Yuzuru Hanyu

[DizzyFrenchie]

The long-awaited Y photo book is in bookstores!
https://twitter.com/yurindo_ebisu/status/1754696847531319641

 

[TallyT]

And they clearly expect to sell a lot of them...

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

And they clearly expect to sell a lot of them...

The battle being between bookstores, to get the biggest share of the sales of each books (and between photo books, the same, as not all fans buy all books, I don't).
This chain of bookstores made an original card, as a gift for those who buy Y in their stores:
https://twitter.com/yurindo_ykonisi/status/1754771112972759525


Here's another bookstore of the same group, hanging photos from the book as an exhibition in the store:
https://twitter.com/Kino_NagoyaAP/status/1754803413249081842


I think that they're the same chain who had an exhibition in Fukuoka (where most travellers to Saga had to change trains or even to sleep) of AERA photos during RE_PRAY in Sage.

 

[Magill]

Speaking about sales and business, I do not remember if it was linked here or not: a local tea shop in Saga sold 1500 yuzu-tea packs over the Re_Pray weekend while normally they would sell 50 packs a month. Wow!

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Speaking about sales and business, I do not remember if it was linked here or not: a local tea shop in Saga sold 1500 yuzu-tea packs over the Re_Pray weekend while normally they would sell 50 packs a month. Wow!

And they had to set a limit of two packs per customer on the Friday and Saturday, only one on the Sunday (eventually it was sold out) because they had only those 1500, but they had drawn very pretty "fanart", which logically attracted fans.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

A Yuzuru Hanyu calendar starting in April has been added to the Asmart shop:
https://twitter.com/asmart_shop/status/1754730776544133445


Here's the international version of the tweet:
https://twitter.com/asmart_shop_int/status/1754734689162850580

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

GIFT will be broadcast on TV Asahi CS 2 on the exact anniversary of the show at Tokyo Dome:
https://twitter.com/marika_yuzu/status/1755061891607691283?ref_url=

 

[TallyT]

GIFT will be broadcast on TV Asahi CS 2 on the exact anniversary of the show at Tokyo Dome:
https://twitter.com/marika_yuzu/status/1755061891607691283?ref_url=

That is fantastic news! Clearly, Asahi are very happy with the ratings for anything they put up with Yuzu and people will definitely record it.

 

[Magill]

Yutaka Nakanubo on "y" book just being released:

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I'm going on with "Notte Stellata 2024 shop" fanart, they're so cute and inventive:
https://twitter.com/sora_akoshime/status/1754721660626977176


https://twitter.com/haruharu_yuzu/status/1754870749678940367

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here, the last fanart work has a power bank in the bag:
https://twitter.com/Hikaru_Kira__/status/1755121345174852022

https://twitter.com/maki_e_8716/status/1755071595671158869

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

That's because today's new item in the Notte Stellata 2024 shop is a power bank:
https://twitter.com/notte_2024/status/1755065092717080576?ref_url=

 

[TallyT]

Another anniversary...

 

[TallyT]

That's because today's new item in the Notte Stellata 2024 shop is a power bank:
https://twitter.com/notte_2024/status/1755065092717080576?ref_url=

God, this line of merchandise is so covetable...

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

God, this line of merchandise is so covetable...

I read that there would be an item a day until 11th, but I have no reliable source, so it may be false.
Anyway yes, I'd very much like to have all of them! And to use them for real, because I'm no collector.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Satoshi Takebe (musical director of GIFT, and conductor of the jazz band, to the right of the rink) reacted to the announcement of GIFT anniversary broadcast:
https://twitter.com/takebesatoshi/status/1755190950975119727


There's also media reaction:
https://twitter.com/sptv_fan/status/1755155736081162427

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here are other media reactions:
https://twitter.com/ExciteJapan/status/1755059961783324864


https://hochi.news/articles/20240206-OHT1T51244.html

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

One Summer's Day, showing dragon/boy Haku from Spirited Away, was one of the masterpieces in GIFT. I suppose that this is why this fanart shows Yuzuru Hanyu with Haku costumes and most of the Notte Stellata 2024 shop articles:

https://twitter.com/Hikaru_Kira__/status/1755121345174852022

This fanart work shows figures of Haku as in Spirited Away (dragon shape) and as interpreted by Yuzuru Hanyu in GIFT (and other shows):
https://twitter.com/Cherryyuzu1207/status/1755103514249011596

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

This fanart work was inspired by the announcement of a broadcast of GIFT:
https://twitter.com/551207_551207/status/1755202441782698219


This one, by the Notte Stellata 2024 shop, but not all items:
https://twitter.com/chanRiru1994/status/1754998700424998945

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Sponichi has an article about the release of Y:
https://www.sponichi.co.jp/company/new/2024/hanyu0207.html