Other Anime Characters
This page is for characters credited in the Uma Musume anime (seasons 1, 2, and the BNW OVA) who aren't part of the two main teams. Characters who cameoed but are not credited may be found on the Manga Characters or Game Characters pages (other than Kin'iro Ryoutei, who really doesn't fit anywhere else). BNW
A trio of senior Champions, known to the school by their group initials.
- A Day in the Limelight: Both season 1 OVA and chapter 3 of the game's main story are this to them.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: It chases them in episode 7 of Umayon.
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Biwa Hayahide
Behold it! This is my "equation of victory"!
Birthday: March 10th.
Height: 171cm (5' 7")
Voiced by: Yui Kondo
- Cool Big Sis: She's the older sister of Narita Brian, and shares a close bond in spite of their opposing personalities.
- Freudian Trio: The cool, collected Superego of the group.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Downplayed Trope. The sisters are polar opposites, and have a strong bond but are fierce rivals on the track. She is the more outgoing and elegant of the pair, and her sister's greatest challenge.
- Happy Holidays Dress: Wears one in her Christmas alt.
- Impossibly-Low Neckline: Her aforementioned Happy Holidays Dress hangs off her shoulders. Hayahide herself even expresses concern about it falling off in one of her homescreen lines.
- Purple Is Powerful: Wears an all-purple racing outfit, and she's certainly impressive.
- Running Gag: She claims that her head isn't big multiple times in both the anime and the game.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's a centimeter taller than Gold Ship, who is the tallest on Team Spica.
- Stoic Spectacles: She wears glasses, and is notable for her cool and intellectual personality.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She loves, LOVES bananas. (Just like her prototype.
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Narita Taishin
I'll show them...! Even I...can win.
Birthday: June 10th.
Height: 145cm (4' 9")
Voiced by: Keiko Watanabe
- Fashionable Asymmetry: In her racing outfit she only wears a jean on her left leg.
- Flash Step: Played for Laughs, when she effortlessly dodges Gold Ship's attempts to kidnap her.
- Freudian Trio: The balancing Ego of the group.
- Good Luck Charm: She wears a traditional horseshoe as a necklace.
- Ineffectual Loner
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She comes across as very harsh and unfriendly, but is actually a caring friend deep down.
- The Napoleon: She was bullied for her small body when she was little. It's clear this experience didn't improve her social skills.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: Her nickname comes from how unexpectedly strong she is, compared to her small size.
- Red Baron: "Demon Leg Taishin"
- Success as Revenge: Taishin, who was a victim of bullies, entered Tracen to be more successful than them.
Winning Ticket
Uaaaaaaaannnn! It moves meeeeee!!!!!!!!
Birthday: March 21st.
Height: 157cm (5' 1")
Voiced by: Yui Watanabe
- Easily Impressed: She can be moved by almost everything.
- Flash Step: Played for Laughs, when she dodges Special Week and Tokai Teio trying to dogpile her.
- Freudian Trio: The energetic, highly-emotional Id of the group.
- Nervous Wreck: Played for Laughs. She's prone to breaking out in hives when under great stress.
- Plucky Girl: Described as an energetic, cheerful girl that stands up every time she fails.
- Pointless Band-Aid: Wears one on her right cheek.
- Prone to Tears: Not so much when she's sad, but she has a tendency towards Inelegant Blubbering when she finds something emotionally moving - such as within the first five minutes of a dramatic movie.
- In the game, she sometimes puts too much force on chalk and breaks it. She thinks she has done a terrible thing to chalk and cries regretfully.
Team Canopus
A third team active at Tracen Academy, making their appearance in the second season.- Paper-Thin Disguise: When they try to hijack Tokai Teio's stage performance, they wear ski masks... and all of their characteristic accessories (Nature's ear covers, Minamizaka's suit, and most damningly Machitan's hat).
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Minus "saving the world" part, arguably. They have one important thing in common though: neither of their real-life counterparts won a G1 race.
Nice Nature
Yes yes, I'm happy even if third. You know, I'm a commoner.
Birthday: April 16th.
Height: 157cm (5' 1")
Voiced by: Kaori Maeda
- Ascended Extra: She was an incredibly minor, background girl in the first season of the series. In the second, she's featured among the main cast as a member of Team Canopus.
- Born Unlucky: She considers herself to have incredibly bad luck, only getting into Tracen because her raw talent made up for her poor record.
- The Confidant: Becomes this for Kitasan Black in season 3 as she listens to Black's frustrations and fears while giving out advice.
- Cope by Pretending: In-game Nature is a cynical girl who refers to herself as an extra who can't be a protagonist. It seems that she abandons all of her ambition, but both her personal and training story reveal she is pretending it to avoid potential frustration.
- Disappeared Dad: According to the in-game story, Nice Nature was raised by a single mother. Seeing her mother working hard to raise Nature has made her mature for her age.
- Friend to All Children
- During her in-game training story, she sometimes plays with children. This event makes her tired, decreasing her motivation level.
- Her SR wisdom card portrays several little horse girls surrounding her. She says don't touch her tail and ears, but deep in her heart, she knows she can't resist their smiles.
- Only Sane Man: She and Trainer are the only members of the team that try to think of a strategy to match Spica beyond "finishing in the first place".
- Number Obsession: She feels something about number 3. Justified by she is jinxed about that number.note
- In her training story, whenever she placed third, you can see the special event titled "The result fit for me."
- In one of the in-game events, an astrologer on TV ranks Tauri third and says a good event will happen to them. Nature slightly expects something.note When she goes shopping, a clerk tells her she won an event. And what happens next? Nature receives 33 dish scrubbers for the third prize. This event takes her motivation down a notch.
- In the drawing lots event, a merchant tells her trainer Nature has always won the third prize. She brings a ticket, which she cleansed in a Shinto shrine several times, to end this curse.
Twin Turbo
Birthday: April 13th.
Height: 146cm (4' 9")
Voiced by: Miharu Hanai
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: The combination of toppings she suggests for Machi-tan's katsu-curry in Brand New Friend event story is... quite unique.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils contain faint swirling spirals and one eye's purple, the other's blue.
