Arriving in Japan, underground golfer Eve wants nothing more than to play a match against Aoi Amawashi, the "Innocent Tyrant" prodigy that caught her eye. However, the girls, wishing to finally settle the score on who is the better golfer, will have to wait until the conclusion of the All-Japan Girls' High School Gold Doubles Championship. Now competing together for the Raiou Girls' Academy's golf team, Eve and Aoi decide to work together to claim a win for their institution.
For a chance at defeating their more challenging opponents, both girls must find a way to further develop their golfing styles. However, dangerous figureheads pull strings in the background, making this high school golf tournament much more serious than it appears. In addition, Eve's illusive past resurfaces, making matters between her and Aoi even more complicated than they already were.
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Marinate1016
The. Best. Sports. Anime. Ever. Yes, I know that’s a bold statement, but it’s one I will gladly stand by. Birdie Wing took a sport that I had zero knowledge of or interest in prior and turned me into an avid golf fan. That’s what we call impact, and that’s something only the best of the best anime can do. Birdie Wing season 1 was one of my favourite shows of 2022 and I praised it nonstop. I was cautiously optimistic about whether or not they’d be able to keep the momentum going, and Sunrise made me feel like a fool for ever worrying. This 2ndseason was absolutely insane from start to finish. The same over the top golf battles, but with a much better plot, bigger stakes and a ton of drama. Everything that season 1 had, but bigger and better. Even the yuri bait is turned up another notch this season which is a major plus. Characters like Ichina and Amane took on much bigger roles, and teases, this season.
I loved seeing Eve and Aoi’s backstories revealed and they gave it to us at the perfect pace. It was slow enough to keep you on the edge of your seat and craving more episode after episode, but fast enough to not make the story drag on. Some people were not fans of how dark the story got in this season with the increased stakes surrounding Aoi’s condition, but I liked it. It added a sense of urgency to the story and kept me in suspense week after week. I also really liked seeing the two of them develop independently for most of this season. In season 1, they were largely a tag team duo and I think that kind of held the two of them back from growing as people and as golfers. That leads me into my biggest criticism of this season though.
I felt like the pacing got rushed towards the end of the show. I thought we would get an entire season of Aoi and Eve competing in the Japanese and European circuits respectively, honing their skills and then meeting up in a potential third season for a big showdown. Instead, we got what seemed to me like a very condensed story. Now, to my knowledge, besides the recently announced LL stuff, Sunrise have not done many season 3s. So perhaps this was planned from the start to end things in this season, but I really think we could have had a whole other season of build up. That’s not to say that the ending was bad, I just love this show and these girls so much that I want more.
Now story aside, you can’t talk about a golf anime without talking about the actual golf. The actual golf matches this season were way better than season 1, which is saying something because those were great. Eve and Aoi both push themselves beyond their limits and create their own unique brands of golf. Both reflective of who they are as individuals and competitors. Their ultimate techniques were a joy to watch, and even though you knew they’d win their individual matches cause MC armour, they were still pushed quite a bit and grew from those experiences.
Birdie Wing s2 feels much more like a second cour than a proper second season. We even keep the same OP as season 1. No complaints at all from me though. The show took a solid foundation from the first cour and improved upon it in every way. My only negative about this show is that it ends. I am very excited for the upcoming Switch game and hopefully more content from this franchise.
Birdie Wing S2 gets 10 rainbows out of 10.
Grain_of_Salt
How do you turn the world's most boring sport played mainly by middle aged men into an interesting anime? Season one seemed to have figured it out, struggled with some pacing and budget issues, and then completely threw out the winning pieces in season two. As an initial fan of Birdie Wing season one when it aired and before it gained mass appeal, I absolutely despise season two. The show initially gained attention by bombastic, adrenaline fueled situation writing that seemed to involve taking psychedelics, shonen anime, and campy lesbianism and throwing it all in a blender and painting with the resulting slurry. And it worked!Season one may have been silly, but the high stakes and insane gambling golf games managed to be enjoyable and compelling, and the characters had enough appeal and eccentricities to be enjoyed. There was often a method to the madness and it was a blast, and any shortcomings could be forgiven because we operated on rule of cool. The latter half of season one struggles as it changes setting and arcs, but any stumbles were easily forgiven as it was still exciting to see what comes next.
