Yuzuru Hanyu

[DizzyFrenchie]

Some new photos and costumes from Yuzuru's Couture on Ice photobook revealed !!! And awesome, of course!!

The second photo on the first post is well the Last Ambient costume... Is it what Satomi Ito calls Moonlight Sonata? The myth of this name has been debunked by Edwin Fischer and Sir András Schiff, I think that the proof is compelling. By the way, the author and spreader of the myth is the probable author and certain spreader of the "Lettergate 0", pretending that Chopin had sent him a death threat letter in poor German...

The untold secret of the Moonlight Sonata

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is undoubtedly one of the most famous classical piano pieces of all time, and yet it may well be among the most misunderstood.

pianolit.com

From a new sponichi article....

I have thought this about Yuzuru Hanyu's skating for many years now...

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The Olympic Channel Youtube video of Yuzuru Hanyu's Short Program, Ballade, at 2018 Olympic Games, has passed nine million views quite a few days ago:

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I had been to check because I had seen somewhere His Free Skate, Seimei, already at 49 million views, but after checking, it's "only" in the 48.7 million views:

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[DizzyFrenchie]

Photographer Taichi Kaisuka, who often works for Mainichi, is going to have a new lecture about photographing Yuzuru Hanyu, in Saitama on July 20th:

https://x.com/Tammy4209812607/status/2056940393934229874

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I knew that Yuzuru Hanyu had mentioned during a Menship Radio that he would often have ramen from this restaurant chain, but I didn't know that there had been a sort of "warning" hint in this 2022 interview, here with subtitles:

https://x.com/yuzurujenn/status/2054085599465034236

Indeed Yuzuru Hanyu is an influencer and this revelation brought the chain a lot of customers, which they help with special editions of yuzu ramen and the like.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

May 20th was World Bee Day too, and Neko;asamune didn't forget that yuzu trees need pollinators, nor that a certain Sendai boy likes bees (and his Pooh, honey):
https://x.com/nekomasamunecom/status/2056866991651078501

 

[Magill]

Here's another great quote from the Restart interview (part 1 this time)

 

[Magill]

The "AQUA Experience Fair 2026" has been confirmed to be held in Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka! In addition to a lineup of AQUA's recommended new products at the venue, it will also feature an exhibition of outfits worn by ambassador Yuzuru Hanyufor commercial pics and videos and giveaways of novelty goods, plus experience corners for children.
More details on their website

 

[Magill]

The second photo on the first post is well the Last Ambient costume... Is it what Satomi Ito calls Moonlight Sonata?

Yes, this is true. This costume's name is Moonlight Sonata and it was used by Yuzuru for the Last Ambient video he created for his friend Miya to Miya's song of his choice as a surprise gift and a token of their lasting friendship.
Here's the costume on a promo pic for Couture on Ice photobook and the same costume in motion in the Yuzuru-created video where he both recorded his skating and post-edited the vid for fun. Enjoy!

 

[TallyT]

The "AQUA Experience Fair 2026" has been confirmed to be held in Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka! In addition to a lineup of AQUA's recommended new products at the venue, it will also feature an exhibition of outfits worn by ambassador Yuzuru Hanyufor commercial pics and videos and giveaways of novelty goods, plus experience corners for children.
More details on their website

With giveaways

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

With giveaways

They knew which pictures to choose to please fans! The pouting face, Yuzuru Hanyu unloading the washing machine, or opening the refigerator...

Trend News Caster has also reported on the Couture on Ice exhibition:
https://x.com/TrendNewsCaster/status/2055218902456783203


Art_ex and others did the same:
https://x.com/art_ex_japan/status/2055241335180001539

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Il Volo del Samurai (in Italian!) has arrived at the Books Kinokuniya Tokyo bookstore:
https://x.com/Kino_BKT/status/2056197383504146597

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I'm really very late with sponsors events... This year again, Towa had a booth at the Tsuhura Family Festa last Weekend in Sapporo where they held brief lectures:
https://x.com/towa_yakuhin/status/2055194628207571050


This fan was there:
https://x.com/momoakiFanyu/status/2055512593507450894

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

We have grown so used to see Yuzuru Hanyu illustrating Japanese school books... Here it's a Taiwanese High School book of Chinese, which makes it way more original:
https://x.com/starfishh127/status/2054821884488044682?ref_url=

 

[Magill]

Apparently they just started accepting advance pre-orders for Couture on Ice on Friday May 22 at 00:00 JST.
Plus another gorgeous photo was revealed. These pics are just soo beautiful!

 

[TallyT]

And this one. Just... wow.

 

[TallyT]

They opened online orders... and pretty well immediately had such a surge that the computers had problems! People really really want this book

 

[TallyT]

This is really rather sweet...

 

[Magill]

Here's from CD Japan

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I'm still unable to catch up with fanart... Kaku was quite celebrated these days, here a fanartist pays tribute to another:

https://x.com/551207_551207/status/2055816334848761965

https://x.com/yz_choco37/status/2055490030131687935

(I'm skipping the shorts look today because the amount of fanart is so overwhelming and with so many beauties from other trends.)

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Liberta has made a GIF animation of an Axel jump in Ten to Chi to by Yuzuru Hanyu!
https://x.com/LibertanewLife/status/1464786599779057665

https://x.com/lisashibu2026/status/2055731294139728295