Yuzuru Hanyu

[Magill]

He's just so much more photogenic than most people have a right to be... so of course they'd use him on the advertising.

I saw him also on several YouTube video covers for some Worlds 2023 related content (men streaming/re-streaming, summaries etc)
Seems like some people have not come to terms yet with him turning professional
(or maybe it's just that he still is the best clickbait in the business anyway)...

 

[TallyT]

This is surreal... apparently, his autographed skates will be touring China?



Oh, and the snowglobe is finally on pre-order! It looks amazing and is unsurprisingly NOT cheap, I am deliberating on the risk of overseas shipping for glass and if I want it for a birthday present for me.

 

[Magill]

This is surreal... apparently, his autographed skates will be touring China?

Oh, they have already started the tour, I think. I thought I saw a video from their triumphant arrival in Beijing a few weeks ago... I did not link it here at the time but I had a feeling they were to be displayed at Kose stands in big malls along with the photoshoot stuff but I might have misunderstood something...

 

[TallyT]

It's brilliant!

Oh, and more on the globe... there's a lot of thought and work gone into it!

 

[Magill]

And a little reminiscing in celebration of the newly crowned Japanese world champions in pairs

 

[TallyT]

That was fun

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Yuzuru's skates tour has started, from Chengdu we had lovely pictures: there was this fan who made a One Summe Day (from GIFT) Yuzuru Hanyu figurine with Haku as a dragon (from Spirited Away), and she took a picture of it near the skates; I saw another picture with Yuzuru Hanyu-like dolls wearing costumes of his programs, with a Yuzu Pooh above. I'm sorry I didn't keep the links.

Here are fans gathering at a Hong Kong movie theatre to see GIFT, last month, with a self-report:
https://m.weibo.cn/status/4877778467425687#&video

Notte Stellata Twitter account is also sending photos of the cast in the show, day after day:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

A very important piece of news too: the cherry tree planted in the park Nanakita (where he used to play as a child) by Yuzuru Hanyu was about to bloom yesterday!

 

[TallyT]

A video, page by page, of the Prologue book?

 

[Magill]

Someone on Twitter made a schedule of Yuzu's upcoming TV broadcasts. I thought it might be useful for some people here as there are quite a few of them in the coming weeks

 

[Magill]

Yuzuru's skates tour has started, from Chengdu we had lovely pictures: there was this fan who made a One Summe Day (from GIFT) Yuzuru Hanyu figurine with Haku as a dragon (from Spirited Away), and she took a picture of it near the skates; I saw another picture with Yuzuru Hanyu-like dolls wearing costumes of his programs, with a Yuzu Pooh above. I'm sorry I didn't keep the links.

Here are some pics from the boots tour

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here are some pics from the boots tour

Thank you! This video may be from another city? There's a long queue:


There was a new photographer at Notte Stellata?:

 

[Magill]

Thank you! This video may be from another city? There's a long queue:

Or a different point in time maybe? I also think the queue here is lined up behind the pillars ...

 

[TallyT]

I wonder if Yuzuru is watching that skates tour, and maybe, just maybe, it will encourage him to think of shows in China? Fan bases there are staggeringly big.

 

[Magill]

From Taketoshi Hara, the designer of the costumes for Conquest of Paradise / The Return of Great Kings

 

[TallyT]

We always know he was a work of art... and now Yuzuru's picture is part of an exhibition of Great Wave art at the Boston Museum of Fine Art.

Yeah, I also posted it in another thread, so sue me, I love Yuzu and I love Great Wave art So this exhibition is my idea of heaven.

 

[Magill]

Notte Stellata has just published an official video from the last minute of the last show - the group .....

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

There have been merchandise online shops for Prologue, Gift (still available) and Notte Stellata, but Prologue didn't propose international shipping. There are, though, proxy shipping companies: customers register with them, then order merchandise on the Japanese site of their choice, giving the proxy's address as theirs. Then, when the proxy service receive the merchandise, they resend it to the customer, adding the international shipping cost and custom costs. Worldshipping is one such company, and many international fans of Yuzuru Hanyu ordered Prologue merchandise through them. They have just announced that the Prologue merchandise had been delivered to them, that most of their team was working on it, and that they thought they would need about a week to process everything. Although this is just their share of international orders for Prologue merchandise (that is, probably a small percentage of the whole Prologue merchandise ordered, as a good deal must have been ordered by Japanese fans, and there are other proxy services who will resend merchandise for other customers), it is still impressive:


And the Yuzuru Hanyu cherry tree in the Nanakita Park has started to bloom, while the nemophiles are still in bloom:

 

[TallyT]

There have been merchandise online shops for Prologue, Gift (still available) and Notte Stellata, but Prologue didn't propose international shipping. There are, though, proxy shipping companies: customers register with them, then order merchandise on the Japanese site of their choice, giving the proxy's address as theirs. Then, when the proxy service receive the merchandise, they resend it to the customer, adding the international shipping cost and custom costs. Worldshipping is one such company, and many international fans of Yuzuru Hanyu ordered Prologue merchandise through them. They have just announced that the Prologue merchandise had been delivered to them, that most of their team was working on it, and that they thought they would need about a week to process everything. Although this is just their share of international orders for Prologue merchandise (that is, probably a small percentage of the whole Prologue merchandise ordered, as a good deal must have been ordered by Japanese fans, and there are other proxy services who will resend merchandise for other customers), it is still impressive:


And the Yuzuru Hanyu cherry tree in the Nanakita Park has started to bloom, while the nemophiles are still in bloom:

Ooooh, I'm tempted.... but then I am still thinking about the GIFT snowglobe, and that is expensive. I need to think about what I can afford and where I will keep it.

 

[Magill]

So the SOI Japan is finally here
Yuzu answers to the questionnaire for participants on the subsequent screens.