- Heroic Willpower: Twin Turbo isn't that accomplished as a racer, but challenges Tokai Teio to return to racing if she wins against top runners like Rice Shower. As Teio prepares her farewell concert, Twin Turbo gives it everything and manages to outrun the competition.
- Leeroy Jenkins: She has a habit of going all out right off the start of her races, which quickly burnt out her stamina and caused her losses.
- Scary Teeth: Her teeth are sharp, although she's not scary at all.
- Unknown Rival: Turbo declares Teio her rival, but the other girl barely knows her and repeatedly messes up her name.
Ikuno Dictus
Birthday: April 16th.
Height: 163cm (5' 4")
Voiced by: Masumi Tazawa
- Smart People Wear Glasses: A brilliant tactician, she's one of the few Horsegirls to wear glasses.
Matikane Tannhauser
Birthday: May 7th.
Height: 155cm (5' 1")
Voiced by: Hikaru Tōno
- Affectionate Nickname: Depending on the user, it's either "Omachi-chan" or "Machi-tan".
- Butt-Monkey: Poor Machi-tan inadvertently gets a lot of nasal traumas. Even her very first anime appearance results in this.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Until the middle of her training story, the media focuses on Mihono Burbon and Rice Shower. After the Satsuki Sho, journalists searching for news about the two meet Tannhauser. In the middle of a talk, one of them asks her who will win the Japanese Derby between the two. She points out that she will compete in the race too, and others can be the winner.
- The Everyman: She describes herself as an ordinary girl at the beginning of her in-game training story. While Nature and Dictus point out that getting into highly competitive Tracen is not so ordinary, you can't deny she is less impressive than her more "special" peers such as Mihono Burbon and Rice Shower. During her training story, this ordinary girl gives hope and courage to many, including Nice Nature, Rice Shower, and the journalist with circle glasses, thanks to her ordinariness and sunny personality.
- Overly Long Name: So long that her team has to come up with a nickname.
- Video Game Historical Revisionism: When you train your horsegirl in the game, she can participate in almost every race, even if her real-life counterpart couldn't due to injury. So Tokai Teio participates in the Kikka Sho and Daiwa Scarlet can contest in the Oaks. Tannhauser is one of the few exceptions. Her ninth training goal, the senior Japan Cup must be canceled because of a nosebleed, reflecting real Matikane Tannhauser's story.
- Yodel Land: Her outfit is very reminiscent of a Dirndl, arguably as a reference to the opera her prototype was named after... (Wrong part of Germany though.)
Sounds of Earth
Voiced by: MAKIKO
- Advertised Extra: While she is featured prominently with Black, Diamond, Crown, Cheval, and Duramente in promos and the opening, she doesn't have that big of a role nor a major arc in season 3.
Royce and Royce
Voiced by: Rui Tanabe
Mr. Minamizaka
Voiced by: Makoto Furukawa
Team Canopus's trainer.- Hidden Depths: When asked to come up with a plan to help Tokai Teio, his first reaction is to organize a covert infiltration. The prevailing fan theory is that he's a retired secret agent or assassin of some sort.
- Nice Guy: To the point of seeming a bit milquetoast.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: When his charges want to do something for Teio, he instantly comes up with a plan to make it happen.
Other Named Tracen Students
As with the known team members, these horsegirls are named after their real-life counterparts. Agnes Tachyon
Everything is experimental material, Mr. Guinea Pig. Including you, hores girls, and me!
Birthday: April 13th.
Height: 159cm (5' 2")
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka
A genius who wants to see the limits and beyond of the horse girls. She is called "the best masterpiece" of a prominent horse girl family and fascinated many trainers with her sheer talent. However, because of her attitude of prioritizing her own research, she became a troublemaker in the academy. She shares a room with Agnes Digital and is usually seen together with Manhattan Cafe.
The real Agnes Tachyon was a racehorse who raced from 2000 to 2001. He ran only four races, but those were enough to make him a legend. Despite his late debut, he overwhelmingly won his first race, then set a record in the 2000 Radio Tampa Hai Sansai Hinba Stakes (Hopeful Stakes of today). In 2001, he won the Yayoi Sho and the Satsuki Sho, grabbing the first of the Triple Crown. When he won Satsuki Sho, announcer Tsuneo Shiobara said, "Agnes Tachyon obtained HIS first crown," but his second never came. His team discovered his bowed tendon. While former rivals Jungle Pocket, Kurofune, Manhattan Cafe, and Dantsu Flame took an active part on the turf, he started his career as a studhorse. Agnes Tachyon sired many notable racehorses, including Daiwa Scarlet, Deep Sky, and Captain Thule, and became the leading sire of 2008. He died from heart failure the following year.
- Back in the Saddle: In Manhattan Cafe's in-game training story, she quits racing after the Satsuki Sho and becomes Manhattan Cafe's adviser. However, later, she returns and participates in the senior Arima Kinen as her rival.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Her eyes have four horizontal grids across her irises and pupils, and lack the usual eyeshine the other characters have.
- E = MC Hammer: In the game, her 3+-star playable-character version has the unique skill U=ma2.
- For Science!: Joins Tracen Academy in order to discover the true potential of the horse girls.
- Fragile Speedster: Her in-game training story reveals her legs are fast but fragile. She compares herself to a poor body with an excellent engine.
- The Gadfly: She can be quite teasing towards others, particularly towards Manhattan Cafe, Air Shakur, and the trainer.
- Genius Sweet Tooth: In-game her SR power card portrays her putting dozens of sugar cubes in her tea.
- Mad Scientist: She has all the signs of being one. Wears a labcoat as a part of her race costume? Check. Uses Technobabble and scientific terms as a part of her speech? Check. Does dubious experiments and tries to rope others into them? Check. Calls the trainer her guinea pig and actually uses them as one (as evident in her voice lines)? Check, check, check!
- Although the trainer is generally a semi-willing participant in her schemes, they occasionally snark back at her. Loosely translated:
Agnes Tachyon: [entirely serious] Trainer-san, what is it? What is this quality I lack?
