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Apr 23, 2023 5:01 AM
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Episode 2 is here!

Glad to see they're giving backstory to the real Admire Vega and their birth.
Man what a ending of just Narita Top Road just crying.
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Apr 23, 2023 5:06 AM
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Yay! New episode. :)

Excellent race. Congratulations, Admire Vega!

Poor Narita Top Road, though. It was so sad to see her cry. :(

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Apr 23, 2023 5:29 AM
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Good thing from this episode: Ayabe won! YEAH!!!!! Congratulations! Finally! She did it.
Bad thing from this episode: oh shit!! Narita Top Road lost. Please.... don't cry. Next time will be yours.
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Apr 23, 2023 5:35 AM
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I'm just here to say that Urara's eyes are the best
Apr 23, 2023 6:24 AM
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Poor Narita she thought she had the victory only to be taken over in the final sprint.
Opera got a reality check but at least she seemed to handle it well and gave Vega a ovation.
Vega was really having a hard time most of the episode but it was nice to see her winning she deserved it but so did Narita.
Hoop Narita has better luck next time.
Apr 23, 2023 6:59 AM
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I'm sorry if this is heartless but Ayabe's motivations make no sense. She runs because her unborn sister liked running? What about herself? is she going to just live her life for her sister and not have a life of her own? And if that was the case wouldn't her sister have made friends or rival and not been a loner? It just makes no sense.
Apr 23, 2023 7:02 AM
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For anyone wondering, Narita Top Road crying at the end was referencing to his real life jockey Watanabe, who was crying in the cooldown room out of frustration.







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Apr 23, 2023 10:00 AM
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komic said:
I'm sorry if this is heartless but Ayabe's motivations make no sense. She runs because her unborn sister liked running? What about herself? is she going to just live her life for her sister and not have a life of her own? And if that was the case wouldn't her sister have made friends or rival and not been a loner? It just makes no sense.

It's a duplex of Ayabe's life herself and the unborn sister
Apr 23, 2023 10:01 AM
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Notice: the IRL edition of Ayabe's unborn dead twin sister is much more cruelly than in Umamusume——On breeding racehorses twins is considered to be not good because the both need to share the nutrition from the mom that each one will get less and twins increase the risk for the mom to birth, so after the mom is discovered that she have pregnated twins the owner usually choose to kill one of them with pressure to let the another one grow better, and this is the case of Ayabe and her unborn twins sister
Apr 23, 2023 12:57 PM
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Ahhh, the good old making the MC suffer trope. Good way to create drama.
We know NTR will win in Ep3. 
Then they'll all win at the same time in Ep4....Or maybe we have Rice Shower or Doto winning....they seems to be the only major cameos from S2
Apr 23, 2023 12:58 PM
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Mistralist said:
For anyone wondering, Narita Top Road crying at the end was referencing to his real life jockey Watanabe, who was crying in the cooldown room out of frustration.
Good to know this, all the real life drama making it into the show.
Apr 23, 2023 1:25 PM

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That was intense as hell lol, even though I didn't watch it's prequels but so far love this show. Also the animation is beautifuru!
Apr 23, 2023 3:19 PM
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Ahhh, the good old making the MC suffer trope. Good way to create drama.
We know NTR will win in Ep3. 
Then they'll all win at the same time in Ep4....Or maybe we have Rice Shower or Doto winning....they seems to be the only major cameos from S2

NTR's victory will probably come at Ep4, Ep3 will describe how NTR comes out from the bad condition(Probably with help of Rice Shower as IRL Rice's jockey encourged NTR's jockey after this lost)
Apr 27, 2023 6:36 PM

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Anyone know where to watch this episode with good english subs? Haven't found it. 
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Apr 28, 2023 6:41 AM
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Two words to describe this anime and the two words are PEAK FICTIONNNNNNNNNNN
Apr 30, 2023 4:30 AM

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This is so good I'm speechless, Uma Musume is the best ❤️

btw I swear CygamesPictures are masters at animating girls crying.
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~
Btw, cry about it.

Apr 30, 2023 4:11 PM
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Tropisch said:
Anyone know where to watch this episode with good english subs? Haven't found it. 
The link on the top includes an official English sub, just set it up like any other ytb video
May 1, 2023 10:47 AM

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kinda a bit sad about her unborn sister's admire vega !!!

she deserved that !!
May 7, 2023 1:39 PM

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What an emotional episode with stellar animation
May 12, 2023 7:48 PM

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I'm happy for Ayabe, she finally won. Her backstory was quite heavy. Felt bad for Top Road though.
Jun 8, 2023 12:51 PM

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The race is so well put together. Can't really say cared about the rest.
Jul 22, 2023 6:35 AM
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Oh shit this episode went by fast, not expecting the derby to be done this quick tho. Poor Narita, she's betting all the stacks onto those derby. Too bad fate blessed Ayabe more this time. So let alone how silently frustrated Opera on the background. This is a pretty big sad lost for Narita as the audience first favorite.
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Jul 31, 2023 10:29 AM
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Me gusta este anime

Oct 15, 2023 2:20 PM
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Todos los capitulos fueron increibles, me sorprende que tenga una nota tan baja siendo mejor que basuras como oshi no ko y spy x family, todos los capitulos son minimo un 9 o 10.
Nov 4, 2023 7:17 AM
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komic said:
I'm sorry if this is heartless but Ayabe's motivations make no sense. She runs because her unborn sister liked running? What about herself? is she going to just live her life for her sister and not have a life of her own? And if that was the case wouldn't her sister have made friends or rival and not been a loner? It just makes no sense.

Good thing you brought it up first cause I was wondering the same.
It made no sense and it felt shallow, cause at first I thought "oh, maybe they were sick and one died while donating something to the other".... but no, they weren't even born by then.
So it's not like the sister decided to sacrifice herself for the girl, neither of them had a choice about it at all. It's still sad but considering her narrating, it makes no sense.
I'm taking it as the survivor's guilt or whatever but yeah.

but using that her sister loved running, that it was her dream and what she enjoyed doing the most 😅 how??

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Nov 23, 2023 6:42 PM

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Man, I felt that anguish over losing the race after giving everything. I knew the winner was gonna be Admire Vega because the episode focused more on her, but I was cheering for Narita Top Road and she's my favorite of the trio...

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