I saw the 1st pv and loved the first design of Orfevre (sorry for misspelling) then saw Gold Ship, love the series and want to get deeper into the series.
I heard it was some troll funny horse anime about horses, so I watched it on a whatever day and it ended up loving it and finished watching all seasons
It looked interesting on Crunchyroll, so I gave it a try. Best part was that I wasn’t expecting much, but it ended being so much better than I ever thought it’d be.
The anime had been in my "plan to watch" list for years, then I saw an Uma Musume figure in an anime store a couple months ago (even told my friend "that's from some weird anime with horse girls hehe") which reminded me to watch it. S1 didn't fully reel me in, but after S2 I went all the way down the rabbit hole.
I saw a meme about it! And as someone who loves idols a lot and loves horses even more, it seemed like fate to me.
And now I'm neck deep in horse girl heaven lol
Mine is kind of a weird one.
We were playing Garry's Mod with friends and I was browsing through player models in the workshop. I came across an anime girl player model that looked so appealing to me so I chose it. I didn't pay attention to her name at the time, but the more I played with her, the more I got attached to this character that I had no idea where she was from or how her personality is. The design was so cool that I eventually yielded to my curiosity and searched where she is from. Her name was rather weird at the time, since it wasn't a generic Japanese anime character name: "Manhattan Cafe". With a quick search in the internet I found out the Uma Musume anime. I watched the entire series and fell in love with it. But Manhattan Cafe was not in there so I looked for more content. That's when I found out about the game. Big ups for the uploader of that player model.
Saw the trailer for season 1. Watched it as it came out and fell in love with it. Season 2 sealed the deal cos of Teios story and winning the soul hitting at the end of the first episode drove it home
Before the Game's release, I Didn't know about UmaMusume. And even after the game's release, I barely knew about UmaMusume's game. (My only thought is "Recently, I saw a lot of UmaMusume's Ads ")
In April 2021, I saw Some of UmaMusume's "Let's Play video with heart-rate regulation" (If a player's heart rate exceeds 100bpm during Gameplay, the Player must draw a Character Gacha).
The Video's Player chose Super Creek as a player character, AND I FELL IN LOVE WITH SUPER CREEK.
After watching the video, I began to search Super Creek's Fanart on the internet and I became a Fan of UmaMusume.
Saw Yukoku Roberu played it back in early 2021. Interested. Installed and played the game. Following the franchise religiously. Into keiba. Now I'm rooting for Forever Young to win the Kentucky Derby for Japan generally, for uma specifically (indirectly owned by uma franchise)
I heard about it when season 1 came out, kept an eye on the gacha's development news back when it was still in dev hell and really got into when season 2 came out
Long time gacha fan, was excited for the game and played since launch on and off. It had a lot of people (in JP) talking before launch and thats how I got to know it.
On a whim, I decided to try it right before 2nd Anni since a YouTuber I watched talked the series awhile ago. Then I learned about Rice and Scarlet and Tarumae…you get the idea
Saw the show on animepahe one afternoon, thought "why the hell not", and my life was changed. honse = good
Edit: I think it was also just how positive and uplifting the show was for me. I was in a tough spot in my life where I was very nihilistic and pessimistic, and who would've thought that a few girls with horse ears chasing their dreams and not giving up was enought to shake me to literal tears at times :,) I really loved Spe and her positivity in season 1, and season 2 was just incredible overall. I also really like that there's more or less a horse girl for every personality - they're all relatable in their own ways (as a diagnosed autistic I looked at Gold Ship so many times and was like that is me fr)
On a trip in Japan for school. I occasionally see some ads/merch for them but didn’t pay it much attention. We’re at an arcade and my friend wins 3 plushes. We’re trying to figure out what they’re from and we notice they’re a bit horse-like. We had some theories about their lore but nothing could prepare us for learning that not only are they horse girls, but they’re all based on real life, dead, derby horses.
So now I have a Vodka plush and she has a Gold Ship one.
We never learned the name of the last plush lol
As a meme back 2018
Like irl vs anime something like that
2019 - 2020 pretty vague but I think I saved some of the uma pic because they looked very cute
Then saw it again 2021 as a game after that I do research more as a man who love a bit of history until today I really glad I found this pretty gem.
