Game Characters
These are the characters who appear, or were slated to appear, in the Uma Musume mobile game. Since the game includes virtually all the other named horsegirls in the franchise, if a character isn't found here, they're most likely on one of the other pages.
- Artificial Intelligence: They are guide AI within the world of the Satono Corporation's Mega Dream Supporter simulation.
- Chromatic Arrangement: The rare cyan-magenta-yellow triad.
- Cool Big Sis: Arguably, the coolest.
- Freudian Trio
- Power Trio: The power trio of the Umamusume world.
- Posthumous Character: They are long dead by the time canon rolls around.
- The McCoy: she embodies bravery, and it reflects in her being passionate and bold.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: A vertical one across her left eye.
- The Spock: she embodies order and discipline, and her demeanor is easily the coolest of the three.
- The Kirk: she embodies affection and love, thus being a middle ground between Darley's rowdy passion and Byerley's cool discipline.
- Club Stub: The next day after Oguri Cap and the veteran trainer retire, all the members except McQueen move to other teams. Due to low membership, the team is on the brink of disbanding until the three nameless horse girls and Gold Ship join.
For Oguri Cap's appearance in the anime, see Other Anime Characters.
- The Ace: Team Sirius's former ace. The prologue showcases her last race at the 1990 Arima Kinen as the player and a starry-eyed McQueen look on. Oguri and Team Sirius's veteran main trainer subsequently retire after her win, leaving the club in McQueen and the player's hands.
For Mejiro McQueen's appearance in the anime, see Team Spica.
- The Ace: With a team of 3 mobs and Gold Ship, someone has to pick up the slack. Also liberally used to refer to her throughout the scenario.
- All There in the Manual: As this is a scenario solely dedicated to McQueen, it goes over some events in her career that are not covered in the anime, the most important being her disqualification from the 1991 Fall Tennō Shō due to interference and her subsequent "slump."
- Determinator: The only member left of Team Sirius after everyone else quit after Oguri's retirement, she and the player are set on reviving the club's former glory.
- Embarrassing Hobby: Watching baseball. She thinks it is unbecoming to an Ojou.
- Family Honor: As a stayer, McQueen is expected to win the Tenno Sho from the Mejiro family. She feels a heavy burden because Tenno Sho is a meaningful race to them.
- The Hero: As the first member of the reborn Team Sirius, part 1 is dedicated entirely to McQueen's race career.
- The Mentor: To Rice Shower in part 2.
For Gold Ship's appearance in the anime, see Team Spica.
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Remains more or less fully intact with McQueen in the mobile game.
- Maou the Demon King: During the "Fantasy World Umanest" event.
- Number Two: While three unnamed fangirl horse girls also join the club after McQueen's first spring Tennō Shō win, it is really Gold Ship who stands out as a new member and de facto second.
The one called “Record-Breaking Black Assassin.” Regardless of her own intentions, she’s become a villain due to the unfortunate circumstances of her childhood, outside her control. Despite that, her personality is honest and pure. Though destiny has played a cruel joke on her, she’s a strong, beautiful girl who fights with all her strength. She’s not good at talking to guys, unless her trainer, who she would think of as a brother/sister.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: The focus of part 2, it overlaps somewhat with McQueen's scenario and where it left off. A somewhat more depressing story if one knows the context.
- Adaptation Personality Change: In contrast with the anime. As much of the game's launch dialogue was actually recorded before the anime, Rice's VA stated that she had a definite "poor thing" reaction regarding Rice's history, and voiced her as such. Upon reading the anime script, she decided to adjust the personality to be stronger. This caused a bit of mood whiplash when aspiring trainers fresh from the anime were greeted with a very meek "onii/onee-sama!" on loading.
- Big Eater: Not as much as Oguri Cap or Special Week is, but she is one of them.
- The Jinx: Because she regards herself as it, she apologizes when bad things occur to her friends.
- Stalker with a Crush: Rice's relationship with Mihono Bourbon remains somewhat intact, but a lot of the idolization part is transferred to McQueen as well in the game as they are now teammates. As the player-trainer orders Rice to train for Bourbon by shadowing McQueen, Rice takes the phrase very literally, following her everywhere and even sleeping in the same bed.
- Video Game Historical Revisionism: Subverted. While her individual character scenario lets you dodge fate, the last chapters of Rice Shower's Sirius scenario go over her two winless years after upsetting McQueen's streak, with fans speculating that she "had lost her targets and thus her motivation." Bourbon and McQueen show up right before the spring Tennō Shō two years later to give her encouragement, leading to her first win in two years and her first standing ovation from the crowd. The scenario ends with her special live there. Mercifully, as the next race would be the 1995 Takarazuka Kinen, in which Rice Shower would suffer a broken leg and be euthanized on the track, 3 years before Silence Suzuka.
For Winning Ticket's appearance in the anime, see Other Anime Characters.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: As the main character of part 3, Winning Ticket is a very cheerful departure from Rice Shower
- Ascended Fangirl: All three of them join Team Sirius specifically due of being McQueen fans.
