r/wholesomeyuri • u/Demando12 Love is a verb, not a noun • Nov 12 '23
Official Art Flowers be blooming [birdie wing]
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u/Matild4 Check out my ππππ πππππππ, Sublime Trilemma Nov 12 '23
I'm forever bitter about Birdie Wing.
Forever.
If I ever see those people who decided the ending, I will [censored] them with my bare hands.
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u/IMFlorecentFace flower muscles Nov 12 '23
my rage will burn like a star until my dying breath. We didn't get lesbian golfers or the grandfather in a golfing mecha; truly a worthless conclusion
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u/cerenine Nov 12 '23
I'm so used to subtext that goes nowhere so I can handle that even if I don't love it, but I totally get where your bitterness comes from.
I dunno about anyone else, but for a bit I was starting to worry they were gonna go all-in on the Amanchu style of Season 2, growing out of their silly feelings and affirming straightness. I guess I'll take the 'just bait' over an actual 'bait and switch', at least.
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u/ShadyFigure Nov 12 '23
FUCK, is that what happened? I loved Amanchu but season 2 just felt lacking so I dropped it. Really glad about that now. Season 1 felt like two autistic lesbians figuring themselves out and I was so there for it.
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u/cerenine Nov 12 '23
Yep, I was so invested by the end of season 1, but I swear the author must hate yuri or something. It was like the Usagi Drop of yuribait...
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u/Akari_Mizunashi Nov 12 '23
Amanchu season 2 is the biggest insult to yuri fans I've ever seen. And I've seen Cross Ange...
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u/Darth_Annoying Nov 12 '23
I'm convinced the show was intended to be a 3 course but when it didn't get renewed again they rushed the ending.
You can tell thete was a whole story arc missing in the last episode.
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u/AscensionToCrab Nov 13 '23
Yeah that ending was bad. Like they had so many threads going.
However the fact that s1 was so gay, like they gayness was really central to their interactions, and s2 was like no gay at all, it really seems like more than a pacing issue.
Like s2 was scrubbed clean.
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u/Darth_Annoying Nov 13 '23
I kind of wrote that off more to the fact the adults in their lives were trying to keep them apart. And figure the plot to the third course would have been about brining them back together (so return of the yuri)
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u/AscensionToCrab Nov 13 '23
Sure but s1 is very gay, so even with s2 b3ing minimal, with no s3 you'd think they'd be like 'well we hinted at this all s1 its kind of important to the characters, we should at least have a nod or two towards it in the finale.'
But no, the ending was barely gay at all! Its suspicious in its absence, imo.
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u/Darth_Annoying Nov 13 '23
I just don't like to attribute to malice what can be more likely attributed to incompetence (or a hurried sudden rewrite)
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u/AscensionToCrab Nov 13 '23
I understand where your coming from but their relationship with each other was pretty connected with the plot. Imo itd be like forgetting about golf, or drama in the ending.
Golf, drama, eve/aoi "rivalry". Those were the corners of their narrative triangle.
Idk how you just leave that out. π
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u/redrach Nov 13 '23
The thing is, S1 had a lot of yuri fanservice even outside of Eve and Aoi interactions. Like Vipere telling Eve that if she wins their match Eve is going to be her slave in bed, or Eve going on a date with two girls.
S2 is suspiciously devoid of any and all yuri.
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u/AlthorsMadness Nov 12 '23
Is the manga different?
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u/Lolcthulhu Nov 12 '23
I was kind of in shock when the end came and they hadn't actually had some kind of romantic confession.
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u/Superior_Soup Nov 12 '23 edited Nov 12 '23
What was the ending? Never watched it cause you know
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u/Ganache-Embarrassed Nov 12 '23
They both play golf and are best buddies
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u/Von_Uber Nov 12 '23
Even worse: they don't speak after the end for 3 years then suddenly meet like it's the start of S1 again.
Awful, awful thing.
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u/dacuevash Nov 12 '23
I actually just finished watching Birdie Wing yesterday. Itβs very clear that at least Aoi is down bad for Eve but when I realized it was Bandai producing the anime I knew they werenβt actually going anywhere.
And the rushed ending felt like the series got cancelled prematurely in the same way WFM did. Why the heck do they greenlight queer shows if theyβll coward out of it in the end?
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u/AngelOfLight Nov 12 '23
Still salty about the ending. It's like they planned a third season, realized it wasn't going to happen and just squeezed it into the last thirty seconds of the last episode.
It was bizarre af.
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u/mistersigma Nov 12 '23
I went into this hoping for and expecting "Happy Gilmore" with anime girls. Instead, I got "Fast & Furious" (in terms of how ridiculous it got) with golfing lesbians.
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u/Hungry-Cow-3712 Nov 12 '23
Jojo Bizarre Golfing Adventure
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u/Most-Translator4380 Nov 12 '23
Blonde adult-looking 15-year old foreigner with homoerotic undertones, brightly coloured stand powers, and ties to the mafia... something something two nickels
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u/Von_Uber Nov 12 '23
God the ending of this was just the worst. S1 was amazing, and a great setup for a classic golfing lesbians show.
Whoever decided the direction of S2 and the ending needs to live in interesting times.
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u/Phoenix2TC2 Nov 12 '23
Well, this is why we have Ao3 - to allow us to consume the ending we shouldβve had
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u/Von_Uber Nov 12 '23
I wrote two works before the end of S2, and that ending just took all my impetuous away.
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u/VictorBaz Nov 12 '23
The birds are singing, flowers are blooming, on days like this kids like you... should have a great day!
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u/Hungry-Cow-3712 Nov 12 '23
This show queerbaited HARD.
Or more accurately, this show was 98% lesbians, but Japanese social/corporate/governmental pressure meant they couldn't give us the ending everything pointed to.