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It's here! Nearly 2 years after the initial PV made waves, the anime adaption is out. Done by PA works, under the bankroll of Cygames (Bahamut, Derestage, Granblue, etc etc,) it weaves the unlikely genre of horseracing, kemonomimi girls, and idols into a touching story of never giving up on your dreams.
Buckle up though, because there are a billion characters to introduce.
▶ No.20133
Starting with our MC, as really she is the only one with any personality as of yet. Special Week is the quintessential genki girl who never gives up no matter what. Also slightly stupid, but she's cute so all is being forgiven.
According to the small profile on the official website, her mother died after birthing her and she was raised by a human.
▶ No.20135>>20137
>>20132 (OP)
>Cygames
Wait I thought they an animation studio called Cypictures?
▶ No.20136
they should have given all girls tiny jockeys
▶ No.20137>>22119
Shizuka seems to be the friendly rival character for Special Week to aspire to. She's already top horsy in the Academy under Trainer's special tutelage. As her name suggests, she's a very quiet and cool beauty, devoted to stoically training her running. Betting money is on MC opening her shell bit by bit as they mutually compete and drag each other to further heights. She was pretty cute on stage, too.
Trainer seems like a cool dude as well. He feels up thighs and doesn't afraid of anything. I thought he'd be a bit of a mega homo because of his design, but that's not how they took his character. He knows his shit and is serious about horse training.
>>20135
Couldn't tell you. Regardless, this is definitely done by PA works.
▶ No.20140
And now I will blitz through the rest because I am a quitter who quickly gives up. Also because none of these horses have much of a personality yet and it's unclear how important they will be in the coming episodes and I don't have time to waste on potentially minor characters.
Except El Condor Pasa. She is just too precious and I will be incredibly upset if she is not given mucho screentime. She's from America (the デス character), her trademark mask is something passed down from her father, and she keeps a pet, likes watching martial arts, and eating spicy food. She also lifts. Truly the best donkey horse.
▶ No.20143
More minor(?) characters. Hishi Amazon looks pretty cool though.
▶ No.20146
And finally we'll wrap it up with the rest of Team Spica, which Special Week joined at the end. I believe I caught all of the horses shown thus far. Not featured in episode 1 are the remaining 50, give or take a few, alongside the more notable human figures.
▶ No.20150
Since the second season of Bahamut, I expect nothing from Cygames anymore. Charioce was a cool guy but the rest was horse shit.
▶ No.20154
Well I starting watching it's alright.
▶ No.20160
>Episode 2 not 5 minutes afterwards
What a wonderful day.
This girls is in a lot of the key illustrations with the Special Week and Shizuka. Though she didn't get much screentime yet, something tells me she'll be a major player. Perhaps she's one of the starter horses in the game?
▶ No.20163>>20197
And the other horses introduced. Mejiro McQueen is a super cutie. It'll be a shame if she remains as a bit-role. Hayakawa serves as the Academy board chairman's secretary, and Trainer's (in the game) boss/partner/senpai. I imagine she functions as the explanation-character and the menus window dressing.
Who knows what the fuck she does in the anime, since Trainer is a fully realized character now.
▶ No.20554>>20616
>>20132 (OP)
All these uma-girls look pretty kawai, but is the show worth wathcing?
▶ No.20555>>20556
Why does she wears the ear protectors?
If I take those off will she die?
▶ No.20556>>20557
>>20555
I don't think real horses actually wear such things.
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>>20556
Are you talking shit about my hat anon?
I'll wreck ya m8, hook you in the gob, swear on me mum.
▶ No.20558
>>20557
Oh, that things actually exists!
▶ No.20616>>20619
>>20554
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I was originally going to skip it but the first two episodes were charming enough for me to pick it up for the season.
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>>20616
>I was originally going to skip it
Same, I thought it would be some cash grab to tie in with the game it is but this season is severely lacking in moeshit, and I need my fix man.
▶ No.20623
>>20619
Alice or Alice is cute but it's only 3 minutes long including OP and ED, unfortunately.
▶ No.20837
Literally 0 care was put into these because I do not like either the animation or the song.
▶ No.21636
>the horse girls are all horses from our world that were reincarnated elsewhere
What the fuck, it's an isekai?
▶ No.21900>>21908 >>22105
Feels like things are moving really quickly. Special Week has already handily won a few matches, Trainer is seriously talking about her being a Triple Crown horse, and she's beating out more experienced horses. It's not just her, either. Team Spica is already being mentioned in the same breath as Rigil, who are supposed to be the end-game bosshorsy of the academy, while just last week they were unknown losers. Even Teiou decided to join them. All of it feels like developments you'd expect to by episode 8 or so, were it paced and parceled out normally, but they just slammed it all in immediately.
