Known at the Rainbow Bullet, Eve is infamous among those that bet on underground golf. She has soundly beat every opponent with only just three clubs in her gold bag. However, when Eve catches the eye of professional golfer Aoi Amawashi and plays a clean game against her, she is both captivated and shaken by her defeat at the hands of this girl known as the “Innocent Tyrant” that soundly beats every opponent with a smile.
After this game-changing game, Eve starts to break free of the underworld’s hold on her and begins to take her golf game to the next level in aboveboard competitions with Aoi.
You have to work harder to make golf interesting, and Birdie Golf must have worked hardest even if it does teeter between ridiculous and amazing on more than one occasion. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Birdie Golf, head on down below.
Anime Like Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story
For Fans of Gambling on Sports
Sk8 the Infinity
High school student Reki Kyan is passionate about skateboarding and board-making. While he works part-time in a board shop after school, his real interest is the underground race that happens at night.
S is a competitive skateboard race where participants are encouraged to win at all costs. Unfortunately for Reki, his most recent race came in at a loss.
The next day at school he meets new transfer student Langa Hasegawa who was a snowboarder when he lived in Canada. After a series of events that led both of them to an S race, Reki discovers that, despite having no experience on a skateboard, Langa’s experience snowboarding is unexpectedly useful in an S race.
Although Birdie Golf becomes a more proper sports anime later on, both series had accents of an actual sport being used for underground gambling. Similar to the gambling on golf games, Sk8 the Infinity is focused on a fictional race done on skateboards, which underworld parties come to watch and place bets on.
While Birdie Golf displays an interesting friendship between two very different girls because of the sport, Sk8 The Infinity displays an interesting friendship between two very different boys because of the sport.
You watch both of these series because of how ridiculous the sport can sometimes be displayed as, but it is the strong main character relationship that keeps you invested.
One Outs
Toua Tokuchi is an athlete and a gambler. He makes his money with a serious fastball and a simplified game of baseball called One Outs.
However, one day he is approached by a veteran slugger and asked to join his long unsuccessful team, but the owner of the team doesn’t want him to threaten the money that he makes by losing.
Toua, being the gambler that he is, eventually settles that for each out he pitches, he gets 5 million yen, but for each hit, he loses 50 million.
Both One Outs and Birdie Golf follow main characters that are good at what they do, and they know it. They are willing to gamble everything on that fact because they know they can win.
However, while Birdie Golf is ultimately about Eve getting a little humbled and moves on to her playing the sport in a more aboveboard way, One Outs stays underground.
Birdie Golf moved away from showing Eva’s talent in a sports betting setting, but One Outs sticks with that setting.
Kakegurui
Hyakkaou Private Academy is an institution for the elite of society with a very special curriculum.
These students are the children of the wealthiest people in the world, but they won’t need athletic prowess or book smarts for a successful life, they will need to know the art of the deal and how to read people.
So instead of traditional classes, this school features a curriculum of rigorous gambling where the winners live like kings and the losers suffer.
However, they haven’t seen anything yet until they meet new student Yumeko Jabami.
While Kakegurui and Birdie Golf are immediately similar in that they are set around high-stakes gambling, they also share a similar intensity.
Birdie Golf intensifies golf to a degree that it makes a less interesting to watch sport a lot more interesting as an anime. However, Kakegurui only ups the intensity of its character reactions while they are gambling. It really captures the joy and despair of the gamble.
Megalo Box
Megalo Box is an underground sport in which fighters utilize mechanical limbs that augment the power of the fighters. Junk Dog, despite big potential, needs money and makes it by throwing matches.
However, after he is defeated by a champion in disguise, he is presented with a challenge to fight his way up to fighting him again.
If you enjoyed the initial arcs in Birdie Golf that focused on Eve’s career in underground sports betting, Megalo Box is fully dedicated to that. You both watch scrappy underdogs as they navigate this dangerous underworld with their skill for the sport.
Furthermore, both series follow characters who, at first, were just doing the sport for the money, but later started to feel the burn of competition after faced by a professional with talent for the sport.
Kengan Ashura
While many business deals are settled through contracts and meetings in the boardroom, since ancient times, many merchants in Japan have had another way to settle business disputes – Kengan matches.
In the underground merchant world of Kengan Ashura, businesses ranging from smaller shops to mega-corporations settle disputes and make business deals through gladiatorial bare-handed fights in the arena. However, the competitors aren’t the the businessmen, but rather a series of proxy warriors. Every business scouts powerful fighters to field in Kengan matches in hopes of claiming profitable victories.
Tokita Ouma is one such prospective Kengan fighter. Recruited by the CEO of the Nogi Group, he hopes the attraction of strong fighters to Kengan matches will eventually lead him to the fighter he seeks to conquer in order to fully call himself the strongest.
It can be said that women’s golf and gladiatorial fist fights between two muscular dudes have profoundly little in common with each other. However, both series have an element of sports betting going on. Kengan Ashura bets on proxy fighters while moments of Birdie Golf focused on the sport being used for bets in the underworld.
