(i dont review often/at all so grammer/capitalization be damned, if ur looking for an in-depth review go away)

i dont know why i decided to review s1 second. actually i do, s2 was too fucking good thats why. but know with the whole series under my brain, i still think season 1 was a good primer to the world of uma even with the problems i had with it.
lets talk about the animation, i think for 2018 anime, this is definitely below standards in terms of the median of what modern anime are today (although i would say some of its still pretty shit if you ask me but generally anime now have more “watachable” quality to it). you can just feel the way how static some of its sometimes and granted i dont think the industry put as much passion for gatcha game adaptations in general so its to be expected. (they got WAY better overtime with the sequels and movies so hey gotta start somewhere).

now lets start with the story/narrative of uma s1. you got this young girl in hokkaido trying to be the best japanese horse girl and maybe be the best world, big ambitions/protag energy the whole 9 yards. but its also more than, its for her family. one that that tragically died giving birth to her and the one who adopted and raised her. she trying to pay back a favor to the ones she cherished the most and do something they could be proud of. she sets off to a whole new environment where shes meeting fellow uma musumes, the city life and a huge prestigeous public school for the first time. so now, we got that outta the way this is where it starts. I thought maybe we going to get more in-depth into the story of special week and keep her as the main focal point throughout the story, which they sorta did. they focus more on the competition of horse racing and bonding with team spica, slowing learning about side characters. suzuka, spe best friend, is basically the dual protag of this story as well. she gets built up to be a rival of hers and grows with her throughtout the course of the story. the classic friends/rivals troupe is here is very much needed since they are pretty much the main core of the narrative. although s2 does this aspect much better, having this dynmaic with these two along with team spica chiming at times helps our protags give some light to the story to the alternative “H A V E Y O U E V E R P L A Y E D S O C C E R W I T H Y O U R L I F E O N T H E L I N E ?” (god that show sucks) anyways, the reason this first season is a little iffy to me is that they won’t really build the stakes in coordination with the pacing of the show. this causes some weird feeling of disconnection in which you’re not invested as much into races but still have to sell the feeling of “THIS ONE RACE IS THE ONE I HAVE TO WIN.” especially towards the end with broyle, which just kinda felt like a last minute shoehorn final boss for spe to beat (she is very beautiful and hot and french which i least respect). but the positive for this character being here is that she helps build the world with the international scene of uma musume which is really cool. hopefully they do something more with this since we only see the japanese side of uma, would like to see more experiments with greater world of the URA , expanding to a whole new side of uma.

overall, like i said its a good primer for the world uma musume and still made me wanna watch more of it which im glad i did since it just kept getting better as cygames goes full omega “i have all the money in the world” budget mode with there most recent stuff. i will be reviewing s3-rott-era movie-cingray afterwards so if yall interested to read my review stay tuned or something im not a review guy really (my second review ever).

(COMPLETELY IRRELEVENT SIDE THING THIS IS JUST MY THOUGHT PROCESS ABOUT REVIEWING STUFF I LIKE) something in me feels compelled to do this and honestly its kinda fun typing my thoughts away about the things i like. also im not profreading or trying to do any high in-depth analysis of the show. im just doing it for fun lmao since most of my friends watch anime without really saying much about. mostly saying “its good or bad” and say a thing or two they like/hate about what they watched. theres nothing wrong with enjoy media without having to be obsessive about it. but its to fun explore beyond that as well.