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ABSOLUTE CINEMA 10/10

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Drew Black

Jungle Pocket's VA really wanted a part in Uma Musume and auditioned over and over again but kept getting rejected. When she finally got called in to voice Pokke (which was her first major role) she said even weeks after being told she was the main protag the reality of it wouldn't set in. As far as the "Jungle Pocket roar" that happened irl, there's race footage of the horse post finish line raise its head over and over again screaming and the announcers commenting it being his victory roar. You mentioned Pokke's VA's screams sounding desperate during the derby, she fainted in the sound booth during recording it. As to the glass prism I think it's supposed to symbolize their goals and dreams hence why Pokke's got a scratch and Agnes is near her but she doesn't ever look at it.

Kindle

The one in the Arima Kinen earlier, the one behind TM Opera O is indeed King Halo. Meisho Doto and Narita Top Road also raced. Stay Gold is there too (but at the time, Stay Gold’s design is not release at the time). Curren Chan and Admire Vega are the spectators, can be seen right after Opera won the Arima Kinen

Tristan Allen

Finally, Beginning of a New Era! My personal favorite installment in Umamusme anime. I was fortunate enough to see it in theaters and it was just amazing. We begin with the start of Fuji Kiseki's classic year... and the last run of her career. Four starts and four wins. Everyone expected greatness from Fuji Kiseki. But a tendon injury after the Yayoi Sho forced him into a far too early retirement. In real life he sired many G1 winning offspring after his retirement, and in Umamusume she manages one of Tracen's dormitories, looking after young colts and fillies rather than siring them. But as one star falls another rises. Jungle Pocket in the anime is a "freestyle" racer before transferring to Tracen and entering the national races. I'm not sure what freestyle means in this context. I thought maybe the irl Pokke began as a steeple chaser (obstacle course racing) like Mejiro Palmer, but that's not the case. Regardless, she proves to have what it takes to become a professional runner, and an amazing one at that. It cannot be overstated just how goated the cast of this movie were. The opening theme montages the first two races Pokke ran in Sapporo, including the Sapporo Sansai Stakes where he won in record time. And then the 2000 Hanshin Hopeful Stakes. This race was a G3 at the time, but in the modern day it is one of three G1 races for two-year-old horses, and thus we get to see Jungle Pocket in her signature silks very early into the movie. But this was where he met his match. Agnes Tachyon. The theoretical particle that travels at the speed of light. The Phantom of the Racetrack. Jungle Pocket is good. One of the best. An elite among the elite of horse racing. But being an elite is not the same tier as Agnes Tachyon. but more on that as the movie progresses. After Pokke's loss to Tachyon at the Hopeful Stakes the year ends with the Arima Kinen as usual. The century has reached it's end, heralded by none other than T.M. Opera O. She was a force to be reckoned with in her Classic year as seen in Road to the Top, but this is the year 2000, where The Centennial Overlord won eight graded races back-to-back without losses or injury, despite the steep competition from both his generation and members of the Golden Generation like King Halo. He won so much people actually started getting angry about it. Meisho Dotto has finally hit his growth spurt, but still is not quite a match to his lord. We also get to see Ayabe and her roommate Curren Chan in the audience. Sadly Admire Vega never recovered from injury after the Kikuka Sho. The Yayoi Sho is the most popular qualifier for the Satsuki Sho, but Jungle Pocket was placed in the Kyodo News Hai, perhaps to avoid going up against Agnes Tachyon again. A good choice regardless since Tachyon annihilated the competition at the Yayoi Sho. In Umamusume Manhattan Cafe has an "imaginary friend" that gets up to some real spooky things in the game. In the anime here we only see her as a shadowy figure that Tachyon is able to approach but not quite surpass. The identity of this phantom is not official, but is commonly believed to be Sunday Silence, the sire of Cafe, Fuji Kiseki, most of the Pretty Derby cast, and many other exceptional race horses besides, forever changing the trajectory of horse racing in Japan. Manhattan Cafe was practically his father's doppelganger in appearance, and even played him in a documentary. The 2001 Satsuki Sho was one for the record books. Jungle Pocket beat the standing record... but only placed 3rd. Dantsu Flame edged him out, but neither could compare to Agnes Tachyon. No horse could. Not for years anyway. But the brightest flames burn the shortest, so they say. While training for the Derby, Agnes Tachyon's handlers discovered he had developed a bowed tendon. It probably wasn't an injury that necessitated the end of such an exceptional horse's career, but Tachyon's team took his health (and the prospect of charging exorbitant breeding fees) over pushing him harder and hoping he wouldn't suffer further injury. Just like Fuji Kiseki, Tachyon became a phantom. A what-if. A horse so strong, and Umamusume so talented, that one can't help but imagine the exceptional career they would have had. Would the flashy Kiseki dance between his rivals and collect the triple crowns with charismatic ease? Would Tachyon continue to blow all competition out of the water and become a Japanese Equinox? We will never know. In real life fans were shocked at Tachyon's sudden retirement, and many were confused by the decision. Was it the right move for the horse's sake, or were the owners being too cautious and betraying all of Tachyon's fans and supporters? In the anime, Tachyon makes the decision herself of course, and keeps her reasons a secret, thus creating a similar reaction from the denizens of this fictional universe. Umamusume are born to run, and time and again we are told that they can't help it. Tokai Teio couldn't imagine a world where she couldn't run, and even when she knew retiring was the best thing for her she still couldn't quit, not before giving it her all one last time. Gold Ship and Kitasan retiring are both treated almost like they're dying. It's so hard for an Umamusme to imagine not running. It's nearly impossible to imagine one of their own choosing to quit. The red light. The horror music. The outrage by not just Pokke but Danstu Flame and Cafe as well. The several seconds of empty room before Tachyon shows up, as if by deciding to quit she ceased to exist. Pokke and the others can't fathom someone choosing to quit racing, and it hurts them. And then begins a Tokyo Derby without the fastest uma in their generation. Jungle Pocket fights her hardest, claws her way to a well-earned victory. Or is it? Did she really win, when the rival she could never surpass wasn't even there? Would she still have won if Tachyon had been there, or would it have been another miserable defeat? Pokke doesn't know the answer. She can't know. And that uncertainty haunts her for the rest of the movie. All the cameras, all the glitz and glam. Strutting down the catwalk and receiving the greatest trophy an Umamusume her age can earn. And it all feels hollow. Unreal. Undeserved. The music is sombre, not triumphant. Some other highlights of the derby though. "Minami Pitcher" takes the early lead at the beginning of the race and isn't mentioned again. This was T.M. Southpaw irl, who held the lead all the way to the final straight but burned out completely, taking 42 seconds to complete the last three furlongs and dropping from 1st to 18th, coming in last. "Perry Steam" showed up in the Hopeful Stakes, placing 3rd behind Pocket, and reappears here but only places 5th. This was Kurofune in real life, and was jockeyed by the famous Yutaka Take, who has jockeyed several of the previous protagonists in Pretty Derby. The real Jungle Pocket also roared after his victory at the Derby. The commentators made practically the same comments in real life as in the anime. This was probably the inspiration to make Pokke much more aggressive and emotionally wild in the anime than we ever see any other Umamusume act. A bestial cry full of many conflicting emotions. Okay, that's enough of a dissertation for today. Probably write up another one for the other half of the movie tomorrow or something.

whimsy

after watching this i need to to reach to jungle pockets songs “roar of the strongest” and “beyond the finale”

E

for anyone else who watched the first post and is rejoining after the update, 1:45:15 is where he left off at.

Knight

Let's go Cinderella Gay is next!!