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Kikuchi-san is like the royal attendant who whispers to the Queen the name of each person at the party.

Page 112 is the most deadly page of all time. I hadn't checked in a while and now I'm dead. Otsukaresama, guys. I hope you're happy.

"Scandolo" The only Italian you'll ever need.

EDIT ETA Sorry, my tired Fanyu eyes got fooled by Sakurai Sho, another celebrity with feathers in his name. Mr Hanyu came first in the “Favourite Athletes” poll.

Happy Birthday! Thank you all for enabling my addiction. I'm a shell banana skin of the person I was a year ago. Have some Pooh bees.

"No matter what you see, you remember Hanyu in a similar form."

I started panicking as soon as I saw that clip of Evgenia doing Bubbly Dance. Good thing that Bubbly Hanyu is the absolute cutest thing I've ever seen and made me change my wallpaper for the first time since August.

Interesting! Looking forward to seeing it! Is it another EX or will it be a competition program?

Yup, I'm Australian! I was so surprised to find there were others. I think we're up to at least 6 now. And they shot that glorious choreo sequence with the face of pure joy from behind! Thank goodness for the alternate angles from NBC and Japanese news networks! I couldn't believe the camera work for CiONTU, though! Both biellmanns I saw were close-up, panning up but didn't even reach the top before he'd finished. Surely they should have put extra care into something like that. Hopefully the May broadcasts are a little better.

Another Australian resident to add to the pile! It's Belinda Noonan, the Australian commentator, though I think her commentary was broadcast in Europe and America on some channels, iirc.

Thank you so much, @yude! We've all noticed that first point, right? He seems to do better when he's angry, too. I hope he can deal with sacrificing a few extra PCS points for a calmer mind and healthy body, though.

The most beautiful moment in RJ1. The moment that makes my heart ache.

I'm so mad at whoever made "fairy" a derogatory term in English. What happens when a fellow comes along who looks like all the fairy princess in your picture books? Grrr. Things Hanyu fans can relate to: "You have a file for storing clear files." "You look forward to him coming back to Japan but, on the other hand, when he says too long you worry and tell him to 'hurry up and go back to Toronto.'"

This is the most precious thing I’ve ever seen. Such cuties! This is so much more poetic! Let's adopt it!

I’m just going to shamelessly take credit for this skating fruit art renaissance.

The beautiful five pointed sakura golden band that’s added to your ribbon if you are awarded 5 times.

Ryuichi Sakamoto something somewhere.

What would we do without Ninny?

Okagesama de. I'll be (hopefullyhopefullyhopefully) going to Kanazawa. I've always wanted to visit Kanazawa, too.

Thank you! I just have to work out how to transfer money to a Japanese bank now.

Makuhari was, I think, but Kanazawa wasn't. It's just that foreigners can't buy tickets without using a proxy service so once the announcement happens there's no time to go through that whole process.

For anyone else dying to go, it seems there will be a tour package for Kanazawa (which is just tickets and a bus to pick you up. ) http://travel-ai.net/2018/04/27/1098/

Aaaand gone. This is too cruel.