Birdie

This episode ends with Eve declaring her intent to kill someone. In golf. If that moment doesn’t perfectly encapsulate the appeal of Birdie Wing, then I don’t know what it does. The preceding twenty minutes are no slouch either, serving us our most heaping helping yet of Eve and Aoi’s chaotically flirtatious dynamic together. This … Read more

Amidst all the back-nine crime, wedge witchcraft, and yuri yearnings, it can be easy to forget that even Birdie Wing‘s universe contains plenty of normal golfers who just want to enjoy a nice round on the links now and then. Many sports anime throw a spotlight on impossible athletic feats, so many of them also … Read more

Birdie Wing blazes new frontiers as Eve braves her most daunting challenge yet: minigolf. Jokes aside, this episode sews up any concern I had about the series maintaining its momentum into this new and decidedly less arc—and I didn’t have many concerns to begin with, considering the simplicity of the solution. All Birdie Wing had … Read more

As Eve narrowly slips through the sharp talons of the underground golf mafia, Birdie Wing Its gaze turns into another equally distressing drama unfolding on the opposite side of the planet: an aspiring caddy sleeping through her alarm. This episode is, by necessity, a recalibration of the series’ golf antics, because we now have to … Read more

You could theoretically replace golf with any other sport without tainting the essence of Birdie Wing. Golf simply exists as the axle on which this wide world of high crime and high-stakes competition turns, and swapping that axle with anything from boxing to battlebots wouldn’t change the story or characters all that much. At the … Read more

First things first, if you happened to miss this week’s post-credits scene, may I highly encourage you to go watch it now. I would not dream of spoiling it for anybody. It’s peak Birdie Wingand as I write these words, I’m still reeling from it. Eve’s showdown against Rose proves there’s no such thing as … Read more

Political bribes, explosive assassinations, sultry femme fatales, amnesiac prodigies–just another average day in the world of Birdie Wing -Golf Girls’ Story-. It says a lot that even a slower, board-setting episode of this series is a blast to watch. On the scale of the show so far, this is a comparatively tame installment, mostly laying … Read more

Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but does it make the golf balls fly yonder? Birdie Wing seeks to answer that question in its fifth chapter, which sees our star-crossed golfers visibly and verbally aching with the pangs of longing. It’s a tamer episode than last week’s—almost by necessity—but what it lacks in links-related … Read more

Faced with the daunting task of living up to the absurdly fun standard set by its opening salvo of souped-up shots against good taste, Birdie Wing‘s fourth episode follows through with the most unhinged exultation of trashy lesbian camp I’ve seen from an anime in years. Not since Kakegurui have such weird women preened and … Read more