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ANIME DramaBIRDIE WING: Golf Girls' Story Season 2

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  Xcile

  53/100
  It’s golf. But add some nonsensical stuffs.

  To Eve: The way you golf is ridiculous.
  Eve: To me, it’s the proper way to golf.

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  Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story is Decent to watch. I'm not calling it “Mid”. It just had ups and downs from start to finish.
  I never would have thought that golf in anime is entertaining…unless you put some absurd amount of things that Anime could do. Like, a Baddie Snake Woman, moving Facility that can make the world crumble, Mafias’ betting all their money to golf, VR that is identical to real life experience. You name it! There’s more things to say, but I’m not here to diss the show.
  Yet.
  I’m here to find out what got me to like watching this show.

  First and foremost. The intro.
  I already found that the first three of the episodes were somewhat decent to watch. Because I was talking to my brother and told him, “Dude, Idk man. Golf in Anime f***ing slaps”. It already shows how the characters build up to their background stories. And how great they use the OST and Animation. It was great.

  Until I watched episode 4, 5, and 6.
  This is where everything changed my perspective from watching the show.
  It introduces new characters where Eve is living in a life of poverty. BUT
  On Episode 4, Mafias were introduced. Underground Pro Golfers. And a huge facility is made just for golfing. It got me thinking. WTF is happening. Onto episode 5, VR is somewhat big. Even professional players are taking it. And lastly. Episode 6. Eve’s instructor named Leo was introduced. Snake Woman became Eve’s caddy. So much trusting a person in a mafia people. And Leo, Eve’s instructor. He used to teach Rose right before she loses her arm. One of Eve’s rivals in episode 7.

  Still on episode 7, with an abominable amount of games. Finally, Eve won her underground tournament which led to having a loathsome amount of money. After winning the mafia game, Eve got targeted by a hitman from the Mafia Boss.
  Which it leads her to a new arc.

  Arriving in Japan

  While she runs away from her home country. As she set foot in Japan to find her Rival ”Aoi” . And not knowing a single thing about their language. Until….. I have to say this unless this wouldn’t complete my review.

  Eve said in English, “Are you from here? I asked if you’re from here. Do you understand what I’m saying?”. Ichina replied, “I’m still studying English”. Eve said in Japanese, “You from around here?” Ichina questioned her, “You can speak Japanese?” And Eve replied to herself, “I guess I can. Why, I wonder?”

  I paused for a moment. And straight up bursting laughter. I was dying from laughing. And It got me thinking. (I need to write a review on this.) I need it so badly.

  At this point, I don’t even know if this show is valid for its sports genre. Sure it is pretty entertaining if they focused golfing and with rivalries, but it just went like. What?……….. And what got me thinking in every episode is the “Mr. Incredible becoming Uncanny” meme. It started good and slowly pacing to unusual progression and gets right back to the track where it became a golf again.
  
  
  
  And thus the review is done.

  • Story-
    [I don’t find this an average show. I just find uncertain]
  • Progression-
    [I know what is happening, but at the same time. I Don’t.]
  • Art-
    [The Art caught me first because of how well detailed the surroundings are]
  • OST-
    [It’s good they added a banger soundtrack, or else the Swinging sequence wouldn’t be working out]
  • Enjoyment-
    [Golf parts are entertaining. I had some laughs at the middle part of series and overall…]

  Overall- 53/100

  This is my own experience of watching this show. If you find it more entertaining than in my standard. Good for you.
  And to people who hasn't watch the show and reading this review. Give it a try.

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  ZNote

  69/100
  Embraces its absurdity by taking the finesse of golf and making it more rugged.

  SPOILER-FREE!
  Golf and I get along like oil and water – we simply do not mix. I’ve gone to the driving range several times, spent some days out at the links (both voluntarily and when I’d rather not), and have even tried watching the Master’s on television. Even after all these years, actually playing the sport itself just bounces off me like rubber. I can see why it has the appeal that it does, but I think it’s fair to say that I’ve given golf more than my own fair share of time and chances. There comes a point where you must shake your head and admit that something’s not worth pursuing as a hobby or activity any longer. It’s a shame, but that’s sometimes the way things go.

  BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls’ Story was therefore a show that I was taking a major chance on. There was, however, reason to be hopeful – earlier this year, a 15-minute OVA called Sorairo Utility featured a slice-of-life take on golf, which I found pleasant, even if a little bit flawed. A thought then occurred to me – it is possible that golf and I were going to have a magical reconciliation, that I would gain new appreciation for the sport and see something within it that I had somehow missed all this time? I doubted it, but I still nevertheless decided to give this new series a drive.

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  Eve is a blonde-haired golfer who takes on various golfing challenges. She earns money on these challenges with her “bullet” style of golfing, which doesn’t adhere to any of the techniques or refinement that one expects from a typical golfer. Her playstyle however attracts the attention of the young golf champion Amawashi Aoi, and Eve challenged to a hole on the range. After losing, Eve finds herself excited and wanting to challenge Amawashi again. She’ll have to deal though with other golfers desperate to knock her off her pedestal, as well as deal with her boss who holds a mafia-esque grip on her.

  In effect, BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls’ Story is a shonen in sports clothing, all done for a sport that, in theory, complements the idea the least. One of golf’s appeals is the relaxed nature of the whole, an underlying classiness and etiquette that is meant to be adhered to. It is a sport that requires patience and calculation, which allows one to stop and take the time to enjoy the setting and the company you’re keeping. It’s supposed to be encapsulated by the visual imagery of the course, expansive and lushly green with its bodies of water…so long as the bunkers and rough don’t eat your golf ball alive in the process. With the bombast and sense of extreme escalation that shonen is known for bringing to the table, golf is one of the sports that doesn’t sound at all ripe for making into a larger-scale spectacle.

  The show attacks that very mindset head-on, best demonstrated with its main character. Eve’s very manner of being is the polar opposite of everything that you reasonably expect from a golfer. Her attire looks like it was hastily thrown together in the dark, no doubt a result of her struggling financial situation both for herself and the family that she’s helping to care for (Gundam model kits included, evidently). Even her hair is largely unkempt, flowing down but without a ponytail or other way to keep it tidy. It makes for a perfect mirror to her personality: abrasive, blunt, and always ready to reach for her driver and destroy whoever lies in wait.

  And destroy them she does – despite her unorthodox style of presentation, it makes for highly-effective golfing. The training she underwent caused her to develop what she calls “Rainbow Bullet” golfing, in which she attacks the courses with a series of strong, blasting swings that take on particular effects to get the ball in the hole as quickly as possible. While she’s quite skilled, her style is also rife with risk, leaving the ever-lingering question behind of when, or if, the method will fail her. But when it clicks, the look on the faces of her opponents usually comes in two delicious flavors: resignation, or absolute fury at their sport being “desecrated.”

  Contrasting Eve is Amawashi, the perfect posterchild for the golfing world. Not only has her play been recognized (not to mention commented upon and envied) by her peers, but she also has the perfect smile and temperament to match. Much of BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls’ Story’s drama comes from these two girls from two different worlds colliding on the day of their fateful encounter, the results of which leave lasting impressions on both. In that sense, the show adopts the classic shonen trope of friendships being forged on the “battlefield,” establishing the kind of spontaneous connection that defies explanation or description. Their dynamic is a walking example of the old adage that “opposites attract.”

  That attraction is spilled all over the anime. In an effort to leave the audience with the yearning to have the two see each other again, the show manages to concoct various do-or-die scenarios for Eve in the mafia’s vicegrip, or play up the melancholy Amawashi feels since she cannot see the person who has thrilled her more than anyone else (much to the consternation of her caddy, who’d sooner throw Eve off the side of a cliff if she could). There is no attempt here to hide yuri baiting, whether it be conveyed through actual dialogue or when the anime decides to temporarily adopt shoujo-style bubbles with a glowing border and many sparkles. In this case, the bait is part of the appeal – BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls’ Story fully commits to its desire to go over the absurd threshold and not look back. The result is that the “romance” between Eve and Amawashi is odd and fun.

