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Yuuri Katsuki - The Epitome of ‘Unreliable Narrator’

I’m doing a rewatch of Yuri on Ice, and now that my knowledge of skating has increased substantially, the way I’m watching Yuri on Ice has changed completely.

For Yuuri to receive a score of 106 in his short programme is absolutely mental. Before I knew about skating I thought a score of above 100 was ‘good’ and anything below was ‘average’. It’s not. For reference:

Skate America this year - Vincent Zhou, who placed first in the short programme scored an overall score of 97, which is astoundingly high in itself. Shoma Uno, renowned for his high PCS scored 44.78, where Yuuri scored 47. 

The world record for the SP is 111.82 by Yuzuru Hanyu. This is followed by Nathan Chen who scored 110.38. Shoma Uno has the 3rd highest SP score (104.15). What’s interesting to note is that all these records were set POST 2018…meaning Yuuri would’ve surpassed the then world record by a good 10 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn_U8hjbFoM - This skate is the HIGHEST scored SP in the world currently… with the exact same elements as Yuuri (3A, 4S, 4T+3T and 3 spins with a level 4 step sequence). In fact, Yuuri’s base score is probably HIGHER as all his jumps were in the second half of the programme, unlike Hanyu’s (because jumping on tired legs is harder)

I think we as the audience are so swayed by Yuuri’s negative portrayal of himself that we fail to realise just how much of an amazing skater he is (hello, unreliable narrator alert). Katsuki Yuuri is LITERALLY the best of the best, and the more I watch this series the more I realise just how talented our boy is

Translation of the “looooong” comments made by Yuzuru during the press conference after the FS at NHK Trophy 2015  (by Sophie Moroi. “For the benefit of time, I have only translated Yuzuru’s answers, omitting answers from other skaters, sorry…”)

Original in Japanese: http://sports.yahoo.co.jp/

Q1)  What is your current feeling after the FS? Yuzuru: To be honest, I am rather delirious myself and am not sure what to say.  I am just simply very happy.  I also would like to express my appreciation to all those who have supported me so far.  [Meanwhile,] this is neither the Pyeongchang Olympics nor the following Olympics.   This is not my last competition, either.  I would like to make further efforts everyday, much harder, in order to make a performance that remains in your heart, regardless of scores.  

Q2)   Mr. Hanyu, how were you feeling as you nailed all the jumps one by one, and what was your emotion at the end of your programme? Yuzuru: At any rate, I wanted to land each jump in a careful manner.  I suppose everybody was really surprised by the final score, as much as I am.  To be honest, [probably] the performance was good but I cannot actually feel it; anyway, I am filled with indescribable emotion.  I feel as if I am floating.  As regards FS, not all the jumps were perfectly clean; and not all the elements including spins and steps were absolutely beautiful.  I performed each and every element by inserting my feeling into it, believing in my practice so far and my body.  I was able to feel the cheering voices and zealous eyes of the audience, whenever I nailed one jump.  While we are not on the other side of the TV, I was able to hear voices of hearts that I shouldn’t be able to hear in reality; I had a feeling that I was receiving power from all over Japan and the world.

Q3) Questions to all three skaters.  At the NHK trophy [this time], all the skaters challenged a quad for both SP and FS, for the first time in the figure-skating history.  There were a total of 25 quads, which means that one skater jumped 2 quads on average.  In the future, particularly towards the Pyeongchang Olympics, what kind of jumps and how many do you think will be required?

