Besides Mao Asada is Miyu Honda the most popular figure skating in Japan right now? She's a child actress but what do you think are her chances of making it at the elite level of skating?
Are you talking about females only? There's Yuzuru Hanyu too who is as popular as Mao. Miyu Honda is known for her acting not for figure skating so it would be a huge reach to say she's popular for figure skating, to me right now she's more of an actress who happens to skate.
Besides Mao Asada is Miyu Honda the most popular figure skating in Japan right now? She's a child actress but what do you think are her chances of making it at the elite level of skating?
As far as lady figure skaters go that I have heard, Marin, is more well know as a figure skater and she certainly is popular on youtube as the number of views on her performances indicate. I certainly like her skating a lot. I don't know about in Japan though. This video from her SP performance in Colorado Springs has over 243,000 views which is an incredible number for a Junior Grand Prix event.
That's marin her sister. Saying this I think Miyu is great skater and has superb performance skills. I haven't find any full performance video but at this end of this video there is some extracts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Ovhk3zh4I ( she was 8 ).
And I remember seeing a special where she was in Russia ( last year ?? two years ago ?) and she could 2 axel 3 toe