Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era

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truly excellent as a racing film, a seamless blend of so many animation techniques to convey different types of motion in a way that is impossible to do in any other medium. i've been out of the loop watching seasonal anime for many years and i don't play gatcha games, so…

comrade_yui

this is the Gold Standard of yuri sports anime.

ash hari 🌸

>Participates in 4 races. >Wins all of them. >Gets to the final. >Retires for no reason. >Leaves multiple friends with trauma. Agnes the true chad...

PhantomWicker

Umamusume. They are born to run. I always find it hard to review the things I love. Yet as the credits rolled on BOANE, I felt moved in a way that very few films have, a testament to the series’ pathos of “overcoming yourself” being so emotionally effective in a way that’s…

umamusume

Horse girls as the defining representation of humanity's propensity for dreams and our unexplainable, sometimes contradictory, primal motivation to either achieve those dreams or talk ourselves out of it. The series has always been about finding and understanding the…

psisai

"How fast can these prissy ladies run?" I did it. I watched the silly horse girl anime. I now understand why every single reel, short, and TikTok I have seen of Umamusume has over 1 million views. The animation and sound design are unbelievable. The script is not cynical…

theburkenation

i really appreciate that the anime girls are vessels for real life horses and i am glad that they are such clear parallels to each other. unfortunately no actual horse shapes were shown but despite that this is undeniably a movie about horses racing and i love horses.…

horselover12345

between this and F1 The Movie, one is astronomically better at depicting racing spirits, the meaning of sports, and the value of competition, and it doesn't involve Brad Pitt

haretalayla