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But the way he bounces around backstage at comps, listening to his music and singing along, if he was THAT bad someone would have let it slip... Me, I'm disappointed that Shoma (who looks like a schoolboy being made to dress up and really not happy about it ) didn't sing, I think that would have been even more priceless.

Maybe not a song but how about a remix of Morricone's The Ecstasy Of Gold from The Good the Bad and the Ugly soundtrack? Oh god, now I've thought of this I want it so much - maybe wouldn't be easy but if done right it could really be one of his badass numbers even more than PWW and Prince....

Can I admit that the one I am really curious about is Shoma - will he nod off midverse? (Sorry Shoma, I am fond of you...)

There's going to be some serious recording/downloading that day.....

Have these been put up anywhere? Split screen comparisons of some of the CiONTU performances and the originals: Etude (that costume will never ever not be breathcatching...) Zigeunerweisen: Mission Impossible (god he was such a baby then...) and my favourite so far, R&J1 with 6 years between them...

Then give the better costume back to Yuzu and within a day the bling and frill will be back. Our hearts belong to a man with a truly unique vision, and the next vision is only days away....

I am definitely confused but get the impression from all the facts figures and calculations being done all over the place that the only man - at the minute - who CAN break Yuzuru's records is... (Oh, and Javi's chances of winning another Europeans to finish off with just got even better) I have predictably few problems with this outlook.

{Thinks about it} {Winces and reaches for brain bleach} {thinks of Yuzuru in Shoma's new one} {Empties the brain bleach in desperate attempt to stop thinking} Nope. For me, this one of Shoma's is still worse.

Yep, that's another push-my-wild-otherworldly button one that I never even knew I had till Yuzu entered my life...

The Australian classical music are doing a public vote countdown of dance music this weekend... I have already decided that Javi HAS to do Piazzolla, Jason needs to investigate Scott Joplin, there's a tune in Vaughan Willams' folk song suit that is perfection for Caroline Kostner and if I never see Yuzu skating to the opening of Elena Kats-Chernin's Wild Swan ballet (Green Leaf, I hope you can hear it here my life will never quite be complete...

Sorry, that costume of Shoma's is more hideous than anything Yuzuru's ever been criticised for....

It says something when your competitors' coaches are your fanboys too....

Yep, both of those made me bounce and scream. Also there is one on youtube (and somewhere on this hard drive) with a bit of LGC in his swan prince costume, which did the same....

I have a inexplicable but total weakness for Yuzu, in one of his more ethereal and beautiful costumes (Etude, H&L, NS) breaking into one of his kickass pieces as an encore (R&J1, PW, Seimei climax) - it sort of kicks the fiercely otherworldly aspect he has right up there for me and I love it. So for that reason as well I would adore LGC to become a piece he does for both exhibition and encore (And something new for the SP please)

Everyone has to have some faults... Yuzuru's seem to be mostly centred around formal grown-up wear.

Please keep in mind, Yuzu appears to have a completely different understanding of what the word 'slowly' means to most of the known world....

It has just occurred to me (what can I say, I'm slow) that tomorrow we will probably have another new costume to obsess over... It's got to be better, right?

I find Patrick simply unlikable, but I have had to feel sorry for him ever since seeing a clip of the flower ceremony at Sochi - he was clearly shattered and humiliated, trying so hard - and failing - to cover it up. Okay, he probably should not have publicly built himself up so much as the destined winner, but still, seeing someone so gutted, you can't help feel a little for him (even if I'm still glad Yuzuru won). His eyes show the depth of what he is going through, even when he fakes a smile. It couldn't have been easy, not only to have this tiny rocket shoot up out of nowhere and take his top spot (and then go on to win Worlds) but also because Yuzuru was so young and adorable, watch him grab stardom and fans as did did so. On the other hand, he was ungracious - both at Worlds 2012 and Sochi 2014 medal ceremonies someone in the comments pointed out how he fairly pointedly didn't applaud for Yuzuru at least (not sure if he did for the other person on the podium, but then in both cases, the uploader and viewers were really more focused on baby Yuzu). Contrast that to Yuzu's attitude even when he loses, and most of the other current top men... they're all good sports win or lose.

he does look so utterly commanding there....

Umm, I love the stuff, but I have seen foreigners with Vegemite, and somehow I can't see them being grateful to us.... (It needs to be spread very very thin, with quite a lot of butter. NOT - as I've seen - eaten with a spoon...) Tim Tams, definitely. Nature's perfect health food.

I just have a soft spot for R&J2 (and yes, even the costume) as the fannish underdog, which is ironic given he pretty much took a triple crown with (and in) it...

I had to try Notte Stellata to the original Saint-Saens (because I love it better) first, and simply sat here melting (the length was wrong of course, but still....) then because I've wanted to see Yuzu do a Japanese horror soundtrack pretty much from my second day of fandoming, tried the piece Ideal from Kenji Kawai's Dark Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhxSzZNGbWM&list=PL5249413C7D99410B&index=1 But even more, I want to see Yuzu skate to James Newton Howard... this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0-lu9Zs5Gw or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoVJrTaHGn8&list=PLFEB4926BB8A722F6 Oh dear, I am going to get so little work done today....

I mean, we don't know any of these people really, so it's all too easy to read stuff into what they say publicly.... but it's also quite possible that Brian asked Javi what he thought because he knew Javi would actually, well, say it. Yuzuru, being a very different sort from a very different culture, might not answer the question, and certainly might not do so bluntly enough for honesty. So throwing it out and looking for a reaction might be a far better and more sensitive way to gauge his feelings rather than going by any words.

There's also the training partner aspect - if the plan back then was always for Javi and Yuzu to be training partners then yes, Javi being totally on board was vital to them both - had he been reluctant, it could have been extremely damaging to Yuzu as well, given how very young he was and what a huge change he was going into. We don't know that any of the newbies are going to be Yuzu's training partner, and even if they do train together, it won't be anything like the same as working together to grow into champions.