- The Faceless: They were this until the final chapter of the first part of main story came out. That said, even upon reveal, they didn't have eyes drawn (which is lowkey hilarious, given that one of them has her eye shape as her main defining trait). They also don't have ingame 3D models either.
- The Nameless: Even inside the story, they are always referred to by their monikers based on their (purported) visual traits. Whether it's done to show they're less important or just their names will be revealed in some important story moment in the future (especially if you subscribe to the "the mob characters will later be revealed to be fill-ins" theory) is unknown.
- Prone to Tears: "The one with tareme eyes" is this.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: They are loosely based on Yuichi Fukunaga.
These horse girls aren't part of the main Story mode, but they have their own stories in the game's Training modes.
- The Fashionista: She's admired for her stylish looks and runs a salon during the Festival.
- Former Child Star: A famous child actress, now focusing primarily on her racing.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's friendly and outgoing, with her blonde hair her most distinctive feature.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: Subverted Trope. She's one of the few girls with a Racing outfit that looks like athletic gear, with sneakers instead of high heels.
- Not a Morning Person: She uses a lot of alarms to wake up in the morning but sometimes oversleeps.
- Proper Tights with a Skirt: Her racing outfit includes sensible leggings underneath her skirt.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: Famous for her beauty, and considered possibly the "cutest Horse Girl of the century".trivia
- Big Eater: She loves to eat, and jokes that anyone that trains with her should expect to gain weight.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: She towers over her near-constant companion, Biko.
- Casting Gag: Ms. Matsuzaki previously played another cheerful, perky Huge Schoolgirl in THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls.
- Foreign Exchange Student: Downplayed trope. Her bio on the website describes she came from a foreign country.
- Huge Schoolgirl: She towers over her classmates, and has a powerful build.
- Statuesque Stunner: Incredibly tall, powerfully built, and still a very cute Horse Girl.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She looks quite creepy, but actually has a very earnest personality once people get to know her.
- Eerie Paleskinned Brunette: Her pale skin, black hair, and preference for dark clothing all make her seem quite eerie when people first meet her.
- Idiot Hair: She has a single, white lock of hair that stands up in contrast to her silky, long black hair.
- I See Dead People: Not ghosts, but She can see paranormal things, including her "friend."
- Must Have Caffeine: She has a deep passion for coffee and the art of making it.
- The Quiet One: In the game, she is soft-spoken and not the most conversational person around.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: The contrast of her pale skin and dark hair is quite attractive, once people stop finding her creepy.
- Big Fancy House: She mentions her family's house is bigger than the entire Tracen Academy.
- But Now I Must Go: In her in-game training story, she must return to Ireland after three years to do her duty as a royal.
- At the Golden Ending, she returns to Japan as a "goodwill ambassador."
- Fighting Irish: Inverted Trope. Fine Motion is one of the more mild-mannered and polite Horse Girls, defying the stereotypes of hot-blooded Irish lasses.
- Foreign Exchange Student: Originally from Ireland.
- The Ingenue: A naive girl from a distinguished family, who takes joy in learning about the way common folks live.
- Mundane Object Amazement: She's obsessed with mundane things, having lived in luxury throughout her childhood. She's eager to experience the things "common people" enjoy, having been spoiled and sheltered throughout her childhood. Her obsession is Ramen noodles.
- Odd Friendship: With Air Shakur, who has the Face of a Thug.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: She is a princess of Ireland who participates in running races.note
Gyaru Girl: A member of the gyaru group with Gold City, Daitaku Helios, and Mejiro Palmer.
- Action Girl: What's the first thing she does in her character story? Why, she picks up Daiwa Scarlet's report that was blown by the wind off the top of a tree! ...damaging a wall in the process, which gets her in hot water with the student council.
- Be Yourself: In her character story, she really tries to emulate King Halonote at first but ultimately, she decides to follow her own path of becoming a real princess.
- Magical Horsegirl: A big influence on her character is a children's show revolving about magical girls that totally isn't supposed to be based on Pretty Cure titled Princess Fighter. It's the heroines from this show on which Kawakami based her concept of becoming a real princess.
- Her gacha appearance/skill activation animation also has her fight a monster, Pretty Cure-style - complete with the kicking.sidenote
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She used to be one in her childhood.
A twinkling, cute, chestnut-haired, self-proclaimed “umadol”. She’s exceedingly adorable, and undoubtedly has the cheery demeanor of an idol, though when it comes to the reason for her career she’s unbelievably motivated. She has a dreamlike aura about her. Day and night she dreams of being a top “umadol,” and devotes special training just for practicing her smile and cute, moe poses in the mirror. Her forte is her superb evasion skills on dirt and sand racetracks. Due to having been at the bottom rank of her local series for a long period of time, she’s actually gained a quite a bit of experience through hard work.
