The official website for the anime part of Cygames' Uma Musume Pretty Derby project updated on Sunday to confirm the cast, and also revealed the theme songs, the first commercial, and a new visual.

The cast stars:



Azumi Waki as Special Week Marika Kōno as Silence Suzuka

Machico as Tōkai Teiō

Ayaka Ohashi as Vodka

Chisa Kimura as Daiwa Scarlet

Hitomi Ueda as Gold Ship

Saori Ōnishi as Mejiro McQueen

Yukiyo Fujii as Tazuna Hayakawa (not pictured)

Kōji Okino as Trainer

Megumi Toyoguchi as Hana Tōjō, trainer of the Training Center Gakuen's strongest team



The cast members above (except for Okino and Toyoguchi) are also voicing their roles in the project's game.

The main seven Uma Musume characters are singing the opening theme "Make Debut" and the ending theme "Grow Up Shine!"

The website also updated with the anime's first commercial. The commercial features the opening theme song.

The new key visual features Special Week, Silence Suzuka, and Tōkai Teiō:

The anime will premiere with a one-hour special in April on Tokyo MX, Kansai TV, Saga TV, BS11, and Abema TV. The Toho animation booth at Anime Japan will host a talk show with the cast and a mini live concert for the opening theme song on March 25. On the same day, Tokyo's Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills theater will host an advance screenings with the cast (except for Fujii and Toyoguchi). The project and Kadokawa's horse-racing magazine Sarabure are collaborating on the free booklet Sarabure Uma Museum Edition, which some Animate, Gamers, Sofmap, and Toranoana stores will start distributing on February 28:

Kei Oikawa (This Art Club Has a Problem!, Outbreak Company, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!) is directing the anime at P.A. Works. Yousuke Kabashima (D.Gray-man Hallow, Lord Marksman and Vanadis) is the character designer and chief animation director. Masafumi Sugiura (aka Pierre Sugiura, Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru scripts) and Cygames' Akihiro Ishihara are both writing and overseeing the series scripts. UTAMARO movement is composing the music at Lantis.

The video game version of the project currently has 59 cast members, including many not yet confirmed for the anime:

Azumi Waki as Special Week

Marika Kōno as Silence Suzuka

Machico as Tōkai Teiō

Yuka Aisaka as Vodka

Ruriko Aoki as Air Groove

Minami Takahashi as El Condor Pasa

Tomoyo Takayanagi as Oguri Cap

Rena Maeda as Grass Wonder

Hitomi Ueda as Gold Ship

Azusa Tadokoro as Symboli Rudolf

Yuka Ōtsubo as Taiki Shuttle

Chisa Kimura as Daiwa Scarlet

Sora Tokui as T.M. Opera Ō

Yuka Aisaka as Narita Brian

Yuiko Tatsumi as Hishi Amazon

Eriko Matsui as Fuji Kiseki

Lynn as Maruzensky

Saori Ōnishi as Mejiro McQueen

Akari Kitō as Seiun Sky

Nozomi Yamamoto as Yukino Bijin

Yui Watanabe as Winning Ticket

Naomi Ōzora as Tamamo Cross

Ayaka Fukuhara as Seeking the Pearl

Yui Ogura as Manhattan Cafe

Eri Suzuki as Tosen Jordan

Yukina Shutō as Haru Urara

Karin Takahashi as Kawakami Princess

Afumi Hashi Mejiro Ryan

Hiyori Nitta as Matikanefukukitaru

Chinami Hashimoto as Fine Motion

Hitomi Ohwada as Smart Falcon

Keiko Watanabe as Narita Taishin

Minami Tsuda as Air Shakur

Saki Kosaka as Gold City

Kana Yūki as Super Creek

Haruno Inoue as Inari One

Haruna Kawai as Nishino Flower

Aimi Tanaka as Biko Pegasus

Rei Matsuzaki as Hishi Akebono

Kotomi Aihara as Bamboo Memory

Marie Miyake as Marvelous Sunday

Ikumi Hasegawa as Mihono Bourbon

Shiori Sugiura as Sweep Tosho

Tomomi Mineuchi as Ines Fujin

Yui Kondou as Biwa Hayahide

Sachika Misawa as Sakura Bakushin O

Yūki Takada as Shinko Windy

Sumire Uesaka as Agnes Tachyon

Haruka Terui as Zenno Rob Roy

Misaka Watada as Meisho Doto

Manaka Iwami as Rice Shower

Hitomi Sasaki as Admire Vega

Yū Sasahara as Curren Chan

Minori Suzuki as Agnes Digital

Ayami Fujino as Eishin Flash

Shino Shimoji as Nakayama Festa

Ayaka Imamura as Mayano Top Gun

Hikari Kubota as Mejiro Dober

Kaori Maeda as Nice Nature

The game is currently in development, with a planned release on iOS and Android in 2018. The game's concept begins with Uma Musume (Horse Girls), girls endowed with excellent running capability, and who aim to become top idols and compete in the national sports entertainment show "Twinkle Series." Players take the role of both teacher and trainer for the girls in the Nihon Uma Musume Training Center Gakuen (Japan Horse Girls Training Center Academy) and help them make their debut.

Sources: Comic Natalie, MoCa News