuishi as Birdy

Tetsuya Iwanaga as Tsutomu

Akio Ohtsuka as Gomez

Hajime Ozaki as Chief

Katsuaki Arima as Mori

Keaton Yamada as Kouichirou

Keiji Fujiwara as Masakubo

Mako Hyoudou as Repi

Makoto Higo as Hanezawa

Megumi Tano as lady

Mitsuaki Hoshino as Yagibashi

Motomu Kiyokawa as Megiusu

Norio Wakamoto as Pachirusu

Osamu Ichikawa as Hikawa

Taichi Kotoe as Izumi

Takeshi Aono as Yamazaki

Tohru Furusawa as Coroner

Tomohisa Asou as Old man

Tomoko Maruo as Hazumi

Yousuke Akimoto as Hospital Director

Yuka Nagayoshi as announcer

Yukana Nogami as Natsumi

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Madhouse Studios

Production: Bandai Visual

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Peter Cascone

Translation: Kevin McKeown

Executive producer: John O'Donnell

Producer:
George San Roman
Stephanie Shalofsky

Dubbing Coordinator: Karel Havle

Dubbing Manager: Christopher Sippel

DVD Coordination:
Amber Kusmenko
Michael Palan

Editing:
Henry Fragasse
Nigel Kettle

In House Production:
Justin Sevakis
Tim Werenko

 

Alex McCord as Birdy

Justin Thompson as Tsutomu

Brian Schneider as Geega (ep 1)

Cory Carthew as Gomez

Debbie Rabbai as Hazumi

Doug Markley as Yamazaki (eps 3-4)

Justin Thompson as Yagabashi (eps 3-4)

Kim Carrell as Father

Mary Alice McGuire as
Christella Revi (eps 3-4)
Mother

Matty O'Shea as Natsumi

Ted Lewis as Hikawa

Tom Foral as Meguis

Doug Markley

Mary Alice McGuire

Peter Cascone

Scott Cargle

English companies 

Broadcaster: Anime Selects

Distributor: U.S. Manga Corps

DVD Menu Design: DVD Labs

DVD Premastering: DVD Labs

Licensed by: Central Park Media

Recording Studio: Skyhigh Productions

Korean staff 
Korean companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Animax Korea

Korean cast 
(none)

Spanish cast 
Spanish staff 
(none)

Luis Daniel Ramirez as Tsutomu Senkawa

Romy Mendoza as Birdy

Angela Villanueva as Levi

Ariadna Rivas as Hazumi Senkawa

Belinda Martinez as News reporter

Carlos Becerril as Maestro

César Soto as Bachirus

Ismael Castro as Tsutomu's father

Marcos Patiño as Seikiro Hikawa

Martin Soto as Gomez

Maru Guerrero as Tsutomu's mother

Miguel Angel Ghigliazza as Inspector Meloris

Miguel Angel Sanromán as Inspector Yamazaki

Pedro D'Aguillon Jr as Narrator

Teresa Ibarrola as Natsumi

Victor Mares as Doctor

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster: Locomotion (Latin America)

Portuguese staff 
Portuguese cast 

Dubbing Director: Elcio Sodré (Brazil)

 

Tânia Gaidarji as Birdy

Vagner Fagundes as Tsutomu Senkawa

Fábio Tomasini as Assassin/robber

Priscila Concépcion as Hiyamiya Natsumi

Rodrigo Andreatto as Student wearing eyeglasses

Thiago Longo as Obese student

Portuguese companies 

Broadcaster: Locomotion Brazil (Dubbed)

Dubbing Studio: Mastersound (Brazil)

 
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