Figure Skating Anime
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I usually love yaoi, but I think the fan service in this one is a bit over done. It might be because this is the first anime that focus on the sport I love , so I want it to be focus mainly on skating.
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I am glad some people are paying attention to FS but I get annoyed sometimes when I see the comments they put on Tumblr about YOI.
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Right! They sent Plushenko to leave his wife for Yuzuru...and date him..
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Yes and no. Moria Polonius pretty much covered most of it so I won't repeat it except a few things.
YOI is different to what I've seen so far and I can list for you all the sports anime I've watched, so we can compare just how representative that is. I like anime and have no shame when it comes to the medium, and sports anime is just one of the genres I watch (or read, when it comes to mangas). There is no doubt there's bait in YOI. I wouldn't really put Daiya no Ace here as Sawamura has a girlfriend in the show and it's far less than the others but yes, Haikyuu, KnB, Prince of Stride and the supreme ruler called Free, absolutely. Even the older stuff like Ookiku Furikabutte has a shade of this (and I don't know if you know, the manga started coming out in 2003).
But opposed to that, I can actually argue, very successfully too (don't make me, people will run screaming for the hills), that Hikaru no Go (1998) is without a doubt filled with obvious, intended, homosexual subtext. It is just that at the time, coded narratives were all we could have but HnG is a gay love story (in the end) - hidden in a sports manga/anime. Of course, coded narratives are in many cases still the most we can get but YOI is being much more obvious than anything before.
Anyway, if we remove the obvious bait, this is where we get to what Moria Polonius was talking about and if I am forced to use an example directly from the anime I'd say that on one side, the bait, it's the onsen scenes where you get Victor naked but on the other? It's Yuuri staring down at Victor's hair and being fascinated by it, before he simply can't help himself but press down on that whorl, blushing. Because there is the Victor of the 4 quads, the World, GPF champion, the man from the posters in Yuuri's room, the untouchable, 'imaginary' character who looks like a god when he strips naked, and there is Victor the person, Yuuri's coach who gets drunk, and teaches Yuuri, and teases Yuuri, and spends time with him on the beach, the person for whom Yuuri says 'When I open up, he meets me where I am'. If you looked at just that, and Yuuri was a girl, wouldn't you think o-ho, budding romance? It is almost as if they are almost burying the story behind the bait. The bait is the oh hey look shiny, while they weave some genuine, poignant questions and development beneath it, pushing it through.
There is no reason to think that romance has to rule over the sport. On the contrary, in Baby Steps for example Ei-chan falls for Natsu, they even become a couple but it in no way detracts from the manga/anime that is overwhelmingly about sports and his progress in tennis.
The only difference between BB and YOI is that YOI is the adult version of this (which is why I don't care if they are a coach and student, both being adults). This may be actually contributing to thought of this all being bait, but the 'adult' part brings with itself an eroticism that IMO of course, cannot be mistaken for bait. This is where some of the things Moria mentions come into play and that's genuine exploration instead of the usual, unfortunately, fetishization of queer men.
Anyway, I wouldn't worry that the sport will take a back seat, it won't. It'll always have priority. But YOI does have accompanying things that are truly pushing the boundaries, in a very, very good way. Figure skating as a sport is truly a phenomenal choice to poke and prod at some of these things. How far they'll go, we'll see but I genuinely do not think we are reading this wrong.
Exactly this but especially the bold.
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Ashley found her look alike in the anime
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMSQwAojpKy/
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Oh my God ... 
:eekn: 
I was legit shOOK when Machida came in. If you can login in to see the video, it's so worth it. Maybe the person who made it will upload in a different platform later.
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29915147
:eekn: I was legit shOOK when Machida came in. If you can login in to see the video, it's so worth it. Maybe the person who made it will upload in a different platform later. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29915147
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Oh my God ...
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29915147
your link isn't showing any Machida but here's one: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29949797
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LMAO Yep, I posted the wrong link and then went to sleep, sorry. I woke up now and was going to update it with the right link. Thank you for already posting.
There are a lot of options, for example:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/yuri-on-...pirozhki-the-grand-prix-final-of-tears-721621
http://www.kiss-anime.me/Anime-yuri-on-ice-episode-1
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Here's a good site that has English subs! Enjoy the anime!
OMG, this is a beautiful thing! I wasn't expecting Plushy to pop up, although I probably should have
I'm curious to know what program they used to do that...
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Music up first, and this is super fun! Although mildly familiar...
Minami's Boogie
ETA So watched it and...
Moria!!! You need to watch this faster than you watched the other two! OMG!
hopefully this gets subbed, fast. Some good skating here too, the competition isn't dragged out, we get to see the end.
Minami's Boogie
ETA So watched it and...
Moria!!! You need to watch this faster than you watched the other two! OMG!
hopefully this gets subbed, fast. Some good skating here too, the competition isn't dragged out, we get to see the end.
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The tissue box was perfect!
I just noticed Katsuki's FS music is 3:42. That's kinda short for a long program...
Is that okay?
Wait I'm looking at the rules
http://static.isu.org/media/1003/20...ce-and-technical-rules-sandp-and-id_final.pdf
Men 4 1/2 minutes
Starting with the season 2018-2019:
Men 4 minutes
If the duration of the program is thirty (30) seconds or more under the required time range, no marks will be awarded.
So in the real-life figure skating the program wouldn't receive any points , unless the anime is following the future rules.
Is that okay?
Wait I'm looking at the rules
http://static.isu.org/media/1003/20...ce-and-technical-rules-sandp-and-id_final.pdf
Men 4 1/2 minutes
Starting with the season 2018-2019:
Men 4 minutes
If the duration of the program is thirty (30) seconds or more under the required time range, no marks will be awarded.
So in the real-life figure skating the program wouldn't receive any points , unless the anime is following the future rules.
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I think they're also constrained by the episodes only being 25ish minutes so that might be why they cut the long program a bit shorter
If you know how to use torrents, you can find beautiful HD versions here, just type "yuri no ice" in the search box
I agree... I was really excited about YOI when I first heard about it, but after watching the first couple episodes I'm finding the amount of fanservice to be really excessive. This is coming from someone who was really invested in Free! lol. It's kind of taking away from my enjoyment of the show tbh
Hahha, I have watched it, and I wrote a long reply but the browser ate it, so apparently the fate doesn't want me any tl;dr stuff.
But basically it all came down to: lol, omg, it's offcial. We now have what looks almost like a public coming out slash love confession, Victor doing casually bofriend-y stuff; Minako sensei's commenting "so we are abstract?" was hilarious.The fans who are into it for the skating and not romance should be happy campers today: lots of skating. I liked how the young had a fun program with style very popular among the young skaters, and how my reaction to Yuri's score was "that many points with those mistakes? Protocols, I need to see protocols!" And then I realized that his score was actually up there with the current trend.
Victor going in the coach mode and stragegizing was fun to see, and the funniest moment in the episode was when he reached with his hands out to Yuri for a dramatic hug but quickly stepped aside as soon as he saw Yuri's bleeding nose could get his perfect suit dirty.Can't wait for the first GP.
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