Season two starts off very painfully aware that we ended in the middle of an unfinished arc, but rather than sidestep issues with the usual energy, it disregards everything. The insane golf powers reminiscent of gambling anime like Yugioh or Kakegurui or sports anime with crazy finishers like Prince of Tennis are gone. While each new character is hyped as a bigger threat, gone are campy perfume tricks or robot arms or godlike precognition. Even our main character loses her ability for a worse, new one. Her individual bullet shots were a little silly, but had specific functions. One had crazy backspin to make interesting moves, one was a strong enough shot to break trees, one got impossibly high vertical angles to go over any obstacle. The powers were campy, but followed understandable rules and ideas. The new Rainbow Bullet, Rainbow Bullet Burst, and Shining Rainbow Bullet are just different ways that she hits the ball really good and wins while we put different effect filters over the camera or show stock footage. And now the in universe audience states that the shots leave real visible rainbows. I never assumed her colored shots LITERALLY had visible light, that was just an effect. I can only watch Eve shoot the OP rainbow shot that everyone tells me is so good and she wins so many times before I'm bored in a way I never was in season one.
We also completely remove any fun setting. Gone is the underground golf mafia and their billionaire funded insanity. Instead are boring and bland tournaments where if I wasn't being told that something cool was supposedly happening, I wouldn't know. We fight a mafia battle exactly once and during it Eve looks directly into the camera and screams THIS IS NOT REAL GOLF. It's been a long time since a show told me to go shove it quite that hard. Birdie Wing season two can tell me all it wants that the tournaments are important, the new random competitors are strong, and the shots are cool but it feels like all talk and no show.
And most damning, we take away the fun lesbian bits from the show. Eve no longer hits on girls and has her swooning fandom. Her main lover Aoi is even nerfed once we bring in the absolutely terrible "your daddy is secretly my daddy and we might be sisters" bull. I watched Birdie Wing for the lady killer with attitude doing trick shots against golf assassins to impress her innocent lesbian girlfriend, not...whatever this is.
So what does Birdie Wing add in place of all it removes, besides more identical uninteresting tournaments? Mainly a really bad attempt at backstory, first shoved at us for an entire episode and then progressing at a breakneck speed to try to replace the former energy with character writing. But the show's strength was never in compelling and well written story, it was the camp we left behind. I resent every moment wasted in the lame drama and subsequent injury and sickness arcs. They were bad ideas and poorly implemented with jarring pacing. Any deep or dark moment fell short because I was too busy either lamenting what I lost or staring into space bored.
The only decent aspect that stayed was the music...quite literally. The great jazzy OST stayed and tried its best to carry weak writing. The opening song from season one also stayed. And don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic song that I never tire of hearing. But with the same song and a half reused OP sequence I began this season worried about budget and pacing and was really never proven wrong. Season two lacks any ability to wow or impress, and since we had those skills previously I couldn't help resent watching it.
It seems I both got on the Birdie Wing hype train before average, and then left it early too since I don't hear many complaints matching mine. But I was absolutely miserable, and no matter how much I wanted to get back on the train, Eve never was able to do a trick shot between the cars like in season one and repeat the same lightning in a bottle.
SmashedTomatoes
Viewers of the first season should watch this one immediately, it's even better. And the show works best with all 24 episodes. Look, Birdie Wing is one of the best sports shows out there, BUT! You need to have some tolerance for storytelling that goes fully to the “Awesome” side of the scale. It's not a show that is illogical or has big mistakes surrounding that awesomeness; it sets up a universe and world much like our own where these awesome things could happen, it doesn't come out of left field at any point, but it is NOT accurate to real life. If you want a golfshow that bothers explaining the technicalities of golf, you might not be in love with this show.
If you want a golf show that has the characters screaming the name of a special ability they might have inherited from their estranged father, then shoot the ball a metric of “over 270 yards”, while they have a flashback about their mother's infidelity to some other man…
Yeah, this show would be for you.
It's very ridiculous, but it's also very good! They try to mix the emotional core of the characters with their golf abilities, often putting focus on both at the same time in a rather peculiar manner that feels natural. The characters all develop around these events in their life that could be comparable to something from a korean drama, yet their stories and the tone isn't completely in disregard of the show's golf focus. It's still trying to remain grounded in having the characters golf using cool moves. It has more than a few moments where you and the characters will, as they say, “pop off”.
