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avakynx

Absence of Presence is Presence of Absence

Starting to fuck around with screentones

pincushionsoup

spacey day at the park

pincushionsoup

Hi! Just wanted to say I love how you draw Nice Nature! <3

a nice natie for you

minna-nakayoku

Oguri Cap on: Hot Ones

hot ones guy: so oguri, you ran in the arima kinen. how was th-

me(wiping mouth): I done

hot ones guy: that was 500 chicken wings

michanpc

Hi idk ( ´_ゝ`)

musamoondoll

the creekest of them all

esukevi

gozoart

Manhattan Cafe enjoying her coffee break

ouroborosorder

I’m sick of this shit. “How did they do horseback combat in the umamusume setting? Did they have them carry a guy on their back?” obviously not. they gave the Umamusume a spear and armor and had them kill are you thinking this through at all

tachyon-log

Albeit briefly mentioned, it is quite explicit, if the people of this website can afford to stop thinking exclusively about Eurocentric examples of historical mounted combat for a moment, that there is a legacy of archery amongst Umamusume that parallels yabusame, a ceremonial form of Japanese horseback archery. It is a major component of the Orchestra in Late Autumn event, which has already been released on the game's global server.

Though horseback archery (more generally referred to as 騎射, kisha) has existed in Japan as a form of warfare for at least one and a half millennia, yabusame (流鏑馬) specifically was formalized in the Kamakura period around 800 years ago, some centuries before early firearms were introduced to the country. Similar to how it is portrayed in Umamusume, it is a ritual meant to appease Shinto deities and ensure good fortune & prosperity.

On Yabusame Yabusame is a traditional Japanese archery

Being that it was originally performed by members of the now-extinct samurai class, the worldbuilding implications in Umamusume should be rather obvious.