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ritsukageyamas · 1 month

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i don't know how many people here on tumblr have seen this thread on twitter/x, where leaks from someone who claimed to be in a position to know about ice adolescence and what had happened to it several years ago were finally made public today, but since all we've been given from MAPPA is that the movie was cancelled due to "various circumstances" and no one else associated with it has given us any concrete info, i'm personally choosing to believe this leaker. their stated reasoning of the movie being left to die because of "LGBT issues" and concerns about chinese/russian distribution sadly lines up all too well with the fact that this always, always happens to queer media. whenever it seems like progress is being made, with creators fighting to get beautiful queer stories told, the people in power do everything they can to ruin it and the world just feels like it goes backwards. if what's being said in this thread is true (and really, even if it isn't and there's actually a completely different reason that iceado was canned) then i feel heartbroken for sayo yamamoto, mitsuro kubo, and everyone else who fought for viktor and yuuri's story to be told and who tried their hardest to get this movie made. they deserved so much better than for this to happen.

#posting this so late in the day idk if anyone will even see it but oh well #yuri on ice #yoi #yuri!!! on ice #ice adolescence #iceado

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mykatsudon · 2 years

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My thoughts on Yuri On Ice and where it went

So I’ve been wanting to properly articulate what I feel is off about the Iceado production and how abnormal it is, what I think could be happening and my reasoning. So far I’ve only posted about these feelings on asks, replies and discord but I want to expand on them in writing. This is kinda long so I apologize in advance. Feel free to send me asks or reply to this post with your opinion.

First of all. Anime is a product and a property, and as such, it is usually milked until it no longer produces enough money to be profitable for the studio.

Yuri on ice was a total best seller, It trended #1 every Wednesday on both Tumblr and twitter. Episode 7 crashed Tumblr. They have a huge international audience, which is something that is so valuable.

The first 2 years after YOI ended we had had all sorts of events. Collaborations, pop ups, the live stage, all sorts of merchandise etc..

Please. just read this bit on the popularity and success of YOI ( X )

with that in mind,

what in the hell happened?

Here’s the two train of thoughts I see a lot in asks/replies:

It’s a “focusing on other bigger projects” kind of issue

It’s an LGBTQ censoring issue

Here’s why I think it’s neither of those two:

focusing on other bigger projects is the most popular theory and the one that honestly makes more sense. yoi being put on pause to produce the money cows JJK, AOT, CSM, and Vinland saga. It makes sense except for the fact that they still found the time to animate 12 episodes of a relatively obscure Ballet manga, Dance Dance Danseur. which already finished airing and despite being a MAPPA property, it wasn’t very popular online. Why take the chance to order 12 episodes from DDD and not Yuri on ice? which if you read the link I placed earlier had impressive statistics. This exact fact leads me to believe it's not a time or focus issue.

If LGBTQ censoring was the issue, we wouldn't have BL animes coming out every year, and since Yuri on ice came out we’ve had quite a bit of BL animes and movies, for example: Given, the clouds gather, Given the movie, Sasaki to miyano, Umibe no étranger, Yes Ka No Hanbun Ka, sankaku mado, and a bunch more including live actions.

and you might say “but yoi is not tagged BL so it could be censored” well, just a year after Yuri on ice aired Banana fish, a Mappa property, had a full on screen kiss between the main two characters. and that wasn’t tagged BL either. Y*richin B*tch cl*b got an anime adaptation and it doesn’t get more explicit than that so no. While I’m not claiming censoring doesn’t exist in anime, the laws aren’t a strict regime as some people make it seem. Implying the whole project got scrapped because of the main gay relationship is beyond unlikely. I don't think anyone could possibly deny that Yuri and Victor’s relationship was by far the biggest selling point of yuri on ice; the audience knows it, the creators know it, the producers know it.

So what is it?

I present my leading theory... simple yet I find it quite likely...

Creative differences and doubts about where to take the story.

what do Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on titan, Chainsaw man, Dance Dance Danseur, Vinland saga, and hell’s paradise have in common?

they’re all manga adaptations.

Yuri on ice is an original story through and through. Thought up by the wonderful minds of Kubo Mitsuro and Sayo Yamamoto. Yuri on ice has been both the last anime they’ve worked on so far since 2016.

The thing about Yuri on ice is that the story, by virtue of being so original in it’s plot and setting, deviated heavily from the usual money-making structure of your average sports anime.