- Affectionate Nickname: "Fal-co"
- Idol Singer: Her aspiration is to become one (in her terms, an umadol). She also is the leader of Nigekiri Sisters, the Idol group that consists of five front runners.
- The Dreaded: Most trainers are terrified of her, to the point of using a lottery to decide who works with her.trivia
- Face of a Thug: She has a fierce appearance, but is actually a calculating and logical person who's skilled with computers.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Her perfectionist and dismissive attitude drives trainers away from her. Despite this, she goes far out of her way to help other students, especially Meisho Doto and Fine Motion.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: The final chapter of the A Patchwork's Farewell event is dedicated to Shakur's insecurities over Fine Motion's eventual departure. She goes as far as to offer (in character as a demon) to spirit Fine into hell if it means they won't have to say goodbye.
- Stage Name: Produces music online under the username !monad.
- Grade Skipper: It is explicitly mentioned in her profile that her talent let her skip a few gradesnote . While in junior high, she's the age of an elementary school student.
- Ship Tease: She is depicted with Seiun Sky in a support card artwork, and she has a fairly important support event with Agnes Tachyon.note
- Token Mini-Moe: While she's not quite as 'mini' as Tamamo Cross, she definitely ramped the 'moe' factor high.
- Class Representative: The head of the Disciplinary Committee, technically.
- Hot-Blooded
- Martial Arts Headband: She wears one written 夢(dream) when being in school uniform.
- The Rival: She regards many as her rivals: Oguri Cap in racing, Sakura Bakushin O in leadership, Biko Pegasus in peacekeeping, and Matikane Fukukitaru in picking winning popsicles. Because Mejiro Ryan achieved a longer streak of successful free throws than her, she became Bamboo's 39th rival.
A horse girl who is a self-styled witch. She’s quite stubborn, almost never listens to coaching, and crosses her arms when she doesn’t get her way. Sometimes she’ll even stay that way for 30 minutes without moving. Her favorite anime is called “Mahou Shoujo Sweepy” and she’s always wanted to become a magical girl like Sweepy. She thinks of Trainers as her magical familiars, So she calls her Trainer "Familiar".
- Bratty Half-Pint: Out of all the younger horse girls, Sweep is easily the hardest to deal with - running away in the middle of class, mouthing off to pretty much everybody, trying to get "revenge" (in the form of pranks) on Fuji Kiseki, the dorm supervisor, and refusing to eat her veggies.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: In parallel to how ill-tempered the real Sweep Tosho was with her jockey Kenichi Ikezoe, she doesn't treat her dad very well. She never listens to anything he says and hangs up on him mid-call, for starters.
- Doing In the Wizard: Although the ears on her hat move and twitch realistically, they aren't her real ears - those are concealed in the cone of the hat. More to the point, considering her theme, one would expect the hat to be magical, but it's actually animatronic.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: And she even gives all of her stuffed animals names!
- Magical Horsegirl: Self-proclaimed one, at least. Of the witch variety.
- Robe and Wizard Hat: Her racing outfit. She also wears the hat whenever she's in her school uniform - and also whilst swimming. It's said to be made by her grandmother.
- Signature Headgear: Her witch hat. Ironically, she doesn't wear it in her casual outfit.
- Tsundere: To be expected since Tsundere was one of her real-life inspiration's nicknames.
- You Go, Girl!: Or at least the closest you can get to this trope in regards to a One-Gender Race. Early in her training scenario, Sweep overhears and confronts two museum patrons discussing how it's only natural that horse girls who go the Triple Tiara routenote aren't as strong as those who participate in Triple Crown racesnote . This angers her and motivates her to prove that horse girls who run in Triple Tiara races are just as strong as those who run in Triple Crown races. And like her real life counterpart, she ends up achieving this by becoming the first Tiara route horse girl to win the Takarazuka Kinen in 39 years.
- Verbal Tic: Ends many sentences with "nano(なの)."
- Class Representative: She is proud of being one.
- Crippling Overspecialization: In-game, this is invoked in her training mode by the player, tricking her into all sorts of hijinks to dissuade her from running in races other than short distance. It is downplayed in the actual gameplay, since her distance rating for miles are not that badnote .
- The Ditz: To an extreme degree. For instance, in the game, she really wants to win a long-distance race, but can't do it to save her life, so her trainer convinces her that running three short races over the course of a couple of months counts as a single long-distance race.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Has cherry blossom-shaped pupils to match her name.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Like Special Week, her formal racing outfit includes shoes of mismatched colors.
- Forehead of Doom: Her forehead is... very prominently displayed.
- Fragile Speedster: The races in her story mode in the game are all shorts and miles, so pretty much her only build would forgo stamina and guts in favor of speed. This, along with skill choices, will result in her being blinding fast but unable to keep it for long distances.
- Good Luck Charm: She has a lance piece of Shōgi as her charm.
- Hot-Blooded: Always loud and spirited.
- Lethal Chef: Her SSR support card events reveal that she has no concept of cooking beyond using the highest possible flame to cook as quickly as possible, resulting in her failing at making a sandwich. She eventually gets better with the help of a very patient Nishino Flower.
