Fall Season 2024

[David75]

So we have to believe he finds a way to shift properly without pain?
Most people had the experience of pain starting after a muscle is colder. When still hot and in use, a mild injury can manifest after some rest.
But I don't remember a debilitating injury getting fine enough you get functionality back without pain.

What I experienced is trying to use other muscles and movements to compensate and avoid immediate and intense pain. But it's not always possible and not very efficient/fast/precise.

In the case we have here, it might be possible to shift without using some fingers. Or shifting with the palm, or with the hand in unusual positions, or without changing the elbow angle. That to lower the pain bursts and intensity.

Now, although I know injury is an integral part of sports and an athlete's career, I admit it gets overused in sports anime.

[Buffalobiian]

The main injury I'm going to suspect is that he has a radial head fracture, since that's the most common elbow fracture in adults. His mechanism is that he jumped right onto train tracks and got Rin out of the way, but that doesn't tell us if his elbow was hurt due to direct impact or some other weird sprain.

I have no idea how he's actually going to make this current problem a no-problem later, unless they're going to nerf everyone else somehow and showcase Kanata's perfect memory and feel for grip again.

[David75]

With a fracture he probably would have had pain much earlier? And not next morning?
Or in the Initial D tradition he learns a better way to shift when faced with trouble in racing conditions.
We've had a lot of shifting animation and my opinion is that he guides the lever too much when I think using the palm would be more efficient, secure and faster.

[Buffalobiian]

With a fracture he probably would have had pain much earlier? And not next morning?
Or in the Initial D tradition he learns a better way to shift when faced with trouble in racing conditions.
We've had a lot of shifting animation and my opinion is that he guides the lever too much when I think using the palm would be more efficient, secure and faster.

He realised he hit something hard with his elbow and it was hurting since at least that afternoon. I think it was hurting since the beginning, he just didn't tell Rin-mama about it, and it hurts most when he's having to do deliberately quick movements.