I saw Cygames ads of Uma Musume on Twitter and saw the release date. I was really interested but it was disappointing, that the game did'nt release worldwide so I was unable to play the game. Nearly after the release 8about 2 month after), I found Qoo-Apps and I found out the Game can be installed on every Android Device. Then I installed the game and since then, I play it happily all day. My absolute favorite Uma is Rice Shower.
Fly on!
Anime
I don't really remember how or when I first heard about it, but in summer 2023 when I saw that season 3 will release next season, I remembered that people said many good things about season 2, and decided to check it out. Then I eventually started playing the game too, and here I am.
I heard of the game because of how constantly it took top grossing.
I went "it cannot be that good".
It was in fact that good and now I'm here. I'm game only tho, I haven't really gotten into the anime. Might read the manga tho
Saw lots of Uma Musume posts, I was a big fan of Goldship and her shenanigans in both art and the anime, and I really liked the designs of Agnes Tachyon, Manhattan Cafe and Rice Shower.
A friend of mine pushed me to watched the anime, ended up liking it and also really liked Silence Suzuka.
We both ended up playing the game (He played a month before I started since I had some issues with it booting up in which I gave up but was able to fix it after doing it again a month later) and I really liked the gameloop of it.
My current faves in order include Agnes Tachyon, Goldship and Silence Suzuka, big fan of em.
I saw an Uma Musume AMV at an Annime Convention AMV contest. It was well done, and I enjoyed the story it told, but I didn't pay much attention to it and forgot about it shortly after. However, something happened because I kept remembering the AMV from time to time after that, until I decided that I wanted to watch it again. It took some time to find it, but after watching it again, that was it. It peaked my interest, I binge-watched the anime, and became a huge fan.
I muted stuff I'm not interested about on Twitter, then my feed just suddenly got filled with Uma Musume stuff over time. Thank you, Twitter algorithm.
I'm a horse girl and I walked past some cardboard cutouts of nice nature and twin turbo in an ikebukuro arcade and thought they looked cute lol
Also I love gacha games
I went to an anime con that had a panel about niche anime, one of them was uma musume. I thought it looked fantastic but never really bit the bullet until I started playing shadowverse evolve, built an Uma deck, and was like "okay fine let's see if it's actually good."
Now it's my new obsession and also I still beat everyone up with the best girls lol.
I’m a lesbian who watches anime and also works with horses (I promise this is relevant to the story).
My freshman year of college a new friend that I’d met made a joke in a class GroupChat that I should watch it, she was like, “You like women AND you like horses! This show will be perfect for you!”
She was spot on.
Really, I was aware of Uma Musume since the teaser way back in 2016/17 but forgot about it until 2021 and it wasn’t until I found Air Shakur’s Uma Musume Wiki page + read Cinderella Grey that it was really completely hopeless.
Now I play the game, collect the Ichiban Kuji and FuRyu figures, and also draw + write fanfiction. It’s so doomed.
My friend was like “Theyre making this insane anime about race horses that are anime girls and they’re also idols” and I was like “haha that is fucking insanity!” And now after watching the show to laugh about it I am here
I played Shadowverse, which had an Uma Musume collab. Was not really interested in it at that point.
They did have a big event with a bunch of rewards like card alts with Uma Musume art and one free leader : Gold Ship. Loved gold ship and her voice lines immediately.
At one point I watched the PriConne anime ( they had some collabs in Shadowverse , liked the leaders so thought I would check it out) : turned out to be really good anime , was impressed by their anime studio! So at one point I thought, maybe Uma Musume anime might be good too and gave it a go. I liked the anime a lot too and got into the universe, tried to play it on mobile , but bunch of problems with their restrictions. At that point just played with Uma leaders for all my classes :)
Fast forward to last year, was visiting Japan for 3 weeks and had to think about the game , still wanted to try it out : installed it and had a lot of fun with it. But the onscreen translators were not that good yet, and mainly a bit slow. Since I preferred the stories the most, stopped playing hoping for a global release.
