Umamusume: Pretty Derby Dev Reminds Fans to Follow the Rules When Visiting the Real-Life Japanese Racehorses Behind Their Favorite Anime Horse-Girls

Japanese developer Cygames published a database of rules for fans wanting to sojourn the real-life horses down the characters successful its anime racehorse-girl absorption crippled Umamusume: Pretty Derby, which got a long-awaited planetary merchandise this June.

Yes, anime racehorse-girl absorption game, you heard that right. In the satellite of Umamusume: Pretty Derby, racehorses are reborn arsenic cute anime girls, implicit with equine ears and tails. The franchise started disconnected successful 2018 arsenic an anime, followed by a Japan-only merchandise of the mobile crippled successful 2021. In the game, players tin speech to, bid and negociate horse-girls similar Special Week and Mejiro McQueen, sharing successful their triumphs and losses. As a result, the Umamusume franchise has inspired a cult following, and seemingly galore fans person go funny successful the real-life Japanese racehorses down their favourite characters.

However, successful their enthusiasm, it seems that immoderate fans whitethorn person caused distress to their favorites and their owners successful existent life. As antecedently reported by Dexerto, Cygames shared guidelines for those who privation to sojourn real-life racehorses successful Japan, reminding radical that you can’t conscionable stone up to a ranch and that horses are easy startled by large noises and camera flashes.

The 9-point line was created by the Racehorse's Hometown Information Center. The archetypal 2 points impulse would-be visitors to cheque with the halfway for circuit availability and to corroborate circuit times earlier visiting. The rules besides punctual visitors to travel the instructions of ranch unit astatine each times, to refrain from smoking on-site, and not to participate stables oregon pastures without permission. The remainder of the rules are centered connected the horses’ wellbeing — don’t marque large noises and refrain from touching, feeding oregon taking flash photography of the horses.

Umamusume: Pretty Derby's English connection motorboat has exploded.

Developer Cygames has been fostering beardown connections to the Japanese equine racing satellite — it often shows up alongside and provides enactment for racehorse-related exhibits astatine events successful Japan, and has donated to the Retired Racehorse Association of Japan (source: Automaton). As portion of promotions for the mobile game’s global, English-language release, Cygames looked stateside, partnering with the Kentucky Derby backmost successful May and mounting up a booth wherever radical could play the demo of Umamusume Pretty Derby.

If you are funny successful seeing what each the fuss is about, Umamusume: Pretty Derby is disposable present successful English via Steam, Google Play, and the Apple App store. All 3 seasons of the anime are presently connected Crunchyroll.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.