I'd say she isn't beating the War Horse throwback allegations but that would require someone to make the connection in the first place.
It is a little ironic since her low top speed means she would do better pace setting as a front runner. Most races have a slower pace to conserve energy for the final spurt but if your front runner goes ham, your accel better be above average or you won't catch up. I would imagine she has some difficulties getting to the lead in the early race but if the front runner isn't faster than Shiro for the mid race she'll overtake then like what happened with Seiun. Of course, if you're a high tier horse you can catch up and overtake so long as your stam holds up. I can see that the longer the race, the more beneficial it is for Shiro style of running.
If that was the case she'd never use it.
It's nonsensical, actually. Japanese writing doesn't work that way. You might not know how some Kanji are read, but there's never any confusion about pronunciation.I found it funny the race commentator kept mangling Shiros choice of race name the entire time due to not knowing how to pronounce it.
I can imagine her really stealing the Kikuka Sho from someone from literally keeping pace with the people in front and forcing them to drain their stamina early. Same with the other long races.
Most kanji characters have at least two pronunciations. You're probably thinking of kana.
Sky was just surprised that Shirogane was able to hold a conversation while sprinting. Just imagine, there you are, trying as hard as you can... Then the person neck and neck with you throws you a random compliment without breaking stride or sounding out of breath. That'd throw most people off their game...
The different readings of kanji are different syllables, not different pronunciations of the same syllables, so even if they decided to put some fancy Kanji on it it wouldn't result in that kind of pronunciation difficulty. It doesn't really matter though, because it would be written in katakana, just like all the other Uma loan word names are. If they went with the highly unlikely choice not to, it would have furigana to show the closest Japanese pronunciation, because that's what they do with stuff that is expected to be difficult to read.
I mean that has always been the case with Tanya previously, even the people on her own side of the war were genuinely convinced she was a jingoistic battle hungry psychopath.
Even with a phonetic guide, some phonemes literally cannot be correctly pronounced by speakers of some languages without extensive practice. The brain simply doesn't know how to make the specific combination of mouth, tongue, and throat movements to produce the desired sound. It's one of the reasons for the stereotypical Chinese/Japanese R/L confusion, as well as the difficulty most Westerners have in learning to speak Mandarin Chinese fluently. A good example is the common Chinese surname "Xu", which will almost always become "Su", "Zu", or "Shu" when attempted by English speakers.
Yes, she has a rendering of her name rendered as katakana in her registration, but the announcers do actually try to say racers' names.
I suppose some lazy types will just say "Oruzeru" or however the katakana reads.
This is true. But in my defense I forget I'm reading a Umamusume/Youjo Senki crossover half the time.
I see your point, but I think we should let the author cook first, it's not like they need to stick to umamusume canon with only the NASCAR ahh races, afaik some irl horse races are more complicated than that with hurdles and whatnot. You mentioning cross country, hell yeah I think she'll excel in uma triathlon, Iron Uma or Norse Uma shenanigans
The Japanese written language doesn't include any phenoms that can't be pronounced in Japanese. They are renderedinto the closest Japanese equivalent. All of the loan word Uma names receive the same treatment. The announcer should have no more or less trouble reading her name than any of the rest.
It's not a matter of being lazy. The announcers aren't there for the racers. They're there for the audience, so they'll use the names that the audience will be able to recognize and connect with. Everyone in Japan will use the katakana readings, and there's really no reason they shouldn't.
