Posted June 26Jun 26 Umamusume: Pretty Derby is a franchise consisting of the manga, anime series (which I have not watched a lot of it yet, oops) and of course... the simulation game where you train (cute and funny) horse girls, named after historical horses, to help them win in races (and watch them do a live performance, no joke). 🏇🏇🏇Part of the game, there is a career mode where you pick a horse girl and pick the supports. Increase her parameters, do something fun, fulfill goals by racing to gain enough fans and/or aim for a certain rank.The contents of the English server may be little at the moment but content is planned to be released at an accelerated pace.Whether I'll be playing it for a long while remains to be seen. I can tell in the future it's gonna get somewhat frustrating at times to build their stats due to having luck involved. I have some past experiences playing games like this...
June 27Jun 27 Excellent, excellent anime series that makes great use of the fact it's charting historical races to tell great sports storiesOnly because of this, it's gotten me mildly interested in the game (and I've been waiting years for it to release in English stores), I know nothing about how the game works other than it's a gacha of some description but it should be fun.Gold Ship best girl
June 27Jun 27 113 MB game size with 9 GB+ in-game size huh?Maybe i'll free up my space later as I'm intrigued to try the game, too. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang's additional skins' size have been becoming a burden to me over years lol
July 1Jul 1 Once again, I regret to inform you that I love my horse girlsThis game has a surprising amount of depth and stats for something that was designed as a mobile game - it's like a sports manager + simulation + cute visual novel in onei.e. perfectly catered to me
July 7Jul 7 The recent Haru Urara memes are both funny and touching lol. Maybe I'll consider installing the game very soon as I wanna try leveling up her too. Edited July 7Jul 7 by CowTzy
July 9Jul 9 That's it though, it's great to see people taking to horses that weren't in the anime much like Urara and Bakushin (and now I want to rewatch it), but the reason they can do that is because they've built the characters around notable racehorses and have ways to make them unique and fun characters. I'm 3 playthroughs in and each career is different and very challenging to finish, Id love to complete them all but it'll take many failures before I do (love a game having roguelike elements). It really is that one gacha game that also has a good gameplay loop. To my surprise.Plus my Twitter timeline is full of compliments about the real horse Gold Ship who is just as much a fave as his anime girl version, proper independent free spirited animal.
July 10Jul 10 Is there a reason why this has blown up so much in the last few weeks? I’ve been tangibly aware of the anime series for years, and by extension the game, but it seems to have infiltrated my socials to quite a large degree recently. Has it only recently been localised?
July 10Jul 10 1 hour ago, Brett-Butler said:Is there a reason why this has blown up so much in the last few weeks? I’ve been tangibly aware of the anime series for years, and by extension the game, but it seems to have infiltrated my socials to quite a large degree recently. Has it only recently been localised?Yes, the English version got released a couple of weeks ago! Given the Japanese version has been out for years (with many more characters and support cards than the English version currently has) and the anime gained a fairly small but loyal following it's pretty long-awaited.Would not have expected it to blow up so much either, I think a few popular streamers have started playing it, but the game's quality (for a gacha game), the general amusing nature of certain horses for meminess and the wholesomeness of the series probably helped for anyone open to anime things.
July 13Jul 13 Gosh, this game is too addictive, and I still have to watch many anime this season. Addiction aside, this was my first gacha game anyway; hence, there's a big realization in me about why it is called gacha. Edited July 13Jul 13 by CowTzy
July 21Jul 21 Nice!I completed all the goals on a 'speed good ignore all others' Sakura Bakushin run but then got destroyed by the URA final qualifiers, that's hard. Did unexpectedly pull the Kitasan Black SSR support card most of social media is obsessing over last night so that might help future runs.
July 22Jul 22 On 21/07/2025 at 06:55, CowTzy said:I'm proud of myself lol.Finally getting my first URA Finals victory as a f2p player El Condor Pasa was runner-up in the 1999 Prix d'Arc de Triomphe
July 22Jul 22 12 minutes ago, Mack said:El Condor Pasa was runner-up in the 1999 Prix d'Arc de TriompheYeah, the first season of the anime, which chronicles notable events in Japanese racehorsing around 1998-1999, introduces El Condor Pasa as a new force to be reckoned with before showing her going to France - and because of this they even anime-fy the Prix d'Arc de Triomphe winner in that race (though for licensing reasons they don't use the winners' name, Montjeu is called Broye instead), for the purposes of the plot.Haven't done an El Condor Pasa career myself yet but I'd be interested to see how that works and if they allow you to run a special European race, as pretty much all of the available races are Japanese ones.
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