Cygames has revealed the official release date for its planned crossover event between Granblue Fantasy and Uma Musume: Pretty Derby. According to a Tweet from the official account, the event will kick off on February 8, 2022. The crossover was first teased in December 2021 During the Granblue Fes 2021 live event. Its Japanese title translates to ” Uma Musume: Pretty Derby –Fanfare Echoing through the Blue Sky “ .
【グランブルーファンタジー】2022/2/8(火)より開催予定のコラボイベントにつきまして、イベントタイトルを発表いたします。
イベント名は「ウマ娘 プリティーダービー 蒼空に響くファンファーレ」！
疾走感あふれるロゴも初公開です。イベントの開催をお楽しみに！ #グラブル #ウマ娘 pic.twitter.com/nIZZgRM87Z— グランブルーファンタジー (@granbluefantasy) January 25, 2022
Uma Musume: Pretty Derby is a mobile game also developed and operated by Cygames. It’s a “raising”-style RPG, where players spend most of their time developing and upgrading their chosen team of horse girls. compete in races, and perform songs onstage in idol-style events.
Cygames didn’t broadcast any other new details in the announcement, but the teases from December promised at least two new Uma Musume additions to the Granblue Fantasy playable roster. Due to an ongoing freeze on new voice recordings due to COVID-19 prevention measures, In previous instances of voiceover suspension for Granblue Fantasy , Cygames added voiceover later on to the archived and rerun versions of the affected event.
The horse girls Special Week, Silence Suzuka, and Tokai Teio will join as a single playable unit (much like the combo characters from the Love Live! Crossover ).
Meanwhile, Meijiro McQueen and Vtuber / Uma Musume mascot Gold Ship join as a summon.
Granblue Fantasy and Uma Musume are available on mobile platforms (and PC via browser for Granblue ). Granblue Fantasy has a full English language option, though Uma Musume does not. To date, Cygames has not announced an official global release or localization plans for the Uma Musume game. A two-season anime adaptation is available for streaming on Crunchyroll .
