Special Week

Special Week is one of the three main protagonists of Uma Musume: Pretty Derby and the character used to promote Uma Musume as a whole. Despite her humble roots as a country girl, she dreams of becoming Japan's number one horse girl and defining that for herself. She is a loving, adorable horse girl slightly smaller and more overweight than average. She has bob hazelnut hair, white bangs and a plait across the back of her head with a lavender ribbon tied on it. She wears a bow with the same color on her right ear as well. Her eyes are rose purple and always seem to carry a joyful, excited expression. A cheerful and honest hard worker born and raised in Hokkaido, Special Week is a country bumpkin who aims to make it big in the world of horse girls. After losing her birth mother, she was raised by an adoptive human mother who treated her with thoughtful care. Despite never growing up around other horse girls, this never deterred Special Week as she trained hard with her mother in order to be accepted into Tracen Academy, Japan's most prestigious horse girl training school. With the promise of becoming "Japan's number one horse girl" made to both her mothers, she wants to achieve her dreams through her guts. In her daily school life, she is sensitive and encouraging, though she sometime has trouble making friends due to not being around many in her youth. While her race performance is pretty 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 (how she passed the transfer examinations to go to Tracen Academy is a mystery). 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.