Rice Shower

"I cause everyone bad luck.... I.... want to change that....!"

- Rice Shower Rice Shower (ライスシャワー, Raisu Shawaa) is a character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.

Personality
Rice Shower is a timid and shy horse girl who believes that any misfortune that occurs around her is her fault. In actuality, she just happens to walk in at the exact time something goes awry but she is completely convinced that she causes terrible incidents and tries to make up for it no matter how she can.

Her hobby is reading picture books and her favourite is "The Blue Rose of Happiness". Some day, she wants to be exactly that: a girl that makes people smile and be happy. What will exist for her, beyond the hills of misfortune?

Songs

 * Sasayaka na inori (Solo song)
 * Make Debut!
 * Yume o Kakeru
 * GIRLS' LEGEND U
 * NEXT FRONTIER
 * Winning' 5 -Winning☆Five-
 * Never Looking Back
 * We are DREAMERS!!
 * Egao no Takaramono -Beyond The Future!-
 * Precious Star Dreamer
 * Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

 * Requirement: Winning senior Takarazuka Kinen
 * Reference: 1995 Takarazuka Kinen

Real Life
"In 1993, Tenno Sho Spring. A demon haunted in his extremely firmed body. He is the jet-black stayer who stopped the champion, Mejiro McQueen's third victory in a row. Is he a villain or a hero, a nightmare or a miracle? That horse's name is ―― Rice Shower."

- 2012 Tenno Sho Spring commercial. by JRA

Rice Shower is a racehorse in the early 1990s. He is known as the "Black Assasin", for stopping Mihono Bourbon's Triple Crown and Mejiro McQueen's third victory of Tenno Sho Spring.

"'The horse sprinted, and became the spirit of the Blue Ridge.'
 * He has deep relations to Kyoto Racecourse. Fans say "He loved Yodo, and fell in Yodo."
 * All his G1 wins were in Kyoto.
 * He died of fracture of his leg at 1995 Takarazuka Kinen.
 * In this year, it was held in Kyoto. The Hanshin Earthquake destroyed Hanshin Racecourse, and it was under construction.
 * In 2021, Kyoto Racecourse held "Idol Horse Audition". Rice Shower was placed in 5th, and his stuff dolls were resold.
 * His memorial is in Kyoto Racecourse.

- The inscription on the memorial"