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Thank you! I really didn’t realize that the choice was to devour the creature in the game while I was watching. This is super helpful.

Hey folks, still reeling a bit from last night in Saitama, can I ask if any kind international fan grabbed bits of the English translation on Beyond Live? I purchased the archive but because I was at the show I didn’t get to watch and archive doesn’t start until the 14th and I am hoping to get more of a gist of what he talked about before tonight’s show and the rescreening on Monday but there’s so much news and I am running on fumes due to excitement.

I believe Yuzu started doing only one program at FaoI summer of 2017. This is just speculation but another fan and I had talked about this once. After Sochi he won the Sochi Olympics he skated in a lot of ice shows that summer - his way of “giving back” for the support he received. As some of you know he started the following season not in his best condition having to skip Finlandia Trophy, and then of course Cup of China happened at his first competition. Then 2015 FaoI he was still doing 2 programs but 2015/2016 season he suffered a lisfranc ligament injury and had to sit out FaoI and we didn’t see him after Worlds until Media Day in Septembe (which usually happened around August). Any way, our speculation was that after seasons with injury and suboptimal season starting condition Yuzu started doing only one program per show in 2017, and it was the summer before Olympic season which is important for all skaters to make sure they remain healthy. He’s Olympic champ so he probably has some sway with Makabe given how much of the show rides on him (they operated with loss in 2016 when he had to skip). Back in the day FaoI sometimes even did 2 shows in a single day which is pretty tough for any skater. The only other skater this half of the tour that didn’t skate 2 programs (that I noticed) was Kaori. I haven’t finished watching the first half of the tour yet so I’m not sure if this holds but I think any skater or pair part of the main cast (booked for all shows on tour) usually skates 2 programs per show - with exception of Yuzu. Some of the other skaters will also skate 2 programs and usually an exhibition program of their choice and an artist collaboration. I think Papadakis and Cizeron this year got to skate 2 of their own programs and didn’t do a collab.

Hi fellow fans, I’m sure some of his are just getting our copies of Elle and checking out our postcards. Anyone interested in a swap thread for international fans? I got a couple duplicates and am missing one to round out my collection, would love to trade with someone within the country (international shipping was so brutal for the heavy magazines).

Anyone else have issues with Zaiko buffering constantly at 1080p? Stream was fine waiting for the show to begin but now it’s constantly pausing to buffer every few seconds. I can’t tell if it’s my connection or there’s just problems with people tuning in all at once.

Oh no! Did you try a different browser and make sure your VPN was on initially? App is difficult to download even with VPN on since it’s Japan only (I worked around it once by using VPN and downloading file from computer and transferring to android phone to load it). I did refresh the page a few times as it got close to show time and eventually the image turns into a playable live video. Maybe Zaiko would be easier.

Uh oh some issues during the stream at the start of Kaori (folks tuning back in??) and poor thing tripped, something up with the ice? Satoko seemed to have issues too.

Satoko I think was fine for me on FOD but it did have a minor issue during Rinka where my picture froze but the audio still kept going. It’s happened 3-4 times for me since the start.

Thanks (in all honesty there’s probably some issues with my own internet connection at times). I think I may try Zaiko tomorrow and see if it works a bit better. Assuming it’s also commentary free like FOD is? Since this venue is so small I think the cameras must be placed pretty close to the rink, the angles and view seem very close to the rink.

I can confirm FOD works with foreign credit cards and with a decent VPN. I’m using Nord VPN, as long as you start the stream with the VPN on and don’t exit the video your video will continue to play with FOD (I’m doing this right now). I can’t find my receipt in email but it was 2999 JPY on FOD. Zaiko seems to be easier to purchase (and won’t need use of VPN at all supposedly) but it seems to cost a little more. If you use a foreign credit card they charge a 2% service fee. PayPal is 300 JPY surcharge, but WeChatPay and I think AliPay is only 100 JPY surcharge. Not sure if anyone else is using FOD but I had some lag at the start of the show right after Yuzu came on (quality went from pretty good, to low, to pretty bad for a good 30 sec). I’m curious if the Zaiko/Lawson stream is the same views and if they had any issues. I can’t tell if it’s my own connection trying to play catch up or if it’s the FOD stream as there aren’t any video quality controls (it’s all automatic).

Thank you both, mine says Live right now too and it's also looks like some tv drama (but has been commercials for a fair number of minutes now). It's now showing Prologue as next since it expands and shows the full title

For those of you using JapanTV app, is this the right channel? For some reason I don't see the show listed. I had the worst time trying to find TV-Asahi Ch2 for Yokohama and I think I have it right this time, but for some reason I don't see it on the schedule at all.

I gotta say the female singer (Harumi?) is one of the better live singers FaoI has had.

Happy birthday, Yuzu! I wish you health and happiness after you've given so much to everyone else. I look forward to when we can watch you skate on ice again and hope you're making progress in your recovery.

Yeah I’m assuming if you’re vaccinated now Canada doesn’t require you to quarantine on arrival, but Japan still does (though it was imposed on their own athletes but not international athletes for some reason). I assume most of the Japanese skaters are now vaccinated since the JSF said they were planning to vaccinate them ahead of the GP. I assume this is why Yuzu may have agreed to do more of his typical work recently (Frau, 24 HR, DOI) which hopefully means he’s also getting physio care. I think someone was looking at his legs in the behind-the-scenes footage for SOI