Every time I see something accidental and intimate happen between a trainer and their uma and Tazuna brags the trainer instead, it makes me thing that Tracen Academy is connected to the magical girls of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. They just lose their human rights for, instead of being magical girls, train beautiful umas
Tracen Academy can be unironically explained by a Onion news Sochi 2014 parody
When I was tagging and annotating the characters in this image, I used the Pokémon Mezastar characters page on Bulbagarden Archives to help me identify everyone. The two characters in the middle of the top row were labeled "Senior Trainers," so I tagged them as such. However, I later noticed that they bear a striking resemblance to the protagonists of Mezastar's predecessor, Pokémon Ga-Olé.
I assume they're meant to be the same characters, but between how obscure these games are and the fact I don't speak Japanese, I can't confirm if they actually are or not. I'm keeping their tags separate just in case, but if anyone more knowledgable than me can prove they're the same, feel free to update their tags and notes to Female Protagonist (Pokemon Ga-Ole) and Male Protagonist (Pokemon Ga-Ole).
Koreans opened themselves to global market while Japan chose seclusion which eventually fucked themselves over, looking at you Kancolle and DMM.
TBF, Kancolle has one of the most effective gatekeeping strategy, setting the barrier of entry so high that they don't need to bend to their audience just to be acceptable nor their fans have to act like complete degenerates just to fend off invasions. And for DMM, the site is R-18 and they don't want to be pressured by outside influence for the sake of their older games, they probably don't want to deal with online processing platform that keep pressuring website such as pixiv to adopt their policy. I know it sucks that KC will never open globally especially that they keep preasuring Japan to bend their knee to the west.
I think its better this way, just let Kancolle rest and have Blue Archive have its moment. Also Umamusume is from Japan so at least that counts.