Trainer:...Medical ethics? - Meaningful Name: Her name is based on a figurative faster-than-light particle, hence her scientist theme.
- Non-Indicative Name: Despite the "Tachyon" name, her field of research is not physics (quantum or otherwise) but pharmacology.
- Playing with Syringes: She spends most of her time working on shady new drugs which are supposed to have beneficial effects. Typically they also have amusing side-effects, most commonly making a random part of the victim's body emit a bright and colourful glow.
- In one especially outstanding incident, she gives her trainer a box of handmade chocolates for Valentine's. Of course, they've been spiked with one of her drugs... that causes the eater's body to give off a powerful aroma of chocolate for hours.
- Professor Guinea Pig: In her in-game story, this becomes a very serious plot point. One of her motivations for research is to find a cure for her legs before she becomes permanently crippled.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Every time she offers somebody an ostensibly-normal drink or food item, it's been spiked with one of her experimental concoctions.
- Video Game Historical Revisionism: Almost like Fuji Kiseki, real!Tachyon had his career cut short in the middle of his 3yo season. As such, there is an option to choose objectives in Tachyon's scenario, either going for a mile/medium distance routenote or for the Triple Crown.
Daitaku Helios
Birthday: April 10th.
Height: 156cm (5' 1")
Voiced by: Aya Yamane
- A Friend in Need: In Palmer's in-game training story, she participates in the Takarazuka Kinen and the Arima Kinen to cheer Palmer, even though she is a miler.
- Catchphrase: Waaay ☆
- Facial Markings: Has a star beneath her right eye and a triangle beneath her left eye.
- Gyaru Girl: Gives that impression with the way she acts, speaks, and dresses.
- Large Ham: She always looks excited.
- Ship Tease: She has a crush on Daiichi Ruby, but it seems one-sided.
- Valley Girl: Her way of talking even confuses Palmer at first.
Duramente
The victory is a "precondition." That is the blood running in my veins.
Birthday: March 22th.
Height: 166cm (5' 5")
Voiced by: Akina
Eishin Flash
Birthday: March 27th.
Height: 160cm (5' 3")
Voiced by: Ayami Fujino
- Awesome by Analysis: She has a brilliant, scientific mind that can analyze her opponents down to the smallest percentages.
- Big Eater: In an extremely low-key manner. One of her favourite pastimes on her days off is to go around town and try different cake shops (which may actually be something that reminds her of her home - it is revealed in her character story that her parents also run a cake shop!), and a casual conversation in the game reveals that, by about mid-afternoon, she's already eaten at least five slices of cake (and proceeds to go for more afterward).
- Brainy Brunette: She's dark-haired and a runner that focuses on scientific and mathematical analysis to win her races.
- Foreign Exchange Student: A student from Germany.
- Germanic Efficiency: Plays the stereotype to the hilt, although she does have a legitimate reason for it.
- The Perfectionist: How much? Let's just say that when going halfsies on cake, she pulls out a tape measure. Her character story reveals this is something she learned from her father.
- Schedule Fanatic: She has a certain obsession on punctuality and scheduling.
- Supreme Chef: She's a talented cook, particularly in making German sweets.
Haru Urara
Birthday: February 27th.
Height: 140cm (4' 7")
Voiced by: Yukina Shuto
- Butt-Monkey: She is perpetually losing any race she takes part in, and tends to react comically to her failure.
- Crippling Overspecialization: In the video game, she has the highest natural rating for dirt racesnote . Unfortunately, this is balanced by an absolute worst rating for turf races, which are more abundant and tend to give better rewards.
- Curtains Match the Windows: She also has pink eyes.
- Foil: To Rice Shower - they're often seen together, especially in the Yonkoma side stories, but whereas Urara's real counterpart was beloved for constantly losing, the real Rice Shower was hated (by racing fans) for winning.
- The Cutie: In a series of cute girls, she's particularly adorable and perky.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Her pupils are shaped like flowers.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: Her last training goal in the game is the senior Arima Kinen, the long-range turf G1 race. Since her base aptitudes focus on short-range dirt races, she usually loses miserably. Luckily, you don't have to win this race. Thanks to the inheritance system of this game, you can tweak her aptitudes and let her win the Arima Kinen after endless grinding.
- Martial Arts Headband: She wears a red one as part of her racing outfit.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Perhaps even bordering Lethal Joke Character. Her unaltered distance preference in the game is excellent (A) in Shortnote races and good (B) in Milenote races, but she greatly prefers the Betweenernote tactic. This combination frequently causes her to lose races by either being bogged down by racers in front of her or simply running out of distance to race (especially in short races). To thrive with Haru Urara the player needs quite an effort (mainly in the form of preference & growth tweaking via the legacy system, unlocking and taking relevant skills, choosing suitable races where she can make good use of her abilities, and carefully maintaining her condition) as well as a bit of RNG luck.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: With the release of Smart Falcon in the game, her main schtick of being the best naturalnote dirt horsegirl available in the game pretty much ended right there. She is a competent dirt racer when raised right, but that's pretty much it.
- Plucky Comic Relief: She's there primarily for comedy, and never lets her failures get her down.
- Plucky Girl: Just like the real horse, she never wins a race but makes up for it with sheer pluck.
- The Pollyanna: Thanks to it, she gave a good impression in the admission interview and entered Tracen despite her poor entrance exam score.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has pink hair, and is among the sweetest of all the characters. (It also helps that her real life counterpart very frequently raced wearing pink attire)
- School Sport Uniform: Her racing outfit is styled after a traditional Japanese gym uniform.
- Video Game Historical Revisionism: In the game she could be trained to win all the races you take part innote , reflecting none of her record in the anime or real lifenote .
Inari One
Birthday: May 7th.
Height: 139cm (4' 6")
Voiced by: Haruno Inoue
- Asian Fox Spirit: Her name and motif are both based on the mythical Fox Youkai. (Makes sense, given the "Inari" present right there in her name)
- Balloon Belly: Gains on in episode 13 alongside Super Creek and Tamamo Cross.
- Character Tics: She does the kitsune sign with her hand while talking.
