 All right. So we saw this show first on when we did our judging anime by its cover, which we're going to do it again soon. Yep. Now we've watched some of it. I watched one or two episodes that I remember. I watched one and a half episodes. I saw all I need to see. Right. So what the show is is basically what I thought it was going to be was like a sports anime where the characters happen to be girls, but they're horse girls that not like centaurs, but they're like cat girls, but they have horse ears and horse tails. Now already I feel like that was a lost opportunity. I was actually kind of disappointed that they were just girls with horse ears. Anyway, and they participate in horse races like Kentucky Derby only Japan. Yep. Whatever their horse racing equivalent is. And they all, they go to school for horse racing and that sort of thing. So I thought it was going to be like a sports anime. Like I really like your battle or high Q. I felt it was going to like I really felt it was going to follow the battle athletes template. Yeah. I thought it was going to be a sports anime only. It just happened to be, you know, the characters happen to be these, you know, horse girls. And I thought we would learn about horse racing and taking care of horses, but that that character's happened to be this way to appeal to Otaku's. Right. And I watched it and I was 50% correct. I'd say at least 50% correct. The thing I did not count on was that reveal in the second half of the first episode is that the show like there's some perversion going on, which totally saw that coming. Yeah, we'll get back to that. That's obvious. That's obvious. It's not the kind of perversion I expected and it's arguably way worse. Yes, but I expected the thing I did not expect is that it would also be an idol show. A dad did not know that at all, but apparently the deal is that when you, if you win a horse race, then you go, that horse girl gets to go on stage and perform at their idol song or whatever. Right. And even, even the, even the really quiet horse who's the fastest girl ends up going on stage and singing like without any cowardice at all. So on one end you can make this like meta narrative argument that the show is about the dehumanization of the idol, like the process of creating idols in modern pop music production. They compete and fight with each other in order for the chance to sing on stage. They're commoditized. The reward they're given is just being more productive for the company that groomed that. Like you can make this whole argument, but no, it's just for otaku fan service. Yeah. This show is so people who want to see cute horse girls interacting in a semi moe, semi sports, like half moe, this one horse, this one horse girl for every different possible personality. So there's going to be your favorite one of them. It's the harem show where there's no self-insert character. It's just the harem interacting with itself. Right. The plot is basically like the school has the elite horse racing team and then there's the Joe course racing team. And of course the joke one is going to eventually become the super one. And the joke team is basically two joke girls, the main character and the best horse racing girl who just, who's like the champion who just quit the good team for some reason. And you know, when the new girl is, oh my god, she came from the, you know, the, the, the, what's it called, the sticks. And she took the train into the city of Tokyo for the first time, just like every other anime ever. And she doesn't know how to use the subway. She's the transfer student. And oh my god, now she's moved to the big city. She's a horse from the country. Right. Obvious main character. But the, the main, what's it called? And whatever. Protagonist? No. The one, the super fast horse girl. Oh yeah. The one who's like the number one most popular horse girl. Yeah. She's like all super quiet. This one. Yeah. And there's like a mystery of why. Silent Suzuka. Right. Why did she quit the super team to come to the joke team? There's probably a plot there. I'm not going to watch much more of this. No, but when, when the, the main character comes to the city for the first time, she randomly encounters some pervy dude. Right. So this is the part that bothers me. The show. And then she kicks him in the face like a horse and he doesn't die though. Yeah. It looked like he did it first. Oh, she can run super fast because she's a horse, but she looks like a girl except for the tails and ear. Well, so we got to talk a little bit about the conceit of the show because the conceit of the show is our real life universe exists and the souls of horses from our universe get transferred randomly as far as we can tell into pregnant women in this other mirror universe that is the same as our universe except all horses are just horse girls. I thought that it was their mom fucked a horse. Yeah. Didn't you watch the intro explains this? No, I did not. Yeah. Souls of horses end up from our world end up in this world. Like that's it. They just get right past that. Oh, also all the horse characters have names that are similar to the kinds of names that race horses have. From what I saw, most of them are actual names of race horses from real. Like what's her name? Like Special Week? Yeah, they're all real horses, which means I hope that Bofides nuts is going to show up and be the real main character in like season four. Bofides nuts, definitely. Bofides nuts appears and it will most