I don't understand why she beat out Seiun Sky either, only to lose to her the next time. Just a textbook case of holding back or is there something I'm missing?
▶ No.21908
>>21900
>Feels like things are moving really quickly.
You're telling us.
▶ No.21927
>like futa
>like horsedick futa
>horsedick futa always appears when there's a female character in pop culture who has some other kind of horse trait
>it's already begun on pixiv and hentai sites
I don't even watch this show but I love it.
▶ No.21940>>21941
Does this anime have men riding these girls like jockeys? If not that's a huge missed opportunity.
▶ No.21941
>>21940
Maybe in hentai. There should be an /ss/ one with shotas riding them.
▶ No.22105
>>21900
It's a textbook case of copying the source material
▶ No.22119>>22122
>>20137
nice post, too bad the show is boring
▶ No.22122
>>22119
This. The show is basically another 'moeblob girls doing XYZ'.
They didn't even bother to make the main character any different; she's just another carbon copy of your typical 'moeblob girls doing XYZ' main character.
▶ No.22861>>22865
Where the FUCK is my singing and dancing? I was promised Idol scenes and 4 episodes in there has been absolutely nothing. This is killing me. I need cute girls dancing in my life. I need it, and this show isn't delivering on that end.
Fucking niggers should have copied the little girl format of an idol scene every episode.
▶ No.22865>>22866
>>22861
That suits my tastes just fine. Very happy that the racing is getting the focus as I feared idol training was going to take over. Lucky that Spe is a quick study in that field. Now can enjoy cute horse girls in hot-blooded dashing.
▶ No.22866
>>22865
Yeah, well, nobody cares about what some gross creepy faggot otaku thinks. Give me my wholesome cute girls dancing already.
▶ No.23728>>23735 >>23775
This is not a fucking replacement PA works you pieces of shit! Where da idols at?
At least Mejiro McQtie (kind of) joined the team and the Derby is over. Now it can begin focusing on the good shit, like more dance and vocal lessons. I swear to god if we don't get a legit idol scene by the end…
▶ No.23735>>23756
>>23728
Idol scenes never ever anon.
They want you to watch them in their game buy our game anon
▶ No.23756>>23772
>>23735
PC version with english sub and I will. Is it gatcha?
▶ No.23772
>>23756
>Is it gatcha?
>japanese mobile game
>has multiple girls to collect
I'll eat my hat if it isn't
▶ No.23775>>23801
>>23728
But anon, the races are the good part, not the bland idolshit. They should have had the girls do some parody of things horses do in actual awards ceremonies or whatever instead.
▶ No.23784
>>23782
Best part of that episode
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>>23782
she needs to use protective eye ware
▶ No.23801>>23806
>>23775
>But anon, the races are the good part, not the bland idolshit
>idolshit
Idols are heavenly beings put on God's green earth to uplift spirits and bring a smile to every man and child. They are the embodiment of love itself, working tirelessly to spread bliss, joy, and happy as they guide us on the correct path to a wonderful future. They are the purest form of existence.
You'd have to be some kind of ur-man nigger to not understand their radiance and splendor. You should remove yourself from the stage immediately and stop embarrassing the rest of us.
▶ No.23806
>>23801
capped for posterity
▶ No.24192
When do they get to the episode where one of the experienced ones get hobbled or see a lame horsegirl? Or talk of the "factory" comes to play? I don't wanna have to wait for ShindoL or Takotsuboya to fill this void.
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>>24196
>>24231
Considering how Silent Suzuka has been dead since 1998, and Special Week is her half-sister, will Spe-chan only find out about their relation until after Suzuka dies?
▶ No.24535>>24590
>Mejiro officially joins the team
>Beach
>Injured horsy drama
How gorgeous. If only they had managed to squeeze in a live, it would be the greatest episode thus far. Always next week though.
▶ No.24590>>25721
>>24535
>no uma/umi puns
>no lewd swimsuits
missed opportunity
feels like they tried to fit 2 eps into 1: a beach episode and a festival episode
▶ No.25721>>25724
>>24590
>Fitting umi dah and yukata in a single episode
Some tropes have becone mandatory items in a communal checklist. But it seems like even the most streamline anime are getting tired of them so they are trying to get them out of thee way with half/half episodes. Comic Girls also had only half of an episode dedicated to a beach. It might be a couple years before those are no longer staples of seasonal anime anymore.
