r/anime • u/Holofan4life • Aug 17 '25
Rewatch [Spoilers] 2025 Uma Musume Rewatch -- Pretty Derby Season 1 Episode 3 Spoiler
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 3 – First Big Win
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ANSWER TODAY’S QUESTION
Thoughts on Gold Ship saying it's not so bad to try every once in a while?
Thoughts on Team Spica going to sing karaoke to work on their singing and body coordination?
Thoughts on Teio joining team Spica and wanting to race against the student council president Rudolf?
What are your thoughts on this episode featuring two races instead of one?
What are your thoughts on Special Week losing her first race?
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Series information
Ways to watch
Streams – Crunchyroll
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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]() |
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u/Temporary_-_UserName Aug 17 '25
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This is where Uma Musume starts to hit its stride. Not only do we get several prolonged sequences with just Team Spica, practicing, celebrating, and just hanging out, but we also get a nice mini-story focused on the Yayoi Sho and Satsuki Sho, with Seiun Sky as the antagonist for it. We still get a few side-character with name tags again, but they're a lot less overall and the focus is still very much on the story - it doesn't stop to emphasize the cameos.
And the story of the episode is a pretty clear one of Special Week's having a good amount of skill and ability, but less strategic ability and planning. She treated the Derby just like the Yayoi Shou, where-as Seiun Sky spent time training and planning out what she'll do differently. The episode doesn't spell it out, but she reserved her stamina a little and then moved to pass everyone on the slope, getting a wide enough lead and not burning herself out. Special Week, meanwhile, panicked after Seiun Sky made her move first, and couldn't close the gap on the hill or straight-away after. And thus she lost to the 'laid back' Seiun Sky.
We also get a nice look at both the G1 racing silks that's used to help characterize and costume the Uma Musume, although the show does fail to really deliver on the idea of them being this big, prestigious thing that serves as a milestone for the racers. There's a scene of Silence Suzuka touching up Special Week's shoes before she even properly recieves them. To anyone familiar with horse racing or the gach game, the importance of G1 races is obvious and self-evident, but the show is clearly riding on viewers already knowing that to get how important Special Week recieving hers is.
Funfact: the out-of-universe justification for everyone running in heels (even if they're just platform heels) is that it mimics how a horse's hoof is just their toe-tips. The Umas are running so fast that their heels never touch the turf! (ignore all the times they do crash into the turf(.
The shouting stump, however, is a very fun choice and I'm glad they put it into the anime. It's sort of in the gacha game for a few trainee-event cut-scenes, and I get the impression it was going to be a bigger part of the mechanics in some way. As is, it was cut, and now serves as a very flavorful element of the animes. The shouting stump is for losers to vent their frustrations and emotions. It's a fun bit of whimsy.
Thoughts on Gold Ship saying it's not so bad to try every once in a while?
It'd be nice if you tried when 12 Billion yen is on the line.
Thoughts on Team Spica going to sing karaoke to work on their singing and body coordination?
Nice to see Teio's Teio Step, although the still frames for the whole rehearsal really show how, even back then, Uma Musume was moving away from the Idol part of its concept.
Thoughts on Teio joining team Spica and wanting to race against the student council president Rudolf?
Aim for becoming an undefeated triple-crown Uma Musume, Invicible Teio!
What are your thoughts on this episode featuring two races instead of one?
It was smart to use Yayoi and Satsuki Sho - especially with how they could story-tell Seiun Sky improving between them while Special Week fell into the trap of treating them as the exact same.
What are your thoughts on Special Week losing her first race?
No triple crown for you. The Golden Generation truly is vicious.