Notte Stellata | Mar 7-9, 2025

[Magill]

And here's another bit of Jason from the show

 

[Magill]

And from Satoko, another one from the Bolero six

 

[Magill]

And here's from Rika Hongo, in her very personal post confessing about her feelings as someone who was born in Sendai but moved to live in Nagoya before the Great Earthquake so not being there 14 years ago, and forever grateful to Notte Stellata show to give her an opportunity to pay back to her home town. This year she picked up a song from a Japanese movie on the earthquake to skate to. She says she had thought about it since the very first show but only now dared to do it.

 

[Magill]

As I dared to predict, Yuzu met with people from Wajima Morning Market, from Noto Peninsula, after the show, among them with the three wonderful ladies from the NNN TV report. They all had a great time together!

 

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And separate "thank you" messages specifically addressing Yuzuru from Jason and Akiko

 

[Magill]

..... and some more "thank you" messages! Here's from Violetta!

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

As I dared to predict, Yuzu met with people from Wajima Morning Market, from Noto Peninsula, after the show, among them with the three wonderful ladies from the NNN TV report. They all had a great time together!

I believed that there was only one of these three ladies, but they were all there! I'm so happy that they could meet again, and I hope that they didn't catch a cold, but being from the West Coast, albeit more to the South, they must be used to inclement weather.
Here's the News Every broadcast when we can see their meeting, in their hometown Wajima, by the end of last June, nearly six months after it was hit by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake, and particularly the Wajima Morning Market street was hit by a fire the next day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzYGAZ0gX8g

There's also a video on the channel's site:
https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/38dc63a6df5940dbadb139e59ae56d87

Here, a fan shows the lacquerware they acquired at the Wajima Street Market (I don't know if they bought it in Wajima, or to a Wajima maker who came near the Notte Stellata venue for the show), and a fanartist answered with a picture of Yuzuru Hanyu in Seimei costume, using this lacquerware and praying on the occasion of March 11th:
https://x.com/Hikaru_Kira__/status/1899425912111927366

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Nomura Mansai recalls that he was in Paris when the Great Eastern Earthquake hit, and that he choreographed his Bolero piece in order to pray for the souls of the victims, and for the reconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas:
https://x.com/mansai_gozaru/status/1899380491398402264?ref_url=


This post has more than half a million views!

 

[Magill]

And after the Bolero Six here we have the Seimei Trio
I'm so happy to see them all together! For some reason, I always felt that meeting Mansai Nomura would mean a lot to Shea Lynn! Great to see it happened!

 

[Magill]

Jason posting from Japan again! He really loves it there!!!!

 

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The news story on the Yuzuru-Mansai collaboration will be posted on NNN TV YouTube official channel in English on March 15!
So it's just two more days to go!
I hope they will gradually post also the programs !

 

[Magill]

Akiko Suzuki has just posted a photo of her and Yuzu striking the "Inori's pose" together for the photographers at the Notte Stellata backstage
Inori is the main character of the new Disney Plus skating hit - the "Medalist" anime for which Akiko choreographed programs and skated some of them for the movement capture animation technology, and Yuzu is suspected to have been an inspiration for some characters and for sure skated in the music video for the series opening song by Japanese superstar Kenshi Yonezu which premiered last week, The vid has been the No. 1 hit on the Japanese YouTube for a week now , or so, and was at the Japanese Billboard Bestseller List at No 6 the last time I checked .

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

And after the Bolero Six here we have the Seimei Trio
I'm so happy to see them all together! For some reason, I always felt that meeting Mansai Nomura would mean a lot to Shea Lynn! Great to see it happened!

Here's another Seimei trio (with Takahito Mura and Keiji Tanaka), with paper dolls like in the film and in the program at this year's Notte Stellata:
https://x.com/notte_2025/status/1900055242055835797?ref_url=

 

[Magill]

So it is here! NNN TV news story on Yuzu-Mansai collaboration in English has beed posted!!

 

[Magill]

A late farewell post from Violetta!

 

[TallyT]

A late farewell post from Violetta!

I first learned about Violette at the first NS, she presumably met Yuzuru when he was in Canada, and her genuine affection and respect has always been clear.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I first learned about Violette at the first NS, she presumably met Yuzuru when he was in Canada, and her genuine affection and respect has always been clear.

I read that she was proposed by Shae-Lynn Bourne for the first Notte Stellata; I don't know if she and Yuzuru Hanyu had known before, but she's now clearly "a staple" of Notte Stellata, and used to send many photos and snippets, I hope that nobody refrained her this year!

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

There was an overflow of fanart about Notte Stellata, a photograph (worthy of the greatest museums) by Toru Yaguchi inspiring a number of them:
https://x.com/kuroe2015/status/1899414104336687187


https://x.com/kaguya4a/status/1899377422492922285

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here are two others, by the same fanartist:
https://x.com/TimothyMopsy/status/1899453028144648404


https://x.com/TimothyMopsy/status/1899969106138505279

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

This fanart work is not only about Notte Stellata, it illustrates the "rivalry" between Nomura Mansai and Kenshi Yonezu to "send" Yuzuru Hanyu:
https://x.com/sora_akoshime/status/1899213591590605123

https://x.com/sora_akoshime/status/1899213591590605123

Here's a little bit of doll fanart, as I haven't posted many here:
https://x.com/HanyuAika/status/1898658323458658324?ref_url=