- Cool Mask: She wears a kitsune festival mask in most of her costumes.
- Cute Little Fangs: Glimpsed when she's shouting energetically at the festival.
- Friendly Rivalry: Oguri Cap, Super Creek, and Inari One are close friends and rivals called "The Eternal Three." And you can add Tamamo Cross.
- Genki Girl: She's extremely energetic, cute, and loud.
- Girlish Pigtails: She wears her hair in a pair of fluffy pigtails, with little bows.
- Hot-Blooded: The manga portrayal leans more toward this trait, with some almost bestial panels.
- Jack of All Trades: In the game, she can tackle races on both turf and dirt. With careful tweaking, she can do that over three kinds of distancesnote and three running stylesnote .
- Large-Ham Announcer: She serves as the announcer for the Eating Contest, and hams it up to the maximum.
King Halo
Someday, I'll make you admit I am "first-class"!
Birthday: April 28th.
Height: 159cm (5' 2")
Voiced by: Iori Saeki
A prideful and stubborn horse girl who has a strong determination to be first-class. Her mother is a first-rate fashion designer and a former racer who has won 11 G1 races.note King Halo is a roommate of Haru Urara and one of the Golden Generation.
The real King Halo was a racehorse who raced from 1997 to 2000. His brilliant pedigree made many expect of him much, and he didn't let them down until 1998. In the 1998 Classics, they called King Halo "The Big Three" with Special Week and Seiun Sky. However, while Seiun Sky won the Satsuki Sho and Kikka Sho, and Special Week won the Japanese Derby, he won none of the Classics. When he won the Tokyo Shimbun Hai and the Nakayama Kinen, his team considered mile-distance races were for him, but then suffered a crushing defeat in the Yasuda Kinen. Next year, they tried him in the February Stakes and the Takamatsunomiya Kinen. They are mile-distance dirt and short-distance turf races, respectively. He bit the dust miserably in the former but "beat all" prominent sprinters in the latter, winning his first and only G1 victory. He retired after the same year's Arima Kinen and started his career as a studhorse, siring many racehorses, including Kawakami Princess. He died of old age in 2019.
- Abusive Parents: In the game, her mother has a habit of calling her after races and issuing scathing verbal put-downs. Even if she won the race. Her Character Development in the game consists mainly of finding a way to be herself and get out of her mom's shadow.
- Adaptational Wimp: The Real Life King Halo had a bad 1998 season, but went on to perform better the following year. Being Out of Focus, only her losses to Special Week are shown.
- Character Catchphrase: "I give you the right to _______."King Halo: I give you the right to challenge me until you are defeated!
- Friendly Rivalry: She's one of the well-wishers lurking outside Special Week's dressing room prior to the Japan Cup, and cheers her on with all her heart.
- Furry Reminder: When she's feeling particularly confident - or trying to fake it - she has a tendency to toss her head in a particularly horsey manner.
- Hidden Depths: While she seems spoiled and haughty, she is a caring one.
- She acts like the mother of Haru Urara in the game.
- In the game, King has two followers. They fell out with their families so haven't gone home for holidays. Since she cared for them on New Year's Day, they became her fans.
- If she wins the Japanese Derby in her in-game training story, she unilaterally refuses journalists to take her pictures and walks out. Because she doesn't want crying Special Week to be caught on their cameras.
- Jack of All Trades: In the game, she can get the highest rating for all race distances with a little bit of tweaking.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Some in-game dialogues reveal her mother is as prideful and stubborn as she is. King strongly disapproves that she is like her mother.King Halo: Hmph, I'm different from my mother. I can cook... I can make tamagoyaki too!
- Noblewoman's Laugh: She practices it every day.
- Oh, Crap!: Played for Laughs. She starts freaking out when Special Week charges toward her during the Rigil tryouts, shrieking at the other girl to go away.
- The Ojou: Of the prideful variant, complete with her own Noblewoman's Laugh.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Her formal racing outfit has an enormous petticoat, decorative belts and piping, and embroidery along the hem.
- Pride Before a Fall: She's introduced as an undefeated champion, with an arrogant attitude to match. She promptly loses her races to the more significant girls.
- Starter Villain: She is the first major competition that Special Week faces, as she begins her racing career.
- Stocking Filler: Her racing outfit includes black stockings and a matching garter.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Her goal is to make everyone, especially her mother who claims she has no talent for racing, recognize her as first-class.
- If she wins the Japanese Derby in her in-game training story, her mother calls her. King Halo answers the phone with expectation, but her mother devalues her victory as a fluke and criticizes her attitude during the interview.
- Worthy Opponent: After losing to Special Week (again), she explains that she's happy to have such a strong rival. Instead of being discouraged, she's inspired to work even harder.
Matikanefukukitaru
Birthday: May 22th.
Height: 158cm (5' 2")
Voiced by: Hiyori Nitta
A lively horse girl who loves fortune-telling and mystic stuff. She worships a god named Shiraoki-sama appearing in her dream. Her family runs a Shinto shrine, but it has nothing to do with her obsession with mystic things. She shares a room with Matikane Tannhauser.- Bookends: Her in-game training story begins with her inner monologue. "Today is a very lucky day for me. Because my god is telling me so." After Fukukitaru and her trainer see some good omens, they draw lots in a Shinto shrine to see if it is a good day to start her career as a racer. If you get the Golden Ending, she visits the shrine with her trainer again but doesn't draw lots unlike usual. Fukukitaru's trainer asks her why she doesn't draw lots. And this story ends with her inner monologue. "I know even if I don't. Today is a very lucky day for me. Because I'm with someone whom I can share my happiness with!"
- Exotic Eye Designs: She has stars for pupils.
- Fortune Teller: During the Festival, she operates the fortune-telling booth. She gives out a bad fortune to Mejiro McQueen, freaking the other girl out.
- Her racing outfit is full of fortune objects.
- It later turns out that her booth isn't just for the festival - it's an ongoing concern. Mejiro Palmer visits it several times during the second season.
