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| Tbh, weather can definitely affect a race especially the tires. No wonder we got some background storytelling this episode and it wasn't a pleasant one. On the other hand, this episode did enforce the realistic point of view into their industry. |
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| Under the conditions of heavy fking rain and low visibility, what the organizer needed to do in this episode was abandon the race before someone got injured or before the accident occurred. |
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| No way they were racing this hard on slicks. These tyre needs dry condition or they are useless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkyhWfloqFI |
| This goes to show just how dangerous this sport is, especially in these stormy weather conditions. Not only is the track slick, but visibility is reduced. Looks like Satsuki will live, but he probably won't be racing again anytime soon. Somebody should have checked the weather before deciding to hold this race. At least Kouya did the right thing seeing that this is something that nobody wants to see, but in any case that was brutal, and even more so with the bad memories that came back. |
| Wet weather just ramps the danger up to the extreme its bloody stupid to stay out on slicks as you would have no control what so ever,That crash at the end was inevitable |
| You could put Max Verstappen in his Redbull F1 car up against a field of F4 cars and even then he wouldn't maintain a a lead on a track this wet on slicks while the others are on rain tires. Also is this actually real in Japanese F4 that you can't change tires in changing weather? If yes what the hell have the organizers been smoking? This would be such a huge and needless safety hazzard. Other than that massive blunder (I get the story reasons but it's honestly BS) Overtake remains a suprisingly detailed and geniune love letter to open wheel racing and I am loving it. |
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| Yeah there's just no racing on slicks in such a downpour... then again, idk if F4 uses intermediates, but still - not switching to wets is just... bonkers. 5/5 episode again, all things considered. Despite the timeskip having a bit of a whiplash effect at the beginning, it was easy to settle back in again. All the research Kouya does in the background, the excitement turning into fear for the life of a precious someone, Haru actually just calling him Kouya???? What even! Even Kouta addressing him as Kouya-chan. They've gotten real chummy there. And then all the signs of his dad's good luck charm basically actively shielding him from misfortune, which he recognises - incredibly well done. With the post-accident scenes - there's a reason for what's common practice: no replay of the accident until the driver's actually confirmed to be safe and sound... Perfect soundtrack throughout the episode again as well; and of course the details: the weather radar screen, the raindrops, just the way the drivers sit in the cockpit (dare I say, some practically official camera angles, even), the car details again like the indentations on the tires.... A+ all around. Only thing I didn't like was the craptastic ground textures during the race that made me feel like I'm playing a decades-old game, it's weird that that should be an issue. Also, just how many sponsors does this series have? Actual big-ass brands plastered everywhere, Coca-Coal, Bridgestone, Dunlop, Panasonic, last week Fuji, now Suzuka actual tracks, and I think I even forget a few... Kinda incredible, it's not something we often see. The only thing that didn't match was the Win10 desktop on Kouya's laptop with the Apple keyboard. And ofc Mauchly and YouMotion. xD |
| Rain always is a hurdle in sports, and they portrayed it in this episode. The protagonist regains his activity as a photographer along with a rational advice to Haruka which is to not gamble your life through dangerous weather. |
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| mister lucky is unlucky this time glad haruka decided to abandon the race the lesson is use rain tires for a wet race and is madoka gonna relapse on his trauma damn |
| Ngl every time Madoka hesitated about capturing someone's portrait, I felt jumping into his trauma too. |
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| It feels like both Haruka and Madoka learned something important in this episode. It's really nice to see how they clash and influence each other to improve as people and face traumas and beliefs that may hold them back in life. |
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| This is really Imola 1994 and Suzuka MotoGP 2003, I must say. |
| Even the best make mistakes. |
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| This was the coolest episode, full of emotion and adrenaline. 🏎️ |
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| alright finally some car action, recovery from last week's boring episode. rain really made it more interesting tbf. |
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| LMAO! Even in anime, the FIA is not doing their job properly. Should have been a yellow flag or even a red flag after the first incident. I don't think you can do pit stops in F4 hence they had to gamble in either going into wets or the slicks for the entiriety of the race. |
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Reply to OrangeRafi
LMAO! Even in anime, the FIA is not doing their job properly. Should have been a yellow flag or even a red flag after the first incident.
I don't think you can do pit stops in F4 hence they had to gamble in either going into wets or the slicks for the entiriety of the race.
