Is the exclamation text on the last panel a game thing? I can't find a good way to read it.
laisy said:
It is a game mechanic that shows up during a race if the uma failed to accelerate or overtake. From what I recall it is a racing term in Japan.
"Kakari", basically the Japanese horse racing equivalent of the English horse racing term rank.
Storm Cadet said: Another way to feel what a rank horse and Santos had to deal with is:
Take a large dog on a walk, like a golden or lab. And he WON'T walk with you, he pulls YOU along for the ride. And you try to hold him back and you pull on the lesh to control him and hold him back from running away... Well, after a awhile that dog expends a huge amount of strength and energy during that walk. Then try to ask that dog to run the last block home, after he just wore himself out trying to pull you along for awhile. He has no gas left. He's sucking wind like you!
Now take that same dog on another day who will walk briskly WITH you at your side, not pulling you. He sure can and will run that last block to the house because he did not expend all his energy fighting you.
Simplistic, but all animals have to be taught and learn.
The human athlete equivalent would be someone losing their composure/focus and going all out early on without managing their pace/rhythm properly, causing them to become tired/winded out too quickly. This is pretty much what happens to the umagirls in game when they get hit with the status effect, which is represented by a greater stamina loss rate.
In doujins, the "kakari" status effect is used as a game mechanics joke of sorts with the umas becoming overeager/flustered, especially in matters pertaining to *hem hem* umapyoi.
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The "kakari" status effect. IRL refers to a horse fighting against the jockey's attempts to rein the horse down to a more sustainable pace early on in the race, causing the horse to tire faster and not having enough energy to accelerate in the end.