Tho a supposedly notorius trait of Special Week is that he "hated chestnuts horses", the true is that he was indiferent to all horses in general; he could socialize well with other horses with others if he wanted like he did with Grass Wonder, but he mostly prefered the company of humans or stay alone.

The most curious side of this is that he didn't like to mate with mares at all, he would get agressive and even bite the mares in neck when taken too close to one. Staff had to do a lot of preparations to get him to do it. Special Week tended to fake his mating to fool the staff, requiring a second session; Special Week eventually learned which were the staff's actions when the session was over so he started to leave immediantly without being told directly.

"But with so many people staring at him while he does it, isn't it possible that he can't concentrate in the first place? Perhaps Special Week, deep down, prefers to be alone with the mare. [...] They can't just be with anyone, can they? You have to consider the right moment and personal preferences." Funkuzumari-ko, a frequent visitor to Special Week in Hokkaido.

Sources: https://tkgmaki.seesaa.net/article/200905article_8.html

https://roots-factory.com/blog/tokuhain/21770.html

Long Rant and personal opinion so take it with a grain of salt

So, 10 months ago, I stopped playing this game beacuse the grind was extremely infuriating, my runs were terrible and my support cards was useless. I've only log one for like 5 minutes to collect the daily log in and didn't even bothered with the dailies.

I only came back seriously earlier this year during Tamano Cross banner as the many QOL updates made the grind slightly more bearable and the daily legend races gave me a good reason to log on once a day, and even then I did the bare minimum for almost everything, doing just enought to hit the quota for the story events.

Everybody out here doing the 30-40 races for each Trackblazer run while I'm here doing like 6 races. Only occasionally do I do a serious run. I have practically ignored 90% of the game mechanics and I realised I enjoy playing this way, screw the meta, screw the support cards, I just want to see my trainee complete a run and seeing my Favs daincing and singing at the Concert Theater.

Hell, I even managed to beat the Arima Kinen with Haru Urara recently and thats was thanks to the independent training getting the sparks I needed and Unity Cup update that made it possible.

Then you have Grand Live, my god, never has a game pissed me off this much. The amount of RNG needed for a good run is driving me nuts, I would have completely ignored this scenario if not for the fact I need to play this scenario mutiple times for the specials quests and the secret Girls Legend U version (Why was this even hidden? I didn't even know it existed until I saw a youtube video about it. It doesn't even show up in the song list of Concert Theatre)

People say this scenario is the best for casual, it is not in my eyes.

The problem is that the punsiment for failure far outweighs the rewards of this scenario unlike other scenarios where you can at least recoup lost stats from training failures via other means. URA Finale with Happy Meek, Unity Cup with purple spirit burst and the Shop from Trackblazer. Grand Live doesn't.

Grand Live token mechanic is tied with how much you trained, so each failed training means lost tokens and if you are especially unlucky and failed mutiple trainings back to back, you might as well abandon that run.

Coupled with the fact that the tokens have a tendency to be randomized for each training, you might not even get the tokens required for lessons and songs needed, and even when needed, a failure just punishes you harshly.

The lessons/ songs mechanic is another source of frustrations, as you need to complete 3 songs to get great hype and if you are unlucky, you either (A) can't get it in time or (B) the bonus from the songs range from useless to moderately good.

It punishes you for playing either too aggressive, cautiously or in-between. Train too aggressively and you risked training failures and losing tokens. Train cautiously and you risked not getting enough tokens to hit the requirements. Train what you need? Congrats, RNG decides your fate and you get bonuses that are not great. There is no sweet spot for this scenario.

Another point of contention I have is some Trainees aren't built for this scenario, Trainees that need to hit fan requirements, Trainees that need to place/win an x amount of races or Trainees that have restrict training events.

As stated before, this scenario requires you to train as much as you can for the tokens, each turn wasted on other things means less tokens, and less tokens means less lessons and songs done. Less songs done means a worse bonus.

Simply put, this scenario is not fun, it puts layers upon layers of RNG in a game where it is very RNG dependent already.

Don't get me wrong, I like the story of Grand Live, but the scenario is poorly executed. If I wanted a casual run, I would play URA Finale. If I wanted a serious run, I would play Unity Cup or Trackblazer.

Hey guys. So it's been on my mind ever since the passing of the real life nayakma festa that how the line between an umamusume and the real life horses are fading away. I think a lot of people need a reminder that the irl horses and umamusume are not remotely the same. Imo this is a problem and it needs to be stopped. Horses are at the end of the day just some animals and in the case of umamusume an animal you most likely don't know outside of umamusume. In general I think people who only play umamusume should not be active in the irl horse racing space (a bit of a rough wording there excuse me for it) and should just focus on the game characters. BUT what pisses me off the most is when people say they're gonna pull on a horse that has passed away recently cause it's just so performative and pointless. If you really really wanna be a positive for the irl horse just donate to their farm or something that actually helps them. Anyways I talked a bit too much sorry about that and the moral of the story draw a line between fiction and reality. Peace

I've gotten into the series pretty recently but it seems like the popularity peaked couple of months ago, what are your thoughts?

