I wake up on a Monday and I get a horse-girl based WTF.
Honestly, this sounds fun. Displaying, enjoy talks about the anime, being sportive and just having a fun time.
Prefer this than all the current conflicts in the world.
Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world
Submitted 4 weeks ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Aitolda@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I may not get it, however it seems harmless, especially up against the senseless violence you’re eluding to
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
But! But! What about the historical russian empire?
/S
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Clearly ya’ll have not known any horse girls.
This is extremely normal for them.
I’d be willing to bet there are nearly 0 horse girls who are not also absolute super fans of some kind of cartoon media / video game.
I dated a horse girl back in the late 00’s.
She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.
… We did not end up working out, but she’s since gone on to literally cross all of Mongolia, on horseback.
Do not fuck with nor underestimate horse girls.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sometimes I wish I had that dedication.
night_petal@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I’m a 45 yr old horse girl. Can confirm. I have Magic Knight: Rayearth tattoos.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
… Damn.
I had to look that up, I’d never even heard of that manga.
Also: WTF I didn’t even know CLAMP was that old?!
… Yeah, this is what I mean, horse girls are somehow able to consistently out-nerd me, and I do find this intimidating, lol.
med@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Good lord you must be from my era
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% sure she was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.
Another solid data point for my “horse girl to elder emo pipeline” theory. My working theory is that all horse girls eventually evolve into (at least) one of the following two groups: Elder emo girls, or tail girls.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Ok, I am not familiar with either ‘elder emo girls’ nor ‘tail girls’.
Elder emo girls does not make sense to me at all, because emo girls are essentially the exact opposite of horse girls.
Horse girls learn how to do things, many things, practical things, and be good at them.
Emo girls are angsty, and make bad poetry or art, then usually either phase out of that, or transition into rave/scene girls, develop serious problems, and then basically work in retail the rest of their lives, with few exceptions… maybe a few become tattoo artists or become actually halfway decent at some other kind of art.
Perhaps you are thinking of elder goth girls?
Not the same thing as emo, not even close.
Tail girls?
I… do you mean a furry, some kind of anthro/humanoid type person?
No, I’ve never known a single horse girl that became or also is/was a furry or puppy girl or anything like that, again they tend to be extremely practical and utilitarian, they tend to be fairly domineering, task/goal oriented.
They just also have eccentric hobbies/interests.
They do not need to fantasize an alternate identity as an animal, because so much of their lives involve very real and often traumatic experiences with animals, so they understand them in a much more grounded and realistic way.
njm1314@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
y’all
PMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I kinda love it honestly.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 4 weeks ago
Every day, we stray futher from god
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Are we though?
riskable@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Oh please. There’s nothing wrong with a bunch of girls horsing around.
Quicky@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Good
MolochHorridus@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
And that’s a good thing. Why believe in fairytales?
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
It would be a good thing if we were going away from god in the right direction. I’m not sure this is the right direction.
matlag@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I would have guessed a “horse girl” is a girl who likes horses and probably horse-riding. Wouldn’t have been surprised: when I was a teen, we had 50% boys/girls horse riders, and today it seems most teen horse-riders are girls.
But this is beyond anything I would have imagined. I guess I’m reaching that age where I can’t comprehend the young’s trends.TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve never met a male who was into horses or horseback riding my entire life.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I bet a dollar you live more than an hour from most stables. It’s like skiing. It’s a luxurious hobby at its base. If you’re local, it’s not that big a deal and lots of neighbors are into. If you have to travel to maintain the hobby and you do, in fact, maintain it, you’re either very dedicated or very well off.
matlag@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Nice to meet you! I’m a dude, and I absolutely love horseriding! A passion passed on to me by my father, who himself got from my grandfather, and that I passed on to my daughter! As for girls, in the stables we (daughter and myself) go to, there are many girls, but not many princesses and/or spoiled children.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
It’s that stupid running girl game that’s been advertised everywhere. It’s just another way to milk people who are in a certain period. And their minds are too fogged to see how dumb it is.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
WTF is a “horse girl”? Umamusume? Is that some anime thing I’m not weeb enough to know?
