I kinda expected that the first figure skating anime would be about girls, full-blown shoujo.
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That skating is really popular in Japan is a good thing because today, Japanese animation isn't in a pretty place. Finances are tough so they stick to things they know can sell. FS popularity will help there in terms of getting bigger funds perhaps so I'm hopeful in terms of a quality 12 episode, first season run. Anything past that then depends on the sales.
How to put this? While there is the usual bishonen factor and of course people watch it for the sport too, there is also the Yaoi factor, big time, these days. Basically fans can pair up the guys as they want and have fun with it. Since you watch Haikyuu!! type Kagehina in the Twitter search box and you'll have your eyes opened That's not enough of course, Haikyuu!! is being written by a man who used to play volleyball and has excellent plot and high realism (for an anime) so as a package, it's a perfect deal. For me, ideally, we'd get that type of thing for Yuri!!! and it seems possible, considering how far they've gone to just make the pitch for it.
I smell yaoi :dev3:
Did anyone here say YAOI?
Ahhh, I must confess I'm no stranger to the yaoi factor, there's a good number of (mostly manga) yaoi titles under my belt, and how can I forget how I shipped the Hikaru no Go characters from my fledling anime days,<snip> or Yuzu/Javi bromance coupled with all the eyecandy, they'll have that audience covered.
I hope no. :noshake: I think no :think: normaly in the press realease is specified if it is a yaoi. But I´m sure fans will have many fanfics.
Me too!How do you think I know so much? Everyone shipped Hikaru and Akira, everyone!
Thank you!Welcome to GS, aynia!
And this one is Daisuki Takahashi being animated. Will it be a part of the show or not?
Well, reviving the thread with some BTS stuff, since I'm actually really excited about this one.
Here we have a 3A being animated . I thought it looked really fine, let's see how they translate it to the screen.
And this one is Daisuki Takahashi being animated. Will it be a part of the show or not?
And now here we have some awesome costume designs.
And I think one of my favorites of the batch: study of the quad flip.
The jumps look very realistic, if a bit prodigious with those tight rotations.
Why do I look at Yuri Plisetsky and think of Yulia Lipnitskaya?:noshake: