Season 1 is very average and the dub rewrites the dialogue full of overt exposition. Episode 5 is just bad and the story is too much about the main lead to be good. He is a boring average character and they don't make a good story to make you care about him that much. Birdy is a good character mostly but the other side characters are average anime archetypes.
Season 2 is good as the new characters are much better and the story is also about a better character Birdy. The plot has time travel but the past only changes within a few mins and there are no tension killing resurrections. Also, it's the power of the side antagonist which is a friend with birdy but he uses the power to murder the main antagonists. Putting him at odds with birdy and he mind jumps to his past self making the power more akin to precognition. Also, he 's an antagonist so him being a bit overpowered adds tension and he can be killed as his powers are not automatic and it makes him sick so there are still consequences.
Also, the action is really good and the conflict is grey.
Season 2 is the only reason to watch the show. It's not the best thing ever but the whole is better than the sum of its parts and it's better than an average show.
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Number1Animeguy10 December 2018
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When I started watching this series I didn't know anything about it but soon started to enjoy it. Birdy is an alien police officer who is sent to Earth to recover a particularly dangerous weapon that has been stolen. Luckily for her she looks human so while on Earth she she can hide in plain sight as Arita Shion; a popular Japanese idol! Her mission goes wrong however when she accidentally kills local school boy Tsutomu... he isn't permanently dead though as Birdy's people can repair his body; while they do this he will have to share hers! They take turns being in control of the body and as it can change appearance Tsutomu can continue his life to a degree. As Birdy tracks down the weapon she discovers that it is in a person and that that person is a close friend of Tsutomu's. In the second series Tsutomu is still stuck in Birdy's body as she hunts down a group of escaped convicts on Earth; she wants to arrest them but somebody else keeps getting to them first and killing them. We also learn more about Birdy's background in the second season.
This series was a lot of fun with plenty of action and some good laughs; I especially liked the running gag with the Yakuza whose car Birdy kept destroying by accident. The first season is suitable for most viewers but things get far more bloody in the second season when there is plenty of blood spilt some of it is shocking ways. While Birdy's costume is fairly skimpy and she is often seen taking a bath the fan service is fairly tame with little actually nudity. The shift in tone might disturb some people but I found the second season more gripping than the first; although this may have been because I knew the characters better by then. -
tangomargarine6 June 2020The premise that a high school boy is sharing a body with a...erm...don't think we ever really are told what age she is...girl is an interesting one, but don't expect to be wowed by the plot arc.
I have a fairly low bar after watching stuff like Strike Witches and A Certain Magical index, but even by that standard, the plot...let's just say, don't expect the show to have a proper resolution. The season-long plot arcs get wrapped up, sure, but it feels like they expected to do more seasons or something, because the overall story just kind of ends without resolving the characters at all. There's even some time travel involved, but it doesn't really resolve things other than for one character.
Another fun excuse to watch Luci Christian do her dub thing, but I have to say this is probably the cheesiest anime I've watched so far.