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 golf show 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.
