With the anime’s third season ending today, fans were treated to a special announcement. There might be no word yet on a fourth season, but fans can look forward to the first Uma Musume Pretty Derby anime film in 2024.
The best part is that this new movie will be released in the first half of 2024. This means fans will only need to wait a couple of months before they’re treated to a theatrical film release.
Uma Musume Pretty Derby Is Getting Its First Anime Movie
This upcoming movie is officially titled Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Shinjidai no Tobira (or Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era in English). It will be the first feature film in the franchise.
Instead of just an announcement with a visual, as is the case with most movie reveals, this Uma Musume project got a trailer that featured actual snippets from the film.
You can watch the new Uma Musume movie trailer here:
It may not be the longest trailer, but it does give fans a quick look at the new protagonist, Jungle Pocket. She will be joined by two other new characters whose voice actresses have also been revealed.
The new cast members include:
- Yuri Fujimoto (Metropink in Platinum End) as Jungle Pocket
- Sumire Uesaka (Nagatoro in Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro) as Agnes Tachyon
- Yui Ogura (Priestess in Goblin Slayer) as Manhattan Café
In this movie, Jungle Pocket will participate in the Triple Crown Classic Race. There, she will compete against her two rivals.
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Uma Musume Pretty Derby Film Gets Spring 24 Release Date
Even though Uma Musume isn’t the most popular series outside of Japan, it is a franchise with a massive fanbase in its home country. This is thanks not just to the multi-season anime but also to its mobile gacha game.
This series has a unique premise as it follows horse girls. These girls have ears and horsetails, and they compete both as racers and as idols.
Each of these horse girls is reborn from great race horses. This means the series’ characters are based on real-life racehorses. Yes, even Jungle Pocket is an actual Japanese racehorse.
The Uma Musume Pretty Derby anime film is produced by CygamesPictures and will be released in Japan on May 24, 2024. Given the franchise’s popularity, the film will likely get a wide release in the country.
In the meantime, there’s no word yet on release plans for this film internationally.
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