If you were distraught by the first season's drop of plot points like the mafia ones, do not worry! This season will continue those plots, which makes the ultimate complete product, including both seasons, feel several times more natural. It also evolves in a rather interesting direction, splitting the characters to make the challenges they will face more logical to their skill level. The show establishes both protagonists as incredible forces to be reckoned with, but then has them face off against believable opponents, explaining why these opponents came to be as good, or better, though not as completely as other shows who make properly memorable rivals. They are good, but I wouldn't say memorable…
The animation isn't top-notch, but it does generally look good. There are a few cuts that get repeated every few episodes, and then occasionally you get some of the craziest perspective shots you'll ever see. Many shows renown for their great animation should learn from this one about making good animation by picking unusual framing and perspectives. Too bad those shots aren't a large portion of the show. The rest looks alright, I suppose, unless it's golf related, almost all the golfing stuff is very well animated, both the balls and the character's anatomy and movement when swinging.
The rhythm of this season is more satisfying than the first, as the show takes on a more standard direction for development, establishing goals for the characters to achieve and then showing what occurs from that. If you didn't like that the first season didn't have tournaments or opponents after a certain point, be glad they are back!
Everything else is very similar in quality to the first season. The characters do repeat a few things a few times more than they should, and sometimes the writers don't take the more complex path of figuring out new solutions for the way the characters overcome a challenge. Heck, sometimes the challenge is done as a means to be poetic, which ends up on the shallow use of tropes.
It's far from a perfect show in terms of writing, it commits many mistakes and uses more than a few tropes. Still, the issues are minor when you consider the show puts Awesomeness over realism, which I still believe to be an incredible approach to the show's storytelling, and I recommend you look into it, even if remotely interested.
somaisbatman
It is a genuine miracle that Birdie Wing is as good as it is. The animation is rough, the financial backing from a metaverse company is sketchy, and the sport it adapts is terribly dull. But it’s clearly a work of love, with one of the most fun scripts in recent anime history. Anything could happen in Birdie Wing, and the whole show feels scrappy in a way that you can’t help but root for. Knowing this, how did the second (and presumably final) season of Birdie Wing turn out? Well, alright. We’re dropped in right where the first season left off: the middle of atournament arc. Luckily, that’s wrapped up pretty quickly, as the real meat of this cour is The Strange Fates Of Two Generations Of Young People Who Were Caught Up In The Ego of Adults (actual episode title). It turns out that all of the adults just kind of floating around in the first season have messy, intertwined backstories, and their sins have been passed down to our two main characters in dueling attempts to create the golf übermensch. This is all good fun, the exact soap opera drama I’ve come to expect from Birdie Wing, and the fact that they’re all meant to reference Universal Century characters makes it all the better. While the first season of Birdie Wing pays a lot of homage to old-school sports shounen, this season is arguably just as much of a Gundam show as G-Witch. The generational drama also means that star-crossed golfers Eve and Aoi have to face their biggest obstacle yet: the incest allegations.
Unfortunately, this season has a bit less going for it overall. The underground golf mafia, easily the best part of the first season, plays only a small role here. Eve and Aoi spend most of their time in generic professional golf tournaments, gradually unlocking new abilities and suffering the consequences. I hate to say this, but Birdie Wing gets stuck in a rut! Don’t worry, there are still incredible moments every episode. But the overarching plot noticeably suffers due to the constraints of the game they’ve confined themselves to. Golf is truly a terrible sport, and Birdie Wing shines when it’s being disrespectful. There is far less golf disrespect this season.
The pacing and production values also take a hit, with the final episodes in particular rushed beyond all belief. I wish this had gotten a twenty-sixth episode, or a movie, or anything to help smooth things over. And also so they’d have more time to queerbait me. The constant tournament arcs mean that Eve gets far fewer chances to be a lesbian chad this time around. Birdie Wing was never going to be a show with incredible gay representation, but they could have at least followed through on more of the yuri-tinged narrative threads.
