Thread 280887921

This movie was honestly incredible. Holy shit.

OP is an infant that is easily distracted by shiny, colorful, blinking lights.

>Creates a highly successful gacha money printer
>Pours profits into prestige anime studio
Cygames is here bringing back 80s bubble money magnum opuses

>>280888001
It's an incredible story about a horse that ushers in a powerful new era as an undefeatable competitor with monstrous speed, only to suddenly disappear without warning. This is Agnes Tachyon, and she doesn't even blink before the Japan Cup. That's how incredible the attention to detail is here. Those that follow in her wake have to deal with the feeling of only winning by sheer luck due to her being pulled off the board. Basically, it's crippling imposter syndrome. Meanwhile, Tachyon is trying to cope with her departure from racing by having others achieve her dreams for her, to outsmart her destiny as an umamusume. And rather than pure fiction, its based on an actual era of Japanese horse racing.

Amazing soundtrack, too. A modern classic. What's not to like?
https://youtu.be/TZAcy5nRSCw

>>280887921 (OP)
>Show about horse girls racing needs this much of an exaggerated and dramatic animation
This just looks fucking stupid. I hate "forced animation" retards, but this is quite literally overanimated

>>280887921 (OP)
>An anime that's basically an ad for one of the dumbest Gacha concepts to date gets a shit ton of money and retards eat it up without a spoon.
>Anime about interesting stories and/or adaptations of good works get shit animation that only gets memed or mocked and generates distates for an IP.

It's neither surprising nor unexpected, and yet it is still upsetting.

>>280888001
I know you had fun at least once in your life.

>>280887921 (OP)
>COLORS COLORS COLORS COLORS
I CAN'T SEE SHIT

>>280888450
New Era is a psychological anime. Jungle Pocket is haunted by the ghost of Tachyon, who is later to be revealed as herself, and in this scene she shatters the self-imposed barrier of being the imposter. The imagery in the anime represents the psychological perspective of the characters, their inner-thoughts and the monsters who serve both as an obstacle and an inspiration. A particularly neat scene is Tachyon chasing after her own mirage, chasing her limits until they broke to pieces, and shattering her own leg in the process.

>>280888569
>dumbest Gacha concepts to date
Yeah actual japanese culture sure is dumb. You really fit in here.

>>280888913
Gacha as a whole is shit for retards. Kill yourself.

>>280888960
Boooo hoooo keep crying fag lol.

>>280889053
Are you excited for pachinko anime? That's japanese culture too after all.

>>280888960
Umamusume has surpassed Secretariat in popularity. It's a love letter to the intricacies and history of Japanese horse racing, it covers various tracks and why they're important, the differences between track lengths and turf, types of horses like front runners and closers, famous incidents in racing history (https://youtu.be/P26Opa7F5g0), and it puts a face to all these elements in an endearing way. Instinctively acting with disgust towards things you don't understand is generally a signifier for poor emotional intelligence.

This movie was really good outside the good animation

>idolshit but we pretend something exciting is happening
haha no

>>280889079
>Are you excited for pachinko anime
Hell yeah.

>>280889181
I understand they packaged all that care and interest in a gacha, which nulls out any goodwill I could possibly have to the series since gacha is a trash game format built and designed to extract as much money per day from impulsive whales as possible.

>>280889181
People who play gacha garbage are genuine low IQ goycattle.

>>280889370
>I understand
Do you? Because you have yet to levy any honest criticism at the anime. It just *has* to be bad because it doesn't neatly fit into your distorted world view. This is why you are all miserable, because you view the world through a muddy lens of bitter retardation.

>>280889440
Go back to clicking the pictures on your phone already.

>>280889181
>it's popular so it's good
I guess One Piece is the greatest piece of Japanese fiction of all time.

>>280889458
How about you close the tab, tough guy? /a/ will instantly improve exponentially.

>>280889181
your idolshit for pedophiles will never be as popular as shounens shut the fuck up despite how desperately they try to imitate them. Shut the fuck up and know your place, you're the poor imitation.

>>280889181
Who won that Gold Ship incident irl?

>>280889590
Why are you asking him? He never heard of Gold Ship until Umamusu made it popular in the anime circles.

>>280889482
Umamusume has generated 2.4 billion US dollars in revenue in less than half a decade despite being a new IP. One Piece, at its absolute peak, pulls less than 150 million dollars a year. Cinderella Gray also received much higher ratings than One Piece is currently. In fact, if One Piece aired alongside seasonals it would surely be cancelled, but fortunately for fans it's something for little kids to watch after school and is part of a different programming block. Still leagues away from anponman and pokemon though.