  Odd and fun, wonderfully enough, refers to much of the other cast as well. With the mafia backdrop, there is no shortage of rich, pompous slimeballs who delight in using a dignified sport for their undignified operations. The web of how the mafia operates, both in external effects on the world and with its internal politics, is something that series composer Kuroda Yousuke clearly had fun reveling in. The labyrinth runs hilariously deep, with so much goings-on that the golf matches both act as plot threads to move things forward and fun little digressions when the narrative isn’t spending time teeing up its next crazy situation. No matter what situation is present at the moment, its always stupidly enjoyable.

  Though the animation could, at best, be considered “acceptable” given that it’s not particularly excelling in any respects. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the character models, occasional use of CGI, or the backgrounds and layouts. The visual element suffers from mostly just being unimpressive, and at times the lighting and compositing gives things an unusual sheen, even in the sunlight. Musically, the series doesn’t really have anything to offer either, as the tracks themselves seemed to exist more as placeholders and ways to fill space rather than incorporating anything noteworthy.

  But more than any of that is just the sensation that I couldn’t help but feel that I wondered into the wrong country club. I mean that in the best way possible. Everything in BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls’ Story’s existence is over-the-top and impossible to take seriously. It is a mosaic of ideas where everyone involved in production seemed to ask themselves, “Why the hell not? Throw it in!” and ran full-tilt with that ideology. What should have been, under virtually all other circumstances or conditions, bugs in the design instead became features. The series is a chimera of hilarity and that indescribable feeling of enjoying something that, by all accounts, should not exist.

  As I’ve hinted at throughout the course of this writing, that, I think, is part of the reason why the show worked for me – in a way, BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls’ Story is the thematic antithesis to golf despite taking place within a golf framework. Eve’s sheer brutality and unrefined attitude functions as a fun contrast to the more prim-and-proper Amawashi, and the fact that so much of Eve’s circumstances is rooted in a kind of seedy, golf underworld is bizarrely entertaining. I was left with so many questions as to why things transpired the way that they did, but always with a wink and a nod rather than a headshaking disappointment.

  I was quirkily amused by its silliness and occasional ineptitude such that I couldn’t help myself but have fun. How else would one plausibly explain why an entire mafia underworld golf course is in the subterranean basement level of a real estate office, taking place in a gigantic wind tunnel and with mechanisms in place to randomize the course however you see fit? I suppose in a way it’s rather sad that golf had to take such a perverse angle on itself to capture my attention, but, nevertheless, capture my attention it did!

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  BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls’ Story embraces its absurdity by taking the finesse of golf and making it more rugged. While in many respects it fails as a piece of entertainment given the animation, compositing, and music, its characters and the story they inhabit are such an odd bunch that it manages to hold itself together. I fault no one for saying this show is garbage, since I can’t even bring myself to disagree that much; but as a piece of entertainment, it amused me in a way that real golf never did. I won’t be grabbing a five-iron anytime soon, but I certainly won’t be forgetting this show anytime soon, either.

  
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  SpiritChaser

  100/100
  Hilariously and absurdly entertaining, mecha inspired, golf pandemonium.

  Watching Birdie Wing: Golf girls Story after having just watched a lot of Gundam entries was a treat to see. Despite it’s about golf, it feels like a mecha series. It feels as if they are more trying to fight in mobile suits rather with golf clubs. There all sorts of cameos such as Turn A Gundam and Victory Gundam Gunplas did one of the characters is into, the characters can read each others minds like Newtypes, their golfing styles and strikes get ridiculously portrayed as exaggerated powers, both Amuro and Char’s voice actors are in this, and one of their protagonists is a fiery woman that resembles Tomino’s protagonists, especially Kamille.

