Birdy the Mighty (II) - Vol. 20 Ch. 217 - Spring Festival #20

[MangaDex]

 

[breizh]

No she wasn’t right, she partly saved him because he was a witness and he showed her what plant he saw there.

She was mostly delayed because she she’s stupid and because she was suspended due to that incident. And there are 2 other incompetent and useless investigators on the planet that were supposed to take her place but didn’t do jack shit expect killing humans...

 

[LouWohl]

It's nice to see Tsutomu develop some resolve and determination to help Birdy, after spending the last 20 volumes doing nothing but bitch and hinder her from following up on leads and pursuing criminals that she had been tailing. It's also nice to see him finally start to be sympathetic Birdy, which he should have been after seeing her childhood instead of showing complete indifference and wondering why the Federation didn't just seal of Ixorians on their own planet (Decode handled that part of the story much better). This would have been a good place to end part 1 before heading into Evolution, but nope, the next chapter has to undo it all with a dumb ecchi gag because there's so little sense of consistency here. The story gets better, but Birdy and Tsutomu don't seem to change much at all.

 

[Ironclad]

Wait so the crazy jackal died in the explosion? What was her plan? Is anyone going to point out how much that escalated? This is like arresting a jaywalker leading to a police station burning down.

@LouWohl And it only took 200+ chapters for it! This crap should have happened in the first volume. All this time Tsutomu has acted like it was the other way round and Birdy had taken over his body.

Other things that need to be fixed: We keep being told how dangerous Christella Revi is, but everyone is more concerned with government bureaucracy than actually dealing with her. They keep talking about non-interference and remaining hidden but only send brazen idiots on land missions. The planet apparently has a long history of alien migrants and a network that Birdy was in contact with, so how are they so out of touch?

In all this time Birdy has made zero progress except maybe learning about Gomez, one of Revi's underlings but even after monitoring him and Chigira for months failed to connect the cult to Revi. I guess she put an end to the spirits production but despite all the talk of making supersoldiers with it, we were shown that it was basically useless and Revi seemed to have abandoned it ages ago.

I also noticed every arc introduces a handful of characters that take much more active roles in the story then Birdy or Tsutomu only for them to rather awkwardly get killed off or disappeared at the last chapters of the story, and there's basically no lasting effects.

 

[sillyshark]

Useless saying something justificative about mistakes in past, but harass someone in any handable cases is unconstructive at all.
By the way, strange why Birdy not mentioned what happened with Hazumi or Chigira, or how they've lead to Hikawa and all this clinics and labs? Or it because not involved persons can be listen?

Needed to say something about whole series.
All, what you seen there, is not so illogical or compleatly stupid, in real life things may be happened or not with more crazy or trivial circumstances. Particularly, investigating process may continue year by year and ended never, because someone working formaly and/or underresourced.
Schoolboy, who do not want to enjoy this circus for all this time, is not so big mistake in story. Actualy, it's very hard understand, why Tsutomu seemed unconcerned, but if think deep a little, answer is obvious - his life was destroyed and depression is comming. Lol, but it's ok being depressed with shizophrenia, when thoughts can be directed in opposite ways, and many-many times you feel (if you can) like you acting so wrong and most of times you realy acting wrong, and sense of estrangementation of your own body may be increasing. Then, what happen if you have that kind of expirience? Two depressed minds in result?

Spoiler

Sorry for poor english.

 

[Koremitsu_Arita]

@Ironclad No one says she's dead. The last thing she said was that she was leaving the ship, and she's the one who set the explosives. It would be stupid to set them off before leaving, right?

Spoiler

She comes back in evolution

As for the rest, every loose end will be tied up in the sequel.