▶ No.25724>>26138
>>25721
>It might be a couple years before those are no longer staples of seasonal anime anymore.
Let's hope faggots don't win out and that will never be the case.
▶ No.25727
And then they have to amputate her leg and the others girls come see her from time to time while she's stuck in her wheelchair and when the last of them, spe-chan, stops coming, she ends up killing herself. The end.
Uma Musume, a true story.
▶ No.25735
I hated Gold Ship, but she got immensely cooler once Mejiro showed up. Mejiro is just so good. She even makes ugly shitty horses cooler by proximity.
Shame about Suzuka getting GLUED. She'll never get to see America now or have a fair race with Special Week ;_;
▶ No.25740
>spe-chan loses because she over eats
>losing makes her over eat
She's got no chance.
▶ No.25747>>25827
>Real life Spe-chan died last week
>Anime Suzuka is about to get shipped off to the glue factory
I didn't ask for this. I just wanted cute dancing and singing horsey.
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>>25747
Horse meat is also a nice delicacy
▶ No.25860>>25875
>>25836
>Horse sashimi
>Horse meat soup
>Horse ham.
>Beshbarmak.
>Horse platter.
>Sauerbraten.
>Sfilacci
>Horse meat sausage
Tasty
▶ No.25875
>>25860
Inb4 Nips start making food-musume.
I can already imagine tempura-chan and karaage-chan swimming in the deep fryer.
▶ No.25889>>25900 >>25907 >>25948
>broken leg while running
>didn't trip on anything
must be a stress fracture (supposing authors care enough about it to flesh out her injury)
Suzuka could be up and running again notsoon
▶ No.25900>>25902
>>25889
When horse bones break, they shatter into tiny little splinters that enter their bloodstream. When a horse breaks anything it is almost always a death sentence. It requires a truckload of money and a lot of luck for a horse to get over something like a broken leg.
▶ No.25902
>>25900
>tiny little splinters that enter their bloodstream.
Well, not really. Embolia from a shattered bone, when it happens, is due to fat located in the bone. Bone shards themselves are not a danger to bloodflow.
>It requires a truckload of money and a lot of luck for a horse to get over something like a broken leg
This is the actual reason horses are put to sleep after breaking a leg. They also undergo depression (presumably from not being able to run) and don't eat well anymore (due to depression, supposedly, but could also be due to pain).
▶ No.25907
>>25889
>Suzuka could be up and running again notsoon
the nurse will take care of that.
▶ No.25948
>>25889
Doubt they will take it seriously. It's just a plot point.
The season will end without spe-chan having a serious race against suzuka ;_;
▶ No.26132>>26177
>>26130
Make a webm with the Sonic drowning theme, because RIP real-life Spe-kun.
▶ No.26138>>26158
>>25724
Those things have persisted for decades, they aren't going anywhere.
▶ No.26158
>>26138
I don't expect them to disappear. But they might shift from being themes for full episodes into a half/half proportion. It must be tiring for an author having to write an entire episode themed around an onsen while delivering plot.
▶ No.26177
>>26132
>Not Super Sonic Racing
▶ No.26784>>26785 >>26798 >>26806
Recovery arc + Everybody finds their motivation to win
Except Special Week who lost track of it because of her crush and blueballed everyone by losing again.
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>>26784
Why is she such a failure?
▶ No.26788
>>26785
She's not a failure! She spent nearly an entire year hovering over Suzuka at all times, making sure she was in the pinnacle of comfort. She'd make a great mother.
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▶ No.26806>>26809
>>26784
Who else tries to guess the mobile game's mechanics from the hints they give in the anime?
The idea of "racing faster when pinned against your rival" is thrown around at least 2 more times in this episode. So I guess in the game they have rivals (RNG or player-chosen?) and against those they race faster.
▶ No.26809>>26810
>>26806
I just assume it's going to be like the idolm@ster games except the rhythm game elements will be divided between one particular style for races and another for the finisher concerts.
▶ No.26810>>26812 >>26837
>>26809
What if the races are pure RNG, you bet on your horse girls and watch the result, just like IRL?
Imagine the shitshow it would cause
Imagine
▶ No.26812>>26825
>>26810
>Races are pure RNG
>RNG also incudes a chance your horsegirl can fall at racing speed and die
▶ No.26825
>>26812
dont worry, anon, just buy her Premium horsegirl food and she will be fine!
