'Uma Musume: Pretty Derby' Anime Movie Announced for May 2024

by Hyperion_PS
Dec 27, 2023 8:38 AM | 11 Comments

The 13th and final episode of Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Season 3 announced an anime movie titled Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Shin Jidai no Tobira (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era) on Thursday, revealing the main cast, staff, and a teaser visual (pictured). The anime movie is scheduled to open in Japanese theaters on May 24, 2024.

Cast
Jungle Pocket: Yuri Fujimoto NEW
Agnes Tachyon: Sumire Uesaka (BanG Dream!)
Manhattan Cafe: Yui Ogura (Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!)

Staff
Director: Ken Yamamoto (Pokemon Legends Arceus: Yuki Hodo Kishi Futaai) NEW
Scenario Director, Story Composition: Tetsuya Kobari (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Road to the Top series composition) NEW
Screenplay: Kiyoko Yoshimura (Rakudai Majo: Fuuka to Yami no Majo) NEW
Character Design, Chief animation director: Jun Yamazaki (Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru)
Studio: CygamesPictures
Distribution: TOHO NEW

Note: New cast and staff involved with the anime series are denoted with the legend NEW.

The anime movie following the story of the horse girl Jungle Pocket is part of Cygames' Uma Musume: Pretty Derby mixed-media project, where anthropomorphized racing horses as girls with exceptional running capacity aim to win at the "Twinkle Series" sports event. The project includes songs, webcomics, and a smartphone game that was released in February 2021. The smartphone game has a cumulative 19 million downloads.

Produced by P.A. Works, the 13-episode first anime season aired in Spring 2018. The second and third anime season by Studio Kai premiered in Winter 2021 and October 5, respectively. Crunchyroll simulcast the anime series with subtitles worldwide, excluding Asia.

Announcement

Official site: https://movie-umamusume.jp/
Official X (Twitter): @uma_musu_movie

Source: Oricon News

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Shin Jidai no Tobira on MAL

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11 Comments Recent Comments

I always say, you know that you've made it big when you get a movie.

Dec 30, 2023 6:35 PM by malvarez1

@Luthandorius Well, at this point, it seems like the perfect setup to promote as many characters as possible instead of creating 1-2 seasons with only a couple of characters at the center. Bushiroad have already taken this into account, although they got too carried away in recent seasons IMHO.

Dec 29, 2023 7:43 AM by RobertBobert

Gonna pass. I liked the first season of the series. But already in the 2nd season it felt weaker and with the recent season it seemed like ... "the same stuff just with different chars". It is getting a bit too old for me and I'm not willing to follow this endlessly. (I would not mind more of the Shingeki no Bahamut though - also based on a Cygames game. :D)

Dec 29, 2023 6:10 AM by Luthandorius

That CygamesPictures is making this movie is actually insane, Road to the Top in its 4 episodes looked infinitely better than most of the 2 seasons that have been made by Studio Kai. Road to the Top looked different and so charming, this is very promising.

Dec 28, 2023 2:15 AM by YourAverageHater

@RobertBobert The umamusume characteristics in different titles are the same, but different titles don't use the same timeline(only 3 anime seasons are the same), so the movie mainly original(except the IRL story which all titles should adapt)

Dec 28, 2023 12:46 AM by system5

@GridironOtaku It's a different continuity, not a prequel

Dec 27, 2023 5:54 PM by Sleabedybarb

Looks like this is going to be a prequel seeing that Jungle Pocket raced in the early 2000's, while the horses in the TV series all raced during the 2010's.

Dec 27, 2023 11:54 AM by GridironOtaku

I just have one key question. Are they adapting some of the story from the game and the "paper" adaptations, or is most of the anime completely original?

Dec 27, 2023 9:56 AM by RobertBobert

AHHHHH LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dec 27, 2023 9:31 AM by LAIK4

damn the leaf aka ken yamamoto directing now he is legendary doing a lot of key animation on fate grand order babylonia anime

Dec 27, 2023 8:55 AM by deg

I really want to see how the anime would look across all 3 seasons by CygamesPictures instead of other companies.
The way this movie lookes and how they did Road to the Top both look amazing when they're in charge.

Dec 27, 2023 8:51 AM by Xanek