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Uma Musume Pretty Derby Anime Reveals Visual, Staff
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for the anime part of Cygames' Uma Musume Pretty Derby project revealed the anime's first visual and main staff on Saturday. The text on the below visual reads: "Dear mom. I'm going to become Japan's best horse girl!"
Kei Oikawa (This Art Club Has a Problem!, Outbreak Company, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!) is directing the anime at P.A. Works. Yousuke Kabashima (D.Gray-man Hallow, Lord Marksman and Vanadis) is the character designer and chief animation director. Masafumi Sugiura (aka Pierre Sugiura, Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru scripts) and Cygames' Akihiro Ishihara are both writing and overseeing the series scripts.
The anime will air in 2018.
While Cygames hasn't yet announced the cast for the anime, the video game version of the project currently has 59 cast members:
- Azumi Waki as Special Week
- Marika Kōno as Silence Suzuka
- Machico as Tōkai Teiō
- Yuka Aisaka as Vodka
- Ruriko Aoki as Air Groove
- Minami Takahashi as El Condor Pasa
- Tomoyo Takayanagi as Oguri Cap
- Rena Maeda as Grass Wonder
- Hitomi Ueda as Gold Ship
- Azusa Tadokoro as Symboli Rudolf
- Yuka Ōtsubo as Taiki Shuttle
- Chisa Kimura as Daiwa Scarlet
- Sora Tokui as T.M. Opera Ō
- Yuka Aisaka as Narita Brian
- Yuiko Tatsumi as Hishi Amazon
- Eriko Matsui as Fuji Kiseki
- Lynn as Maruzensky
- Saori Ōnishi as Mejiro McQueen
- Akari Kitō as Seiun Sky
- Nozomi Yamamoto as Yukino Bijin
- Yui Watanabe as Winning Ticket
- Naomi Ōzora as Tamamo Cross
- Ayaka Fukuhara as Seeking the Pearl
- Yui Ogura as Manhattan Cafe
- Eri Suzuki as Tosen Jordan
- Yukina Shutō as Haru Urara
- Karin Takahashi as Kawakami Princess
- Afumi Hashi Mejiro Ryan
- Hiyori Nitta as Matikanefukukitaru
- Chinami Hashimoto as Fine Motion
- Hitomi Ohwada as Smart Falcon
- Keiko Watanabe as Narita Taishin
- Minami Tsuda as Air Shakur
- Saki Kosaka as Gold City
- Kana Yūki as Super Creek
- Haruno Inoue as Inari One
- Haruna Kawai as Nishino Flower
- Aimi Tanaka as Biko Pegasus
- Rei Matsuzaki as Hishi Akebono
- Kotomi Aihara as Bamboo Memory
- Marie Miyake as Marvelous Sunday
- Ikumi Hasegawa as Mihono Bourbon
- Shiori Sugiura as Sweep Tosho
- Tomomi Mineuchi as Ines Fujin
- Yui Kondou as Biwa Hayahide
- Sachika Misawa as Sakura Bakushin O
- Yūki Takada as Shinko Windy
- Sumire Uesaka as Agnes Tachyon
- Haruka Terui as Zenno Rob Roy
- Misaka Watada as Meisho Doto
- Manaka Iwami as Rice Shower
- Hitomi Sasaki as Admire Vega
- Yū Sasahara as Curren Chan
- Minori Suzuki as Agnes Digital
- Ayami Fujino as Eishin Flash
- Shino Shimoji as Nakayama Festa
- Ayaka Imamura as Mayano Top Gun
- Hikari Kubota as Mejiro Dober
- Kaori Maeda as Nice Nature
The game is currently in development, with a planned release on iOS and Android in 2018. The game's concept begins with Uma Musume (Horse Girls), girls endowed with excellent running capability, and who aim to become top idols and compete in the national sports entertainment show "Twinkle Series." Players take the role of both teacher and trainer for the girls in the Nihon Uma Musume Training Center Gakuen (Japan Horse Girls Training Center Academy) and help them make their debut.
A manga, titled STARTING GATE! -Uma Musume Pretty Derby-, already launched on Cygames' Cycomi manga website in March. S.Koisugi is drawing the manga.
Source: MoCa News
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