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Final episode of the mini series! Animations have been very great overall throughout the whole mini-series (the 3D bits still looks off). Lots of cute and sad moments with this final episode, Ayabe's twin sister appearing in her conscious to relieve her of her problems at the very end. Man, season 3 needs to get here soon.  They posted the preview for the CD album for the anime! |
XanekMay 7, 2023 6:07 AM
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| Congratulations, Top Road! You did it! :) Nice performance. This was a very good ONA. I can't wait for the third season! |
SerafosMay 7, 2023 5:27 AM
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Best ending. Narita Top Road won. Admire Vega finally moved on from her sister. And the impressive winning live. ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ |
็ๅงซใกใใ๏ผใไฝใๅฅฝใ๏ผใใใใ ใใใ ใ๏ฝฅใช๏ฝฅใโก  |
| Although the ED seems not a new song, it reminds me of Super ultra hyper miracle romantic. |
| This was a cinema/movie tier production, it was from begin till to end fantastic!!! A shame that this was only 4 episode long, this could've be quiet a full season of 12-24 ep or so... It was really a fun to watch, it was really top tier! Let's see how the 3rth season will be, but I'm sure it'll be for sure top like this and the prewious productions!!! Hmm... Well, to be honest there was actually 2 instead 3 main heroines: T M Opera was more likely the wingman for the other both girls - motivation boost. |
Tenryuu1May 7, 2023 10:53 AM
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| I loved this so much. Again 4 episode is way too short but each episode delivered. It was great. |
| This is PEAK!!! Can't wait for the 3rd Season!!!! |
| Well Narita winning this time was expected and she deserved it. Vega came to terms with her past and hopefully will become a bit more friendly in the future. The episode was pretty nice as well a good ending to a short anime. |
| I was expecting more from the ending, but I guess this is acceptable. |
 ๆฒใใ… ๆฒใใใ… ไปๆฅใฎใใจใใใๆใใพใใซใๆใใฆใใใชใใจใ ใใชใใ… ็ง “ใใก” ใฎไธญใซ… ๅใ่พผใใงใใใใ |
| Wish this could have been a full season in length still amazing production in 4 episodes! |
| This was great, i really want the season 3 as soon as possible! |
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| THIS ANIME WAS SO DAMN GOOD IT IS CRIMINAL THAT IT WAS SO SHORT ๐ญ CYGAMESPICTURES FTW!!! 10/10!!! I absolutely loved Top Road, gonna get her once she gets released on the game, I have my jewels ready โค๏ธ btw of course Narita, Opera and Ayabe were going to sing in the Winning Live at the end, but cannonicaly it was really unfair because Ayabe didn't even got 3rd place, that spot in the live was deserved for that random uma with glasses that fought with Opera and got 3rd, poor NPC girl, she got robbed so hard lmao |
StallionXDMay 8, 2023 2:29 AM
Sorry if my english is bad (ใฃหโฝห)ใฃ~~~ Btw, cry about it.  |
| Probably my favourite entry in the UmaMusu anime so far. Very strong character writing considering how little time there was and how these characters were complete blank slates at first for us anime-onlies. And, unlike season 2, the plot wasn't just "character gets injured" over and over again. I'd still say season 2's Rice Shower arc was my favourite part of an UmaMusu anime, but this was for me the most consistently enjoyable entry so far and it's definitely made me more excited to see what season 3 can bring with another set of characters to work with. 8/10 |
| Top Road finally managed to win, great job girl. Also I'm happy for Ayabe. Pretty nice short anime, liked it. |
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| Each got their win. Ending with an idol performance too. Nice. |
| It's a shame that admire Vega doesn't in her prime. So it's a bit unfair. |
| All in all they truly share the win lol. For Vega case, its good to finally have have her let the twin sister shackle off even if its so dang late. But oh well, never say never, that's the plot for Narita to take on the top road. The mvp shall goes to Opera O imho, which welcome her two rivals to took the remaining classic crown with a confidence, oh yeah. Tho, it must be great to show her inner feeling too right before the end, which without any other doubt its fully 100% frustration. Alas, since Opera as i said before, was the bridge to connect those two, Queen shall share their place for the better end. Now waiting for the S3. |
 Hide and seek is the best offline games on this fatamorgana-called-world-thing. Please comment nicely. I am newbie here. I'm level  on mal-badges. View my badges  |
| Me gusto muchisimo estas OVAS, a esperar la proxima temporada. |
