Our Spring 2025 Anime of the Season rankings are out, and Oguri Cap won the main prize with her Umamusume: Cinderella Gray. The anime started out at Rank 31, not getting into the top 10 for the first eight weeks. Only in Week 9 did it finally enter the weekly graphics, where it remained until the end, albeit at the lower half all along.
In the end however, Oguri reached the peak and managed to top the final ranking, placing over The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 and TO BE HERO X. With 56,291 people having voted in the polls throughout the season, Umamusume: Cinderella Gray’s final score was 5.71%. You can see the top 10 graphic below.
Spring 2025 Anime of the Season | Umamusume: Cinderella Gray Wins
Studio CygamesPictures is behind the animation, with the anime set to continue with its second cour in October 2025. The anime is directed by Yuki Ito, while the rest of the main staff includes Aki Kindaichi in charge of the series composition, with Takuya Miyahara and Keigo Sasaki as the character designers. The main voice cast includes:
- Tomoyo Takayanagi as Oguri Cap
- Momoko Seto as Belno Light
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Kitahara Jo
- Naomi Ozora as Tamamo Cross
- Azusa Tadokoro as Symboli Rudolf
The Umamusume: Pretty Derby game launched in Japan for iOS and Android on February 24, 2021 and for PC on March 10, 2021. The global version hit the market on June 26 this year to overwhelming response.
Besides the TV anime (the 3rd season finished airing in 2023) and the Umayon short-form anime, there are also the Umamusume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top web anime project which ran for 4 episodes in October 2022 and the Umamusume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era movie which premiered last year.
The Umamusume: Cinderella Gray spin-off is written by Masafumi Sugiura and illustrated by Taiyo Kuzumi. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump since June 2020, releasing 20 volumes as of June 2025.
Netflix is streaming the anime adaptation.
Source: Anime Corner Ranking
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