>>280889626
>more popular = good retardation

>>280889590
Lovely Day, a five year old race horse which, thanks to Gold Ship's blunder, won his very first G1 in an unprecedented upset.

>>280889656
Notice how my logic is sound and yours is fallacious and circular.

>>280888001
You have to concede when there's good animation anon, I can already see you seethe at the Infinity Castle movies

>>280889530
>your idolshit for pedophiles will never be as popular as shounens
It's already more popular than they are.

>>280889731
lol lmao

>>280889626
One Piece has over 500 million copies in circulation. That's more than batman and it's slowly creeping up to Superman numbers. It'll soon become the best selling comic of all time, made by one person.
One Piece is possibly the third most well known thing in Japan after Pokemon and Dragonball. That still doesn't magically mean it's good.
Your gacha zogchow isn't good.

>>280889751
A sound argument.

>>280889769
one piece made over 20 billions you dumb cunt

>>280887921 (OP)
>horse racing
>all that bullshit on the screen
so do they have powers? if not, this is utterly pathetic
actually even if they have, I doubt the scene is depicting it

Looks like shit.

>>280889766
>One Piece has over 500 million copies in circulation. That's more than batman and it's slowly creeping up to Superman numbers. It'll soon become the best selling comic of all time, made by one person
And yet it has half of Umamusume's yearly revenue, and underperforms versus its actual competitors, pokemon and anpanman. I live in a Japanese neighborhood. Their kids all have pokemon and anpanman toys, no one piece to be found. In fact, I am a bit perplexed about how they can enjoy this bean paste head so much, but hey, that's kids for you. Personally, I'm more interested in media for adults, you know, seinen, like Umamusume. It tells stories I find more mentally stimulating and relatable.

>>280889860
What's the primary revenue stream of uma musume again ? Manga sales ? Anime sales ?
Oh that's right it's gacha whales lmfao

>>280889821
>so do they have powers
They're basically hallucinating, see >>280888845
It's like when Serial Experiments Lain floats around in a field of static, but more visually interesting. But yes, they technically have super powers, as umamusume are reincarnated famous race horses from another universe, and therefore have autistic horse strength.

>>280889884
>What's the primary revenue stream of uma musume again ? Manga sales ? Anime sales ?
Funny that you mention it, Umamusume has a hit manga which is publishing in the same magazine as famous seinen classics such as Kingdom, Usogui, and Vagabond. Everything Young Jump touches turns to gold these days, easily my favorite magazine of all time, shame /a/ is too busy crying about WSJ.

>>280887921 (OP)
It was so fucking good. The story itself was simple, but the presentation was magnificent. A genuine masterpiece, that many will unfortunately disregard because muh horsegirl idol gacha.
This, and Fuji Kiseki sweaty tits.

>>280889922
Turn off the gacha infinite money stream and then talk about sales next time.

>>280889860
I couldn't care less about sales. I'm talking about how something being popular doesn't mean it's good.
>media for adults
>a gacha game designed to take your money
Of course a mentally stunted zombie would find slop stimulating.

>>280889953
All japanese media is kept afloat by secondary revenue streams. It's kind of their thing. Even studio ghibli survives off merchandise. This is partly why One Piece is kind of shit, because all the characters are ugly and unlikable, you can't slap Luffy's face on a toy car like you can with anpanman or pikachu.

>>280889892
>They're basically hallucinating
that's the last thing i expected in the middle of a racing with a myriad of pov

Nah, this movie was a sauceless splurge. The anime series are mid overall but have some cute highlights, meanwhile this movie had zero likable characters and nonsensical story progression, with zero soul to keep things together. I was surprised at just how irredeemable it was by the end; the best part of it by far was umapyoi credits.

>>280889994
Except it's not secondary for uma musume, it's primary. It will go the way of the Fate franchise : make extreme amounts of money off of its retarded whales while leaving no cultural impact and disappearing into obscurity in a few years because it does nothing beyond milking them.

>>280889956
>Of course a mentally stunted zombie would find slop stimulating.
Yes, I find learning about Japanese culture quite stimulating, and as an American who lives in a country where horse racing is also quite popular, and living an hour away from this famous track that's a living shitpost
https://youtu.be/BpSmprqptSk
It's fun to see the parallels of something I kind of just took for granted as simply existing and being a part of every day life. But obviously things like the Kentucky Derby are very popular here, with 16.7 million viewers last year, the highest its been since 1989, the year I was born.

>>280890024
Yeah its a pretty fucking wild movie.