If this review has come off as somewhat harsh, it is largely out of love. Season 2 of Birdie Wing is still an absolute delight to watch, and only pales in comparison to the first cour. It is never boring, has a great balance of melodrama and sleaze, and is absolutely unparalleled in the world of sports anime. In my ideal world, we’d have a show this funny and stupid and dubiously lesbian every season. I hope Birdie Wing gets an official western release, because I would gladly vote with my wallet to make that known.
Gashin
When season 1 initially came out, I actually dropped the show after just a single episode, because I wasn’t particularly impressed by the animation, premise or characters, nor was I into golf. But after I decided to give it another shot, none of those things mattered anymore. I was left in awe with a big smile on my face after Eve’s final shot against Aoi in the second episode while the main theme was playing, and just like Ichina, I was enthralled by Eve’s golf. This was the moment that hooked me, and season 1 went on to become my favorite anime of 2022. Then season2 came along, and while I had high expectations, I didn’t think it could manage to reach the same heights as season 1 did for me.
I was very wrong.
The new season starts right where it ended off last year and immediately gave us an amazing match in the first episode. From this point onward, it just keeps throwing new twists and turns at us at a fast, but surprisingly digestible pace. It never felt like they were going too fast or taking it too slow. All I could think about however was how much I was enjoying watching this show. I genuinely don’t remember the last time I had this much fun consuming any type of media. I find it hard to put it into words exactly, but something about this show just has this magical ability to keep you invested at all times, giving you goosebumps along the way, combined with some of the most cathartic, satisfying yet simple moments anime has to offer. It does not matter if you’re not into golf, nor does it matter if you’re not into sports in general. Birdie Wing season 2 will always manage to find new ways to keep the audience engaged and at the edge of their seats. At this, it absolutely excels, going above and beyond what season 1 managed to do.
I am going to spare you the details of my opinions about the common buzzwords such as story and animation that most reviewers talk about. I feel like they would do a much better job than me at talking about those topics. But if you have watched season 1 and enjoyed it, or if you’re completely new to Birdie Wing and are just looking for something new to watch, I highly urge you to try out the second and first season respectively. This really is just something that is best experienced firsthand.
PixelB
I firmly believe that anime can make any boring sport fun to watch purely based on good storyboarding, pacing, story, and character development. Golf is no different, and while I saw a little bit of potential in Birdie Wing's season 1 despite giving it a 6, that all came crashing down in season 2. See, a good writer would be able to make golf interesting on its own. No unrealistic techniques or no drama, just rivalries and competition between spirited high school girls in matches that seem high stakes due to the tension of a golf swing, the trepidation that the opponent will catch up with,or the nerves of making a mistake. Unfortunately, despite Birdie using every damn trope to artificially raise the stakes of golf games, the show is still unable to keep my attention.
There's a lot of drama. People get sick and hurt so that tensions rise in a match artificially. There's a bunch of drama in the personal history of Eve and Aoi, but that eventually gets cleared up. I was so fed up with this trash drama I almost dropped it completely, but I soldiered through. It was not worth the trouble. Just because you create some wack backstory or drama doesn't make a boring anime fun to watch.
What do I mean by this? As I said, sports anime can make even the most dull sport shine. Even if you like a game like Go, you have to admit that creating a story out of a board game is quite difficult. Yet, Hikaru no Go is such a show where a dull sport shines. It all has to do with character development. I'll be honest. Eve is probably the only character that has any iota of character development. Aoi's sort of a shoehorned in Mary Sue's rival character that has a personal past with Eve. Forget the caddies entirely, their drama, backstory, or character don't exist. There was just no screen time dedicated enough to them. Rival characters? They only show up during the tournament! And it's essentially a different rival character each tournament. Unlike Hikaru no Go, where all of the players Hikaru plays are developed, Birdie just invents new rival characters for the "big final tournament." Sorry to say that introducing new characters for Eve or Aoi to beat doesn't magically make the game more interesting.
Let's just compare the professional qualifications of Eve and Aoi. The 4-day tour was barely covered for both tournaments. And I get that it's pretty unrealistic to cover so many holes of golf, but there's barely any coverage at all. It's just that "somehow, Eve and Aoi pull ahead with their plot armor." In Hikaru no Go, Hikaru takes a lot of effort to go pro. There's a lot of emphasis on him stepping on top of other people's dreams to win. Even though the characters he beats never show up again, they were still characterized.
