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His interview on Makuhari D1 DeepL translate: Yuzu: Oh, that was fun! Q: How do you feel after completing your first fantasy in three years? Yuzu: Well, it's only the first show, but I've already put out a lot of myself. I really enjoyed skating, and I was able to feel the passion of Suga Shikao-san who sang for us. Q: You mentioned that you could feel the passion of the audience at the fantasy. Yuzu: It was hard to believe that it was the first time, there were so many claps, and I could feel that everyone was really looking forward to Fantasy on Ice. Q: Looking back on today's performance, the scene where you bathed in water was very impressive. Yuzu: Well, I'm not used to it yet and there might be some parts that are a little awkward, but I hope I will be able to do it again in a novel way. Q: I really felt a sense of unity in the show. How do you feel about that? Yuzu: There are many members who have skated together as Fantasy on Ice members for a long time, and of course there are new members, so I feel like we are a family of Fantasy on Ice. Q: Fantasy continues tomorrow and the day after, what kind of performance do you want to show? Yuzu: Well, I will really give my best every day, and I will improve my level day by day, and I hope to make the best program with Mr. Suga again. Thank you very much.

the reaction of the audience is so funny, I can't help laughing

CFanyu will do livestream

yes, I'm pretty sure Japan TV standard will have this! It is shown in the schedule already, see: https://imgur.com/a/V4FUTjT (it is HK local time shown in my capscreen, the program will start 18:56 JPN local time)

Forecast of today's TV Asahi https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20220723-2406496/ 18:56～ JPN local time Japanese DeepL translation of selected paragraphs: ... In the studio, Shuzo Matsuoka, Shizuka Arakawa, Nobunari Oda, and Shigeo Takahashi (Savannah), who know Hanyu well, will join the program, which can only be realized by TV Asahi, which has been following Hanyu for over 10 years and has a vast amount of footage of him. The program will also feature "verification" and "character study" of Hanyu's "never-ending challenges" in his athletic career. The program will also take an in-depth look at his philosophy behind his way of life, his essence as an athlete and expressive person, and his thoughts on his quadruple axel, which he put everything on the line to challenge. At the beginning of the program, he confides about his decision, "I have not been able to talk to Mr. Oda and other people close to me, so I felt really sorry for everyone," he says, "Now I am filled with feelings of 'Thank you' to everyone. I will start from there! Hanyu revealed his feelings toward his new start. In the program, whenever a rare video of his performances or interviews from the past is shown, Hanyu himself gives a live report on his feelings and secret episodes from that time. Hanyu will talk in detail about facts known only to himself, such as the ultimate program "Parisian Walkway" shown at the Sochi Olympics, the free skating performance he forced himself to do despite being seriously injured in a collision during official practice, the world's best program "SEIMEI," and how he felt during various phases of the program, etc. In addition, Hanyu introduced a series of photos of his quadruple axel jump at the Beijing Olympics, which he says "is the best axel jump in my life," on a large panel. Hanyu himself will analyze the reason why he fell on the landing and explain it in an easy-to-understand manner, while also demonstrating. How will Hanyu analyze his jumps? In addition, we will also delve deeper into Hanyu's true personality, which is not well known. When we asked for questions and messages on the program, we received more than 25,000 messages of encouragement. What do you want in Doraemon's secret tools? What was your most nerve-wracking competition? What is your favorite Sendai dialect? Hanyu himself answered questions from fans around the world. Hanyu also made a surprising statement, "I am a person whose motivation just goes down," and "Now, in a way, I feel like I am having an affair. TV Asahi's camera also caught Hanyu in action, and we asked him about it. The reason for touching Pooh before his performance, the true meaning of his behavior of suddenly stopping and putting his hands together during practice, and the intention of his pose of touching the ground after his free skate performance at the Pyeongchang Olympics are revealed. In addition, Javier Fernandez will also appear on the VTR to reveal the reason for Hanyu's tears at the PyeongChang Olympics awards ceremony. Matsuoka, who has interviewed Hanyu more than 30 times and exchanged private letters with him, has built a strong bond with Hanyu, which is why you can only hear what he has to say here. He also included a message to Hanyu from his greatest rival, Patrick Chan. At the end of the program, he said, "I was able to look back on my life with a lot of memories and feelings, and I thought about many things. I think I was able to make a new determination to 'move forward from now on!" Hanyu's eyes lit up as he said. Hanyu will also be presenting a "stroke of determination for the future.

