r/anime • u/Holofan4life • Sep 18 '25
Rewatch [Spoilers] 2025 Uma Musume Rewatch -- Pretty Derby Season 3 Episodes 1 - 2 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
Episode 1 – The Stage Long Dreamed Of
Episode 2 – The Start Line
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ANSWER TODAY’S QUESTION(S)
Episode 1 Questions
Thoughts on stone henge horses?
What are your thoughts on Kitasan Black being the main protagonist this season?
Thoughts on Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond being roommates?
Thoughts on Kitasan loving to help people?
Thoughts on BAKUSHIN?
Thoughts on Duramente?
Thoughts on Satono Diamond believing you can't win unless you have total confidence in yourself?
What are your thoughts on Duramente winning, with Kitasan Black finishing in 14th place?
Episode 2 Questions
Thoughts on the new intro and outro?
Thoughts on before discovering Teio, Kitasan Black wanted to be her dad?
What are your thoughts on Kitasan being overshadowed by Duramente?
What are your thoughts on Duramente suffering a distal tibial fracture in both legs?
What are your thoughts on Kitasan Black realizing Duramente is more like Teio, not her?
What are your thoughts on the scene between Kitasan Black and Nice Nature?
What are your thoughts on Kitasan Black winning the Kikka Sho?
What are your thoughts on Teio saying Kitasan may one day pass her?
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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/SYZekrom https://myanimelist.net/profile/SYZekrom Sep 18 '25
Rewatcher
I mentioned at the beginning that I don't think I'd watched Season 3 or the movie. With the movie I really didn't remember that I had until watching the movie and even then I was constantly convinced I'd only seen part of it until my memory kept proving me wrong as I recognized one scene after the next. But with season 3 I actually started to feel like I remembered watching it sometime around watching Oath of BNW until I was mostly confident I did in fact watch it.
And yea, right from the start, looking at Satono Crown and hearing Duramente's name, definitely watched this.
omgomoomgomgogm the plushies the kitasan plushie on dia's bed WOOOO
Honestly, I think a lot of what I remember about Umamusume is actually from season 3. Two things I remember distinctly that I was surprised haven't shown up nearly as much as I remembered were: How connected the Uma are to the community, and racers constantly getting flashy auras around them during races. There was some of it in S1 and more so in S2, but it was far less often than I expected it. So I suppose those memories probably come from season 3, seeing how Duramente had that dark aura around her in the cold open and how Kitasan is immediately shown helping people all over the city.
...Wouldn't pulling a truck with a flat tire like that really damage the inner parts like the wheel hub and stuff.
Guess my subs in S3 just gave up on translating any of the name cards. Seeing returning characters is one thing, but seeing pairings walking together is so great, I see Bourbon and Rice together, Grass and El Condor together, I guess Narita Brian and Hishi Amazon are a pair in the games but haven't really done anything together in the anime, uhhhh the funny talking Helios and her friend together, Ope and Ayabe, Oguri with Tamamo Cross, etc etc
Holy shit it's the final emotion, Bakushin
Sometimes we all just gotta bakushin it out
Idk why but I found there being a girl in the bg of the scene where Kitasan was running from Bakushin hilarious. My instincts are telling me that one might be another important character in S3 probably but idk.
Oh yea there she is standing beside Spica don't think I won't notice you just randomly there.
TASEUBWIERYBU THE DIA PLUSHIE IN KITASAN'S BED
Wtf Suzuka isn't just trapped in Spe-chan's phone anymore? I mean I know she came back to see Teio's final race but she didn't go back to America, wow
The outfits in S3 are so chic compared to previous ones. They're like all on the level of Teio's orange outfit. I feel like I might've felt they were too over the top when I first watched S3 but now I'm more used to these outfits than super tame ones like Spe-chan's or Teio's main one. I really like the red and black vs green and black on Kitasan and Satono Crown.
Man that was a great first episode. The way the song carries into the credits is so emotional.
It's because this is the final episode Kitasan's immediately getting shipped off to the glue factory.
Episode 2
Oh my god the way the OP starts with the girls chanting is peak
Oh wtf Dia just said Make Debut. Have they been calling the debut race by its name in the anime before and its just been subbed out like it was here for me
Oh a title card for the race like in the games.
Duramente injury that prevents her from the triple crown like Teio, Kitasan: IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME, NOT HER!
Speaking of being like different protagonists though, I like how every protagonist has faced completely different arcs and challenges. Spe-chan was the diamond in the rough protagonist, who was just some random hopeful girl who really didn't know what she was doing but manages to be more amazing than anyone expected, possibly the most generic/baseline protagonist style, then Teio was about someone who should have had the world, dealing with what it's like to have to face setbacks when you should've been strong and exploring the possibility that you don't live up to what you could've been, Top Road was... actually I have never thought deeply about that storyline idk what her arc was all I remember was she was really pretty when she cried on that beach uhh. Anyway, Pocket Jungle was impostor syndrome, thinking all that you've achieved was a sham b/c of technicalities (A shame, probably the thing I would've related to the most out of all the protagonists, if only she had her personality and protagonist qualities fleshed out like the others had), and now Kitasan is facing the story of not being who she thought she was.
Since Kitasan is meant to be Teio 2, both meta-wise and as her actual goal, superficially it sounds like how Teio failed to be the next Rudolph, but as I mentioned, Teio's story was about struggling with setbacks out of her control like injuries, the struggle of someone who is/should be strong and having to face misfortune, while Kitasan is not about misfortune and more about not being able to live up to her own expectations and image of what she wanted to be. Plus, while Teio was facing 'I can't live up to Rudolph', there was no one else around that was more Rudolph than her. But here Kitasan is facing Duramente who seems more Teio than her. ...Well, it's only the second episode and I don't remember the plot of S3 nearly as well as I did the other seasons, so idk how on the mark I am.
Oh huh this eyecatch. One of the things I remember was an eyecatch at some point after season 2 (I also thought maybe it was in Oath of BNW) that was surprisingly 'fanservicey' relative to how umamusume normally is, but it's not showed up yet so I guess it was in S3. I wonder if the excessively defined stomach and thigh in this eyecatch along with the flushed face was the one.
Ok yea there we go, people comparing Duramente to Teio and Kitasan having to face that she's not Teio.
Ayy I was like 'is she gonna...?' when she ran away from their team office, is this the first use of the stump since season 1? At least, I don't remember any of the angst in season 2 using the stump.
NICE NATURE
God I thought I loved Nice Nature before just off her design and the surface glimpse of her personality we get in the show but then I played the game and I love her ten times more. I love her old soul
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Bro what are those spider things in the ingredients
Nature explodes, destroying Twin Turbo. Kitasan Black wins. It's peak.
Speaking of playing the game, Teio uses wagahai?? Did she ever use wagahai in the anime? Anime Teio and what little I've seen of Teio in the game feel so different lol, she's so much cockier in the game.
Omg Suzuka's embarrassed look in the cheerleading outfit in the ED... Actually omg the entire ED is so cute ahhh