Can’t believe I’m analyzing the stupid golf show, but have y’all thought about the airplane scenes in the golf show?
The first time we see it, Eve’s just gotten back from her first gig working for the mafia. After years of keeping away from that world because she knew it was dangerous she risks it just so she can in some way reach out to Aoi, to chase the genuine joy she gets from playing with her. Aoi on the other hand is looking back down, trying also to reach for the bit of joy, but unlike Eve Aoi doesn’t try to follow her. She’s found a place where she can enjoy her sport fully. Then Eve shoots her bullet up - and it reaches Aoi, impossibly. She reaches the plane.
And that ambition, that ability to roll the dice to drag herself (and her family) to a better future even when the odds are not great coupled with the skill to be able to accomplish it is what allows Eve in the end to get into a match with Rose to finally get the money she needs to get herself on the plane for real. Her ambition is realized with her on that plane, her family back home and taken care of, with her heading off after Aoi to live the kind of life that would have been impossible for her had she not looked beyond the pond of Nafrence.
Rose, on the other hand, jumped head first into the profits being a mafia boss could bring her, and in the end she dies for them. She can look up and imagine what her life could have been like had she kept herself from that path, but in the end she’s stuck back on the ground, with a bullet toppling her down into the docks. She could’ve never made the shot Eve did to Aoi, because by the time that she realized the value of it, too much of her was left on the ground. So her life ends, and her little sister has to skip town to get away from the mob’s wrath. All the while Eve gets her first taste of something beyond the life she grew up in - free drinks.
I can’t believe I lived long enough to see the “weeaboo weebs out to a native Japanese person who has no idea what the fuck they’re talking about” interaction be put into an anime.