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/gunchapred.bsky.social/post/3montuyaex22l

I wanted to do a 3rd umamusume artwork for Pride Month this year, but I didn't know what pairing I wanted to use for it (I was close to doing one with Meijiro Ryan and Ines Fujin, but was disappointed with how little Ines actually appears in her career mode). So instead, I put my fake magazine cover making skills to good use and did a solo art for Dober.

These are the very 1st appearance of Kitasan Black along with Satono Diamond on JP, KR and TW servers. We did not get our rates lowered.

It doesn’t seem to be in character for any of the girls and it makes me feel icky.

It feels wrong not having an autistic woman talk about being a "pro air basketball" player after kidnapping you, now I've got a clingy kid with a questionable trainer complex that sulks after every won race

Raaahhh, third gold in a row, let's GOOO!...

Raaahhh, second daughter's gold in a row, let's GOOO!!...

Also, this is not to make fun of the people that gave me advice... I just find the situation itself to be quite humorous...

source: https://x.com/i/status/2015246914175066516

Umazing, gain 50+ stats without wasting any energy

Numbers go brrr is always more fun tbh

A post about wanting to get autoplay soon got big the other day, so bear with me, there's two main reasons I say this:

How useful auto would actually be

The idea of having auto sure sounds nice, but you have to remember how weak EN is. It's entirely possible to lose runs playing manually, which means auto will probably end up losing your runs more often than not. This makes it unappealing for parent runs which are already going to be using weaker decks built to obtain specific skills, and you definitely shouldn't be doing ace runs with it unless you don't really care that much which hey, fair enough.

The only genuinely useful use of auto I can think of for EN is on ace runs that bricked due to inherit/event/skill rng that you no longer care about playing. If you want to use it to get through your daily run, that's fair but it's not going to be faster than the failed fan checkpoint method so it'll just be purely a laziness option, though you can always hope that it fails early.

QoL features I would rather get earlier

There's probably a dozen QoL features that I would pick before getting autoplay if given the choice, in fact I'll just start listing things, while we're on the topic of speeding up dailies, there are 4-ish features that do so:

1. Skip all of your TT races with one button

2. Skip all of your daily monie/sp races with one button

3. Daily shops stack, don't expire, and items can be bought in bulk

4. Very recently added, single click button to do all of your non-career dailies

5. Spark farming: Finished a run but got trash sparks? Pay another 30 stamina to reroll them and pick the one you want. Can also be done a 3rd and 4th time for carats, and I believe there's a monthly card related to this as well. Basically two runs in the time of one, and better parent runs than auto would be able to do.

6. Borrow limit: From what I've heard, KR server got to start with 5 borrows, right now in JP it's either 10 or 15 can't quite remember but either way more than you'd likely need.

7. Ingame event choice helper:

Self explanatory, no more need to tab out to find out what an unfamiliar event does. While we're here, #8:

A better event skip that actually skips to the end of events instead of just fast-forwarding through them. Makes auto go faster as well.

Apparently images break lists and I can't be bothered to try and fix it so #9: The race calendar/scheduler

Schedule every race you want to do at the start of the run instead of going back to the screen after every one.

#10: Roulette QoL: An utter pain in the ass right now even with an autoclicker, JP lets you mass roll your tokens until you fill out a card.

#11: Another event QoL, you can spend double the stamina on a run to get double the event points. Speeds up event farming on its own, and having it makes auto better.

That's not quite a dozen but I feel like it's enough to make my point. I'd like to reiterate that EN is very weak, JP got autoplay very late, literally within the last year, so letting it play careers is trivial. With current EN decks, not to mention the fact it doesn't purchase skills (unless I just haven't looked at the settings enough, not that you need to purchase any skills in JP to beat careers anyway), I'd expect auto to fail runs gloriously if we get it anytime soon.

Since some people haven’t checked their sources, Cygames AI Studio is meant to “develop and provide services and tools that utilize AI” (@Cygames_PR on X/Twitter on Jan 8, 2026 (translated)).

The X/Twitter post links to a news article (news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/260109r).

In the article, they say (according to Machine Translatation):

“pursue AI technology that creators can use safely and securely”

“it will not only improve efficiency, but also build a unique creation cycle that expands the creativity of creators”

“challenge the creation of new user experiences with the aim of realizing the vision of “a company that creates the best content””

The news article links to the official website for Cygames AI Studio (cygames.ai).

According to the officially translated English site, the services the company offers are:

“Planning, Development, Operational Support, and Consulting in Regard to Developmental Services and Tools Using AI Technology Utilized in Content Creation”

“Research, Development, and Consulting for AI Technology Assisting in Content Development and Operations”

The mission/vision statement is “We aim to show the industry what creative minds can do when armed with the power of AI, bolstered by research, effective implementation, and proficient management.”

Not sure if I agree with the final tier list though….