- Lethal Joke Character: Most of Sakura Bakushin O's events basically make her the butt of the joke(s) by showing the results of her utter obliviousness and twin obsessions with (a) being the Class Representative and (b) speed. Further, her basic aptitudes make it clear that she can't run more than a mile without slowing to a crawl. However, her stats, skills and missions make her campaign the easiest one of all the starters, since the player just has to train for pure speed at every opportunity. Because of this, she's the most likely to reach the end of the campaign and bonus stage, gaining a considerable amount of bonus stats along the way and becoming the average new player's strongest hall-of-famer.
- Man Versus Machine: She calls a high-speed train her rival and tries outrunning It in one of Random Events. Of course, she fails.
- Memetic Mutation: On account of her Lethal Joke Character status, Japanese players have nicknamed the pure-speed/frontrunner build, and its fans, the "Church of Bakushin" (バクシン教, bakushin-kyou). note
- Meaningful Name: In Japanese, Bakushin(驀進) means a dash. That's why she constantly says "Bakushin!" Isn't it a fitting name for her?
- At the end of the first summer training camp, Bakushin boasts to her trainer that if she can't win the Sprinters Stakes, her name will be just "Sakura O."
- She Knows About Timed Hits: There are official tutorial videos in which she explains the game's system.
- Walk on Water: Played for Laughs. She runs across the water on the PakaTube.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: Had a twin sister who died before birth, which is her motivation to become the best runnernote .
- The Chew Toy: In TM Opera O's in-game storyline, Admire Vega gets unwillingly strong-armed into playing the Heel role.
- The Comically Serious: Her quiet demeanor doesn't get in the way of joining TM Opera O and Curren Chan's usual antics.
- Deadpan Snarker: She really has a venomous mouth sometimes, and she delivers most of her lines while using her normal or bored expression.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: During Road To The Top she gradually opens up to Top Road and TM Opera O.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Considering her issues with her dead sister this is not exactly surprising.
- Emotionless Girl: The "emotionally repressed" type.
- From Bad to Worse: During episode 3 of the Road to the Top web anime, Ayabe's mental condition gets worse and worse. At the beginning of the episode, she realizes she enjoyed the Japanese Derby, forgetting about her sister. That makes her feel guilty, isolate herself from her friend Curren-chan, and overtrain herself. When her sister warns her leg will be crippled after the Kikka Sho, Ayabe laughs with blank eyes and tells her she will sacrifice her legs for her sister.Admire Vega: I get it now. So I am getting punished after all. Fine. You can break it. If the Kikka Sho is going to be my last... then so be it. The victories, the cheers... All of it is yours. I will win for your sake. I'll give you everything.
- Hidden Depths: Despite her dull and heavy personality, she loves fluffy things very much.
- In-Series Nickname: "Ayabe", which is a combination of "adomaiya" (Admire) and "bega" (Vega).
- Ineffectual Loner: Shrugs off the Trainer and Curren Chan's attempts to befriend her, party because of her poor social skills, and partly because she thinks her sister would have deserved that kindness more than her. It takes until near the end of her route until she finally does accept the Trainer, and even then it's reluctantly.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In her backstory, she was surprisingly eager and cheerful during her first race, which surprises her, as she's usually gloomy and quiet. After she discovers the existence of her twin sister, she realizes she was briefly possessed by her. From now on, she decides to become the best runner, in honor of her dead sister.
- Survivor Guilt: About the death of her twin sister.
- Talking to the Dead: Claims to speak with the spirit of her dead sister.
- The Quiet One: She doesn't talk much.
An exceedingly precocious and modern girl. She’s so casual with trainers that she’s liable to just refer to them as “onii-chan/onee-chan”. Though she’s a bit naive, she shows incredible ability once flattered. She’s unbeatable when running short distances, where she looks a flash of light.
- Crippling Overspecialization: Her in-game ratings and story mode progression are arguably more specialized for short sprints than Bakushin.
- Nice Girl: She's extremely sweet, reflecting the temperament of the real horse who was likened to a puppy dog.
- Punny Name: Before you ask, yes, her name is supposed to be pronounced like "Karen-chan". (This is the name of the daughter of real!Curren's owner.)
- Selfie Fiend: She's an extremely active influencer on Umastagram and Umatter. Her unique skill in the game even has a hashtag for a name: #LookAtCurren
- Jack of All Trades: Reflecting the career of the horse she's based on, she's a versatile horsegirl capable of tackling races on both turf and dirt.
- Loony Fan: Usually shown fangirling over the other horse girls.
- Overly Long Scream: Lets one out when she realizes she can be an all-rounder and race with horse girls on any track.
- Yuri Fan: Loses her mind any time two horse girls get close with each other.
- Feeling Their Age: In her training story, Chiyono O reaches her physical peak early. She continuously feels her physical strength declines during the senior year.
- Friendly Rivalry: Mejiro Ardan and Yaeno Muteki are her close friends and rivals.
