It would be hard to imagine anything more different from the first season and still golf-related than this.
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This was excellent on all fronts, and irresistible in the same way the first season almost always was.
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Tiger Woods said "the only two players who truly owned their golf swings were Ben Hogan and Moe Norman".
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I think Ooi! Tonbo is pretty great generally, but if you love golf it's pure crack.
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If you'd told me a couple of years ago three straight LiA posts would be golf anime I'd have said you were crazy.
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The last three episodes have been pure fanservice for golf lovers like me.
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If there was such a thing as golf porn, that was it.
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Here we are, in a season full of bubble series, and Ooi Tonbo is the first non-sequel I'm confirming.
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At this point I'm pretty much resigned that Ooi! Tonbo is mostly going to be an LiA echo chamber.
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Having unleashed these two against each other, Igaiga can't possibly control what happens.
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As my friend in the film biz says, "you can't copyright an idea, only the execution of an idea".
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