Young Uma: "She's about forty years old and has had like three kids right? How hard can it be to beat an old hag like that, you're all being silly."
She does have a real job by then. Competing in 3km+ races is her hobby. International G1 3km races are where she takes her vacations
The Dream Series/League (I forget which). It's essentially an all-star league that's more "corporate" from what I remember.
Not really. Shirogane is in a comfortable environment with low stakes in her mind, and there's really nothing objectionable or to be ashamed about in regards to her family circumstances or much of her life. The thing she's going to be specifically cagey about is that she really doesn't get the joy in running like most other Tracen students, and that's mostly to avoid attracting unwanted attention.
She's still fairly unknown, so it will take time for that to develop.
Yeah it went like this. Probably the most embarrassing thing Shirogane went through while at Tracen so far, though most people were more surprised how her hand was completely fine after smashing the speaker.
Her feet are actually a bit on the larger side for her size.
It's the colors listed on the profiles of most of the in game umamusume, and mostly correlates to the color of the jockey silks for the irl horse. I don't know a great way to put the actual color into QQ so I used the hex code for the colors.
She's also died twice.
There's probably a number of factors, such as a typical career being comparable to the span of high school, and horses generally being in their prime for racing in young adulthood, combined with the ubiquitous nature of high school settings in Japanese media and some cultural nostalgia for that timeframe of life perhaps combining with nostalgia for the careers of famous horses.
This is another reason that having it be tied to school makes some sense, since the Triple Crown circuit would be locked into their second year. And yeah I'm going with that umas mature significantly faster than normal humans, so their high school years is generally their peak at least in respect for raw speed.
Interestingly enough, in irl most of the horses with long careers were not actually incredibly successful, usually with some wins, but not some big ones. Basically good enough to justify seeing if they could win something, but not good enough that their value as a stud or broodmare is worth retiring them. So if we relay that over into umamusume, there are probably a number of older umas on the circuit who are basically gate fillers.
Even if they have a shorter lifespan, the fact they are stronger and faster would mean that the parents probably aren't going to be particularly upset about it, especially in rural areas where a lot of physical labor is still needed. Yes, I imagine it would be a lot more troublesome to have an uma kid in an urban area, but there is also the fact that until relatively recently, the life expectancy for humans was something around 65 (which is why that was set for retirement age), so throughout most of history it would not have seemed as such a big difference, while the accelerated maturity would have been viewed as a more than acceptable tradeoff.
To clarify, he was referencing how there are umas with very small adult sizes, so you can't judge age by size alone.
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I don't know about second in all three, but Samson Big rather infamously finished dead last in all three races of that years Triple Crown.
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Just expecting someone to start annoying her by calling her "Bird Up", "Big Bird", and/or "Birdo". The announcers end up hearing it and she may not stop hearing it.
Eh, she's an UmaMusume. They need durability to resist their own strength. Probably should be more concerned about electrocution.
Next life will be reborn in 444 followed by something else on 4/4/2044.
Uh, Nice Nature is infamous for always being third place? Not sure if he ever raced for Triple Crown or came third there to.
The anime staff clarified in April of 2018 that Umamusume are 'like elves'. Presumably this means just that they age gracefully and do not have a decreased lifespan in comparison to humans, which makes sense given they are basically being rewarded by gods.
I don't really jive with the idea that uma would have shorter lifespans, in my mind they should have the strengths of both humans and horses, which is why they can recover from breaking bones and not be put down. They would naturally have closer to a human lifespan.
Probably because this isn't in the NSFW section?
Is it that she gets no joy or that she sees no true value in it? Because it feelsnlike shw does enjoy running and winning, but she doesn't see valuenin it outside of whatbit can do for her family.
Huh, you're right. I sometimes get confused on this site due to how much in the nsfw section just kinda isn't, so it's hard to remember if the story you're reading is in one section or the other unless it has explicit smut in it.
I thought that she did take joy in running, but not specifically racing; she'd be just as happy running errands for her family restaurant if it paid the same amount. Or is that take incorrect?
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The comparison was more for them being physically superior, "Human+" if you will. The Reddit you Linked also is misleading given they do explicitly compare them to elves, Tolkien elves specifically. It's also why I'm of the Opinion they simply are better at maintaining sport performance then humans rather then "quicker maturity means shorter lives" (alongside that not actually making sense to me).
Pretty sure gambling is still a thing if the Setting didn't rely upon dream logic. At best more hush-hush.
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Everyone really. Her bestie and minder, Belno Light, fulfills numerous roles alongside being a fusion of several horses that were at Kasamatsu while Oguri Cap was there.
