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Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


I mean I was undoubtedly gonna like it anyway but dang, this just looks really, really good visually

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Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


I'm merely a person who watches a lot of figure skating so I'm just an armchair expert but yeah, the skating animation was really nice.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


https://twitter.com/niicococo/status/784864085737349121
https://twitter.com/blau678/status/784790890623569920
https://twitter.com/tiptoe_10ko/status/784663762150170626

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


I was thinking that I shouldn't share shippy art here but ffs

https://twitter.com/yurionice_en/status/784929041753124864

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Cialis Railman posted:

There's probably a lot of pressure being placed on him

Doesn't explain his terrible taste in shoes!


https://twitter.com/choro_sugi/status/784883692682383360

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Phobophilia posted:

yuri has already grown leaps and bounds in a single episode. in a confrontation with a boy many years his junior, he responds with empathy
I really liked that. Already there have been a couple moments with characters/plot that I didn't really expect to see.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


About that cute tissue holder...

https://twitter.com/mmatches100/status/786308978045128704

Um what else, I keep forgetting to share good things in this thread as well

https://twitter.com/shima920/status/786576630466568192

https://twitter.com/nanashinosanba/status/787257931095875584

aaaannnd
https://twitter.com/tsukkisaurio/status/787330552412110848

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


GorfZaplen posted:

I can't wait to see Yuri give his Eros to Viktor

Pal, we all want that, that's why we're in this thread

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


FAT BATMAN posted:

More posts about how this show draws from real life skaters and events please

I don't know poo poo about ice skating so they are informative and fun

Thank you

https://twitter.com/yakunko/status/787668943892807680

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


It's so gloriously fuckin gay, that was even better than I hoped for

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015



Ooh, cool.

I keep seeing people mention that Yuri telling Viktor to watch him was a slight mistranslation, or rather that Yuri was much more emphatic and wanted to tell Viktor that he should keep his eyes only on him? I should have saved links but I was just idly reading last night.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Blue Nation posted:

I think you mean this:

Ah, cool, thanks!

a cartoon duck posted:


This is closely followed by Yuri giving Viktor bedroom eyes and Viktor whistling, I don't think the intention here is lost on anyone.
Very true, I just liked that little bit of extra oomph to the statement.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Viktor is probably going to hurt Yuri pretty badly because his reason for coming out to Japan is likely more selfish than Yuri realizes. I mean, that was pretty obvious just from his reaction to the video. He wasn't flattered or intrigued, it looked like annoyance and even a flash of anger. Either seeing that upset him because of something bad that he's got hiding in his past (as in, he might actually be interested in/sympathetic to Yuri so his anger was about something related to what he saw but not at Yuri himself) or it upset him in a way that made him decide to use Yuri to pull himself out of whatever problem he's created lately.

Yuri hasn't even started to process the fact that his idol is a flesh and blood person who can be kinda lovely, like any person can be.

But I mean generally yeah I'm probably not going to say much beyond "I ship it" until I see which way the wind is blowing with the show itself. I guess if other people here wanted to talk about it anyway, I can do it, I'm not really having a lot of fun reading tumblr posts about it at the moment.

e: fine I'll go whole hog, the stuff with Viktor I said above but it resolves in a way that's absolutely gay in that he has to get Yuri back after he fucks up :allears:

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Yeah, definitely. I mean, wait and see but there's already stuff layered in that I would not have expected so I'm pretty curious.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Alright well then I'll just share this too

https://twitter.com/kappanopdr/status/790181542983143424

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


hopeandjoy posted:

I heard some people on tumblr speculating that Yuri actually turned the story around by skating as the woman - that instead of her(/Yuri) being the passive seducee, instead she(/he) seduces the playboy(/Viktor). (ie, so the rest of the story won't happen the same; the playboy has been captivated.)
That was how I took the story, yeah, since Yuri has already changed enough so that he can't possibly just be living the original version of the story straight through with Viktor, but I still feel like whatever Viktor's reason might be for coming there isn't super selfless (which doesn't mean he's a terrible person per se, just that Yuri is missing this) so that's still going to collapse in on him to some extent

:shrug:


Any goofy theory I come up with will be utterly invalidated in two weeks anyway and that's fine.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Save it for your fanfiction

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


This account has lots of dub clips beyond this first one:

https://twitter.com/breecss/status/790753225393643520

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Every time I think I see the trajectory they're going with here, I'm proven wrong.

Good episode!!!

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Oh my god I can't wait to watch

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015



Related:

https://twitter.com/swknusnpnk/status/794241122923118596

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


This was a debate? Viktor is clearly communicating with Yuuri in English. Good on them for spelling it out a bit more for folks, though.

Do people forget that Yuuri went to school in Detroit? He went to school with Phichit, too.

(this is not a reflection on the links you're sharing whatsoever cuz they're informative) but dang reading too many tumblr theories gets me down; I'm unabashedly in the SJW group but there's only so much "VIKTOR IS ABUSIVE!" I can take at once.

Okuyasu Nijimura fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Nov 6, 2016

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


I mean there's going to be some dramatic hook at some point - that is just how plotting works - but it was bizarre to me that it wasn't even "I wonder if," it was just flat out "viktor is 100% abusive, see what he's doing there? abusive" and oh gosh. :( Hey :(

I should be used to it by now since I'm pretty active in the jojo fandom there and if you like the "wrong" character it's a Real Rough Ride.

Okuyasu Nijimura fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Nov 6, 2016

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Gonna need a pretty gay episode today to help mitigate my bad feelings, folks

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015



This whole thread was a real joy to read through, too.

https://twitter.com/S_Scribe/status/796505691657826304


And yes- the animation didn't look so great this episode, I concede that. I still get so wrapped up in everything that it doesn't bother me too much.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


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

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!

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Don't want to quote a giant spoiler block but while I plausibly see it both ways (and both are equally good) what darth walrus said is pretty close to what I took away from today

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Parts of the fandom still insist that yuuri/victor isn't really happening/ going to happen and I wonder if they just want something to kvetch about for the next few years because everyone loving loves something as ridiculous as a ship war

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


https://twitter.com/SinfulHime/status/799056443378987008

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


https://twitter.com/swknusnpnk/status/800369240528146434

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Thanks for linking that here! I saw it on Twitter and appreciated it.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Yah, I'd actually noticed that because I've had the dub play while I'm working and heard some bigger changes, like that one. That gives me some hope for the subs eventually.

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


https://twitter.com/yurionice_PR/status/794507703397666816


Also if anyone comes across any cute YOI fan stuff (prints, charms) please tell me because, yeah

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015



His short program was very nice, too

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


https://twitter.com/Srganuch/status/803387482293157890

https://twitter.com/edo_mond/status/803283756773613568

https://twitter.com/mangotcha/status/803013907832926208

https://twitter.com/jujujulieta/status/803392639315873792

Also I think I shared this here before but my print version of it came in today. Their twitter has other good YOI art.

https://twitter.com/mister_despair/status/796057899550343168

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


I'm waiting for figures

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


Kytrarewn posted:

There's no way that Victor survives to see the Grand Prix final, is there?

I think the doom and gloom spoilers were all thrown out the window even before the kiss

Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


I definitely thought that there'd be a bad twist at first but at this point, no, this is heading to a fairly happy ending on someone's terms.

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Okuyasu Nijimura
May 31, 2015


I just started crying hard on a train over gay figure skaters

Best show

E: I mean ffs Viktor's big secret we wondered about is that he's loved Yuuri all along, that his look when he saw yuuri's copycat routine was "do it, man, go to him"

Okuyasu Nijimura fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Dec 8, 2016

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