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DStecks
Feb 6, 2012

I loving finally placed that JJ's song steals the riff from Faithfully. You'll know it when you hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hnnYid7vvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMD8hBsA-RI

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Successful Businessmanga
Mar 28, 2010

JJ's voice actor doing a radio bit that someone was gracious enough to translate. :allears:

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

Successful Businessmanga posted:

JJ's voice actor doing a radio bit that someone was gracious enough to translate. :allears:
Suddenly I enjoy JJ now.
I'm glad the voice actor is down with how ridiculous JJ and all his fans are

Legs Benedict
Jul 14, 2002

You can either follow me to our bedroom or bend over that control throne because I haven't been this turned on in FOREVER!
Mamo is good

Adelheid
Mar 29, 2010

Successful Businessmanga posted:

JJ's voice actor doing a radio bit that someone was gracious enough to translate. :allears:

Holy gently caress

I love JJ and I want to see him succeed to the best of his ability and I want it to not be enough to beat Yuuri

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

Adelheid posted:

I love JJ and I want to see him succeed to the best of his ability and I want it to not be enough to beat Yuuri

What is the final outcome we are all thinking is going to happen?

Mine:
1st: Yuri
2nd: Chris
3rd: Utabek
4th: Yurio
5th: JJ
6th: Phitchit

I think it's fair to say that Phitchit is coming in last because his technical score is the lowest by quite a bit:

https://twitter.com/kubo_3260/status/807190824924524545

I feel like JJ is going to win the SP but suffer a major fall in his free

a computer ghost
May 30, 2011

an unhackable cat???

Successful Businessmanga posted:

JJ's voice actor doing a radio bit that someone was gracious enough to translate. :allears:

Mamo is truly a national treasure :allears: I can't imagine JJ voiced by anyone else, it just wouldn't work.

The "in the name of the moon" bit was the best, it's a shame it's not part of an actual episode.

Miss Nomer posted:

What is the final outcome we are all thinking is going to happen?

Mine:
1st: Yuri
2nd: Chris
3rd: Utabek
4th: Yurio
5th: JJ
6th: Phitchit

Switch Chris and JJ and that would be my ideal lineup. Yurio just barely missing the podium would fill him with rage but I think he would respect his new BFF Otabek taking his medal from him enough that he wouldn't be TOO much of a brat and it would set up my dream of power couple Yuuri and Viktor training Yurio to get the gold in the nonexistent S2.

Yuuri doesn't really have a rival, but I think JJ is the most suited to that role, so having it be a nail biter of just which one of them will take gold would be exciting. And I just want more JJ and for him to get something shiny because I'm biased.

a computer ghost fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Dec 13, 2016

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!
I've watched the first couple episodes of this show and I like it a lot. Does it ever become explicit with Victor/Yuuri being gay, or is it just heavily implied? It would be nice to have a show where the characters were actually explicitly gay.

Terper
Jun 26, 2012


Hard gay

Seriously just keep watching

Adelheid
Mar 29, 2010

Ytlaya posted:

I've watched the first couple episodes of this show and I like it a lot. Does it ever become explicit with Victor/Yuuri being gay, or is it just heavily implied? It would be nice to have a show where the characters were actually explicitly gay.

it's very much explicit.

Exercu
Dec 7, 2009

EAT WELL, SLEEP WELL, SHIT WELL! THERE'S YOUR ANSWER!!

Miss Nomer posted:

Suddenly I enjoy JJ now.
I'm glad the voice actor is down with how ridiculous JJ and all his fans are

Miyano Mamoru is basically one of the greatest Japanese voice actors, in that he's basically born for these roles where he gets to shout a lot and be ridiculous. His rise to fame was Death Note's Yagami Light, and his performance in Steins;Gate as THE INSANE MAD SCIENTIST HOUOUIN KYOUMA (yes, the caps are required) was also pretty great. He also has some lower key roles, but he's definitely best when he gets to be 100% Mamoru.

like the moment i saw miyano on the role list, i was looking forward to seeing the character they brought in miyano for, because i was hoping that they had put some insanely loud figure skater in there - and they did.

Exercu fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Dec 13, 2016

a cartoon duck
Sep 5, 2011

Miss Nomer posted:

What is the final outcome we are all thinking is going to happen?

