by The “Next Manga Award” is a “user participation type” manga award in which users solicit manga that they think will come “next” and decide the grand prize by voting from the works nominated there. This year, for the 7th time, the winning positions have finally been selected! The total number of entries in the comics section and the web manga section is 3,582 works, and the total number of votes is about 510,000. They are introducing “Uma Musume Cinderella Gray,” which was selected as the second place in the comics category!
A gray-haired girl appeared in the countryside. Her name is Oguri Cap, who won the race with rivals and will be called a “monster” in the future. The story that depicts the legendary run is “Uma Musume Cinderella Gray.”
“Monster” participates in the race battle of girls who have the soul of a famous horse “Uma Musume Pretty Derby” is a mega-hit smartphone game that nurtures “Uma Musume” who are anthropomorphic of famous racehorses and makes them win in race battles. Before the release of this work, animations and chemicalized works that picked up the characters appearing in the game have already been produced.
In a world where there are horse ears and tails and “horse girls” with superhuman running ability, their race battle “Twinkle Series” has become a nationally popular sport.
The story begins at “Kasamatsu Tresen Gakuen” in Gifu Prefecture. In Kasamatsu, a “local series” that is far inferior to the gorgeous twinkle series in the “central” is held, and the horse girls who entered the school first polish themselves to participate in this “regional” race. It is.
Among the new students was Oguri Cap, a girl with ash-covered hair (gray horse = gray hair). She wears a dingy jersey and is harassed by her appearance (they are not aware of it). There was also a curse-like jinx among the horse girls: “Ashige can’t run (can’t win).”
However, she quickly admits that she is at the top level of stone pine in her run. Minoru Kitahara, a trainer for Uma Musume in Stone Pine, is fascinated by the running and potential of Oguri Cap and invites her to herself. He announced that he would aim to win the SP1 (Tokai Derby), the highest rate in the Tokai area, and Oguri Cap agreed to team up with Kitahara.
Until he met her, Kitahara lamented, “(Kasamatsu) doesn’t have a star who wants to support her from the bottom of her heart.” However, it came to be thought that “I want to tell that there is a star in stone pine.”
Oguri Cap was second in the debut race, but he won his first victory in the second race and then won in a row. She just wanted to run, and eventually, she wants to stand on the cap, as the name suggests.
However, she never appeared in “Tokai Derby.” The strength of the stone pine monster is known in the “center,” and the Oguri Cap was scouted. Thus she left Kitahara and set out for a new battle stage. As a “star” horse girl from Kasamatsu.
A dream that people had in the ashes-covered Cinderella that cut through the wind and sprinted Oguri Cap moved to the center with a record of 12 races and ten wins, of which 2nd place was two times, even though it was a rural area, and suddenly won 2 consecutive wins in the GIII / Group race (there are GI, GII, GIII in the upper-rank race in the center). To decorate. She shows her strength, but the timing of the transfer was terrible, and she was not registered in the GI Classic Race. At this rate, it is not possible to appear in the “Japan Derby” that decides the most muscular horse girl of the same generation.
However, Oguri Cap’s running and strength have attracted the signatures of 10,000 fans, and it also moves the media and Symbolic Rudolf, the de facto leader of the Japan Tressen Academy. Can she run in Derby? The development from episode 26 is quite hot, so it is a must-see.
In addition, the gray horse “white lightning bolt” Tamamo Cross, which is the same as Oguri Cap, also won the races in a row and increased its presence.
The race depiction of the horse girls who cut the wind and step on the ground is a powerful word. The gap between the Oguri cap, which looks like a gale during the race, and the slightly natural blur at your usual pace is also good. The high degree of perfection as a pure sports manga is outstanding, and it makes you hot in each race with carefully drawn rivals.
The story of Cinderella, in which a girl covered in ashes in the countryside is recognized for her ability and rises to stardom, is sure to “everyone wants to superimpose on herself and support her from the bottom of her heart.”