- No Poker Face: She can't win in Old Maid because of it.
- Cast from Stamina: The unique skill of her original outfit consumes stamina but increases speed.
- Delicate and Sickly: This franchise has many Fragile Speedsters but she is notably sickly. She has been hospitalized several times.
- During her training story, she gets a penalty if you have her participate in the race twice in a row.
- Friendly Rivalry: Sakura Chiyono O and Yaeno Muteki are her close friends and rivals.
- Successful Sibling Syndrome: While she hung out in hospitals, her elder sister Mejiro Ramonu won the Tripple Tiara for the first time. It drives her even more.
- Friendly Rivalry: Sakura Chiyono O and Mejiro Ardan are her close friends and rivals.
- Reformed Bully: When she was little, Yaeno Muteki was an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy who used to beat other kids. Her grandfather, the master of Kongo Yaegaki-ryu, taught her his martial arts and methods to control her temper.
- Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: In the lobby, she sometimes confesses that she did it that morning.
- The Klutz: She trips already at her first appearance in Dober's training event.
- Mellow Fellow
- The Ojou: While most of the Mejiro family qualifies as this to lesser or larger extent, she's the epitomization of this trope.
- Super Gullible: She is so kind enough to almost fall for a ridiculous 419 Scam. At first, she gets a mail from "a prince of a kingdom" proposing some money. Bright denies it because she doesn't want to receive money from a stranger. Then the scammer sends her another mail insisting he received injuries and lost all his money in the accident. When the trainer tells her it is a scam, she is only relieved the accident wasn't real.
- The Gadfly: She likes pranks, including biting others. Real Shinko Windy is known for a habit of biting others. He actually bit one of his competitors in the 1996 Super Dirt Derby and lost the race.
- Harmless Villain: She styles herself as a villain, but she is not so bad.
- Scary Teeth
- Spoiled Brat: Shinko Windy is the daughter of an enterpriser. When she was little, both her parents and their employees praised Windy for everything she did. But nobody praised her in kindergarten. So the Windy became The Gadfly wants attention.
- Verbal Tic: She frequently ends her sentence with "noda(のだ)" or "nanoda(なのだ)."
- Bookworm: A fan of literature of various types, from fiction to historical.
- Named After Somebody Famous: She is named after Rob Roy MacGregor, a Scottish folk hero. This is confirmed by her support card artwork and her racing costume.
- Token Mini-Moe: She is very small, probably just a hair taller than Tamamo Cross.
- The Gambler: Tries to lay bets on everything and anything, up to and including living dangerously by refusing to pack an umbrella when the weather forecast shows a 90% chance of rain. This is particularly unusual considering that the sport of horse-racing in the Umamusume world is a Bowdlerized version which doesn't allow gambling.
- Game of Chicken: In the first episode of her personal story, her (future) trainer does it to save her from thugs.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Her elementary school teacher is based on racehorse Nakayama Festa's first owner Nobuko Izumi.
- Signature Headgear: Usually seen wearing a beanie.
- Thrill Seeker: Since she was young. It had made her a teen rebel until her elementary school teacher suggested that she enter Tracen. Overlaps with Challenge Seeker.
- Superboss: If you have Sakura Chiyono O participate in the senior Arima Kinen in her training story, Mr. C.B. with shockingly high stats greets her.
- The Quiet One: She likes to stay quiet a lot, to the point her very first anime appearance rendered her as The Voiceless.
- Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Bears some resemblance to Japanese comedian Kanako Yanagihara. It's worth noting that the real horse's groom likened her to Yanagihara due to her shapely body and pretty face.
- Friend to All Living Things: Machan goes well with many animals, so she names and makes them her friends. These friends include Fluffy the dove, Chloe the crow, Hattori Shinobimaru the feral cat, and Arimura the ant.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Vodka and Daiwa Scarlet.
- Funny Background Event: Her entire screentime in the game's 1st anniversary PV involves constant photobombing.
- Immortality Through Memory: Since she has seen many deaths in her mother's hospital, Aston Machan doesn't fear it. Her real fear is that being forgotten after it.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the 1.5th anniversary story, the way she stares at the camera during Tokai Teio's video shoot and asking everyone if they remember her implies she may know about the existence of the players.
- Mascot: It's her goal. To be a mascot character and be remembered by everyone forever.
- Never Say "Die": During her training story, Machan uses the phrase "to reach the sea" to describe death.
- Ret-Gone: Her training story gets eerie after March of the Senior year when everyone starts to act like she doesn't exist and to forget her. At last, even her trainer forgets about Machan until they see her prototype doll. In real life, racehorse Aston Machan died then.
- Subliminal Advertising: In one of her training events, Machan tries it by sneaking into several broadcasts on the street. She needs an additional measure as she is considered a kind of Urban Legends.