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| Great animation, short and sweet story, and lots of GUTS EFFORT and VICTORY that I've come to expect from the series. I have no complaints, that was very enjoyable. |
| That race had me in tears. The animation was impecable, and I’m just so proud of Top Road ๐ฅน I was rooting for her in the other races, and seeing her lose made me so sad. She deserves that win <3 Ayabe’s attachment to her unborn sister was pretty concerning, but I’m glad she moved on from it. |
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| Top Road finally won after suffering defeat after defeat, but she never give up and keep running towards the goal she desires. Ayabe can't see eye to eye with Top Road because of how she strive to win for the sake of her lost sister rather than herself. Her conclusion felt rushed, but nonetheless it still pleasant to see her get past from her survivor guilt. And we get to see their winning live as cherry on the top! Very nice ONA  |
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| I thought we were in for a three way tie or a Top Road win here at the end (although I was partly rooting for Opera O here too), and yep it ended up being Top Road, a hard fought and well deserved win, the final stretch of the race was absolutely epic and the animation went crazy, a shame Vega couldn’t be up there with them but random glasses horse girl really wanted that W lol, and based on a post in this thread, apparently her name is Rascal Suzuka and is related to Silence Suzuka, cool trivia but she wasn’t a main character this time lol. And just like any final Uma Musume race, emotions were incredibly high, I loved Top Road’s reaction along with all of her supporters, Opera O was just happy to compete, and Vega, having just found peace with her ghost sister, was looking happy as well, just an all around joyous time, maybe besides the random horse girls we didn’t see lol. And the Winning Live was a banger one to end on, I was surprised to see Vega up there with them since she didn’t get top 3, but apparently this was for the Triple Crown over the race itself, it wouldn’t feel right without all the MCs up there anyway I guess lol. And one last thing I wanted to mention about this finale, I LOVED the fall visuals in the first half of the episode, beautiful backdrop for the ending of this mini series. And that was the Road to the Top ONA, I did not mean to let it sit for two weeks before I watched the last 2 episodes but at least I finally finished it lol, I deeply regret not watching this back in Spring 2023 when it aired, and I honestly don’t even remember why I didn’t, but the important thing is that I’m done with it now. This was quite awesome for just 4 episodes, it really had all the greatness of Uma Musume in a much shorter timeframe, while at the same time not feeling rushed. Would I have preferred it be a full length season? Yes, especially because I really want more of these characters in the spotlight, compared to other MCs we barely got to spend much time with them, but I’ll take this over nothing, and it still kicked a lot of ass regardless of the shortness. Only issue I really had with it was Vega’s story being a bit hard to believe, but I like what they were trying to do so it’s not a big deal to me. And I guess I could also say that I wish Opera O got development like Top Road and Vega, but at the same time I like that she was a pillar of positivity and such a silly horse girl at the same time, so this isn’t really a complaint. And now I guess I’ll hit that movie that came out last year, I’ve heard it rips too so that should be exciting, and hopefully I can seek out the movie version of this mini series one day, it would be a cool way to re-experience it. |
| I was oguri pilled, but Opera is coming damn close. |
| Justice for the random horse that got 3rd, got robbed by Ayabe for the winning live |
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| That was a great short watch. The only thing is we rarely get to see the other two main characters, especially Admire Vega. Her conflict is solved at the very last moment and she basically did it by herself. I kinda wished her white friend (Curren Chan apparently) to at least have a talk with her, but that didn't happen. I'm not sure if there is enough material for a full fledged season, but it can benefit from 2 more episodes to wrap things up nicely imo. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| all the animation and everything visually was so beautiful for this entire episode. a satisfying and emotional conclusion to this short story, i loved the three characters and it was nice to see some of the other uma musume making their appearances. |
| the animation of the last 800m was so beautiful. |
| The Topro colored shooting star that appeared when Ayabe's sister is gone from Ayabe's sight was too kino. |
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