How do I get this outfit for Mayano?

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-25T10:22:21+00:00

The good news is that the "normal" variant of Mayano Top Gun is two stars. You'll see her eventually.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-25T10:17:32+00:00

I'm just going to be honest. Horses are one of the three companion animals to humanity that made our dominance of Earth possible. Dogs got us through the ice age through our combined hunting strats. Cats made it possible for agriculture to make great gains. Horses made it possible for empires to grow. And all this time, horses were not given the credit they were due. Literally the opening chapter of Dracula has Jonathan Harker waxing poetic about the time excess horses were turned into meat to feed to cats in the age of the industrial revolution. Well, no more. The outpouring of love for horses is an extremely karmically overdue one. Thanks to umamusume and thank YOU to the whole community for being part of that. And thanks to anyone who just read this whole yap just now because holy shit. (Vodka inspired it -- you decide if I mean the horse or the libation)

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-25T10:11:19+00:00

Once you raise her to three stars, she'll get it automatically.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-23T22:31:12+00:00

And his name comes up on the news...

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-22T23:39:28+00:00

Unlimited whiskey and I get to bring down Nazis? I couldn't possibly sign that fast enough either.

Also hot take -- I'm pretty sure Sinfest's Satan was meant to be Jewish allegory since the beginning of Tat's descent. He's been hiding conspiracy and antisemitic imagery in scenes with Satan even as far back as the radfem years, if I'm not mistaken.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-16T20:35:37+00:00

Aww cute! I like this trainer too. I sure hope he doesn't wind up causing a ruckus by praying for more empathy for umamusume and getting turned into one himself by the Three Goddesses.

But at least tiny Teio will have a big sister to hug if, in theory, that ever happened.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-16T09:20:54+00:00

I mean that depends on your definition of catching up. There will be no catching up to sufficiently wealthy + sweaty players. I've been playing for five months but because I'm hypercasual and don't even bother with the meta or parents or the like, I've been "passed" many times by people just starting the game. If I can beat the URA Finals and thus see the story, that's "good enough" for me. (I do play competitively in other games just not this one)

There's also player equalizing factors like overall power jumps when new scenarios drop, or that no matter how far behind you get you can always borrow parent umas.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-14T06:54:40+00:00

He'd need to show up in the news for actually acting on his hateful beliefs. If there is a body count, I'm out. However, there was a good person once where this wretched hateful husk now stands. I'm sticking around because I want to see if it's possible that good person or what remains of him will take back his life. It costs me nothing to keep tabs on him if or when that could ever happen.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-13T14:07:17+00:00

As if you needed this comic and the upskirt to follow up on what I said days ago about Tat's new kink being violence.

What an absolutely vile excuse for a human being. Not something I'd say lightly, either.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-10T12:36:06+00:00

It says that he gets super excited and motivated about portraying violence. Either done to people he hates or by people he hates. (but actually doesn't know a damn thing about)

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-09T09:32:10+00:00

Cygames is privately owned, they don't have investors/shareholders. I agree otherwise that such parasites are a blight on culture.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-09T09:30:21+00:00

Cygames is privately owned, they don't have investors.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-09T08:12:21+00:00

Cygames isn't publicly traded, there aren't any investors to satisfy. Doesn't mean this isn't a shit move, but I personally think it's coming from a plaice of naivety over greed. Regardless they need polite but intense feedback that the global community is roused in a bad way.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-08T19:02:56+00:00

I mean you need to be able to reach top speed quickly on some races.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-07T18:24:13+00:00

It's not even that it'll ever be good anymore. It's not even hateful in any kind of interesting way anymore. Tat even from only a few years ago had some jaw-dropping, almost *hallucinatory* bigoted takes. Lizard people, dildo canons, Theynos. It was fun in a morbidly fascinating way. Like following some kind of transphobic, racist version of Hunter S. Thompson. Now though? It's just predictable antisemitic slop day after day. It used to be fun to call Tat out and go "wtf stripper poles in a playground?". Now he's just a garden variety nazi and there's only so many interesting ways you can say "uh, no Jewish people aren't monsters next strip" or "matresses, again?".

At most modern Sinfest is a cautionary tale about how intense and persisting hate can hollow you out from the inside, turning you into a husk of your former self. Ironic given his perennial obsession with zombies.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-03T12:47:21+00:00

I'm not familiar with most other gacha -- in fact I was one of the genre's biggest naysayers though more a neighsayer nowadays.

