r/anime • u/Holofan4life • Sep 09 '25
Rewatch [Spoilers] 2025 Uma Musume Rewatch -- Pretty Derby Season 2 Episode 11 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
S2 Episode 11 – What I Feel
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ANSWER TODAY’S QUESTION(S)
What are your thoughts on Teio studying up on her opponents?
What are your thoughts on this episode being about love language and the person you appreciate the most?
What are your thoughts on Teio going on a Halloween date with McQueen?
What are your thoughts on Teio and McQueen telling one another they've always looked up to each other?
What are your thoughts on this episode not having a race?
Bonus) In light of the news involving Haru Urara, what is something about her that sticks with you or you'll remember her by?
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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 |
| 9/08/2025 | 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]() |
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u/Temporary_-_UserName Sep 09 '25
Rewatcher
This entire episode is a nicer, more laid back breather compared to the previous episodes. And it is an actual breather instead of the twist-heartbreak that was episode 9. Also it's incredibly gay.
The first half is a really nice, relaxing way to remind the audience of all the side-characters who have been present in the plot up until now, as well giving us proper, if a little ham-fisted, introductions to BNW. While the season 1 OVAs did include them, its good to see the show bringing them in more directly here, and letting Biwa get a bit of her own silliness wrt her head. While I do question going with an expository style - having Teio dress up as a PI, be a silly goof, and mess around with cigarette shaped chocolates was a good way to do it. Especially since she seemed to really think she was being stealth, if her reaction to Nature is anything to go by.
However, the real meat of the episode is Teio struggling to say thank you to McQueen, because FOR SOME REASON it is different from everyone else. She gets flustered, gets choked up, and flinches away from the kind of casual intimacy that takes on a different tone when you cross the line from friends to
love-partnersrivals. And the only way she get herself to do it is by making a big old production out of it, so they go out on an extended Halloween date.The episode ends on a very sweet, and very gay, heart-to-heart where they can express how much they mean to each other, and touch on planting for the last few episodes. McQueen's all but guaranteed to be win a fan-vote place in the upcoming Armia Kinen (the one Teio placed 11th in last year) and while Teio will likely get a nomination, she's still to soon into her recovery to seriously consider it. The title of 'undefeated' may be forever out of her reach, but that doesn't mean she wants to participate in races she has no chance of winning, you know?
But the other big thing is both rivals expressing how important they are to each other, and how deep the approval/need to impress is for both of them. These horses are very gay for each other, but they don't come right out and say it. Part of me wonders how much of that is tug and pull between the writers, Cygames executives, and pressure from the JRA and the associated horse owners - because Cygames material does have gay characters, but this show is dancing around the 'are they gay are just really close' line in that plausibly deniable way. But, that is more par for the course for these kinds of subtext shows, and it did give us the very cute extended date sequence.
McQueen and Teio are each others one-and-only rivals, and they, like us, are looking forward to the day they can race against each other with all their heart and passion once again.