of me let me know and I will start watching again. Now it does a lot of cute things, right? Like when the girls use a phone, they like hold the earpiece up to their real ear and then they like bring it down to talk. Like it solved the problem of why is that cat girl holding a cell phone next to the side of her head instead of her ear. But what bothers me and the main reason I'm not going to watch the rest of the show at all, other than the fact that it's kind of just dumb. Yeah. Is that it wasn't perverted in the ways I expected. It wasn't just like that low key fan service you get from these high. I think there is some horses with big boobs or yeah. Sexy legs or whatever. I kind of expected that to be the level of like creepy fan service, but it wasn't. The creepy part was that we're introduced to this character who's an important recurring character who straight up assaults the main character in episode one like multiple times and that is already normalized in the show as well. Yeah. It's a horse girl. You got to like check out her whatever. You got to grow her legs. Yeah. To see how strong she is and then that person immediately become is like the coach of the crappy team and somehow is obviously some sort of genius who's going to help them all win. Yeah. With his strategies that character should not still be in the show and suddenly all the but they totally trust him even though he just groped them. Yeah. Multiple times in the first episode like the narrative around that character and they don't resolve it in any way. It's just like what we trust him now. I guess he's our coach. He's going to help us win. If that scene in the first episode had instead been he died when he was kicked and we never hear of that again that would have been fine. But the fact that he is an important character that has a relationship with all these girls that alone is actually a reason to just now watch this show as like I'm not going to watch any more of the show. I watched enough to be able to review it. It's lighthearted generic anime high production value. Look at all these girls that are acting in the school. There's also tons of like music because they sing whenever someone wins a race or whatever. It's really well animated like everything about it's beautiful. It's really colorful because yeah you know. I do appreciate like it is really really colorful and there's a lot of characters and it's pretty typical anime but I can't say that I recommend anyone to actually watch. If you're an otaku who likes idols and shit and doesn't mind some you know all these girls getting groped by this dude and you know only being mad once. Yup. Like I don't the fact that they just let that go and don't bring it up again. Not cool. Then you can watch this show if you're you know if you're the kind of otaku who will buy a body pillow unironically and have it in your bed and the shows the show is for you. Or I guess if you're on the other side of the coin you can just watch monster resuming and get like an actual centaur. Yeah. Go full go if you're gonna go horse anyway why not go all the way just have like a giant centaur. If they were centaurs this show would be better because. Yeah well then when she kicked that dude he would have actually died and that would have been the end of that stupid arc. If a horse kicks you you will probably die. Yeah. They do there is I think that there is one nice scene where it's like she's at the train station and she's like when she got off this train too early or late like a station away from where she's oh yeah she's just like no I'll just run. And she just runs to the next station faster than all the cars because she's a horse. That's one thing I do appreciate though the show is very married to its core conceits and little kind of like my little pony actually did this too very small details that relate to those things like their horses they run whatever are appropriate and always right like the consistency of the treatment of those little world details is extreme to the point that the kanji for the word horse in the show is basically the real kanji for the word horse except it removed like two of the legs. Like little details like that I really appreciate when a show has this almost slavish consistency on these really dumb minor points but otherwise I don't think the show is actually worth watching and I don't think anyone should really bother watching it. Yeah if you want to watch a sports show you can watch your pedal where the last episode that I saw basically they spent the it was there were 50 minutes from the finish line of the second day of a three day race and at the end of the episode they had still not crossed the finish line but they had done flashbacks of the three characters who could possibly cross that finish line first. Yeah I mean initial D for all I love it it's a bunch of non-race episodes and then an episode that's getting ready for the race. Well the problem in initial D you're racing a bunch of different people in separate races in your pedal it's pretty much there's all these other races but they only care about this inter-high race where every high school in Japan races against each other. They don't care about any other race so it's pretty much there'll be a few episodes like half a season of you know characters developing and setting up and then the rest of the show for another season and a half is just the race and then they do it again three times because high school is three years. Yep.