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I'm sure Yuzu never dreamed he'd end up.in so many girls' bedrooms!

Let's face it, the Japanese men in general have the most interesting and beautiful costumes. None of the others come close!

Or with sparkles in his hair

There is that anime ( Houseki no Kuni) about gems that are people...and Yuzu is a known anime watcher...

Yes, it's from this time last year. He's given more recent (i.e post-Saitama) interviews where he's said that the 4A is no longer a 'someday' dream, but a goal he can work solidly towards achieving.

I have to say, that one is my favorite, not least because when he falls, he flips off Ice-Chan and that just makes me giggle.

Just gonna leave this here:

This looks like it's the hydroblade/leap combo....and what an incredible angle the photographer got! Amazing!

What he said about Javi...he's such a sweet boy!

I was thinking of a much more ...ahem...juvenile interpretation. More along the lines of 'who did that?! >green cloud< >holds nose<

That looks like spray-on hair colour, such as you can buy at Halloween for costume use. It washes out easily. Looks pretty good on him though.

Then it's probably one from this season. Otonal?

I'm betting on the outlier being Dory. Just because.

I just hope the choreo is sufficiently different from the one for the other skater Dave Wilson did a Schindler's for last year. Sometimes Wilson comes up with great things, but a lot more often his programs all look the same to me, like he's just phoning it in.

My mistake, but it doesn't change my opinion of the music, which I think should be plunked into a bin marked ' Do Not Ever Use Again' .

So Jason Brown just tweeted his new SP, and it's Schindler's List, by David Wilson. Not really sure how I feel about that, for two reasons: 1. DW did a Schindler's program last year for another skater, and the snippet of choreo Jason shows looks similar, and 2. I'm sick of the Schindler's List music in skating. It's fast becoming a warhorse and for what it ( the movie) is, that's really not appropriate.

I'm ready to picket in support of this. WE WANT ABS!!!

It could be a game...identify the program from the opening moves or something like that. But no costume hints.

I was watching on old training clip of Yuzu at TCC, with the sound off. He was in the Under Armor. He starts his run through, and 3 moves in, I'm like, "Oh, that's Parisienne Walkways!" And I hadn't seen it in months. You know you're a fanyu when....!

Personally, I'm looking forward to this year's Dory, whatever it may be. Because you know there's always one like that in the bunch. And satellites are so darn funny making comments about it. It's such a good time.

I've been all of those at one point or another I think...for the moment I have settled on 'blooming cactus'. I really do think Yuzu will ultimately be ok. He's been at this a long time now, if he couldn't figure out how to get through setbacks he'd have quit long ago.

Yeah, I was the one who asked him about that. I really want to see more of his skating. It's so rare to see a super-tall guy like him in men's singles, and the height gives him this beautiful graceful quality that's just enchanting to watch. It's like watching a crane in flight, it's just wingspan everywhere with his long arms and fingers. Have you watched all of his vids? Did you see the one where he does the split jump over a car? Not sure if it's editing or a real stunt, but, wow!

To sum up, he's saying that there are no shortcuts to becoming a great skater, you just have to put in all the hard work and sometimes that means on the basics.