>>280889922
>hit manga
>can't even beat fucking BLUE LOCk
bahahahaha

>>280890089
Not so fast, you damn fujo
https://youtu.be/YAY8tlIqEBU

>>280887921 (OP)
why the hell did uma musume randomly get popular a decade after it first came out

>>280890219
well the game actually came out for one

>>280889181
Bet you don't even know what a fucking Lucky 15 is or a reverse forecast

>>280890219
Cinderella Gray being unchallenged AOTS then immediately segueing into global release.

>>280890238
i thought people just played the japanese version using a vpn like with every other gatcha
>>280890274
i need to start watching seasonal anime again, i really doubt an uma musume spinoff would ever be AOTS unless the entire industry has collapsed

>>280889925
I have pretty high hopes for the franchise going forward. There are several stories to adapt and I'm sure more are on the way.

>>280890302
diehards do that, but there's no cultural impact if people can't play in english. Granted there'll be no cultural impact for uma musume either because people just play it for the novelty and will drop it within a few months for the next shiny thing once they realize it's a shit game about idols.

>>280890302
>i really doubt an uma musume spinoff would ever be AOTS unless the entire industry has collapsed
It was, Cinderella Gray is pretty good.

>>280890373
wow what a terrible looking season. where's the 10 isekai series. where's the bizarrely well animated passion project about a girl with a sword getting mindfucked. it's just moeblobs. the last season i watched was spring 2018 and it wasn't good but it was better than this.

>>280890373
what a fucking garbage season to be fair

>>280889370
>i understand its a work with love and soul poured into it but they also want to make money so fuck them
Okay commie

>>280890424
Are you really asking for isekai while complaining about "moeblobs"

>>280890302
>i really doubt an uma musume spinoff would ever be AOTS unless the entire industry has collapsed
Too japanese for you, you fucking american tourist?

>>280890481
i'm just pointing out what's missing
>>280890483
too shit, generic and soulless you fucking idiot. in what reality would an anime promoting a fucking gatcha be AOTS in a sane world

>>280890424
>it's just moeblobs
Oguri Cap is not moe. She's a beast.
https://youtu.be/DmLGs9T-SNk

>>280890527
>in what reality would an anime promoting a fucking gatcha be AOTS in a sane world
Uh how about you watch it and find out

>>280888001
It was very well animated, shiny, colorful, and blinking lights.

>>280888450
You haven't even watched it so how do you know if it's exaggerated? We actually watch anime on /a/, you retards from /v/ need to go back.

Yeah, the movie is amazing, my second favorite one of the decade so far. I've watched it three times already.

>>280889925
>but the presentation was magnificent. A genuine masterpiece
The direction is superb. Fucking impressive.

>>280890302
>>280890527
CinGray was great, it was my AOTS for spring alongside HibiMeshi. I still prefer S2 for a whole lot however.
>too shit, generic and soulless
You're missing out.

>>280888295
That track is really good, but this one is my favorite of the movie (and probably the franchise as a whole)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yobR0hHWzAY

>>280890542
>>280890557
>Chotto dake Ai ga Omoi Dark Elf ga Isekai kara Oikaketekita
now this seems more like AOTS to me

>Can't enjoy a genuinely good piece of animation because of dumb tribalism over the source material or genre of the story.
This is just sad

>>280890632
>That track is really good, but this one is my favorite of the movie (and probably the franchise as a whole)
I find the usage of the soundtrack as a whole to be really interesting. There's a lot of moments when you'd expect music, like the races, but it's intentionally absent to create an entirely different feeling. Overall the movie has a really strong melancholic overtone, the music is reserved for more personal moments. It's quite different.

>>280890467
>if whales can't pay me 50,000¥ a day we'll go bankrupt

>>280890623
>how do you know if it's exaggerated
Because the OP is a webm you braindead salad bowl.

>>280890058
Agreed. I enjoyed every other series/special in the franchise far more than this.

>>280890806
You don't know the context of the webm and wrongly assumed what it was, which was later explained.

>>280890738
>There's a lot of moments when you'd expect music, like the races, but it's intentionally absent to create an entirely different feeling. Overall the movie has a really strong melancholic overtone, the music is reserved for more personal moments.
I really liked the silence of the races, as it added more weight to them (at least to me), especially in the first half of the movie. As for the tone of the movie, it did feel quite melancholic at times, and the OST played a huge role in that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMdx0jeKiU

The moment Twinkle Miracle started playing at the beginning, I knew I would love this shit, as I love that type of sentiment some of these tracks give.

