Ooi! Tonbo 2nd Season

After graduating middle school, Tonbo Ooi sets sail from the isolated island of Tokara to Kumamoto in hopes of advancing her golf career. Using his connections, Tonbo's mentor Kazuyoshi Igarashi is able to convince coach Hajime Udou to train her. While Tonbo initially has trouble showing off her abilities with her peculiar playstyle and inexperience with using a variety of golf clubs, she quickly proves her worth at her course debut by making use of her unique skills.

Leaving an impression on Hajime and the people around her, Tonbo is sent to compete in the Kyushu Women's Championship. Met with familiar faces and new rivals, she is determined to dive deeper into the professional world of golf.

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Ooi, Tonbo Main

Hayashi, Rika Japanese

Igarashi, Kazuyoshi Main

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

Fumihira, Osamu Supporting

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Otowa, Hinoki Supporting

Ishikawa, Yui Japanese

Kurisu, Ema Supporting

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Shima Supporting

Kobayashi, Sanae Japanese

Udou, Hajime Supporting

Hanawa, Eiji Japanese

Adaniya, Tsubura Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Adaniya, Youko Supporting

Maihane, Mimi Japanese

Ooi, Gonzou Supporting

Aomori, Shin Japanese

Oh, Jin-koo Director, Episode Director

Mima, Masafumi Sound Director

TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI Theme Song Performance

Shibata, Toshitaka Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Composition

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Jan 3, 2025

KANLen09

Recommended

Ooi! Tonbo, 2nd Course – Now this is what I call competitive golf.

I think it’s safe to say that we haven’t got as much AniManga content that speaks to the inner sport in us, especially when you see that niche sports like golf hasn’t nearly surfaced as much. From Bandai Namco’s series of Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story, to the upcoming Sorairo Utility for the Winter 2025 season, we need to look back at how much of a particular series, that a decent following in Japan has, that literally no one outside of the Land of the Rising Sun has ever seen before. Of course, ... I’m talking about mangaka Ken Kawasaki’s Ooi! Tonbo, the massive juggernaut of a 50+ volume series that already has the set-up prequel back in Spring earlier this year.

With Season 2, Tonbo growing up, both out of her comfort zone and into the world of professional golf, with the former pro golfer of Kazuyoshi “IgaIga” Igarashi to expand her horizons out of Tokara in the Toshima Islands into Kumamoto, this is only but the starting point for Tonbo to manage more than just her trusty 3-Iron club and hand-me-downs from other people whom they deem will find much usage out of the growing spectacularism of the girl who can find shots by instinct, though much of it is on the basis of just having fun, competition or otherwise. And the biggest challenge moving out of her home, is to get her affiliated with coaches that could help train her upstage herself in the world of professional golf, as is the case with one that Igarashi knows: Hajime Udo. The long line of succession golf players who’ve achieved various accolades of their own, comes with yet another rising star: Hinoki Otowa, whose family is the epitome of your typical Asian family where achievements must start from young and cultivate from there.

Aside from Tsubura Adaniya (which was seen competing against Tonbo in Season 1) being yet another prestigious winner of her own regard, there’s the older golfer of the 4 girls: Ema Kurisu, also another accolade winner, but with a condition that strikes at the very heart of what she loves to do, that would decide their success going into the first tournament arc of the series: the Kyushu Women’s Open. All the golfers, the 4 standout girls included, who are winners of various golfing tournaments (except Tonbo), vy for one more glory to add to their growing career list, and will test each of their strengths, weaknesses, and abilities to foreshadow and foresee how the course dynamics will go, with practice that makes perfect. And that shows thoroughly in Season 2, where the set-up of the decent Season 1 pays off to become a show that’s just as enjoyable as it is thrilling to see what Tonbo comes up with her trusty unorthodox methods of golfing that keeps on surprising even the heavyweights going into the competition.

Otherwise, everything I’ve said about Season 1 can be applied here, from OLM’s minimalist animation to the OST, which has since been an improvement, though a few tidbits here and there. The theme songs, again from both Sacra e sole and Tokyo Groove Jyoshi, on the other hand, is a significant downgrade compared to the prequel.

If you’ve been pandering on the side to want to try out Ooi! Tonbo, now’s the perfect time to do so. Season 1 may be a hard sell, but Season 2 creates the perfect foil for a show that gets better progressively with time.

This could easily be a series worth the long run with the humongous amount of content from the now-54 volumes of the manga, though I would just bet to see more whenever future seasons of the show would drop to continue this epic journey of a girl who doesn’t play by the standard but yet excels with her very best.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 2, 2025

PixelB

Recommended

Preliminary (13/13 eps)

Read my previous review for season 1 if you want my full review. I just want to say that this show is clearly spectacular for being able to make the mundane practicing and playing golf exciting. There's no drama. There's no superpowers involved. Nobody's parents died playing golf and nobody is secretly related to each other to create artificial drama. Nobody is driving 450 yards on their first stroke as a 12 year old kid. It's amateur women's golf where every stroke is realistic and the results are too.

This reminds me of Hikaru no Go in a good way. It's about a kid who is ... obsessed and introduced to the competitive sport of golf. The anime is able to show its true colors by merely creating good characters, monologuing, and pacing when it comes to golf play by play. Not every hole in a three-day tournament is showcased of course, but this show is very deliberately slow. One tournament takes over 6 episodes, and many holes are shown and all the golfer's playstyles and personalities shine through their play. All of the rival players have their own aspirations and goals, and that's what makes it so fun.

I will admit that if this was shown to me without the first season, I'd declare it garbage. After all, Tonbo is a little bit of a cheat and kind of overpowered. Still, with how slow-paced the first season was and how I got to see Tonbo develop her golf skills, I got nothing to say. The show takes baby steps are showing Tonbo's development as a child all the way to her first year of high school where she competes in her first tournament, and so she's endearing rather than a brat in my eyes. The only complaint is that Igaiga takes a back seat in this season, which is a bit annoying since he is the only other main character.

Apparently the manga is ongoing and has OVER 51 DAMN VOLUMES! I doubt the sales of this show is going to go super well, but I can only hope that it keeps on getting adapted. There needs to be more shows like this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 4, 2025

Sr_Matheus2000

Mixed Feelings

Im very mixed with this season. i feel like the story flowed a bit more in the first season. This season started with a flashback episode and the last episode was also a flashback, so there were basically just 11 episodes.. and most of those episodes were in one single golf tournament, so the pacing felt veeeery slow.. It has its good moments still, tombo still great, the other characters introduced also have nice backstories and are relatively well developed. The art style was fine, like the first season, still using cgi for the golf shots, but it was less noticeable this time around. If ... you liked the first season, you will probably like this season too, is not as good as the first, is slower, but its good overall

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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