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  1. rockstaryuzu
    ToshI might just be one of my most favorite fanyus. He gets so swept away by Yuzu. 🤗
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    Funny how that happens. When I saw him live at competition, that was my reaction at the end of his programs, too. An urge to bow in response to his bow.
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    Especially in the current times. It has been on my mind lately, as I get drawn deeper and deeper into certain fandoms etc, that the real true and sole purpose of humanity is to make this world better and brighter through joyful, loving, and creative pursuits. When we (i.e. our species as a whole) don't do this, but instead indulge our destructive impulses, all of our mental health suffers and the world is a poorer place.
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    @ValerieFang is this you? Very nice job!
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    Thank you, and now I'm embarassed. Didn't realize I was the author of my own troubles on this one! 😳
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    I just had a whole long post typed out, hit 'Submit Reply' and it vanished without a trace. I've also had sentences disappear from my posts in between my hitting 'Submit' and my post appearing on the forum. Is this happening to anyone else? Is it an intentional thing that the Planet is set up to do? Or is it just a glitch? It's really disconcerting to press 'Submit' and see a whole post vanish like it never existed
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    @micaelis I read your post. While I'm not going to comment on obvious things about it that other satellites already have, I do have a question for you: why are you so obsessed with trying to figure who will be the Next Big Thing in men's singles skating? When I started coming to the Planet in 2018, you were all about Gogolev: first as a 'replacement' for Javi as Yuzu's training mate, then as the Next Big Thing. Now it's Malinin. And next year or the year after that it'll be some other skater. But why not just enjoy Yuzu's skating in the here and now, and leave the predictions to the fortune tellers? It really doesn't matter who's coming along to try and fill Yuzu's shoes, because they won't be able to.
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    Yuzu's been with Sekkisei for how long now? And yet I still 🤣 every time. Beauty blogger Yuzu was then and is still the very last thing I ever would have expected... the guy who once dried his skate blades and his face with the same towel... - please can we all just appreciate how his natural beauty always shines regardless... and how wondrous strange Yuzu's life can be sometimes
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    !!!!
  10. rockstaryuzu
    Idk about all you but since Disney+ has GIFT until March 12, that's where I'm headed...
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    While we're on that topic: the way the hands are lit with green and then red as the SEIMEI music starts, makes them look like they're casting a spell, so at that point maybe they represent SEIMEI's hands, because he's an onmyouji. Really, they're very hardworking hands and I think they represent quite a lot of different things throughout the show. Also, if you look at the proportions of them - they're not random hands. I wonder if they were designed based on Yuzu's hands.
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    @Anni This part: "That is why, by making the story, and to have program viewed as a piece within that story, wondered what kind of things you all would receive. That was what I was thinking while configuring the show." from that interview stoood out to me. I really feel like Yuzu wove all those disparate progams into a complete and seamless whole that told a story of its own.
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    Amen!
  14. rockstaryuzu
    I just finished another rewatch of GIFT (have to get them in while I can, only a few hours left!) and this time I only watched the Yuzu skating, dancers, and the band's live performances of LGC and the specially-written GIFT theme. What pops out: - The band was excellent. Really really excellent, and Takabe-san is clearly a star in his own right. - the dancers also did a fabulous job and someone put a lot of time and effort into their choreography, especially for the 'game over' sequence, where each dancer is doing something slightly different from the others. - focusing on the skating makes it really apparent just what a tremendous physical effort this was on Yuzu's part. That he got through all those programs with only a couple of cat-like saves on the jumps and a tiny handful of other minor slip-ups, is incredible. (Also, it wouldn't be a Yuzu program without a cat-like save or two.) He did a full competition-grade SP (Rondo) (would love to know what kind of score that would have got from fair, impartial judges), another SP slightly less seriously (LMEY), two full-length exhibition programs (Notte & HYK), two completely new show programs (the one all in flowy white - i forget the song name, and the red one, Ashura), a simplified version of his free skate POTO, segments of his free skate programs H&L and SEIMEI, a segment of Ballade, his original art piece A Fleeting Dream, a portion of Firebird, a six minute warm-up and a joyful 2 minute improv to thank the audience at the end. This man has stamina and he has it in spades.
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    No, I don't know. Even what I've already mentioned is from stuff Yuzu has already said in earlier interviews. I'd only be guessing at anything else. I do think that the starlight is supposed to represent his fans and supporters. He always mentions it while quoting typical fan comments and encouragements.
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    It's available for another 20 hours - deadline is 23h59 on March 1, Taiwan time
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    4A is the 'Fleeting Dream', I believe. And when he talks about everything he cherishes disappearing all of a sudden, it seems pretty clear that he's making reference to the 3/11 Tohoku Disaster that he lived through and wondered if he'd have to quit skating
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    Nam is a man of good taste.
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    The ISU is only a sport governing body for competitive skating of various kinds. They literally have nothing to do with ice shows (or should not, at least). Oh, what did Nam say? I feel like he'd be really excited over the whole thing.
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    No kidding, eh? Not to mention all the ice shows. The only ones who don't look ...ummm, lesser next to this are people like Elladj, who are out there doing their own thing ...actually, strike that. Tessa & Scott's farewell tour across Canada, Rock the Rink, had some similar elements of self-disclosure. But not like this
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    Plus the Challenge Cup was on in the Netherlands, with half the Japan team there. Couldn't watch even if they wanted to. By the way, after Challenge Cup, Kaori is now #1 Woman in the ISU standings. She seems to be taking to winning like a duck to water... I wasn't thinking of it in these terms but I agree with this interpretation
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    Regarding other skaters' reactions: Jordan watched, and was blown away. https://instagram.com/stories/oniceperspectives/3047407505969584188?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
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    I think, from a stage management perspective, they serve a number of different narrative purposes. And while I'm on the topic of rewatching, I'd like to take a minute to appreciate the job the GIFT band did with LGC. I was too busy expecting Yuzu to appear in the PPOS and rock out that LGC choreo on the first viewing to pay attention to the band, but they really did Prince justice!
  24. rockstaryuzu
    Just rewatching gift and I realized that the way the two hands are positioned above the bandstands looks a bit like someone presenting an open jewel box. Like a GIFT
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    You know, just from a purely skating perspective, I love A Fleeting Dream so much. It's all about the edges, the balance, the flow... simply skating, done well.
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