I remember one of the first pieces of trivia that blew my mind after the game released was that the shot above had the girls sorted front to back in order of who died first.
In order we can see:
El Condor Pasa: 2002.
Seiun Sky: 2011
Special Week: 2018
King Halo: 2019
Grass Wonder: Still alive as of May 4th 2023
So that left me wondering… are there any other details in the shots of the ending? This can’t be the only one, right?
Earlier there’s this one, and I can already tell there’s probably one because Special Week and El Condor Pasa are at the front, and those two have a history of being very prolific in one way or another.
It’s not G1 victories because the order would be Special Week, then El, then Grass (though they both have three G1s), then Sky, then King.
It’s also not lifetime prize money because El actually has the lowest one, surprisingly enough. It would be Spe, then Grass, then Sky, then King, then El.
Order of approval? King Halo is the latest addition of the five as evidenced by how dirty the anime did her… but Grass comes before El in the website… but El showed up in the first trailer…
Races ran? If it’s the amount of races it would go King, then Spe, then Grass, then Sky, then El.
Victories overall? That one would be Spe, then Grass, then El, then Sky, then King.
Order of birth? That would be El, then Grass, then Sky, then King, then Spe.
Fine, let’s move onto to another shot and see if the pattern changes.
Uh…
It’s the same…
Hm…
Oh right, there’s a sequence where they show up one by one, let’s see…
Spe, then El, then Grass… then King and then Sky.
Okay, no hits, let’s change to another one.
Determining depth is kinda tricky so let’s just take it right to left.
El, then King… no hits.
Left to right? That would be Spe, then Sky… no hits.
Fine what other shots do we have?
Oh.
So I guess there’s only one shot with surface level trivia underneath it.
There’s two conclusions I’ve come to. One is the sensible, normal, well-adjusted person one. The other one is the one you’d expect from someone that made this post to begin with.
The sensible one is that the shot with the order they died in is just hidden trivia, meant to be hidden in plain sight with stuff like the order repeating in other shots to make you think there’s no rhyme or reason behind the configuration.
Perhaps there’s a bit of trivia I’m not aware of, some accolade shared between each other that’s less surface-level.
The insane conclusion is one that I only came to after pouring way too much time into the data.
Because if you’ll notice: ALL THE OTHER SHOTS DELIBERATELY AVOID ANY OF THE OTHER TRIVIA.
As I was pouring over as much data as I was able to find in the regular channels and sorted them, and ranked them, and cross referenced them, there was always that moment where, like watching lottery, I would see the one name that didn’t fit, be deflated, and move onto the next one.
One time? Fine
Two times? Yeah, makes sense.
FIVE TIMES? Not one hit? Not even by sheer coincidence?
And you might just rightfully assume I’m being paranoid, that not everything has to be a sign of something deeper…
If so, please take a look at this shot of TM Opera O in the lastest episode of Road to the Top.
And now look at Opera O’s jockey Ryuji Wada.
I cannot, must not, lower my guard.