I don't think you can do pit stops in F4 hence they had to gamble in either going into wets or the slicks for the entiriety of the race.
| Red flag should been declared even before MC retired. The moment when even the leader in the clean air barely even see track is proving enough. Suzuka with rain, remind me of GOATifi missjudge where the final chicane and blaming the car is gold, having this reference in this episode would be wild af. |
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Reply to yellowheartren
Yeah there's just no racing on slicks in such a downpour... then again, idk if F4 uses intermediates, but still - not switching to wets is just... bonkers.
5/5 episode again, all things considered. Despite the timeskip having a bit of a whiplash effect at the beginning, it was easy to settle back in again. All the research Kouya does in the background, the excitement turning into fear for the life of a precious someone, Haru actually just calling him Kouya???? What even! Even Kouta addressing him as Kouya-chan. They've gotten real chummy there. And then all the signs of his dad's good luck charm basically actively shielding him from misfortune, which he recognises - incredibly well done. With the post-accident scenes - there's a reason for what's common practice: no replay of the accident until the driver's actually confirmed to be safe and sound... Perfect soundtrack throughout the episode again as well; and of course the details: the weather radar screen, the raindrops, just the way the drivers sit in the cockpit (dare I say, some practically official camera angles, even), the car details again like the indentations on the tires.... A+ all around. Only thing I didn't like was the craptastic ground textures during the race that made me feel like I'm playing a decades-old game, it's weird that that should be an issue.
Also, just how many sponsors does this series have? Actual big-ass brands plastered everywhere, Coca-Coal, Bridgestone, Dunlop, Panasonic, last week Fuji, now Suzuka actual tracks, and I think I even forget a few... Kinda incredible, it's not something we often see. The only thing that didn't match was the Win10 desktop on Kouya's laptop with the Apple keyboard. And ofc Mauchly and YouMotion. xD
5/5 episode again, all things considered. Despite the timeskip having a bit of a whiplash effect at the beginning, it was easy to settle back in again. All the research Kouya does in the background, the excitement turning into fear for the life of a precious someone, Haru actually just calling him Kouya???? What even! Even Kouta addressing him as Kouya-chan. They've gotten real chummy there. And then all the signs of his dad's good luck charm basically actively shielding him from misfortune, which he recognises - incredibly well done. With the post-accident scenes - there's a reason for what's common practice: no replay of the accident until the driver's actually confirmed to be safe and sound... Perfect soundtrack throughout the episode again as well; and of course the details: the weather radar screen, the raindrops, just the way the drivers sit in the cockpit (dare I say, some practically official camera angles, even), the car details again like the indentations on the tires.... A+ all around. Only thing I didn't like was the craptastic ground textures during the race that made me feel like I'm playing a decades-old game, it's weird that that should be an issue.
Also, just how many sponsors does this series have? Actual big-ass brands plastered everywhere, Coca-Coal, Bridgestone, Dunlop, Panasonic, last week Fuji, now Suzuka actual tracks, and I think I even forget a few... Kinda incredible, it's not something we often see. The only thing that didn't match was the Win10 desktop on Kouya's laptop with the Apple keyboard. And ofc Mauchly and YouMotion. xD
| @yellowheartren Don't remember seeing intermediate for F4 rules, only wet and slicks. |
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| Should have went with the wet tires because you can't predict what mother nature is going to do out there. I'm surprised there wasn't a yellow flag after the first collision or at least postponed the race when the rain picked up. I'm glad Haruka didn't force the issue and decided to retire from the race otherwise he would've crashed like Satsuki did. It looks like Satsuki is going to be okay, but he might be dealing with a concussion so he'll be out for a couple of weeks putting Belsorriso in a tough spot. |
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| Thank goodness that Koya had an influence on Haruka otherwise he may never had decided to pull over. Regarding Satsuki, I thought oh crap when he hit the car in front of him and spun out but I figured he was ok until he got t-boned then I was like oh damn! The look of trauma in his eyes appears to have affected Koya too. I wonder how long Satsuki will be out. |
| Whole episode is a massive red flag for Haruka, was waiting for his eventual crash but thank god he remembered Kouya's words and played it safe when his life is at stake. And then Satsuki's crash happened OOOFFFF, what a rollercoaster of an episode Also TIL there's no tyre pitstops in F4 |
