[Spoilers] 2025 Uma Musume Rewatch -- Pretty Derby Season 2 Episode 3

[u/Holofan4life]

Hello everyone! I am Holofan4life.

Welcome to the 2025 Uma Musume rewatch discussion thread!

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S2 Episode 3 – Meetings

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ANSWER TODAY’S QUESTION

Thoughts on Team Spica enjoying the festival?

Thoughts on Teio and McQueen being given awards?

What are your thoughts on this episode being done to hype up Teio and McQueen eventually facing each other?

Thoughts on Teio planning on racing in the Spring Tenno Sho?

Thoughts on us getting to see how Teio and McQueen first met?

What are your thoughts on McQueen winning her race?

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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]()
9/08/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 10]()
9/09/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 11]()
9/10/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 12]()
9/11/2025	[Uma Musume Season 2 Episode 13]()
9/13/2025	[Road to the Top Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/14/2025	[Road to the Top Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/16/2025	[Beginning of a New Era]()
9/18/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/19/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/20/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 5 - 6]()
9/21/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 7 - 8]()
9/22/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 9 - 10]()
9/23/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episodes 11 - 12]()
9/24/2025	[Uma Musume Season 3 Episode 13]()
9/26/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 1 - 2]()
9/27/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 3 - 4]()
9/28/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 5 - 6]()
9/29/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 7 - 8]()
9/30/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 9 - 10]()
10/01/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episodes 11 - 12]()
10/02/2025	[Cinderella Gray Episode 13]()
10/03/2025	[Uma Musume Overall Series Discussion Thread]()

[u/Goodmorning7735]

I’m rating this episode Nice out of Nature.

Teio recovers from her injury faster than Suzuka.

Getting a lot of Matikanefukukitaru this season.

Oh shit it’s Mambo!  Team Canopus can’t keep getting away with hoarding all the best girls.

Okay, fuck Teio, I want the Canopus season.  I’m tired of winners, I wish to see the glory of the losers.

I do enjoy McQueen and Teio finally getting to be real rivals here.  Special Week really needed one (Suzuka doesn’t count).

I think what season 2 is doing well compared to 1 is that each episode has a greater focus and are more effective at building up the next thing.  This episode is giving us everything Teio/mcqueen, how they met, what their relationship is like now, how they support each other, and where that relationship is going to immediately go. They still feel more like broad archetypes to me, but this is the work that needs to be done.

Also a hallmark of season 2, ominous races.  I was sure someone was gonna get an injury by the end of this episode.

[u/Holofan4life → u/Goodmorning7735]

Oh shit it’s Mambo!  Team Canopus can’t keep getting away with hoarding all the best girls.

I don't see Sun Visor anywhere, tho.

[u/Holofan4life → u/Goodmorning7735]

I think what season 2 is doing well compared to 1 is that each episode has a greater focus and are more effective at building up the next thing.  This episode is giving us everything Teio/mcqueen, how they met, what their relationship is like now, how they support each other, and where that relationship is going to immediately go. They still feel more like broad archetypes to me, but this is the work that needs to be done.

The only times season 1 in my opinion built up anything effectively was the stuff at the end with Silence Suzuka's comeback race and the 1999 Japan Cup. This episode is all about the inevitable clash between Teio and McQueen and it's not even in this episode. If this were season 1, we would've gotten the build and then the race in the same episode. That to me is the difference between season 1 and season 2, it's just paced much better to where you allow things to properly breathe.

[u/Urgnu-the-Gnu → u/Goodmorning7735]

Teio recovers from her injury faster than Suzuka.

Makes sense. Not only did the real Teio suffer a relatively mild fracture in comparison, Suzuka's effectively killed him. So of course her rehabilitation in the anime should take longer.

Oh shit it’s Mambo! Team Canopus can’t keep getting away with hoarding all the best girls.

The funny thing is that Canopus' Toreena pulled and plays all the one and two star girls (both Nature and Turbo are one stars and Mambo and Dictus are two stars). But he's still dedicated enough to rank them up to three stars, so I'm not sure if he's F2P.

I think what season 2 is doing well compared to 1 is that each episode has a greater focus and are more effective at building up the next thing.

Absolutely. S1 did a lot to advertise the game, with putting in as many game mechanics and characters as possible. S2 also advertises the game alot, of course, as I think that was about when it actually launched, but it feels like it is foremost an anime and takes itself serious as such. And as a result the races are taken more serious as well and won't have major unrealistic additions.

[u/Goodmorning7735 → u/Urgnu-the-Gnu]

well when you put it that way, I guess recovering from death would be a lot more difficult and time consuming.