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The beauty of animation is that you can tell any kind of story you want, lifted from the constraints of set design, cinematography, and editing. In animation, you can tell any kind of story you want. Birdie Wing takes advantage of that in ways I could not imagine. No part of this show stands out as what one would conventionally call "good." The art is not particularly descriptive -- the main characters, who are apparently 15 and under, absolutely look and were designed like women in their young 20s. The voice acting is competent, but nothing that sounds out as career defining. The animation is ... perfectly decent. The music is nothing to write home about.

But even so, the first episode, natch, the very first sequence, blew me away -- not because of any amazing animation, or a touching story, or cool character designs or ideas present in the story. But because we start the story with golf crimes.

Of all the things you could make a show about, this is a show about a golf criminal.

Birdie Wing is not a good show, but it is an incredible show. You should watch it.

After the third episode, there was not a single moment in the story I felt safe with knowing what was going to happen next. This is a story that takes a premise -- "what if Girls 15 and Under golf was the most important thing in the world to literally everyone", and runs with it. The drama is contrived, the characters are goofy, the pacing is bad and the plot is chaotic. None of that matters. The show doesn't care, all it seems to want to do is to up the stakes in some completely bizarre twist, complete with old-fashioned postcard stills. I cannot tell you if this show is a parody or if it is sincere, but it is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

I haven't talked a lot about golf in this review, and that's because this show isn't about golf, not in a way that matters. The main character's main golfing strategy is just "hit the ball, really hard." She doesn't care, the writers of this show didn't care, and neither should you. This is a show about a 15 year old golf criminal in a world that really, really cares about golf. Don't expect a good story. Don't expect any of the plot holes or inconsistencies to be filled. Just watch it, watch it and wonder what could possibly happen next.