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Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray Anime's 2nd Part Unveils Opening Song in Video

The staff for the television anime of Taiyo Kuzumi's Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray manga, based on Cygames' Uma Musume Pretty Derby franchise, revealed the opening theme song, main promotional video, and key visual  for its second cours (quarter of a year) on Sunday.

The video previews the opening theme song "Spurt Syndromer" by the rock band 10-FEET.

The second cours will debut on October 5. The second cours will stream on the It's Anime FAST channel on Samsung TV Plus in North America, in addition to the below-outlined platforms. 

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 is also 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 streams on ADN in France, Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Andorra, French- and German-speaking Switzerland, and German-speaking Alto Adige.

10-FEET will perform the opening theme song "Spurt Syndrome" for the second cours.

The anime premiered on April 6 on TBS and 27 of its affiliates and is airing for two cours, with a break in between.

Takehiro Miura (animation director on Fate/Apocrypha, Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Aria of a Starless Night) is directing the anime with Yūki Itō 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 Itō is credited as the manga planner.

Other staff include:

• Chief animation directors: Yōsuke Fukumoto, Kōhei Kudō, Akira Takata, Masashi Nomura, Sayuri Sakimoto
• Assistant director: Takehiro Shimizu
• Animation action supervisor: Kengo Matsumoto
• Color key artist: Nanako Okazaki
• Art director: Osamu Hamada
• 3D CG director: Nobuyuki Kamiya
• Compositing director of photography: Akane Fushihara
• Editing: Akinori Mishima
• Sound director: Fumiyuki Go
• Music: Kenji Kawai

Kuzumi launched the manga in Weekly Young Jump in June 2020. Shueisha published the manga's 21st compiled book volume on September 19. The manga went on hiatus on June 5 to prepare for its final arc, and returned on July 17. 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 launched in English for iOS and Android devices on June 26.

Sources: Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie