Audience reviews
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Upholder
The kind of show that makes you wonder what on Earth you've been drinking.
A sports anime about golf? Let's be honest it sounds dull. An anime about cute girls playing golf? Slightly more interesting but I don't think you realise how dull golf can be. A sports anime featuring the "golf mafia"? Okay now you have my attention.
This show is nuts. I can't tell if its fun because it takes its ridiculous settting completely seriously, or not seriously at all. It is laugh out loud fun with lovable characters and an engaging story. Trust me, this isn't a show aimed solely at golf lovers, if you love shows that know how ridiculous and far out they're being and embrace that, if you love shows that are comitted to simply being fun, Birdie Wing is for you. It is overflowing with style and ridiculous…
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Not gonna lie Iam enjoying this anime, unfortunately this good story needs more better animations.
One of good story but doesn't get treated very well, kinda shame thinking of the salary & economies in there wasn't big different compared to 2000s.
Company nowadays are more greedy when talking about money, instead of making improvement they are more backwards.
Take a look on how damn good animation back in the days (yeah I know a lot of them are overworked & underpaid) compared nowadays with all of these technology & ai can be used for the industry but still underperformed.
At first I don't really get it if this gonna be good or not but episode by episode i really enjoy watching but not that much.
I'd love how they make world most boring sports into something adrenaline rush sports, lm…
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This might honestly be one of the worst sports anime I've ever seen. The characters are absolutely insufferable. Who are we supposed to be rooting for here when the MC is a shallow nasty person. She has golf super powers from the first episode so no buildup whatsoever. What is the even the plot? She wants to prove her golf swing is better than other random golfers? The whole thing is so ridiculous I don't know how anyone could take it seriously. If you want a really good golfing story then watch Rising Impact. If you want a good sports betting anime then watch One Outs.
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The idea of a golf anime, for some, may be hard to comprehend. Golf is not the most riveting sport in the world (I actually quite enjoy it, and even I admit it is not the most exciting). That said, what better place is there than anime, where any and everything can be taken up to 11, to make such a non-riveting sport into a wacky, fun story all about it? Enter Birdie Wing.
As the synopsis suggests, the intertwining of the arcs of the two MCs, Aoi and Eve, is the focal point of this story. The contrast of their prefaces is hardly original between Aoi, the renowned child prodigy, and Eve, the disgruntled vet who fought her way to the top. As it is with most facets of this anime, the golf motif makes such elements feel quite original. What makes this duo, and many others like it, so endeari…
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A teenage girl involved with some questionable acquaintances is a wonder with a golf club, so much so that she makes her rent payment through playing courses for professionals as a proxy, and through private bets where the stakes are high. Her perspective and ambitions are challenged and changed completely when she meets another junior golfer her age, who is also an aspiring professional.
Birdie Wing has everything and the kitchen sink, from shady organizations that engage in life-and-death gambling, to rainbow-colored and specially-named golf club swings that make them seem like some kind of ultimate attack, to corporate ambition and greed. It dangles the prospect of the main character building a meaningful relationship with her foil in front of the viewer like a carrot, while also juggl…
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Birdie Wing is a surprisingly engaging show about the world's most boring sport; golf.
I'm surprised how engaged I got with all the matches and genuinely cheering for Eve and hoping she could get out of her bad circumstances with her family. The stakes of them losing their only home gave what could easily feel like repetitive golf matches the necessary tension. With the addition of her beginning to reach higher and care for her craft Eve was given plenty to work with as a character. Gave her some good depth.
The characters definitely are the highlight of this show. They're all very charming with unique, eye catching designs. Golf clothes are typically stereotypically ugly in things so it was fun to see the actual types of designs that professional golfers would wear. Well, for the ones w…
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It's an anime about cute girls playing golf... and then shit gets real. There's a mafia war going on with golfing as the central gambling element in fights for turf, characters do ridiculous shots to psych each other out, a boss literally creates an underground arena where the course can be morphed into nearly any arrangement by long trucks with terrain on top, and that's just the first couple of episodes. It's absurd, and I kinda love it.
This joins a small set of shows that don’t have any transcendent moments, but are so much fun and so consistently so that I can’t help but enjoy them. There wasn’t much in here that I didn’t like, and though it still feels like we don’t have a good grasp of how these characters got to be as fired up as they are, they certainly do enough to ensnare me. I…
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Birdie Wing: Girl's Golf Story has a lot going on. At first, there are underground golf games where mob deals are settled. Kind of like Yu-Gi-Oh but with golf! Then, they are playing golf in a posh all-girls boarding school in Japan. The show probably would have been better off trying to pick a lane and stick with it, because there are just too many characters than do not get much time, and one of the main characters gets sidelined during the first half. There is also a lot of implied homoerotic stuff going on here. Season 1 does not have a definitive ending. The show really does find its own voice towards the end of the first season as the two main characters are reunited. Season 2 might be worth checking out.
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Birdie Wing Golf Girls’ Story makes the impossible possible. It made me enjoy my least favorite sport, and it has everything I could ever want from an excellent sports-romance hybrid anime.
High-stakes tournaments? Check.
Lesbian romance? Check.
Badass heroine? Check!
Hilariously campy tone? Check.
Catchy soundtrack? Check.
Mafia conflict? Check?
Clever writing? Check!
Golf sakuga? BLUE BULLET! I’ve never seen anyone take golf as seriously as these girls, which makes it so amusing. Eve, also known as “Rainbow Bullet,” is a teenage golfing prodigy who plays in high-stakes competitions against the best-of-the-best. She becomes entangled in the underground world of bidding on golf to provide for her found family. In these over-the-top competitions, losing is not an option. The story has no e…
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Birdie Wing is a mediocre show that attempts to straddle the line between romance and action/comedy and fails to excel at either, petering out somewhere around the halfway point of the season.
The two main characters – Eve, an underworld golfer that makes money on shady bets, and Aoi, a high-society optimist who’s simply better than any of her peers – meet through coincidental circumstances through mutual love of the game and then proceed to fail to develop their characters any further in any way. They’re already at “full power,” as it is, having their perfect shots that easily win them every golf game they're in, and have no way to grow even when occasional opportunities present themselves. An intentional lack of knowledge about the courses they play, opponents they're up against, or eve…
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A show about golf should NOT be as entertaining as this is, but it got me, notorious golf-hater, to get REALLY excited about characters hitting a ball with a stick.
Aside from all of the wild stuff that you've no doubt already heard about, from the golf mafia, to plot relevant political assassinations, to stupidly precise golf ball trajectories that speed THROUGH moving trains, this is the female cast-led sports anime you have always wanted. It has all of the intense homoerotic rivalries of the best sports anime you've seen, and it's long overdue when it comes to girl-led sports shows. The girls are friends but they are RIVALS first, and they want to beat each other but also want to get MAD when they do beat the other because "you're supposed to be better than this!!"
If you want to watc…
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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,…
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This is rough in almost every way possible.
The characters are basically static and tossed in random events where they can continue to be broken records in the most asinine scenarios.
Some people praise it for the "yuri". But holy damn the other girl isn't even present in 90% of the anime. It's just not even a factor.
Nothing in the show is here for accuracy nor consistency. 20 yards between balls? Like 3 feet at best if you just look at the distance of the balls.
There's basically zero stakes even when the show is trying to tell you how high the stakes are. Everything is just done in the most trope way they could manage. The end result is a dull experience where you can pretty much guess the "twists" before they even happen.
The entire anime is just Eve yelling out colors anime style…
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As someone who greatly dislikes the sport of golf, this anime gave me a new appreciation for the sport. Each match the main character Eve played was engaging and entertaining. Some matches are plain absurd but it adds to the fun (Yu-Gi-Oh level fun absurd). Character design and the personalities of each character were fleshed out very well. Typically I find all-girl animes to fall into the same tropes, but there wasn't that type of cheap character writing in this one. This anime does rope in the mafia with golf but I think it was done in a way that didn't take away from the focus of golf. Real world issues like classism, poverty, and child exploitation are showcased very tastefully. Overall, this is a great anime that takes an ordinary sport like golf and adds so much more to raise the sta…
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Birdie Wing actually surprised me for how much better I thought it was going to be, so it's kind of sad that it still scores this low. Despite being an anime original, it’s actually well-structured and paced unlike many anime originals (talking to you Carole and Tuesday).
The story is actually pretty fun as long as you suspend your disbelief. I mean, women’s golf matches in illegal mafia betting matches with millions of dollars on the line. I totally thought this plot point would be eventually forgotten in favor of development of later story arcs, but this show actually manages to make the plot points about the mafia relevant, and wraps it up in a meaningful manner before continuing on with the story. It reminds me of one-outs or Kengan Ashura, which is very good. However, at the same tim…
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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 stak…
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i would have preferred if they explain more about the game of golf, like the rules, penalties, stroke mechanics, how golf scoring works, what kind of golf clubs are there, why do they use that particular golf club for that goal etc.
because to be honest, for someone like me who don't know anything about golf like zero, zilch, zip, nada. then when they start discussing or talking about very golf technical terms, i totally have no idea what are they referring to, in turn not understanding the whole game.
i think the plot feels more concentrated on the characters building their relationship rather than the actual golf game itself seeing that it lacks a lot of explanation of the sport.
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TL;DR: This anime is basically Prince of Tennis but it's golf and it's for the lesbians.
If you haven't seen Prince of Tennis before, basically it's the kind of sports anime that may or may not teach you something about the sport, but it will definitely defy the laws of physics. The characters also have special moves which they say the name of without fail every time. Sometimes, side characters will remind you what these special moves do, in case you missed all the other episodes that explained what those were. It also happens to be homoerotic af.
So apply all that to Birdie Wing and you get a sports anime that is meant to be consumed like crack. It's bad for you, but it's addicting once you get started on it. Each episode makes you wonder why you keep coming back, is it the super catch…
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In case you missed the sole morsel of good news to grace our society this past week, Birdie Wing will indeed be returning in January with a second season. I mention this up front for two reasons: it's a blessing deserving of the most joyous of canticles, and it helps calibrate expectations for this week's episode. It's a season finale in name only, going about its typically bonkers Birdie Wing business without any concern for placing a punctuation mark on the end of part one. In a sense, it's relieving. This means the showrunners always planned to have a second cours and thus wrote the show with that in mind. We even get a normal episode preview despite the incoming six-month gap. But it also means there's no heart-racing cliffhanger or explosive developments to whet our appetite for part…
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Based on the title and the key art, I assumed this would be a typical high school sports anime, perhaps one with tea parties and cake. I was wrong. I was so, so wrong.
I like to think that this show's genesis started with a production committee telling an animation studio that they wanted a story about crazy golf, but the writer had never heard of crazy golf. So instead of ramps and miniature windmills we find ourselves in a world where the criminal underground makes decisions based on the outcome of high stakes golf matches. Since Birdie Wing has no interest in subtlety, these matches take place literally underground. Golfers shout the names of their special golfing moves. There is psychological golf warfare. There's a nymphomaniac snake woman with fangs and questionable personal hygiene…
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