#evangeline f. kimishima

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Eve fans.

[comradeyurika]

The relationship between Eve and Ichina continues to be one of my favorite aspects of this season. The trust that the two of them have demonstrated with each other really warms my heart, and you can see how they've each made each other stronger. It's impossible to imagine the Eve of Season 1 being willing to make a decision like this, but she's able to put her trust in what Ichina tells her. And Ichina in turn is able to turn off the logical part of her brain on the 18th and fully put her trust in Eve's golf being able to push through.

And at the end, Eve obtains an even greater power, one that stuns Leo as he realizes that Eve has managed to reach the golf that he and Kazuhiko could never visualize. Eve has now fully surpassed her mentors and reached the ultimate level of golf.

[ilimitadoworld-r]

https://twitter.com/ilimitadoEXE/status/1646984221653708800

[comradeyurika]

This is a really fascinating rubric to look at the series through. People make a lot of jokes about the Golf Mafia because it's an inherently over the top concept, but the entire series really is built on the idea of golfers and their powerful backers, whether those be the illicit type or a public facing company. Just as the characters are prisoners of their own parents ambition, they are also prisoners of what their sponsors demand of them.

When you look at the conflict of the two main protagonists, you have Eve who wants nothing more to be free, and Aoi, who we just saw being symbolically depicted as being chained by her mother. This also continues to their caddies, as Ichina is joining Eve in her quest for freedom even if it means dropping out of school and traveling to a country she's never been to, while Amane in the last episode referred to herself as a prisoner.

The question of how Eve can be free if she becomes a professional is a good one. I would imagine that in the short term she might have to put up with being beholden to a backer, most likely her grandfather, but as part of a longer term plan to battle Aoi on her own terms and achieve freedom for both of them. Eve and Aoi's parents were all prisoners of what the previous generation expected of them, and it's time to break that chain with a bullet.

Something i find interesting about Birdie Wing is that it’s very preoccupied with affiliation and money and resources. Helene Roberts is from a rich family- she has access to a very pretty golf course. Rose works for Catherine and Vipere works for Nicholas. This means they have very conditional backing and access to money: If they win they’ll earn money, if they lose they’ll be physically injured. The students are affiliated with their schools and only have support as good as the schools provide, like no other school having caddies, and Iijima being super caught up in Amuro leaving. Leo has multiple patrons, which allows him to go around doing whatever he wants. Reiya, Kazuhiko, and Seira are Athena players, so they’re pushed extremely hard, have to abide by weird golf arranged marriages, but get the monetary support of a huge corporation. Eleanor can learn and play golf happily but has to contend with the danger of being related to the mafia. Aoi is the poster child of Athena, so she gets lessons from the best mentors, a caddie with high tech expertise to help her, fancy custom equipment, and a lot of money at the company’s disposal to demolish any obstacle, even in unethical ways (Digging into Eve’s background, then kidnapping her and forcing her out of the country). Athena gets an entire tournament set up just to prop up her image! In return, she’s being forced to destroy her own body trying to  live up to other people’s expectations. Every golfer is explicitly defined by their network.

Eve, on the other hand, is defined by her lack of network. She’s the kid of two good golfers who both die when she’s young. She’s taught by Leo but he abandons her. She plays for Catherine against Nicholas, then, when the need arises, she plays for Nicholas against Catherine. She makes money to support her friends but then leaves them behind to keep them safe. She plays on a school team with Aoi, but upends the friendship to compete with her and then gets unenrolled from the school. Currently she’s accepting help from Arios, while trying to keep her distance (saying she won’t reach out to the Burtons, refusing to tell her grandfather her name).

As she says in S2E4, Eve want to be free. That’s her motivation throughout the series: she needs to make money for her and her friends to escape their situation, she wants to get out of the danger of the mafia, she wants to play golf against people that excite her. But if she is to become a professional golf player, by the logic of the show, she has to be beholden to someone. So in the end, what could a happy ending for her look like?

[seaylla]

how does bandai come up with this stuff ???

they just keep feeding us WLW shows . first g-witch, now birdie wing??

anyways i love birdie wing<3 my silly little lesbians

[littlemisspinky]

venus line!

goth gf? no u misheard me i said "golf gfs"

[s-lycopersicum]

[regallibellbright]

Welp, it’s been a few weeks, brain says it’s time to talk about Birdie Wing again! Today, I want us all to take a moment to think about the ending sequence. Which I have listened to quite a lot, it’s a lovely song, if a bit of an odd choice for a show as unabashedly camp as Birdie Wing. (For those who aren’t aware, it’d be Tsukuyomi and Yurrycanon’s Nightjar. Heads up, I’d be willing to class the first verse as “kind of suicidal ideation”, though the full song is at least somewhat less heavily depressed.) The ending, for reference!

