1 minute ago, axelnojutsu said:

Looking all peaceful and stuff.. Meanwhile he's probably listening to ONE OK ROCK (or Koi dance)  

2 minutes ago, axelnojutsu said:

Looking all peaceful and stuff.. Meanwhile he's probably listening to ONE OK ROCK (or Koi dance)  

There's no way he's listening to koi dance. How can he resist the dance and meditate quietly? XD

Comment from Taisuke Goto of Asahi Shinbun:
“The drawing of Hanyu by the flower skater is so cute. According to Hanyu he was trying so hard to talk to Hanyu saying “Hello, hello.” Hanyu said “His hair was like Plushenko’s. Wish he’ll be a strong Russian skater.””

1 hour ago, yuzuangel said:

new costume is majorly gorgeous..

 

 

 

It does have the golden neck embroidery I'd hoped for from seeing some fanarts, but I wish the blue was deeper. But I'll take it!

8 minutes ago, sweetwater said:

Comment from Taisuke Goto of Asahi Shinbun:
“The drawing of Hanyu by the flower skater is so cute. According to Hanyu he was trying so hard to talk to Hanyu saying “Hello, hello.” Hanyu said “His hair was like Plushenko’s. Wish he’ll be a strong Russian skater.””

 

:DDDDDDDDDDDD

 

The kid got noticed by Hanyu-senpai, I hope he knows about this!!  

35 minutes ago, sweetwater said:

Another article from Asahi
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASKBN4V5NKBNUTQP013.html

 

Rough translation:

It seemed that there were big mistakes, but Hanyu was smiling. After his performance, when a flower boy said “Hello, hello” to him he responded to him saying “Thank you.” 

The opening 4Lo was UR-ed. 4T was beautiful but he fell on the 3T right after it.

“There was no problem with the form and the axis of the 4Lo,”  Hanyu says. On the fall after the 3T he calmly analyzed that he was perplexed for a moment thinking that he might have been too slow to put his hands up to do Rippon.

In official practice, he often fell/popped jumps, and each time he analyzed his own movement and tried to fix it. While some skaters are having trouble adjusting themselves to the ice condition, he says “it has become easier to jump after 3 days.”

Hanyu often checks the place he took off after he attempts a jump. According to Hideo Sugita who has rich experience as an international judge and has been seeing Hanyu since his childhood, he is “checking the trace (created by his edges.)” Even if he jumps in the same way, the trace changes according to the hardness of the ice. So he checks his own trace and adjusts the way he jumps.

Hanyu is good at self-correction. “I feel frustrated and still have my stamina left. It wasn’t bad failure.” He got a feel to improve his jump more. 

how much should i pay to get yuzu talk in detail about his analyzing process on his jumps? like, full on technical.... it probably wont benefit him to reveal all his secrets while he's still competing tho  but damn i want.... (that video about analyzing his gpf 2015 seimei was wondeful, i just need more)

6 minutes ago, xeyra said:

 

It does have the golden neck embroidery I'd hoped for from seeing some fanarts, but I wish the blue was deeper. But I'll take it!

 

Does that look like the sun to you at all or am I totally imagining it? But it has these little squiggles that go down from the collar itself so I keep getting reminded of rays of sun. 
And Japan and all so I just can't lose the association. 

In this picture, he really looks like the sun shining in the blue sky

Yulia's commentary!

 

Spoiler

 

 

Losing the gold inserts makes the body of the costume hang better- it's better on the collar.

 

 

4 minutes ago, sweetwater said:

In this picture, he really looks like the sun shining in the blue sky

a skating god

 

7 minutes ago, sweetwater said:

In this picture, he really looks like the sun shining in the blue sky

I really like the gold collar. Look at him smiling. I can't be sad when he looks like this after. 

2 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

 

 

Too adorable!!