The Uma Musume: Pretty Derby multimedia franchise continues to expand with a new TV anime next year. Announced today, the upcoming TV anime project will adapt Uma Musume: Cinederella Gray, which is based on the manga series written by Masafumi Sugiura and illustrated by Taiyou Kuzumi that centers on the protagonist Oguri Cap. The official account of the project has revealed a new teaser trailer and visual while confirming its 2025 premiere.
Check out the first anime visual for Uma Musume: Cinederella Gray:
Tomoyo Takayanagi will voice Oguri Cap in the upcoming anime, which will be directed by Yūki Itō (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid) at Cygames. Aki Kindaichi is in charge of the series composition; Takuya Miyahara and Keigo Sasaki (The Seven Deadly Sins) are providing the character designs, and Masafumi Sugiura (Uma Musume Pretty Derby) is writing the screenplay. Junnosuke Itō is confirmed to be the manga planner. rby) is credited for the screenplay. Junnosuke Itō is credited as the manga planner.
What is Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray about?
Kuzumi's The Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray manga launched in June 2020, and as of June 19, 2024, Shueisha published 15 volumes of the manga. The anime franchise consists of three previous TV anime seasons, the Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top net anime, and the Umayon spinoff TV anime. Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Shinjidai no Tobira (Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era), the new anime feature film in the franchise, was released on May 24 in Japan.
The Uma Musume Pretty Derby game launched for iOS and Android on February 24, 2021 and for PC on March 10, 2021. The game was originally set for a Winter 2018 release, but was delayed in order to improve the game's quality.
Crunchyroll, which streams the anime series for the multimedia franchise, shared a description for the main anime:
This is a tale of a world where "horse girls"; with glorious names and incredible running abilities live alongside humanity. Horse girl Special Week has moved from the country to the city to attend Tracen Academy. There, she and her classmates compete to win the Twinkle Series and earn the title of "The County’s #1 Horse Girl."
You can check the announcement from the official X account of Uma Musume anime below:
