I would have guessed a “horse girl” is a girl who likes horses and probably horse-riding. Wouldn’t have been surprised: when I was a teen, we had 50% boys/girls horse riders, and today it seems most teen horse-riders are girls.
But this is beyond anything I would have imagined. I guess I’m reaching that age where I can’t comprehend the young’s trends.
I’ve never met a male who was into horses or horseback riding my entire life.
I have met/known several horse girls/women and they all fit the stereotype of being a spoiled princess who throws crying tantrums when they don’t get their way. I regularly get interest from horse women on dating apps, but ignore them all because of this.
And to clarify, I’m talking about people who own/ride horses and often do dressage and or showjumping stuff. Not people who fantasize about it.
That said, I have not ever met a horsegirl who was also into anime. That’s a genre cross over that I am just learning about today from this article.
I bet a dollar you live more than an hour from most stables. It’s like skiing. It’s a luxurious hobby at its base. If you’re local, it’s not that big a deal and lots of neighbors are into. If you have to travel to maintain the hobby and you do, in fact, maintain it, you’re either very dedicated or very well off.
Nice to meet you! I’m a dude, and I absolutely love horseriding! A passion passed on to me by my father, who himself got from my grandfather, and that I passed on to my daughter!
As for girls, in the stables we (daughter and myself) go to, there are many girls, but not many princesses and/or spoiled children.
It’s that stupid running girl game that’s been advertised everywhere. It’s just another way to milk people who are in a certain period. And their minds are too fogged to see how dumb it is.
In this case, a horse girl is an anime girl with horse ears and a horse tail. Umamusume is a gotcha game where you manage a horse girl that participates in a horse race. It’s very similar to Monster Rancher, except with FOMO and horny.
Small nitpick, but it’s actually “gatcha” or “gasha” because it comes from the Japanese word “gatchapon/gashapon”. The word is derived from two different Japanese onomatopoeias: Gasha - The sound of a toy capsule dispenser handle being cranked/turned. Pon - The sound of a toy capsule landing in the output slot of the machine.
Basically, you know those little coin-operated toy capsule dispensers that you can find in arcades? The ones that have little toys, stickers, candy, etc. inside? They usually look something like this:
Yeah, these things are wildly popular in Japan. They’re colloquially referred to as “gatchapon”. There are massive stores full of these gatchapon machines. Brands will do promos for new anime, TV shows, band album releases, etc… Collectors spend a lot of money to get the rare collectibles from these machines, because not all the toys are the same rarity.
And a gatchapon game is the same basic concept, but in a digital format. You get pulls/draws/{whatever the game calls them} via some method (usually purchasing them, because that is usually how the game makes money), and then those pulls are used to get new things. Sometimes characters, sometimes equipment, sometimes new outfits, etc… It’s literally gambling, because the best stuff is virtually always gated behind some hilariously small jackpot odds.
Again, small nitpick. I just think it’s interesting (and horrifying, because it’s literally slot machine style “keep rolling cuz the next one may be a jackpot” style gambling) how much the mobile game market has come to rely on gatcha mechanics in recent years. There is a lot of (well deserved) condemnation of loot boxes in kids games, but somehow gatcha games have managed to skirt around it.
There have always been Horse Girls, whether they own a horse or not. Many girls go through a Horse Girl phase, and it sticks for some. When I was in elementary school, all the girls wanted to read Misty of Chincoteague, but the school library only had a couple of copies, so there was always a waiting list for it.
This is Horse Girl with an Anime twist. Not that big of a surprise really.
Because it is, somehow, an actually very well made game. One of those things where I first just learned about the anime and just thought that sounds dumb, but man the game is actually fun. Also the recent spinoff anime series (cinderella gray) was actually just a very good sports anime.
The game’s actually really well made. The anime is fantastic with a good author behind it. It is incredibly respectful to the horses in the heritage of them. Honestly, all things said and done. It’s just a generally highly polished IP with a lot of respect to the source material on the horses and it does a lot of charity and good.
It always meant “girls obsessed with horses” to me growing up. I remember some of the assholes at my high school giving them a hard time asking them if they want to fuck the horses.
A horse girl, in my understanding of the phrase, isn’t merely conceptual obsession… its actually being a stablehand, a rider, a trainer, a groomer, something like that; actually being around horses for significant amounts of time.
I guess this is a dated reference at this point but Beth from Rick and Morty is a horse girl, a girl who really likes to play with pony toys is not.
Though, horse girls … do tend to be somewhere between eccentric to bonkers, I would not put it past them to have some … fair amount of kink.
That being said, if you can actually ride a horse, you’ve seen a horse cock, and you know that’ll fucking kill you.
Its kinda similar to how people who actually are familiar with guns, and are not total idiots, will cringe at people who know nothing about guns, making all kinds of gun jokes and ‘deductions’ that actually make no sense.
