Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray Part 2 Episode 9 Discussion

@dazedcowcow62 the thing is, "Brightest Heart" is a solo song. "Next Frontier" is a Winning Live song reserved for the Tenno Shos and Arima Kinen.

Here we are at the episode which is kinda the culmination of everything, and I don't have much to say, because the show did it all. Race sakuga moments, backstory segments, usual inspirational dialogue, thanksgiving speech and a winning live!

They really stretched the part of the race that didn't happen for even 1 min irl to about 15 min, though flashbacks and spectator observations run amok. I really wished they showed how Tamamo came from really nowhere, and nobody expected anything. It was worse than Oguri, including some horrible debut performances. But that's the thing Ig, this is the most Tama chan will get as a temporary deuterogonist.

Beautiful hug at the end, and all game players know they became roommates in Tracen dorms. It will be cool if the next episode shows Tama chan becoming Oguri's roommate. Although it is named "New Era", which means tease?!

Irl Tamamo Cross wasn't in the best shape for this race and there was sulking from his camp about the loss not showing his true capabilities, despite being good friends with Oguri camp. Meanwhile his retirement was a decision from the owner (represented by sick old man in the anime), because he wanted to see Tama's offsprings before he passed away.

I like how they even kept Soccer Boy Dicta Striker losing a tooth from irl event.

Meanwhile hard lesson for Creek. That was one big horse and referees will always see these maneuvers as "blocking".

Comparative weight of Creek compared to Ogurin and Tama [1998 Arima Kinen]: Creek: 518 Kg, Ogurin: 492 Kg, Tama: 448 Kg

The "Next Frontier" winning live was a pleasant surprise. Sundays gonna feel very empty after next week.

Here we are at the episode which is kinda the culmination of everything, and I don't have much to say, because the show did it all. Race sakuga moments, backstory segments, usual inspirational dialogue, thanksgiving speech and a winning live!

They really stretched the part of the race that didn't happen for even 1 min irl to about 15 min, though flashbacks and spectator observations run amok. I really wished they showed how Tamamo came from really nowhere, and nobody expected anything. It was worse than Oguri, including some horrible debut performances. But that's the thing Ig, this is the most Tama chan will get as a temporary deuterogonist.

Beautiful hug at the end, and all game players know they became roommates in Tracen dorms. It will be cool if the next episode shows Tama chan becoming Oguri's roommate. Although it is named "New Era", which means tease?!

Irl Tamamo Cross wasn't in the best shape for this race and there was sulking from his camp about the loss not showing his true capabilities, despite being good friends with Oguri camp. Meanwhile his retirement was a decision from the owner (represented by sick old man in the anime), because he wanted to see Tama's offsprings before he passed away.

I like how they even kept Soccer Boy Dicta Striker losing a tooth from irl event.

Meanwhile hard lesson for Creek. That was one big horse and referees will always see these maneuvers as "blocking".

Comparative weight of Creek compared to Ogurin and Tama [1998 Arima Kinen]: Creek: 518 Kg, Ogurin: 492 Kg, Tama: 448 Kg

The "Next Frontier" winning live was a pleasant surprise. Sundays gonna feel very empty after next week.

Fantastic end to the Arima Kinen, and an amazing win for Oguri Cap, she did end up reaching the zone after all and had a great moment with Tamamo Cross before the end of the race, even if it makes no sense that they’d have that conversation lol, I guess it’s more of a reflection of their state of minds rather than it actually happening, and it’s anime so I can’t really nitpick that lol. What I can nitpick tho is that Oguri reaching the zone was kinda unsatisfying imo, the moment she reached it was really good but then it didn’t really do anything for her in the race, she was already in the lead before reaching the zone, Tamamo was right alongside her before and after, so for that reason I feel like it could’ve been done better, however everything else was very well done.

As for Dicta Striker, that hit to the head had to catch up to her eventually, I thought she’d fall all the way to last for that reason but she maintained 4th anyway, which then became 3rd because of Super Creek’s disqualification, you gotta wonder how well Dicta woulda done had she not hurt herself but that’s real life baby, some really unexpected things can happen, but at least she came out of the race feeling good which was apparent from her moment with Oguri, that chipped tooth is unfortunate tho lol. Going back to Super Creek tho, a real shame she got disqualified, her one maneuver late into the race broke the rules apparently, a bit surprised she didn’t think about that as someone that’s supposed to be really good at timing, but that’s another real life moment for ya, at least she has a great trainer in her corner to cushion the hurt tho.

And that was a very nice Winning Live, I wish we coulda got it in full, uninterrupted by other characters talking, but we did get a good bit of it still, Oguri sure was dazzling up there on the big stage, she really deserves to be there, Dicta and Tamamo were great as well. And now we just have one episode of this cour left, not ready to say goodbye to Uma Sundays once again but I’m looking forward to the finale, hopefully we can get a Season 2 announcement too.