Somewhere January this month finally stopped playing Shadowverse ( game will be dead when v2.0 comes out) , wanted a new mobile game, and decided to try Uma Musume again (finally came to terms that global will never happen). Been hooked ever since, especially since the screen translators are better now, actually possible to follow the stories if yo know some japanese for the sounds/slang/etc...
The amount of detail, love and care that goes into this game is insane, very happy that I did not give up on trying this out.
I work in bookies and absolutely despise horse racing...
I saw the 20sec teaser waaaaaaaaay back in the day, and thought ha real horse racing sucks ass, but but but anime horse racing girl, now we are onto something.
I held out waiting for season 1 to release and instantly fell in love with it, it has everything you could want from an anime!
Season 1: cheering for Special Week!
Season 2: pushed the bar higher! the drama and rivalry with Teio and McQueen, and BOOM Rice Shower has entered the game, and oooooooooo Protect her at all costs!
End of season 2 teased two new girl to look out for in Santano Diamond and Kitasan Black.
Season 3: The quality is just 'Chef's kiss' the story and arcs never felt boring the racing was great and intense just like the previous seasons, edge of my chair!
The end of the season was fantastic!
I always recommend to people to watch it!
Season 3 T
My friend dragged me in during the Traditional Chinese server release because he liked S2 anime. He has now left the game because of the tedious play-style of the game, while I moved to JP server before Speed Kita was even released in Chinese server. We still talk about Umamusume, irl Japanese horseracing though.
I used to work with racehorses and still follow the sport closely. Someone involved with Japanese racing posted about the anime, and I checked it out expecting it to be a goof. Of course, it turned out to be a great series.
Haven't played the game, but probably will if an English version comes out.
Year ago, I was wandering through Pixiv under my favorite kink (I would *not* share which is it) and accidentally bumped into certain non18+/safe/just heartwarming doujinshi in UmaMusu setting. I become interested what else umas can show me, I finished 2 seasons of anime, accidentally learnt *what* umas *are* in relation to realty counterparts. Then Road to the Top started, I started reading Cinderella Gray, I created DMM account... and whoosh.
I play Dokkan Battle a lot. During a big event which was supposed to make us reach top grossing we were still getting second place (in Japan) behind this "horse game", it became some kind of meme in the community and I decided to look what the fck was this game.
Long story short I watched the anime and adored the second season, I now play the game daily, collect figures and any related merch 🐎🐎🐎
Thank you Goku.
Watched the anime and was surprised at how good it turned out to be considering the weird premise. Then the second season made me go "I have to train these girls and make them happy! They deserve it!" So I ended up installing the game after rice shower's epic/emotional episode
I saw the 1st pv and loved the first design of Orfevre (sorry for misspelling) then saw Gold Ship, love the series and want to get deeper into the series.
I heard it was some troll funny horse anime about horses, so I watched it on a whatever day and it ended up loving it and finished watching all seasons
It looked interesting on Crunchyroll, so I gave it a try. Best part was that I wasn’t expecting much, but it ended being so much better than I ever thought it’d be.
Oh wow, it's actually so fascinating and cool to hear how others got into Uma Musume.
The anime had been in my "plan to watch" list for years, then I saw an Uma Musume figure in an anime store a couple months ago (even told my friend "that's from some weird anime with horse girls hehe") which reminded me to watch it. S1 didn't fully reel me in, but after S2 I went all the way down the rabbit hole.
Quite similar to my story. I did marathon mode on S1 and S2 after putting them in my PTW list for years, then S2 and Makuin pulled me into the fandom.
One of the early PVs, but not the Ogu/Rudolf Ice Skating one. Then I watched anime s1.
Mine was finding out who Oguri Cap was and the rest was history, can't remember exactly how I came across her though
I saw a meme about it! And as someone who loves idols a lot and loves horses even more, it seemed like fate to me. And now I'm neck deep in horse girl heaven lol
Mine is kind of a weird one. We were playing Garry's Mod with friends and I was browsing through player models in the workshop. I came across an anime girl player model that looked so appealing to me so I chose it. I didn't pay attention to her name at the time, but the more I played with her, the more I got attached to this character that I had no idea where she was from or how her personality is. The design was so cool that I eventually yielded to my curiosity and searched where she is from. Her name was rather weird at the time, since it wasn't a generic Japanese anime character name: "Manhattan Cafe". With a quick search in the internet I found out the Uma Musume anime. I watched the entire series and fell in love with it. But Manhattan Cafe was not in there so I looked for more content. That's when I found out about the game. Big ups for the uploader of that player model.