If Birdie focused on the actual sport and its competition with other players and their caddies, the anime would have been much better. If there were detailed highlights and monologues of each caddy and player covering multiple episodes for a single tournament against players that weren't just introduced an episode before, it would have been enjoyable. Instead, too much focus on crappy drama and artificial stakes just make me slog through the entire show with no returns.
Ironaditya
Given the fact that this is a sports anime based on a sport that is considered slow and a little bit on the full side, Birdie Wing had one big task to do, MAKE IT INTERESTING. And honestly they hit an Albatross(Golf term) with this anime. It wouldn't be a lie to say that this is one of THE BEST Sports Anime. So how to make Golf interesting? Add in Hissatsu Shots and the most important ingredient, a female MC, actually make it 2 female MCs. While the first season was more inclined towards the Hissatsu side, Season 2 focused on the human side and thestruggles in Golf making it much more grounded. The relationship between our MCs, which is a definite highlight of the story and also their rivalry is fun and enjoyable. Also their will they won't they status, like come on just do it.
Overall there is no dull point in the story and is interesting through and through. And the Voice actors definitely gave it their all, wheather it be shouting from top of their lungs or crying. The OP song , which is same for both season(yayyy) is straight up fire.
So stop reading this review and go watch the anime, you won't regret it and I sure hope this turns into one of your favourite sports anime as it's like for me.
PiereDelecto
Everyone: Golf is boring. Bandai Namco: Hold my game controller. The enjoyer of Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story will be a person that can appreciate the culture of the OP as the lead singer cries out "my, my, my I have a VENUS!" in a thick Japanese accent. They kept the OP for S2 as well, big W play by Bandai Namco. Listening to the OP alone is worth it for the lulz, but the Anime itself is also hilarious if you've ever golfed before or have some idea how the game is played. The story and golf tournament arcs also manage to keep hype levels highand have you rooting for the MCs, Eve and Aoi, so oddly Birdie Wing manages to succeed as a comedy, traditional sports Anime, yuri-bait and character drama while focusing on... golf. We live in strange times, friend.
Some of the biggest laughs Birdie Wing got out of me were from the ridiculous golf power system introduced for the various golfers as they compete, some of them even yelling out the name of their "attack" as they swing on the ball "GREEN BULLET-O!!!" or "SHINING WINGS!!!". The affinity that organized crime has for using underground golf matches to squash various beef in this Anime is also a major highlight. Categorically impossible shots like driving a ball between two cars of a moving train, hitting the flag on purpose to drop the ball straight down into the hole, or clearing a specific branch in the forest out of the way with your first drive in preparation to hit your next shot off the tee on EXACTLY the same trajactory so that you can get out of the forest back onto the golf course now that the branch is no longer in your way are some choice examples. Had me rewinding and laughing harder each time, and the fact that Bandai Namco managed to hit the mark almost everytime on these "Golf the shonen way" gags is really what kept me engaged with Birdie Wing and looking forward to the next episode.
The balance betweeen the level headed supporting characters and golf fanaticism is particularly funny because it is a great jab at real life golf nuts. Often they have most of their life sorted out, they tend to be successful family people - but they will do ANYTHING to improve their laughably trash golf skills. Lessons, clubs, ridiculously expensive golf balls, thousands of dollars on golf trips and green fees, the anger of the spouse left alone with the kids for 8 hours every Sunday and/or Saturday every Summer... it gets a bit crazy. This Anime manages to make fun of that without making fun of that, by taking it to the absolute extreme and representing mob bosses, C-level executives, and frankly most of the show's cast as obsessive golf weirdos whatever their other talents and responsibilities. It's important to mention that you absolutely do not feel like you're being forced to watch golf as a sport the whole time, or like you're an unwilling participant in a golf lesson. The golf knowledge is fairly lite, and gets dropped into the middle of high stakes moments in adequate but concise bouts of exposition at a slow drip just so you have what you need to appreciate the gags and sick plays. It felt like this was the right decision, not to take things too seriously and to keep it light.
