перевод некоторых моментовbreaking down YOI's appeal/selling points and why it's so popular.

1. It's the first ever original mens figure skating anime. There have been some popular manga about figure skating, but this is the first anime to really have fleshed out skating and athletes. Skating fans will definitely get an idea for who characters were modeled after.

2. Great staff. Kudo/Yamamoto being big skatefags, Miyamoto Kenji doing the choreography, Chacott on board.

3. Depiction of the skating world is very realistic. Lots of things happen that are pretty common for skaters both in their daily lives and training depicted, the camera work is great on the skating scenes, letting you see performances from angles you'd never get to see in real life.

4. it's so popular even top skaters have fallen prey to it. Medo crazy about YOI yo

5. Makkachin is cute. Pretty self-explanatory.

former pro skater/current sports commentator got roped into analyzing the skating styles of the main 3 characters. The note about him at the top says that his favorite skater is JJ and JJ style is the best. Confirmed for shit taste.


He says Victor and Yuri have a vibe he saw in a lot of Russian skaters which is extreme confidence, opinionated, a big sense of presence. But he doesn't think they were the types to be strong from the start but instead the kind of skaters to overcome their weaknesses by telling themselves "I'm strong. I'm the best."and faking it until they make it and they really become the best.

Victor is perfect and must have crazy fortitude not only physically but also mentally to pull off all the shit he does, and his confidence in himself is likely the source of his strength.

It's easiest to feel closest to Yuuri because he can sympathise with his experiences of failing and considering retirement because the author had the same experience. He thinks the reason Yuuri was able to make such a strong comeback from being in such a low place because he changed coaches. He thinks that you can see in his copy of Victor's performance that he's someone who can take Victor's strengths and use them for himself to improve.

Yuri is amazing for having such a forceful belief and determination in his performance. His performance is very modern, like how he lifts his hands when he's doing jumps. The way he made a program to accumulate points with GOE + additional points for successful jumps seems very similar to a program a Russian female skater had last season in real life. He's a skater that seems very much like modern skaters in real life, whereas Victor and Yuuri don't have that approach. He'd say Victor's type is to aim for perfection, Yuuri is the type to aim for skating that expresses who he is.

At Yuuri's age it would be difficult for him to try to master more quad jumps, so for next season he should focus on making the difficult program he can do and really mastering it. His advice would be to add more to his spins because he thinks he can get a level 4 just by curving his body when he goes into a camel spin. (I have no idea what this shit means b/c I only speak Japanese, not skatefag, sorry.)

Yuri will be feeling the pressure in the season of being the one to beat. He needs to add another kind of quad, but there's a wall there that can't be overcome just by sheer effort. But all the MCs don't seem to have any sense of being bad at quads, so Yuri can probably add another kind without any problems.

Victor could pass a technical score of over 130 by having all 5 kinds of quads if he just adds a quad loop, but to be honest, it seems impossible to be competing and coaching simultaneously. He thinks it's realistic to have Yuuri become his training partner, but he wishes they'd have their base at Hasetsu instead of St. Petersburg.
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