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  1. I read somewhere (sorry I can't find the Japanese article anymore), that the Kose deal was 300 million yen ( that is almost 3m USD) and only short term, but since sales have been rocketing, Kose is very eager to renew the contract. I mean they have literally hang Yuzu from top to bottom at Haneda airport, around Japan, all over HK airport, many places in China and other cities around Asia. I don't think I have seen Kose went this crazy with an advertisement campaign ever before. Although I don't know whether this conflicts with P&G. Does P&G also have a cosmetic line?
  2. So he announced the end of Masquerade, but not Crystal Memories, does that mean we are going to see it continue in some form?
  3. No wonder he hates English so much...Because he cant talk 18 pages long and it kills him not to be able to XD Also his outfit looks like he is wearing the "ANA" on him even though this is not a ANA talk show
  4. And I'm jumping 4Lo and 4T3A in practice for warm up too! Chill..What is chill...
  5. In some way so many bad news in one go.... Please let both ankles heal soon and he gets a good amount of rest after Toyama
  6. No you are right, our situation right now is more like when the scanners/translators have the manga source, put out the word spoilers but won't be releasing the translated scans until a few days later
  7. But he is already living a life like an anime character XD Even Yuzu himself thinks his life story is more unbelievable than manga/anime such that it would have been rejected by a publisher had someone tried to present it. When he disappears between competition it is like when the manga drawer went on hiatus. And FaOI right now is like the weekly serialization where each week we are left with a huge cliffhanger but have to wait a whole week to find out.
  8. But all Yuzu photobooks and magazines are available from online bookstores and Japanese CD/music stores from which you can buy
  9. This looks absolutely amazing!
  10. The show is about 3.5 hours long, so if live broadcasting of Toyama starts at 11:24am, it will finish just in time for Kobe 3:00pm start
  11. I think he has the body proportion of a Clamp character, but face wise he is more closer to Kaneki of Tokyo Ghoul. Clamp characters look more European.
  12. Im pretty sure his whole body is 90% due to genetics...Just look at his mother
  13. You only need to look at the feeble turnout for Stars on Ice Us this year (when it is already very cheap) to understand that Nathan has no drawing power even in the US. So I highly doubt where he can draw crowds is factor in where he is placed. At the end of the day it will be the events that suits his college schedule the most. I don't know, Yuzu might want to go Finlandia this year given Finland is his new lucky place... in which case Skate Canada would be too close and IDF would make more sense. But then his priority is to prevent injuries this year in which case the less jet lags the better, so ACI and SC may still the better choice. I do think a large contributor to his injury at RoC is jet lag.. he himself mentioned that his loop wasn't working well because of the long flight.
  14. Isn't this more like the Bieber hair when he first debuted ? It even slant the same way. Also it seems like it doesn't matter whether you are known skater or not, as long as you are little girl, you are allowed to post photo!
  15. Wow if 110,000 turned up in Sendai (which included a lot of people not from the city and needed long travels), imagine how much people would turn up for Tokyo....Half a million? Could have caused a true traffic havoc
  16. He is sending greetings to the planet!
  17. They are talking about how good he is at fan service and the scalper problems. And now we await the monument reveal!
  18. That is why I really wanted Yuzu to do a show version of Origin ... There were so many intricate details in the media day choreography that I felt got cut out or lost in the tension of the competitions before he had chance to familiarise it. I just dunno how he would feel doing it in a show if Plushenko is also there (and he is there in most shows).
  19. There is never an agreed definition of GOAT, whether in skating or other sports, because all fans will go with the definition that suits their favourite. However, in terms of being remembered many years later, there are really mainly three things - memorable programs that defined the skater (and this is a combination of both artistry and quality technique), the count of gold medals (as this is the only thing comparable across eras, with Olympic gold being most important) and whether you are the first to achieve a certain milestone or specific type of jumps (although not an absolute necessity). Yuzu has already met all three criteria many times. Whether someone leaves a lasting impression requires a combination of these things over a whole career, and not just one competition. The marks you get or how many quads you jumped doesn't mean much 20 years later, because the scoring system would have changed and future skaters will be jumping even more quads due to advance in equipment technology and coaches' experience. But the first person to achieve something will forever go down in history, which is why Yuzu wants that quad axel so much I guess, although even without it he is already in history, being the first to jump 4L, the first ever Asian Olympic male single winner and the only double one since Dick Button. And any discourse about if Yuzu is the GOAT, then anyone who beats him is also the GOAT is pure nonsense, or propaganda to to prop someone else as the GOAT when they are not deserving of that title yet. If both skater A and B beats Yuzu in a competition, then are they both GOAT? and then skater B gets beaten by skater C, does that mean skater C is also the GOAT ? you can't have that many GOATs. Skater A, B and C will need as many achievements over a career as Yuzu does to be even considered. Just one or two dominant season is not enough. For example Chan and Medvedeva both had multiples seasons where they seem totally unbeatable and everyone say they will become the greatest skater ever, but today no one will consider them for GOATs. Why? because of the lack of Olympic gold (which goes to show how much this medal means in figure skating).
