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“I gotta make my moms proud! I'll become the top Umamusume in all of Japan!”
―Special Week

Special Week (スペシャルウィーク, Supesharu Wīku) is a recurring character in Umamusume: Pretty Derby serving as a main character and the first season's co-protagonist as well as the mascot.

Despite her humble roots as a country girl, she dreams of becoming Japan's number one Umamusume and defining that for herself.

Profile[]

Born in Hokkaido, Special Week is a bright and cheery, hardworking Umamusume. After losing her birth mother, Special Week was raised by her mother's friend. Now, she hopes to make both her moms proud by fulfilling her promise of becoming Japan's top racer. Though she may falter along the way, her indomitable spirit ensures that she runs ever forward.

In her daily school life, Special Week is sensitive and encouraging, though she sometimes has trouble making friends due to not being around many umamusume in her youth. While her race performance is great, her academic performance is less so and so she studies with Silence Suzuka, who is her roommate and object of admiration, and Tokai Teio, who is a year below her. Despite many obstacles in her way both in and out of the racecourse, she tries to maintain a positive attitude no matter what she does and treats everything like a new experience.

Appearance[]

Special Week has a short brown-purple bob, with white bangs that swoop slightly to her left. She has white braids tied around to the back of her hair, and short, stubby brown ears, with a purple bow on her right ear. Her round and cheery eyes are light purple.

Her race outfit is very idol-like in appearance. She sports short-sleeved white cropped jacket with pink sleeves, and a pink collar. Underneath her coat is a white collar fastened with a dark purple ribbon, and a dark purple top underneath, fastened by two golden clover-shaped medals. She wears a white skirt with a prominent purple zig-zag pattern on the base, and a pink petticoat underneath. The tail-hole on the skirt has a large purple ribbon above it. She wears white thigh-high socks with pink lines at the top, with dark purple ribbons on either side. Both of her shoes are ankle boots with pink collars on the top. Her left shoe is dark purple, and her right is white. She wears two pink cuffs around her wrists.

Relationships[]

  • Silence Suzuka: Roommate, best friend and fellow Spica teammate. Special Week admires her.
    • IRL: Sunday Silence's foals. Their main jockey was Yutaka Take. They had never fought against each other.
  • Tokai Teio: Friend and fellow Spica teammate.
  • Mejiro McQueen: Friend and fellow Spica teammate.
    • IRL: Both have Yutaka Take as their main jockey, although Special Week's debut was much later than McQueen's.
  • Gold Ship: Friend and fellow Spica teammate.
  • Daiwa Scarlet: Friend and fellow Spica teammate.
  • Vodka: Friend and fellow Spica teammate.
    • IRL: Both shared Yutaka Take as a jockey.
  • Kitasan Black: Friend and fellow Spica teammate.
    • IRL: Both shared Yutaka Take as a jockey.
  • Seiun Sky: Classmate. Rival at the Classics.
    • IRL: Rival at the Classics. Sky's main jockey was Norihiro Yokoyama, Take's rival.
    • Matches (SW/SS):
      • 1998 Yayoi Sho 1st/2nd
      • 1998 Satsuki Sho 3rd/1st
      • 1998 Japanese Derby 1st/4th
      • 1998 Kikka Sho 2nd/1st
      • 1999 Tenno Sho Spring 1st/3rd
      • 1999 Tenno Sho Autumn 1st/5th
  • King Halo: Classmate. Rival at the Classics.
    • IRL: Rival at the Classics.
    • Matches (SW/KH):
      • 1998 Yayoi Sho 1st/3rd
      • 1998 Satsuki Sho 3rd/2nd (1st: Seiun Sky)
      • 1998 Japanese Derby 1st/14th
      • 1998 Kyoto Shimbun Hai 1st/2nd
      • 1998 Kikka Sho 2nd/5th (1st: Seiun Sky)
      • 1999 Takarazuka Kinen 2nd/8th (1st: Grass Wonder)
      • 1999 Tenno Sho Spring 1st/7th
  • El Condor Pasa: Rival at the Derby and the Japan Cup.
    • IRL: Fought with only once. El Condol couldn't enter the Derby because of foreign-bred horse restrictions.
    • Matches (SW/ECP)
      • 1998 Japan Cup 3rd/1st
  • Grass Wonder: Rival at the senior class.
    • IRL: Rival at the Grand Prix. Special couldn't defeat him.
    • Matches (SW/GW):
      • 1999 Takarazuka Kinen 2nd/1st
      • 1999 Arima Kinen 2nd/1st
  • Montjeu (Broye): Opponent at the Japan Cup.
    • IRL: Opponent at the Japan Cup.
    • Matches (SW/Mj):
      • 1999 Japan Cup 1st/4th
  • Mejiro Bright: Rival at the senior class.
    • IRL: One year older. Bright was often placed in second when he fought with Special.
    • Matches (SW/MB):
      • 1999 Hanshin Dai Shoten 1st/2nd
      • 1999 Tenno Sho Spring 1st/2nd
      • 1999 Kyoto Dai Shoten 7th/2nd (1st: Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi)
      • 1999 Tenno Sho Autumn 1st/11th
      • 1999 Arima Kinen 2nd/5th (1st: Grass Wonder)
  • Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi: Classmate.
    • IRL: Fought once.
    • Matches (SW/TT):
      • 1999 Kyoto Dai Shoten 7th/1st
  • T.M. Opera O: A member of rival team.
  • Cesario:
    • IRL: Daughter.
  • Buena Vista
    • IRL: Daughter.
  • Daring Tact:
    • IRL: Great Granddaughter.
  • Oguri Cap: Rival at the Gluttony Championship.

