Umamusume Cinderella Gray Crowned Anime of the Year at the Anime Trending Awards

[TOKYO, Japan, March 22, 2026] REMOW Co., LTD. is pleased to announce that Umamusume: Cinderella Gray has won Anime of the Year at the 12 th Anime Trending Awards. To mark this achievement, the director has shared a commemorative message below.

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray is available on the following platforms in the US and Canada:
- Amazon Prime Video

- It's Anime on Samsung TV Plus
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- It's Anime on VIZIO's WatchFree+
You can watch It's Anime on VIZIO WatchFree+, VIZIO's free streaming service. Just click on the WatchFree+ app icon on the VIZIO home screen and turn to It's Anime, channel #986. If you don't have a Smart TV powered by VIZIO OS, anyone can watch the channel by downloading the free VIZIO mobile app to their mobile device and clicking on the Live TV tab. This service is available only in the U.S.

- Tubi

Other streaming platforms and its links can be found here:
https://linktr.ee/UmamusumeCinderellaGray2ndCour

■About the Anime Trending Awards
The Anime Trending Awards (ATA) is an annual awards event hosted by Anime Trending that features the best in anime across a wide range of categories. Now in its 12th year, over 90,000 votes were cast in the 12th ATA across categories spanning Anime of the Year, Character Awards, Voice Acting, Theme Songs, and more.

■Awards Won
Oguri Cap - Girl of the Year
Best Supporting Boy – Jo Kitahara
Best Supporting Girl – Belno Light
Sports Anime of the Year
Best in Adapted Screenplay
Best in Animation
Best in Character Design
Anime of the Year

■Director's Comment
【Message from Director Takehiro Miura】
We are truly honored and deeply grateful to receive such a prestigious award.

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray begins in the town of Kasamatsu and follows the journey of a single Umamusume who continues to push beyond her limits. Through her story, our team aimed to create something that resonated with audiences across borders and languages, so it means the world to us that so many people have embraced this work.

It is our sincere hope that seeing Oguri Cap run will inspire someone else to take their own next step forward. We will continue striving to create stories that move people's hearts.

Thank you very much.

■ About Umamusume: Cinderella Gray
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray is the most recent anime series in the Umamusume Project developed by Cygames. This franchise, which has expanded across multiple genres and media types since its debut, features Umamusume—girls who inherit the names and spirits of real racehorses. Alongside their friends, rivals, and trainers, they strive for victory in the prestigious Twinkle Series, all while experiencing the everyday struggles of a student at Tracen Academy.

☆Introduction
Based on the manga that originally ran in Weekly Young Jump and now has over 9 million copies in circulation, Umamusume: Cinderella Gray tells the tale of one legendary Umamusume, Oguri Cap, starting from her humble beginnings in the rural Kasamatsu Tracen Academy.

After arriving in the capital from the countryside, Oguri Cap turns the racing world on its head. Her rampage through the national race scene seems unstoppable... until it isn't. Tamamo Cross, the current peak of racing, bests the Beast and declares Oguri Cap her rival.

But Oguri Cap can't afford to keep her attention on Tamamo Cross alone. One by one, racers from all over the world arrive in Japan, ready to demonstrate their own prowess. Up against the best the world has to offer, our ashen racer will need to reach beyond her limits if she wants to stand a chance...

Keep those eyes peeled—a Cinderella story full of twists and turns lies ahead!

☆STAFF
Original Series: Cygames Comic: Taiyou Kuzumi Script: Masafumi Sugiura
Comic Planning: Junnosuke Itōh
(Serialized in Weekly Young Jump by SHUEISHA)

Director: Takehiro Miura
Narrative Planning: Aki Kindaichi
Character Design: Yōsuke Fukumoto, Keigo Sasaki, Takuya Miyahara
Lead Animation Director: Yōsuke Fukumoto, Kōhei Kudō, Akira Takata
Masashi Nomura, Sayuri Sakimoto
Assistant Director: Takehiro Shimizu
Action Supervisor: Kengo Matsumoto
Colorist: Nanako Okazaki
Art Director: Osamu Hasada
3D Director: Nobuyuki Kamiya
Director of Photography: Akane Fushihara
Editor: Akinori Mishima
Music Director: Fumiyuki Goh
Music: Kenji Kawai
Animation Producer: Takuya Chikamatsu
Animation Production: Cygames Pictures

☆CAST
Oguri Cap: Tomoyo Takayanagi
Belno Light: Momoko Seto
Jo Kitahara: Katsuyuki Konishi
Ginjiro Musaka: Hōchū Ōtsuka
Fujimasa March: Mariya Ise
Norn Ace: Ayano Shibuya
Rudy Lemono: Yō Taichi
Mini the Lady: Shiori Izawa
Tamamo Cross: Naomi Ohzora
Yaeno Muteki: Ayumi Hinohara
Sakura Chiyono O: Ruriko Noguchi
Mejiro Ardan: Saya Aizawa
Super Creek: Kana Yūki
Dicta Striker: Yumiri Hanamori
Gold City: Saki Kōsaka
Symboli Rudolf: Azusa Tadokoro
Maruzensky: Lynn
Mr. C.B.: Yurina Amami
Toni Bianca: Yuhko Kaida
Obey Your Master: Shizuka Ishigami
Moonlight Lunacy: Akira Sekine
Michelle My Baby: Ayahi Takagaki
Ellerslie Pride: Miyu Tomita
Inari One: Haruno Inoue

■ Copyright
©Taiyou Kuzumi, Masafumi Sugiura & Pita, Junnosuke Itōh/SHUEISHA, UCG Partners
© Cygames, Inc.

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■About REMOW
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Tokyo, REMOW is a Japan-based global entertainment company, dedicated to maximizing content value and returning greater profits to the creators who make this industry thrive. We are proud to have Shueisha, one of Japan's leading publishing and IP holding companies, as our major shareholder, as well as other major investors including Japanese media companies and global entertainment leaders.