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Come on now, the love between a boy and his ice is always pure! Although he does occasionally make me think we should let him and Ice-chan have their alone time....

Knit in the wee small hours of the morning, before new Yuzu videos get posted?

This bit: ' Really...Now I have chest muscles. They really concentrates in this place *touch chest*(Interviewer goes: hee)Then, what's that...and *touch upper arm* the muscles are here too (In:sugoii) Yuzu: uhmm... I can feel my body is changing' Aw. That's just kind of endearing. It's like he never thought he'd be a muscle-y guy and is just as surprised by them as the rest of us.

Oh, but I thought his one true love is Ice-chan? I mean, he did that hydroblade kiss and everything....

It's laughable, really. I hope my friends and family like lumpy handknits because I can only afford to make Christmas gifts this year. My dollars have been exclusively reserved for Yuzu viewing.

I can't help but wonder how many times he fell for his hand to end up like that. I mean we could all see it on video...it looked so painful.

Of course it would be an organizational nightmare, but on the other hand Finlandia Trophy has already organized a way for people to send virtual flowers via SMS this weekend. I'm sure sooner or later someone will try it with charitable donations. Maybe not for an ISU competition but perhaps things like Japan Open.

I think it would be safe to say that most of us are YOLO-ing our Yuzu spending. Celine Dion may come and go but Yuzu's only going to skate competitively for so long.

If I recall correctly, that area was hit with more earthquakes a couple of years later, no? Your country has suffered a lot.

I've always thought it would be cool if, instead of throwing plushies or flowers on the ice, fans could make instant online donations to the skater's charity of choice instead. Basically showering them with cash, but without the actual cash. Could you imagine? The average Pooh is what? 10 - 20 bucks? Imagine a 'Pooh rain' of cash going to the Tohoku rebuilding efforts on Yuzu's behalf every time he finishes a program.

Wow, @micaelis. You've put so much work into this. One thing I would add is that Yuzu has on more than one occasion expressed his feelings about continuing to skate after 3/11, and, along with that guilt, expressed his sense of duty to do whatever he can to help the recovery efforts. For example, there is the video of him returning to a rebuilt high school shortly after winning his gold at Sochi, where prior to going in, he tells the TV interviewer with him that he's afraid the students will accuse him for leaving, that they will say 'how dare you!' And then he is completely surprised and totally overwhelmed when they welcome him with screams and cheers and are excited to see him. In fact, it's not until he pays the craft-making grannies he met in that same 2014 visit a second call, in 2018 after PyeongChang, that he seems to start letting go of guilt, because the grannies even tell him 'You don't have to carry that burden. What you're doing gives us hope and makes us happy." It seems to me that since that particular time, he's carried himself a lot lighter.

The clear files are great, but I like the product boxes with his full-length image on them. How would you like to bet that at least some of those clear files are going to turn up as giveaways at SCI? The Japanese ladies are so nice about those kinds of things.

I haven't calculated a percentage, but "all my disposable income from now until World's is over" pretty well covers it.

They have a luxe image to uphold after all. But Citizen might give them a run for their money...those watch photos were things of beauty!

Happy Birthday Toshl, fanyu extraordinaire!

At least that means he's warm for once!

...didn't a satellite do the very same thing not too long ago? It even came up in this thread...

And how! Every time he opens his mouth about Yuzu and Nathan, all I hear is a wily coach saying things calculated to fire up his own skater. let's face it, it's got to sting to be Nathan and hear Raf say "I'm his fan" about Yuzu, and ask for Yuzu's autograph. It's exactly what I'd do as a coach if I had a skater with that level of potential who needed a slight prod in the buttocks to get moving. . . . Maybe it's a good thing I'm not a coach.

I think everyone in that group got pretty loud cheers just because, but Jun definitely got his share of screaming. And it wasn't unwarranted. Even though Yuzu was on the ice, Jun occasionally stole my eyes away.

indeed! That sounds like a life-changing injury to me.

OMG, OMG OMG!

Tbh, it probably worked out well in the sense that he most likely ended up leaving long after even the most ardent, die-hard fan had given up waiting for him.

Looks like Gabby and Roman are finally off the injured list and back in the saddle: https://skatecanada.ca/2019/10/eight-canadian-skaters-headed-to-finland-for-finlandia-trophy/

...Those manner hands! I wonder if Yuzu realizes that any Western person being hugged that way is going to automatically pull him in tighter... body language is such a cultural thing.

I love German. If it does't have the word you want, you can just make it yourself.