Minami tries the horse racing game and now has gripes with horse racing... The latest review on Minami's Reviews out now on PC ver.
(Due to technical issues the mobile ver will be delayed. Sincere apologies!)
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Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
Or Minami's gripes with horse racing
This was my first gacha gameplay in God knows how many years. The game models after the actual JRA horse races in Japan (JRA = Japan Racing Assoc., one of the two main horse-racing authorities in Japan, the other being the National Assoc. of Racing/NAR). I have nothing to complain regarding the graphics, and the character-trainer interactions are really cute. Especially Daiwa Scarlet's (the horse I chose throughout my 3-hour playthrough), she's such a brat, I love her. The game makes my laptop spool down after the tutorial while all files haven't been downloaded yet, which is a nice touch. I have no comment about the idol-like songs and the horse-girl concerts (I don't take a liking to idol stuff).
But I am greatly frustrated with the fact that I as the trainer and Daiwa Scarlet as my horse has only one path to go: win the Make Debut race, then the trio of Grade-1 races called the Tiara Cups, then successively more difficult races culminating in Japan's greatest race, the Arima Kinen. And [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqirctxk2iwwyxvxdexkscx6/bafkreihr6b72kfm6bmgh2je7jighf5gjbzuhj7h5pyxzmn6ovfmvsianzy)
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Kaiju No.8
Production I.G, 2024-25. Compilation film from the namesake anime series. Watched at the BHD Cinema Vincom 3/2 Street in August 2025
This is the most disgraceful new anime film I have ever had the displeasure of watching. [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqirctxk2iwwyxvxdexkscx6/bafkreidda6eucljfi2ufzuiammbeyp6rdm7bqy5avsp52abopbjk4mzvwm)
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Bullet Train Explosion
Netflix original production, 2025. Watched on Netflix in May 2025
The introduction was straightforward without a prologue. The film begins at the Aomori depot as a class of students tour the Shinkansen train they would be boarding themselves - an innocuous occurence and a trip of the students' lifetimes for sure. Then, as the train boarded at Shin-Aomori station, attention is drawn to an ossan who carried a black, heavy sports bag - which immediately roused my suspicion as to whether he was carrying any dangerous goods (but later ignored - after all the person who had put the bomb on the train surely must have had connections, I thought). Then the call happened and all hell broke loose. [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqirctxk2iwwyxvxdexkscx6/bafkreif5wdhhqnkhbbwvl6h657bvhjg4cdm3hjgbttediz4wcfapc4sg7m)