The characters were not teenagers in high school

A major plot point is that both of the main characters are nearing the end of their careers.

the story wraps and by the 12 episode mark you’ve already been to a bunch of competitions that in other sports anime would’ve taken seasons. EX: Kuroko no basket, haikyuu, slam dunk

Most important character arcs are resolved.

Main conflict in the series is resolved. Victor and Yuri get together.

The truth is, Yuri on ice is a series that really wraps up neatly. where can you go from there? go through competitions all over again until Yuri wins gold? when we’ve already stablished that Victor loves Yuri for who he is and will stay no matter what? what would be the point of that? Have Viktor keep being a playboy celebrity when already his search for live & love was resolved?

There is a danger of falling into the same story beats and a season 2 would have to be carefully constructed. Where do you take this franchise?

I used to not understand why they opted for a prequel movie instead of a season 2. Now that I look at this decision from a different perspective and while I do not personally agree with it, I can totally understand it.

Going forward with this original series is difficult, and I can tell the writers Sayo & Kubo care a great deal for their creation. The way YOI is so carefully structured shows that so much thought and care went into it. seriously, have you ever thought about how much detail, narrative, interaction, and character arcs YOI manages to have in just 12 episodes? it’s quite impressive. this is a project that they had no idea would get green lit for a second season and they knew the studio was taking a chance on them with this original series so they were incredibly concise as to have it end as neatly as possible.

but that “see you next level” was a promise to an eager fandom.

Back to why I think creative differences and testing the waters as to where to take the story is what’s happening:

In January 2019 an Ice Adolescence teaser was shown in Japan only, in complete exclusiveness. the people who saw it weren’t allowed to record it so they talked about it in great detail on twitter. For more than a year, this very same teaser was kept from the international audience until it dropped on YouTube on November 2020. According to the people who saw it in the exclusive screening nothing had been changed or added, it was the very same. So why the long wait? It’s like there is an uncertainty as to where to take the project and if it should continue in the same direction. “Let’s give it a year and see if we’re still on track with the current story”

To be honest, there have been many times where I’ve genuinely believed the project has been dropped. I know there are franchises that take longer to produce, look at Evangelion’s last movie, it took like 9 years to be made. As I was reading on the story of EVA 3.0 + 1.0 and why it took so long to be made when Eva is a well stablished money making franchise, I learned that Hideaki Anno, the creator, developed severe burnout and had to take a break, he was undecided on where to take the story and other people who worked with him in the project left the studio.

Since I am a yoi blog, and I’m always scanning the tag, replies, twitter, reddit, I see that a lot of discussion surrounding Iceado always seems to point to the fact that people believe this is studio meddling. What happened to Hideki and EVA could’ve happened to yoi. That even a huge property like EVA took 10 years because the creator was not comfortable, and did not want to continue just yet points to the weight the creator holds. I believe that if it were up to mappa, given how much money yoi made them, we would've had yuri on ice season 3 by now. But no, this is ultimately Sayo and Kubo’s child and I strongly believe that if we do not have something by now, it’s because something is taking place between these two, perhaps burn out, perhaps creative differences, or perhaps they seriously just need lots of time to think this one through. Even though it’s hard sometimes because I love this franchise, I want to trust Kubo and Sayo as I did before. I want to trust they’ll deliver a product that is good, and campy, and fun, and deep and sometimes heartbreaking. I will wait until I can see this through

#sorry for the wait!#I actually cut a big chunk of this post and might have to put it in a part two... whoops #I get carried away when I write :(#Yuri on ice #yoi #iceado #ice adolescence

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yukichan-official · 4 months

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Yuri!!! on Ice is a Japanese figure skating anime series produced by MAPPA. Directed by Sayo Yamamoto, script written by Mitsuro Kubo, character design by Tadashi Hiramatsu, music by Taro Umebayashi and Taku Matsushiba, figure skating choreography by Kenji Miyamoto.

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#bl manhwa #yaoi love #yaoi recommendation

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rikeijo · 2 years

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Translations of some old stuff... #1

I've got my hands on some cool interviews from 2016/2017 recently, so I thought I start doing some translations… (while waiting for IceAdo, so prolly I have all eternity...)

YoI was sooo popular in 2016/2017 but when I was looking for translations after I watched the show for the first time, I haven't really found that many (I suppose a lot was deleted over the years…)

Yuri!!! on stage pamphlet. Short comments from Mitsuro Kubo about all characters who appear in the event's story:

Part 1.