Anime portrayal[]

Season 1[]

Special Week is the main character of season 1. She was a simple country girl that lived in Hokkaido with her adoptive mother. But then moved to Tokyo alone and matriculated to Tracen Academy. Although her clumsiness is an obstacle to her confidence, she received an instant liking from the audiences after winning two races in a row. Under Trainer's guidance and training, she is taking steps closer to her goal to become Japan's best umamusume.

However due to Silence Suzuka's fracture injury, her performance in races drastically dropped as she focuses too much on Suzuka's recovery. Soon she realizes her fall and immediately sprung back into serious training.

She later won the Japan Cup against Broye (Montjeu without the licence) which allows her to claim the title as the best umamusume in Japan.[1]

Songs[]

Special Commentary[]

Umamusume Real Life
夢を掴んだスペシャルウィーク！

ついにダービーウマ娘の夢を掴み取りました！

夢を掴んだ武豊！

ついに夢を掴みました！　武豊・スペシャルウィーク！

She's done it!

Special Week has finally achieved her dream of becoming Derby champion!

Yutaka Take grasped his dream!

At last they got the dream! Yutaka Take and Special Week!

  • Requirement: Winning Japanese Derby
  • Reference: 1998 Japanese Derby, by Masaharu Miyake (Fuji TV)[2]

Notes[]

Trivia[]

  • Like Oguri Cap, her appetite is big, she mostly appears with a swollen/bloated belly afterwards. After she weighed herself as she perceived she was starting get fat, she starts to go on a diet to maintain a healthy weight.
    • But the real horse was never very gluttonous nor had any weight problems. It was speculated that this portrayed gluttonous behavior was from when Special Week was still a foal wet-nursed by a draft horse, due to her milk output being for foals larger than Special Week, he gained weight quickly from it.
  • Her favorite food is Carrot Salisbury Steak.[3]
  • Her mother and herself both have a Hokkaido accent once they're back at their home.[3]
    • Though many horses in Japan are born in Hokkaido, Special Week was the only umamusume to speak with a Hokkaido accent until Hokko Tarumae's release.
  • Special Week has two mothers: her birth mother, and her foster mother. This is in reference to the fact that the real-life Special Week's mother Campaign Girl died of colic only a few days after giving birth, and he was subsequently cared for as a foal by a New Zealander groom.
  • Despite her admiration of Silence Suzuka, in real life, Special Week and Silence Suzuka never raced against each other.
    • This admiration may come from the fact that both horses were ridden by the same jockey, Yutaka Take, and share the same father, Sunday Silence. These reasons also may influence why they are roommates.
  • The real-life Special Week was unfriendly toward other horses, and particularly aggressive toward those with chestnut coats. The anime lightly refences the real-life horse's attitude in a scene in S2E8, in which Special Week closed the rice pot after getting rice for herself, knowing that Grass Wonder was waiting to take some.
  • In Umayuru, it was shown that Special Week fears pill bugs because they are capable of turning into a ball. Though, she is fine with sea roaches, she was also impressed that Gold Ship was able to catch one of them as they're agile creatures.

References[]

  1. ↑ Episode 12
  2. ↑ Kansai TV Official (YouTube)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Episode 10
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