Yayoi Akikawa

Yayoi Akikawa (秋川 やよい, Akikawa Yayoi) is a supporting character in Uma Musume: Pretty Derby. She is the president of Tracen Academy.

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The chairman of Tracen Academy. She speaks and behaves wild, though, she wants to support all horse girls.

Often she Invests her private money for facilities of the Academy, and scolded by Tazuna Hayakawa.

Etymology

 * The name Yayoi is written in hiragana (やよい), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (弥生, 彌生, 八生, 也生, 弥代生, 彌代生 or 八代生), it could possibly mean:
 * 弥生 - "spring".
 * 彌生 - "extensive, full, fill, complete" (彌) (ya) and "life, living" (生) (yoi).
 * 八生 - "eight" (八) (ya) and "life, living" (生) (yoi).
 * 也生 - "to be, also" (也) (ya) and "life, living" (生) (yoi).
 * 弥代生 - "all the more, increasingly" (弥) (ya), "generation" (代) (yo) and "life, living" (生) (i).
 * 彌代生 - "extensive, full, fill, complete" (彌) (ya), "generation" (代) (yo) and "life, living" (生) (i).
 * 八代生 - "eight" (八) (ya), "generation" (代) (yo) and "life, living" (生) (i).
 * Yayoi's surname Akikawa means "autumn" (秋) (aki) and "river, stream" (川) (kawa).

Trivia

 * She is actually a child. She succeeded a chairman because her mother was busy.
 * She especially minds of Matikane Tannhauser.
 * Sometimes, she speaks with two kanjis.
 * In the anime episode 13, "Chairman" appeared. He is the chairman of URA, not Tracen.
 * She did not appear in the anime 1st or 2nd season. She appeared in 1st Anniversary Animation.

Real Life?
Fans expect she is a horse girl, and her true character is Nothern Taste.

Nothern Taste is a racehorse in the early 1970s. He came to Japan as a broodsire, and his descendants changed horseracing in Japan. He and Sunday Silence rejuvenated Shadai Group, and contributed himself to horse productions of Japan.


 * Zenya Yoshida have his son Teruya buy him. When he succeeded, he requested sushi to his father on the phone. Zenya named his horse after the episode.
 * After he retired a broodsire, He lived in Nothern Farm as a merit horse. He was given his own stable and paddock. One day, a stray cat came there and lived with him. fans say it is the model of the cat on Yayoi's hat.
 * Now his and his owner's statues are in Nothern Farm.