Yuzuru's Ice Shows are being shown on Japanese TV

[TallyT]

Having been reminded that this forum is for ice show news, it was announced that CS TV Asahi obtained the rights for broadcasts of Yuzuru's solo shows:
28 Sept - Prologue Yokohama Opening Day
26 Oct - RE_PRAY Saitama First Day
30 Nov - Echoes of Life Chiba First Day
7 Dec - Yuzuru Hanyu Birthday Special
11 Jan 2027 - All-in-one Broadcast

Hoping for details on social media of how to access (even though I at least have the DVDs...)

 

[Magill]

Having been reminded that this forum is for ice show news, it was announced that CS TV Asahi obtained the rights for broadcasts of Yuzuru's solo shows:
28 Sept - Prologue Yokohama Opening Day
26 Oct - RE_PRAY Saitama First Day
30 Nov - Echoes of Life Chiba First Day
7 Dec - Yuzuru Hanyu Birthday Special
11 Jan 2027 - All-in-one Broadcast

Hoping for details on social media of how to access (even though I at least have the DVDs...)

Guidelines would be most welcome as it seems they are going to show some new never-published before bts material and new camera angles for some of the programs, at least that's what they say for Prologue. I don't remember if Prologue was on Telasa multicam broadcasts like all subsequent Yuzuru shows? That would explain these new angles....

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Guidelines would be most welcome as it seems they are going to show some new never-published before bts material and new camera angles for some of the programs, at least that's what they say for Prologue. I don't remember if Prologue was on Telasa multicam broadcasts like all subsequent Yuzuru shows? That would explain these new angles....

I don't remember reading anything about TELASA camera angles for Prologue either. For GIFT, I believe I remember comparisons between the angles chosen by the streaming cameras and by Disney's, but it wasn't the same at all, each had several cameras and made their choice for each segment of the show; what TELASA did for some shows of the RE_PRAY and Echoes of Life tours, was to leave the subscriber the whole take by each camera, which sort of, reveals new worlds.
A sort of precursor of this way of doing, may be in the Rondo video for the 2022 edition of the 24HTV charity initiative, which starts with an usual mix of cameras, followed by the program seen from one single camera.
I would be delighted if we could have more angles on Prologue!

 

[Magill]

Oh, look! On the wave of the renewed interest in Prologue due to the TV Asahi broadcast, this little snippet came on my You Tube feed where 3 professional dancers watch and comment on a little video from Prologue. What I find fascinating - and going well beyond strictly Prologue related content - is to see what they actually see, what they comment upon, what is drawing their attention. It's a very different commentary from what you would usually get from a skating commentator, even for Ice Dance. I get this would be a very interesting experience to have a duo of such dancers commenting on a real competition stream, for a change. Probably would be very educational.
Would be also fascinating how their assessments match or not with PCS marks, don't you think? I would love to see such an experiment.
But anyway, here's the recording!

 

[Magill]

So we have some clips coming in from Prologue!!!
Make me feel so sentimental!

 

[Magill]

So here's some more of Prologue!
Starting off with an authentic 6-minutes-warm up preceding Olympic version of Seimei complete with all quads, a truly rare sight at the ice show universe, a sign of times and things to come....




... and ending with Yuzu announcing he would put up the first ever ice show at the legendary Tokyo Dome, with people first falling off their chairs, and then bursting out with enthusiastic ovation!!!

 

[TallyT]

The announcement of GIFT was truly amazing... the crowd went even more bonkers than ever and social media lit up like comets all over the world

 

[Magill]

The announcement of GIFT was truly amazing... the crowd went even more bonkers than ever and social media lit up like comets all over the world

Oh, I remember the shock, amazement and wonder!! Wow, that was quite unexpected! I read somewhere on SNS today, on the wave of the Prologue reminiscences, that some people were watching at a cinema in Japan, and they joked that you would need Tokyo Dome to accommodate everyone who wants to get into a Yuzu show. And then, bang, the announcement came, lol!!!
And yet it turned out that as huge as it was, Tokyo Dome was not big enough to accommodate everyone willing to get in....

 

[Magill]

My next best memory from Prologue was "A Fleeting Dream" from Final Fantasy, a most beautiful gliding exercise with the most amazing ice mapping projection I have ever seen, which someone calculated was deliberately made to be worth exactly 0 points in IJS so strikingly beautiful that it's hard to imagine if you have not seen it. And Yuzuru skating through the letters that his skates were leaving on the ice to form words (in Japanese, of course). Wow, left me breathless....
His first collab with Mimiko-san, which was to give us all the remaining ice stories....
Here's a tiny bit where you can see some of it...

