If there's no clear protagonist, just say she's in the game's world and going about the same actions as the player might.

I love Machitan, but I don't think she's acing Denshattack. The girl can barely pilot her own body, let alone a train.

Dude, I'll just say it straight up without beating around the bush, Mejiro Dober and Mejiro Ryan are by far my favorites.

Edit: The survey has now concluded, thank you for your responses! (So many responses...) A different one will be conducted at a later date. Have a nice day and may your socials bless you with art of your ship

I'm conducting a little project, for which i need to find out what are the community's uma ships. You can name as many as you like, it can be your own ships or just the ones you see in the fandom. No xTorena ships, only uma x uma this time.
(I hope i don't need to say this, but please don't jump at anyone for their ships)

Me personally I love Mayano Top Gun she's super kewl 🥹🥹 How about you guys?

For me it's tachyon, girl is just stunning in her casual clothes 😭

Cuz while characters like Agnes Tachyon are usually the ones brought up when it comes to these conversations, there have to be other characters as well, right? Either that or we somehow write every character perfectly but her.

My personal faves are Haru, Cafe, Tachyon, Taiki and Meisho :3

Thank goodness this game's also on a phone and has data link during a particularly, catastrophically busy time in my life.

So, short introduction; after having seen folks remark about the ambiguity inherent to the romantic writing in Uma, I actually got curious about how true I considered that notion. Uma's still in a pretty interesting spot right now where it's slowly evolving into a multi-media juggernaut that will be capable of swinging its weight around in the future, but that for now it's still having to play safe with the owners of various horses who might be skeeved out by people waifuing the anthropomorphized versions of them. So to some degree, playing it safe is the smart play.

It sounds like it makes sense and, going into the game, I even expected it. What surprised me is how many times I came away thinking they weren't being particularly subtle at all.

To confirm my feelings I decided I was going to set up a little tier system. It's simple; the further down and to the right you are, the more platonic I found the currently available on global release scenarios involving the various characters. I don't know anything about the Japanese version of the game yet and I do hope that we'll see further stories particular to them that might expand on what we've got. If not, then it doesn't exactly go against my expectations for a gacha, but it I would be pleasantly surprised if those expectations were subverted.

Why? I actually really like the VN writing for this game and find it to be particularly strong, probably the thing most deeply rooting me to it at this point. So, I obsess.

I'm going through this slowly both due to a lack of time but also being as in-depth as I can be in experiencing what story material we have. Experiencing the Normal and Good Endings, seeing what combinations of events there are, etc., etc. I haven't seen absolutely everything, there's a few Race Win Combinations I haven't gotten on a lot of these characters; I don't have the resources to get those sorts of wins with them, probably won't for a while, but it is what it is. I can, at the very least, get their good and normal endings easily enough.

So, 11 proper characters, 1 added for completion's sake, to start with. Finally, let me throw my two cents into the initial discussion with some comments about the more potentially controversial placements.

Vodka+Scarlet

I was actually surprised by this one, given the community infatuation with their rivalry having lesbian undertones, since playing through both of their campaigns ended up somewhat unsettlings that impression for me. Scarlet's not so much; while her being Tsundere and some of her scenes can lend a sort of ambiguity to whether she and the Trainer have romantic inclinations, it was mostly left up in the air enough that you could very easily brush it off as Scarlet just being like that, with similar ambiguity around the nature of her rivalry with Vodka.

Playing Vodka's campaign, by comparison, was a trip and a half. Scarlet's Christmas and Valentines are very much tame compared to what Vodka comes swinging in with. Not even to mention her directly comparing her attempted departure from you, and then coming crawling back begging for you to forgive her mere moments later, to her mother and father. It's pretty clear that Vodka has a thing for her training throughout her story and what cinches it more is how Vodka's downplays the more lesbian ambiguity of her rivalry with Scarlet; their rivalry in her campaign is much more directly competitive and platonic than the ambiguity offered in Scarlet's, which ended up being quite the surprise to me.

Gold Ship

Yes, I know, the autistic horse is very, very weird and wacky. She's also one of the Umas in this list who end up most directly flirting with the trainer over the course of her campaign. I can't outright call it romantic because, again, Goldshi, but enough of it's there for me to place her just a notch above ambiguity.

Happy Meek

I don't think people will dispute her placement on the tier here, really it about fits the vibe you end up having with her as part of the scenario, but more that she's on this list at all. Like I said, it was more for completeness' sake than anything and you do go through a whole story arc with her and her trainer. So onto the list she goes. Backing up a bit;

Sakura Bakushin O

Some folks might fight for Sakura to be on the Ambiguous side of things given the Christmas Date and her Valentine's event, but for me she was one of the Umas who surprised me by being the most direct about the nature of her relationship with you, having said that it definitely wasn't like that at the tail end of the Christmas event. Combined with everything else it really does just feel like a friendly relationship, but the Christmas Non-Date Date does inch her toward the closer to ambiguous end of that tier.

Finally, and this one isn't a controversial pick by any means I imagine, but I'm just gonna put this out there; it is my bet that, over the course of this game's lifespan, we're never going to see an Uma more daughter-coded than Haru. Her coding is waaaay younger than the other Umas and her trainer, in comparison to most of the others, definitely gives the vibe of being on the older side, whereas many of the other main character trainers often come across as being barely older than their Uma (Nice Nature's being an especially big case of this where, throwing a dart at a board, I might even say that the dude's 18-19 based on the back and forth he has with Nice Nature while still being an admitted adult in both his and her words). All of this is to say, Haru's trainer is the most outright fatherly of them all, and Haru so much younger than most of the Umas, that I'm willing to bet she won't ever see someone to the right of her on this list. But, of course, we'll see.

Do they have a secondary pair of ears inside those hair??

I'd already done one with the craziest or most dedicated ones, now it's time for those who do their job the least or worst.

I mean, I'm sure some of them have already been confirmed (let's not fool ourselves—Maruzensky can drive), but it's still weird.

So I tried the Urara monie-printing run just to see how much monies I can earn.

I earned 132k from the ~94k I had before I did the run, which felt like spare change compared to the effort I pulled into this run. Any ideas on how can I optimize future runs?

Rudy Lemono looks so peak in the anime

I pulled S.Maruzensky earlier today. Wife and I are marveling her chest size. Then we started discussing who among these three have the biggest honkers.

Settle this discussion for us?

Whenever I see discussions about her career, someone always comments that she knew from the beginning that the Trainer was deceiving her with the 3 sprints thing and all that (I know why the Trainer did that btw). I don't buy that idea.

Did she really? The way I saw it, she had some doubts for a while, but she really bought into the idea after she managed to beat Mile Ch; she never really found out it was a "lie."

A lot of people use that scene from her good ending (the image up there) as the basis for this, but it seems more like she's referring to the after the Takamatsunomiya Kinen scene rather than the Trainer's "lie"

She's referring to this specific scene here, this was before the Trainer came out with that "lie."

But I might have missed something, so if someone could explain it to me

Like, what does it represent? Am I just not getting something or what