>>280890806
I know watching something longer than the length of a tiktok must be hard on you, but please understand that you have to watch the anime to participate in the conversation.

>>280890831
I assumed it's animation from the movie, which it is. You on the other hand are giving the least intelligent responses all over this thread,
>anyone disagreeing with my opinion is mistaken and would agree with me if they only had more info
>anyone disagreeing hates all of Japan
>anyone disagreeing is wrong because the series made money

>>280888001
>why do people care how a visual medium looks?

>>280888569
Should i remind you about kemono friends having macromedia flash animation that was made in an apartarment by 10 guys and teabagged all the fucking heavy hitters from its season?
Whatever story you're talking about doesn't hit big because it probably sucks ass.

>>280887921 (OP)
cringe, and i'm saying this as a shounen fan. moeshit with good animation looks abysmal

>>280887921 (OP)
>Flashing slight bro. I hate this shit. I miss animation being movement not light shows

>>280887921 (OP)
>Horse girl
>Sharp canines
It's shit bri

Did bikini schizo pivot into shilling Uma because Nippon numba wan or some shit?

Movie was alright, animation was great but the side characters were really weak. Pocket and Tachy are great but idk uma's obsession with shoving in too many characters to focus on in a short amount of time. Grey is good because it's almost entirely focused on Oguri, manhatten cafe was in the film and did jack shit.

>>280889482
bad example since its up there

are uma fags the new cocky posters for the next decade? I can't even hate, the animes are overall solid aside from season 3, and the game is fun (i played about 2 years of it in jp and dropped it because it's too demanding). Shit prints many, blew up world wide, what the fuck can I even say. I kneel

>>280890632
Uma Musume is PEAK.

>>280887921 (OP)
What about Blue Archive anime???

>>280887921 (OP)
Now that it's popular with western normies it's bad. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules.

>>280891353
See how much smaller horse canine teeth are? It's shit

>>280891385
>See how much smaller horse canine teeth are
They're pretty big, they're literally for fighting. It's easy to see how tusks evolved on some mammals when you think about it.

>>280891311
its impossible to clap back against uma fags because their shit makes a billion dollars a year. The fact that it successfully blew up world wide makes it even more dominant, it's pretty fucked up.

>>280891311
Nice

>>280891452
They really aren't. They are their smallest set of teeth by far. Oftentimes they are completely worn down into incredibly dull

>>280891576
They are literally for gripping onto and killing other horses. That's the sole reason they exist, and like tusks, they are primarily found on males. In domestic horses they are manually ground down by vetenarians because they are so big they get in the way of the bit and cause discomfort.

>>280891458
>Salesfagging
>2.1 billion over 9 years somehow means billions a year
Retard

>>280891680
hey man calm down i'm a casual fan i just threw out a random number, it's undeniably one of the biggest franchises in japan right now. It reminds me of peak love live in the SIP days or some other shit.

>>280891717
>it's undeniably one of the biggest franchises in japan right now
Retard

>>280891717
>Ah yes advertising = popularity
Another individual detached from reality

>>280891764
You're losing it bro

>>280887921 (OP)
This looks retarded. Watch a real sports anime like the First Slam Dunk

>>280891911
I already read a real sports manga that's better than slam dunk

>>280891956
Figure skating isn't a real sport.

>>280891982
Yes it is, in fact I read several ongoing sports manga that are better than slam dunk now that I think of it. What a time to be alive.

>>280891956
I really like the manga, but I'm not the biggest fan of it. Can't say I love it.

Anyway, when are we getting an artistic gymnastics loli animu?

>>280892043
chinese checkers isn't a sport either

>>280892100
Wrong.

I appreciate that sports anime has a history in FX animation going back essentially to the beginning of the genre itself in the 60's.
But to me that digital puke looks like a fucking mess.

>>280888001
This show will always be deeper, more poetic, and more philosophical than your shallow ass shounenfag Dandadan. Even your corny weak ass Acro Silky plot doesn't come close to this.

The movie focuses on Jungle Pocket with two important supporting characters who have real-life significance, Fuji Kiseki and Agnes Tachyon. The whole story is about people searching for the next successor to Fuji Kiseki. Agnes beat Jungle Pocket by a mile, but her dream was cut short by injury. She couldn’t reach the impossible heights she was aiming for.

Pocket, with the same team and trainer as Fuji Kiseki, and the motivation to defeat her "shadow rival" Agnes, rises to success. The story is just beautiful and genuinely poetic.