I kinda feel Yuri's gonna make it to the podium but not actually win gold just so Viktor can vow his undying love to him and get hitched anyway. JJ will win gold because he's JJ and while i want my boy Phichit to bring home a medal Chris is probably a more likely podium candidate.

In fact, keep all the youngins off the podium so a potential second season can have a PoV change and follow one of them this time. Or go hogwild with a season on women's figure skating following Sara Sala Sara and Yurio's rink mate whose name escapes me.

Celery Jello
Mar 21, 2005
Slippery Tilde

Miss Nomer posted:

What is the final outcome we are all thinking is going to happen?

Mine:
1st: Yuri
2nd: Chris
3rd: Utabek
4th: Yurio
5th: JJ
6th: Phitchit

I think it's fair to say that Phitchit is coming in last because his technical score is the lowest by quite a bit:

https://twitter.com/kubo_3260/status/807190824924524545

I feel like JJ is going to win the SP but suffer a major fall in his free

I can't read Japanese, what is this graph we're looking at here?

e: Ah, from staring at it for a while, it appears to be a list of who's doing which quads, with Yuri's conspicuously covered by an eraser.

Ytlaya posted:

I've watched the first couple episodes of this show and I like it a lot. Does it ever become explicit with Victor/Yuuri being gay, or is it just heavily implied? It would be nice to have a show where the characters were actually explicitly gay.

To piggyback on to the other answers, it's most definitely the case that they're a couple, but the show takes great pains to show that primarily through little gestures. I don't think the characters have said "I love you" or something similar directly to each other on screen.

That seems to be a conscious choice, though, rather than any sort of "no homo" bet-hedging. It's actually rather sweet.

Celery Jello fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Dec 13, 2016

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
My speculation is that the rankings will go 1. Yurio, 2. JJ, 3. Yuri, and Yurio will declare that since a Yuri won this means Victor and Yuri can get married anyway.

Shingouryu
Feb 15, 2012

Celery Jello posted:


e: Ah, from staring at it for a while, it appears to be a list of who's doing which quads, with Yuri's conspicuously covered by an eraser.

Actually, the covered person is Otabek. From top to bottom, the chart is quad lutz, flip, loop, salcow and toe loop. Yuri is the first from the left, and quad flip is an open circle because Victor mentioned adding it saying he's never landed it in competition.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Is otabek a dark horse dude, maybe?

a computer ghost
May 30, 2011

an unhackable cat???

a cartoon duck posted:

I kinda feel Yuri's gonna make it to the podium but not actually win gold just so Viktor can vow his undying love to him and get hitched anyway.

Part of me wants this because it would be such a heartbreakingly sweet moment with Yuuri freaking out over losing and Viktor reaffirming that he'll always be at Yuuri's side regardless, but I'm really skeptical about Yuuri not taking gold. Japan has been dominating men's figure skating for a good while and it's a huge point of pride, so to have it end with the Japanese skater not taking home the gold, especially when he's roughly inspired by Hanyu, feels like it would be a little strange

Shingouryu posted:

Actually, the covered person is Otabek. From top to bottom, the chart is quad lutz, flip, loop, salcow and toe loop. Yuri is the first from the left, and quad flip is an open circle because Victor mentioned adding it saying he's never landed it in competition.

Thanks for the translation, the chart is really interesting and a good tease. My theory is that Otabek will pull a Nathan Chen and go into quad overdrive for a ridiculous technical score.

a computer ghost fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Dec 13, 2016

100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



So is it just my imagination or do they simply draw Yuri sexier when he's on the ice? Maybe it's the outfits, I don't know.

Rand Brittain
Mar 25, 2013

"Go on until you're stopped."

100 degrees Calcium posted:

So is it just my imagination or do they simply draw Yuri sexier when he's on the ice? Maybe it's the outfits, I don't know.

It's the outfits, keeping his hair out of his eyes, and taking off his dopey glasses, but mostly its the fact that Yuuri is actively performing sexuality on the ice in a way he doesn't do the rest of the time.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

100 degrees Calcium posted:

So is it just my imagination or do they simply draw Yuri sexier when he's on the ice? Maybe it's the outfits, I don't know.

