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It refers to Yuri Plisetsky the RUSSIAN boy. There are two Yuri: the Japanese one Yuri Katsuki who's the main character and Yuri Plisetsky, a 16-year old Russian kid, who's also a skater (one of JP Yuri's rivals) who does look a lot like Julia.I don’t usually watch anime so I haven’t been following the “Yuri on Ice” news at all, but I read this tweet today and thought Yulia fans would like to know. I think the twitter user is someone who went to an event today.
It says that the model of “Yuri” is Yulia. When Mitsurou Kubo (the manga artist) saw Yulia live, she was wearing leopard patterned top and bottom and the artist wanted a male version of her and immediately created the character Yuri.
I wasn’t sure why the leopard patterns left an impression on her so I looked at other tweets and found that when she saw Yulia in those clothes and also with a leopard patterned trolley bag, she thought Yulia looked fierce and scary for someone so young.
Well since the model of the main character is Yulia, I hope the artist does Yulia justice and portrays the sweet side of her too.
It's funny how Julia and Plushy were the models for the two main Russian rivals.

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