 

[TallyT]

My next best memory from Prologue was "A Fleeting Dream" from Final Fantasy, a most beautiful gliding exercise with the most amazing ice mapping projection I have ever seen, which someone calculated was deliberately made to be worth exactly 0 points in IJS so strikingly beautiful that it's hard to imagine if you have not seen it. And Yuzuru skating through the letters that his skates were leaving on the ice to form words (in Japanese, of course). Wow, left me breathless....
His first collab with Mimiko-san, which was to give us all the remaining ice stories....
Here's a tiny bit where you can see some of it...

The collaboration is an inspired one, they both push each other higher.

 

[Magill]

I came across a video where you can see some more of those beautiful ice mapping projections, though the music used here is a random soundtrack, does not come from the show at all!!!! But you can get a feel, at least.
It is a pity really that there are so few videos available from Prologue and other Yuzuru shows in the public domain Due to copyrights of course. You can understand it, of course, with Prologue, GIFT and Notte Stellata 1 and 2 released on DVD/BR and therefore available for a pay, and GIFT still on Disney+ in many countries, but still a pity. I guess and hope the remaining shows will follow the suit shortly and keep space for them on my DVD shelf
Still, even more happy to see TV Asahi going for this re-broadcasting festival making the shows available to the general public again

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

I came across a video where you can see some more of those beautiful ice mapping projections, though the music used here is a random soundtrack, does not come from the show at all!!!! But you can get a feel, at least.
It is a pity really that there is so little videos available from Prologue and other Yuzuru shows in the public domain Due to copyrights of course. You can understand it, of course, with Prologue, GIFT and Notte Stellata 1 and 2 released on DVD/BR and therefore available for a pay, and GIFT still on Disney+ in many countries, but still a pity. I guess and hope the remaining shows will follow the suit shortly and keep space for them on my DVD shelf
Still, even more happy to see TV Asahi going for this re-broadcasting festival making the shows available to the general public again

I think that it's worth saying that in this particular case, except maybe with Disney (but their version of GIFT isn't the only one available), it's not the copyright holders who complain, it's a group of haters of Yuzuru Hanyu (who dare to pose as fans willing to protect him, but checking shows that they're not; some are fans of different retired Japanese skaters who I suppose, resent Yuzuru Hanyu's success) who systematically comb every social media they can, even in China, and report any video or photograph of Yuzuru Hanyu to copyright owners, even when they don't violate copyright rules; then, the owners are forced to report, or, as on some US social media (Twitter, Youtube?) reports are not checked and lead to deletion of the reported posts, or even, to the suppression of the whole account of the victim. They have even reported Yuzuru Hanyu's own accounts, or legitimate TV channels posting their own copyrighted videos!
As Yuzuru Hanyu keeps gaining new fans at every occasion, I suppose that they mean to actively "cancel" him as much as they can, to prevent new potential fans from discovering him, video extracts on social media being a well known snowball mean.

I'm editing this post, rather late, to make things clear. Those who do this assume it on their Twitter accounts, so they're "identified" and this is how we know where go their apparent preferences, but this by no way makes them representative of the general fandom of these skaters (skaters I admire and like, by the way), even less of the will of these skaters. There are such people everywhere, I read lately in another subforum some description of past fan wars about other skaters from different countries, it was frightening, and while I find vicious to try to pass off as a protective fan and act against a skater in a rather detrimental way, or wholly destroy the dedicated work of many years, I feel that fortunately we're not reaching the same level of dangerous lunacy.

 

[Magill]

Yes, I know. Some copyright holders for music used for Echoes of Life published even an announcement stating something like (quoting from memory) : We are thrilled and proud that Yuzuru Hanyu skated to our "product" and we do not mind fans posting clips of this on Internet. Please feel free to share and enjoy. Thank you very much.
Now, that was some way to go about your copyrights, lol.
Of course, it was some anime/game music authors, quite cool

 

[TallyT]

Yes, I know. Some copyright holders for music used for Echoes of Life published even an announcement stating something like (quoting from memory) : We are thrilled and proud that Yuzuru Hanyu skated to our "product" and we do not mind fans posting clips of this on Internet. Please feel free to share and enjoy. Thank you very much.
Now, that was some way to go about your copyrights, lol.
Of course, it was some anime/game music authors, quite cool

They saw it as an honour, which is lovely.

 

[Magill]

They saw it as an honour, which is lovely.

And as a promotion of their "product" - a game or an anime. Which it truly is. I mean, it is obviously reaching out to a whole new section of the public, outside of your normal bubble, and it comes to you free, lol.
It's just another cool way of looking at the whole issue. True citizens of the internet era. Kudos.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

And as a promotion of their "product" - a game or an anime. Which it truly is. I mean, it is obviously reaching out to a whole new section of the public, outside of your normal bubble, and it comes to you free, lol.
It's just another cool way of looking at the whole issue. True citizens of the internet era. Kudos.