I’m afraid to ask these questions because I feel like I’m always so disappointed in the answer.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Everytime I see something about it I just wonder why it’s popular.
LwL@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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
FG_3479@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s a mobile game where you train anime girls modeled after horses to race.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah that checks out. Lol.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks 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.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks 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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 weeks 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
horse/human fetish/
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well, at least they’re outside.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I was born in Denver and have been a lifelong Broncos fan…. Now because of this I have to answer questions whenever I wear a jersey.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
“Is it hard to breathe?”
“What’s the best ski lodge?”
“Do you know any good neighborhoods? I’m looking to work from home.”
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I live in the south now, I only give it away when I’m wearing an Avs sweater or a Donkey jersey.
But you are SPOT on from when I lived there.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
So now that furries are more accepted, especially here on the fediverse, are horse girls the next “last group” it’s ok to be assholes to online?
Just let people have fun.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nobody makes fun of furries or horsegirls for being into animals.
They make fun of them for being insufferable twats who make everything about themselves and their feelings.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Nobody makes fun of gay men for being into men.
They make fun of them for being insufferable twats who make everything about themselves and their feelings.
Thanks for providing an example of exactly what I mean.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
My cousin is a horse girl. She’s a crazy insufferable twat that burns though boyfriends like crazy because she’s an emotionally manipulative bitch.
Every horse girl iv know in the last 20 years and I’ve known hundreds have been unhinged one way or another.
Avicenna@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
“anime racing horse girl genre”
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Amazing! Love it. I was too poor to be a horse girl in high school. I knew some girls that were and this seems very much something they’d do!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I didn’t even know “Horse Girl” is a word that existed.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It always meant “girls obsessed with horses” to me growing up. I remember some of the assholes at my high school giving them a hard time asking them if they want to fuck the horses.
This seems like a whole different thing entirely.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is different, yes (it’s another gacha game but with horse racing except the horses are anime girls). But the Venn Diagram between the two different breeds of “horse girls” is looking more and more like a circle with each passing day
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Yeah, they are different things.
A horse girl, in my understanding of the phrase, isn’t merely conceptual obsession… its actually being a stablehand, a rider, a trainer, a groomer, something like that actually being around horses for significant amounts of time.
I guess this is a dated reference at this point but Beth from Rick and Morty is a horse girl, a girl who really likes to play with pony toys is not.
Though, horse girls … do tend to be somewhere between eccentric and bonkers, I would not put it past them to have some … fair amount of kink.
That being said, if you can actually ride a horse, you’ve seen a horse cock, and you know that’ll fucking kill you.
Its kinda similar to how people who actually are familiar with guns, and are not total idiots, will cringe at people who know nothing about guns, making all kinds of jokes and ‘deductions’ that actually make no sense.
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s “horsey girl”.
Aitolda@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Technically two words.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Tina Belcher has entered the chat.
moxymarauder@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
I was sad it wasn’t about the Berlin-based DJ.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Link? 👀
Leather@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Organized “Pony play” has been going on for decades. I’d have to look back at Psychopathia Sexualis, but I think it’s also mentioned there.
Horse girl / boy has a very different meaning depending on the context.
It’s cool to see sexual content reinterpreted through a cultural lense and mainstreamed!
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Better than the quidditch craze from 10 years ago, until it’s revealed a horse is transphobic.
horse@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
No need to worry there, I think I speak for all of us when I say: Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
so you’re trans horse phobic 🤨️
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Waiting for the bombshell documentary, Seabiscuit 2, to show some of those uncomfortable truths.
Endmaker@ani.social 4 weeks ago
The premise of umamusume is that horses from our world get reincarnated as horse girls in the world of umamusume.
Yes, even the male horses.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Now that is equality.