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It is nice that he included not just Yuzu's beautiful jumps but the moment he checked the trace of his edges and when he was nodding to himself, haha. Looking forward to other videos!

Guessing from google translation, Camilla is going to be at JGP Baltic Cup this weekend as a coach?

I knew they were going to retire someday but was expecting to see them in shows at least for a while...

Hi! I guess there are multiple sources, but the one I could find was an article in Sports Hochi published right after World Junior Championships in 2010. Here is a picture of the article I found somewhere. (Sorry, I don't remember the source...) In the general info about him printed in the gray box in the bottom left, they said, "名前の由来　弓の弦を結ぶように凛とした生き方をしてほしいと父がつけた" which roughly means that his father named him Yuzuru wishing him to become a person who had dignified beauty and strength like a tied bowstring.

Let me correct an error I made in ACI thread... Last night I found that the hand choreo added to the Hydroblade has already been previewed in Toyama and it was rather close to what he did in ACI FS. So it was deliberate and not mistake. https://i.imgur.com/0bhCfH8.gifv Sorry for missing it and underestimating Mr. Hanyu...

So, Origin is back! Nice to meet you, Origin 2.0 the purple lord of roses and butterfly!

Yuzu has beautiful edge jumps and he prefers them to toe jumps, but edge jumps are prone to get affected by ice condition. He must have known the risk of relying on edge jumps long before Worlds this year since he experienced the struggle with competing with LGC in the 2016-2017 season and Boston2016 where there was a sudden change in the temperature and the ice condition. So I don't think he impulsively mentioned mastering 4Lz and 4F. Must be difficult to practice them trying to avoid the risk of injury, but if he is in good form, I think we will see him attempting at least one of them.

The lady is Ms. Noriko Shirota, the director of ANA's skating club. The guy sitting between Ms. Shirota and Mr. Kurihara of Ajinomoto is Kikuo Makabe, producer of Fantasy on Ice. He often goes to competitions to look for new casts and to invite them to his shows.

Seems like Miyu Nakashio and Jeremy Ten are playing important roles in Cirque du Soleil's Axel https://mobile.twitter.com/Cirque/status/1166788287580839937

They actually have a SEIMEI-ish bike, although the coloring is slightly different from Yuzu's. https://www.giant.co.jp/giant16/bike_datail.php?p_id=00000037

According to this thread, the bicycle Yuzu is riding in these pictures is a product of GIANT, a Taiwanese bike maker which donated 1,000 mountain bikes to the disaster-hit area after 311. Those bikes were tuned for riding in such area and probably helped a lot of people since it took a long time until public transportations got back to normal and the roads got fixed. Maybe Tour-de-Tohoku is saying thank you to the maker and people in Taiwan with this art? (*In the picture the logo says "GLANT" but this is because they cannot use the name of actual bike makers in the anime. In the manga, all the characters are riding bikes which actually exist.) List of characters and their bikes http://dktg.info/midochari/?p=1823 How they changed the brand names in anime http://dktg.info/midochari/?p=8079

It will be aired again on Sep. 16th by J sports 4... yes it is slightly after Lombardia. https://www.jsports.co.jp/program_guide/06/05/74181_4213323/ I missed it when it was streamed because I was busy back then, but was it a good performance? Hope you'll find it before LT. A compilation of interviews with Yuma Kagiyama, Azusa Tanaka, and Shun Sato respectively by Ice Time Podcast. They gave the interviews during the Team Japan training camp and talked about their programs for this season, their impression on Caro the guest coach, etc. *In the interview with Shun, Ayano says that Shun saw Yuzu's R&J when he visited Miyagi, but he probably meant that he remembered Yuzu skating R&J when they were both living and training in Miyagi.

I somehow cannot dislike Xylitol fairy version 1.0. Probably because it showed how he always tries to do his best in any circumstances... in any outfits... and he really was cute when he was trying to tell everyone that Xylitol White was out.

Guess who they are: https://i.daily.jp/general/2019/08/29/Images/f_12652765.jpg

According to coach Sonoko Nakano, Mai Mihara resumed training a few days ago. She is going to skip international competitions in September and will condition herself for Kinki Regional scheduled in early October. She hasn't started practicing difficult jumps yet, but the coach said that she seemed to have regained some of the weight she had lost and looks brighter after she got back on the ice. Source: https://www.sanspo.com/sports/news/20190829/fgr19082922340003-n1.html

So was I, since I heard that she was going to skate to Ghost in the Shell. Not sure what happened, but hope she'll come back in good form...

For those who watched 24h TV and are interested in the fruit Yuzu was tasting: The fruit Yuzu was tasting is called "ハスカップ (Haskap)" in Japan. General info about the fruit: https://haskapberries.com/haskap/what-is-haskap It seems difficult to find raw haskap because the fruit is too soft and fragile to distribute without being processed. However, in Hokkaido, you can find foods using haskap easily. In New Chitose Airport, there is a shop named "Haskap" where you can buy dried haskap, haskap tea, fresh haskap juice, haskap granola, etc. http://www.new-chitose-airport.jp/ja/spend/shop/s59.html You may also find haskap ice creams in Seicomart (a chain store based in Hokkaido) If you have a plan to visit Japan this autumn, you can taste the haskap-related products produced by Yamaguchi farm (the haskap farm Yuzu visited in 24h TV) in Hokkaido food fairs held by several department stores as follows: Tobu Department Store Ikebukuro (Tokyo) 19/9/2019-24/9/2019 https://www.tobu-dept.jp/ikebukuro/tnb/language/english.html Keikyu Department Store (Yokohama) 26/9/2019-2/10/2019 https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/shopping/keikyu-department-store Marui Imai Sapporo Main Store (Sapporo) 2/10/2019-7/10/2019 https://www.maruiimai.mistore.jp.e.ba.hp.transer.com/sapporo.html Kintetsu Department Store Main Store Abeno Harukas (Osaka) 9/10/2019-15/10/2019 https://abenoharukas.d-kintetsu.co.jp/special/foreign/ Hakata Hankyu Department Store (Fukuoka) 6/11/2019-12/11/2019 http://www.hankyu-dept.co.jp/hakata/fl/english/ Source: https://hasukappu.com/labo/blog/index.html