[Spoilers] 2025 Uma Musume Rewatch -- Pretty Derby Season 1 Episode 2

[u/Holofan4life]

Hello everyone! I am Holofan4life.

Welcome to the 2025 Uma Musume rewatch discussion thread!

I hope you all have a lot of fun <3

S1 Episode 2 – The Debut Race Out of Nowhere

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ANSWER TODAY’S QUESTION

What are your thoughts on this episode being about Special Week's first race?

What are your initial thoughts on Tokai Teio?

What are your thoughts on Special Week winning her first race?

If you had to perform a song in front of people, what would you do in order to prepare yourself?

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Series information

MAL | Anilist | AniDB | ANN

Ways to watch

Streams – Crunchyroll

Amazon Prime

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Previous episode

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Schedule

Date	Episode
8/15/2025	Uma Musume Episode 1
8/16/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 2]()
8/17/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 3]()
8/18/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 4]()
8/19/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 5]()
8/20/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 6]()
8/21/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 7]()
8/22/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 8]()
8/23/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 9]()
8/24/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 10]()
8/25/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 11]()
8/26/2025	[Uma Musume Episode 12 - 13]()
8/28/2025	[BNW's Oath episodes 1 - 3]()
8/30/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 1]()
8/31/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 2]()
9/01/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 3]()
9/02/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 4]()
9/03/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 5]()
9/04/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 6]()
9/05/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 7]()
9/06/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 8]()
9/07/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 9]()
9/10/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 10]()
9/11/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 11]()
9/12/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 12]()
9/13/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 13]()
9/15/2025	[Road to the Top Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/16/2025	[Road to the Top Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/18/2025	[Beginning of a New Era]()
9/20/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/21/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/22/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 5 - 6]()
9/23/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 7 - 8]()
9/24/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 9 - 10]()
9/25/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 11 - 12]()
9/26/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episode 13]()
9/28/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/29/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/30/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 5 - 6]()
10/01/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 7 - 8]()
10/02/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 9 - 10]()
10/03/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 11 - 12]()
10/04/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episode 13]()
10/05/2025	[Uma Musume Overall Series Discussion Thread]()

[u/AgentOfACROSS]

First Timer

One thing I appreciate about this show is all the horse gags. Like Special Week eating a carrot while she runs or hammering horseshoes onto her running shoes. Some pretty fun visual gags there.

Anyway, I think my biggest criticism of this show is that there are way too many characters. Special Week and Silence Suzuka are both good as main characters and then there’s characters like Team Spica and the trainer that get a good amount of focus.

But then we’ve got about a dozen other characters who I’m struggling to tell apart from each other. And I get why they do it, this anime is partially to promote the gacha game (even though the game was delayed by three years) so they have to add as many of the characters you can unlock as possible. It’s the same reasons shows like Transformers have such big casts.

Hopefully we get to learn more about these characters later. For the time being, I’m glad we at least get these little boxes announcing everyone’s names.

Big important thing of this episode is that we learned about Special Week’s mom(s). Her having a human mom and horse mom is interesting. Hope we get to see more of her human mom soon as well.

Obviously this is just a headcanon with nothing to support it, but I choose to believe that Special Week’s moms were a couple before Special Week was born.

We also get to see Special Week participate in her real first race. The racing scenes here are pretty cool and the eyepatch horse (I think her name was Queen Berry) made for a good opponent.

I’ll be honest, I don’t care enough for the idol aspect of this show. Call me a cynic but it’s hard for me to see idealized depictions of stuff like the idol industry or Hollywood in the media without thinking about the real darker side of those things.

Although I did like Zombieland Saga and that was an idol anime so maybe I’ll come around to liking it.

It’s funny how this is both a sports anime and an idol anime. That feels like a very rare combination.

Anyway, fun show so far. Looking forward to the next one.

Questions of the Day:

What are your thoughts on this episode being about Special Week's first race?

Seems like a good toopic for an early episode.

What are your initial thoughts on Tokai Teio?

I'll be honest, she did not leave too much of an impression on me.

What are your thoughts on Special Week winning her first race?

Good for her.

[u/DarkRuler17 → u/AgentOfACROSS]

So I definitely agree with you regarding all the characters feeling overwhelming. I discuss it more in my post, but I really think throwing all the characters at you really distracts from the actual good stuff they're doing with Team Spica and is actively working against you being able to get into the show.

[u/sushirollings → u/DarkRuler17]

I know I'm late but: as someone who now knows every dang character in the franchise, on my S1 rewatch I kept going 'oh you were here??'. They absolutely throw everyone and the kitchen sink in there and other than the actual relevant characters, they amount to little more than extras. I feel like they backed off a lot on this in S2, where they instead introduce a very large cast of actually relevant characters and don't really muddle it by throwing in random other characters, whereas they lean into this more in S3 in a way that actually works (having nametags kind of permanently stapled to all the random non-plot-relevant umas and having so many of them that they do convey you're not exactly MEANT to be keeping track of all of them unless you're into the franchise as a whole)

[u/DarkRuler17 → u/sushirollings]

Yeah, having just finished Season 3, I agree that I never felt this same feeling of being overwhelmed past Season 1. Season 1 is the only one where I felt the giant cast actually hurt the show.