So Aoi's Mother wants her to win a grand chelem, talk about ambitions for your offspring !
Aoi be like: who's that girl who wants to steal my father from me !
Girl: I am his daughter better than you are !
haha
We have very little data on Aoi's father, except he was a number 2 in the USA. Not much on Leo, Eve's mentor.
Also, probably a mislead, but Eve feels like Aoi's hidden sister when Aoi's mother looks so much like an older Eve.
And there's Eve fluent japanese.
We'll eventually get to know how some couples decided to protect there daughters....
Edit:
Something fun came to mind: this feels like Initial D character setup.
Keisuke was the track pilot, having theory flowing in his veins, applying that to street racing.
Takumi was a pure natural only knowing outdoor/street racing.
Fun trivia: at some point we get very detail panels of one of Takumi's girlfriend and her golf career. But the author never pushed that idea. Not easy to mesh with the street racing main story.
Edit 2: Scrambling and up&downs
I was a bit annoyed at Aoi's bunker shot for multiple reasons.
Scene wise: animators do not have the budget/time/knowledge.
So they show us a pluged ball in a step bunker wall blocking green/flag direction and a bunker lip.
Then Aoi comes to the ball and it feels like she's on flat sand for her shot.
Then everyone is "nice out" but the ball hits the lip like it happens most of the time with a pluged ball in a steep bunker wall and an overhanging lip.
I know it's hard to draw a player's body trying to adapt to a steep bunker wall and even more difficult to animate that swing. But they could have done it another way: show us Aoi from behind the flag, That way you animate only about shoulder high and the club, a lot easier and you still get the action.
Nice out is dumb here, because you do not have the time to speak before it touches the lip, because it's such a bad shot... And in fact you know it as soon as the ball lifts up... it's way too low, so instead your face shows it might not make it, since you know golf.
For the story it just shows these girls are monsters, but fragile ones if they can't scramble better.
Golf with long drives, long second shots finding the easy putt zone or even a short wedge for the same zone is boring golf for the audience. PGA in a nusthell...
Instead the golf audience wants tricky shots that do well, because it shows how good a player really is.
For team Aoi/Eve, it should be: one is very long and aggressive and the other gets out of tricky shots when needed. Both have to be good in both cases. And I think that's where the win is against that perfect stats girl.
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