▶ No.26837
>>26810
>What if the races are pure RNG, you bet on your horse girls and watch the result, just like IRL?
So just like the Japan World Cup games?
▶ No.26873
>>26869
>日本語難しいよ
I like how some kanji incorporated a little 'x' in it. It's like japan itself said "Fuck it no one will ever be able to draw what's supposed to go in this tiny space if we're gonna use this western paper with lines stuff!"
▶ No.26875
>>26869
Please no bully. It's impressive enough that she can write at all, considering she's a horse, but she even knows a few hard kanji. El is a smart girl!
▶ No.27965
Oscar, is that you? Also their French was good.
▶ No.28018
Not even her retard helmet can hide that smug.
▶ No.29086
>>29070
Is she gonna win or is there gonna be an appointment to the glue factory?
▶ No.29978>>29980
That race was moving.
The race next week feels like a finale with Broye coming. What will the last episode be about, spe vs suzuka?
▶ No.29980>>29984 >>30964
>>29978
inb4 the season finale episode ends mid-race, with heartwarmingand, encouraging and uplifting inner speeches from every umamusume ("I love racing, and I'm gonna do myy best", etc etc). Instead of having a proper ending, a title card comes up, with a message:
This thrilling race continues in YOUR PHONE! Uma Musume: Pretty Derby™ is out now!
We wouldn't be strangers to disappointment by then anyways
▶ No.29984
>>29980
>We wouldn't be strangers to disappointment by then anyways
No we would not.
▶ No.30961>>30982 >>31033
Standard result. So one more episode?
▶ No.30964
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>>30961
>thumbstands
hory sheet
▶ No.31033
>>30961
That horse could crush you. It'd be wonderful.
▶ No.31070>>31085
aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnd
IT'S OVER
They really draged her development throught the whole season, eh?
Why did everyone even held high hopes for her? I mean, sure coming in second consistently is a feat, makes your athlete worth investing into. But couldn't they have given her at least one victory mid-season?
▶ No.31085>>31086
>>31070
I think they're trying to be as canon as possible, anon.
▶ No.31086
>>31085
You meant they are getting the players read for the grind?
>keep playing anon, one of these days spe-chan might win one race, just like in your anime!
>stat-enhancing carrot just $0.99 a piece
▶ No.31773>>31774 >>31823 >>31828 >>31862
>everybody finished first.
Come on. Pointless race.
▶ No.31774
>>31773
So, did they all lose?
That's fitting for our Spe-chan
▶ No.31823>>31832
>>31773
BUT I NEED TO KNOW WHO RAN SLIGHTLY FASTER AND/OR FOR SLIGHTLY LONGER SO THAT I CAN DETERMINE WHO HAS THE MOST SKILL IN THIS "SPORT"
▶ No.31828
>>31773
>>everybody finished first.
I'm glad I didn't bother with this.
▶ No.31832
>>31823
>this anon is still going
▶ No.31834>>31890
But will the new girl be in the game?
will she?!
▶ No.31862>>31863
>>31773
It looks to me like McQueen won though
▶ No.31863>>31885
>>31862
whoever had the biggest pair of teats did
▶ No.31884>>31885
The horse died in march. Will she die by the end of the anime?
▶ No.31885>>31887 >>31898
>>31863
That would still be a three-way tie between Biwa hayahide, Daiwa Scarlet and Maruzensky all with a bust of 93.
>>31884
I assume you mean Special Week. The anime is over, and she didn't die.
▶ No.31887>>31897
>>31885
>93cm bust
thank god for 2D proportions!
▶ No.31890
>>31834
She's not been officially announced, but there are a few clues. The accessory on the right ear means she's based on a male horse, the streak of white hair in that dramatic curl means that that horse is closely related to Symboli Rudolf and Tokai Teio, and she has really dark hair. Shouldn't take too long to figure out which horse she represents. It would also help to read the credits on the episode but I cannot into moon runes.
▶ No.31897>>31898
>>31887
Though none of them were in the race, Taiki Shuttle and Hishi Akebono are both bigger at 94, Super Creek is 97, and the biggest is Meisho Doto at 99! Can she even run with jugs that big?!
▶ No.31898
>>31885
>>31897
To put into perspective, a woman with metabolic syndrome usually has a waist circumference of 89cm. That's a pretty obese woman, with a large belly protuding in front of her.
Now raise that circumference to her chest and turn that flabby fat into delicious boobs, and we have a ridiculously large bust
▶ No.32470>>32477
No Uma Musume today
F
But how will I fill my disappointment quota for today?