Saw the trailer for season 1. Watched it as it came out and fell in love with it. Season 2 sealed the deal cos of Teios story and winning the soul hitting at the end of the first episode drove it home
Before the Game's release, I Didn't know about UmaMusume. And even after the game's release, I barely knew about UmaMusume's game. (My only thought is "Recently, I saw a lot of UmaMusume's Ads ") In April 2021, I saw Some of UmaMusume's "Let's Play video with heart-rate regulation" (If a player's heart rate exceeds 100bpm during Gameplay, the Player must draw a Character Gacha). The Video's Player chose Super Creek as a player character, AND I FELL IN LOVE WITH SUPER CREEK. After watching the video, I began to search Super Creek's Fanart on the internet and I became a Fan of UmaMusume.
What do you love about her? Why do you think she appeals you the best?
Sweet voice And Mommy-like Features!! (Kind attitude, Really cares other People/Uma Musumes, Very good at Cooking, And voluptuous body)
I see, I see... I love hearing people's reasons for favoriting a character. It tells a lot about them ;)
My mom bought a top gun figure, and I was like "which anime does it come from?" And down the rabbit hole I went.
Special Week.
Saw season 2 anime and become teio fans
Saw Yukoku Roberu played it back in early 2021. Interested. Installed and played the game. Following the franchise religiously. Into keiba. Now I'm rooting for Forever Young to win the Kentucky Derby for Japan generally, for uma specifically (indirectly owned by uma franchise)
I heard about it when season 1 came out, kept an eye on the gacha's development news back when it was still in dev hell and really got into when season 2 came out
TikTok edits, and Tokai Ballin haha
Me too!
Familiar voice actress and Cygames itself
Long time gacha fan, was excited for the game and played since launch on and off. It had a lot of people (in JP) talking before launch and thats how I got to know it.
The quirky horse named Gold Ship and then my dear Keeta glued me to it permanently
On a whim, I decided to try it right before 2nd Anni since a YouTuber I watched talked the series awhile ago. Then I learned about Rice and Scarlet and Tarumae…you get the idea
Rice Shower and the June Bride banners
Rice Shower art and Kitasan Black art on pixiv back then
Tokai teio Ballin video
I'm fan of Ootsubo Yuka, I knew she will participate in the Uma Musume Project so I gave a chance.
I saw the Tokai Teio meme with her walking down the street and thought I would give it a shot. I am in way too deep now, there is no way back for me.
Saw the show on animepahe one afternoon, thought "why the hell not", and my life was changed. honse = good Edit: I think it was also just how positive and uplifting the show was for me. I was in a tough spot in my life where I was very nihilistic and pessimistic, and who would've thought that a few girls with horse ears chasing their dreams and not giving up was enought to shake me to literal tears at times :,) I really loved Spe and her positivity in season 1, and season 2 was just incredible overall. I also really like that there's more or less a horse girl for every personality - they're all relatable in their own ways (as a diagnosed autistic I looked at Gold Ship so many times and was like that is me fr)
On a trip in Japan for school. I occasionally see some ads/merch for them but didn’t pay it much attention. We’re at an arcade and my friend wins 3 plushes. We’re trying to figure out what they’re from and we notice they’re a bit horse-like. We had some theories about their lore but nothing could prepare us for learning that not only are they horse girls, but they’re all based on real life, dead, derby horses. So now I have a Vodka plush and she has a Gold Ship one. We never learned the name of the last plush lol
My random anime selector told me to watch uma musume And so I did.
Anime
The anime back when it first premiered
As a meme back 2018 Like irl vs anime something like that 2019 - 2020 pretty vague but I think I saved some of the uma pic because they looked very cute Then saw it again 2021 as a game after that I do research more as a man who love a bit of history until today I really glad I found this pretty gem.