- We All Die Someday: As the daughter of a doctornote , Machan visited her mother's workplace many times. She learned it from there.Aston Machan: Because my mother is a doctor. The hospital was like the playground to Machan. In the hospital, lives flow. From upstream to downstream. Everyone is born, flows, and reaches the sea. There is no exception. I, you, and Mr. Fluffy reach the sea someday. It's as natural as you need oxygen to breathe, as you can't grasp clouds, and as the sun sets in the evening. So I'm not sad now.
- Early-Bird Cameo: A character based on Yamanin Zephyr (and credited as such on Amazon Prime stream) appears in Season 2. Unlike Narita Top Road, however, she has been heavily redesigned by the time she was officially revealed.
- Country Mouse: Like Special Week, she's from a rural area - specifically from Iwate, which is where her prototype started her career - and considered something of a country bumpkin.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: Her racing outfit looks better suited to going ice skating in the winter, for no apparent reason other than the Visual Pun (see below)
- Plucky Girl: She's hardworking and energetic, always determined to do her best in all things.
- The Rival: To Haru Urara of all people.
- Simpleton Voice: She tries to speak with a dialect more suited to the big city, but sometimes slips into her rural dialect.
- Visual Pun: With her literally name meaning "Snow Beauty", no wonder her outfit looks heavily ice skating-inspired.
- The Ojou: Complete with the stereotypical drill hair.
- Ambiguously Brown
- Face of a Thug: In the Second Episode of Umayuru.
- Determinator: She gets over her congenital leg problem without giving up.
- Hero of Another Story: She's the protagonist of Uma Musume: Star Blossom, a manga detailing her career (and the problems she overcomes on the way).
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: She seems a bit too aware of our real-life universe. She often mentions an "observer through the window" who is implied to be you, the player.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: It's heavily stressed in her bio. (The real Miracle really loathed training, often trying to throw off whoever was riding him)
- Chuunibyou: Can be considered as an Evil Eye type. She uses her own terminology generously.
- Eyepatch of Power: On her right eye.note
- There Was a Door: A Running Gag has her destroy fences, a habit of the real Gimlet.
- Character Catchphrase: "Marvelous!"
- Exotic Eye Designs: Like Matikanefukukitaru, she has stars for pupils.
- Country Mouse: A Farm Girl from the countryside.
- Friendly Rivalry: With Mr. C.B.
- Hot-Blooded: No matter what she hears, she wouldn't give up her goal of defeating her rivals, being the best, and showing everyone what the Country Mouse can do.
- Even the Girls Want Her: She is known for her natural charisma. Her SR card also shows several girls surrounding and gazing at her with heart-shaped eyes.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She acts as the leader of many "problem children" because she doesn't want them to get left behind for their problems.Sirius Symboli: Watch their faces. You saw them, didn't you? All of them broke rules or curfews. They have to write a ridiculous amount of apology letters every day. There is no time to train themselves properly. That's why I'm caring for them in here.Air Groove: But... they broke rules. Rules must be followed for the academy to remain well.Sirius Symboli: Do you mean they can get kicked out of the school for the rule? Huh. I don't agree it. This academy ranks everything. And once you break a rule, you are done there, even if you have no choice. You won't keep up with others then. In other words, "the rule" of this academy disregard student's reasons. According to "the rule," they all should be doomed. Am I wrong?
- We Used to Be Friends: She was Symboli Rudolf's close friend until she turned to her rival.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The blond to Admire Vega's (and, to a lesser extent, Meisho Doto's) Brunette and TM Opera O's Redhead.
- Class Representative: More typical than Baukushin.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She is very briefly seen during the race in S1 E13, years before her official reveal.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She is this, being often praised for her fair play attitude.trivia
- Friend to All Children: Her SSR card portrays her playing the piano for hospitalized children.
- I Owe You My Life: She was born Delicate and Sickly and brushed with death two times. So, she wants to repay everyone who helped her survive.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Her real-life counterpart suffered a fatal fracture in the 1991 Sprinters Stakes and was euthanized that day. However, in her in-game training story, her trainer notices she is overtaxing herself and refuses to declare her for the classic Sprinters Stakes.
- Foreign Exchange Student: She came from America to enter Tracen the same day she watched the broadcast of Katsuragi Ace's victory in the Japan Cup.
- Only in It for the Money: Tap Dance City knows that life is full of parting. Her friends will be parted from her for many practical reasons. But she also knows what can make them meet again.
- Poirot Speak: As an American, she sometimes uses English phrases.
- Gratituous Chinese: She has an older sister, to whom she refers as "jiějiě"
- Anime Hair: She wears her hair in a short, spiky style similar to the standard Shounen anime protagonist. note
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Tiny and almost always with the much taller Hishi Akebono.
- Cute Bruiser: She's tiny, but a powerhouse that loves to imitate her favorite action series.
- Hot-Blooded: Just like the Toku heroes she idolizes, Biko is loud and passionate about everything.
- Otaku Surrogate: She's a cute, shamelessly geeky girl who loves anime and Toku series.
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses: She takes off her glasses when she gets serious.
