Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world

chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Everytime I see something about it I just wonder why it’s popular.

  store.steampowered.com/…/Umamusume_Pretty_Derby/

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  • LwL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because it is, somehow, an actually very well made game. One of those things where I first just learned about the anime and just thought that sounds dumb, but man the game is actually fun. Also the recent spinoff anime series (cinderella gray) was actually just a very good sports anime.

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    • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The movie that came out semi recently was also really goddamn good

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  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The game’s actually really well made. The anime is fantastic author behind. It is incredibly respectful to the horses in the heritage of them. Honestly, all things said and done. It’s just a generally highly polished IP with a lot of respect to the source material on the horses and it does a lot of charity and good.

    The fans are just crazy

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Recent anime series is top sports anime. I made mistake watching the older ones first and didn’t understand the hype.

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• FG_3479@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a mobile game where you train anime girls modeled after horses to race.

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  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah that checks out. Lol.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There have always been Horse Girls, whether they own a horse or not. Many girls go through a Horse Girl phase, and it sticks for some. When I was in elementary school, all the girls wanted to read Misty of Chincoteague, but the school library only had a couple of copies, so there was always a waiting list for it.

  This is Horse Girl with an Anime twist. Not that big of a surprise really.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In this case, a horse girl is an anime girl with horse ears and a horse tail. Umamusume is a gotcha game where you manage a horse girl that participates in a horse race. It’s very similar to Monster Rancher, except with FOMO and horny.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Umamusume is a gotcha game

    Small nitpick, but it’s actually “gatcha” or “gasha” because it comes from the Japanese word “gatchapon/gashapon”. The word is derived from two different Japanese onomatopoeias:
    Gasha - The sound of a toy capsule dispenser handle being cranked/turned Pon - The sound of a toy capsule landing in the output slot of the machine.

    Basically, you know those little coin-operated toy capsule dispensers that you can find in arcades? The ones that have little toys, stickers, candy, etc. inside? They usually look something like this:
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    Yeah, these things are wildly popular in Japan. They’re colloquially referred to as “gatchapon”. There are massive stores full of these gatchapon machines. Brands will do promos for new anime, TV shows, band album releases, etc… Collectors spend a lot of money to get the rare collectibles from these machines, because not all the toys are the same rarity.

    And a gatchapon game is the same basic concept, but in a digital format. You get pulls/draws/{whatever the game calls them} via some method (usually purchasing them, because that is usually how the game makes money), and then those pulls are used to get new things. Sometimes characters, sometimes equipment, sometimes new outfits, etc… It’s literally gambling, because the best stuff is virtually always gated behind some hilariously small jackpot odds.

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s literally gambling, because the best stuff is virtually always gated behind some hilariously small jackpot odds.

      I assumed they intentionally misspelled it as a clever nod to this aspect of the genre

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      • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I was in a loop of trying to decide if it was this sort of joke or just ignorance

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    • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It baffles me people don’t call it a “clickity-clunk” genre.

      Foreign terms always make things sound fancier than they actually are!

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    • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sounds like they gotcha to me.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  horse/human fetish/

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