>>719688537
That's exactly the problem. You say that it focuses on Oguri but they barely do anything with her except for showing snippets of her training during the Kasamatsu arc. And the first half in general is much better than the last half of the show because of all the characters that bounce off of her.

I legitimately don't remember anything about the Tracen arc besides the Rudolf scenes which are admittedly well done, enough to make her my favorite trainee now that I'm playing the game. I vaguely remember there being a summer holiday episode which I thought would be a nice break from the non-stop (and all samey) races but then it got cut short to show another fucking race where Oguri wins. There's so many cool looking characters they introduced in the second half and they just... did nothing with them. It was baffling. The Kasamatsu bully trio had more relevance than any of them despite being real fake horses.

I get it. She's good. She trains a lot. That was already shown in the first half. Get on with it. They have some elements of her game version in it but they're isolated to just gag and humor aspects like being fat and getting lost. She was a bit aimless at the start until she set her sight on the Tokai Derby thanks to Kitahara and March, which was good but it kinda just stops there as the goalposts keep moving from one race to the next.

I guess it's not fair to say that the whole show sucks when my beef is really after they transfer to Tokyo, but everyone keeps jerking off on the show to the point where it comes off as baffling to me. Again, I heard that things get shaken up a bit in S2 and I'm looking forward to that but S1 was just kinda ok to me. Which makes me a bit hesitant to watch the other shows if this is the greatest thing since sliced bread for most of the fanbase.