- Gameplay Randomization: Basically, Uma Musume is an RNG-based Gacha Game. But Fukukitaru goes further. In her training story, you have to choose two of her training goals by lots.
- This even extends to one of her support cards. You can get a lot of stats from it... if you're lucky. You have to get through three randomized events for it.
- Good Luck Charms: Her "full armored" alternative outfit is covered with them.
- Interrupted Suicide: In her training story, Fukukitaru believes she is blessed and gets arrogant after the Kikka Sho. This climaxes when Fukukitaru runs loosely at the Kinko Sho. After the race, she is criticized for her attitude. Fukukitaru, who thinks she has disappointed everyone, tries jumping into a lake. Luckily, her trainer comes across her just in time and persuades her to participate in the Takarazuka Kinen.
- Large Ham: Especially when she does fortune-telling about herself.
- One of the Make a New Track random events reveals her and Tannhauser's room is known for their noisiness.
- Meaningful Name: Her name was derived from the Japanese proverb 笑う門には福来る;note , which roughly translates into "Good fortune comes to the happy household". This explains why she has an obsession with luck and fortune-telling.note
- Overly Long Name: Despite only being one word.note
- Sailor Fuku: Her formal racing outfit is styled like the classic Sailor uniform, with a white blouse and blue skirt.
- Successful Sibling Syndrome: The in-game story reveals she had a talented but deceased sister. Fukukitaru, who has compared herself to her sister, hesitated to enter Tracen until Shiraoki-sama gave her a message.
- Those Two Girls: Is mostly seen together with Meisho Doto.
- Trash of the Titans: She keeps so many Good Luck Charms in her room. In Fukukitaru's personal story, her tower of collections collapses over her poor roommate. After that accident, her trainer eventually keeps her items.
Mayano Top Gun
Birthday: March 24th.
Height: 143cm (4' 8")
Voiced by: Ayaka Imamura (2017), Mio Hoshitani (2018-onwards)
- Ace Pilot: Her race costume evokes the image of one with her bomber jacket. She also peppers her speech with aeronautical terms, particularly in the game ("taaaaaake off!" being the most prominent example).
- One side story reveals that her father is a pilot and that she wants to follow his path someday.
- Airplane Arms: Some of her victory celebration in the game has her do a little circle with her arms outstretched to the sides.
- Ascended Fanboy: Owing to her name, personality, and dress, she was chosen as a Japanese advertising pilot for Top Gun: Maverick. As part of the collaboration, she replaced Maverick in an alternate version of one of the movie posters in Japan. Four Uma Musume voice actresses attended the movie's Japanese premiere, which included Tom Cruise prompting Mio Hoshitani by asking, "You copy?" to salute and say one of Mayano Top Gun's trademark lines: "I copy!"
- Fille Fatale: Or should we say, Filly Fatale?
- For most of her storyline in the game's training mode, Mayano comes across as being rather too keen on growing up, and insists that she's an adult. This includes wanting to go on "dates" with her trainer, blowing kisses to the crowd when she wins (which is also a Shout-Out to the real Mayano Top Gun's jockey doing the same thing at the end of a race), and being inappropriately affectionate. She eventually grows out of it... at least a little bit.
- Jack of All Trades: Real!Maya's ability to win using any strategy is lovingly reflected in game in that she has high ratings for all four running strategies from the start.
- Teen Genius: Her powers of deduction are so strong that, just by watching for a few seconds, she can accurately forecast the outcome of most races. To her, this is intuitive and obvious, but not to everyone else. This gets her into trouble at school, because she immediately jumps from the start of a math problem to the solution without writing down her reasoning. note
Meisho Doto
Birthday: March 25th.
Height: 164cm (5' 4")
Voiced by: Misaki Watada
- Ascended Fangirl: Meisho Doto is a huge fan of TM Opera O. In the latter's storyline, she not only gets to play a part in her wacky Kayfabe, but even becomes her official rival.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: Has the biggest bust in the game alongside Hishi Akebono, but is more noticeable on her due to being shorter and she notices people glance at her chest a lot when she's running.
- Dojikko: Yes. Her gacha animation does everything to emphasize it.
- Shrinking Violet: Her self-deprecation attitude matches Rice Shower's. Whereas Rice Shower canonically wins multiple races, Meisho Doto consistently loses them. She also considers her physical appearance unhealthy because everyone stares at her so often.
- Those Two Girls: Is mostly seen together with Matikanefukukitaru.
- Unaffected by Spice: The result of her frequent wrong orders in the restaurant.
- Video Game Historical Revisionism: You get a special event unlocked if you managed to win races that, IRL, were won by TM Opera O.namely
Mejiro Dober
Birthday: May 6th.
Height: 157cm (5' 1")
Voiced by: Hikari Kubota
- Does Not Like Men: Goodness gracious, yes. Not to mention that she behaves towards the player character completely differently depending on which gender the player picked.trivia
Mejiro Palmer
Birthday: March 21st.
Height: 160cm (5' 3")
Voiced by: Yuri Noguchi
A horse girl of the prominent Mejiro family. Her tact and friendly attitude make her a sociable and popular girl. However, she has compared herself to other outstanding Mejiro relatives. She shares a room with Katsuragi Ace and usually gets along with her close friend Daitaku Helios.- Be Yourself: The subject of her in-game stories.
- Black Sheep: Of the Mejiro family. She doesn't get any attention nor is she in scenes with the other Mejiros. This is actually based on real-life in which the Mejiro Group didn't have high hopes for Palmer.
- There's a photograph of Palmer in McQueen's room, however, which suggests that at least one Mejiro does care about her.
- Even the Girls Want Her: In one of the random events of her training story, Palmer helps some girls bake cookies. After baking, she fed a cookie to one of them to see if they baked it properly, making her blush. Later, they reveal they baked it for Palmer.
- Family Honor: Like other Mejiros.
- In her in-game personal story, her (future) trainer notices she obsesses about "running in a model form like a girl of the great family."
- Friendly Rivalry: Forms one with Daitaku Helios.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Like other Mejiro colts born in 1987, she was named after an American celebrity. Her namesake is Arnold Palmer, a professional golfer. That's why one of In-game Mejiro Palmer's hobbies is golf.
