2025 Fantasy on Ice
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Maybe it is because they can only get him for the two. The difference he made last year was... notable.Initial announcement for Fantasy on Ice 2025
31 May - 1 June 2025
Makuhari Event Hall
Other info are TBD
Given the schedule (2 days instead of the usual 3), I wonder if they will have Yuzu this year.
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First batch of skaters have been announced:
Men: Stephane Lambiel, Keiji Tanaka, Nobunari Oda, Kazuki Tomono and Rio Nakata
Women: Satoko Miyahara, Kaori Sakamoto and Yuna Aoki
Men: Stephane Lambiel, Keiji Tanaka, Nobunari Oda, Kazuki Tomono and Rio Nakata
Women: Satoko Miyahara, Kaori Sakamoto and Yuna Aoki
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Didn't expect Fantasy to be the first Japanese show who caved in and invite Russian skaters after the ban, but here we are:
Additional skaters announced:
- Alina Zagitova
- Anna Scherbakova
Announcements for Creatives:
- Yu Shirota will direct a group number based on the musical "Dance of the Vampires"
- Kenji Miyamoto will be a choreographer
Additional skaters announced:
- Alina Zagitova
- Anna Scherbakova
Announcements for Creatives:
- Yu Shirota will direct a group number based on the musical "Dance of the Vampires"
- Kenji Miyamoto will be a choreographer
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Without Yuzu, their audience share has dived, there was a big difference last year between the A and B shows. He's not signed up this year, and Kaori can't be advertised as WC any more so I guess the producer thought these two might fill the hole through sheer notoriety. I doubt it myself, but who knows...
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Oof, I just remembered that Fantasy was also the show that invited Nazarova and Nikitin as their ensemble skaters for the last few years... to go from supporting Ukrainian skaters to this is pretty damning. IMO they're better off doing a hiatus tbh.
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Nazarova and Nikitin were invited in 2022, and Anastasia Arkyphova from Ukraine was also a Fantasy ensemble skater in 2023 and 2024. The irony of Anastasia posting Instagram stories about Russian military bombing an ice rink in Kherson, Ukraine the same day of the announcement....
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Considering Fantasy never announces who their ensemble skaters are (Nazarova and Nikitin were a special case in 2022), it's still unclear if they are still inviting Ukrainian skaters... or we'll see more Russian skaters in the ensemble like their shows in 2019 and prior.
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Considering Fantasy never announces who their ensemble skaters are (Nazarova and Nikitin were a special case in 2022), it's still unclear if they are still inviting Ukrainian skaters... or we'll see more Russian skaters in the ensemble like their shows in 2019 and prior.
Broadcast right for FAOI can vary for each stop and year.
From last year's show: Makuhari & Aichi = Asahi, Kobe = Fuji, Shizuoka = Asahi
From 2023: Makuhari = Asahi, Miyagi = JSports4, Saga = ???, Niigata = JSports4
There is no broadcast announcement (yet) for this year's show.
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I see, so based on this pattern it's likely that TV Asahi is involved as the only stop is Makuhari. It explains what the Japanese fans have been noticing related to coverage of Russian skaters (especially Adelia Petrosyan, trained by Eteri) in a TV Asahi program after Worlds, and Faoi flyers distributed at WTT (which is also under TV Asahi).
TV Asahi and not JSF? TV Asahi is JSF's broadcaster for some competitions.
WTT is JSF's event, and FAOI is endorsed by JSF. I'm surprised Japanese fans are only now noticing the coverage of Russian skaters, since articles about Russian skaters have been regularly appearing in Japanese media all this time. They were never 'banned' from the Jmedia.
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Zagitova still makes headlines in Japanese newspapers. She's big in Japan because she somehow looks like us and she also adopted the Akita dog some years ago. This news article is from this February.
"It's illegal to be this beautiful" - Long-haired Zagitova reveals full-body shot of herself stepping onto a lake:
"It's illegal to be this beautiful" - Long-haired Zagitova reveals full-body shot of herself stepping onto a lake:
This. I checked Yahoo! Japan regularly and will see articles about Russian skaters from time to time.
Tuktamysheva was seen in WTT and talked to Kaori. I bet she was invited by JSF as the organizer.
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Not to mention this big documentary by NHK on Kamila Valieva and Team Tutberidze filmed in Moscow already after the CAS verdict was announced. It is still available on NHK World official YouTube channel ...
Have these fans been discussing this too?
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JSF has always been a sponsor for any and all shows that include active amateur skaters, to ensure their active skaters are not banned by ISU for participating in shows that are not known and signed on by JSF. The only shows in Japan that are not sponsored by JSF are those with no active skaters in the cast. So sponsorship / endorsement / support by JSF on shows has always been about protecting their own skaters. The organizer of the show though....
WTT is as much as JSF event as NHK Trophy, Japan Nationals and any GPF, 4CC and Worlds hosted in Japan. Stations holding broadcasting rights are involved in the promotional content for the events, so it makes sense to me that TV Asahi is distributing programs with content that are relevant with the return of the Russians, and is still a broadcast rights holder for an upcoming ice show that has Russians returning. They could have distributed other flyers for other ice shows at WTT, but it was this one.
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