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Helter Skelter
Feb 10, 2004

BEARD OF HAVOC

MattTheDoctor posted:

It was one of the funniest things in the show so far. Yurio and his friend snarking while he bitterly stomped around the ice in his awful outfit had me in tears.

This show just feels so good and makes me happy.
I poking around and saw this, which made me start laughing all over again:

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Xun
Apr 25, 2010

Thats why he looked so familiar

AnacondaHL
Feb 15, 2009

I'm the lead trumpet player, playing loud and high is all I know how to do.

what the gently caress, thread



butt planning meeting



just in case you were unclear

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA


I honestly can't tell if I'm in the Yuri thread or the Keijo!!!!!!!! thread right now.

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost


http://i.imgur.com/FhlTfow.gifv

am I wrong?

Slugnoid fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Nov 11, 2016

Miss Nomer
May 7, 2007
Saving the world in a thong

AnacondaHL posted:

what the gently caress, thread



butt planning meeting


Never has it become more apparent to me that this show has a female director
:sax:
How will next week's episode top this homoerotism? Because you know it will

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/soukatsu_/status/796979922778591232

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012


where can i get broccoli that big

Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

Apparently Georgi's portrayal is authentic to the role

Also, the Trophée de France (4rd GP event) is happening right now. If you want to know how to watch it, click here.

Looks like Javier is going to the GPF. This makes him the second to qualify.

Maera Sior fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Nov 12, 2016

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Did Chris really say "I'm gonna cum" at the end of his performance

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer

In Training posted:

Did Chris really say "I'm gonna cum" at the end of his performance

something climaxed there, for sure

Miss Nomer
May 7, 2007
Saving the world in a thong

In Training posted:

Did Chris really say "I'm gonna cum" at the end of his performance
He said "いきそう" which is more "I feel like I'm gonna cum", but you get the idea. I had to go back when I heard the line to make sure I heard it right. I was quite caught off guard.

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Miss Nomer posted:

He said "いきそう" which is more "I feel like I'm gonna cum", but you get the idea. I had to go back when I heard the line to make sure I heard it right. I was quite caught off guard.

lol gross

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


https://twitter.com/toidinami/status/796509833067429888

Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

The Yuri On Ice skating season is a bunch of years smashed together

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH
Preface this by saying I'm three episodes in.

I'm that weird gay that's okay with shows limiting themselves to fanservice, simply because the characters not hearing about the Bible from their relatives and having discussions about what Trumpworld means for their civil liberties is already putting the show into a fantasy for me.

BUT...

I'm surprised so many people are focused on the gay in this show, for two reasons:
1. It's kind of an awkward triangle, what with a 15 year old fighting for the attention of a much older man.
2. The gay almost feels like it was shoehorned into the story by virtue of being a post-Free sports anime. If there was no gay subplot at all, and it was just about a guy getting trained by his idol, it would still be a gorgeous, quality show.

So yeah, on one hand, I love watching shows with m/m relationships, but on the other hand this show is good enough that I wish I could endorse it to someone like, say, a 30-something year old dad, without having to preface it with, "this show is loaded with gay flirting and man rear end, but you should endure it because..."

youcallthatatwist
Sep 22, 2013

Craptacular! posted:

gay flirting

the horror!!!!!

No but seriously I can put up with straight flirting and lady tits in just about everything made nowadays. Your 30-year-old dad can put up with the incredibly tame man-rear end

Also this is like the one sports anime where the gay is NOT shoehorned in, and is instead a big part of the plot. Did you miss all of the stuff about these guys unlocking their femininity

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

youcallthatatwist posted:

the horror!!!!!

No but seriously I can put up with straight flirting and lady tits in just about everything made nowadays. Your 30-year-old dad can put up with the incredibly tame man-rear end

Also this is like the one sports anime where the gay is NOT shoehorned in, and is instead a big part of the plot. Did you miss all of the stuff about these guys unlocking their femininity

He hasn't seen it if he's only 3 episodes in probably

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

That aspect of the show is way more interesting to me than Free, because its more explicit and dramatic, whereas Free's gayness or whatever you wanna call it was more aesthetic than actual.

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH
Again, I love gay flirting. I usually put shows with gay shipping as a priority each season and have to be coaxed to give any "sixteen girl harem and a single guy" story a chance. It just feels a little, uh, pasted in? Like they have one flamboyantly sexual character who flirts with the MC in borderline inappropriate ways that feel some for laughs and finishing squeals. As a gay romance goes, that's... eh.

I'm undeniably pro-gay because, uh, hello; but I wish they were characterized differently. But given that this is anime, I'll just have to take what I can get.

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer
JUST KEEP WATCHING. You're wrong about the first three episodes and definitely wrong about the ones you haven't watched yet. The difference between regular yaoi baiting and this show is like night and day.

dogsicle
Oct 23, 2012

everything i've heard about free makes comparing anything to it sound like kinda insulting. while i agree viktor can be offputting (i still don't particularly like him, much less him with yuri), the show is definitely giving care to the sexuality of its characters. also yurio is in no way involved in any sort of love triangle, if you really expected that to be a thing after ep3 lol.