- Her supporters call themselves "Palmer's Army." This name came from Arnie's Army, the name given to the fans of Arnold Palmer.
- Odd Friendship: With Daitaku Helios, a carefree Gyaru Girl, while she's a more serious and diligent Cool Big Sis.
- Those Two Girls: Ever since becoming friends with Helios, they're always together, race together, and let the other mark the pace, even if it means losing steam right before the end.
Mejiro Ryan
If you have any worries, train the pectoralis major! Let's bulk up together!
Birthday: April 11th.
Height: 163cm (5' 4")
Voiced by: Afumi Hashi
- Boyish Short Hair: Has this style.trivia
- Lovable Jock: She likes weight training very much. You can hear she frequently mentions her muscle in the game.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Like other Mejiro colts born in 1987, she was named after an American celebrity. Her namesake is Nolan Ryan, a baseball player.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's fairly boyish in appearance and mannerisms, particularly in comparison to the other girls of the Mejiro family, but she also secretly loves shojo manga and wants to try dressing more feminine sometimes.
Mihono Bourbon
Target confirmed. Commencing operation "Winning the Triple Crown."
Birthday: April 25th.
Height: 160cm (5' 3")
Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa
- Adaptation Personality Change: Downplayed example as her main Cyborg personality schtick remains, but she shows far less emotions and is much more robotic in the game.
- Ascended Extra: She only had a minor appearance in the BNW OVA. Season 2 made her part of the main cast.
- Brutal Honesty: She's quite blunt in her way of speaking, and her attempt at motivating Rice Shower shows.
- Cyborg: Not actually one of course, but her robotic mannerism and outfit aesthetic have made other girls wonder if she really is one.
- Determinator: The trait that earned her real-life counterpart the "Cyborg" nickname. She's absolutely committed to her training, no matter how hard it gets.
- Did Not See That Coming: She sure didn't expect that Rice Shower would catch up to her at the last second, beating her and preventing her from getting a Triple Crown undefeated.
- Idiot Hair: Has a prominent cowlick, although she's far from an idiot.
- Literal-Minded: In the game, as part of her cyborg persona. It's never made clear how much, if at all, this is a case of Obfuscating Stupidity.
- Not So Stoic: Shows a far larger range of emotions when telling Rice Shower how she admires her and considers Rice her hero and rival.
- Undying Loyalty: For her trainer, whom she calls Master, racing with everything she's got to please him.
- Walking Techbane: In the game, as an odd counterpoint to the whole cyborg schtick. For this reason, she's been banned from using the vending machines in Tracen Academy.
Oguri Cap
For the folks back home... Firstly I should fill my stomach.
Birthday: March 27th.
Height: 167cm (5' 5")
Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (initial PV only), Tomoyo Takayanagi
- Affectionate Nickname: Ogurin.
- Balloon Belly: Gets loads of these thanks to her insanely large appetite, particularly in episodes 4, 6, 8, & the OVA. She even gains one in the game intro and the anime's teaser trailer.
- Big Eater: She participated in an eating contest, and won by an enormous margin. If that wasn't enough, in the OVA she arrived at another eating contest pre-stuffed and was still able to eat an insane amount of food.
- And even that pales in comparison to what she consumes in chapter 31 of Cinderella Gray: over the course of the chapter, she's shown with 21 scoops of ice cream, an ENORMOUS cup of bubble tea, 6 huge churros, a large baked potato, and two large soft serves... and she's implied to have eaten much more than that. No wonder her Clark Kenting didn't work and she and Berno did catch reporter Fujii's attention.
- One of the Make a New Track scenario events portrays her as extraordinary among other big eaters.
New Staff: Well, she is choosing. Luckily she won't eat the entire menu.Veteran Staff: You don't know anything about her. Once she picks a menu, we run out of all the ingredients for it. - Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She may think about eating too much, but she's skilled enough to be chosen to participate at the Winter Dream Tournament in the finale.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: She's very absent-minded about things, and doesn't seem to take anything seriously.
- Country Mouse: Comes from the countrysidenote .
- Early-Bird Cameo: Footage of her racing and plush dolls can be spotted in the first episode, prior to her actual introduction.
- Friendly Rivalry: Oguri Cap, Super Creek, and Inari One are close friends and rivals called "The Eternal Three." And you can add Tamamo Cross.
- Funny Background Event: She frequently appears in the background of scenes, with an enormous plate of food in front of her.
- Hero of Another Story: She's the protagonist of the spin-off manga Cinderella Gray.
- Idiot Hair: She has a single strand of hair sticking up, indicating her quirky and absent-minded personality.
- Image Song: "unbreakable"trivia
- It Was a Gift: Her hairband, which was her mother's before was given to her.
- Jack of All Trades: In the game, Oguri is very versatile. She starts with A-rank attributes in turf, mile, and medium-distance races, as well as B-rank in dirt and long-distance races. She can easily breeze through most races if you play your cards right with the inheritance system.
- The Quiet One: She doesn't talk much, and that's not always due to her eating.
- Perpetual Poverty: Her early days. Her jersey is perpetually dirty, her shoes break all the time, and her parents' household is hampered by her food bills.
- Recurring Element: While not a straight-up import of Rage of Bahamut's Jeanne d’Arc common in other Cygames titles, Oguri still bears some resemblance to her such as having a similar hairstyle and diamond headband. Both also had humble origins before becoming renowned in their own right.
- Red Baron: "Monster from Afar".
- Super Drowning Skills: Like her real-life counterpart. In the game, She uses a kickboard when she trains at the pool.
Rice Shower
Birthday: March 5th.
Height: 145cm (4' 9")
Voiced by: Manaka Iwami
- Ascended Extra: She only had a minor appearance in the BNW OVA. Season 2 gave her a bigger role, down to having her own character-ending song. She also appeared in the posters promoting the mobile game.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Very quiet and always following Mihono Bourbon, but she's the one that takes the Triple Crown from her right at the end.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Rice Shower is a "villain" of the racing world, dressed in Gothic attire and considered a breaker of dreams. In spite of this, she's a gentle girl that simply wants people to be happy. Fearing that she only makes people unhappy, she tries to quit racing until Mihono Bourbon convinces her to keep running.
