Manhattan Cafe

"I... am here. With someone you can't see."

- Manhattan Cafe

Manhattan Cafe (マンハッタンカフェ, Manhattan Kafe)  is a supporting character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby.

Personality
A mysterious, shadowy girl. She can see things that people can't see, draw strange patterns with her fingertips, and is always alone by the wall. But according to her, she is never alone. ...... She is always with her "friends". She likes coffee, but drinks it slowly because drinking it all at once makes her sick to her stomach.

Appearance
She is a quiet horse girl with long, jet-black hair, a white frizz, and golden eyes. As her name suggests, she is a coffee drinker, and has a deep, calm voice with a so-called "handsome voice". She wears a black blazer and a Chesterfield coat, with gold ties and belts in key places.

Starting Gate 12

 * Rakuen

Trivia

 * Fans suppose her "friend" is Sunday Silence, real-life father.
 * In Cafe's Scenario, the "friend" has relations to real-life Sunday's children.
 * the "friend" stops her to go to France. In real life, that was "his" last race.
 * Agnes Tachyon shares a classroom as a labo with her. She has relations with Cafe in real life.

Real Life
Manhattan Cafe is the racehorse in the early 2000s. He completed all long-distance G1s. After his father Sunday Silence pased, he became a leading sire next to Agnes Tachyon.


 * Cafe is the crown name of Nishikawa family.
 * Agnes Tachyon, Jungle Pocket and he shared 2001 Triple Crown.
 * It was said Manhattan Cafe resembles his father the most in his children. He acted as Sunday Silence in a drama, Fortunate Encounter: The Dream for Thoroughbreds. It describes Zenya Yoshida, the first CEO of Shadai Group.
 * He lost his brother New York Cafe by a tsunami in 2011 East Japan Earthquake. He worked as a riding horse in Sendai after retirement.
 * He died of a cancer on 2015, at the age of 17.