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I would like to start by saying while I gave this a 7, I did not enjoy the series. But the quality and polish is without question.

The story: plot is that a horse-girl, Spe-Chan, wants to be the best horse girl of Japan. The setting is completely wonky with the idea of horse-girls. Are there horse-boys? We don't know. Do horse-girls have professions that arent racing? Not that we see. Why do horse-girls do idol performances after a race? To say thank you to the fans. We don't know a lot but horse girls are the most popular thing of Japan in this world. Why ... did I rate this a 7? Because they fucking based the plot off of IRL race horses and races. And they did their homework for this show. They took the actual stories of race horses and put them into girls bodies and made an anime off of it. Even more, this is based off a gotcha mobile game.
S1 follows Special Week and Silence Suzuka. I think they characters relationship is unhealthy and awkward. I think nothing makes sense in this setting, but the characters frustration is really well written.

The art is a stupid well polished aspect of the show. Who the hell puts so much effort in facial expression, backgrounds, dirt flying, ect for a freaking gotcha game anime about horse-girls no less? Apparently those who worked on Uma Musume. While I don't think the art is groundbreaking, it is consistent, well done, outfit designs are unique, and the animation is of superior quality. Even if you hate this anime, there is little to criticize.

Similar to the Art, the sound also cut no corners. While the music isn't my style, every character can sing (season 2 literally has a song with over 32 characters singing). The music is up-beat and catchy. The sound editing and sound effects are also on point. It really does have a very high quality.

Characters: Well, the characters are based on actual horses. And once again, the studio did their homework on the personalities of the horses. I don't love the characters, except for Goldship. Goldship is best horse-girl. But we have a rather large cast of characters that while not fully flushed out, do have the potential. Considering the season is only 13 episodes, we get a lot. Some of you will love every character. I did not like most of them, but I can't help but give credit where it's due.

My enjoyment was rather meh. I watched this because a friend of mine loves it. I did not love it. I didn't even like it. I couldn't get over the hurdle of horse-girls are idol athletes who everyone loves and they may or may not be the equivalent of Rome's gladiators, loved by fans, but also have no other option but to fight. I like sports anime, but this was not what I wanted.

Overall, I think the quality speaks for itself. If you don't enjoy this, it's certainly not an issue of the quality. I can't say this anime is for everyone, but there is something to be admired for the show.

I made it about 17 minutes in and asked "why are people rating this so low?" And then I understood.

The story is bad. It's terribly paced and the story isnt really that interesting and it's triggering.

So the art was actually my favorite part. The cityscapes and arcade shots, a lot of the backgrounds, are just really good. Too bad the animation is so bad. Lots of slow panning shots that hurt the pacing mentioned before. The character art wasn't bad, but not enough to save this.

The sound had some good piano and then terrible sound effects that were out of place.

I don't know if i'm ... supposed to like any of the characters.

This became difficult to watch part way through. It was not enjoyable.

Overall, I felt like I was watching a train wreck. Everything was so dramatic and the "dangerous gays" was weird. Maybe the manga doesn't have the same issues. But this was just painful to watch halfway through.

Welcome to the year 1991. The Chohjotai captures nicely all the things great of the era.

This is a one shot OVA based on a novel. I've never read the novel, but was pretty happy with the pacing of the story. I felt like no part was dragged out and we got a nice development the characters without a giant exposition.

The art felt fairly consistent (I'd hope so for a one shot). But I noticed that the background animation and action shots did NOT use a terrible lines-moving behind the characters. While there weren't a ton of details in the backgrounds, it never felt terrible. The ... action sequences and ESPER power usage was animated well. The art of the characters had nice soft lines and edges, but I suppose that could be a personal preference.

I'll admit that for the sound, I might have been generous. But the few sound effects for psychic screaming and "Spirit Gun" were good. Mostly I enjoyed the insert song at a cafe and the end credit song.

The 3 main characters were well written. This is impressive as writing for women characters was not always strong in 1991. But in 45 minutes, I had a nice understanding of the characters wants and personality without it being giants tropes.

I watched this with 2 friends and we all enjoyed it. We laughed at intended times, enjoyed guessing character motivations and where the story was going.

I think if you enjoyed the earlier spirit detective arc of Yu Yu Hakusho, you'll enjoy this. I felt my time was well spent and if you want a nice one shot to watch with friends, this is a great option.

Gross.

This was actually hard to watch mostly due to vomit sounds. That said, the animation was really well done and the surreal transitions were extremely impressive. Everything was smooth and flowed together in the strangest ways that worked.

I think I might watch this again without the sound, because I did really like the animation. But that sounds of constant vomiting for 3 minutes was rather difficult. Perhaps that's also the intent of the creator? Not all art is meant to be enjoyable or pleasant.

I think its far more impressive than it is enjoyable. For three minutes, I would say its worth the watch, ... just make sure you didn't eat right before.

*disclaimer* theme includes eating disorder.

So this is popular. I didn't love it.

You'll notice some people bitch about the animation, and others praise it. That's because the animation is inconsistent and I would expect the skating scenes to always look great, but a lot of it is recycled and bad.

I hated the main character Yuri. I don't think I liked Yurio (thank god they gave him a nicname) till episode 12. I loved everyone else.

I thought the music was nice, but...each skater skates to only 2 songs and episode 11 was great because i'd never have to listen to eros ever again. This also makes it really terrible to watch. ... You might get some feels like "oh god is he going to make his jump!" but it get's old really fast.

This is kinda spoiler part but, we don't get a strong solidification of Yuri's and Victor's relationship. I was hoping for something stronger in the finale.

Honestly, this follows few archetypes of sports anime. It's more about figuring out your place and 1 couple. I felt the anime had poor execution and could have been better.