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On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

"Those who need to demand respect are unworthy of it."

[snip]

"Whereas your greatest achievement was accomplished on your knees."

[snip]

"If worse comes to worst, likely few people would miss her."
This scene amused me more than it probably should have, with Shirogane going from verbal murder to contemplating murder-murder.
 
How are gate placement decide because it seem like an easy case of retaliation if after a complaint she keep getting outside gate while not notable for other racer for how little they run for Sherio that like statically impossible.
 
How are gate placement decide because it seem like an easy case of retaliation if after a complaint she keep getting outside gate while not notable for other racer for how little they run for Sherio that like statically impossible.
Assuming it's supposed to be random, it's statistically unlikely but not impossible. Still, if it keeps happening it should be brought up again.

Of course it might not be random, in which case I have no idea.
 
Shiro really needs to find her fire on the track it looks like cuz it's starting to get to her. If she doesn't, she'll end up settling on something else she's good at and living a dull and dispassionate life like the Salaryman did. She's definitely got the fire as horrible racist bureaucrat lady learned but, she's still not using it to win.

Iirc she's been holding back out of a subconscious belief that the honse who charges in first dies. By the sound of the translation for that bit of Polish that popped into her head, her big thing will be her overcoming that fear and charging ahead.
 
inb4 Shirogane is pushed beyond her breaking point and triggers her Zone during the upcoming Sprint. We know her poor placements is getting to her. I wonder what she'd think after truly running with all she has for the first time?
 
I don't think Shiro has been pushed quite far enough to reach the zone yet. That requires more than just some abstract frustration. Two examples from the Cinderella Gray anime.
Tamamo Cross unlocked the zone during a race that would finally prove that she was the strongest racer in Japan. Something she's wanted to prove and be since she was a small child. She hit her limits, the same limits that would have taken that dream from her. So she broke through. Oguri had one last chance to prove herself to her rival. There was no next chance for her, and even then Oguri had been on the cusp of it for some time.

I think Shiro is setting off on the path to reaching that point, but it won't be next race I think. At the moment, for Shiro, it is merely frustrating. And that isn't enough on its own. She needs to hit a real make or break it moment. Even failing to enter the classic races I'm not sure would be enough; her career is going to be a long one (or at least it can be a long one, if she's so inclined); missing out on these races is just a speed bump when it comes down to it. A lot of missed opportunity for money, but it's not like she's in desperate need for that.
 
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I like that she's getting frustrated at losing, that's expected despite her denials She's very competitive and she's too good at lying at herself.

About match fixing, that actually makes sense, it can go from a jealous racist Karen to the yakuza or any other betting group using her for races.

If we think about it she tends to race a lot, and a lot of those races get disrupted by her racing style, the problem is that if allowed she will got for the top place and keep doing the suicide run for everyone else but her.

So make sure she always gets one of the sides, and she will disrupt almost every racer as she get to the lead from the very beginning.
Those who bet would start betting on her if she gets second place a lot, so trying to make it harder for her to get that place makes sense, not to mentions that she tends to burn any racer that's ahead of her.


Shiro hitting the sanbags

Is that a Depmsey roll ??
 
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the entire first part of the classic season was a wash for Shiro. Something that really makes it clear that to accomplish what she wants to accomplish, she needs to lock in in a way that's different from what she's been doing. To focus on training herself in different ways as well. She would definitely not be the first uma to have had an underwhelming classic year that really picked up in senior. Heck, Tamamo Cross had a notoriously mixed classic year before taking it home in senior.
 

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