Overall, it's a bit of a shock to see this combination of Anime nonsense and golf have such good chemistry. You can sense the fun that the production staff were having with it, and overall the storytelling is also quite smart which keeps the understated humour from getting stale. The plot navigates a many twists and turns for multiple characters throughout, with one big reveal after another, but still manages to wrap up with a good ending. IMO the story holds up mainly because the clowning is limited to the way people approach golf strategically. The anime-ification of their golf powers basically extrapolates their "winners mindset", whatever their personal philosophy on what it really takes to win, into a golf-related JoJo's stand. The rest of the story, the aspects that bring characters into and push them out of the various golf dramas, is thematically more mature and that helps a lot with buy in and hype levels as we go through the many, many golf tournament arcs. It's also commendable that the tourny arcs are short and sweet. You aren't forced to wait on a cliff hanger repeatedly until you don't care about the outcome anymore. In fact the pacing is a strength of the Anime.
Character arcs outside of the golfing are just super satisfying as well. A lot of the characters are just brats with a good heart, but they each have an admirable work ethic. In general, they also either adopt the approach of their mentor towards competition or have their own unique philosophy on it, which sets up clashes of ideas played out through golf. Many characters end up with a rather adorable, complicated working relationship to each other and these evolve over time. In general the characters going through these moments of growth, connection, and realization as to what they need and what they want from each other professionally for their careers to move ahead, are cute girls and there is a fat dose of yuri-bait in the show - how do you get people interested in a golf Anime, gay girls innit? It's also quite apparent at a certain point that not just the young upcoming talent, but also the over the hill adults in this industry are in some way just being used. Their passion for the sport traps them in unfavorable and outright awful personal circumstances, but they accept them as the price of pursuing it. This more cynical theme that runs through the plot isn't overemphasized, rather it's just this background feel to the whole thing that still allows for moments of exuberance and meaningful wins and losses for the characters and I quite like how it was handled.
While I doubt this will be anyone's favorite Anime of all time, and it probably won't win or contend for anything or make many "top X when Y specific criteria" it really does show that with the right approach you can make anything substantial into a worthy Anime even golf. The worlds slowest and most boring spectator sport, that is insanely frustrating to play, yet this Golf Anime is a gem. If you're into sports Anime and if you have some exposure to golf you'll probably find Birdie Wing worth the fairly small time investment of two seasons.
DarkYuzuko
Birdie Wing is amongst the best female driven sports anime in recent times. It took a sport that is considered boring or for old people, and turned it into an intense shounen style battle where you can't help but root for the main character, Eve. The character development for Aoi and Eve during the second season was an important part in cementing who the girls were and what their goal was. It wasn't just about golf, although golf runs in their blood apparently and it's hereditary (lol). I recommend this series if you're into girls sports, especially girl main leads that are strong and aren't scaredto fight (with a game of golf of course), and a strong telenovela style drama sprinkled throughout. Strong yuri bait that will mislead you, or fill you imagination with wonderful ideas.
Overall I think I'll start playing golf as this anime really motivated me to want to get out of the house and get some exercise or something. 8/10 but 10/10 in my heart! Also let's not forget the amazing OP and ED. Literally iconic.
JoeStraatmann
Birdie Wing constantly creates the opposite effect of what theoretically should be a more dramatic story of two women who were trained within an inch of their lives to be good at one sport, are torn apart by circumstances, and their love and appreciation for each other is only rivaled by the need to destroy each other at golf. The series is a blast. I hesitate to use the term "life-affirming," but it sure as hell is more uplifting and entertaining than most things. And the more shady, morality-free villains who join the cast to either propose that beloved protagonist Evangeline become their slave orbe straight-up murdered along with everyone around her, the more fun it is. I don't know how it works, but it does.
It's one of those inexplicable anime creations that if you describe it to people, "underground golf mafia" comes off like word salad. But it's absolute bliss if you take the time to watch it.
Ectricark
Birdie Wing is an experience. It is by no means flawless; even a casual eye will be able to recognize the limitations to the budget, and the pacing toward the end leans to the frantic. Who cares? This is the best love story involving golf we are likely to see in our lifetimes. Provided one can set aside the realistic and the gritty in favor of telenovela plot twists, convoluted dynastic golf drama, and magical, forbidden golf techniques, Birdie Wing has the grip strength and the heart to gloss over its rougher edges. Die-hard yuri fans seeking a sports-themed contender for the MagiRevo crown may comeaway hungry for more. Nevertheless, this is a love story, and it finds ways to let its wings shine.