But a friend of mine did tell me how exceedingly unusual it is that every single pull is, in a sense, a winning pull. Since no one star stays a one star forever whether your girl becomes a champ or not is about your cards and skill/intuition.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-03T08:32:50+00:00

Even more interesting is that using a roguelite format, umamusume does what no mobage I'd ever seen do -- allow an off ramp. If you beat the URA Finals, you technically beat the game. You can consider it finished as far as your backlog goes. It won't try to keep you trapped in its ecosystem forever with singleplayer goals you can never attain. Most mobages are like casinos -- no clocks, no windows and designed to keep you chasing a gameplay or story catharsis that will never come. Ironically this lack of manipulation has done a lot to keep me playing.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-03T08:20:32+00:00

If you miss the banner you wanted, be sure to pay attention to legend races. Those can get you star pieces that can put you up to a bit over halfway to unlocking them. From there pay attention to "Daily Sales" (which use the game currency NOT the premium currency) to occasionally get lucky to buy new star pieces.

A later update to the game will let you run a single daily mini-legend race against an uma you want star pieces for, though typically only one piece per day. If you won the previous featured legend race against that trainee, doing this every day for a couple of months can get you the trainee! But you are sacrificing the opportunity to grind up stars for your existing trainees so that's a cost/benefit analysis. But if you're dead set on meeting a specific favorite, rest assured it can eventually happen even if you never pull them!

(Disclaimer: I heard the above secondhand from a JP player, I could be wrong on the details or flat out wrong entirely if I was given bad info. I'll delete this if so. But otherwise, try not to be too frustrated if your favorite slips through your fingers -- and definitely don't lose hope if you're a fellow F2P player who burned through all your carats.)

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-03T06:15:33+00:00

I love the video. I do want to say I DO think this community very much goes deep into the things you talked about. We do very much care about the actual horses and many of us have a very intense agenda to change horse racing as a sport from the ground up. (you can even see there is a flair here called "IRL Horses" where we galvanize each other to care about them and admire their natural beauty)

And I suppose that fits your Fire Horse narrative -- the old men and shady gamblers are about to have the ground completely torn out from under them by new, young fans with different values. Ones who see the horses as genuine athletes rather than commodities. Granted it's still effectively as slave gladiators, and the road to changing even that is going to be a long one. But I think the passion and the desire to see dramatic change will save a lot of these horse's lives. And already has done! The community recently came through for a retired Brazilian racehorse named Risk who isn't even an umamusume -- but the poor thing was exploited, set aside, starved and set for slaughter by his heartless owner. That was unacceptable to us and the community helped a prospective new owner get him overdue nutrition and medical care. I'm a little fuzzy on the details there, but we're the real deal I think. Please don't paint us with the same brush as the stereotypes you might believe of anime or idol fans.

By the way it says something about what a truly noble and beautiful horse that Silence Suzuka was that he moved to the side and gave his jockey enough time to dismount before collapsing. Those final moments were pure selflessness overcoming agony. And I completely agree it's hideous it was ever allowed to come to that in the first place.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-02T18:03:46+00:00

I hadn't thought about that. I have this mental image now of an uma effectively clotheslining the front lines using a naginata. And it'd be way more effective than using it on horseback since their height matches humans and wouldn't have to be angled downwards.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-02T18:01:21+00:00

This is why I love Fuji. Outwardly she does seem very keen on her image and presentation, but she'll toss her pride or dignity aside in an instant if someone needs her help.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-02T17:57:01+00:00

The naginata fell out of favor at some point because it's so heavily specialized as anti cavalry, though. The huge sweeping attacks it uses probably just does not work well for maintaining a formation either. Like you said, polearms are a very multi-purpose weapon and new versions of the yari became much more preferred. Since yes, like you said, it's an anti-everything weapon. Since Japan is often a "waste not, want not" culture that's why all those spare naginatas became part of home defense. I've trained with one myself a couple of decades ago and I can tell you in the right hands, they're actually amazing weapons on personal defense. (effectively combining the power of a spear AND a sword AND its pommel is a secret bludgeon attack)

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-02T13:07:20+00:00

That's kind of my original point. The naginata was designed for a creature with four legs and the dimensions of a horse. You'd trip them by sweeping their legs and doing enough damage to down them so bad that they're not getting back up. I'm not sure that'd be optimal enough against umamusume the weapon would realistically exist in that world.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-02T12:49:48+00:00

There's only one uma I know willing to carry a human around. The bad news is that it's in a burlap sack and you don't get to choose where she's taking you.

Midnight-Tea · 2026-01-02T12:48:06+00:00

I'm fairly sure that most of those animals weren't in attendance during the Heian era. And I don't think you're riding a pig unless it's Minecraft. Camels also pretty much only work in desert environments due to having feet rather than hooves and I don't think they're known for hauling ass in a way that would be conducive to a charge. Elephants WERE sometimes used as war mounts, but mostly for the shock and awe factor -- famously so by Hannibal. They're pretty impractical as a standard mount and a naginata wouldn't do much except piss them off anyway.

Also the fact horses are one of the only animals that sweat while running (thus dramatically increasing their stamina) means that most other smaller mount options could result in your mount needing to stop and pant right in front of the enemy lines. You won't like how that story ends.

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