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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’d be willing to bet there are nearly 0 horse girls who are not also absolute super fans of some kind of cartoon media / video game.
I dated a horse girl back in the mid to late 00’s.
She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% sure she was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.
Oh and she also was just fully fabricating her own cosplays, like multiple a year, at the kind of quality level you’d see people making businesses out of on etsy, a decade later.
… We did not end up working out, but she’s since gone on to literally cross all of Mongolia, on horseback.
I’d recommend the show over the manga. It’s why I laugh about the whole idea that “isekai” is new. I just want to be a girl ontop of Tokyo Tower and be transported into a new world where I am a Magical Girl xD
The funny part is the way Isekai is used now has been around in Japan for decades, but even going further back the old school Isekai were just an adoption of a style do story telling from eastern European stories into a Japanese style.
Those old eastern European stories go back hundreds of years. It’s funny to watch tropes people think are new in anime show up in old ass stories from like the Ukraine region decades before anything remotely close showed up in manga or anime.
I did not know it was a show either, yeah ok I’ll check it out!
Yeah I also find it strange that isekai is treated as like… any kind of a new thing.
Maybe some precise or specific mechanic of ‘magically/technologically transferred into an entirely new world’… is somehow some kind of distinct thing…
But like, humans have been telling stories where someone is moved into an entirely different realm, that plays by different rules, and those rules basically transform them directly… for quite a long time.
Alice in Wonderland?
Tron?
The Wizard of Oz?
Dante’s Inferno?
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?
Peter Pan?
… and that’s just ‘western’ stories.
Its like literally the archetype for an escapist fantasy story.
Not trying to knock the genre by any means, its wonderful to have tales that give you a kind of fundamental ‘the world could be different’ sort of idea… but it is silly when people act like its some kind of groundbreaking concept.
She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% sure she was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.
Another solid data point for my “horse girl to elder emo pipeline” theory. My working theory is that all horse girls eventually evolve into (at least) one of the following two groups: Elder emo girls, or tail girls.
Ok, I am not familiar with either ‘elder emo girls’ nor ‘tail girls’.
Elder emo girls does not make sense to me at all, because emo girls are essentially the exact opposite of horse girls.
Horse girls learn how to do things, many things, practical things, and be good at them.
Emo girls are angsty, and make bad poetry or art, then usually either phase out of that, or transition into rave/scene girls, develop serious drug problems, and then basically work in retail or customer service the rest of their lives, with few exceptions… maybe a few become tattoo artists or become actually halfway decent at some other kind of art.
Perhaps you are thinking of elder goth girls?
Not the same thing as emo, not even close.
Tail girls?
I… do you mean a furry, some kind of anthro/humanoid type person?
No, I’ve never known a single horse girl that became or also is/was a furry or puppy girl or anything like that, again they tend to be extremely practical and utilitarian, they tend to be fairly domineering, task/goal oriented.
They just also have eccentric hobbies/interests, in my estimation due to the relative social isolation of either literally living away from a lot of other people, on a farm or ranch, or at least spending so much time at a farm or ranch that they’re not as enmeshed in ‘normal’ society.
They do not need to fantasize an alternate identity as an animal, because so much of their lives involve very real and often traumatic experiences with animals, so they understand them in a much more grounded and realistic way.
Like, a horse girl walking past a furry at a convention is likely to make a passive aggressive ‘joke’ about having some extra dewormer, if the furry needs it.
They’re cocky, self-confident, haughty… better than you, lol.
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I was sad it wasn’t about the Berlin-based DJ.
I only got into the Queen Victoria races.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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
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
It’s a mobile game where you train anime girls modeled after horses to race.
Yeah that checks out. Lol.
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.
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
horse/human fetish/
“anime racing horse girl genre”
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
Better than the quidditch craze from 10 years ago, until it’s revealed a horse is transphobic.
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*
Waiting for the bombshell documentary, Seabiscuit 2, to show some of those uncomfortable truths.
Clearly ya’ll have not known any horse girls.
This is extremely normal for them.
I’d be willing to bet there are nearly 0 horse girls who are not also absolute super fans of some kind of cartoon media / video game.
