History Trivia / UmaMusume

* TouristBump: Invoked by the management of the Kasamatsu Racecourse (Oguri Cap's real-life hometown) when they collaborated with the publishers of the ''Cinderella Gray'' manga to host the "Umamusume Cinderella Gray Sho" race. Following an initial postponement on account of an ongoing [[https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14118942 race-fixing scandal (!)]], the race went ahead on April 29 2022, and was by all accounts a sell-out success. Fans descended on quiet Kasamatsu, resulting in reports that can only be described as Main/ApocalypticLogs ("Souvenir fans: Out of stock. Betting forms: Out of stock. Oguri dolls: Out of stock. Miso chitterlings: Just replenished. Takoyaki: Running out of octopus.") As the concession stands, convenience stores and nearby eateries repeatedly ran out of food and had to call for backup (with varying degrees of success), more than one wag was heard to quip that "the spirit of [[BigEater Oguri Cap]] had returned".

* TouristBump: Invoked by the management of the Kasamatsu Racecourse (Oguri Cap's real-life hometown) when they collaborated with the publishers of the ''Cinderella Gray'' manga to host the "Umamusume Cinderella Gray Sho" race. Following an initial postponement on account of an ongoing [[https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14118942 race-fixing scandal (!)]], the race went ahead on April 29 2022, and was by all accounts a sell-out success. Fans descended on quiet Kasamatsu, resulting in reports that can only be described as Main/ApocalypticLogs ("Souvenir fans: Out of stock. Betting forms: Out of stock. Oguri dolls: Out of stock. Miso chitterlings: Just replenished. Takoyaki: Running out of octopus.") As the concession stands, convenience stores and nearby eateries repeatedly ran out of food and had to call for backup (with varying degrees of success), more than one wag was heard to quip that "the spirit of [[Main/BigEater Oguri Cap]] had returned".

* CashCowFranchise: While already fairly popular before the games debut, it very quickly became this for Cygames following the game launch as it earned over 200 billion yen in 2 months and maintained its position at the first place in the App Store rankings, only falling from the top spot ''once''. As of current it has unseated previous top Cygames earners ''Granblue Fantasy'', ''Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage'' and ''Princess Connect: Redive'', as well as non-Cygames produced gacha games such as the long-reigning ''Fate/Grand Order'' and ''Twisted Wonderland''.

* JustForFun/OneOfUs: There's a certain "Tarou" on Twitter who's an avid player of the game and a huge shipper of Seiun Sky/Nishino Flower. She also happens to be the daughter of Mr. Nishiyama, Sky and Flower's owner.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The game was originally supposed to come out in Fall of 2018, some time after the first season of [[Anime/UmaMusume the Anime]] came out. However, the devs realized that the game were developing resembled very little to the Anime (allegedly the final product would have been much less serious on the sporting front unlike the Anime), leading Creator/{{Cygames}} to essentially start from scratch. The game only came out in February of 2021, during the Anime's second season, to [[Main/CashCowFranchise massive critical and commercial success]].
* Takatoshi Imanami is active on Twitter. According to his tweets, he apparently tried out the game for at least a couple of hours, and tweeted that the in-game Gold Ship was "harder to handle than the real one".

* BTeamSequel: Season 2 [[StudioHop Studio Hops]] from Creator/PAWorks to Studio KAI (of ''Cagaster: Of An Insect Cage''), though P.A. is still credited as an animation co-producer and handles a few of the episodes themselves (with some co-produced with Creator/DRMovie).

*** Expanding on the earlier point, the anime ended up promoting Japanese horse racing or just horse racing in general more [[MisaimedFandom instead of the mobile game as intended on the international stage]], if the huge amount of Reality vs Anime comparison videos of the races surfacing on the internet is anything to go by. Not to mention judging by the more recent comments, Youtube videos of the featured races became dominated by viewers who admitted to having this anime act their gateway to the world of horse racing ''especially'' in the [[WhamEpisode 1998]] [[TearJerker Tenno Sho]]. And that's not counting the huge amount of examples in the [[ShoutOut/UmaMusume shout outs]] page that casual fans never knew about until the anime aired...
* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: The voice actress for Gold Ship [[WordOfGod mentioned]] that she has to adlib at lot of Gold Ship's background chattering. For instance, in Episode 8, when they went to make wishes during hatsumode (the Japanese New Year ceremony), the final part Gold Ship's wish was not specified in the script. (It ended up being a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJo0ijLrBBQ nice tirade]] starting with "that orange juice starts coming out of faucets"). Seeing as Gold Ship is quite spontaneous and goofy, this sounds like a mild form of EnforcedMethodActing.