| Writing wise, it did feel too soon for Kou to be over his trauma and happy go lucky all of a sudden, though unsure why he feels the need to capture the most dramatic scenes on camera, leading reasons they try to obscure / block scenes of incidents during some racing series. Also was glad Kou was the voice of reasons, no one else on Komaki wanted to voice that they felt the same fear and anxiety over Haru racing on slicks on rain. While racing in the rain is not unprecedented, the organizer should have threw the flag just because visibility became incredibly low. |
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| Quite an intense episode. I loved the first person angles! Really interesting to see the rules of F4 concerning weather. I don't know a lot about this sport, but I'm suprised they keep a race going under dangerous circumstances. They're not even forcing participants to use rain tires. I hope Harunaga is okay, he's my favorite from the show! But even though the crash looked terrifying, I don't think anything too concerning (like crashing into a wall, catching fire, car flipping upside down) happend. Perhaps Madoka took a greater hit than Harunaga himself, being traumatized once again. I also wonder why Belsorriso didn't have Tokumaru use rain tires. That way they'd have the best chance of winning no matter how the weather changes. I wish this was explained better. |
| Ngl, leaving the absurdity of running with slicks in those conditions aside, the crash at the end was gut-wrenching. It could have ended like Anthoine Hubert's 2019 Spa accident and I was not ready to see a kid die. He's probably in shock or concussed, but something like that should never be let to happen by race direction. |
| He’s definitely going to be affected mentally by this crash |
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| I didn't like it at first that there was so much focus on drama in this series, but it works surprisingly well. I found it unrealistic how they drove with slicks in the rain, it's impossible to drive so aggressive with slicks in such heavy rain, plus in real life the race would have been stopped much earlier (red flag) not just after the accident. All in all, an entertaining episode. I think for what it's supposed to be the anime is quite good, but in terms of presenting this sport in a really action-packed and detailed way it fails. The focus really seems to be on the background stories of the characters. |
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| this was aight, photographer man is still weirdly interested in racer boy. This show does a good job with the visual of the sea and rising tension for PTSD and trauma in general. I just want episodes about my Sae-chan! FUuuuu, need me a Sae-chan |
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| In life there are races better put off for a while due to some rain...and Haruka is such an awesome guy for stepping back for now |
| do they really race during rain too wtf this f1 shit is crazy |
| Intense race under the rainy, full of surprises!! The eyes, the fear in the eyes, was cool! kekeke |
| Kouya trying his best to get back to his old mindset, it certainly is a trauma to overcome. Haruka is improving on the Suzuka race, though the Belsorriso twin drivers are also retaining their pole positions as per usual. Haruka getting his new personal best of qualifying in 4th, and Kouya is officially a media representative for the F4 event as he continues taking pictures. But as Satsuki puts it, what separates both No. 1 and No. 2 drivers can be considered down to luck for the win. Even though it's been years since Haruka's dad Toru's ghastly incident being in very bad raining conditions, it looks as if Haruka will face a similar situation all over again. Haruka opting for slicks to get a good balance in the unpredictable weather, it all comes down to strategy as Belsorriso also opts for slicks to manage their risks. However, Haruka knows his father's death hs nothing to do with the weather, though the driver himself will weigh all possibilities and ace to the top as he can. Kouya not wanting Haruka to race, and even if so in rain tires, he's very worried for him since Haruka cannot predict what will happen, though that's all in his perspective. Despite the pep talk, Haruka stands by his decision, and "It's lights out and away we go" as the race starts cautiously, analyzing the ever-changing weather and tire conditions which would wear and tear, and also enable overtaking, increasing the hope for Haruka to be on the podium. But as soon as hopes are up, it dashes hopes for a good race with torrential rain, almost imitating the same conditions as before. Instead, Haruka in full focus, cutting his speed and eventually retiring out of the race out of safety, the worse has instead happened to Satsuki who crashes out of the race, giving Kouya tha traumatic nightmares once again. Despite being different to F1, everything else remains the same. Definitely a very realistic sport. |
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| I hope Bellroso driver is going to be okay, that crash from the side must have been tough |
| Damn the rainy condition, I hope that Satsuki is fine despite that crash...and Madoka's trauma is back as well, at least Haruka knew when to stop so it's better this way |
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| Okay, what he captured at "that" moment would be traumatizing.. |
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