Trivia / Birdy the Mighty

• God-Created Canon Foreigner: Several original characters who made their first appearances in anime were designed by original author Masami Yuuki, such as Hikawa in the OVA, Shyamalan and Sayaka Nakasugi in Decode season 1. All three of them joined the original manga's run much later, technically became the example of Canon Immigrant.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Funimation lost the license for Decode in late 2016, meaning it can no longer stream the series or sell the DVDs. Likewise, the collapse of Central Park Media means the OVA is out of print, too.
• No Export for You: To this day, the original manga, Birdy the Mighty II, and II's followup Evolution were never localized out of Japan. A Fan Translation a decade in the making is why people outside of that country are able to read it, albeit only in English.
• No Budget: A borderline case. Second season budget was significantly affected with the commercial failure of the first one, with a lot of cutting corner techniques applied to compensate. The artstyle is much more simplified, with infamously sketchy episodes 7 and 12 (the very final one) and regular lapses in animation all around entire season, with only simple static cues suggesting actual action. Those lapses are extremely jarring when compared with fluid and detailed animation of the first season.
• Playing Against Type: For both Kenichi Suzumura and Todd Haberkorn, their respective role as Satyajit Shyamalan, a villainous Smug Snake plotting mass genocide. Although for the latter, he's started playing roles in the style of Shyamalan more often since moving to L.A.
• Role Reprise: Decode features Mako Hyōdō reprising her role from the OVA series as Christella Revi.
• Troubled Production: Evolution evidently went through a case of this nearing the end of its publication history. When it finished serialization, it ended on a non-ending and the publishers apologized. An epilogue was published later that year, resolving the main plot, but it still left many subplots unresolved. For what it's worth, Masami Yuki does take questions on Twitter regarding the fates of several characters left hanging.

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