Narita Brian

"Hmph, no matter the opponent, they'll only get torn apart!"

- Narita Brian

Narita Brian (ナリタブライアン, Narita Buraian) is a supporting character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.

She is a member of Team Rigil. Her older sister is Biwa Hayahide.

Personality
Tough and stubborn, Narita Brian is a wolf-like horse girl that rarely expresses any emotions. Due to her nature, other horse girls find her difficult to approach. She has great patience and is unexpectedly great with children.

On the inside, she is an ordinary, pure girl who adores cute, girly things and dislikes scary stories.

Appearance
She has long black hair tied in a pony tail with a ginger orange and white braided string. Her bangs are short, messy, and curly. She also has a blue and white braided string looped on her right ear. A small bandage can be seen on her nose bridge.

Songs

 * Shadow Roll No Chikai (Solo Song)
 * BLAZE (Solo song)
 * Daisuki No Takarabako
 * Make Debut!
 * Grow Up Shine!
 * Special Record!
 * winning the soul
 * NEXT FRONTIER
 * BLOW my GALE
 * Never Looking Back
 * We are DREAMERS!!
 * Egao no Takaramono -Beyond The Future!-
 * GIRLS' LEGEND U
 * Gaze on Me
 * Precious Star Dreamer
 * Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

 * Requirement: Winning Hanshin Dai Shoten by some lengths to the second
 * Reference: 1995 Hanshin Dai Shoten, by Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Kansai TV)

Trivia

 * She can't fall asleep without her favorite stuffed toy.
 * She's also nicknamed as the "Shadow Roll Monster".
 * The shadow roll is represented on the band-aid she has on her nose and the "choker" on her race outfit. It is as well as King Halo's green choker.
 * In the anime season 1, she is already the Triple Crown horse girl. However, In season 2 she is not so because the timeline in real life went back.
 * In the main story of game, She became the "fifth" Triple Crown horse girl. It may suggest the existence of other Triple Crown horse girls, not only Mr. C.B. and Symboli Rudolf.
 * Her and her sister's real-life counterparts were half-brothers, born to the same mother. Similarly to the anime, Narita Brian is younger than Biwa Hayahide, by one year.
 * The fights of two is the representative "alternative history" described in Uma Musume, like as Silence Suzuka's Tenno Sho.

Real Life
"Younger brother is okay! First time in ten years! The fifth Triple Crown Horse ever! Narita Brian!"

- 1994 Kikka Sho, by Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Kansai TV)

Narita Brian  is a racehorse in 1990s. He is the fifth Triple Crown winner. and known as the "Shadow Roll Monster".


 * A shadow roll is a pillow-like cover that goes on a horse's nose, which stops them from seeing their own shadow. He was afraid of his own shadow. Later he was not afraid of that, but his team didn't remove it for fans to find him easily.
 * Fans looked forward to fighting with his brother Biwa Hayahide. but he retired after Tenno Sho Autumn, before Brian's Kikka Sho. so it did not come true.
 * He suffered from coxitis in his age of 4. He avoided Tenno Sho Spring and Takarazuka Kinen, moreover he lost all autumn G1s.
 * 1996 Hanshin Dai Shoten is known as his and Mayano Top Gun's best bout.