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After seeing the olympics today, I realized if Yuzuru really went for it, to compete at Milano, he would've even gotten Olympic Gold... which is very shocking. I realized Olympics really is unpredictable and that Yuzuru really is the GOAT, he can perform under Olympic pressure. It's both shocking and kind of sad that Yuzuru stayed out of this olympic cycle.. I would have loved seeing him compete one more time... but I guess that boat has now fully sailed, because Yuzuru will be 35 by the time next olympic comes...

Is 2023 the last time that Yuzu visited TCC? And here I was thinking that he would visit every year, now that Covid is over... I guess David Wilson comes to Japan to do his chores for his ice shows? I heard Brian say that Yuzu has a Canadian apartment and that the Pooh tissue case was there (Yahoo news interview).

Hello everyone. It's that time of the year when we all miss Yuzu a little more than usual. This is the first winter Olympics without Yuzu since 2014, and it feels more than a decade ago when I fell in love with a new superstar in Sochi... I can't believe it's been 4 years since Beijing! It was his last olympics but I had hope that he would comeback for a season or two, because he said in the press conference that he didn't rule out the next Olympics... Although we don't get to see him compete ever again, I am glad he is still skating in ice shows. I just wanted to rant about how much more I miss him during these winter Olympics.. the media hype around his airport arrival, the Twitter frenzy around his practices, the prayer circles on Twitter.. most of all I miss the fans and their energy during this time. Although we have Ilia, and I do like him, the fan community around him doesn't feel quite the same.. I will forever miss the days as a Yuzu fan especially during the golden era of 2014 ~ 2019. The year before Corona was still so entertaining for us, because he was doing all the grand prix events. I feel Corona kind of ruined the momentum of Yuzu's competitive career and it was sad to see his last competition end that way.. without the crowd and pooh bears. Figure skating will never be the same in my heart after 2019.

Thank you I have some catching up to do! I signed up to Yuzuru's YouTube Membership and now I can listen to his 1 hour membership radios! I'm surprised there are only about 6 though hahahaha I was hoping for 1 radio per month

Where can I watch the past ice shows Prologue Gift Repray ??? Do they sell DVD on Amazon???

Where can I see the translations of Yuzu's YouTube Membership rant videos? I clicked in the Twitter links and I can't see the comments? Are his membership video rants translated on this site too?

Hi. It's almost been 3 years since Beijing Olympics. 3 years without competitive Yuzu has been kind of boring but I met my husband during that time and a lot has changed. I can't believe that next year will be the first winter Olympics without Yuzu because 2014 Sochi Olympics was my first winter Olympics watching men's figure skating. Life has just not been the same without Yuzu competing and I have lost interest in men's figure skating and figure skating in general. Are you looking forward to next year's winter Olympics? I think Yuzu might be going there as an announcer or reporter 🤔 Because he is still a big part of Japan figure skating culture. That is the only place where I will see Yuzu in a competing ice rink and I hope they invite him to the olympic Gala, if that's possible? Is it?

The identity of Yuzu's wife was spilled by ice show staff and crew 🤦‍♂️ https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/44f95f0430672d26f3167a6a5846364806e7a8f8

Does anyone have the statistics or examples of athletes who unretired after marriage to feed their new family? Or to just unretire due to change of emotions?

She has bad quite a bad reputation for sexually harassing Yuzu on her personal instagram.. most likely it is not her. Her character and personality is ... should we say not very ladylike.

I agree with your post! I see some face palm comments about him being gay on tiktok and Twitter even after his marriage announcement... facepalm 😓🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ He's been talking about his ideal girl for a long time. Even when he was a Junior he said he liked kawaii (cute looking) girls instead of bijin (pretty) girls. (The interview was at his ice rink when he was a Junior after he won Jr Worlds and they also asked the same quiz to Murakami Kanako). He said in this same interview he finds Horikita Maki (Japanese actress) attractive and his ideal type. But there was a big section of fans who chose to ignore all his interviews for a long time. Even with Oda, he said he wanted to marry a wife around 25/26 and when Oda said he will be a good papa, Yuzu said "yes!". (Faoi backstage interview) So I think the honest part of the fandom knew for a long time he would be marrying a girl 😉

Wow！ I haven't been stanning Yuzu since he retired. Just snippets every few months or so, I would retweet some tweets. But oh my God! Him marrying is going to make me stan him even more from now. He seemed like such a family person and his marriage just confirmed it! He's going to be a great role model for families in Japan And now he has someone other than his mum who can cook and clean and support him through his skating journey. I hope he does come back for a season to compete, with a new passion from romance and family in his personal life! Alot of athletes unretire after marriage for various reasons 😃 But even if he doesn't, I'm still gonna support him

Also I wonder if Yuzu has any plans to hire a Japanese coach for his pro skating practices? I heard some pro skaters still train under coaches to get tips and such. Are there any good figure skating coaches in Japan nowadays?

