Did you watch the 1st episode of Yuri!!! on ICE ?

2016-10-09

What I thought about the 1st episode of Yuri!!! on ICE

Aoi( ´_ゝ`): Hi, our friends. It’s Aoi from Otaku Republic!

Did you watch the 1st episode of Yuri!!!? I was expecting it to be a good one but it was actually a great and awesome story!

“Yuri!!! on ICE” is the original anime about the world of Men’s Figure Skating with full of gorgeous staffs & castings! Let’s review such a high-expected anime simultaneously with us!

＊Please note that this article includes some spoilers.

☆1st Episode Nanno Piroshiki!!... “Easy as Pirozhki!! The Grand Prix Final of Tears”

The main character is Katsuki Yuuri. 《He is a normal, 23-year-old man and also a certified Figure Skater in Japan.》
Normal, huh...? ( ಠωಠ) It’s not normal at all!! There are only six people in the whole world, who are able to go on to the final. He has to be a super skater! But he is actually mentally weak. After he lost at the Grand Prix Final, he’s been depressed until the season was finished... He ended up going back to his parents’ home and confining himself there.

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※He actually has a lot to worry about, even though he doesn’t look like it in this picture.

He showed a video, in which he imitated his ideal skater, Viktor’s performance, to his childhood friend, Yuuko, and the video went viral.

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The figure skating five-time winner king, Victor Nikiforov, who saw the video, suddenly showed up in front of him!

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“Yuuri, I’ll be your coach from today. And I’ll make you win the championship at the Grand Prix Final.”

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Σ(ﾟДﾟ；≡；ﾟдﾟ) Whaat? Are you serious? The 1st episode ended here. The character stands out and also looks cute! It was so exciting that I felt that the story ended so quickly. I wonder how Yuuri is going to be from now on!?

☆Tempo! Music! Beautiful Pictures!

Every moment is shining~~!!!*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*ﾟ:*:✼✿(ღ✪ｖ✪)｡ﾟ:*:✼.｡✿.｡
Beauty of the bodies, passionate and cute development... It’s just so incredible!

It’s so funny with more gag-parts than I had expected!
There are some unexpected developments such as Yuuri falling love with his childhood friend, Yuuko... but ending up with getting married to another man and even having a baby while Yuuri was out of his hometown...

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Since it’s still the 1st episode, not all the characters were shown yet. But the ones shown so far are super attractive. Right after the 1st episode was aired, all more and more fans from all over the world posted their comments or illustrations via SNS! Guess what? Even though only the 1st episode was just aired yet, they announced that the Doujinshi Sales Event of only Yuri!!! will take place! Please check out Otaku Republic’s website too!φ(..)

Another Yuri, Yuri Plisetsky He is a gold medalist from the Junior Grand Prix Final

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Minako Sensei in Ballet Class

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Yuuri’s mother who owns the Onsen Ryokan (Japanese-Style Hotel) “Yu-topia”

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Aaaaand here’s the skating scene!!! This gives me goosebump!!!

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How is the gorgeous and beautiful figure skating going to be depicted in anime...? How can it be expressed in anime...? I bet some of you might be thinking like that. No worries! Once you watch the 1st episode, you’ll regret thinking like that! It was such wonderful pictures that it made me want to thank me having been born and even being able to watch this anime... By the way, the former figure skater, Miyamoto Kenji is in charge of the choreography of the performances in anime. Yes, that’s professional!(ﾉ*´_●`)人(*`･∀･´*)人(´●_`*)ﾉ

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Just like Haikyuu!!, I think the anime motion shown only by body movement is fantastic! I’m always impressed when I watch smooth movement in anime!
Some of you might think, “Why don’t we just watch the actual figure skating then?” But the point here is that we can watch the real movement through media called ‘animation’! It’s also fresh that we are able to see more movements from various angles, which we cannot watch in the actual figure skating broadcasted on TV.･:*+.\(( °ω° ))/.:+

Not only the original story but the image and music of OPED were also wonderful! I have a feeling that the official Doujinshi of Yuri!!!on ICE will be the biggest one among all the other Doujinshi!