These horse girls are named after their real-life counterparts but are not yet playable. Most of them can be included in the player's team only as supporting characters.
- Hero of Another Story: She is the protagonist of the movie Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era.
- Girly Bruiser: She is an Ojou who can crack nuts with her toes and can compress a metal ball with her bare hands.
- Samurai: As the ex-racehorse No Reason takes part in the old Japanese festival Soma Nomaoi, the horse girl No Reason becomes the samurai-themed character.
- True Final Boss: In the Arc scenario. If you win classic Arc, an extremely buffed Montjeu will appear in the senior Arc on top of Venus Park and Rigantona.
- Color-Coded Characters: She has white hair, her eyes are pale-colored, and her racing costume is brightly colored (white with ivory accents). Safe to say white is her color.
- Original Generation: She and her trainer first appeared in the mobile game. She also wasn't explicitly based on any particular real-life horsenote
- Shrinking Violet: Notably quite subservient to her trainer.
- Spell My Name With An S: She doesn't have any official romanization to her name other than the link to her character page, which renders her name as "Happy Mik". Most Westerners render her name as Happy Meek, though.
- Loner-Turned-Friend: Her flashback shows she hasn't understood Team Spirit. For this reason, she hated team matches until Kashimoto got her to her team that doesn't need to care about other teammates. But, in the latter part of the Aoharu Hai scenario, she develops a degree of team spirit.
- Ineffectual Loner
- Original Generation: She and her trainer first appeared in the mobile game. She also wasn't explicitly based on any particular real-life horse.
- Pet the Dog: She is unsociable but can feed rabbits with a smile.Little Cocon: You are cute. Fufu. Enjoy yourself.Bitter Glasse: Is she Little Cocon? Oh, can she smile? Or did I mistake someone else?
- Satellite Character: Within the game's story mode, Bitter Glasse and her are practically inseparable. They, too, seemed to orbit around Riko Kashimoto.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: After they hear about the past of Kashimoto from Akikawa, Team First trains themselves on their own without Kashimoto's instruction. It is against her policy, but to help her overcome her past.
- Ambiguously Brown: She is notably darker in skin tone compared to most. This is most apparent when she is beside Little Cocon.
- Anime Hair: Her hair is short and spiky, similar to Biko Pegasus.
- Original Generation: She and her trainer first appeared in the mobile game. She also wasn't explicitly based on any particular real-life horse.
- Satellite Character: Within the game's story mode, Little Cocon and her are practically inseparable. They, too, seemed to orbit around Riko Kashimoto.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: After they hear about the past of Kashimoto from Akikawa, Team First trains themselves on their own without Kashimoto's instruction. It is against her policy, but to help her overcome her past.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: She is very likely based on Treve, a famous French racemare who won two Arcs in a row. Her line about her being undefeated at the time of classic Arc heavily supports this - Treve won her first Arc while undefeated.
- Ambiguously Brown
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: She is very likely based on Dancing Brave, one of the most legendary European racehorses (also King Halo's sire - note the similarity in hair colour of Rigantona and King Halo the horsegirl). The name being also the one of a Celtic goddess may be a reference to Dancing Brave being British-trained.
The current chairman of Tokyo Tracen Academy.
- Ambiguously Human: She has some traits similar to a horse girl, and her head being covered by her sun hat really isn't helping to solve the case. Fans have speculated she might be based on Northern Taste, a legendary horse that produced many champions for Japan's racing scene. Northern Taste was also a good friend to the cats on his farm.
- Benevolent Boss: Crossover with Money Dumb.
- According to in-game lore, the rewards of daily missions come out of her own pocket.
- In a 1-koma manga during loading, she plans to build a giant spa in the school for students. Of course, Tazuna rejects it.
- According to a trivia during loading, she once tried providing conveyor belt sushi as one of the school meals but others prevented her.
- Right-Hand Cat: Non-villainous example; her kitten is usually perched on her hat.
- Older Than They Look: She leads Tracen Academy despite looking like a secondary school student.
- Back-Alley Doctor: Or rather, an acupuncturist. Despite her claims, someone who intruded on your school out of nowhere offering acupuncture that might not even work is definitely suspicious.
- Death or Glory Attack: Her campaign event lets you choose to make her perform a treatment on your horse girl to gain beneficial boosts such as stats increase or gaining recovery skills. The catch is that it doesn't always work, and if it fails, your horse girl will suffer from energy and mood drop (and on some choices, even get an illness). Cautious trainers can also play it safe and completely refuse her offer.
- Original Generation: She first appeared in the mobile game.
- Punny Name: In Japanese Anshin(安心) means relief, the one she never gives to you. Wow, Anshin☆
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Pulls this when you refuse her treatment, due to being found out by Tazuna as an intruder.
- Shown Their Work: Her acupuncture is based on Sasabari(笹針), the actual Japanese bloodletting for horses. Symboli Rudolf was one of those that received this treatment. It still remains, but JRA prohibits performing Sasabiri on their racehorses since April 2022.