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer
This was the first trailer for Free, which came out before we even knew what the name of the show was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfFORTyka48

It's incredibly misleading! By the time it actually came out the show was freakishly sexless, like there was really nothing going on there that wasn't in a normal sports anime. They just happened to be in swimsuits all the time? It's very weird.

But yea, Yuri!! on Ice is the show that I expected Free to be, and so much more.

Maera Sior
Jan 5, 2012

I usually don't share fanworks, but this is something special.

Gibbering
May 24, 2014

:catdrugs:

Maera Sior posted:

I usually don't share fanworks, but this is something special.

I'm moved to tears.

GorfZaplen
Jan 20, 2012

idgi

Gnossiennes
Jan 7, 2013


Loving chairs more every day!


this will help you get it

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Maera Sior posted:

I usually don't share fanworks, but this is something special.

Ha, that's loving brilliant.

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."

devtesla posted:

JUST KEEP WATCHING. You're wrong about the first three episodes and definitely wrong about the ones you haven't watched yet. The difference between regular yaoi baiting and this show is like night and day.

Yuri's sexual awakening is pretty much what the show is all about.

Gibbering
May 24, 2014

:catdrugs:
I'm not ready for Victor's violent love attack.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

The main relationship in this show strongly reminds me of a relationship I had in college, except with "figure skating" replaced by "finance and investment banking" (and the fact that I'm not gay, though I'm pretty sure the other guy was either gay or bi). This guy was also an older (though only by two years) Russian guy who sort of took me under his wing and coached me on professional stuff while also giving me a bunch of fun social opportunities I wouldn't have had otherwise. There was even the "more gregarious/aggressive taller blonde hair person + more shy/introverted shorter dark hair person" appearance dynamic, though that was partly because he was like 6'7". The issue of him maybe being gay (which is something I'm pretty sure he would not have been cool with admitting due to his Russian upbringing) never explicitly came up, though it became kind of obvious to myself and a couple mutual friends after we got drunk one night and he seemed to really want me stay over at his place (which didn't really make any sense logistically); the topic never really came up again after that. I was never quite sure what to make of the whole situation, because to me it was a valuable friendship but I also won't deny that I benefited greatly myself from having a popular rich friend. I ended up deciding that it would ultimately have to be his decision whether he wanted to breach the subject and that it wasn't my place to talk about it.

Heliophage
Aug 28, 2006
Devourer of Suns

Ytlaya posted:

The main relationship in this show strongly reminds me of a relationship I had in college, except with "figure skating" replaced by "finance and investment banking" (and the fact that I'm not gay, though I'm pretty sure the other guy was either gay or bi). This guy was also an older (though only by two years) Russian guy who sort of took me under his wing and coached me on professional stuff while also giving me a bunch of fun social opportunities I wouldn't have had otherwise. There was even the "more gregarious/aggressive taller blonde hair person + more shy/introverted shorter dark hair person" appearance dynamic, though that was partly because he was like 6'7". The issue of him maybe being gay (which is something I'm pretty sure he would not have been cool with admitting due to his Russian upbringing) never explicitly came up, though it became kind of obvious to myself and a couple mutual friends after we got drunk one night and he seemed to really want me stay over at his place (which didn't really make any sense logistically); the topic never really came up again after that. I was never quite sure what to make of the whole situation, because to me it was a valuable friendship but I also won't deny that I benefited greatly myself from having a popular rich friend. I ended up deciding that it would ultimately have to be his decision whether he wanted to breach the subject and that it wasn't my place to talk about it.

you should have kissed

hopeandjoy
Nov 28, 2014






they actually did it

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


I'm happy about this week and this is actually a big positive but it's hilarious that I now kinda gotta watch yoi while I eat lunch at work, otherwise every single moment is spoiled on Twitter for me.

I'm glad so many people are really enthusiastic about a good show!

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
THEY loving DID IT.

Gibbering
May 24, 2014

:catdrugs:
I wasn't ready. I'm still not ready. Please hold me.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
This was sort of interesting because it reinforced a particular nuance to this show's storytelling - we're viewing everything at a distance, as if through the eyes of a social media network that's incredibly pervasive but never quite catches everything. We didn't see the kiss itself, we didn't see how their conversation in the garage ended, and, most importantly, we didn't see when their relationship started - because this episode made it clear that they've been together for a while, and Viktor just took it a lot more public than it already was. There's something very deliberately voyeuristic about this show, and we should remember that a voyeur only gets a tiny peek through the keyhole.

Lupus Rufus
Aug 11, 2008

Prepare for trouble!

And make it a double!
I'm about to go to work and I'm crying, this show makes me so happy :3: :3: :3:

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
The rest of the episode today was also really good. I loved how they touched on the other skaters, implying they had their own adventures to get to this point.

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Gnossiennes
Jan 7, 2013


Loving chairs more every day!

Gj Phichit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poor Georgi. But yay for Georgi's ex and her happiness!

And yaaaaaay Yuri and Victor :)

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