Have the Waifus gone too far?

I'm doing two things in this post that I don't usually do.  The first is putting a stupid clickbait title because of COURSE the waifus haven't gone too far, they can never go too far.  The second is commenting on a thing that I have no experience of but the very concept of this franchise is too funny to not at least point out.

In Japan, gambling is illegal, you can't just walk into a casino and hopefully make a couple of beers worth of Yen in Blackjack because gambling for money is against the law.  Pachinko and Slot places are an exception to this because what you are doing in those places are trading tokens/balls for physical prizes.  We won't talk about the little tinted windows around the back but these places get around the issue by offering goods rather than cash.  There is however a few exceptions to this rule in the form of boat racing and horse racing.  I've never done it myself but as far as I'm aware, gambling for cash on these two things is totally fine.  Probably as a result of this, horse racing games are quite popular.  I was in a store the other day and saw an advert for the latest Winning Post game on PS4, just to give you an idea of how much this is still a thing.

So then yesterday a friend of mine sent me an image of Uma Musume: Pretty Derby, a game for the iPhone.  What I can gather from what he told me is that it's a visual novel/management game where you have to manage the girls to participate and win in horse races.  The kicker? the girls aren't the jockeys, they are THE HORSES THEMSELVES.  Fire the starting gun and watch as 12 anime as fuck waifus run down a track and bet to see which one of them is the fastest, the concept is hilarious.  What makes it even funnier is that the story behind the franchise is that the girls are actually reincarnated famous race horses from the past who have to train at an academy to become, not only good racers but pop stars as well.  

The most popular and well known version of this concept I think is Kantai Collection, a game where famous Japanese war ships were turned into anime schoolgirls and they must work together to fight a bunch of deep sea aliens or something, it's a trend that has been going on for a long long time and every time it never fails to make me laugh.

I am not commenting in this post on the quality of Uma Musume as a game or an anime as I have not seen them, but you can bet your ass that I will be checking it out.  Watch this space for a more detailed breakdown of this hilarious concept