Our free Umamusume: Pretty Derby episodes are Spanish and Portuguese uploads
Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi has died. Our page for the 2018 series will not call itself free, and the reason is language. Cinderella Gray is where English exists, at 3 of 13.
By June Maravilla · AnimeSphere staff · August 4, 2026
Anime Corner reported on August 3 that Tsurumaru Tsuyoshi, a retired racehorse, has died. He was the real horse a character in Umamusume: Pretty Derby was based on. Our cached summary of that report breaks off mid sentence, so the date of death and everything else about him fall outside what we can state here.
Why the 2018 series does not call itself free
Our index holds 10 Umamusume entries. The 2018 television series, Umamusume: Pretty Derby, is recorded here as 13 episodes. Its page on animesphere.app is titled "Watch Umamusume: Pretty Derby Online" and states no free-episode count at all. Free episodes for it do exist in our index.
The reason the page stays quiet is language. What we hold is the same first three episodes twice: three from the "Crunchyroll en Espanol" channel and three from "Crunchyroll Brasil". Both channels carry a YouTube verified badge. The Espanol uploads are titled "Episodio 1 COMPLETO" through "Episodio 3 COMPLETO", and the Brasil set reads "Episodio 1 (Legendado)" and onward. All six run 1,450 seconds each, so these are whole episodes rather than clips. All six report only an automatic Japanese caption track, so the audio is Japanese. The subtitles on each set are the language of the channel that posted it. There is no English copy of the series anywhere in our index. Seasons 2 and 3 were both fetched today and hold nothing free.
Where English does exist in the franchise
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray, the 2025 television series, is recorded at 13 episodes and is free here at 3 of 13. Its page states "Watch 3 episodes of Umamusume: Cinderella Gray free and legal on AnimeSphere", notes Japanese audio, and says separately that episodes 4 to 13 are elsewhere. The three sit on the channel "It's Anime powered by REMOW", which does not carry a verified badge. Checked today, 3 of 3 resolved with no fetch failures, the upload titles run S1:E1 through S1:E3 in line with the numbers we store, and there are no duplicate episode identities. Each upload is marked by the channel as carrying multiple subtitle languages, and the watch pages report an authored English subtitle track alongside Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. That is Japanese audio with real English subtitles. It is not an English dub. Episodes run 1,437 seconds.
Thirty-eight of thirty-eight
Yowamushi Pedal is free here at 38 of 38, the complete series, and the page shows no prompt about the free run running out. All 38 sit on the "Anime! on TMS Official Channel", which carries a verified badge. All 38 were checked against their uploads today: 38 resolved, no fetch failures, 38 distinct episode identities, and EP01 through EP38 matching our stored numbering in every case. Every title ends with the words English Sub and Full Episode. The watch pages report only an automatic Japanese caption track, and a frame taken about three quarters of the way through episode 1 shows an English subtitle line burned into the picture, reading "He helped us out then, too,". The English is part of the video rather than a separate track. It is not a dub. Episodes run about 1,425 seconds. The rows are allow-listed for Canada and the United States.