It’s not that often that I write a review and mere hours later, everything I said was *completely* wrong, but Birdie Wing has done it, by golf!

Golf changes *everything* here. It ruins the dreams of young women by leading them to defeat in a single high school doubles tournament, which clearly is the end of the road for any athlete.

Golf brings people together and tears them apart. It kills people (with the help of one of my favorite shoujo troupes, the cruise liner accident – and a love triangle between serious, yet dysfunctional, adults, a la Marmalade Boy.)

But all of this serves a purpose, I swear! If none of this happened, Aoi would pine after Eve and never really find her own golf. It is imperative that our protagonists develop an intense rivalry or they will just going on being a golf manzai partnership, with increasingly extreme reasons to not take their golf seriously at all.

As Steve Jones puts it on ANN, golfing hard is the message here: In Birdie Wing, “Golf becomes the axis on which the world rotates. You can golf hard enough to save your adoptive family. You can golf hard enough to cure amnesia. You can golf hard enough to die.” Surely, our protagonists can golf hard enough to be a happy couple, now that the most obvious twist turns out to be twistier than we thought.

Vipere returns this next week and the Birdie Wing fandom is (un)reasonably excited, as Eve – having helped Aoi win her competition, and unlocked her own memories*, is rewarded by being deported. Of course she is, that’s totally normal for Birdie Wing – and we love it.

Ratings:

Art – 10
Story – 10 
Characters – 10
Service –
Yuri – Now that they aren’t sisters, maybe Aoi might get that kiss. Probably not, though.

Overall – 10

My love for this series is endless.

*Remind me to tell you my theories about Eleanor Burton.