This season of Wow! Tonbo clicks for me to a shocking extent. General, I might put it only a hair behind the primary, solely as a result of season 1 was a lot extra unconventional. Nevertheless it’s fairly exceptional how little the present has misplaced. As a conventional sports activities anime, this works a deal with. The main target is now extra on the game, however the private facet nonetheless performs a job. Till now, this has largely been achieved via satellite tv for pc characters (Hitomi, Shima-san). However now that Tonbo is confronted with adversity on the course – and takes it with him – that degree is rising.
One of many actually enjoyable issues about this season is watching ‘regular’ golfers watch Tonbo. Simply attempt to take her in. I think about it was most likely one thing like that when Seve first began taking part in aggressive golf as a junior in Spain. No matter analogy they use – Ema-san mentioned she performs like slightly child this week, and Tsubura famous that her fearlessness was each her power and weak point – she’s like nothing they’ve ever encountered. The Marshal is smitten by the way in which Tonbo celebrates her rivals’ good photographs as a lot as her personal. She tries issues no sane golfer would strive (like that 90-degree hook she pulled). Tsubura has probably the most fame right here, and even she is shocked.
However you realize, on some degree all of them take pleasure in it. How are you going to love golf and not Get pleasure from such an individual? In fact the query is Hinoki do wave of affection is a part of the story right here. That definitely doesn’t apply to the opposite three. One of many fascinating issues about this foursome is how completely different all of them are in type. Tsubura is all dimension and restraint (together with her three-quarter swing). It is all about limiting stress and alternatives to screw up. Hinoki is a “stunning” golfer, a basic swinger who performs the basic manner. And Ema is a unicorn, who takes what she’s been given and tries to show it right into a golfer (with nice success, in fact).
Tonbo is having a tough time at the present time. The ladybug on the primary gap made the others chuckle, however Tonbo’s choice to not step again and restart her routine was, in a phrase, insane. Then that sprinkler that ruined her Seve particular above the bunker. And she or he strikes the ball on her not as soon as, however twice. That is silly, however at the very least you may chalk it as much as inexperience. Hinoki has no such excuses – and attempting to maneuver a pine needle underneath her ball is simply unforgivably dangerous. Much more unforgivable is her choice to not announce it and take her penalty shot. Did this have an effect on the following shot? No – in fact these few millimeters did not matter – however that is not the purpose. Golf is performed on the distinction system, and dishonest is dishonest. If she finds out (even by confessing), Hinoki can be (rightly) convicted of signing an incorrect scorecard.
It is a robust day for Tonbo. She finally shoots a 77, 10 strokes off her opening spherical tempo. This in fact additionally applies to the 2 penalty strokes, however it’s nonetheless clear from her inexperience. We do not know the place that places her in relation to her taking part in companions (and everybody else), however based mostly on how they fared once we saved a watch on them, it looks like a protected guess that all of them met the usual for the day. In fact with the luggage that Hinoki will carry along with her after doing what she did, who is aware of how she got here out of the spherical mentally.
All I can say is that Tonbo’s response when she heard that Igarashi-san could be returning to Kagoshima was extraordinarily cute. It is arduous to know precisely how she feels about Igaiga – Gon-ji has fulfilled a parental function, however he is too far eliminated to resemble a father, and Tonbo was sufficiently old (though she did not seem like one) when Igaiga arrived to develop a pet in love with him. In fact, he’s additionally her golf mentor. No matter it’s, it’s completely love – and completely mutual. And her concern that he could be much less blissful to see her after she had a nasty spherical could not be extra absurd. She’s by no means wanted him greater than she does proper now, and her going to the station to select him up – and the way in which she behaved when she noticed him – mentioned that loud and clear. No matter occurs within the last spherical, it is nice that Igaiga can be there to lean on.