This is different, yes (it’s another gacha game with horse racing as the main concept, except the horses are anime girls). But the Venn Diagram between the two different breeds of “horse girls” is looking more and more like a circle with each passing day
One thing that makes it fun is each of the characters they add is based on an actual race-horse. For instance there’s a memetic and weird racer named Gold Ship, based on a horse of the same name that was similarly wacky and unpredictable.
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Better than the quidditch craze from 10 years ago, until it’s revealed a horse is transphobic.
Waiting for the bombshell documentary, Seabiscuit 2, to show some of those uncomfortable truths.
No need to worry there, I think I speak for all of us when I say: Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️⚧️
so you’re trans horse phobic 🤨️
Neigh. We welcome all identities, human or otherwise.
The premise of umamusume is that horses from our world get reincarnated as horse girls in the world of umamusume.
Yes, even the male horses.
Now that is equality.
Equinity*
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I kinda love it honestly.
I would have guessed a “horse girl” is a girl who likes horses and probably horse-riding. Wouldn’t have been surprised: when I was a teen, we had 50% boys/girls horse riders, and today it seems most teen horse-riders are girls.
But this is beyond anything I would have imagined. I guess I’m reaching that age where I can’t comprehend the young’s trends.
I’ve never met a male who was into horses or horseback riding my entire life.
I have met/known several horse girls/women and they all fit the stereotype of being a spoiled princess who throws crying tantrums when they don’t get their way. I regularly get interest from horse women on dating apps, but ignore them all because of this.
And to clarify, I’m talking about people who own/ride horses and often do dressage and or showjumping stuff. Not people who fantasize about it.
That said, I have not ever met a horsegirl who was also into anime. That’s a genre cross over that I am just learning about today from this article.
I bet a dollar you live more than an hour from most stables. It’s like skiing. It’s a luxurious hobby at its base. If you’re local, it’s not that big a deal and lots of neighbors are into. If you have to travel to maintain the hobby and you do, in fact, maintain it, you’re either very dedicated or very well off.
Nice to meet you! I’m a dude, and I absolutely love horseriding! A passion passed on to me by my father, who himself got from my grandfather, and that I passed on to my daughter! As for girls, in the stables we (daughter and myself) go to, there are many girls, but not many princesses and/or spoiled children.
It’s that stupid running girl game that’s been advertised everywhere. It’s just another way to milk people who are in a certain period. And their minds are too fogged to see how dumb it is.
So now that furries are more accepted, especially here on the fediverse, are horse girls the next “last group” it’s ok to be assholes to online?
Just let people have fun.
Nobody makes fun of furries or horsegirls for being into animals.
They make fun of them for being insufferable twats who make everything about themselves and their feelings.
Thanks for providing an example of exactly what I mean.
Furry isn’t a sexuality, it’s a fetish.
It’s neither and that wasn’t the point of my comment.
My cousin is a horse girl. She’s a crazy insufferable twat that burns though boyfriends like crazy because she’s an emotionally manipulative bitch.
Every horse girl iv know in the last 20 years and I’ve known hundreds have been unhinged one way or another.
Gamers talking about women will never be not revealing.
Well, at least they’re outside.
Honestly, this sounds fun. Cosplaying, enjoy talks about the anime, being sportive and just having a fun time.
Prefer this than all the current conflicts in the world.
I may not get it, however it seems harmless, especially up against the senseless violence you’re eluding to
But! But! What about the historical russian empire?
/S
I was sad it wasn’t about the Berlin-based DJ.
Link? 👀
Amazing how much cultural cache horse racing industry propaganda has these days.
“anime racing horse girl genre”
I was born in Denver and have been a lifelong Broncos fan…. Now because of this I have to answer questions whenever I wear a jersey.
“Is it hard to breathe?”
“What’s the best ski lodge?”
“Do you know any good neighborhoods? I’m looking to work from home.”
As a Seattle native, I feel I must apologize on behalf of all the clueless MicroSlopers and Amazonians you’ve had to endure.
I live in the south now, I only give it away when I’m wearing an Avs sweater or a Donkey jersey.
But you are SPOT on from when I lived there.
I’m so sorry.
I was a corpo once.
Forunately, I was unsuccesful at murdering my conscience, so I wasn’t a corpo for very long.
Organized “Pony play” has been going on for decades. I’d have to look back at Psychopathia Sexualis, but I think it’s also mentioned there.
Horse girl / boy has a very different meaning depending on the context.
It’s cool to see sexual content reinterpreted through a cultural lense and mainstreamed!
WTF is a “horse girl”? Umamusume? Is that some anime thing I’m not weeb enough to know?
I’m afraid to ask these questions because I feel like I’m always so disappointed in the answer.
horse/human fetish/
Uma (馬) is horse in Japanese and musume (娘) is daughter (or young, unmarried woman, I guess). Beyond that, I have no idea what is going on.
Musume is also the term used for anthropomorphized anime girls.