  20. The course if I remember right gave a choice of 4 to 8 years to complete...He has obviously chose the latter option. I recall he mentioned before that he could speed up getting the degree by taking random subjects to fill up the units, but then he doesn't want to get a degree just for the sake of a degree, he actually wants to study subjects he is interested in properly so hence why he isn't doing that.
  21. Yuzu isn't behind schedule, the course he is doing takes 8 years to complete, which means he still has one or two years to go.
  22. I think you are overestimating Yuzu's sponsors. If sponsors = power in the skating community, then given all major ISU sponsors are Japanese companies, JSF should be the most powerful federation. Yet JSF had been completely useless again and again - with the exception of Uno, all Japanese skaters have been severely underscored both past and present. Those in power at ISU have been from the Western countries and big 3 federations for a century, and they aren't going to let late-comer Japan join the party easily. And given JSF has earned so much money, they don't feel the need to for politicking like the other Feds - whether Yuzu wins silver or gold, the fans will still pay to see him anyways, so what do the JSF care? And here is where I think Japanese audience being not nationalistic and welcoming of all foreign skaters actually hurts their own skaters. The federations earn a cut of skater's show & commercial earnings, and most of that money is in Japan currently, so they also want to milk all they can out of the Japanese audience, and the way to do it is to suppress Japanese skaters and promote their own. If Rika and Kaori are champions everywhere, do you think the Japanese will still care about Medvedeva and Zagitova as much and even give them commercials? probably not, since they have their own to support. People are baffled why ISU and JSF don't appreciate Yuzu more given he is the cash cow, but from their POV, he wasn't the chosen cash cow they have wanted to create for the two Olympics (that was clearly Patrick for Sochi and Nathan for PC), and for JSF, had he not showed up at the Olympics, Japanese men would have won gold anyways (and to the skater they prefer). To them, he is the anomaly that overthrew their original narratives. And given he is the anomaly, Yuzu acts in a way outside of their control and plans, so they actually don't know what to do with him.
  23. Correct me if I am wrong, but in most Nathan and Yuzu encounters - the winner of the SP end up wining the overall competition. Even when the person who lost the SP did a better FP, the judges don't let things turn around easily (e.g. GPF 2016, RoC 2017, and I will even say Worlds 2019 - had judges marked GOE/PCS appropriately and not wrongly call the UR, Yuzu could have won the FS at least). That's the impact of who the judges decided to be the first for a competition from the starting impression. And the main reason for Yuzu's excessively low GOE in Worlds 2017 because after the SP the judges decided Javi was the winner already - they were not ready for Yuzu to spoil that hence they held down his GOE to make room. Had Javi not bombed the FS who knows what crazy GOE and PCS they would have thrown out (the ones they did give were already crazy though). Which is why it is imperative for Yuzu to win the SP no matter what, as it almost decides the winner barring a complete meltdown from Nathan in the FS.
  24. Under the new rules, the BV difference between 4Lz and 4T isn't just the BV points, but also the inherent GOE scaling potential (which got widened by the +5 system). In other words, on paper, Yuzu's FS BV might only be 3 point less than Nathan, but under an all clean situation, due to 4Lz scales higher than 4T, the inherent BV difference is closer to 5 points. Add the fact the judges are clearly adding brownie PCS points for successful 4Lz, the difference is even greater. I think this is what Yuzu is referring to, that the inherent BV difference has been enlarged through GOE/PCS under the new system. I don't think Hanyu didn't realise he had to raise his BV to win until Worlds. That is why he added the 4Lz in the 17/18 season and was planning to add the 4A in 18/19 - he was never going to let Nathan run away with BV advantages but injury totally got in the way. Nathan is not the impetus for him to keep improving (as some NA fans like to claim), Yuzu has always been upping his technical arsenal every year long before Chen came. This season he was the only top skater to actually introduce something new - the 4T3A. I do think he held out a small hope that if he goes clean, his PCS will make it (since given his injuries, it wasn't possible to add BV prior to Worlds) - only to get the shock of how much the judges was willing to raise Nathan's PCS out of nowhere. Him participating in GPF wouldn't make a difference to BV or assisted in understanding the judging more because Nathan was a mess at GPF (he scored much lower than Hanyu's usual GPF scores & GP Helsinki). Honestly, if Yuzu hadn't been injured, barring some weird mental breakdown, he would have won GPF based on how other men fared. Him participating and winning though could have at least slowed down the PCS growth for Chen.
  25. JSF and fans of other skaters not accepting him doesn't equal the Japanese public - the Japanese public appreciates Yuzu very much , I mean the parades, the People's Honour awards, and the amount of people that comes to his defence when anyone try to spread negative things about him goes to show he has tremendous public support. there will always be the gossip shows and magazines - but these shows/magazines attack any celebrity in Japan, not just Yuzu (not to say some things could be commissioned by rivals' agencies...) As for JSF - we know they have preferred and conflicting interests related to other 'Japanese factions' affiliated skaters that cause them to treat Yuzu the way they do. Again nothing to do with the general public. And that very swimmer then went on Dancing with the stars to get a redemptive story by the US media Then you have the "I ,Tonya" movie whitewashing Harding for almost disabling another skater....
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