- Eerie Paleskinned Brunette: She's pale, with dark hair and a soft-spoken nature that doesn't make it easy to socialize with others. Her Gothic attire and racing career have further added to a false impression of a creepy villain.
- Foil: To Haru Urara - they're often seen together, especially in the Yonkoma side stories, but whereas Urara's real counterpart was beloved for constantly losing, the real Rice Shower was hated (by racing fans) for winning.
- Foreshadowing: She actually defeated Mihono Bourbon in the BNW OVA, but her victory was annulled due to the relay race's circumstances. Come Season 2, she had the chance to make her victory over Bourbon official.
- Heel: She refers to herself as one, and is devastated at how her victories only seem to make people upset.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair and hat cover the right side of her face, hinting at her extremely shy nature.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor: Her reputation in the racing world is that of a "villain" that crushes the dreams of other Horse Girls. In spite of the "character" fans have assigned to her, Rice is a gentle and caring girl that is crushed by how the fans perceive her.
- Non-Indicative Name: In fact, Rice Shower prefers bread to rice for breakfast. Teio also points out it in the anime.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: Has a very small frame, yet she can run a full 3200 meters course without breaking a sweat.
- Red Baron: She's known as Record-Breaking Black Assassin, due to her tendency to defeat Horse Girls on the verge of achieving a major milestone.
- Shrinking Violet: Rice is a soft-spoken, extremely shy girl with a kind heart. The perception of her as a dream-stealing villain in the racing world only makes her further withdraw into herself.
- Stalker with a Crush: She idolizes Mihono Bourbon, following her during morning runs and viewing her as an ideal Horse Girl.
- Third-Person Person: Prefers to herself in this way.
- Unknown Rival: Mihono Bourbon doesn't notice her at first, though she follows her on morning jogs every day. This comes to an end when they actually face each other in a critical race.
- Video Game Historical Revisionism: A very special example occurs in her game scenario. One of your objectives is to make her place in the top 3 at the Takarazuka Kinen (which was real!Rice's final race before his tragic death) - if you manage to make her win, you get a special commentary line played:
Rice Shower! She crosses through the slope of Yodonote to win the Takarazuka Kinen of her dreams!
- Worthy Opponent: Though Rice Shower thinks the other girls hate her, she eventually learns that many of them consider her an important rival that they want to defeat. In particular, Mihono Bourbon confesses that since being defeated by Rice Shower, she considers the other girl her "Hero" for giving her a strong rival that she can work to overcome.
Satono Diamond
Everyone believes in my victory. So, Dia will shine!
Birthday: January 30th.
Height: 158cm (5' 2")
Voiced by: Hina Tachibana
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Like Kitasan, she also grew older and bigger upon entering Tracen Academy as a student.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly girl to Kitasan Black's tomboy.
- Family Honor: In the game, winning the G1 race is her family's goal. She has trained herself for this.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kitasan Black, always arguing with her over their admiration for either Tokai or McQueen, respectively.
Seiun Sky
Birthday: April 26th.
Height: 155cm (5' 1")
Voiced by: Akari Kitou
- Animal Motifs: The game often likens her to a cat.
- Her alternative outfit is named "Soirée de Chaton," which means "Evening Party of a Kitten" in French.
- An Odd Place to Sleep: A Random Event in her in-game training story reveals she has listed good places to nap across Japan. In the event, she spots a giant rock on a beach and tries it out for it.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: She typically slacks off in class, and takes things easy. But when running, she is a top contender. Though it's downplayed in that while she gives the impression of a talented slacker, Seiun Sky does secretly train hard before her races.
- Claustrophobia: Like her real-life counterpart, she hates enclosed spaces like the starting gate before a race. In episode 10, she has to be pushed into the starting gate by a race staff member. Her in-game bio also describes it.
- David Versus Goliath: To be David and defy the odds is her joy.
- Friendly Rivalry: She's good friends with Special Week, and the two are often rivals competing against each other. She also has one with King Halo from sharing many races together with her, and eventually developed an Odd Friendship with the serious and vain horse girl.
- The Gadfly: Occasionally pulls pranks and makes jokes, but Seiun Sky is genuinely a nice girl.
- Graceful Loser: When she loses to Special Week, she doesn't seem to be bothered about it. Instead, it inspires her to put more effort into training for her next race.
- Heroic BSoD: In her in-game training story, Seiun Sky realizes Grass Wonder is better than she thought in the classic Arima Kinen and gets nervous. Then she participates in the classic Spring Tenno Sho and the senior Takarazuka Kinen to check her rivals. After the two races, she concludes that her more talented rivals will get better than she can someday. It makes her devastated until King Halo and her trainer encourage her.
- Image Song: "Kimagure Turning Heart!"
- Let's Get Dangerous!: When she drops her lazy attitude, she shocks people with how determined she is.
- Ship Tease: She is depicted with Nishino Flower in a support card artwork.note
- Sleepyhead: When not racing/eating/training/fooling around, she can be seen dozing off.
- The Trickster: Her nickname and style of racing. She always has tricks up her sleeve to gain the advantage over faster horse girls, which makes her a difficult opponent to the gullible Special Week.
- Video Game Historical Revisionism: A special example occurs in her game scenario. If she managed to win the Triple Crown, there's a special line by the announcers noting this fact. The real-life Seiun Sky won only two out of the Triple Crown races; that year's Japan Derby was won by Special Week.
- Weak, but Skilled: She is less talented than her peers but compensates for it with her own tricks and strategies.
Super Creek
Birthday: May 27th.
Height: 168cm (5' 6")
Voiced by: Kana Yuuki
- Balloon Belly: As a result of the eating contest in episode 6, as well as one in episode 13 alongside Tamamo Cross and Inari One.
