Finished Uma Musume Pretty Derby
By character designs, i know people will ridicule about this anime. Considering there are already of animal-girls anime out there, this probably not exactly something. Btw this was kinda a promo anime for a mobile game. So the reason im stumbled on this is because I was searching for sports tag, so rather having a boy sports, i tried to go for girl sports (other option was keijo lol). So i gave this anime a go.
From a get go, tagging this anime as sports will not tell you full story about the anime. While the topic of horse racing is a sports, this anime is very close to an idol anime rather than sports. So if you cant handle "rainbow shiny sparkle", you wont enjoy this. Additional, it is also focused more on slice of life in general, with super intense race in every couple of every episode. There are tons of variety character which are trying to be best and beat other rivals. My only gripe it is, despite how intense the race is, it rarely focused on technical part of horse racing (got some, not much) so pretty much each races are about the girl's inner thought and guts. There arent much suspense like typical sports anime, although the standard format of training, losing, getting depressed, getting back up and works together with friends and rivals is there.
Give this anime a try if you are ok with moe / fluffy (not much, but it still pretty girlish slice of life) that about horse racing (more like track & field running sports). But do take notes that probably there arent anything new here (animation, sound, plots) and there arent many dramatic moment, so you decide yourself.
Alternative : For girls sports anime that I felt similar would Saki (mahjong), Girls & Panzer (tank war) and Bamboo Blade (Kendo). As for Idol similarity that I feel, there are a lot to choose from Love Live series, Idolmaster (not xenoglossia) and the closest one i feel was AKB0048
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Finished Suka suka (you have to google this super long anime name...sorry)
I start searching around for romance tag, and totally forgot about this which i watched 1st episode long time ago. Based from MAL tag and score, this should be a decent anime my guess. But watching the whole season, it will be hard to say if Im not wishing for much better execution of this story. Based from other people's it seem like it based from a very source material (light novel) but anime adaptation failed to fully utilized the strength of it.
From the 1st and 2nd OP of this series, it give a scene about an action anime, but I think this one is focused more on the relationship of the MC and the girl rather action. If I put the transition of tag of the series is probably fantasy -> slice of life -> romance -> drama -> action. It have interesting world about end of the world (more like post apocalypse with looming dangerous enemy) and characters was interesting at the start of the series. But my biggest issue is probably many of concept are not explained well thus there are many scene that required additional reading for you to understand. I do like if the series focused on symbolism, but in this anime it just feel not enough explanation.
If you ever planned to watch this, just think this anime more like romance drama with full of "feel" rather than fantasy action. Probably i watched it with wrong mindset and felt betrayed when the series end. I kinda dislike anime when changing focus too much if it just a short 1 season anime without focus.
Alternative : The inevitable demise probably like Black Bullet and Madoka. For more romance with tragic background, Romeo x Juliet and Plastic Memories came to my mind.