Several Japanese media outlets attended the SOI rehearsals as well as a press conference with part of the cast today.
(Please head over to the KanaDai fan fest for even more photos.
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Video of the press conference with Mao A., Kaori, Ilia, Riku and Ryuichi, Kana and Daisuke, Mao S. and Mone:
Greetings / ad for the shows in Sapporo from the press con:
Extensive photo report on World Figure Skating Web (including three photos of the collaboration number
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「スターズ・オン・アイス ジャパンツアー 2025」が4月5、6日、大阪府吹田市の東和薬品RACTABドームで開催されます。前日の4月4日、記者会見が行われ、浅田真央、高橋大輔、村元哉中、坂本花織、三浦璃来＆木原龍一、千葉百音、イリア・マリ
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Rehearsal footage:
https://x.com/TheAnswerFigure/status/1908092791198281825
Photos of the press conference and from rehearsals:
記者会見に臨む（前列左から）島田麻央、浅田真央、坂本花織、高橋大輔、村元哉中、（後列左から）イリア・マリニン、三浦璃来、木原龍一、千葉百音＝東和薬品ラクタブドームで2025年4月4日、北村隆夫撮影
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フィギュアスケートの五輪メダリスト、浅田真央さん（34）や高橋大輔さん（39）らが出演するアイスショー「スターズオンアイス」が5日から2日間、大阪府門真市の東和薬品ラクタブドームで開かれる。出演者ら…
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https://x.com/sakagamitak/status/1908086901241991667
https://x.com/TheAnswerFigure/status/1908325913315701130
https://x.com/TheAnswerFigure/status/1908112290827911396
フィギュアスケートのアイスショー「スターズ・オン・アイス」は4月5、6日に大阪・東和薬品RACTABドームで開催される。4日に大阪府内で記者会見が開かれ、スペ… - 日刊スポーツ新聞社のニュースサイト、ニッカンスポーツ・コム（nikkansports.com）
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[Figure Skating] Mao Asada and Daisuke Takahashi to appear together in special collaboration "It's going well, right?" "It's going well!"
[April 4, 2025 16:03]
The figure skating ice show "Stars on Ice" will be held on April 5th and 6th at the Towa Pharmaceutical RACTAB Dome in Osaka. A press conference was held in Osaka on the 4th, and Mao Asada (34), Daisuke Takahashi (39), and Kana Muramoto (32), who will be performing a special collaboration number, also appeared on stage.
Currently, Asada-san, who continues to break new ground as a professional skater, and "Kanadai" will be performing together. It has been decided that Asada-san will perform for the first time in nine years, and that Muramoto-san will be in charge of choreography to create a special piece. Based on the theme of the past and the present, the four of them, including Tomono Kazuki (26), will create a worldview.
At the press conference, Takahashi said to Asada, "We've had three days of rehearsals, so we practiced it all day today and I think it's turned out to be a really good number. We'll do our best for one more day. It's going well, isn't it?" Asada responded with a big smile, "It's going well!"
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5日から開催される世界最高峰のアイスショー「スターズ・オン・アイス ジャパンツアー2025」に9年ぶりに出演するバンクーバー五輪銀メダリスト・浅田真央さんが4日、「THE ANSWER」の単独インタビューに応じた。高橋大輔さんらとのスペシャルコラボナンバーをお披露目する予定。盟友の高橋さんとの関係性や、自身がプロデュースした東京・立川市のスケートリンク「MAO RINK TACHIKAWA TACHIHI」で叶えたい夢も語った。（聞き手＝THE ANSWER編集部・宮内 宏哉）
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Mao Asada told about her bond with her ally Daisuke Takahashi, stimulated by the sensitivity that no one else has, and their relationship is like "classmates"
2025.04.05
Vancouver Olympic silver medalist Mao Asada, who will be appearing for the first time in nine years in the world's top ice show "Stars on Ice Japan Tour 2025," which starts on the 5th, gave an exclusive interview to "THE ANSWER" on the 4th. She is scheduled to debut a special collaboration number with Daisuke Takahashi and others. She also talked about her relationship with her ally/close friend Takahashi and the dreams she wants to achieve at "MAO RINK TACHIKAWA TACHIHI," an ice rink she produced in Tachikawa, Tokyo. (Interviewer: Miyauchi Hiroya, Editorial Department of THE ANSWER)
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--This is your first appearance in nine years. Your collaborative number with Takahashi and others have attracted a lot of attention, but what are the highlights of your performance?
"I'm going to do Bolero as my solo, but when I skated to it previously in 'Everlasting33' the rink was about one-third the normal size, so this time I'm remaking it for Stars on Ice.
The collaborative number came about when I was having dinner with Kanadai (Takahashi and Muramoto Kana) last year and we were saying, 'It'd be great if we could all collaborate someday.' Since we're going to be performing together on Stars on Ice this time, we thought it was now or never."
--It seems like it will be a rare opportunity to perform together with Takahashi, who you have known for a long time since your active days. How do you feel now that the performance is just around the corner?
"It's been so long since we last skated together, I wonder how many years it's been... It's been so long that I can't even remember, but I'm sure this time at Stars on Ice will be very special in my skating career, and there will only be six performances, so I want to skate with all my heart."
--You have often competed in the same competitions and have improved together, but what is your impression of Takahashi-san now?
"I have the impression that Dai-chan is always challenging himself. Even after he retired from singles, he turned to the world of ice dance as an athlete and took on new challenges, and after retiring from active competition he started creating ice shows as a producer. I myself have been creating my own shows since retiring as an athlete, so although we are from the same era but competed in different disciplines, I think it's wonderful that a friend who competed with me in figure skating is creating a show that is different from mine.
Dai-chan's sensibility is something that nobody else has. The way he expresses himself in skating, the timing... I really learned a lot from skating with him this time. Dai-chan is active in his own world, so as someone of the same generation, I'm very happy."
Relationship with Daisuke Takahashi is like "classmates"
--If you had to describe your relationship with Takahashi, would you say he's like an older brother or an ally/friend?
"I don't know. Even though we are of the same generation and I am younger, we often went to competitions together, so I guess we are like kids in the same class, like classmates. We often met through skating. I have known all my skating friends since I was in the second or third grade of elementary school, so I really feel like we are elementary school classmates. There were so many skaters when I was a child, but some of them quit for various reasons, so I am very happy to skate again with skaters who have stayed and worked hard in the same world."
This is the love and passionfor skating of a man who turns 39 in a week!
The enthusiasm of the audience was so intense that it drowned out the music
and all the skaters and staff are amazing
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They're all gentle and nice people, and Dai-chan, who said he was more nervous about it than the Olympics at first, quickly got the hang of it. 
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Broadcast tomorrow at around 6:38.
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and Daisuke Takahashi and others will perform special collaboration numbers
for details, please visit Nikkan.
