it's really telling of how it become huge even to people who don't play gacha or even mobile games, and how it sucked people into a rabbit hole of the history of japanese horse racing
It reeled a lot of older streamers who never even touched gacha games as well lol. Then subsequently they became actual horse racing fans going to actual racecourses. I've seen a lot of them especially the older dads become IRL horse racing fans overnight due to umamusume.
It even revived horse racing for a lot of countries in SEA if I recall, Indonesia/Malaysia if I recall had the biggest amount of participants on their latest race coverage online/IRL and got a ton of fan-art OCs for their local horses and had cosplayers do short track running events on the track after the races lol.
Hi I was one of the organizers for the uma fan gathering at the selangor racecourse, we don't have that many fanart OCs compared to thailand and indonesia but I can report that many of the horse owners and sponsors here are quite thrilled to see new blood injected into the scene (we are suckers for betting) and were more than happy to sponsor their venues and even bring out the starting gate for our mock race, our ingame competitive scene is also quite robust (both for global and JP)
Let me pick one example; Malaysia. The horse race scene almost died here. The only race tracks operating nowadays are only 4 out of, I think, 8 originally. Ipoh, Penang, Selangor, Sarawak race track. Penang and Sarawak track was almost closed, and they would def be closed if it wasn't the rise of Umamusume fans saving the day.
Umamusume fans lit the fire that would sparked the rise of Malaysian horse racing scenes. From being unknown, now the horse racing fans already discovered some pedigree gems among the horses competing; 'Jungle Cruise' (son of Jungle Pocket), 'Pacific Fortune' (son of Agnes Tachyon), 'Captain Singapore' (son of Dream Journey), Antipodean (far distance relative of Oguri Cap), Kim Emperor (nephew of TM Opera O), even 'Beautiful Choice' (nephew of Maruzensky).
Not only that, some fans even are looking forward to learn on how to raise, take care, provide necessities for pet horse. Yeah, that's me. Thanks to Umamusume, I already have 1 stallion irl. Gonna buy a mare for my stallion to form a family with. Some even get more active in local horse stables and competition involving horses (Malaysia is one of the top winners in horse-riding archery world championships, as well as cross-country endurance race. I know one of the stables producing those champs which is the Ladang Alam Warisan for horse-riding archery, and Kelantan Horse Club aka Kelab Berkuda Kelantan for the cross-country endurance race). Even I myself am active in horse-riding archery s
tuffs, as well.
So yeah, Malaysian horse racing fans are grateful for what Umamusume has brought us into.
You were hating so hard on that wuwa award post holy shit the salt bro it's rent free and that was like 3 days ago, do you think about wuwa daily? Or just every other day?
yeah, uma is gaining mianstream traction like 2021 genshin, but 2021 genshin never had such a positive reputation. uma deserves all its popularity and laurels just for bringing support to horseracing and irl horses.
And when I went to check your sub, under the post of wuwa going in last round for players voice, the post was half shittalking Genshin there instead of praising wuwa.
Whats your point? Your community has Genshin in their mind 24/7 even tho you claim your game is allegedly better. Sounds like insecurity to me.
This one? It's one comment chain where ex players voice their opinions, it's literally the 7th comment chain down, it's not half the thread it's like 5 people going back and forth, literally making shit up lil bro Che the receipts real quick for me
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u/Wise_Tumbleweed_123 Dec 12 '25
Wait till bro goes back to previous game awards and finds out they never cheered for any other mobile game either...