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Tbh Hakuyuzu deserved better camerawork but the costume looked gorgeous and he looked not of this world I need the Osaka performance too, and the upcoming Yokohama too! And imma rewatch this and GIFT Eta: LOL so not only he can change hairstyle &costume in 2minutes, he also self-appointed himself as emergency hairstylist for everyone else too?

My gosh....that felt too short and yet timeless....out of time and space

I'm getting an only slightly attenuated version of my Yuzu competition nerves LOL

I'm getting nervous for Yuzuru's appearance 😅 Why am I getting this nervous?

Second half started Still find this is a rather dull Bond number...

Resurfacing time now

Starry on twitch

Seems to me that they improved the lighting!

This time I made room to watch the stream (Yuzu better not troll me, I wanna see HakuYuzu) In other news, I found some Dr. Pepper to try...and Yuzu, I love many things of you, but your beverage preferences ain't it😅 that drink tasted exactly as I suspected it would from the description I found, should have listened to my instincts instead of my fanyu curiosity

for once, I don't care about camera angle because Yuzu OP looked very sharp and cool may be my favourite op to date (also love audience excitement, they're so me!) (watch me eat back my words about camerawork when it's time of Yuzuru's new mystery program) happy to see Oshu giving such a warm welcome to skaters and all the fans who travelled for the show Tohoku is always so warm

Cried buckets on the 11th, cried more buckets now 😭 Truly such a heart wrenching, wonderful, heartfelt show. So much that calling it a "show" doesn't make it justice

Thankful for the ending, feels healing after such a raw performance

This Haru-chan...so painful 😭😭

Notte Stellata is such a wonderful show all around 🥺🥺🥰

OMGOMGOMG CONQUEST OF PARADISE OMG

I hadn't watched Violetta's whole program, it was lovely kinda wish she'd get invited to FaOI too👀

After two touching, emotional performance by Rika Hongo and Mura, Shae-Lynn with something lighter. I like this alternance too. So carefully thought out and executed!

I LOVE Notte Stellata Both the program and the show Very emotional Yuzu🥺

My gosh, his ice tracing are so mesmerising... he's hypnotizing And that delayed 1A? A jumps can really move your heart My gosh Now the opening. So beautiful too

OMG this! the moment I saw him go for that and then execute the rest of the second half jumps, I thought that he finally he got to skate the layout he envisioned whoa, so wouldn't that be considered like false addvertising then? since they promised 30minutes and people subscribed for that promise.... I want to try those chocopies, they look yummy🤤 maybe I could do them myself...but I'm too lazy tbh I'm not really expecting Yuzu to switch around programs, but imma wait.... that short opening choreo left me wanting for a new Yuzu x Jeff program isn't it funny how Yuzuru's choices in hindsight are not only always poignant but also feel kind of "obvious"? like, this time with POTO, how were we not able to see all those connections? we need to up our Prediction game

I saw this and realized only now that the arena for Osaka leg of SOI is linked to Towa. I wonder if that factored in Yuzu choosing to take part in SOI or he simply can't stay away from performing for us by the way...my gosh, that this POTO was also NHK14 throwback makes it even more special... he really making new and happier memories to overcome the sad ones

probably he was wondering if it was ok to do "our" traditional closing, in a show where technically he isn't the one doing the honors... he got us used to such higher level closing&greetings, that you notice that only when in SOI you're left waiting for something that you don't quite get XD Nevermind his own self-produced shows where the final greetings are always so touching and emotional, even FaOI is just another level, not only because it has an actual proper ending number +all additional shenanigans, but also there Yuzu is clearly acting as the Host (with Makabe's blessing), so even the moment of skaters leaving the ice is lovely and we get our "closure" with the traditional Arigatou pics, pics! and vids of course! this is where SOI wins over FaOI traditional 1st day gatekeeping!

gosh SOI closing number is so...lowkey? underwhelming? not even Zuzu can salvage the non-existence of it it was a lot better in SOI21 tbh

Who was expecting POTO??? not me

"tradition" is white or tan boots for women, black for men. iirc Sonja Henie popularized white boots back in the days and since then they became a must. tbh with skirt&tights white looks much better than black, black would look too "heavy".... tho I usually prefer when they cover boots with tights anyway, and when in general boots match with the rest of the outfit I also prefer when men use boot cover (or maybe I0m just too used to Yuzuru's style)