  The rivalry between Eve and Aoi reminded me many times about Joe and Rikiishi from Ashita no Joe. Eve is a underground golfer who gambles high stakes in golf challenges for money. To her, she isn’t a golfer, but someone how only hits a ball with a stick for money. Aoi is incredibly adorable, though her appearance is deceiving because she is the type to crush you with her smile during games: the innocent tyrant. Such as with Joe and Rikiishi, the two become rivals, lift each other up with inspiration, and make a promise.

  To say this is just another golf anime, is to be dismissive. I could not find a single unlikeable character in this series. Despite that it doesn’t have huge production values, you can feel the passion that went into this. the plot twists are ridiculous and always entertainingly hilarious in just how absurd this anime can get. It’s not meant to be taken so seriously considering that many of the players, especially Eve, often bend reality with how they play their golf. Despite the over the top episodes, the main protagonists make it clear and meaningful what their motivations and goals are as they develop.

  Eve feels as if she were a mixture of Yabuki Joe and Kamille Bidan. She gives me the same feel as they do. Her childhood was rough, and traumatic. To survive and support her friends that became her only family, she helped some of them get out of the terrible things they had to do to make it, by picking up golf only as a means to make money. To her, she could care less about this sport, and she didn’t even consider herself a golfer. Because of her upbringing as a golf mercenary and strict training, she developed a quick temper, and shows no fear in the face of her enemies and when she is in danger. She supports the thrill of life endangering gambling, and embraces an informal and violently free spirited way of life that does not believe in bowing down or compromising. As a golfer, she doesn’t realize it, but she is paving her own path towards going pro. Her philosophy fascinates me because she is an oasis of uncrushable determination, confidence, all while being very confrontational and predatory with others. She does mean well, however.

  Still, Eve is not a one dimensional character. This anime is the story of how she comes to love golf. She starts to open up as a character, and slowly begins showing a softer and more friendlier side. This is all because she met Aoi. Aoi’s skill as a talented golfer woke up something in Eve, and she began going as far as to start taking golf seriously in order for her to be able to challenge Aoi.

  The series focuses a lot more on Eve, though there is still a bit to say about Aoi. Her parents were both famous golf prodigious who own a golf club brand. They raised her since the age of 3 as a golfer in order for Aoi to inherit their skills. Aoi became a force to be recommended with, despite her charming, innocent, and constant smile. As a result, she got bored of her 12 year old winning streak.

  She runs into Eve one day, and for the first time in her life, felt the rush of finally meeting a good enough threat and rival, and it gave her life and motivation. She came to absolutely admire Eve’s golf, and desperately followed her and demanded they make a promise to challenge each other. Her caddy, who is by the book and very strict, doesn’t support this as she sees Eve as a wild animal, and sees no good in Aoi associating with her.

  There are times where Eve and Aoi get separated, and you can see their rivalry build up as they can’t focus when apart. They need each other. Their golf needs each other. And the serious likes to play with how close they are becoming.

  Behind the scenes, there’s mafia activity going on. The stakes run high as assassination attempts get made, and gambles between mafia bosses who use golf players as pawns and toys to bet on. Many times, the bets involve the players putting their lives or bodies on the line. Eve is going down this tragic path. On the other hand, there are those who already experienced this life that don’t want Eve to suffer the same fate.

  The music, of course, hits well when it tries to uplift scenes were the players use creative moves to try and strike the ball towards the green. It can be a bit electronic, jazzy, and many fun insert songs get used throughout.

  Coach Amuro is determined to make these two go at it. At the same time, there is something tragic he is hiding about himself, and time is running out.

  Leo is a mysterious man who showed up one day and taught Eve his golf when she was young. Personality wise, he is essentially Char Aznable if he were to become a golfer instead of a Zeon soldier.

  Luckily, a second season of this will appear for the 2023 winter anime season. That’s quite a while. I look forward to seeing just how much more ridiculous this hilariously entertaining this anime can get. I always appreciate the power of sports anime to be able to fascinate an audience and to get them to like their sport of focus, even if the viewer has no interest or even hostility towards the sport beforehand.

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