I think it is a style change, yea, to fit the whole dual sides themes where normal dorky Yuri turns into sexy pork cutlet goddess man on the ice and all.

Logicblade
Aug 13, 2014

Festival with your real* little sister!
My hot predictions

1. King JJ (Sorry folks, it's just JJ Style)
2. Yuri on Ice
3. RKOtabek out of nowhere
4. Pitchit (ganbaru my sweet little thai boy)
5. Chris (Why are you so weird)
6. Yurio (He gets a heartbreaking injury and everyone is sad)

Blue Nation
Nov 25, 2012

https://twitter.com/soukatsu_/status/807342311088803845

I didn't think those were real.

Adelheid
Mar 29, 2010

IRL performance of Eros. Jumps have been downgraded to make it plausible for someone who isn't a top skater, but still good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHXE6N1RqM

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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

https://twitter.com/JohannaTheMad/status/808538805460471808

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer
Yes good

Celery Jello
Mar 21, 2005
Slippery Tilde
With any other anime I'd be sighing mightily at the fervor with which people jumped on YurioxOtabek

This one, though....

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer
I'm not gonna lie, the thing I'm looking forward to the most next week is seeing Otabek skate. I'm sensing infinite wells of emotion just under the surface.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

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

Have some more - I've been spending too much time on twitter today!

https://twitter.com/edo_mond/status/807981341564223488

https://twitter.com/vanillaliv/status/807370975398477824

https://twitter.com/mister_despair/status/807339225280638977

https://twitter.com/mister_despair/status/808225988232548352

https://twitter.com/butleronduty/status/808330111795621890

Bonus Phicit:

https://twitter.com/chipotlea/status/808168706631233536

Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010

Adelheid posted:

IRL performance of Eros. Jumps have been downgraded to make it plausible for someone who isn't a top skater, but still good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHXE6N1RqM

This is good and more people should watch this.

I'm almost afraid to bet on who's going to win. They are all so great and precious and I want them all to win. :ohdear:

Lupus Rufus
Aug 11, 2008

Prepare for trouble!

And make it a double!

DStecks posted:

I loving finally placed that JJ's song steals the riff from Faithfully. You'll know it when you hear it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hnnYid7vvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMD8hBsA-RI

also Elec Man's theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22qJa6tZfXA

and an REM song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1V3l7Ibezg

I know I heard a loungey piano rendition of at a hotel as a kid and I was like "wait wtf why is elec man's music playing???"

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

devtesla posted:

I'm not gonna lie, the thing I'm looking forward to the most next week is seeing Otabek skate. I'm sensing infinite wells of emotion just under the surface.
Well, his skating was described as eloquent in an info spread in a Japanese magazine, so I'd say "outlook good". What exactly will his skating be saying? Kubo said his FS is about love of his country, no clue what his SP will be on

Gibbering
May 24, 2014

:catdrugs:
I actually feel bad for JJ.

Also, his maple tears are delicious.

Adelheid
Mar 29, 2010

it's

it's jj style :cry:

Vastakaiun
Apr 16, 2008

Nooo I don't want it to end. :ohdear:

hopeandjoy
Nov 28, 2014



Ugh that post credits scene and the preview.

No Yuuri, can't you see how upset the two of you are. :(

HerpicleOmnicron5
May 31, 2013

How did this smug dummkopf ever make general?


hopeandjoy posted:

Ugh that post credits scene and the preview.

No Yuuri, can't you see how upset the two of you are. :(

He just wants to skate doubles instead :ssh:

a computer ghost
May 30, 2011

an unhackable cat???


Yuuri's yandere pose and Yurio's pig disgusting face are worth posting.

Aaaand the SP scores as a screenshot because I'm too lazy to type it all.

a computer ghost fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Dec 14, 2016

hopeandjoy
Nov 28, 2014



In retrospect Phichit's face there is golden too, but I was fixated on Yuuri's.

CherryCat
Feb 21, 2011

That's a strawberry.

College Slice
Wow, not gonna lie but JJ's performance made me tear up, poor dude.

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The_Doctor
Mar 29, 2007

"The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."
Oh god, the post credits bit. What does it meeeeeean? :ohdear:

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