Katsuki Yuuri

The character of Katsuki Yuuri, previously still vague, solidified in the scene in episode 4 when he touches Victor's hair whorl. That scene is also one, where I managed to express an idea I've had in my head for a very long time - I wanted to show something like a moment not connected to the main story, when their relationship changes, but not in a logical way. The same thing can be said about the scene in the last episode when, even though Victor is crying, Yuuri pushes aside his fringe and says "So you cry too!" - Yuuri has this very primal (原始的) characteristic of putting his own curiosity first before feelings of the other person, that's a desire he can't suppress. I think it was our intention to use this characteristic to make the viewers expect that he is surely going to act in a way they cannot predict. Throughout the series, Yuuri's character was shaped by misleading the audience to think they know Yuuri's personality and then showing them in each episode that they were not right about him. That's why the character turned out to be much more complex that we thought he would be in the first episode and I think the viewers can sense that the creators had a lot of fun writing him. We sometimes say that the characters are acting on their own, but in this case I think we were writing the character while being bossed around by him.

#yuri on ice #yuri on ice translation #yoi translations #yuuri katsuki

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nerdiertides · 1 month

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'Yuri!!! on Ice the Movie' canceled 7 years after being announced

(Featured Image Source: Mappa / Crunchyroll) It’s a sad day for fans waiting for more Yuri!!! on Ice, as the highly anticipated movie, YURI!!! on Ice the Movie: Ice Adolescence, has been canceled, with the news announced on X (formerly known as Twitter) by production company MAPPA. MAPPA via @yurionice_PR YURI!!! on Ice is an anime series created by Sayo Yamamoto and Mitsuro Kubo. It is the…

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#Anime #Movie #Yuri on Ice #Yuri!!! on Ice

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leweebdepoche · 2 years

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FREE! (Sport/High School) 2013-2018 - 37 episodes (3 seasons)

Rating: 10/10

If like Haru, you were born in the wrong body and are in fact a mermaid at heart, you will love Free! Certainly spending more time in the bathtub than on land, Haru swears by two things: water, and freedom. Competition is not his thing, even though he is one of the best. Something his friend Rin can't accept. Frustrated by his own ambition, which leads him to major difficulties that he does not always manage to overcome, the sultry Rin finds it hard to understand that his friend is not the least bit interested in competition. However, what Haru wants more than anything else is to swim with Rin... He, therefore, finds it hard to understand why Rin rejects him so much when he is doing everything possible to have a peaceful relationship with him. But human feelings are more difficult than they seem, especially when it comes to a very emotional young teenager. The competition that brings them together and against each other doesn't make things any easier.

A swimming anime at first glance, Free! is actually a beautiful story of friendship between 5 teenagers. Learning the difficult reality of the world of sports sometimes at their expense, it is also their life paths that we follow through this anime. Developing beautiful complicity marked by a deep feeling towards swimming that brings them all together, Free! is a beautiful adventure to live with friends.

You'll have a great time remembering your memories together. Rediscover the importance of friendship in your life journey, and feel the gratitude of having friends around to take care of you. Between gentle warmth and emotional outpourings, you won't regret starting Free! So grab your fins, dive in, and watch the mermaids with Haru and Rin. Don't forget to open your eyes wide open behind your goggles...

YURI!!! ON ICE (Sport) 2016 - 12 episodes

Sayo Yamamoto/Mitsuro Kubo

Rating: 10/10

You don't fear the cold and admire these magical dancers who twirl around on the ice doing incredible acrobatics? Then Yuri!!! on ICE is for you! Yuri Katsuki wants to quit figure skating when Victor, a famous skater, falls in love with his style after watching a video of the young man that went viral. Devoting all his energy to bringing their new pupil up to speed, the duo flies to the top in this beautiful story of sport and love.

This anime takes you into the mysteries of figure skating and is also a beautiful vision of sport and the open-mindedness that high-level competition brings. Meeting different cultures and personalities, Yurii!!! on ICE will make you want to skate alongside them. As sentimental as it is athletic, you will love Victor's joyful eccentricity and Yuri's perseverance. With a good balance between competition and sentimentality, you will appreciate above all Victor and Yuri's wonderful relationship that develops throughout the episodes, as they compete in skating. While Yuri learns to perfect his art, Victor learns to become a worthy coach for his student. A combination of great storytelling and fine art, Yuri!!! on ICE is a superb discovery for all skating, dancing, and art lovers. Enjoy these emotional moments on your couch, and don't be afraid to experience intense moments of sport with Yuri and Victor. Let yourself be trained, and dream awake with stars in your eyes because on the ice, we are all shining!