Sorry if this is out of topic...
There were a good numbers of fans of Kenshi Yonezu who became fans of Yuzuru Hanyu, and who at least made bounce the views of some of his videos on Youtube, and fans of Yuzuru Hanyu who started watching other videos of Kenshi Yonezu's and buying some of his singles, after the release of the Bow & Arrow videos. In the past, the same went with video games fans watching RE_PRAY and becoming fans of Yuzuru Hanyu, and getting tickets for the next stops of the tour, and the like. For this to happen, they need to have a sample, this is why there are teasers for instance, but sometimes fans make more to-the-point teasers; because a fan of something often has experienced unsatisfactory adaptations and won't give into anything. I was deterred from watching The Lord of the Rings by a mere poster (had they had a Legolas looking like adult Yuzuru Hanyu — he was a young child at the time, I'd have watched and probably been torn; and attracted to the adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by a teaser — and didn't regret watching it for a second. Many things like that. This is also why, in spite of the economical crisis, Yuzuru Hanyu's shows ticket lotteries are always such a bloodbath, and why TV channels are gaining or retaining subscribers through having these shows broadcast often enough: every time new people get exposed to the beauty of his skating, he attracts new fans (from super-dedicated fans to casual admirers who may have his shows broadcast in the balance for their satellite TV subscription, but won't search what he's doing now). There are not only PyeongChang or Beijing fans, there are fans from every appearance of his before and after, somehow.

 

[Magill]

Sorry if this is out of topic...
There were a good numbers of fans of Kenshi Yonezu who became fans of Yuzuru Hanyu, and who at least made bounce the views of some of his videos on Youtube, and fans of Yuzuru Hanyu who started watching other videos of Kenshi Yonezu's and buying some of his singles, after the release of the Bow & Arrow videos. In the past, the same went with video games fans watching RE_PRAY and becoming fans of Yuzuru Hanyu, and getting tickets for the next stops of the tour, and the like. For this to happen, they need to have a sample, this is why there are teasers for instance, but sometimes fans make more to-the-point teasers; because a fan of something often has experienced unsatisfactory adaptations and won't give into anything. I was deterred from watching The Lord of the Rings by a mere poster (had they had a Legolas looking like adult Yuzuru Hanyu — he was a young child at the time, I'd have watched and probably been torn; and attracted to the adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by a teaser — and didn't regret watching it for a second. Many things like that. This is also why, in spite of the economical crisis, Yuzuru Hanyu's shows ticket lotteries are always such a bloodbath, and why TV channels are gaining or retaining subscribers through having these shows broadcast often enough: every time new people get exposed to the beauty of his skating, he attracts new fans (from super-dedicated fans to casual admirers who may have his shows broadcast in the balance for their satellite TV subscription, but won't search what he's doing now). There are not only PyeongChang or Beijing fans, there are fans from every appearance of his before and after, somehow.

A Yuzuru fan turned Kenshi Yonezu fan here
I really like listening to him, especially love his live recordings and would love him to publish a DVD from his recent tour, I would buy it on the spot. I even left a comment to this effect on one of his channels and got looooots of likes from his more established fans
I also saw lots of similar reports from Kenshi fans turned Yuzuru fans and receiving a very warm welcome from the f anyu community as our guys obviously got to like ach other, too. Actually, Kenshi fans say it is not really that common that he takes such an immediate and visible liking to any of his collaborators or guests, he often keeps his distance, and here he was not just delighted with Yuzu but they seem to have found they had truly a lot in common.
And yes, Kenshi Yonezu channels seem to be such a safe heaven for Yuzu videos now
End of , lol.

 

[Magill]

So back to the main topic!!! Here's another little vid from Prologue
Great to notice that one of the many great things that Prologue started was the Yuzuru Blue colour landscape which is now a part of the official Gucci Japan colour palette - yes, that's what the colour is called
You can also see the moment when the audience was offered 4 programmes to choose from what Yuzu would skate next, and they're voting by turning on different colour lights on their bracelets. "Let's Go Crazy" was the overwhelming selection from the majority of the vote on this particular show day.

 

[Magill]

Looking back to Prologue three years later, wiser with the knowledge of what happened next - a new review of the show in retrospect from Ninomiya Sports.

https://www.ninomiyasports.com/archives/133539

 

[TallyT]

Looking back to Prologue three years later, wiser with the knowledge of what happened next - a new review of the show in retrospect from Ninomiya Sports.

https://www.ninomiyasports.com/archives/133539

That was lovely!