I stood anxiously on the edge of the field, walking back and forth as the gaggle of athletes prepared for the tense race ahead. This is the Japanese Derby, one of the most serious bouts of equestrian ...

Every once in a while, a game blows up that doesn't exactly line up with what mainstream gamers expect to succeed. Umamusume: Pretty Derby, a new free-to-play gacha game about racing anime horse girls ...

Horse racing at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, Calif. on Dec. 26, 2017. The mobile game Umamusume: Pretty Derby features gameplay that resembles real-life horse racing. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia ...

Umamusume: Pretty Derby, the Japanese mobile game in which you raise anime horse-girls, has brought Japan’s most unsuccessful racehorse a second boom in popularity following its western launch on ...

Umamusume: Pretty Derby launched in Japan in February 2021 and worldwide in June 2025. An anonymous developer believes the anime adaptation, which released in the West long before the game, made ...

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