- Berserk Button: In the game, Tamamo Cross provokes her, saying she will defeat Creek and make her trainer a goner. Creek gets really mad with it. Later on, Tamamo apologizes and recalls she had "the face of a mother whose child's future was threatened" then.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: When she reassures Tamamo that she'll grow bigger if she eats more, the other girl stares at her enormous bust.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: A photo finish catches her cheating in the eating contest, disqualifying her.
- Friendly Rivalry: Her profile describes her as a good friend and rival to Oguri Cap. You can add Tamamo Cross and Inari One.
- Motherly Side Plait: She wears her hair in an enormous plait over one shoulder.
- Team Mom: Since her family runs a day nursery, Creek became good at caring for others, especially her trainer, Oguri, Tamamo, and her roommate Taishin. Her profile describes her as a motherly type who dotes on younger girls, too.
Tamamo Cross
Poverty can't beat me! I am the White Lightning from Naniwa!
Birthday: March 23th.
Height: 140cm (4' 7")
Voiced by: Naomi Ozora
- Balloon Belly: As a result of the eating contest in episode 6, as well as one in episode 13 alongside Super Creek and Inari One.
- Big Eater: Subverted. She enters the Eating Contest, but is overwhelmed by the massive plate of donuts.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She likes cute things, and tries to win the giant donut plushie.
- Friendly Rivalry: Her roommate, Oguri Cap, and other friends, including Super Creek and Inari One, are also her rivals.
- Perpetual Poverty: Her family is very poor financially, to the point she felt reserved eating Tracen's rich variety of delicious food since her family cut down on meals to save money. (Real!Tamamo's breeding farm went bankrupt when he was small)
- Red Baron: "White Lightning".
- Token Mini-Moe: She's tiny compared to the other girls.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She loves Takoyaki.
Verxina
Voiced by: Kaya Okuno
- Always Second Best: Her bio says it. The real Verxina finished second to Gentildonna in each race of the 2012 Triple Tiara.
Vivlos
Voiced by: Ayasa Itō
Bland-Name Horsegirls
These horsegirls are the fictional counterparts of real-life horses for whom Cygames couldn't acquire the rights at the time of the anime's broadcast. Notably, Broye's real-life counterpart, Montjeu, later appeared in the game as a horsegirl after the company was finally able to get the rights to use his name. Broye
Voiced by: Haruna Ikezawa
- The Ace: The greatest Horse Girl on the international stage.
- Adaptation Name Change: The European champion from France was actually named Montjeu.
- Captain Ersatz/No Historical Figures Were Harmed: The likely reason for the change is that one needs a license from the owners to name a character after a Real Life foreign racehorsenote . The design does not refer to the real horse, probably for the same reason. However, Château de Montjeu is located in the French commune called Broye.
- Badass Cape: Wears a regal looking cape, and she has all the right to wear it.
- Bifauxnen: Just like her visual inspiration, Lady Oscar.
- Bling of War: Her racing outfit is designed to resemble a very fancy military uniform.
- Even the Girls Want Her: She's introduced surrounding by a crowd of fawning young women.
- Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Even with the actress's questionable delivery, she sounds like the kind of woman that would be surrounded by fawning fangirls.
- Expy: Her design is based on Lady Oscar from The Rose of Versailles.
- French Jerk: To a degree. She is proud and can sound conceited and dismissive, but this does not make her lose the sense of sportsmanship.
- Fun with Foreign Languages: She signs El's guidebook in French, leading the other girl to believe she mistook her for a fan. However, Rudolf recognizes that she actually slipped in a friendly challenge.
- Gratuitous French: Broye's dialogue is entirely in French, an unusual production decision. The actress's delivery is....questionable at times, with subtitles to translate her dialogue for the audience.
- Pimped-Out Cape: Her fancy cape is made of fur, giving her an air of nobility.
- Pride Before a Fall: Extremely confident during her press appearances before Japan Cup, which she loses to Special Week in Episode 12. If we go by Real Life race information, she came fourth; this is never really confirmed in the anime.
Kin'iro Ryoutei
Voiced by: N/Anote
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: She was based on Stay Gold, an influential stallion as well as sire of Gold Ship and Nakayama Festa.
Sun Visor
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya
- Graceful Loser: Tries to be one after Suzuka defeats her in her return race
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Loosely based on Sun Flare, the horse that won the 1999 Capital Stakes in Tokyo.
- Tempting Fate: Just as she says Suzuka hasn't recovered enough from her leg injury, Suzuka proceeds to defeat her at the last leg of the race.
Daisangen
Voiced by: Yuuko Hara
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Based on Dai Yusaku, the horse that defeated McQueen in the 1991 Arima Kinen.
Others
Tracen Academy's faculty members and other human characters. Hayakawa Tazuna
Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii
Since Tazuna has a much larger role in the game, see Game Characters. Mr. Kuronuma
Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda
Mihono Bourbon's trainer in the anime continuity.- Expy: He shares a voice, a generally threatening appearance, and a white suit with Kazuma Kiryu.
- The Stoic: Bourbon has never seen him smile.
Special Week's Mother
Voiced by: Yuka Saitou
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: She saw Special Week off with an enormous banner, embarrassing the girl in the process.
- Muggle Foster Parents: She's a human, and raised Special Week as best she could.
- No Name Given: Her name isn't revealed, since Special Week simply calls her "Mom".
- Phenotype Stereotype: A blonde-haired, blue-eyed foreigner. (The real person she's based on hailed from New Zealand.)
- Someday This Will Come in Handy: In a flashback, she's shown throwing mud-filled balloons at Special Week. This training ends up coming in handy, allowing Special Week to dodge mud kicked back at her without slowing down.
Masuo and Minami
Voiced by: Tooru Arizumi (Masuo) and Teppei Uenishi (Minami)
Horsegirl racing fan duo appearing in season 2. The one with glasses is Minami.- Obsessive Sports Fan: Of horsegirl racing.
- Mr. Exposition: For those who are unfamiliar with Japanese horse racing.
Announcers and Commentators
Voiced by: Satomi Akesaka, Yutaka Take, and Junko Hosoe
- As Himself: Two of the commentators are voiced by famous jockeys Take Yutaka and Hosoe Junko, and are implied to be their uma-verse counterparts.