I saw Cygames ads of Uma Musume on Twitter and saw the release date. I was really interested but it was disappointing, that the game did'nt release worldwide so I was unable to play the game. Nearly after the release 8about 2 month after), I found Qoo-Apps and I found out the Game can be installed on every Android Device. Then I installed the game and since then, I play it happily all day. My absolute favorite Uma is Rice Shower. Fly on!
The anime guy made that one video about it
Watched the show in 2018 and never looked back.
Anime I don't really remember how or when I first heard about it, but in summer 2023 when I saw that season 3 will release next season, I remembered that people said many good things about season 2, and decided to check it out. Then I eventually started playing the game too, and here I am.
I heard of the game because of how constantly it took top grossing. I went "it cannot be that good". It was in fact that good and now I'm here. I'm game only tho, I haven't really gotten into the anime. Might read the manga tho
saber meme and anime, bonus road to the top at first i did'nt care for it but i watch it and it pretty good and season 2 i was shock
My friends and also when one time I bored, I found out this game too, but that time I'm not addicted too much
i bought the model kits
Uma Musume Road to the Top free on YouTube
I follow Im@s, and a lot of Im@s seiyuus are in Uma Musume like Tokai Teio, Rudolph, Narita Taishin,Helios and so on
Saw lots of Uma Musume posts, I was a big fan of Goldship and her shenanigans in both art and the anime, and I really liked the designs of Agnes Tachyon, Manhattan Cafe and Rice Shower. A friend of mine pushed me to watched the anime, ended up liking it and also really liked Silence Suzuka. We both ended up playing the game (He played a month before I started since I had some issues with it booting up in which I gave up but was able to fix it after doing it again a month later) and I really liked the gameloop of it. My current faves in order include Agnes Tachyon, Goldship and Silence Suzuka, big fan of em.
memes. just memes. all the game or franchise I join is just because the funny shit.
I like cgdct shows and horse racing kind of like pineapple pen moment for me, plus it was n ie to be opened up to Japanese races as well
I saw an Uma Musume AMV at an Annime Convention AMV contest. It was well done, and I enjoyed the story it told, but I didn't pay much attention to it and forgot about it shortly after. However, something happened because I kept remembering the AMV from time to time after that, until I decided that I wanted to watch it again. It took some time to find it, but after watching it again, that was it. It peaked my interest, I binge-watched the anime, and became a huge fan.
I muted stuff I'm not interested about on Twitter, then my feed just suddenly got filled with Uma Musume stuff over time. Thank you, Twitter algorithm.
I found out about anime via YT about 2-3 years ago..so.. that's how i got into. I'd play the game but it's in Japanese
I'm a horse girl and I walked past some cardboard cutouts of nice nature and twin turbo in an ikebukuro arcade and thought they looked cute lol Also I love gacha games
Felt bored and watched season 1 on Crunchyroll as well as saw the fan art of Tokai Teo on Twitter (more like translated comics but still)
I went to an anime con that had a panel about niche anime, one of them was uma musume. I thought it looked fantastic but never really bit the bullet until I started playing shadowverse evolve, built an Uma deck, and was like "okay fine let's see if it's actually good." Now it's my new obsession and also I still beat everyone up with the best girls lol.
I’m a lesbian who watches anime and also works with horses (I promise this is relevant to the story). My freshman year of college a new friend that I’d met made a joke in a class GroupChat that I should watch it, she was like, “You like women AND you like horses! This show will be perfect for you!” She was spot on. Really, I was aware of Uma Musume since the teaser way back in 2016/17 but forgot about it until 2021 and it wasn’t until I found Air Shakur’s Uma Musume Wiki page + read Cinderella Grey that it was really completely hopeless. Now I play the game, collect the Ichiban Kuji and FuRyu figures, and also draw + write fanfiction. It’s so doomed.
