Mayano Top Gun

“Aye, copy! Were you running today? Did you outshine me? It’s fine with me either way!★”

―Mayano Top Gun

Mayano Top Gun
Name	Mayano Top Gun
Kana	マヤノトップガン
Romaji	Mayano Toppu Gan
T. Chn.	重砲
Other Names	Kaleidoscope
Characteristics
Species	Horse Girl
Birthday	March 24
Gender	Female
Height	143cm
Weight	No Increase or Decrease
Three Sizes	B76 W51 H73
Occupation	Student
Affiliation	Ritto Dormitory
Voice Actor
Japanese	Ayaka Imamura (-2017) Mio Hoshitani (2018-)

Profile

Evasion, interception, pursuit… A genius girl who commands all styles of running, changing it up at will. She’s quite a rambunctious troublemaker. In any case, she runs based on how she’s feeling in the moment, and has an inconsistent race record (though it seems she doesn’t care about that at all.) She has an innocent, childlike personality, always making fun of the trainer, but recently she’s begun to grow up a little and act her age. Whenever she wins, she throws exaggerated kisses to the crowd.

Appearance

Mayano Top Gun is a horse girl who has long chestnut orange hair in a short-tailed two side up hairstyle as well as orange eyes. She wears a brown bandana around her right ear.

Her design is clearly influenced by the movie Top Gun (her jacket is nearly identical to that worn by Maverick). While not exactly dressed to fly a Tomcat, a Super Hornet, or a Lightning II, her racing outfit consists of a yellow, green and white set of short shorts with the lower half of a parachute harness with ejection seat handles and crop top under a bomber jacket adorned with many badges. She also wears a pair of brown thighhighs, sneakers and a pair of dog tags.

When it came to promote Top Gun: Maverick (or, rather, due to her very presence), she was the natural choice to advertise the movie.

Relationships

Tokai Teio - Roommate

Songs

• Tokimeki Scramble (Solo song)
• Make Debut!
• Special Record!
• GIRLS' LEGEND U
• winning the soul
• Never Looking Back
• We are DREAMERS!!
• RUN×RUN!
• Gaze on Me
• Umapyoi Densetsu

Special Commentary

Uma Musume	Real Life
勝ったのはマヤノトップガンだー！ ついにこの菊の舞台で大輪を制しました！	神戸、京都で2着を続けたマヤノトップガン！ ついにこの菊の舞台で大輪を制しました！ 神戸は強い！　今年は神戸だ！
The winner is Mayano Top Gun! At last, she won the big flower at the chrysanthemum stage!	Mayano Top Gun lost in second at Kobe and Kyoto Shimbun Hai! At last, he won the big flower on the chrysanthemum stage! Kobe is strong! This is Kobe year!

• Requirement: Winning Kikka Sho
• Reference: 1995 Kikka Sho, by Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Kansai TV)

Notes

• In 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck Kobe, and his owner Dr. Yu Tadokoro lost his own hospital and his brother. Top Gun won Kikka Sho and encouraged him, and people in Kobe. In this year, a baseball team in Kobe Orix Blue Wave also became a league champion. Sugimoto's commentary refered to the two victory by the Kobe horse and the team.

Trivia

• Her jacket is an homage to the original Top Gun film. However, it was too similar, so it was changed in July 2021.
• On her and "his" birthday in 2021, the film's sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, offered their congratulations on "them" on their Japanese official Twitter account. On August 28, it was announced that horse girl Mayano Top Gun would become an "advertising pilot" for the movie.
  • She consequently appeared in an alternate official Japanese movie poster for Maverick, replacing Tom Cruise's Capt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in front of an F-18 Hornet.
  • Her voice actor Mio Hoshitani and Tokai Teio's Machico appeared on the release event.
  • In the game version, the movie poster was on the bulletin board in the Trasen Academy entrance.

Real Life

IRL: Mayano Top Gun
Basic profile
Name	Mayano Top Gun
Kana	マヤノトップガン
Romaji	Mayano Toppu Gan
Hong Kong	重砲
Nickname	Kaleidoscopic Legs
Sex	Stallion
Color	Chestnut
Birth	March 24, 1992
Death	November 3, 2019
Birthplace	Niikappu Town, Hokkaido, Japan
Breeder	Etsuo Kawakami
Owner	Yu Tadokoro
Racing silk	Yellow, green stripes, yellow sleeves with green two hoops
Family
Father	Brian's Time (USA)
Mother	Alp Me Please (USA)
Damsire	Blushing Groom (FRA)
Children	Chakra Mousquetaire
Grandchildren	Castle Top
Racing Info
First run	January 8, 1995
Last run	April 27, 1997
Traning Center	Ritto
Trainer	Masahiro Sakaguchi
Jockeys	Yutaka Take, 4 times Seiki Tabara, 17 times
Result
Runs	21
Wins	8
Earnings	810,390,000 JPY
Major wins	1995 Kikka Sho, G1 1995 Arima Kinen, G1 1996 Takarazuka Kinen, G1 1997 Hanshin Dai Shoten, G2 1997 Tenno Sho Spring, G1

“The Mach shock wave.
Kikka Sho and Arima Kinen at four, Takarazuka Kinen at five, and spring Tenno Sho at six.
As though he had aimed, he got a number of big titles.
It is fresh in our memory the historic showdown against Narita Brian at the Hanshin Dai Shoten.
The stronger opponents become, the more his tactics gets kaleidoscopic with Seiki Tabara's reining technique.
When to move, and where to come from. Rivals are always exposed to Top Gun's threat.
He aims precisely and finds opportunities sensitively. Once he catches a victory in his shooting range, he accelerates in a flash.
His finishing moves are the very Mach shock waves.”

―JRA Heroes Poster

Mayano Top Gun is a racehorse in the middle of 1990s. He won four G1s with kaleidoscopic racing tactics.

• His crown name Mayano comes from Mt. Maya in Kobe. Top Gun is the movie name.
• His jockey Seiki Tabara took different tactics at every G1 win. He was whimsical, so Tabara decided his tactics after the starts. That is because of his nickname "The Kaleidoscope".
• 1996 Hanshin Dai Shoten, he and Narita Brian finished closely by head. Though he lost in second, it was told as one of their best bouts.
• Sakura Laurel, Marvelous Sunday and he are the 1997 Old Horse Top Three. They fought at 1996 Tenno Sho Autumn, Arima Kinen, and 1997 Tenno Sho Spring.