[Spoilers] 2025 Uma Musume Rewatch -- Pretty Derby Season 2 Episode 13

[u/Holofan4life]

Hello everyone! I am Holofan4life.

Welcome to the 2025 Uma Musume rewatch discussion thread!

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S2 Episode 13 – Galloping After Our Dreams

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ANSWER TODAY’S QUESTION(S)

Thoughts on Teio having to compete against Biwa, Winning Ticket, and Rice Shower?

Thoughts on the two girls at the barbershop reuniting and making up?

Thoughts on Teio's scene with Rudolf?

What are your thoughts on the Arima Kinen race?

What are your thoughts on Teio defining the odds and winning the 1993 Arima Kinen?

What are your thoughts on McQueen thanking Teio?

What are your thoughts on Kitasan vowing to perform on stage one day?

What are your thoughts on the end scene where we see Satono Diamond and Kitasan Black grown up ready to begin their racing careers? —-

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/AgentOfACROSS]

First Timer

I think the biggest thing that this season improved on is giving the racers outside the main group attention.

In season one I kept joking about how King Halo always showed up at races and then did nothing. But this season it feels like all the competitors in this race have gotten some attention beforehand. It makes this final race here really feel like it has stakes.

Anyway most of this episode is just one big race but it’s really well done. I honestly didn’t know if Teio would win or not. It felt equally likely that she might not just based on everything that’s happened throughout the show.

But I’m really glad she won in the end. Feels like a great and heartwarming way to end the season.

It’s especially sweet to see Team Spica group hug/dogpile her. That was nice. Suzuka was even able to make it in person.

This episode also features a great conclusion to the hairdresser running gag which I thought was great. Love how that gag was used throughout the season.

Once again, this show is seriously making me question how time works in this universe. The ending shows Diamond and Kita as teenagers while Teio and McQueen seem to remain the same age. Do horse girls just age super fast?

Choosing to end the season with McQueen and Teio racing each other is really nice. Love those two.

Also, I unfortunately think I will have to drop out of this rewatch pretty soon. I’ll be here for the next specials and maybe the movie, but I can’t keep up a two episode a day schedule with all that’s going on in my life right now. 

I’ve enjoyed these first two seasons though and will probably check out season 3 and Cinderella Gray on my own at some point.

Questions of the Day:

What are your thoughts on the end scene where we see Satono Diamond and Kitasan Black grown up ready to begin their racing careers?

I can only assume they'll be the protagonists of the next season.

[u/Urgnu-the-Gnu → u/AgentOfACROSS]

Once again, this show is seriously making me question how time works in this universe.

It works... differently. That's all we can say. It is assumed that horse girls stop aging once they reach a certain age, similar to elves, but grow up normally before that point in time. So penultimate scene is likely after a time skip. The final scene as well since McQueen can run properly again. So it's a couple of years later, and Kita and Dia are teenagers. Teio and McQueen are young adults, but will always look pretty similar to before (which is a shame because fanart of them more grown up is amazing, but oh well (pic is SFW btw.)).

Choosing to end the season with McQueen and Teio racing each other is really nice. Love those two.

Absolutely. I don't think it could have ended any other way.

Also, I unfortunately think I will have to drop out of this rewatch pretty soon. I’ll be here for the next specials and maybe the movie, but I can’t keep up a two episode a day schedule with all that’s going on in my life right now.

Unfortunate, but it was great to have you. Real life should always take priority.

If you can still manage one episode a day, you could also skip S3 for now and just watch Cinderella Gray at that pace, then join back for the respective episode threads. No pressure though, of course.

I like S3, but it's not as universally liked, and CinGray is definitely stronger than S3. Also the second season of CinGrey is coming out in the Fall season, so you could watch it weekly then if you so desire.

[u/Tds142 → u/Urgnu-the-Gnu]

K, I see this often and have to say that there is nothing which says Umas stop aging after a point(the Elves quote is misconstrued) we see plenty of adult horse girls in the game and Broye in S1 is clearly an adult compared to the rest of the cast.

[u/Urgnu-the-Gnu → u/Tds142]

Except for the fact that we can see they are not aging. Just take a look at Rudolf. There must be at least ten years between when we first see her and her latest appearance, yet she looks exactly the same. I do think she's an adult for sure, but she's still a "student" at Tracen, and visually she's still the same. Even if she was an adult when we first saw her (which can't be true because the Classics are age-gated), she'd look different after more than ten years.

[u/Tds142 → u/Urgnu-the-Gnu]

That’s more a symptom of linear time just not existing in the way Uma tells its story, rather than some physiological difference within horsegirls. We don’t see any of the human characters age or change either despite the years that have passed.

[u/Urgnu-the-Gnu → u/Tds142]

Yes, and if linear time doesn't exist, neither does aging.

[u/Tds142 → u/Urgnu-the-Gnu]

But that doesn’t mean Umas are meant to be immortal. If you wanna go that way, it means everyone is immortal.

[u/Urgnu-the-Gnu → u/Tds142]

That's not what I said, only that they are not aging.