Yuzuru Hanyu

[DizzyFrenchie]

And here's a comment from Yuzu himself

And a translation of their exchange:
Satomi Ito:
The fact that we were able to realize the photo shoot on the ice.
It was only thanks to the understanding and cooperation of many people, including Yuzuru Hanyu. I am truly grateful to him for having created the work together with us within the limited time. I would be delighted if you could feel the moments born precisely because it was on the ice through the photo book.※Permission has been granted

Yuzuru:
I was fully focused on being able to express on the ice the wishes, feelings, and imagery that Ito-san poured into it! I would be so happy if I was able to help even a little... Thank you so much for everything!

Satomi Ito has answered him:
https://x.com/SatomiItoDesign/status/2062887182298497089?ref_url=

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

It seems that there has been a typhoon affecting the rice field planted with an artwork showing Yuzuru Hanyu? But there was no damage. One can start discerning the general shape of the picture:

https://x.com/date_tedukuri/status/2062339383177703852

https://x.com/date_tedukuri/status/2061989465518907557

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The index of the Concept & Question book about Couture on Ice, has been posted:

https://x.com/CoutureOnIce_tv/status/2062821866914660486

https://x.com/CoutureOnIce_tv/status/2062821746651045903

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

1101ComPlus keeps reminding us the so good interview between Yuzuru Hanyu and Video Games Author Shigesato Itoi:

https://x.com/1101complus/status/2062504775611257040

https://x.com/1101complus/status/2062504774210384381

The interview is still freely accessible on their site by the way:

第７回 限られた時間のなかで | いつ世界が終わっても。 | 羽生結弦 | ほぼ日

限られた時間のなかでの練習を大切にすること。そして羽生さんがいま手がけているアイスショーのイメージを具体的につくっていくために心がけていることとは。

www.1101.com

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Sponichi on Ice has set up a Photon site, and it has been remodelled, we can see Photographer Yoshiki Kogaito meeting artisans to prepare the exhibition at the Ryosokuin Temple in Kyoto, and there are some photos I don't remember having seen yet:

https://x.com/SponichiF/status/2062505285735022943

Here's the site:

羽生結弦写真展 Photon PHOTOGRAPH by 小海途　良幹

羽生結弦写真展 Photon PHOTOGRAPH by 小海途　良幹

sponichi-plus-alpha.sponichi.net

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The Aqua Experience Fair in Fukuoka is a huge success, with a long queue to the selfie place to make photos "with Yuzuru Hanyu":

https://x.com/aqua_cnp/status/2063177868277084498

Fans are reporting:

https://x.com/tetra919/status/2063150423897477617

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

And there were goodies! The 500 first customers received a voucher to get them in a shop in the mall:

https://x.com/dollhanyu/status/2063097470159372359

https://x.com/dollhanyu/status/2063096462024868124

I understand that there were more stickers? Those who buy a product get the whole line of goodies.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Yuzuru Hanyu was appently quite moved by this attendance:
https://x.com/YUZURUofficial_/status/2063244223592489361?ref_url=

 

[Magill]

From the latest interview of the reigning Olympic Champion

Misha is such a real Yuzuru fan at heart, so relatable to everyone who saw Yuzu and got enchanted at once with the beauty and the grace of his skating I'm so happy for him, that he's sharing the Olympic glory with his greatest idol !!
(The video is subtitled).

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Eight days after planting, the Yuzuru Hanyu-themed rice field art has grown a lot:

https://x.com/date_tedukuri/status/2063084637979844749

https://x.com/date_tedukuri/status/2063082169426432088

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The Magnificient Nine teaser has been first in this ranking of old commercials video on Youtube, twice in a row:

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The 1min Haier commercial seems quite popular too, on the same ranking (with two videos in the race for the same commercial, same duration).

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The Couture on Ice account has posted a new brief video of the shooting of the Photo Book:
https://x.com/CoutureOnIce_tv/status/2063546619929526760

 

[Magill]

The Couture on Ice account has posted a new brief video of the shooting of the Photo Book:
https://x.com/CoutureOnIce_tv/status/2063546619929526760

The costumes are gorgeous and the way Yuzu moves in them is so gracious!
It is really nice of them to post these little clips, especially that what proved to be the first print sold out in 4 days in pre-orders, and the next round of sales going oh so great, so they do not really seem to need much further promotion

 

[TallyT]

The costumes are gorgeous and the way Yuzu moves in them is so gracious!
It is really nice of them to post these little clips, especially that what proved to be the first print sold out in 4 days in pre-orders, and the next round of sales going oh so great, so they do not really seem to need much further promotion

They probably just want to share such beautiful moments...

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

It seems that they have just planted some seeds of bamboo in the rice field? And there was a little error?

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Or was it that the "bamboo stakes" in question was just to support the white plastic tape until the final seedlings were planted?

https://x.com/tanboart_hy/status/2063572489498947768

https://x.com/tanboart_hy/status/2063572474965762062

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

The Kourakuen ramen restaurant chain won't miss any occasion of calling the attention of Yuzuru Hanyu's fans... They're "celebrating" the anniversary of when there was a costume worn by Yuzuru Hanyu in a Haier or Aqua shop in a mall with a Kourakuen restaurant, who had its best day ever and in spite of having planned a big affluence and extra employees that Weekend, had ended with this sold out sign and a message of apologies for the queues...

https://x.com/haga19761214/status/2063867438022971573

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I'm still trying in vain to catch up on fanart, and I'm still in May, and while missing a lot on every day I haven't decided myself to jump several days at once, yet...
It was Menship Radio time:

https://x.com/AikaAikaMeow/status/2060102169097838917

https://x.com/lisashibu2026/status/2060134347139903500

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

There was also a good trend, not only in fanart, about the Gum for the Game campaign for Lotte, which was really a masterpiece six years ago:

https://x.com/chanRiru1994/status/2060127640363970826

And as usual, fanartists had very diverse inspirations, here it's Yuzuru Hanyu in the Magma dress:

https://x.com/LibertanewLife/status/2060177659796328460

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Here's an always welcome Beauty Looking Behind:

https://x.com/ichiroqqo/status/2060059367140180344

It seems that the doors from Echoes of Life require maintenance?

https://x.com/OVlIriU8AwCZkM4/status/2059936662516617497

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

This site says that May 8th was World Ocean Day and selected three related commercial, including "of course" this Yuzuru Hanyu photo shoot for Frau Magazine for SEKKISEI's initiative Save the Blue:

https://x.com/jfifdecoder/status/2063737764882051095

The video is embedded here:

羽生結弦 雪肌精 SAVE the BLUE Web CM SEKKISEI x FRaU SDGs 3分2秒 ”羽生選手…/羽生結弦 CM bb-navi

羽生結弦 出演 雪肌精 SAVE the BLUE Web CM SEKKISEI x FRaU SDGs 3分2秒 ”羽生選手と考える雪肌精 SAVE the BLUE” 雪肌精アンバサダーを務める羽生結弦さんが、カジュアルな服装で庭を散策する映像と共に、雪肌精 SAVE the BLUE を考え、美しさ,雪肌精への思い,SDGsについて語る、KOSE 雪肌精のウェブCMです。 YouTube

www.bb-navi.com

This being said, NekoMasamune had another opinion about this day, which I can't find as he's only asking if he's in time:

https://x.com/nekomasamunecom/status/2064000816558866694