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Umamusume Cinderella Gray Anime's New Arc Announces More Cast in Video
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the television anime of Taiyo Kuzumi's Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray manga, based on Cygames' Uma Musume Pretty Derby franchise, revealed on Sunday a new visual and additional cast members in a character promotional video for the series' new arc "Chūō Hennyū-hen." The new arc will start in the series' seventh episode on May 18, after the six-episode prologue arc.
The newly announced cast members are (image above from left to right):
- Ayumi Hinohara as Yaeno Muteki
- Ruriko Noguchi as Sakura Chiyono O
- Saya Aizawa as Mejiro Ardan
- Kana Yūki as Super Creek (returning from Uma Musume Pretty Derby anime)
- Yumiri Hanamori as Dicta Striker
The anime streams in "select areas" on Amazon Prime Video and on the It's Anime YouTube channel including in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia. The YouTube stream will also be available in New Zealand and parts of Europe and the Middle East.
The anime also streams on Anime Onegai in Central and South America, and will stream on ADN in France, Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Andorra, French- and German-speaking Switzerland, and German-speaking Alto Adige.
The anime stars:
- Tomoyo Takayanagi as Oguri Cap
- Azusa Tadokoro as Symboli Rudolf
- Lynn as Maruzensky
- Yurina Amami as Mr. C.B.
- Hōchū Ōtsuka as Ginjirō Musaka
- Ayano Shibuya as Norn Ace
- Yō Taichi as Rudy Lemono
- Shiori Izawa as Mini the Lady
- Momoko Seto as Belno Light
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Jo Kitahara
- Mariya Ise as Fujimasa March
- Naomi Ozora as Tamamo Cross
Takehiro Miura (animation director on Fate/Apocrypha, Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night) is directing the anime with Yūki Ito at Cygames. Aki Kindaichi is handling the series composition. Takuya Miyahara and Keigo Sasaki (The Seven Deadly Sins) are designing the characters. Masafumi Sugiura (Uma Musume Pretty Derby) is credited for the scripts. Junnosuke Ito is credited as the manga planner.
Additional staff includes:
- Chief Animation Directors: Yōsuke Fukumoto, Akira Takata, Atsushi Komori
- Color Key Artist: Nanako Okazaki
- Art Director: Osamu Hasada
- 3D CG Director: Nobuyuki Kamiya
- Compositing Director of Photography: Akane Fushihara
- Editor: Akinori Mishima
- Sound Director: Fumiyuki Go
- Music Composer: Kenji Kawai
- Animation Producers: Takuya Chikamatsu, Sōta Machiguchi
Rock group Alexandros performs the opening theme song "Koeru" (Surpass). Tomoyo Takayanagi performs the ending theme song "∞."
Kuzumi launched the manga in Weekly Young Jump in June 2020. The manga centers on Oguri Cap as the protagonist.
The anime franchise includes three previous TV anime seasons, the Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top net anime, and the Umayon spinoff television anime. Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Shinjidai no Tobira (Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era), a new anime film in the franchise, opened in May 2024.
The Uma Musume Pretty Derby game launched in February 2021 for iOS and Android. The game was originally slated for a release in winter 2018, and was delayed in order to raise the game's quality. The game launched on PC via DMM Games in March 2021.
The game's concept begins with Uma Musume (Horse Girls), girls endowed with excellent running capability, and who aim to become top idols and compete in the national sports entertainment show "Twinkle Series." Players take the role of both teacher and trainer for the girls in the Nihon Uma Musume Training Center Gakuen (Japan Horse Girls Training Center Academy) and help them make their debut.
Sources: Umamusume Cinderella Gray anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
