Kasumi: I loved Birdie Wing.

Aquila: Same here!  It was a great combination of characters and really fun storytelling.  The golf mafia was delightful.

K: They really are doing a Romeo and Juliet thing with golf...and a golf mafia.

A: And it’s working really well.  Eve and Aoi have some real chemistry together.  You can cut the romantic tension between them with a knife.

K: The tournament arcs are really well handled too.  Not too long, not too short, character development actually happening in them...

A: ...and the golf!  I had no idea that Cap’s favourite sport was this exciting!  Kasumi, we need to go to a golf course and play some golf.

K: Sure!  I’ve never tried it, but it looks like it could be fun.

A: I’m going to hit so many blue bullets...

K: Um, Aquila...

A: Oh!  And the rainbow shot!  If I practice enough, I can make a rainbow with my swing, right?

K: Aquila...I hate to tell you this, but...

A: Yes?

K: Real golf doesn’t have those things.

A: Really?

K: I’m afraid so.  They’re visual conceits to show how special the shots are.

A: But the other characters can see them.

K: That’s also a conceit for telling the story.

A: So when you hit a ball in real golf...

K: ...it just goes up into the air and comes down again, yes.

A: Oh.

K: I’m sorry, I know it’s disappointing.

A: Well, of course it’s disappointing...golf is so much more interesting with bullets and rainbows!  Why, it’s the Platonic ideal of golf!

K: We can still go if you want to.

A: We absolutely should.

K: And, I’m sure it will be fun.

A: Of course it will.  After all, if real golf doesn’t live up to the ideal, it’s our responsibility to make it happen!

K: Okay.  I’ll see about finding us a golf pro, and...wait, what?

A: I mean, it shouldn’t be too hard.  We’d just need a drill and little rockets with coloured smoke.

K: Um...

A: Oh yes, and contact triggers!  After all, we don’t want the rockets firing before the golf ball is hit.

K: I’m seeing a lot of problems with this plan.

A: Well, we’d need a lot of little rockets, and probably more than one drill bit, but we could do it in a couple of nights.  A week, tops.  And think how surprised and delighted the golfers will be when they hit their balls and watch the smoke trails!

K: I think they’re more likely to be terrified.  Also, I’m pretty sure the balls would overshoot the greens...and be travelling fast enough to explode on impact.

A: So we put a layer of padding around each golf ball and start with the golfers who aren’t very good.  You need to be logical about this, Kasumi – think of how happy they’ll be now that they’re firing blue bullets and actually reaching the greens.

K: Yeah...we’re not doing this.

A: But, the golfers!  They’ve never experienced the Platonic ideal of golf – think of what they’re missing!

K: We’re still not doing this.  We are not surprising golfers – and whoever lives around the golf course – with rocket propelled golf ball grenades.

A: But they’d be so happy with us!

K: They really wouldn’t.  Who’s your candidate for best girl?

A: Eve’s putter.

K: You’re giving that to a golf club?

A: It doesn’t get nearly as much screen time as the other clubs, and it doesn’t get to hit as many bullets.  It deserves a morale boost!

K: Right, to sum up, we liked Birdy Wing, and, um, golf is more exciting with rockets...

A: Exactly!  And all we’d need to do is get to the nearest golf course and–

K: For the last time, we’re not doing that!