Beatrice

I have just sent an email with the following congrat pic: This is the smaller version; in the email I sent the original bigger one. (I hope it's not too big!)

Happy Anniversary to YuTune membership "It has been a wonderful 2 years" indeed. (I'm just four days short of 1-11-11.) As I cannot travel, "Menship radio" is the closest I will ever get to hear Yuzu's thoughts and words addressed directly to his faithful fans, creating a sort of special bond with us

@SuzyQ Thank you - thank you - thank you soooo much for your help !!! This is just what I was asking/hoping for The reason why I'm so obsessed with "Haru yo koi" of all programs : HYK at the 2019 WM gala was my very first "encounter of the third kind" with the amazing wonder called Yuzuru Hanyu - or as the German TV commentator called him: "Picasso on ice" ! I was instantly mesmerized ... and have remained in that state ever since Some gratuitous linguistic ramblings in the box below:

Thank you for the links, and the direction to your translation and the 'old' discussions from 2018 How I wish I had the time to read the entire "General Yuzuru Chat" thread from the very beginning --- so much for me to discover. Well, perhaps someday .... And thank you in advance for the oncoming part by part translation, but please take your time, no need to hurry for my sake, as I've said: it's not urgent. Also, the first verse - bridge - chorus will suffice (at least as for myself), 'coz I don't have the time right now to learn the rest of the Japanese lyrics. Thanks again in anticipation

Thank you for your reply. So my supposition was correct regarding kanji interpretation being the "culprit" Thank you for expending the effort for this extensive elucidation Now I think I comprehend it ... NOT ! That's why I don't even try to learn Japanese - besides, I'm way too old and also haven't got the time. But I regarded it as a point of honour for me to apply myself to learn the lyrics of the Japanese anthem (no, I don't mean SEIMEI ) --- so that I can sing "Kimigayo" with Yuzu in the medal ceremony videos of yore I've also learned the 1. verse and chorus of Yumi Matsutoya's "Haru yo koi" and now I can sing along to Takebe-san's piano rendition of it when I re_watch GIFT. (I love-love-love Kiyozuka-san's "Haru...", but it's not so useful to practice sing-along to that, because it contains the intro and the chorus, but not the verse and the bridge.) (I've also learnt the lyrics of "Notte stellata", but that was easy, coz I know a tiny little bit Italian.) ----- A plea to Japanese fellow Fanyus with some spare time on their hands - and it's not urgent: Could someone please take the "Haru..." lyrics I wrote in the box below and make a word-to-word translation? Not a grammatically correct translation, not a poetically beautiful one, not a machine translation (I've done that several times). I really mean one Japanese word to one English word (as far as it is possible), even if the compilation doesn't make sense in English. I'd really like to know what each Japanese word means when I sing them. I wrote the text in the box from memory, honestly, not copy-and-paste, hontoni ! I hope I haven't botched it with blatant blunders

Sorry to distract with a relatively unimportant quandary of mine, but I'm so curious: - Which is Miyahara-san's given name - Satoko or Tomoko ? I've seen both being used lately. Is it perhaps because of the different possibilities of reading the respective kanji and their translation ?? (Have to confess that I know very-very little about the Japanese language.) - Until now, I've only ever seen Mura-san's given name written/translated as "Takahito" - now suddenly it's Takato ! What happened to the "hi" syllable ?

Thank you so much for the translation Minor fun fact : The colour of Y's shirt was (almost) exactly the same as M's dress (considering the brighter lights in the TV-studio) --- by chance or by design or even collusion ?

Thank you so much for this compilation thread

I'm very sad to hear this sorrowful news. We will miss @Anni very much. May she rest in peace.

What devastating news ! We will miss Anni very much. May she rest in peace. Condolences to her family. Sending comforting hugs to you, Madita.

I hardly dare to intrude and interrupt the flow, but I simply have to express my heartfelt thanks for this thread - it's really great to have such a compilation of Yuzu's interviews. Thank you so much, @yuzurujenn

Yesterday I re_watched "RE_PRAY Miyagi" on Beyond LIVE for the last time (end of the archive viewing period ). I'd like to post some observations - beyond the following obvious ones (most of which have been valid from the very first show in November 2023 and even longer) like: - The show was great, and very interesting even for a non-gamer like me. - Yuzu's skating is exquisite and mesmerizing (as always ) - He is sooo adorable in the encore/goodbye section of the show. I was soooo happy for Yuzu that all the jumps were flawless in this last show - *G*O*A*T* What struck me in this last viewing even stronger than almost ever before: - Yuzu's musicality and sense of rhythm is *A*M*A*Z*I*N*G* !!! Every move/gesture, however small, is perfectly attuned to the notes/rhythm/cadence of the music - in every programme (but especially notable in Messenger..., Haku, Haru yo koi), and in the editing of the "Making-of/Behind the scenes" to the Rondo music (I'm making assumptions but I'd like to think that Yuzu has done the editing himself). - The little extra steps at the very beginning of "Haru yo koi" (one of my top fav programs) - I never saw/noticed this before. ---------------------------- And now I've got to get sth off my chest ... In all the years of being a fanyu, I've always been very happy to hear the many loud cheers and screams of the audience supporting and hailing Yuzu - he deserves every little bit of it, and more. I do apologize in advance if I inadvertently offend anyone ... but I have to confess that I found the repeated screams during the "Megalovania Intro" quite inappropriate and extremely annoying; they (almost) ruined my enjoyment of that part. Imo, the only sounds meant to be heard during the intro were supposed to be the stomps and scrapes of Yuzu's skates - no music, and also, imho, no noise/interruptions (hysterics, sorry!) from the audience. (I found myself shouting at my PC screen: "Shut up! Don't disturb him!") (I was wondering whether the one single Yuzu stomp after the spraying of the camera was an indication of his wish that the screaming may stop ?) Then, "to add insult to injury" as the saying goes, that laugh in the audience !!! What was that supposed to be about? What were they thinking? And finally, NO clapping, NO cheers at all at the end of the intro (before the music set in) !!! Huh? I really don't understand - that would have been the appropriate time for the audience to express its satisfaction with Yuzu's performance; I certainly would have been clapping at that point. Btw, I felt a similar but milder annoyance at the screams during "Danny Boy" (Notte stellata Day 1). Sorry for the long diatribe. Am I a "bad" fanyu for feeling this way ? If so, then please forgive me.

***************************************** Happy Anniversary, Planet Hanyu ! ***************************************** (I've already posted this yesterday in the special thread Planet Hanyu's Anniversary )

The archive of RE_PRAY Miyagi is still available to purchase on Beyond Live : https://beyondlive.com/contents/vod/376