The horse woman sickos have achieved it once more, this time elevating $800,000 for a farm that homes a few of Umamusume's real-life horse counterparts
If there’s one good factor to come back out of this yr, it is the massive inflow of horse-brained sickos (hi there) who at the moment are nicely and really engrossed within the welfare of retired racehorses because of gacha sport and anime collection Umamusume.
Since Fairly Derby ended its four-year Japan-exclusive stint earlier this yr, stables and homeowners of the real-life counterparts behind Umamusume’s vibrant solid of characters have been inundated with all the pieces from an uptick in vacationer visits to mountains of donated grass for the retired critters to feast upon.
The Northern Lake crowdfunding marketing campaign in the end raised 125M yen (0.8M USD).The completion of the brand new steady has additionally been moved as much as March or April, and the day when Meisho Doto and Neko Punch can transfer out of their rundown home is drawing close to.Blessings to all supporters! pic.twitter.com/MeCd0U4PvXDecember 22, 2025
And now one other good deed, this time within the type of $800 thousand freakin’ {dollars} to assist renovate dilapidated stables. Again in October the Northern Lake Farm—dwelling to the steady that homes the Umamusume-featured horse Meisho Doto—opened up a crowdfunding marketing campaign to be able to increase 15 million yen (round $95,000 USD) for repairs and renovations to its run-down horse lodgings.
As famous by this Reddit publish, the farm’s crowdfunding marketing campaign did not push Meisho Doto as a advertising tactic to extend the variety of donations. As an alternative, Umamusume followers appear to have taken it upon themselves to unfold the phrase round whereas utilizing his horse woman counterpart to assist push promoting for the marketing campaign even additional.
And hell, it is labored. The crowdfunding marketing campaign has come to a detailed two months later, and Northern Lake Farm has discovered itself sitting simply shy of a dizzying 125,000,000 yen—that is virtually $800,000 USD and over 800% greater than the unique goal.
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“Thanks a lot for all of your beneficiant assist and heat messages,” a machine-translated publish from the Northern Lake X account reads. “I am going to make one other publish with correct greetings quickly. Thanks a lot from the underside of my coronary heart!”
As for what over 100 million yen will get Northern Lake’s horses—nicely, in accordance to this publish it appears to be like just like the farm will likely be changing the fences within the pastures in addition to buying and putting in treadmills for the horses which can be in want of extra thorough train or cannot fairly get across the pasture as a lot as they used to.
It has been genuinely heartwarming to see how a lot people have come to care concerning the real-life variations of the racehorses that kind the bedrock of Umamusume’s total existence. I am unsure I’ve ever seen a lot good come out of a gacha sport about relentlessly pushing a bunch of highschool horse ladies to their limits, however I am actually not complaining. The world is actually a greater place for it.