Yuzuru Hanyu: 2015-16 Season

[YesWay]

I'm looking forward to that singing competition show. I know it'll be long and boring (especially to those who knows no Japanese lol) but interested in how Yuzu will do.. I think I can catch that on NHK though I can't guarantee I'd sit and actually watch the whole thing without flipping to another channel or two.

Also, that Hana wa Saku performance stated it'll feature Yuzu only so idk what they'll do with that. I mean I certainly don't expect him skating but I also can't imagine him singing on stage with them? oh well let/could this be a surprise?

Yes, long and boring... which is a sad reflection of the state of the Japanese music industry these days.

Kohaku is a national New Year institution dating back to the 50's, featuring lots of eternally popular Enka artists, plus the most popular pop/rock/etc music of the time.

And these days, the most popular pop/rock/etc... includes way too much of what is to me, instantly-forgettable disposable fodder.

Whereas back in the 90's and early 00's , the non-Enka artists included people like Every Little Thing, Glay, Globe, Kiroro, Namie Amuro, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Luna Sea, Speed, Hitomi, Max, etc. You could actually look forward to it, and not get bored silly watching it! Before you went out in the freezing cold and dark to visit the local temple.

Now, you look forward to the freezing cold visit to the temple afterwards, more then the Kohaku show...

Yeah, I guess it's my age...

 

[Farnaz]

Completely off-topic: 2016 Skate Canada will be in Mississauga which is 35 minutes driving from Toronto and hence I think it will be very very probable that Yuzuru attends SC next year. I will be living in Rochester, NY, at that time which is only 2 hours and 40 minutes driving from Mississauga we are coming Mississauga (Hopefully, of course )

 

[Silvia451]

Completely off-topic: 2016 Skate Canada will be in Mississauga which is 35 minutes driving from Toronto and hence I think it will be very very probable that Yuzuru attends SC next year. I will be living in Rochester, NY, at that time which is only 2 hours and 40 minutes driving from Mississauga we are coming Mississauga (Hopefully, of course )

That's great!
Good luck to see him live next season!

 

[Farnaz]

That's great!
Good luck to see him live next season!

Hopefully, no funny thing happens in the air during SP quads this time, I don't want to repeat the Lethbridge experience again

 

[firal]

Newest two shots:

With Keiji


With Shu

 

[matmuh]

Page 2200!!!! Thanks everyone who made it happen, sharing news, pictures, translations, videos.... you are all awesome!!

 

[Silvia451]

Hopefully, no funny thing happens in the air during SP quads this time, I don't want to repeat the Lethbridge experience again

well, maybe that SP was the key for NHK and GPF performances

 

[Interspectator]

My fan-art of the medalist guys at Nationals but especially Yuzu
http://fav.me/d9m0wr1

 

[matmuh]

My fan-art of the medalist guys at Nationals but especially Yuzu
http://fav.me/d9m0wr1

beautiful as usual

 

[turquoiseblue]

Edges, lines, emotions: my week at 2015 Grand Prix Final by Florentina Tone

 

[Hanmgse]

My fan-art of the medalist guys at Nationals but especially Yuzu
http://fav.me/d9m0wr1

wow! how long did it take you to draw all of them?

 

[alia jackson]

The chick magnet

Fierce warrior

Boy looked tanned and manly :luv17:

Translation of another video showing Yuzu sense of humor. Thanks @yuzusorbet.

Translation of German Eurosport commentary on Yuzu's GPF skates: SP and FP. Thanks @seobiiiiieluv.

Translation Yuzu & Shoma talk . Thanks @nanoka12.

Nico links of Yuzu's performances . Thanks @sukisukiyuzu.

A new fan video

Funny fan pic of Yuzu singing contest

 

[Farnaz]

well, maybe that SP was the key for NHK and GPF performances

Absolutely right :agree: But, let's hope for such a season next year that he can keep his smile in all competitions

 

[danni]

Completely off-topic: 2016 Skate Canada will be in Mississauga which is 35 minutes driving from Toronto and hence I think it will be very very probable that Yuzuru attends SC next year. I will be living in Rochester, NY, at that time which is only 2 hours and 40 minutes driving from Mississauga we are coming Mississauga (Hopefully, of course )

I am happy for you !!! You have a chance to see him skating live. it's a dream of you came true. :luv17:

 

[danni]

My fan-art of the medalist guys at Nationals but especially Yuzu
http://fav.me/d9m0wr1

Lovely !!!

 

[Meoima]

Nhk has just broadcasted one hour special program about Yuzuru and Nomura-san's talk about the art of performing. http://dai.ly/x3k5l2l

There is some extra footage that hasn't been aired before, Ayako Nakamura from facebook group has translated a bit of Yuzuru's words at the end:
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46:58 and on:

Executing the choreography, whilst endowing each detail with a meaning.
Through doing this, I become Seimei. I think I’ve paid a lot of attention to this while performing.
When you look at choreography as something within a fixed framework, and endow each movement you make with a deeper meaning, my own perception of it all becomes much more, and the cheering from the audience even begins to sound different to me. The movement of the air I feel when I’m skating which had no meaning to me before, now is something that is a part of nature, and I am a part of this grand thing (called nature). The concept of Tenchijin (heaven, earth, people) is one way of looking at it but I realize I am a part of this greater thing. I am living within this (much greater/bigger thing). I can feel these things when I am skating. It’s a bit difficult to explain this…but because Mansai-san instructed me in the way of these things, I feel these things a lot while I am skating.
Sometimes it’s something that I happen to treasure at that very moment. Sometimes it’s something I want to express at that very moment. I can treasure these things and think about how to communicate these things, how to express these things with my body, and I pursue the solution to these things. Even though the technical aspects of figure skating are important too, it makes me very happy to skate while striving for all these things I have mentioned (today).

 

[giulia95]

Nhk has just broadcasted one hour special program about Yuzuru and Nomura-san's talk about the art of performing. http://dai.ly/x3k5l2l

There is some extra footage that hasn't been aired before, Ayako Nakamura from facebook group has translated a bit of Yuzuru's words at the end:
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46:58 and on:

Thank you so much for the link and thanks to Ayako Nakamura for translation!

I really love reading Yuzu's deep analysis on his skating, it's like visualizing Seimei through Yuzu's eyes, mind and heart .. a philosophical journey with an inner mystical nuance , he is a genius.

 

[Maria Victoria]

Nhk has just broadcasted one hour special program about Yuzuru and Nomura-san's talk about the art of performing. http://dai.ly/x3k5l2l

There is some extra footage that hasn't been aired before, Ayako Nakamura from facebook group has translated a bit of Yuzuru's words at the end:
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46:58 and on:

Thanks for sharing Meoima. The quote, specially the last statement, shows how important SEIMEI is to Yuzuru's artistic development and disproves claims that he's all about jumps. Indeed he has upped the ante, not just technically but artistically as well. :yes:

After the 2014 WC, one if his coaches at TCC, Tracy Wilson, said that Yuzuru can still further improve, including in his artistic skills to express his emotions and interpretation even more, after which he'll become a skater "that seems to be out of this world."

We are now seeing that, with Shae-Lynn Bourne confirming her fellow Canadian ice dancer's prediction by describing Yuzuru as an "alien." And the great thing is, Yuzuru is not yet done improving.

 

[HanDomi]

Well, I thought Hanyu is maxed out :rofl2:

 

[Maria Victoria]

Well, I thought Hanyu is maxed out :rofl2:

I think Patrick said that to psych himself up to be competitive with Yuzuru. Yuzuru himself is competitive (very), and has learned to focus on his own skating which is what is under his control.