Please post move this post to team korea. It is inappropriate on a Yuzuru chat thread

The best thing I've heard all week. I bet their premium and all other seat ticket prices will drop heavily once they realize no one really wants to see their "Quad King" and "Quad God" in person. Legends are made from the people, not with fake scores. I hope ISU learns that quick.

Same! Like learning yoga (like how yuzu said he was getting into stretching exercises I want to become more flexible), learning Japanese, being more active outside and developing other interests besides competitive figure skating actually sounds so much more exciting now that I don't have any figure skating competitions to look forward to. It's a bright new chapter for everyone.

I think it's a wonderful opportunity time for Yuzu and us to develop new interests outside of competitive figure skating as a whole. I found it cute that Yuzu was now into dancing and pop dance and I bet his interests in games and animal farm and such will have more time and space to be explored in deeper detail. I hope Yuzu finds even more interests outside of figure skating and has time to travel once Covid is over, eat whatever he wants and meet whom ever he wants and just have fun. Now that Yuzu is is gone from competition, I am also starting a new chapter in my life from a FS fan (I got into him when I was at school) to exploring new interests and fandom outside the FS community. Maybe I should also try animal farm like Yuzu? Lol

I also think we should record the live judging. Like actually record the judges with their face and what scores they press for what element they are watching. Live Camera Surveillance is needed in ISU judging, in my opinion.

Haha I agree. Our job as fanyus is to not give lots of money to ISU now that Yuzu is out and give ISU the cold shoulder. It's what they deserve for what they did. Whilst also supporting Yuzu and just waiting patiently for whatever he wants to do next whether it be a competition comeback or just ice shows.

Agree with you. I feel we may never know the future especially Yuzuru. He is very unpredictable in the good sense. It's pointless for us fans to speculate that this will be his final retirement or what not. His mind doesn't work like the rest. I just hope he is mentally and physically well rested for a long time for now.

I did understand all of the Yuzuru Special with Matsuoka, Oda and Arakawa San and here are some snippet translations I found cute. 1. Yuzu and P Chiddy used to not speak to each other, but on P Chiddy's last official practice, he asked Yuzu how he skates so well, and P Chiddy was all smiley smiley when talking about skating skills during their last practice together 2. Yuzu wants the go anywhere door so he can rest in his room or practice until the last minute on his own rink before competitions or ice shows 3. Yuzu recently realized 2015 GPF seimei, was when he as acting as himself, not the character from the movie. 4. Yuzu is recently into stretching exercises. I can't translate everything as I need to sleep, but what I felt once I finished watching this was. I have a feeling this man loves figure skating and competitions too much to be away from it in the long run. I think what he needs is a long mental rest. Away from competitions, away from scores, away from ISU. His clear passion for the athletic side of figure skating and for competitions itself may return, because he clearly is so passionate about it (I'd like to translate everything if I had the time). After this interview, it made me sort of believe he might really compete again, but only if and when that fire returns. But I am beginning to think even Yuzu needs a long time to rest mentally away from all that before he feels like competing again. If he doesn't comeback, and my intuition is wrong, then that's even better. I want him to be away from these ISU clown show forever. But I just feel everything he said tonight, the passion and clear love he has for the athletic side of figure skating is not dead.

I sometimes wish Yuzu was just honest with how the judging has been so corrupted against him in the last quad. 😕 I really do believe ISU and their blatant push for Nathan and underscoring Yuzu partly drove Yuzu to early retirement and mental breakdown. Sure it's not all their fault that Yuzu is retiring early, but it sure is partly their fault. They definitely played a part in messing with Yuzu's psych over the last 4 years. It was so horrible to watch. I sometimes wish Yuzu should have gone into a non artistic sport like swimming races and such, where objective results trump out everything else. His personality would have fitted such sports too.

Am I crazy if I have hopes of Yuzu becoming the voice actor for an anime adaptation of his life? I mean, a Figure skating anime inspired by Yuzu's life would be epic 😎

He might publish another autobiography, as athletes do after retirement. Maybe we will know the full story then. Many including myself were taken aback by the sudden retirement. Yuzu said he didn't rule out Milano Olympics in Beijing. But Yuzu did say after he came back from olympics, he thought it through. So in the course of 5 months he probably did alot of thinking and decided it was best for him to retire. I'm on board with anything now, I've fully accepted his retirement and I want him to rest and live his life in freedom. I guess we will never be able to see a skater like him in competition for a long time... so I am recently developing new interests to help myself from this withdrawal symptom. Alot of Fanyus said they will leave the sport once Yuzu retires, and I think I will too. I don't care who wins Worlds or GPF in men's anymore now that Yuzu is gone. My passion for men's figure skating died when Yuzu retired..

I just want Yuzu to start his own YouTube channel and upload his skating there. It will probably have more views than the current ISU competition by far. I wonder if Yuzu thinks about becoming a YouTuber as in a real proper one... I think it will be the best place for fans outside of FS community to see his skating.. Now that he is retired I will literally be on board with anything he's gonna show us, from game YouTube to unboxing earphones to binge eating on gyoza or whatever.