Thanks for this invaluable insight into the epidemiology of horse girls.
It’s a mobile game where you train anime girls modeled after horses to race.
Yeah that checks out. Lol.
In this case, a horse girl is an anime girl with horse ears and a horse tail. Umamusume is a gotcha game where you manage a horse girl that participates in a horse race. It’s very similar to Monster Rancher, except with FOMO and horny.
Small nitpick, but it’s actually “gatcha” or “gasha” because it comes from the Japanese word “gatchapon/gashapon”. The word is derived from two different Japanese onomatopoeias:
Gasha - The sound of a toy capsule dispenser handle being cranked/turned.
Pon - The sound of a toy capsule landing in the output slot of the machine.
Basically, you know those little coin-operated toy capsule dispensers that you can find in arcades? The ones that have little toys, stickers, candy, etc. inside? They usually look something like this:
Yeah, these things are wildly popular in Japan. They’re colloquially referred to as “gatchapon”. There are massive stores full of these gatchapon machines. Brands will do promos for new anime, TV shows, band album releases, etc… Collectors spend a lot of money to get the rare collectibles from these machines, because not all the toys are the same rarity.
And a gatchapon game is the same basic concept, but in a digital format. You get pulls/draws/{whatever the game calls them} via some method (usually purchasing them, because that is usually how the game makes money), and then those pulls are used to get new things. Sometimes characters, sometimes equipment, sometimes new outfits, etc… It’s literally gambling, because the best stuff is virtually always gated behind some hilariously small jackpot odds.
Again, small nitpick. I just think it’s interesting (and horrifying, because it’s literally slot machine style “keep rolling cuz the next one may be a jackpot” style gambling) how much the mobile game market has come to rely on gatcha mechanics in recent years. There is a lot of (well deserved) condemnation of loot boxes in kids games, but somehow gatcha games have managed to skirt around it.
Sounds like they gotcha to me.
It baffles me people don’t call it a “clickity-clunk” genre.
Foreign terms always make things sound fancier than they actually are!
I assumed they intentionally misspelled it as a clever nod to this aspect of the genre
I was in a loop of trying to decide if it was this sort of joke or just ignorance
There have always been Horse Girls, whether they own a horse or not. Many girls go through a Horse Girl phase, and it sticks for some. When I was in elementary school, all the girls wanted to read Misty of Chincoteague, but the school library only had a couple of copies, so there was always a waiting list for it.
This is Horse Girl with an Anime twist. Not that big of a surprise really.
Everytime I see something about it I just wonder why it’s popular.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3224770/Umamusume_Pretty_Derby/
Because it is, somehow, an actually very well made game. One of those things where I first just learned about the anime and just thought that sounds dumb, but man the game is actually fun. Also the recent spinoff anime series (cinderella gray) was actually just a very good sports anime.
The movie that came out semi recently was also really goddamn good
The game’s actually really well made. The anime is fantastic with a good author behind it. It is incredibly respectful to the horses in the heritage of them. Honestly, all things said and done. It’s just a generally highly polished IP with a lot of respect to the source material on the horses and it does a lot of charity and good.
The fans are just crazy
Recent anime series is top sports anime. I made mistake watching the older ones first and didn’t understand the hype.
I didn’t even know “Horse Girl” is a word that existed.
It always meant “girls obsessed with horses” to me growing up. I remember some of the assholes at my high school giving them a hard time asking them if they want to fuck the horses.
This seems like a whole different thing entirely.
Yeah, they are different things.
A horse girl, in my understanding of the phrase, isn’t merely conceptual obsession… its actually being a stablehand, a rider, a trainer, a groomer, something like that; actually being around horses for significant amounts of time.
I guess this is a dated reference at this point but Beth from Rick and Morty is a horse girl, a girl who really likes to play with pony toys is not.
Though, horse girls … do tend to be somewhere between eccentric to bonkers, I would not put it past them to have some … fair amount of kink.
That being said, if you can actually ride a horse, you’ve seen a horse cock, and you know that’ll fucking kill you.
Its kinda similar to how people who actually are familiar with guns, and are not total idiots, will cringe at people who know nothing about guns, making all kinds of gun jokes and ‘deductions’ that actually make no sense.
Indeed, who can forget the embarrassing demise of Mr Hands?
… I didn’y wanna go there, but … yeah.
Goddamn, Enumclaw… goddamn.
This is different, yes (it’s another gacha game with horse racing as the main concept, except the horses are anime girls). But the Venn Diagram between the two different breeds of “horse girls” is looking more and more like a circle with each passing day
One thing that makes it fun is each of the characters they add is based on an actual race-horse. For instance there’s a memetic and weird racer named Gold Ship, based on a horse of the same name that was similarly wacky and unpredictable.
That’s “horsey girl”.
Technically two words.
Amazing! Love it. I was too poor to be a horse girl in high school. I knew some girls that were and this seems very much something they’d do!