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Yuzuru Hanyu ICE STORY 2nd 'RE_PRAY' TOUR - Saitama

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14 minutes ago, kiches said:

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 didn't grab the exact subtitles, but in the first part, he's talking about how much work and repetition goes into gaming ( and, I think, drawing some parallels with life). The English subtitles gave me the impression that he was speaking in terms of addiction, how you can lose yourself in the challenge of trying to complete levels. He reaches a point where he's offered a choice. Up til this point, the subtitles for the two halves of the show are very similar. 

 

Then, he's offered a choice in the game: to consume the life of small creature in order to 'power up' and get to the next level.

 

In the first half of the show, he chooses 'yes', consumes the creature, and the rest of the show til intermission depicts what happens along that path - is he a monster? Or merely a player trying to get ahead? And when he gets to the final challenge, can he succeed? 

 

In the second half, he chooses not to consume the life, saying he wants to protect all living things. The 'game' immediately plunges him into an oblivion so deep that he/his character calls out to God (he uses the word 'Kami-sama'... not sure  if it has the same connotations as the Christian use of the word 'God'). From that point on, the dialogue is  exploring questions re the meaning of existence. 

 

And by the time he got to HYK, I had lost track of the subtitles, sorry...😓

 

Anyway, that's a very rough gist. Hope it helps

47 minutes ago, rockstaryuzu said:

I didn't grab the exact subtitles, but in the first part, he's talking about how much work and repetition goes into gaming ( and, I think, drawing some parallels with life). The English subtitles gave me the impression that he was speaking in terms of addiction, how you can lose yourself in the challenge of trying to complete levels. He reaches a point where he's offered a choice. Up til this point, the subtitles for the two halves of the show are very similar. 

 

Then, he's offered a choice in the game: to consume the life of small creature in order to 'power up' and get to the next level.

 

In the first half of the show, he chooses 'yes', consumes the creature, and the rest of the show til intermission depicts what happens along that path - is he a monster? Or merely a player trying to get ahead? And when he gets to the final challenge, can he succeed? 

 

In the second half, he chooses not to consume the life, saying he wants to protect all living things. The 'game' immediately plunges him into an oblivion so deep that he/his character calls out to God (he uses the word 'Kami-sama'... not sure  if it has the same connotations as the Christian use of the word 'God'). From that point on, the dialogue is  exploring questions re the meaning of existence. 

 

And by the time he got to HYK, I had lost track of the subtitles, sorry...😓

 

Anyway, that's a very rough gist. Hope it helps

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. 

Yuzu's thought on his first solo ice show tour:

 

 

[NEWS]

 

It's a pity, that there is no livestream today.:( I hope Yuzu has a lot of fun. :tumblr_inline_n18qrbDQJn1qid2nw:

 

9 hours ago, kiches said:

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. 

There seems to be a good discussion of what is happening in the first half here. It’s in Japanese, but google translatable 

https://vitaminw.livedoor.blog/archives/53463938.html?continueFlag=61118081bb4007ba346881df33091fb2

Report from the 2. half

 

[NEWS]

 

That sounds like a good end to the first stage in Saitama.  Now we have to wait until the broadcast on 7th December. :popcorn: I'm already looking forward to it.

 

 

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