Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 6, 2022 to Jun 29, 2022

Premiered: Spring 2022

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 00:00 (JST)

Producers: TV Tokyo

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Studios: Bandai Namco Pictures

Source: Original

Genre: Sports

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Infamous among those who gamble on golf games, Eve uses her exceptional skill in the sport to earn a living—by betting and winning against various opponents. Known as the "Rainbow Bullet," she vows to beat her foes and conquer the world of underground golf using only three clubs. However, the universe where Eve knows no defeat is shaken after she plays a clean game with Aoi Amawashi, a golfing prodigy that came to the country of Nafrece to enter a golf tournament. Armed with talent and born into the perfect environment for golf, Aoi the "Innocent Tyrant" calmly crushes her enemies with a bright smile on her face.

After their game-changing match, Eve and Aoi become intrigued with each other and promise to battle again someday. As Eve's aggressive and risk-taking approach challenges the elite and steady playstyle of Aoi, the two geniuses may just manage to bring golf to unexpected heights.

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Evangeline

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Kitou, Akari
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Amawashi, Aoi

Main

Seto, Asami
Japanese

Aleon, Rose

Supporting

Yukinari, Toa
Japanese

Saotome, Ichina

Supporting

Fujita, Saki
Japanese

Lipman, Lily

Supporting

Sekine, Akira
Japanese

Clara, Klein

Supporting

Kinoshita, Sayaka
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Vipère

Supporting

Nazuka, Kaori
Japanese

Amawashi, Seira

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Kaida, Yuuko
Japanese

Iijima, Kaoruko

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Ichimichi, Mao
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Misono, Haruka

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Satou, Rina
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Inagaki, Takayuki

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Takakuwa, Hajime

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Hata, Yoshito

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Nakanishi, Motoki

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"Venus Line" by Koumi Hirose

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"Yodaka (ヨダカ)" by Tsukiyomi (月詠み)

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Jun 28, 2022

somaisbatman

Recommended

This show is good enough that it got me to round up my lesbian friends and play mini-golf. That’s the short review, but I can go long as well.

You should know going into this that I despise real golf and everything it stands for. But lucky for me, Birdie Wing is not a show that respects its sport. In the very first episode, our main character declares “I don’t play golf. I hit a ball with a stick for money.” She's so stupid. This *show* is so stupid, the kind of stupid you get out of 2000's anime and can't help but adore. It's also ... the most fun I've had out of a seasonal in years.

Birdie Wing’s production details have been a hilarious mystery to unravel. Original sports anime are quite rare, so I was baffled as to how this show even got made until I started digging further. Bandai-Namco is our production company, which quickly becomes evident with the tongue-in-cheek Gundam product placement. But behind the scenes, Birdie Wing is inexplicably being financed by HTC’s virtual reality branch. On top of the anime, this partnership will result in a “metaverse museum” and a Nintendo Switch game.

So how well did they use their VR bucks? Well, Birdie Wing’s production values are never excellent, and CG is understandably used to cut corners on the golf courses. However, the character designs are superb, with plenty of unique outfits for the main duo. The animation can be limited at times, but it hits when it needs to, with absurd golf swings and imposing shot angles. The Osamu Dezaki-styled dramatic watercolor freezeframes are an excellent homage. It’s pretty clear that someone on the production team has a waifu, as Aoi is animated way better than everyone else.

Perhaps the greater miracle is that Birdie Wing is good. Everything I mentioned above ends up being a pretty sketchy foundation for a show, and since it’s an original, the screenwriter attached to the project matters a lot. They ended up bringing Yosuke Kuroda on board, whose writing credentials include girls-with-guns kinda-yuri Madlax and the extremely pornographic combat definitely-yuri Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid. So we’re getting lesbians, and we’re getting ridiculous over-the-top action scenes. Somehow, I think he was one of the best possible picks for this.

His script does the impossible and makes golf entertaining. We get a main character who despises her sport and tears it apart with brute-force power and precision. We get a seedy underground golf mafia arc. We get a roulette of increasingly depraved older women in said mafia. We get golfing abilities described with brazenly pornographic innuendo, delightful over-the-top melodrama, classic sports anime rivalry, and maybe even an assassination or two. And most importantly, we get delicious, delicious yuri-bait.

Look, I’m a lesbian first and a golfer last, so I’m going to be real with you. This is a “show, don’t tell” kind of yuri. There’s plenty of plausibly-deniable romance scenes, but you won’t be getting any confessions up-front. However, actions speak louder than words, and when Eve hits a ball so far that Aoi can see it from her flight about to take off, and Aoi makes vows to meet her again while wearing a Char cosplay on a VR golf course, that’s the kind of stuff that counts for me. If I’m reading the foreshadowing right, there’s a nonzero chance that they’re going to be revealed to be sisters in the second season. It would be a laughably bad move, but given the unavoidable skeeziness of some of Kuroda’s works, I can’t say I wasn’t ready. Also this show does the delightful women’s sports anime thing where most of the side characters pair cleanly off with each other.

I’m so glad this show exists, and that it’s somehow the opposite of a soulless money-grab given its circumstances. I could care less about the planned tie-in content landscape, but what matters is that Birdie Wing the anime is made out of love. In my ideal world, we would have one of these every season. Sports yuri is the good stuff, and I can’t wait to see the golf butches being teased for Season 2 in action.

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Jun 28, 2022

Marinate1016

Recommended

If there’s anything that can make golf enjoyable, it’s anime. Cute girls, over the top golfing scenes and great character interactions make Birdie Wing a fun watch for even the biggest of golf haters.