羽生結弦の“素顔”深掘り「今、ある意味では浮気してるみたいなんです」 …メッセージを募集すると25,000通以上のエールが。「ドラえもんのひみつ道具で欲しいものは?」「一番緊張した大会は?」「よく使う仙台弁は?」など、世界中のファンから寄せられた質問に羽生が自ら回答 “Yuzuru Hanyu's "true face" is revealed: "Now, in a way, I feel like I'm having an affair" ... More than 25,000 messages were received. What do you want in Doraemon's secret tools? What was your most nerve-wracking competition? What is your favorite Sendai dialect? Hanyu himself answered these questions from fans around the world.” what is having an affair yuzu?

done

yes I think it's the first time we got the chance to see this program, I'm thrilled

good luck to them lol. I've never seen ISU's big plans working in reality.

I just watched haru in UA and my heart is now so soft

I have downloaded it, I can't believe they hid it for 18 years.

wow they hided it for so many years

And I get to understand why Yuzu was so angry in the press conference with people like Nikkan who publish his "retirement" news before the press con. Reports like that hurt his fans by faking his intention. Foreign media like to quote these "explosive" news and faked news spread like cancer.

Boss mushroom competing in Hong Kong

Still Chi-Eng by deepL, proof read by me Q: We interviewed Yuzuru Hanyu, who is embarking on a new path as a professional athlete, "Please use one word to express your determination for the future?" Yuzu: It's "羽" (wings, or feather). It's a bit embarrassed for using the kanji in my own name. But I think from now on I will be able to fly high. For example, I was a larva when I was little, and then I became a pupa, but I couldn't fly very well. It was really hard to go from pupa to moth, and until it dried, it hurts when the wind blew, and I couldn't flap my wings well when it was half dry. Now, at last, I am able to flap my wings like this. Next, I want to spread my wings well, and I want to use "羽" to express my determination for the future, with the idea that I want to fly solidly into the sky.

I think he is just calling for everyone's support and explain how important we are to him on his way chasing his dream. Not that he is forced to do 4A by us lol.

