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Nope, while people have pored over every word and image we get, we still don't know for sure. He is good at this By the way, I had a quick look at some of the other athletes the JOC got to make clips for and to be fair to our Yuzuru, quite a few of them did the 'stand in front of a blank wall' bit. And I ran across this totally-unrelated-to-Yuzu tweet of someone's healthy meal, which looks to me like, umm, amphibian spawn mixed with tinned pineapple - so of course I am dying of curiosity, is there any from or who has visited Japan and can enlighten me as to what it actually is???

I am so sorry, and will add thoughts and hopes for you into my daily karmic wishes for everyone hurt in this time.

To make your Saturday just that bit more beautiful... they just played my absolute and everlastingly favourite song, Love Me Sweet by Australian composer Carl Vine. I am imagining our boy skating to this in a gala.... beauty just doesn't come much more pure.

I rather love this, the Olympic Channel asked "which athletes are keeping you entertained on social media?" Now you would think the one star who is known for not having any sm would not dominate the replies yet again, but.... you'd be wrong Of course the JOC tweet yesterday was just great timing...

Been thinking about why Yuzu's message seems to have a deeper impact than so many of the others who have been using social media to talk to and encourage fans (well, besides the obvious fact that we get to see him so rarely on it ) Without criticising the other sports stars, their messages have been - as social media tends to be - "this is what I'm doing now," as well as words to encourage fans. Which is great (I looooved Jason skipping on skates). Yuzu however.... a blank wall, plain outfit, serious demeanour, a carefully thought out little talk directly to his listeners and about them, covering those who have to stay home, those who have to work to overcome the crisis, and those who are already ill and suffering (the elderly fans especially - the grannies and grandads he has spoken to in countless fundraising clips - who may be isolated and must be so frightened at the minute can hear that he is thinking of them too) and just touching on 3/11 to bring in that fellow feeling and that lovely image of the darkness and the stars. Nothing about "me" to detract from "us" and especially "you". In this me-hungry world, he really is something special...

Toshi is one of us.....

And the tweet has already reached 200,000 views, I think a lot of people in Japan and elsewhere are drawing from it.

This message from Yuzuru would mean a lot to the Japanese fans, as they know he is speaking not only from the heart but from hard-won experience of disaster and the fear it brings...

Hope we get a translation soon. Mind you, we are still getting no hint whatsoever of where the dear boy is...

What a mess... do they really think that an international series like the GPF is going to be able to start at the usual time?

Wasn't there a writer who said she has never been tempted to use Yuzu for inspiration but he and his life are just too much, too extraordinary for fiction?

As with SOI Yokohama, canny business. I do hope Jason will be there last year, I googled his character and am DYING to see him in that costume - and hair!!!

This is Yuzuru, I don't believe he will make any decision for a long time yet... or if he does, he won't tell till the time he thinks is right. It's a masterclass in patience being a Fanyu....

Had they actually started selling the tickets?

That was so utterly adorable

Whether this year or next, if the first time anyone finds out music and costume is his first competition, the explosion among fans will be epic.....

Yay, new programs! Of course, beung Yuzu, he will probably keep which new programs secretly secret till after just about everyone else... but we can wait. A full media day may not be possible due to social isolation, but maybe a virtual one??? And good to hear he is taking care

When is the Q&A? Like all of you, I miss him....

Though being a sensible (well, sometimes) lad, I hope he won't be as blatantly stupid as Trusova and put up video while breaking quarantine/social isolation...

Oh wow, thank you!!! 1. Choosing is pretty impossible... I have a total, adoration-soaked weakness for any time he is wearing one of his ethereal, unearthly outfits and goes into a rockout routine - R&J1 in the kimono, Seimei in the Requiem seafoam, crazy Swanyu, PWW in Etude, cherry blossom Origin.... there's just something about the contrast that emphasises his amazing otherworldly quality. 2. I think Origin in the Masquerade dark ice prince outfit, with the devil's fiddle playing. There. Are. No. Words. 3. Origin in Swanyu. I would dieeeeeeeeeee.......

How dreadful.....

Monchan kindly supplied the link for cdJapan... and I have ordered it. The postage was pretty steep, but even so it was cheaper and quicker than ordering through Kinokuniya in Sydney... I'll post when I get it.