Admittedly, coming into this season when I saw the promo art for Birdie Wing, I was not sold on it. Yea there were cute girls and some nice art, but who the hell wants to watch golf, right? Boy was I wrong. Like 99 percent of seasonals, I tuned into Birdie Wing and from the very first episode I knew we had something special brewing here. The epic and tense golfing matches, ... the drama, the stakes, the waifus, etc. It was all just everything you need in a sports anime. I instantly fell in love with Eve as an MC and she quickly became one of my picks for waifu of the YEAR, not just season. She and Aoi’s rivalry was a treat to watch develop and even made me want to go out and learn how to golf.

While I did really enjoy the story, just when I thought I was getting the hang of this show, it throws a literal curveball at us with an absolutely ridiculous(in a good way) mafia plot which culminates in a pretty surprisingly dark end to the first 75 percent of the show. There’s so much wacky action in Birdie Wing that makes it a glorious and fun journey. My honest recommendation is to turn your brain off and try not to think too much about it. Enjoy the ride and try to learn a thing or two about golf!

Eve and Aoi are amazing characters and they’re both top 10 waifu material for me, but the other characters in the show are great as well. All bring a little something special to the story and help Eve to grow whether as a person or golfer. I think as an anime original show, it can be difficult to have a really all around solid cast, yet Birdie Wing managed to pull it off along with an engaging story. Credit has to go out to Banco for the job they did here.

I really hope that we get a manga adaptation or a gacha game or something to expand the story of the girls. The anime started a tournament arc right at the end of the season which was really not enough time to adequately wrap everything up as well as tie up the loose ends that Eve left as a result of what happens at the end of that mafia arc. It’s rare that anime original stuff get second seasons and I don’t think Banco animation are known for it, but I would absolutely love to see more Birdie Wing in any capacity as it will no doubt be one of my top shows of the year and one of the best sports anime I’ve seen. I will certainly miss Birdie Wing Tuesdays.

Birdie Wing gets 10 Blue Bullets out of 10.

Edit: Looks like Banco have all but confirmed a second season, let’s gooooo

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Jun 28, 2022

literaturenerd

Mixed Feelings

Birdie Wing is my vote for the most surprising anime of the season. This is an original property not based on a manga, VN, LN, etc. The script writer of Excel Saga just decided one day that he wanted to make a women's golf anime in which professional women's golf is heavily tied to the mafia. The mafia places bets on the golfers in order to settle disputes and the golfers compete in a massive underground lair based on the NERV GeoFront from Evangelion. This anime is fucking insane. You never know exactly what you're going to get from script writer Yosuke Kuroda. Sometimes his ... batshit insanity actually manages to work splendidly, as is the case with Excel Saga, Trigun, and Hellsing Ultimate. Unfortunately, he's also penned some duds like Goblin Slayer, Jungle de Ikou, and Valkyrie Drive Mermaid.

Kuroda's writing quality and consistency invokes the opening lines of A Tale of 2 Cities. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."

How do you convince people to watch an anime about women's golf? No seriously, I'm asking the reader! I know 6 guys offline who watch anime and I've failed to convince any of them to watch a single episode of Birdie Wing despite begging them for 2 months straight.

I know everyone else is going to mention this, so I may as well address it. Birdie Wing is officially the gayest sports anime ever made! Yuri on Ice has NOTHING on Birdie Wing. Yuri on Ice is the story of a depressed, down on his luck skater who has to recapture his passion for the sport and bounce back. He kind of has a thing for his coach, but there honestly isn't a lot of sexual tension in most of the scenes they share together. Birdie Wing feels like the main 2 girls are going to throw their clubs to the ground and frantically start making out in basically every scene they share. There was even a meme article called "There is literally no heterosexual explanation for Birdie Wing". However, Birdie Wing isn't tagged as a yuri. It was never advertised as a yuri. The studio has never said that it's a yuri. I thought that surely if this was intended to be a yuri, they would have said so at some point during Pride Month and yet they didn't. So, was this accidental? Is it all a joke? What the fuck is this? I have a hard time believing that this was done on accident. The first Top Gun was probably an accident. Birdie Wing was almost certainly on purpose, so I can only conclude that this is a stealth yuri that doesn't want to advertise itself as such. Possibly to avoid it getting banned in certain countries. That's honestly my best theory. Now fans in Indonesia can buy Birdie Wing. Fans in Saudi Arabia can buy Birdie Wing. Fans in Russia can...pirate it like you guys always do anyways.

Finally, I'll get to the conventional part of the review. Birdie Wing is a mixed bag overall. Firstly, I'd like to start with the positives. The characters are really fun. The plot takes turns going from predictable to being utterly insane. Birdie Wing is often laughably ridiculous, but that's the point and it doesn't take itself too seriously. I also really like Eve and Aoi as a couple. They are so cute together! The OP is also amazing, and I've not skipped it a single time. On the negative side, Birdie Wing's sheer stupidity can be off-putting to many people. I've never had to work this hard to sell my offline friends on an anime. Usually, I can get at least 1 of them to watch any given anime. The CG is also pretty egregious at times. This was not made on a high budget and certainly won't be winning awards as the prettiest looking anime of the season. Lastly, the relationship between Eve and Aoi at this point is simply bait with no official confirmation that they're actually a couple. I will actually be pissed if Eve and Aoi don't kiss at some point in S2. For the show to bait THIS hard and then chicken out because they're afraid of the show getting banned in countries that don't legally purchase or stream anime anyways would be pretty shitty.

Would I recommend Birdie Wing? Yes. This is definitely one of the must-watch anime of 2022, for the absurdity if for no other reason. I found it highly entertaining, and I hope anyone who I convince to try it out will be entertained as well!

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