Translation of 220719 報道STATION Interview with Shuzo Matsuoka (TV Asahi) Chi-Eng by DeepL, proof read by me. Just for your quick reference before Jpn-Eng translation comes out Q: I think today you're different from usual. You are nervous. Yuzu: I was nervous because I don't know how people would take the news. People's understanding of "stepping back" is very different from mine so I don't know if I have fully conveyed this in my press conference. I am nervous. Q: Having reviewed the interviews of you so far, I was very impressed by your pursuit of victory and defeat (several interviews from the past were played), but this time you are stepping down from the stage of victory and defeat, can I understand in this way? Yuzu: No, I think it's not so much a step down but a step up from the stage of victory and defeat to the next stage. Although it's also “retirement” in some sense, but I'm happy that I'm stepping into the path from an amateur skater to a professional skater in a completely different mood. I may not be able to be compared with other skaters and compete in terms of scores, but I am always fighting with myself, comparing myself with my past self, fighting, and presenting myself like "see, I am better now". I will also keep fighting with everyone's expectations, and outperform them. I will continue skating with a strong will. Q: You just talked about competing with other skater. GPF in 2015 left me with a deep impression of winning and losing. Yuzu: At that time, it was more of a feeling of "going all out" than "wanting to win" or "wanting to make no mistakes." People had a lot of expectations of me, and they were looking forward to the performance that they want to see. Thanks to that, I was able to perform the way I did in the 2015 GPF. Q: So it's not like you're competing with others? Yuzu: I wasn't competing with others at that time. It was a time when my past self was scariest. Because I had exceeded 300 points for the first time in the previous competition, and then I immediately entered the next competition, and frankly, it wasn't easy to keep my body in shape for the next competition. Honestly, I don't have a lot of experience of no miss in both programs, and in fact, for figure skaters, how many times are there in their lives when they can have no miss in both programs? So I was really nervous about how to win over my past self from the last competition, and I was full of those thoughts at that time. Q: Maybe this question is a bit rude, I am an athlete, and when we talk about the limits, the limits of the body, including the ankle, there are various situations, how do you understand the “limits” this time? Yuzu: If you say it in tennis terms, I think this is not a professional tennis player's retirement. From a tennis point of view, it's a time when you move from being an amateur to a professional player. Q: Starting from now? Yuzu: Yes. Of course I worry about my ankle, but especially during these four years after the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, despite the injuries, I've grown so much. I've trained in so many different ways, I've learned so much, and I think I've actually improved and gotten better, and I think I can continue to improve, but of course, if you talk about explosive power etc., it's not the same as when I was in tens. But I'm still getting better, and I can still get better and better. You see tennis players who are still playing very well at the age of 40, right? I also find it hard to understand why there are no examples of skaters like that. I think I can do better in the future, and I honestly think so. Q: What about the mental limits? Yuzu: There were many times when my heart disappeared and I skated in a state of "nothing". I honestly will never forget the hardest time I had, although I don't want to talk about it. I couldn't eat and didn't want to eat at that time, but when I was skating, I want to pour all the things I wanted to perform, all the feelings I had, into figure skating. I was able to put my emotions into figure skating thanks to the foundation and technique I've been polishing since I was four years old. Of course there were a lot of frustrating times, but for me, performing and having people come to see me skating are happy after all. Although the journey so far has been very hard, there are also times when I have been told off along the way while I can't refute it, I think getting hurt because of such thing is the hardest. Q: At the Beijing Winter Olympics, I think the biggest charisma of your performance was that you showed your weaknesses and side of "unrewarded effort". I feel like you are showing a different side of Hanyu. Yuzu: Thanks to that, people think that there is such a side to even Yuzuru Hanyu, a very perfect person, and many people want to cheer for me. I think it's good from that point of view. In fact, I had no intention to participate in the (Beijing Winter) Olympics. I just wanted to jump 4A and then done. I took part in the Beijing Winter Olympics after all, and I challenged, I failed, I did not win the champion, and I had the idea that there was no reward for my efforts. But even so, many people supported me, and they feel something from my experience. There are a lot of people like this, and I have been supported by this until today. I also feel that I will continue to work hard and go forward together with everyone towards my dream as my goal. Q: You will continue challenging 4A? Yuzu: After all I fight hard to get to this point. I'm still in the middle of my journey, so I want to accomplish my dream together with everyone. It would be nice if it could so. Q: Not resting from tomorrow? Yuzu: I wasn't resting, I was still practicing late yesterday, and I was doing image training when I wasn't on the ice. Retreating gives a negative feeling and makes people feel lonely, but I'll get better next, so look forward to it! Q: Will you take a little break? Yuzu: I don't have this thought, on the contrary I'm thinking about what kind of performance I'm going to give next. I think this is the most crucial time. Of course I want to take care of my body and my heart, but I think everyone is most interested in what kind of Yuzuru Hanyu I'm going to be next. So I'm going to work hard. Q: Everyone wants to say "thank you for your hard work" and "thank you" to you. Yuzu: If people say "thank you for your hard work," I will feel a little bit regretful and resentful, and it feels like my thoughts are not conveyed to you. If you feel "so sad" "so lonely", then I will really feel a little resigned. I am in a very positive mood now, I hope that everyone can also look forward and fight with me. Q: Is it the feeling of graduation? Is it a new beginning? Yuzu: It is the "new beginning" that I talked to Shuzo-san when I was 16 years old, and now I am standing at the starting line.