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harrypotterhousequotes · 6 years

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GRYFFINDOR: "You have to do the opposite of what people expect. How else will you surprise them?" –Mitsurō Kubo (Victor Nikiforov: Yuri!!! On Ice)

#harry potter #house quotes #gryffindor #yuri!!! on ice #victor nikiforov #mitsuro kubo #hphq

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victuri-onice · 6 years

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Happy Birthday Yuri!! ♥️ Kubo sensei just posted this for Yuri’s birthday ^_^

Expect another photo soon! She posted this: Happy birthday 勝生勇利さん!!! Now I am home, Please wait for new celebration illustration...(This illustration was drawn before the start of broadcasting in 2016)

#Yuri Katsuki #yuuri Katsuki #Yuri on ice #Yuri!!! on ice #yuuri on ice #yoi #official #Birthday #Ice skating #anime #Victor Nikiforov #viktor Nikiforov #mitsuro kubo

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norangelll · 7 years

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Commission Open!!!

If you want to commission me, please just ask!!! ♡ ～(‘▽^人)

Yuri!!! On WAR pt.4 Otabek Altin from Yuri on ice. __________________ GUYS!!!!!! DID YOU SEE THE SPOILERS OF THE SPECIAL CHARACTER (welcome to the madness)!!!!?????? OMG!!! OHHH BOYYYY!!! I'M FANGIRLING!!! *dying*

HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!

#Otabek Altin #otabek #yuri on ice #welcome to the madness #Yuri!!! on Ice #otayurio #fanart #my art #illustration #design #kubo sensei #Mitsuro Kubo #ユーリ!!! on ICE #ユーリ on ICE #otabek x yurio #otayuri #ユーリオンアイス #photoshop #painttoolsai

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yoimerchandise · 7 years

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YOI x Yuri!!! on STAGE Event Clear Files, Brochure, Lightstick, & T-Shirt

Original Release Date: April 29th, 2017

Featured Characters (16 Total): Makkachin, Viktor, Yuuri, Yuri, Otabek, Christophe, Emil, Georgi, Guang Hong, JJ, Leo, Michele, Minami, Nishigori, Phichit, Seung Gil

Highlights: (To see the lightstick in action, check out this post!)

Exclusively sold at the April event, the clear files split up the characters in the main visual (Seen in the sixth photo above). Nishigori even makes a rare appearance as his seiyuu, Fukuyama Jun, attended the event!

The brochure is really beautiful, with interviews and great photo sets of all the male seiyuu other than Hosoya Yoshimasa (Otabek) and Miyano Mamoru (JJ), who did not attend the event. I mainly took shots of the main trio (Toyonaga Toshiyuki, Uchiyama Kouki, Suwabe Junichi) and Kubo’s pages for this post, but I also wanted to highlight Hatano Wataru (Georgi)’s page, because as the YOI ED singer as well, his photos and autograph are all quite funny XD

Update (October 9th, 2017): Added the official event t-shirt featuring Makkachin!

Leo & Guang Hong’s seiyuu, Toki Shunichi and Honjou Yuutaro, also got cute photos together!

More from the Yuri!!! on STAGE event!

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ecassandrae · 7 years

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Me, getting home tired, sweaty, hungry, angry: there's no point in living

Tumblr: YOI's Welcome to the Madness leaks

Me: guess I'll live though

#Kubo is my saviour #I'd have long given up if not for her #arigatou #Yuri on ice #you #welcome to the Madness #otabek Altin #Yuri plisetzky #yurio #mitsuro kubo

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rikeijo · 2 years

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Today's translation #2

Yuri!!! on stage pamphlet.

Short comments from Mitsuro Kubo about all characters who appear in the event's story:

Part 2.