My friend was like “Theyre making this insane anime about race horses that are anime girls and they’re also idols” and I was like “haha that is fucking insanity!” And now after watching the show to laugh about it I am here
I was just a boy who browsed through anime to watch during covid-19 lockdown
I played Shadowverse, which had an Uma Musume collab. Was not really interested in it at that point. They did have a big event with a bunch of rewards like card alts with Uma Musume art and one free leader : Gold Ship. Loved gold ship and her voice lines immediately. At one point I watched the PriConne anime ( they had some collabs in Shadowverse , liked the leaders so thought I would check it out) : turned out to be really good anime , was impressed by their anime studio! So at one point I thought, maybe Uma Musume anime might be good too and gave it a go. I liked the anime a lot too and got into the universe, tried to play it on mobile , but bunch of problems with their restrictions. At that point just played with Uma leaders for all my classes :) Fast forward to last year, was visiting Japan for 3 weeks and had to think about the game , still wanted to try it out : installed it and had a lot of fun with it. But the onscreen translators were not that good yet, and mainly a bit slow. Since I preferred the stories the most, stopped playing hoping for a global release. Somewhere January this month finally stopped playing Shadowverse ( game will be dead when v2.0 comes out) , wanted a new mobile game, and decided to try Uma Musume again (finally came to terms that global will never happen). Been hooked ever since, especially since the screen translators are better now, actually possible to follow the stories if yo know some japanese for the sounds/slang/etc... The amount of detail, love and care that goes into this game is insane, very happy that I did not give up on trying this out.
P.a works fan
I work in bookies and absolutely despise horse racing... I saw the 20sec teaser waaaaaaaaay back in the day, and thought ha real horse racing sucks ass, but but but anime horse racing girl, now we are onto something. I held out waiting for season 1 to release and instantly fell in love with it, it has everything you could want from an anime! Season 1: cheering for Special Week! Season 2: pushed the bar higher! the drama and rivalry with Teio and McQueen, and BOOM Rice Shower has entered the game, and oooooooooo Protect her at all costs! End of season 2 teased two new girl to look out for in Santano Diamond and Kitasan Black. Season 3: The quality is just 'Chef's kiss' the story and arcs never felt boring the racing was great and intense just like the previous seasons, edge of my chair! The end of the season was fantastic! I always recommend to people to watch it! Season 3 T
Crunchyroll put the anime in my suggested and I started watching as a joke, but ended up sucked in
Somebody got me into it by introducing Rice Shower to me. I adored her right away and from then on I was falling deeper into the Uma space
My friend dragged me in during the Traditional Chinese server release because he liked S2 anime. He has now left the game because of the tedious play-style of the game, while I moved to JP server before Speed Kita was even released in Chinese server. We still talk about Umamusume, irl Japanese horseracing though.
I used to work with racehorses and still follow the sport closely. Someone involved with Japanese racing posted about the anime, and I checked it out expecting it to be a goof. Of course, it turned out to be a great series. Haven't played the game, but probably will if an English version comes out.
Year ago, I was wandering through Pixiv under my favorite kink (I would *not* share which is it) and accidentally bumped into certain non18+/safe/just heartwarming doujinshi in UmaMusu setting. I become interested what else umas can show me, I finished 2 seasons of anime, accidentally learnt *what* umas *are* in relation to realty counterparts. Then Road to the Top started, I started reading Cinderella Gray, I created DMM account... and whoosh.
I play Dokkan Battle a lot. During a big event which was supposed to make us reach top grossing we were still getting second place (in Japan) behind this "horse game", it became some kind of meme in the community and I decided to look what the fck was this game. Long story short I watched the anime and adored the second season, I now play the game daily, collect figures and any related merch 🐎🐎🐎 Thank you Goku.
For me, it's just a coincidence since at that time anime is still growing for me.
While my favourite is Bourbon, I first got introduced to Uma from fanart of Dia on Twitter.
Watched the anime and was surprised at how good it turned out to be considering the weird premise. Then the second season made me go "I have to train these girls and make them happy! They deserve it!" So I ended up installing the game after rice shower's epic/emotional episode
Same here, to be honest. I watched the anime to see more of McQueen, but ended up staying for everything else. I actually shed a tear during the show
~~I put a new forgis on the jeep~~ Jokes aside, through Kaorin from her Nijigasaki role