Image credit: Cygames

Umamusume: Pretty Derby has turned out to be one of the most popular games in the world, partly due to being a gacha game and partly due to making pretty girls out of very real Japanese racehorses (which introduces a unique mourning when the real horse passes away and the anime girl lives on). A new kind of mourning faces the Umamusume fanbase now, as an upcoming stop on the game's The Stage: World Tour at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater has been cancelled right before it was supposed to open this week. The apparent cause? The US visa system.

First announced in July, the concert was supposed to begin on Wednesday, but developers Cygames have unfortunately had to confirm that it cannot run as planned.…