>>280889370
>they packaged all that care and interest in a gacha, which nulls out any goodwill I could possibly have to the series since gacha is a trash game format built
Then watch the IRL race you absolute dumbfuck

>>280889530
>will never be as popular as shounens shut the fuck up
Adults, people with actual brains, and ojisans are the ones watching and spending money on Uma Musume. Meanwhile, teenshit with zero yen just watch whatever available on the TV like shounenshit because it's free.

>>280889766
>500 million copies in circulation
Lmao, now do it per volume. One Piece is the most unsold crap in BookOff. It’s pure trash that keeps getting printed just to keep up the image of being the highest in circulation. Even the OG Naruto manga holds more value. Genuinely fuckoff faggot.

>>280892440
>Adults, people with actual brains, and ojisans are the ones watching and spending money on Uma Musume
LOL

I like Nice Nature

>>280888960
Isn't this the same as hating gundam because it's primary reason for existing is to sell gunpla? Because you definitely don't really like gundam if you don't have gunpla.

>>280888001
FPBP, muh suhkooga shitters in shambles.

>>280892707
You can tell this dude posts in /wsj/ all day

Really good movie, liked the struggle of JP. Hopefully CyPictures is working in more entries in the franchise.

>>280888845
This doesn't justify the overanimation and it honestly makes things even more hilariously absurd when put into perspective. I can't even begin to fathom how you go from a gacha game made by, presumably, some japanese horse racing autist(s) about training and racing kemonomimi horse girls into a fucking deep psychological anime series that warrants that sort of animation as if the horse girls are literally fighting (or racing in this case) for the fate of the world, like some Gurren Lagann tier level of dramatics. Anime truly is amazing.

>>280888001
>im watching anime for its deep story

>>280892804
>I can't even begin to fathom how you go from a gacha game made by, presumably, some japanese horse racing autist(s) about training and racing kemonomimi horse girls into a fucking deep psychological anime series
It's because thoroughbred horses are actually pretty fucked up, like on a genetic level. They have very fragile bodies and instinctually are bred and trained to engage in behavior that quickly obliterates said bodies. Umamusume are similar to thoroughbred horses in that they literally live to run. Any horse that does not want to run is removed from the gene pool.

>>280888001
He's shitposting but he's also right. The story and characters in Beginning of a New Era are weak. I've said it before, but the movie is more of a sakuga showcase than a storytelling one. Which is not to say it's bad, but outside of the pretty animation sequences, it's just not as good as S2 or CG. With how many characters the movie crammed in, it would have been better as a standard 12-13 episode omnibus-style show than a single movie, with each of the major characters getting 2-4 episodes for mini-arcs.

You fags can argue all you want, I'm just gonna say that Dantsu Flame is sex.

>>280893001
I think the only real big fumble is Manhattan Cafe has TOO much character, rather than like Dotou sort of just being a ditzy sidekick to Opera O in Road to the Top and not much else. There's enough there that it makes you curious to know what she's about, but her storyline is resolved very indirectly. She's there because she was a rival to Tachyon in real life, so it's assumed you'll either appreciate the reference, or be intrigued enough to want to learn more about her. But I think the movie in general addresses its main storyline quite well without meandering too much on anything else. It doesn't need 4 episodes of Jungle Pocket jobbing after the Derby, s2 already did that sort of misery porn and quite frankly a montage is enough given Pocket's character and how she just bears with it, and I think Fuji's character development is fine with being reactive as a secondary character and was handled nicely. The subject matter of the story on the whole is pretty interesting and it really sets up both Tachyon and Jungle Pocket as interesting characters, and obviously they are the main focus.

>>280888001
You juts described every modern anime...

>>280891311
I don't play the games, I just think horses are cute, and the anime is good.

>>280888001
FIRST POST BASED POST
OP BACK THE FUCK BEYOND RECOVERY
How will he ever cope??!!

>>280887921 (OP)
Yeah the regular anime season pale in comparison to it

>Yakuza boomers notice no one but boomers are betting on horses anymore
>Ask themselves "How do we get young people to lose money on horses?"
>They notice kids blowing money on anime girls on their phone games
>"What if those anime girls were our horses?"
>Throw a truckload of money at some dev to make a gacha game
>Throw another truckload of money at some studio to make an anime to promote the gacha
>Japanese youth and western weebs eat it up without second thought because "haha, Goldship so funny!"
And that's how they managed to sell zoomers on the most boomer form of gambling

>>280892697
When you buy a gunpla you have a 100% chance of getting the gunpla you're choosing, not paying for a lottery to get random gunplas that might include the one you want in the rewards. Also when you have a gunpla, you actually have a fucking gunpla. Ask these gachatards what they have when their shit game series go End of Service.