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Happy new year to all! Lovely

Ahhh, I want Yuzu to skate to some dark energy song in the future! I think he'd be an awesome evil character. Just think about his "ehehehe" when he is trolling everyone. Something like the 'When you're evil' song by Voltaire, that has that fun vibe! Where is that tag for the wishlist of songs for Yuzu to consider for skating?

I was there for both 2019 GPF and 2022, the difference was huge. Even during weekend, it was barely half-full this time, as compared to long waits in lines and many security checks during 2019 when the venue was totally full. If I remember correctly, even for the practices there were more people in 2019 than in 2022 for the actual competition (even though they had Memola, the home favourite, competing!). Although I agree, that Yuzu's presence would likely fill the venue up, I think the added absence of Russian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese fan groups is what clinched it. These made up a lot of the audience in the past at least 6 years, from what I have seen. So the covid and war situations are a factor.

so happy for Mone, such a good representation of Sendai I was also amazed that her videos on the FujiTV YT channel are doing better numbers/views than Kaori and Mai

I have been to Japan many times and have foreigner friends living and working there - one of them is working as a Salesman and told me that Japanese people are big on good quality brands, especially in the city/workplace. To the point that you basically have to have your work clothes be some of the luxury brands otherwise you are a bit looked down upon. I would assume the same goes for Yuzu - his t-shirts are Emporio Armani and so on.

That's amazing! I visited Ise shrine during my first visit to Japan 10 years ago. It is indeed a deeply impressive place where you feel the spiritual energy in the whole area. We saw many expensive cars in the area of the village, near the entrance - apparently a lot of Japanese higher ups tend to visit this shrine often.

In the spirit of sharing videos we rewatch, I love this one... It's justa practice to a fun piece of music, I think this would make a great gala program for him

Dropping Rino's free skate here, because it was phenomenal. I also noticed how joyful she looks, what an opposite picture than what we have seen with many ladies lately.

Mone Chiba (who is, if I remember correctly, from Sendai Ice Rink and played with Yuzu when she was a little munchkin) just won the Junior Women at Challenge Cup. Hope to see her rising through the ranks going forward.

Wow, major Czech media is continuing the Kamila doping/Eteri army issue discussion even after Olys: https://wave.rozhlas.cz/zdrcujici-pripad-valijevove-je-posledni-kapka-krasobrusleni-potrebuje-zasadni-8689881?player=on This is in Czech, so for those who are interested, the discussion is around the moment of Kamila's free skate and the culmination of all the issues with FS, Rusfed, Eteri and the disgust it created in all viewers of Olys. FS is not that popular in recent years (maybe past 10y) in Czech, so you don't see any articles and media coverage popping up in major media unless there is a major win from Czech figureskater or there is a huge scandal. It's surprising to see this continued attention and discussion even after Olys ended.

Whoever made this nice compilation of Yuzu Oly moments is spot on with the Titanic music & Bing Dwen Dwen This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

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All the fanart and tributes coming out after Olys for Yuzuru...wholesome

Oh, I do think he'd go for it in any case. But from my observation, results for Japan are very high on his priority list, so having a solid back up on the team would alleviate some of his concerns, I imagine.

Nice Shoma - Yuzu moment This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].