Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Season 2

Within the horse-racing world, the horse girls of Team Spica have been gaining popularity as they continue to rack up victories. The one receiving the most attention in the group is Toukai Teiou, known for her cheerful personality and exceptional running skills. Teiou aims to become an undefeated Triple Crown horse girl by winning all three G1 races consecutively, a feat that has not been accomplished since the legendary Symbolic Rudolf managed to do so many years ago.

On her path to obtaining the Triple Crown, Teiou is met with many challenges, encountering both old and new rivals. Amidst her fierce rivalries, however, Teiou is soon confronted with decisions that will leave a huge impact on her very own racing career.

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Toukai Teiou Main

Machico Japanese

Mejiro McQueen Main

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Rice Shower Supporting

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Special Week Supporting

Waki, Azumi Japanese

Silence Suzuka Supporting

Kouno, Marika Japanese

Gold Ship Supporting

Ueda, Hitomi Japanese

Oguri Cap Supporting

Takayanagi, Tomoyo Japanese

Kitasan Black Supporting

Yano, Hinaki Japanese

Twin Turbo Supporting

Hanai, Miharu Japanese

Nice Nature Supporting

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Masuo, Masashi Producer

Matsumura, Nao Producer

Akita, Minoru Producer

Onoda, Soukichi Producer

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Feb 2, 2024

unkun

Recommended

Absolute master piece, I thought this anime would be trash
First, when I started watching this anime, I was thinking it was another waifu, "love these cute girls" anime when my friend reccomended this to me. It was partially true but I felt very passionate about this anime when I started seeing characters with a goal and thier strong desire for winning. (EX:Riceshower) I never thought I would find my self crying over someone's success because I disliked many anime with happy endings. I seen animes that made you cry by death or other sad moments. This anime was different. I hoped for Toukai Teiou ... to achieve her goals after many injuries she had. Uma Musume made me cry by showing someone succeed. This was new experience.
What I also liked about this anime was that the story didn't focus on only the main character and it used several characters that made my eyes red and swollen.

This anime would give you another feeling that you probably haven't experienced before. This anime has relatable themes such as hard work, determination, dealing with loss, and the importance of support from friends and get you engaged with the emotion very well. It shares the desire of winning and reaching your goals with viewers very well. If you have a dream, this will be perfect anime that would push you to try it. This gives you energy and motivation because you probably will feel the same way as the characters from the story.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 31, 2021

JiangHaoyi1979

Mixed Feelings

Move aside Special Week and Silent Suzuka, cu'z it's time for Teio Tokai and Mejior McQueen to shine......on the 1st season it was more like a subtle yuri/ rivalry between Special Week and Silent Suzuka, now it was more like sets backs, bad luck and getting back on your feet theme for Teio ToKai and Mejior McQueen's being on top to tumbling down kind of thing.....

So, WTF is the fuck?

Story-Mediocre 5: However you wanna put it, it was just simply an repeat of the of that winning the ultimate prize thing. set back that happens to Teio and Mejior were just part of ... that "Oh so the drama" thing.

Art-Mediocre 5: All that zettai ryoki and not fanservices usual stuff.

Sound- Good 7: that was for Teio's song in the last episode.

Character- Mediocre 5: We already knew Teio Tokai and Mejior McQueen from the pervious season, right???? So what's there to say, when the bottom line was for her to win that G-1 Arima Kinen race to which she got in in a silver platter when something bad has happened to Mejior McQueen, that has prevented her from continuing.

Enjoyment-fair 6: Ok, I would say that this was enjoyable, but given that this was merely a repeat of the first season but with different character, one part of me finds this a chore to watch, but one part of me doesn't.

Overall-Mediocre 5: If you're not gonna find this boring then enjoy, if not then drop this........season 3???? The question is , who will it be this time?

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jun 20, 2021

aawhistler

Not Recommended

An accomplished veteran director of the anime industry said in an interview a few years ago, "I really don't like the animes these days and what the anime industry has become." if you're even somewhat familiar with Japanese mannerisms, you'll know the weight behind this, you don't ever publicly talk shit about other anime projects, even if they are just objectively horrible, you appear amicable and supportive no matter what, so for a veteran to say that out loud in an interview, well he must've felt very strongly about it.

...and right now I find that sentiment highly relatable. Due to this franchise's recent overwhelming popularity ... thanks to its huge success of a gacha game (which is in turn thanks to its ridiculously predatory p2w pvp mode even by gacha game standards but this ain't a game review site so I'll stop now), I finally went and watched the anime.

HOW, is something THIS mediocre, or even below mediocre, this FEVERISHLY praised??

My twitter TL, mostly the jp side, is just flooded with uma musume fanboyism these days, and, after seeing the thousandth "yoooo just go watch the anime you'll bawl your eyes out", I did. It's not that I didn't bawl my eyes out during the second season ending, I basically laughed. I mean, that scene with every single human in Japan with tears streaming down their face, *what* was that lmfao, how do you still stay serious after a presentation so awkward (^-^;

I'm just surprised they didn't zoom in on a dog watching the race and then the dog started crying

this isn't season 2 but the issue carries on in season 2. I also laughed during Special Week and Taiki Shuttle's mock race. You know, when Special Week chan learned Slipstream. Oh. So! Wind resistance does exist in this universe. And you acknowledge it.........so what's with all the hats, and tuxedos, and CAPES. I am definitely not a person who's ever fuzzy about "perfect worldbuilding", and at this point my suspension of belief can be turned up to an unhealthily high level but, uma musume is so record-breakingly lazy about it I just couldn't help but keep noticing. Toresen's lectures really deadass consist of telling them what Junior, Classic and Senior is, that's like if us humans had to take a lecture to learn that middle school comes after elementary school. Rudolph and Marzinsky and other Seniors, what are they even doing all day, yes in reality horses' racing shelf lives are basically really short, like around 3 years, but they still show them training all day every day and then not participating in any races. And these immortals just, didn't age a single second and are still in school between meeting Teio when she was little and welcoming Teio to Toresen and they're still in school eh. Everything is just so......awkward.


and this show doesn't really get to use the "oh it's just a cute girl doing cute things show, don't take it so seriously" because, well, the show does take it self *very* seriously. uma musume has way too many dramas and melodramas to qualify for CGDCT.

here's an excuse they do get to use though. "We're just following the actual history". Right. But from a storytelling point of view, it's horrible isn't it? it would've been tacky as heck for any writer to use the same exact conflict device twice in a row, uma musume used the "injury" device, like what, 5 times? 6 times? in a row back to back? but okay, they are just following the actual history, forget the genderbending and completely ignored horse heritage (Special Week not related to Marzensky, Tokai Teio not related to Rudolph), but sure, use that "actual history" shield only when it's convenient eh.


That's another thing isn't it. Another marketing phrase I've been hearing so much, "see...this is why uma musume is so...wonderful, I mean it's just so...~respectful~, to the source material". Uh, yeah, they genderbent the horses for waifu points, stomped all over the actual horses' heritage because they can't be bothered to come up with a world view that would accommodate their actual parentage.


they're definitely doing a third season with this popularity, and it'll likely be Kitasan and Dia. Can't wait to watch the exact same format of half season of "my injury prevented me from racing my rival...I'm so sad" and "I lost, but can't give up! must train hard to race my rival!" and can't wait to watch this exact same thing get praised into high heavens and breaking BD sales record and be crowned as an all time hall of fame anime right next to Fullmetal Alchemist

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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