On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

[Nour uchiha]

Hmm, was there any widespread racism against Umas in the anime?, either hinted at or shown?

Cause a group that all woman & is physically stronger, while still being a minority, would provide an amble opportunity for to use hate as a way to ascend to political power.

 

[Neo3932156]

Hmm, was there any widespread racism against Umas in the anime?, either hinted at or shown?

Cause a group that all woman & is physically stronger, while still being a minority, would provide an amble opportunity for to use hate as a way to ascend to political power.

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Dunno and don't particularly care. The series isn't the sort to explore that sort of stuff, and I know this fic only touch a bit on that sort of stuff because the sheer physical and mental difference meant that some laws, like that Uma-specific road lane, were meant to accommodate them, but I very much doubt this fic will explore that any further than what is required to tell Shirogane story.

Feel free to create your own fic/omake exploring that part of the series theoretical political/social thriller.

 

[Nour uchiha]

Dunno and don't particularly care. The series isn't the sort to explore that sort of stuff, and I know this fic only touch a bit on that sort of stuff because the sheer physical and mental difference meant that some laws, like that Uma-specific road lane, were meant to accommodate them, but I very much doubt this fic will explore that any further than what is required to tell Shirogane story.

Feel free to create your own fic/omake exploring that part of the series theoretical political/social thriller.

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Wow was just asking, no need for the hostile tone dude.

 

[Chronometry]

Hmm, was there any widespread racism against Umas in the anime?, either hinted at or shown?

Cause a group that all woman & is physically stronger, while still being a minority, would provide an amble opportunity for to use hate as a way to ascend to political power.

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In all honesty, there's no way a physically stronger subset of the human species would be discriminated against, considering they're basically tailor-made to be a warrior class, which, historically, you don't want to get on the bad side of.

Also the out-of-universe reason of Umamusume being a celebration of Japanese horse racing, which racism and/or sexism would only distract from.

 

[Greatazuredragon]

Inviting boys over to your apartment already, Shirogane, what will your parents think? Other than being wildly excited for you.

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One word: Grandbabies! XD

Love this story, great work.

 

[viper5delta]

considering they're basically tailor-made to be a warrior class, which, historically, you don't want to get on the bad side of.

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This is basically canon actually. One of the sillier things about the setting is that world history is basically the exact same, just Umas replaced horses.

So like...Mongol invasions? Shit load of Umas with bows. Cataphracts? Bunch of heavily armored Umas. Crusades? There were a bunch of heavily armored religious zealot Umas. Charge of the light brigade? Bunch of Umas got shot to shit.

Granted, that doesn't really preclude Uma on Uma racism. And given Shiro's grand aunt was a polish uma who died young during WWII...well there were almost certainly Nazi umas.


Now granted, the setting never really engages with that, because it's not that kind of franchise, but the implications are fascinating.

 

[Neo3932156]

Wow was just asking, no need for the hostile tone dude.

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Apologies. As you can imagine, not a fan of that premise at all. Yet, I also don't want to shut that down since there's probably an audience for it, so I meant it when I said feel free to make your own story about it.

As for your original question, I dunno about the original series but in Grey Cinderella, Oguri Cap was unable to participate in one of the classic race due to her late admittance to Tracen and thus late registration, which seems to favor those who can afford to attend Tracen from the start of the semester, favoring either those who can attend Tracen from the start like the rich and/or racing families, or those lucky enough to be noticed early.

For this fic, in one of the chapter where Shirogane spoke to one of the traffic police, in his internal narration the police is weary of Uma Musume in general despite their generally affable nature because their higher physical attribute meant that they aren't as easily or safely contain, especially drunk. Also, the difficulty in judging a UM age based on their appearance due to how variable a UM age is to their general height compared to the normal human growth pattern.

Take of that what you will.

 

[Nour uchiha]

Apologies. As you can imagine, not a fan of that premise at all. Yet, I also don't want to shut that down since there's probably an audience for it, so I meant it when I said feel free to make your own story about it.

As for your original question, I dunno about the original series but in Grey Cinderella, Oguri Cap was unable to participate in one of the classic race due to her late admittance to Tracen and thus late registration, which seems to favor those who can afford to attend Tracen from the start of the semester, favoring either those who can attend Tracen from the start like the rich and/or racing families, or those lucky enough to be noticed early.

For this fic, in one of the chapter where Shirogane spoke to one of the traffic police, in his internal narration the police is weary of Uma Musume in general despite their generally affable nature because their higher physical attribute meant that they aren't as easily or safely contain, especially drunk. Also, the difficulty in judging a UM age based on their appearance due to how variable a UM age is to their general height compared to the normal human growth pattern.

Take of that what you will.

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Well the police officer is a case of "no one wants a drunk Elf, they all bloody know magic "!, i imagine the police force doesn't contain enough Umas to deal with their mischief and have difficulty attaining funding to build the needed facilities.

As for the rich Umas having an unfair advantage, well that's life, so again no racism.

But a slice of life is fun too, so if the author never intend to discuss such heavy topics, I'm good with that.