Victor Nikiforov

Just as it was with Yuuri, I couldn't fully grasp Victor's personality in episode 1, and so his character also solidified over time as I was writing the show. Beginning with the scene in episode 4 when he told Yuuri "I'm not going to hold back" during their conversation on the beach, and then when he was "really hurt" after Yuuri touched his hair whorl, little by little the underlying kindness Victor possesses started to show up more, as even though he had no idea what Yuuri was really thinking, he wanted to get to know Yuuri better and Yuuri to get to know him better too. Actually, I also thought the fact that even staff members couldn't fully comprehend Victor's actions made him all the more charming. Because his actions were impossible to comprehend, the audience too has been watching the show without being able to form any strong assumptions about him and the sense of insecurity you've been getting while watching him was probably also a sign that you started to like the character... I've created Victor by trying my best to draw a cool and beautiful human being. I don't think however, that he could ever be mine. Yuuri also feels this way, but in Yuuri's case he was able to form a very strong connection with Victor thanks to skating. I was writing the show while thinking that I'd like the audience to enjoy the feeling that in every episode, together with Yuuri, they too get to meet Victor they've never seen before, as the relationship between Yuuri and Victor is forming - relationship that was only possible because Yuuri had skating as an excuse [免罪符, it means something like "get-out-of-jail-free card" - funny word choice, but Mitsurou really pushes here the idea that Victor was way out of Yuuri's league. ]

Yuri Plisetsky

In case of Yurio, his character as well as character design were very clear from the very beginning. He was very easy to write. He is my favorite type of character and based on my experience I was sure he's going to be popular. He is the type of a side character, who can outshine even the main character in terms of popularity, so I was careful not to make him "angsty" by e.g. giving him a tragic past or making him have a difficult family situation. With Yurio I didn't want his character to be someone who gets popular because people feel sorry for him, so I gave him family and coaches, as well as new friends, and wanted to show his strength by making him achieve even greater success while being in a relatively good place emotionally. I think I've managed to use the basic manga trope of writing about a strength of found family instead of real family without focusing on the tragic aspects of this trope.

#yuri on ice #yoi translations #yuri plisetsky #victor nikiforov

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vitkyas-blog · 7 years

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Back then,

“Why did Viktor cut his hair?”

was the question

Yuuri asked Vicchan,

repeatedly.

Based on “Incomplete” bc of @nikyforov‘s fault.

#victuuri #yuri on ice #yoi #viktor nikiforov #viktor #katsuki yuuri #makkachin #lil makkachin #young viktor #mappa #Mitsuro Kubo #myart

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iateyourwaffles · 7 years

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Yuuri: Victor, where did you put my skates?

Victor: Up your ass.

Yuuri: What?

Victor: What?

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victuri-onice · 7 years

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GUYS KUBO SENSEI POSTED THIS SCREENSHOT ON HER TWITTER AND IT LINKED TO THE INSTAGRAM OF THE PERSON WHO UPLOADED IT. NOW I CAN’T SPEAK RUSSIAN SO I USED THE TRANSLATE TOOL TO TRANSLATE IT AND FUCKING LOOK WHAT IT TRANSLATED TO:

CAN SOMEONE WHO IS RUSSIAN PLEASE CONFIRM TO ME THAT WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THEM BEING THERE FOR THE SECOND SEASON IS TRUE!? I AM LITERALLY DEAD HERE.

PLEASE TELL ME IT IS TRUE ABOUT SEASON TWO!!!!

#FUCK #FUCKING FUCK #I AM DEAD #yuri on ice #yuuri on ice #yuri!!! on ice #yuuri!!! on ice #yoi #yuri katsuki #victor nikiforov #yuri plisetsky #season 2 #season two #official #????#mitsurou kubo #kubo sensei #mitsuro kubo #twitter

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yuri-on-ice-ruined-my-life · 7 years

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Can we take a moment to appreciate the new official art for a minute here?

So we have these three cuties all together, hanging out, eating potstickers. Acting like a family.

And here we have VICTOR FEEDING YUURI A FREAKIN’ POTSTICKER.

AND YURIO IS JUST LIKE

LIKE SERIOUSLY, I’M JUST HERE TRYING TO EAT MY POTSTICKER, AND YOU JUST FUCKIN’ DISRESPECTED ME.

I JUST LOVE THESE THREE SOO MUCH WORDS CANNOT EVEN EXPLAIN.

#yuri!!! on ice #yuri on ice #official art #scan not mines #victor nikiforov #yuri plisetsky #yuri katsuki #yuuri katsuki #ユーリ!!! on ice #ユーリ・プリセツキー #ヴィクトル・ニキフォロフ #victuuri #勝生勇利 #victuri #I just cant with these three #love them soo much #omg I need help #mitsuro kubo #sayo yamamoto

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