I wake up on a Monday and I get a horse-girl based WTF.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    WTF is a “horse girl”? Umamusume? Is that some anime thing I’m not weeb enough to know?

    I’m afraid to ask these questions because I feel like I’m always so disappointed in the answer.

      • LwL@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        Because it is, somehow, an actually very well made game. One of those things where I first just learned about the anime and just thought that sounds dumb, but man the game is actually fun. Also the recent spinoff anime series (cinderella gray) was actually just a very good sports anime.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        The game’s actually really well made. The anime is fantastic with a good author behind it. It is incredibly respectful to the horses in the heritage of them. Honestly, all things said and done. It’s just a generally highly polished IP with a lot of respect to the source material on the horses and it does a lot of charity and good.

        The fans are just crazy

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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      18 days ago

      Uma (馬) is horse in Japanese and musume (娘) is daughter (or young, unmarried woman, I guess). Beyond that, I have no idea what is going on.

    • In this case, a horse girl is an anime girl with horse ears and a horse tail. Umamusume is a gotcha game where you manage a horse girl that participates in a horse race. It’s very similar to Monster Rancher, except with FOMO and horny.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      18 days ago

      There have always been Horse Girls, whether they own a horse or not. Many girls go through a Horse Girl phase, and it sticks for some. When I was in elementary school, all the girls wanted to read Misty of Chincoteague, but the school library only had a couple of copies, so there was always a waiting list for it.

      This is Horse Girl with an Anime twist. Not that big of a surprise really.