* RealPersonCameo:
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutaka_Take Yutaka Take]], the legendary jockey who rode Special Week and many other prototype horses to their best victories, [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2018/04/22/real-life-jockey-makes-the-jump-to-2d-in-umamusume-pretty-derby appears]] AsHimself as a real-time commentator at Nippon Derby in Episode 5, also voicing himself, also credited. His facial expressions show him rooting for Special Week; [[EasterEgg in the corresponding real-life race he was riding Special Week]]. There's an ''extremely'' oblique reference to his birthday, March 15, in Season 2 Episode 3: the real race depicted in that scene, in which he was riding [=McQueen=], took place on March 15th 1992. For no other apparent reason, Special Week therefore has a slice of cake on her head. ''In the rain.''
** The regular second commentator/analyst during the anime races is Junko Hosoe, a past jockey who is now a real life racing analyst (so her role is similar to NewscasterCameo). She has a [[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/細江純子 page on the Japanese Wikipedia]]. She is voicing herself and is duly credited.
** The old man standing next to Gold Ship in Episode 3 of the second season is Takatoshi Imanami, who was Gold Ship's groom.
* RecursiveAdaptation: The anime got a [[SuperDeformed chibi]] spinoff 4-koma manga adaptation called ''Umayon'', with said spinoff manga later getting it's own anime adaptation.
* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: The anime's producers [[https://doujins.com/blog/uma-musume-pretty-derby-producers-says-stop-the-lewd-488 issued a request]] to fans not to produce pornographic material featuring the horse girls, out of concern that it would adversely affect the reputations of the owners of the characters' RealLife horse counterparts. The problem is that this is coming from people [[{{Hypocrite}} who produced an anime where the horses are all teenage horse girl idols]] and the announcement would have no doubt invoked the StreisandEffect in the international anime community if the general response to it was anything to go by, meaning that it backfired big time. That said, it would appeal that for the most part people listened, as there are very few to Doujinshi featuring the horse girls at all, at least anywhere where they can be publicly observed.

* IKnewIt: Anyone that is savvy with history of the horses will know what is going to happen to their corresponding horsegirl counterparts along with their win/loss record. For example, those who knew about the actual Silence Suzuka guessed that its anime counterpart would [[spoiler: suffer a leg injury]]. It happened in episode 7.

* JustForFun/OneOfUs: As of January 2022, at least three Japanese racehorses have been named after songs in the franchise: [[https://db.netkeiba.com/horse/2020103653/ Girls' Legend]], [[https://db.netkeiba.com/horse/2020107049/ Yume wo Kakeru]], and [[https://twitter.com/meitaifarm/status/1486152287718457350 Umapyoi]]. It seems some horse owners really like Uma Musume.

** Cygames's stance on the matter is essentially [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-06-21/uma-musume-project-staff-asks-fans-to-avoid-making-harmful-representations-of-characters/.133230 a very polite "please don't"]], since the game's basically a [[LooselyBasedOnATrueStory very loose interpretation]] of real horses in Japan's very lucrative horse racing industry, with permission from the horses' owners. Given that horse racing is one of only a handful of legalized gambling methods in Japan (the most lucrative one, to boot), in large part possible due to organized crime, the reaction is justified.

** The horse girls' fathers are completely normal. They also are never appearing on-screen.[[labelnote:postscript]]While as of October 2021, the latter part remains true, some of the fathers were, in fact, given voiced lines in-game (in Kawakami Princess' story for example)[[/labelnote]]

* OneOfUs: There's a certain "Tarou" on Twitter who's an avid player of the game and a huge shipper of Seiun Sky/Nishino Flower. She also happens to be the daughter of Mr. Nishiyama, Sky and Flower's owner.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Special Week and Seiun Sky once worked at a certain [[Manga/BlendS café.]]

* NamesTheSame: ''Starting Gate!'' shares its name with the franchise's own CharacterSong album series.

* The advent of the anime was [[https://www.christianpost.com/news/uma-musume-pretty-derby-latest-news-series-to-premiere-with-one-hour-long-special-featuring-episodes-1-and-2-221486/ announced]] in the ''Christian Post'', a source otherwise full of MoralGuardians, [[CureYourGays "ex-gays"]], and so on. This is not merely HilariousInHindsight; the copious amount of LesYay ShipTease and one ''outright kiss between girls'' (whose real life horse prototypes were both stallions, so it's gay anyway) was in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYrVKLBhitE game trailer]], released nearly two years before the article. CriticalResearchFailure? We might never know.

* CashCowFranchise: While already fairly popular before the games debut, it very quickly became this for Cygames following the game launch as it earned over 200 billion yen in 2 months and maintained its position at the first place in the AppStore rankings, only falling from the top spot ''once''. As of current it has unseated previous top Cygames earners ''Granblue Fantasy'', ''Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage'' and ''Princess Connect: Redive'', as well as non-Cygames produced gacha games such as the long-reigning ''Fate/Grand Order'' and ''Twisted Wonderland''.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The game was originally supposed to come out in Fall of 2018, some time after the first season of [[Anime/UmaMusume the Anime]] came out. However, the devs realized that the game were developing resembled very little to the Anime (allegedly the final product would have been much less serious on the sporting front unlike the Anime), leading Creator/Cygames to essentially start from scratch. The game only came out in February of 2021, during the Anime's second season, to [[Main/CashCowFranchise massive critical and commercial success]].