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Summary: Grand Prix Scandal in Barcelona: A Bronze Bought and Paid For? Itโs a headline that shakes the core of the skating world. Did Isabella Yangโs family really bribe the GP judges to get J.J. onto the podium? As more and more revelations drop, itโs not just the bronze medal called into question anymore. Yuuri, Yurio, and Victor find themselves in the crosshairs too, as the skating world tries to come to terms with what happens next.
Existing chapter summaries are below the cut
When the Ice Answers Yuri on Ice Fanfic by MythboundCal
The music begins. But Yuri doesnโt hear it.
He hears breath. His ownโragged, sharp, then steady. Like wind through glass.
He steps onto the ice like itโs a love letter. As if saying it without words might make it true. That heโs strong. That heโs worthy. That he wants this.
The first glide is everything. Itโs not movement. Itโs memory.
And just like thatโ The letter becomes a vow.
He thinks of late nights and early mornings. Of Victorโs hand on his back. Of the sound his blades make when he finally lets go.
The rink becomes a galaxy. The spotlight, his moonlight. And overhead, the flashing of cameras Spirals into stars.
He gives himself to the moment. Every stumble, every sweat-stained failure, Every heartbreak etched into his spineโ He offers it all to the ice.
And the ice? The ice answers.
By the final spin, heโs not skating anymore. Heโs flying. Not to escape. But to arrive.
When he stops, thereโs silence.
And thenโ Applause.
But none of that matters. Because now he knows:
He was never performing. He was becoming.
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Video reference used of Jason Brown in @oniceperspectives
Part 21.
Oguro: Why did you pick Karatsu as a model for the town, where the story of Yuri!!! takes place?
Otsuka: If I remember correctly, Kubo-san has some special memories connected to that town.
Oguro: You went there to gather reference materials for the show, right? Does the onsen, that is Yuuri's childhood home, really exist?
Otsuka: I think that there was a place that was used as a reference. There was also Karatsu Castle. I went to visit that castle, too.
Oguro: Did all staff members participate in the trips inside Japan?
Otsuka: A part of the staff, like the Art Director, for example, went on those trips with us.
Oguro: What about the trips abroad? Did Kubo-san go on those trips alone?
Otsuka: She and the Director went together to see the figure skating competitions (laugh). Because they go to see those competitions every year, anywayโฆ
Oguro: So that wasn't just a one time thing?
Otsuka: Yes, it wasn't (laugh). That's why I think that they already had all that knowledge, like where is what.
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Part 19.
Oguro: From around which episode, you started to introduce CGI?
Otsuka: I think that Minami-kun in episode 5. was first? If you watch the show, having this in mind, that this is when we started to use CGI, I think you may notice it (laugh). At first, the CGI, too, wasn't all that good. Having learnt from what we did wrong in episodes 5. and 6., when working on episode 7., we have already decided for which cuts and in what way we should use CGI. Until episode 6. I was ready to just try to do everything as I was told, to challenge the limits of what seemed to be possible to do in animation, but as expected, it turned out we didn't have enough time. We were doing a lot of adjustments along the way - as the story progressed, we started to use those cuts, to fill in the gaps in animation, change the way we use CGI etc. We were changing the methods of how we were working.
Oguro: I think that just 10 years ago, production of an anime like Yuri!!! on ICE would have been impossible. In the figure skating scenes, the characters are non-stop moving, aren't they? A show with such animation couldn't have been created as a TV anime. But that a show like Yuri!!! became a possibility, isn't just because now we can use CGI, isn't it?
Otsuka: Yes, that's right. I don't think that CGI is the reason. There isn't really a lot of technical novelty in what we are doing. As MAPPA, starting with 'Kids on the Slope', then the dance scenes in 'Shingeki no Bahamut' - we had the experience in making high-difficulty animation for TV series, that's why technically, we are able to make something like Yuri!!!. And there is the emotional aspect, too...
happy valentineโs day ๐๐น
[Image description: Yuuri Katsuki and Viktor Nikiforov sit on a couch, with Yuuri half on Viktor's lap, cradling a bruised hand. Viktor, an arm around Yuuri to keep him close, smiles as he recounts his own past struggles/failures in an attempt to comfort Yuuri with his recent fall. Yuuri looks hesitant to accept such a thing could ever be true, but his soft smile betrays him.]
"... But I can't remember the last time you fell. I fall every practice." "Doesn't mean I never have, or never will again. And it never means you can't get back up again."
starry_geek from twitter requested Viktor comforting a struggling Yuuri during the off season. I hope this meets your expectations. Thank you for donating!
Ah i know you guys have already seen them but here are my sticker designs that I did for the Yuri on Ice While Day Zine @YOIZINE2_14 on twitter!! I actually just received the bundle and everything a few moments ago and it reminded me to upload them lmao
i put the stickers on my (inactive) redbubble! x
Part 18.
Oguro: To show a character's facial expressions, while the character is performing his program, middle shots were used only in episode 1., right? Later only long shots were used to show the performances, perhaps, so it's not necessary to draw details on the character's face?
Otsuka: Nope, until around episode 6. we were trying very seriously to do everything right, and that [the use of long shot] was how we dealt with all those shots that didn't turn out very well. We started to think about the composition of skating scenes, assuming from the start, that we need those cuts to fill in the gaps, from around episode 7. We changed the methods of how we were working to control the amount of work that we had to do.
Oguro: The animation in the later part of the show is more stable, isn't it? (laugh)
Otsuka: Yes, it is (laugh).
Oguro: Even though, I'm sure, the schedule was impossibly tight.
Otsuka: I think a miracle happened then. We were inventing methods of working, as we were working, and then we were implementing those methods and that turned out to be a success. When you try to change your methods of working, when you have not time, in most cases, ends with a failure, but this time, the CGI team also worked very hard, and an animator, who was responsible for those cuts that were inserted to fill in the gaps, Hisaki Koji-san, also did a fantastic job. I think that implementing those new methods of working was what saved the second half of the show. If we didn't do that, it would be a real disaster.