I don’t have it in me to describe the entire video, but its opening visual shows mannequins in a golf store window, dressed in very marketable golf apparel, with wigs making them resemble our protagonists, Eve and Aoi. In the shots later where we see Eve and Aoi, they’re dressed in these same outfits. The tension of the verse builds until exploding into a burst of feathers at the chorus, cutting to images of birds flying through the sky playing over the silhouettes of Eve and Aoi, lying in opposite directions so that their heads are next to each other, nearly touching. The ending closes on a shot of Eve’s golf ball on the green, showing the pink wing mark on her balls, morphing into a bird flying in front of the full moon, shining above a sea.

The chorus has different lyrics both times it appears in the full song. Given the bird imagery, you’d expect they’d be using the version of the chorus that gives the song its title, talking directly about a bird flying freely in the sky.

It actually uses the second rendition of the chorus, the one that goes “If I’d never met you, I’d have lived in a cage deceiving the world.” (Translation courtesy of the official music video’s English captions.)

This can apply to Eve as well as Aoi, of course - she was adrift in the world and just getting by supporting her adoptive family before she encountered Aoi, who showed her what playing golf could really be like. But between the mannequin imagery and the lyrics, I tend to read this one as more about Aoi and the expectations of her mother and grandparents for her to be a perfect golf princess so that she can be a vehicle for marketing their products. Meeting Eve, who defies every convention of the game of golf, respects no authority whatsoever save “whether or not you can kick her ass at golf,” is generally brash, aggressive, and unmarketable, and also is the first person to match Aoi in golf skills and histrionics opens her eyes to a whole new world of what golf can be. That world includes getting a bogey because you hit your ball directly into a tree branch, sure, but it ALSO includes the very next day managing to hit your ball into the same exact spot where that tree branch was so that you can bypass the entire trap of the hole and go straight for the win. Eve is ridiculous and we love that for her. And seeing this inspires Aoi to go off-script and behave in ways that aren’t designed to be perfectly palatable and marketable, breaking free of her cage.

What I’m saying is, if the show DOES pull the rug out from under us and reveal they’re sisters, it’s obviously going to weaken the story because then Athena just has TWO golf prodigies to try and market as they resist these attempts (newcomer Eve being even less agreeable than Aoi), but also the ending sequence is contextually gay as hell and if it gets walked back they are cowards.

[whiterose-fans-blog]

Not only RWBY fans. 😏

Soooo… is anyone else getting a hunch that there are some RWBY fans at Bandai?

[freakuotes]

"Si un muro se atraviesa en mi..." - Evangeline "Eve" F. Kimishima/Aleon (Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story)

http://freakuot.es/aRjKk

[phuezo]

Another doodle before sleeping bc I am so obsessed hehe... since they resemble in a way to Blake and Yang lol 🐝

Imagining that Eve suggested the idea of cosplay (?) :3

[comradeyurika]

The relationship between Eve and Ichina is so good. No questions needed, she's ready to drop everything for her. And it shows just how much Eve, who had relied on no one but herself her whole life, has come to really trust and rely on Ichina since they first teamed up.

Get yourself a caddy who will drop out of school and travel across the world to a mafia torn country to help you go pro

[regallibellbright]

[ID: Two stills from the Birdie Wing ending sequence, showing Eve and Aoi. The first shows Eve on a golf course surrounded by rocky outcroppings. There is a small Eve, her back to the viewer, hitting her ball out of a bunker in the background. In the foreground, we see her directly, striking up sand as the ball swings out. Her club is wide at her side and her hair, in a ponytail, swings with the motion. She has an intense expression on her face.

The second shows Aoi on a golf course surrounded by green trees. Both the Aoi in closeup and the smaller one in the background are facing forward, with identical posture, bending over and preparing to swing. Her face is equally intense and determined. End ID]

[ilimitadoworld-r]

https://twitter.com/ilimitadoEXE/status/1539619726627856385

[seafoamstatice]

they’re going to kill you in golf!

[glorioblog]

The GLORIO Chat Episode 112: Evangeline F. Kimishima

The GLORIO Chat Episode 112: Evangeline F. Kimishima

We catch up on Kamen Rider and Digimon, talk about all the shows putting the “romance” in romantic comedy, and declare Birdie Wing the greatest television show of all time. (more…)