Yuzuru: My lutz are not as stable as Boyang’s.  I have landed 4Lz only once just by accident.  I cannot nail either 4Lz or 4Lo with the same quality of Boyang’s quads.  I have actually tried 4A several times, but neither succeeded in landing nor completing sufficient rotations. Then, if you ask me how many quads will be necessary in the future, I don’t know, either.  My memory of Olympics is not very certain, but I have a feeling that the figure-skating generation changes every Olympics.  The most impressive one for me is the Olympics at Salt Lake City; half of the skaters or all the skaters above 10th place were landing high-quality quads.  At Vancouver, on the contrary, Mr. Evan Lysacek, who didn’t have any quad, won the gold. If being asked which was correct and which was wrong, be it in Salt Lake City, Torino, or Vancouver, I would suppose that all are correct.  To be sure, there were heated discussions in the figure-skating world at the Vancouver Olympics as to whether it was OK for not trying quads, or whether Mr. Evan Lysacek deserves a gold.  Amid such debates which didn’t necessarily produce any “correct answer”, almost half of the skaters at the Sochi Olympics challenged quad(s) and fought the competitions. In fact, I myself am surprised to hear that all the skaters [at NHK] challenged quad(s).  However, the question is not only whether you jump a quad, but also you have to make a clean landing.  Only by achieving a clean landing can you get good points.  The base value of a 3A and that of a quad have no more difference than 2 points.  This means that, if you nail a clean 3A, obtaining GOE + 2 or 3, then you will get a higher point than a quad.  So, quite bluntly, as was the case for the Vancouver Olympics, if you get GOE +3 for all the jumps, then you could potentially win even without a quad.  That’s the rule of figure-skating, as I understand. Having said that, I have challenged a total of 5 quads including short.  That’s because my best weapon, I believe, is to try [several] quads, challenge more difficult entries and exits, and land a 3A, which is the nearest jump to a quad, with a high quality sufficient to obtain a point similar to a quad.   Also, there will be many other new skaters in the future. What I felt this time is that Mr. Boyang made a wonderful performance, including quads in the second half both in SF and FS, despite the fact that he has just moved from junior to senior.  I feel like we are witnessing the future of figure-skating, but at the same time that is not the only solution.  I also would like to try my absolute best and practice harder, aiming at more difficult quads and quads with higher quality.  

— After very short comments from Boyang and Mura —-

[MC: I am afraid we have already run out of time.  So, the press-conference is now over.]

Yuzuru: I AM AWFULLY SORRY FOR TALKING SO LOOOOONG!!!!

Translated by Sophie Moroi on YH international Fan Group on FB 

(gif: nonchan1023)

Update: video of a news programme on this.  At the end, Yuzu went to the interpreter to apologise for giving him so much work to do. ^^

I've seen a lot of discourse in recent weeks about how evan hansen is actually a monster, so here's my take:

regardless of their consequences, evan's actions were not malicious prior to the formation of the connor project.

his initial motivators are guilt (feeling responsible for tipping connor over the edge), embarrassment (over having to admit that he name-dropped his crush in his letter), and bad advice (from jared).

at first, he just wants to console the murphys in their grief, and lets them believe he was friends with connor to comfort them.

however, disappear acts as a turning point in the story, when evan's motives become murky. he decides he likes the attention he's been receiving as a result of his "friendship" with connor, and the song openly states that the project is founded on evan's unwillingness to fade back into obscurity.

upon closer analysis this song becomes rather sinister when you realise that when evan sings "no one deserves to be forgotten", he's not singing about connor, but about himself. (incidentally, I think that's largely the reason the song was cut for the movie, in a vain attempt to paint evan more positively.)

after that, the focus shifts much more to evan and his actions in the charity fraud fundraising campaign, and connor, ironically, fades into the background until evan eventually gets cold feet.

evan's actions were unquestionably reprehensible, and dubiously forgivable. but they were not initially malicious.

Originally posted by @/joshuadavisf on tiktok but it's been taken down since

They speak of Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai as the ones who dared to dream. And for that, in a city consumed by nightmares, they were cut down without mercy.

— Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

Words cannot express this picture’s perfection

how i feel about fanservice when i’m the fan being serviced:

Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time...

...you and I drink the poison from the same vine.

<3(not mine)

Credits to @shiopanmu on Twitter (sorry for not crediting, i couldn't find the owner)

For those who were curious about Mike Faist’s autograph on my Newsies poster 🤣