Both series detail the main characters’ dealings in the underworld of betting, even if Birdie Golf moves away from that.
For Fans of Golf
Dan Doh
While playing baseball with his friends, Dandoh’s wild swing cause a ball to slam in to the principal’s potted plants.
While Dandoh was sure he was about to be punished, the principal, impressed by his swing, introduces him to the game of golf and a pro-golf to cultivate his natural talent for play in the national championships.
If you happen to like Birdie Wing because it was a sports anime about golf, your choices for other sports anime about golf are severely limited. Your choices are either Dan Doh or a short 15-minute special called Sorairo Ultility which was too short to really be worth giving its own section.
Dan Doh is both older and follows a male main character. However, both series follow golfers that often rely on a strong swing and get pulled in from nothing to train as a professional.
For Fans of Rugged Girl Inspired By Refined Girl Duos
Hanebado
Ayano and Nagisa are two girls at the same school. Ayano has superior badminton talents, but avoids the sport. Nagisa, on the other hand, endlessly toils to become better.
Together, they end up on the same team, and along with their teammates, are pushed toward badminton greatness.
Both series are innately similar in that they are female sports anime and also both about more obscure sports. However, what they most have in common is the main character dynamic.
Both Birdie Golf and Hanebado feature a talented, but prickly main character who is ultimately inspired by a more refined and talented peer in their sport.
Both girls start as competitors before eventually becoming teammates that strengthen each others’ skills.
Symphogear
Under constant assault by an alien race called Noise, society doesn’t know that the idol duo Zwei Wing use their songs to charge powerful weapons known as Symphogear to fight back.
After an attack at a concert, part of the duo sacrifices themselves to save a young girl, implanting a fragment of her Symphogear in that girl in her last moments.
Years later, that same girl awakens the power to defend humanity with the power of the Symphogear within her.
Birdie Wing may be a uniquely interesting anime about girl golfers and Symphogears may be a battle anime about using the power granted by singing to beat up invading aliens, but these series have quite a bit in common.
Both anime are bursting with female characters, and furthermore, bursting with shoujo ai subtext in a very “shoujo ai without labeling” way. While their plots are vastly different, they have a similar passion for intensity and big, impactful-feeling moments.
Furthermore, both series have a similar main character dynamic of one girl being good, but inexperienced and her partner having both experience and talent.
For Fans of All-Girls Schools/Athletics
Kandagawa Jet Girls
On the glistening blue waters of the Kanda rivers, teams of Jetters and Shooters race together on jet skis in Jet Races.
With a dream of becoming a professional Jet Racer like her mother, Rin Namiki has transferred to a all-girls’ high school in Tokyo where she meets Misa Aoi. After a series of tense events, Rin and Misa find themselves in a Jet Race against a team from a prestigious school.
The race inspires Rin to join her schools’ Jet Racing Club, only for her to find out that it doesn’t exist. Now she has to create her very own team while still having her eyes set on the annual Kandagawa Cup.
It isn’t that the sport of women’s golf is ridiculous, but it does seem a little more ridiculous in the way it is presented in Birdie Golf. Kandagawa Jet Girls is in a similar vein. The sport of duo jet ski racing is as silly as it is fictional, but the series goes above and beyond to make it over-the-top.
Both series follow all-girls sports with big, thinly-veiled shoujo ai vibes to it. They are made to be entertaining by the over-the-top way they show the sport, but Kandagawa Jet Girls, as you can imagine, leans more into ecchi.
Iwa Kakeru – Sports Climbing Girls
Konomi Kasahara has always enjoyed puzzle games, but upon entering high school, she decides to find hobbies other than gaming. While wandering in search of a new hobby, she spots the school’s gigantic rock wall owned by the school’s rock climbing club.
While being fascinated by it, she realizes that the wall is nothing if not a puzzle to be solved. With this sport sparking her excitement, Konomi immediately joins the rock climbing club.
While Birdie Wing takes a bit to get there, both series are about all girls teams in a more obscure sport. However, while Birdie Wing goes to great lengths to make golf seem more interesting, Iwa Kakeru embraces the natural appeal of rock climbing.
Iwa Kakeru is the more grounded sports anime, but these two series have solid female characters that really get caught up in the competitive nature of their sport.
Uma Musume – Pretty Derby
When great racehorses pass on, there is a chance that they will be reborn as horse girls. The best of these girls are invited to train at Tokyo’s Tracen Academy to become top notch sprinters.
A horse girl named Special Week is determined to become a top racer. After being captivated by the running style of Silence Suzuka, Special Week is recruited to join her running team, Spica.
Birdie Golf is inventive in the ways it makes golf interesting, even going so far as to make rainbow bullets kind of like a super power. If that inventiveness was something that hooked you, as well as enjoying the array of female characters, Uma Musume is a sports anime that also loves its creativity.
Uma Musume could have been a track sports anime, but instead it is a track anime about race horses reincarnated as school girls who run track. It certainly makes watching running more appealing, and, like Birdie Golf, it can get quite competitive between its characters.
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