Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Season 3 Episode 1 Discussion

I initially started this because I already knew about the game and heard that the anime was good but I never expected to like it so much that Uma Musume is one of my favorite franchises now. This instantly became my most anticipated show of this season.
Btw I recommend watching the 1st Anniversary Special Animation, it's 7 minutes long, like a little prequel to this season.

I see people are excited about Duramente. I don't know anything about horse racing (everything I know comes from Uma Musume) so I'm out of the loop. It seems like this is the first time she appears in the franchise, so this is cool.
Kita and Dia have plushies of each other in their beds lol
For some reason it's so nostalgic to see everyone even though I just caught up yesterday.
I wonder what's up with the Satono family's jinx stuff.
Gotta say, Dia's design is really beautiful.
1:50, 21:47 Lmao. I guess this will become the running gag of this season like how it was with the hair stylist in season 2. I love it already.
We already went through 2 races out of the Japanese Triple Crown races in the first episode. I wonder what will happen now? I guess the focus will be switched to Dia at some point and then Kikuka Sho will be the last race this season.

Thursdays are gonna be so good with this and the Eminence in Shadow.

Okay, we started really fast - well, kinda expected since they probably want to show all kitasan races, so fast start is a need.
Great 1st episode, as usual a lot of IRL references - people doubting Kitasan ability to run longer races since her most famous relative is Sakura Bakushin O (we saw her trying to recruit kita ofc :) ) and she was a sprinter.
Also this duramente weird walkout is 100% based on real life behaviour, I'm too lazy to google.

@Embient duramente (some IRL spoiler)



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I initially started this because I already knew about the game and heard that the anime was good but I never expected to like it so much that Uma Musume is one of my favorite franchises now. This instantly became my most anticipated show of this season.
Btw I recommend watching the 1st Anniversary Special Animation, it's 7 minutes long, like a little prequel to this season.

I see people are excited about Duramente. I don't know anything about horse racing (everything I know comes from Uma Musume) so I'm out of the loop. It seems like this is the first time she appears in the franchise, so this is cool.
Kita and Dia have plushies of each other in their beds lol
For some reason it's so nostalgic to see everyone even though I just caught up yesterday.
I wonder what's up with the Satono family's jinx stuff.
Gotta say, Dia's design is really beautiful.
1:50, 21:47 Lmao. I guess this will become the running gag of this season like how it was with the hair stylist in season 2. I love it already.
We already went through 2 races out of the Japanese Triple Crown races in the first episode. I wonder what will happen now? I guess the focus will be switched to Dia at some point and then Kikuka Sho will be the last race this season.

Thursdays are gonna be so good with this and the Eminence in Shadow.

Okay, we started really fast - well, kinda expected since they probably want to show all kitasan races, so fast start is a need.
Great 1st episode, as usual a lot of IRL references - people doubting Kitasan ability to run longer races since her most famous relative is Sakura Bakushin O (we saw her trying to recruit kita ofc :) ) and she was a sprinter.
Also this duramente weird walkout is 100% based on real life behaviour, I'm too lazy to google.

@Vizvezdenec



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Not sold on the new protagonist. Not crazy about another starry eyed newcomer after how much fun the relatively established Teio was in S2.

Liked that Kita/Crown's motivations are shown, and that there were two races and training and some slice of life in one episode, yet it didn't feel rushed to me somehow; liked the foreshadowing comment about longer races being an obstacle that Kita must overcome.

@chenfeng
that's actually a rl reference, one of the things fans love about this franchise

@NirvashX1
I think that more than motivation (friendship powerup, etc), the right method (fewer mistakes) and also the right conditions (physical condition, weather, for example) improve winning chances, and that the season main characters had their own goals to chase after (), and those were properly set up.

Basically the same setup once again, the new girl seems similar to the previous mains I would say but she's not bad at all, so the goal is to beat that Duramente now I guess

@Ashhk and you are really wrong.
Unless authors would like to twist how story goes it will be vastly different from previous seasons. If you want to spoil yourself a big google duramente horse wiki page, if you don't just wait till it goes really not how you ever expected it to go, all I can say.
Just wanna clarify smth. There are "3 crowns" in japanese horse racing. They all are competitions exclusively for horses that are 3 years old. Getting triple crown is an incredible achievement and basically is a proof that you are "the talent of the generation".
Previous protagonists kinda failed to get there, be it spe who lost to seyun sky twice, but always was really close, or Tokai Teio who got fracture after winning 2 crowns...
But Kita starts really badly. She was 3rd in the 1st crown race and 14th in 2nd, while duramente was victorious in both.
And if for Seyun Sky and Spe it was close, for Teio she got trauma, for Kita it definitely was "Duramente is the best horse of the generation". Kitasan wasn't considered as the greatest talent even among horses of her age, not even talking about horses in general.
And yet she became "everyone favourite". This is an incredible story but kinda bitter at times and you probably will see why, but unless studio will diverge from real life things you will get your jaw dropped by what actually will happen, albeit it's a very sad story.
All I can say is that at start of s2 Maruzensky and Simboly Rudolf were discussing Teio future and they said smth like "she has talent, she has will, now all she has to get is luck as a 3rd necessary ingregient of being one of the best". And this season will probably be the best showcase of why luck is still extremely important.

as a scholar in biology, nothing in this episode irked me more than depicting Durante stretch walking in that manner before the race. i get they're trying to depict or preserve the "horseness" of the girls but when you force slap on something without any real thought to it, it looks nonsensical and dumb. They have human legs that fold forwards as opposed to the rearward poking knees of horse hind legs, extended lunges simply would be a more proper walking stretch and in fact that's what many track athletes in real life do.

as a scholar in biology, nothing in this episode irked me more than depicting Durante stretch walking in that manner before the race. i get they're trying to depict or preserve the "horseness" of the girls but when you force slap on something without any real thought to it, it looks nonsensical and dumb. They have human legs that fold forwards as opposed to the rearward poking knees of horse hind legs, extended lunges simply would be a more proper walking stretch and in fact that's what many track athletes in real life do.