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Uma Musume Pretty Derby Anime Reveals Cast, Theme Song, Visual

The official website for the anime part of Cygames' Uma Musume Pretty Derby project updated on Sunday to confirm the cast, and also revealed the theme songs, the first commercial, and a new visual.

The cast stars:

Azumi Waki as Special Week

Marika Kōno as Silence Suzuka

Machico as Tōkai Teiō

Ayaka Ōhashi as Vodka

Chisa Kimura as Daiwa Scarlet

Hitomi Ueda as Gold Ship

Saori Ōnishi as Mejiro McQueen

Yukiyo Fujii as Tazuna Hayakawa (not pictured)

Kōji Okino as Trainer

Megumi Toyoguchi as Hana Tōjō, trainer of the Training Center Gakuen's strongest team

The cast members above (except for Okino and Toyoguchi) are also voicing their roles in the project's game.

The main seven Uma Musume characters are singing the opening theme "Make Debut" and the ending theme "Grow Up Shine!"

The website also updated with the anime's first commercial. The commercial features the opening theme song.

The new key visual features Special Week, Silence Suzuka, and Tōkai Teiō:

The anime will premiere with a one-hour special in April on Tokyo MX, Kansai TV, Saga TV, BS11, and Abema TV. The TOHO animation booth at Anime Japan will host a talk show with the cast and a mini live concert for the opening theme song on March 25. On the same day, Tokyo's TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills theater will host an advance screenings with the cast (except for Fujii and Toyoguchi). The project and Kadokawa's horse-racing magazine Sarabure are collaborating on the free booklet Sarabure Uma Museum Edition, which some Animate, Gamers, Sofmap, and Toranoana stores will start distributing on February 28:

Kei Oikawa (This Art Club Has a Problem!, Outbreak Company, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!) is directing the anime at P.A. Works. Yousuke Kabashima (D.Gray-man Hallow, Lord Marksman and Vanadis) is the character designer and chief animation director. Masafumi Sugiura (aka Pierre Sugiura, Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru scripts) and Cygames' Akihiro Ishihara are both writing and overseeing the series scripts. UTAMARO movement is composing the music at Lantis.

The video game version of the project currently has 59 cast members, including many not yet confirmed for the anime:

• Azumi Waki as Special Week
• Marika Kōno as Silence Suzuka
• Machico as Tōkai Teiō
• Yuka Aisaka as Vodka
• Ruriko Aoki as Air Groove
• Minami Takahashi as El Condor Pasa
• Tomoyo Takayanagi as Oguri Cap
• Rena Maeda as Grass Wonder
• Hitomi Ueda as Gold Ship
• Azusa Tadokoro as Symboli Rudolf
• Yuka Ōtsubo as Taiki Shuttle
• Chisa Kimura as Daiwa Scarlet
• Sora Tokui as T.M. Opera Ō
• Yuka Aisaka as Narita Brian
• Yuiko Tatsumi as Hishi Amazon
• Eriko Matsui as Fuji Kiseki
• Lynn as Maruzensky
• Saori Ōnishi as Mejiro McQueen
• Akari Kitō as Seiun Sky
• Nozomi Yamamoto as Yukino Bijin
• Yui Watanabe as Winning Ticket
• Naomi Ōzora as Tamamo Cross
• Ayaka Fukuhara as Seeking the Pearl
• Yui Ogura as Manhattan Cafe
• Eri Suzuki as Tosen Jordan
• Yukina Shutō as Haru Urara
• Karin Takahashi as Kawakami Princess
• Afumi Hashi Mejiro Ryan
• Hiyori Nitta as Matikanefukukitaru
• Chinami Hashimoto as Fine Motion
• Hitomi Ohwada as Smart Falcon
• Keiko Watanabe as Narita Taishin
• Minami Tsuda as Air Shakur
• Saki Kōsaka as Gold City
• Kana Yūki as Super Creek
• Haruno Inoue as Inari One
• Haruna Kawai as Nishino Flower
• Aimi Tanaka as Biko Pegasus
• Rei Matsuzaki as Hishi Akebono
• Kotomi Aihara as Bamboo Memory
• Marie Miyake as Marvelous Sunday
• Ikumi Hasegawa as Mihono Bourbon
• Shiori Sugiura as Sweep Tosho
• Tomomi Mineuchi as Ines Fujin
• Yui Kondō as Biwa Hayahide
• Sachika Misawa as Sakura Bakushin O
• Yūki Takada as Shinko Windy
• Sumire Uesaka as Agnes Tachyon
• Haruka Terui as Zenno Rob Roy
• Misaka Watada as Meisho Doto
• Manaka Iwami as Rice Shower
• Hitomi Sasaki as Admire Vega
• Yū Sasahara as Curren Chan
• Minori Suzuki as Agnes Digital
• Ayami Fujino as Eishin Flash
• Shino Shimoji as Nakayama Festa
• Ayaka Imamura as Mayano Top Gun
• Hikari Kubota as Mejiro Dober
• Kaori Maeda as Nice Nature

The game is currently in development, with a planned release on iOS and Android in 2018. The game's concept begins with Uma Musume (Horse Girls), girls endowed with excellent running capability, and who aim to become top idols and compete in the national sports entertainment show "Twinkle Series." Players take the role of both teacher and trainer for the girls in the Nihon Uma Musume Training Center Gakuen (Japan Horse Girls Training Center Academy) and help them make their debut.

Sources: Comic Natalie, MoCa News