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 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 ahoge, and golden eyes. As her name suggests, she is a coffee drinker, and has a deep, calm, so-called "handsome voice". She wears a black blazer and a Chesterfield coat, with gold ties and belts.

Relationships

 * Yukino Bijin (roommate)
 * Ages Tachyon (classmate)

Songs

 * Rakuen (Solo song)
 * Go This Way
 * Make Debut!
 * winning the soul
 * BLOW my GALE
 * We are DREAMERS!!
 * GIRLS' LEGEND U
 * Gaze on Me
 * Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

 * Reference: 2001 Arima Kinen, by Masayuki Sakai (Fuji TV)

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 from going to France. In real life, that was Sunday's last race.
 * Agnes Tachyon and Cafe are in the same class. In real life, Tachyon and Cafe have competed together.

Real Life
"'We will dominate all long-distance G1s.' I had such decision."

- Futoshi Kojima, the trainer

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


 * Cafe is the crown name of the Nishikawa family.
 * He shared the 2001 triple crown with Agnes Tachyon and Jungle Pocket.
 * It was said Manhattan Cafe resembles Sunday Silence the most out of Sunday's foals. So much so, that he acted as Sunday Silence in a drama, Fortunate Encounter: The Dream for Thoroughbreds . The drama follows Zenya Yoshida, the first CEO of Shadai Group.
 * He lost his brother New York Cafe in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
 * New York Cafe worked as a riding horse in Sendai after retirement.
 * He died of a cancer on 2015, at the age of 17.