I dated a horse girl back in the mid to late 00’s.
She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% sure she was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.
Oh and she also was just fully fabricating her own cosplays, like multiple a year, at the kind of quality level you’d see people making businesses out of on etsy, a decade later.
… We did not end up working out, but she’s since gone on to literally cross all of Mongolia, on horseback.
Do not fuck with nor underestimate horse girls.
I’m a 45 yr old horse girl. Can confirm. I have Magic Knight: Rayearth tattoos.
… Damn.
I had to look that up, I’d never even heard of that manga.
Also: WTF I didn’t even know CLAMP was that old?!
… Yeah, this is what I mean, horse girls are somehow able to consistently out-nerd me, and I do find this intimidating, lol.
I’d recommend the show over the manga. It’s why I laugh about the whole idea that “isekai” is new. I just want to be a girl ontop of Tokyo Tower and be transported into a new world where I am a Magical Girl xD
The funny part is the way Isekai is used now has been around in Japan for decades, but even going further back the old school Isekai were just an adoption of a style do story telling from eastern European stories into a Japanese style.
Those old eastern European stories go back hundreds of years. It’s funny to watch tropes people think are new in anime show up in old ass stories from like the Ukraine region decades before anything remotely close showed up in manga or anime.
I did not know it was a show either, yeah ok I’ll check it out!
Yeah I also find it strange that isekai is treated as like… any kind of a new thing.
Maybe some precise or specific mechanic of ‘magically/technologically transferred into an entirely new world’… is somehow some kind of distinct thing…
But like, humans have been telling stories where someone is moved into an entirely different realm, that plays by different rules, and those rules basically transform them directly… for quite a long time.
Alice in Wonderland?
Tron?
The Wizard of Oz?
Dante’s Inferno?
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?
Peter Pan?
… and that’s just ‘western’ stories.
Its like literally the archetype for an escapist fantasy story.
Not trying to knock the genre by any means, its wonderful to have tales that give you a kind of fundamental ‘the world could be different’ sort of idea… but it is silly when people act like its some kind of groundbreaking concept.
I think the distinguishing feature of the newer “isekai” genre is just how trashy they all are. :P
Well, its possible to do an isekai story without also doing a harem story, but, given the birth rate crisis, I guess it makes sense.
Another solid data point for my “horse girl to elder emo pipeline” theory. My working theory is that all horse girls eventually evolve into (at least) one of the following two groups: Elder emo girls, or tail girls.
Ok, I am not familiar with either ‘elder emo girls’ nor ‘tail girls’.
Elder emo girls does not make sense to me at all, because emo girls are essentially the exact opposite of horse girls.
Horse girls learn how to do things, many things, practical things, and be good at them.
Emo girls are angsty, and make bad poetry or art, then usually either phase out of that, or transition into rave/scene girls, develop serious drug problems, and then basically work in retail or customer service the rest of their lives, with few exceptions… maybe a few become tattoo artists or become actually halfway decent at some other kind of art.
Perhaps you are thinking of elder goth girls?
Not the same thing as emo, not even close.
Tail girls?
I… do you mean a furry, some kind of anthro/humanoid type person?
No, I’ve never known a single horse girl that became or also is/was a furry or puppy girl or anything like that, again they tend to be extremely practical and utilitarian, they tend to be fairly domineering, task/goal oriented.
They just also have eccentric hobbies/interests, in my estimation due to the relative social isolation of either literally living away from a lot of other people, on a farm or ranch, or at least spending so much time at a farm or ranch that they’re not as enmeshed in ‘normal’ society.
They do not need to fantasize an alternate identity as an animal, because so much of their lives involve very real and often traumatic experiences with animals, so they understand them in a much more grounded and realistic way.
Like, a horse girl walking past a furry at a convention is likely to make a passive aggressive ‘joke’ about having some extra dewormer, if the furry needs it.
They’re cocky, self-confident, haughty… better than you, lol.
Sometimes I wish I had that dedication.
y’all
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.
I kinda love it honestly.
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!
Amazing how much cultural cache horse racing industry propaganda has these days.
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!