Chairman Akikawa's secretary.
- Ambiguously Human: One of the early concept art showed her with horse girl ears, and her 4koma strip had her catching up with a Special Week sprinting in full speed. Fans have speculated she might be based on Tokino Minoru, a legendary '50s racehorse.
A rookie trainer who trains Happy Meek. Kiryuin joined Tracen almost the same time you did and appears URA Finals scenario as your friendly rival.
- Family Business: She is one of the Kiryuin family, known as many prominent trainers. They even have their own book about training horse girls.
- Original Generation: Happy Meek and her first appeared in the mobile game.
- Satellite Character: Within the game's story mode, Happy Meek and her are practically inseparable.
- Intrepid Reporter: Though in the game she usually just gives you some points on the stat you are currently training your horse on.
- Living Out a Childhood Dream: She is a major character in the Make a New Track scenario. When she was little, Her horsegirl friend always defeated her in the race. The horsegirl fascinated her, and little Otonashi believed she was the best. But when her friend lost the school representative selection race and couldn't be the representative, she had to quit the race according to her promise to her mother. Otonashi, who still believes her friend was better than the winner, has wondered what if the race wasn't a single round. And now, she plans and announces the Twinkle Star Climax, the series of three consecutive races to determine the best.
- Mistaken for Profound: When you tell her that you will help your horse girl's dreams come true, she thinks you will devote all of yours to her dreams.
- Omniglot: According to in-game trivia, she can speak seven languages.
- Original Generation: She first appeared in the mobile game.
- Athletically Challenged: She has confidence that she can do above average in anything...but physical activity.
- In a Make a New Track Random Event, Little Cocon, Bitter Glasse, and Happy Meek argue about whose is the better trainer. When Meek asserts Kiryuin can perform parkour, Glasse backs down with a laugh, and Cocon desperately claims Kashimoto managed to do a forward roll lately.
- Failure Knight: Her opinions in the Aoharu Hai scenario are based on her experience. When she was a trainer, her horse girl asked her for additional training for the Aoharu Hai. Kashimoto permitted it for her friendship with teammates, but the overtraining caused a stress fracture, ending the horse girl's career. After that incident, she has controlled her horse girls strictly to protect them.
- The Heavy: In the Aoharu Hai scenario, she insists on strict control over the students and abolishment of the Aoharu Hai. This new policy provokes backlash from students. So she proposes to her opponents led by Taiki Shuttle the bet that will determine Tracen's policy. You have to train Taiki and the other girls' team to defeat Kashimoto's Team First in the Aoharu Hai.
- Hero Antagonist: She isn't bad at all, though she is The Heavy of the Aoharu Hai scenario.
- Lady in a Power Suit: The acting chairwoman of the academy in a nice suit.
- Original Generation: First appeared alongside Little Cocon and Bitter Glasse in the Aoharu Hai arc of the game.
- Satellite Character: Within the game's Aoharu Hai story mode, Little Cocon and Bitter Glasse seemed to orbit around her.
- She's Back: Regardless of who wins in the Aoharu Hai, she overcomes her past thanks to Team First and returns to the trainer job.
- Technician Versus Performer: She insists on controlling horse girls of the academy strictly against Tracen's original policy.
- Abhorrent Admirer: See Stalker with a Crush. Judging by Air Groove's reaction, she is clearly not amused.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: She's clearly based on Pilsudski, the real Fine Motion's half-brother.
- Stalker with a Crush: In the game, she sends Air Groove presents and calls her via Fine's phone, fawning over her in Purple Prose.
- The Voice: While Air Groove and Fine Motion mention her briefly in conversation, and she is "heard" (in text only) over the phone, she's never seen on screen.
- Good All Along: In Admire Vega's training story and the web anime, she is depicted as having a grudge against Ayabe. But later, it reveals she has none of that and has always been happy to run with her sister.
- Posthumous Character: She died before birth, but some of her remains in her sister.
- No Name Given: At the time of the PV, none of the horsegirls was explicitly named. Fans have identified the scrapped ones since, but in this section, their "names" will be shown in quotes due to this trope.
- Girl Next Door: She's heavily implied to be intended as that, given her relatively ordinary clothes.
- The Bus Came Back: A horsegirl very similar to her in design is seen in the background of Nakayama Festa's SSR cardnote . (Nevertheless, she wasn't still explicitly named, meaning she'll likely remain in this section)
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She fits this trope to a T.
- Ambiguously Brown: Very likely a shoutout to the namesake of her prototype...
- Covert Pervert: All of her short PV screentime involves her chasing after Hishi Amazon. Yeah.note
- Ms. Fanservice: Her original design featured a quite skimpy outfit, not to mention her... outstanding jugs.
- Mask of Power: A very interesting inversion in that it's taking the mask off makes her suddenly dash off rather than putting it on, resulting in...
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Seriously. That scene has to be seen to be believed.
- Fiery Redhead: Well, more like Fiery Chestnuthead, but she fits nevertheless.