Translation of 220719 FNN Live News α (Interview on Fuji Television) Chi-Eng by DeepL, proof read by me (just something quick for your reference before we have Jpn-Eng translation) Q: What was impressive about today's press conference was that you did not use the word "retirement" but emphasized that you would continue skating as a professional athlete. Why do you choose to use this expression? Yuzu: I have no intention of retreating. I don't feel like I'm leaving the athletic arena. I'm moving on to a new stage. I feel like I'm finally moving from amateur to professional, and it was with this intention that I held today's press conference, and it was with this strong feeling that I will continue skating in the future that I used this expression (not using the word "retire"). Q: I was able to feel your determination, and I felt that the press conference was full of hope and warmth, and that the decision was conveyed through your own words. What is your mood now? Yuzu: To be honest, I am also relieved now. I was very nervous and feel the difficulty to explain, because I am not a professional linguist. I thought a lot about what to do, and among the many words I thought about, I think I said what I could say. Q: I can feel your reassuring mood from your soft expression now. You said at the press conference that you had considered taking the next step (turning professional) in every competition after the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, how did your feelings change from then to now, that you made the decision? Yuzu: With the will to jump the 4A, I decided to continue to compete after the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. During this process, I went through times when I had bad ankle injury and was unable to practice. But 4A is not easy to jump, and I felt the difficulty of it deeply. I really practiced hard with the determination of jumping 4A in every next competition, but I never succeeded, and finally it lasted until the Beijing Winter Olympics. At the time of the Beijing Winter Olympics, I also challenged 4A, but of course I didn't succeed and didn't realize my dream. I felt that my efforts were not rewarded at that time, but now this dream is still going on. As long as this is everyone's expectation and dream for me, I would like to respond to these expectations and realize this dream. If a person like me can carry such a dream, I will do my best to fight for it. Q: Next, I would like to ask you about your athletic career and your plans for the future. It has been a very difficult competitive career, with injuries, earthquakes, and battles with illness. What has become the core of your heart on the road of figure skating? Yuzu: I've been thinking a lot about the meaning of skating and the meaning of my own existence lately, and I thought a lot about it when I prepare for the press conference and tried to think what kind of questions I would receive. Why do I want to skate and why could I fight as Yuzuru Hanyu? I realized that it was the expectation of the fans and the support and strength that everyone gave me that allowed me to continue skating. As well as the fact that I had good and bad times while skating, these became proof that I was alive, and these thoughts supported me to keep going. Q: Of course in your competitive career I think you are impressed with all your competitions, but if you had to pick one competition that represents Yuzuru Hanyu's skating and embodies what you are looking for, which competition would you think of? Yuzu: I would pick the free skate at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, where the theme of the program, or rather the title of the program, was "Hope&Legacy". All the jumps in the program were perfectly successful, all the performances were perfectly integrated with the music and the story, and the performance of this competition was something that I could feel deeply even for myself, and I would like to continue to produce this kind of performance. Q: You were fifth after the short program and won the competition despite missing over 10 points from first in the short program. Yuzu: I was very happy to get such a result, I really wanted to win, but in the end it is because of the strength of everyone who supported me. And this competition made me realize that I still have this kind of strength and can do such things, which made me gain confidence. Q: I was there at the Helsinki World Championships and interviewed you after the free skate, and you, who was always calm and collected, said you couldn't remember anything. I was impressed by the fact that you said you couldn't remember how the free skating was finished. Yuzu: At that time, I should have said "I entered a zone", like a flowing river, for example, like water flowing from a mountain into a river. It's like law of nature that the body moves subconsciously, and it's hard to get into that feeling, and in that sense it was a very impressive game for me. Q: Next, I would like to ask you about your future plans. At the press conference, you said that you still felt that there was room for you to improve, in which areas did you feel that? What specifically did you feel? Yuzu: Especially in the 4A, I will continue to challenge the limit in the future, so I feel that I still have room for improvement. To be honest, when I fell 4A at the Beijing Winter Olympics, I felt that this was the limit and that this was all I could do. But now that I've been through a lot and when I'm continuing to work on 4A, I've realized that I can still do better and practice better. So I feel like I can continue to challenge myself to be better for 4A and become more mature technically and improve on physical strength. Q: Does that mean we will be able to see your difficult jumps, including 4A, in the ice show? Yuzu: I am working hard with this intention. I may still be stuck in my intention, but I have shown my determination in front of everyone, and I have made it clear in my words that I will continue to challenge 4A. I will take responsibility and continue to work hard as a professional athlete in the future. Q: Then, please convey the opening statement of the second chapter of Yuzuru Hanyu to the fans who love you. Yuzu: First of all, I would like to thank all the fans who have been supporting me so far. Thank you very much. I will continue to evolve and take on many difficult challenges in the future, not forgetting the original intention of the challenge, and continue to fight together with everyone. I hope that you will continue to support me. Q: Thank you, and I will keep cheering for you in the future, ganbatte kudasai! Yuzu: Thank you, I will work hard!

Do we have full translation of his press conference and interviews on the planet yet? If no, maybe I should work on it. Thanks to Chinese fanyus' translation of full transcript, I learned what he wants to convey really fast and his resolutions really made me very happy. I was so happy that I can't hide my smiles walking on the street since the Independence Day.

TBH, before Yuzu, I have no interest in human being (I'm assuming Yuzu is human in this case, for the time being), even if they create arts that I really appreciate (music, movies, books, drawings etc.). "The next generation of skaters" are not even creating anything near art to start with, why on earth should I follow them I'm picky picky on human being, I want to tell him.

Don't be sad, he's just not visiting Sheffield, he's still using Sheffield's blades.

you can easily get a ticket if no yuzu, so absolutely no need to buy tickets 4 months before the competition, or fight for the front rows lol

(not) sadly I have canceled all my hotel bookings on our Independence Day.

Hong Kong Skating Union sharing photos of our beloved boss mushroom when he competed in Hong Kong This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

wow EC is so expensive, no wonder there are so many first-row seats left. Thanks for your information!