

He chooses two pieces for the skaters, both with the same melody but with a different meaning. Victor, having forgotten about his promise to Yuri P., makes the two Yuris compete against each other to decide who he will coach. if he won the Junior World Championships. Victor had promised he would choreograph a routine specifically for Yuri P. Īfter learning about Victor's career decision, Yuri Plisetsky, a rising 15-year-old Russian prodigy skater, travels to Hasetsu to make Victor keep a promise made prior to the beginning of the series. It is later revealed that Victor was already familiar with Yuri, having met him before at a banquet where Yuri got drunk and asked Victor to be his coach. When secretly recorded footage of Yuri's performance is uploaded to the internet, it catches Victor's attention, and he travels to Kyushu with an offer to coach Yuri and revive his figure-skating career. Yuri visits his childhood friend, Yuko, at an ice rink (Ice Castle Hasetsu) and perfectly mimics an advanced skating routine performed by his idol, Russian figure skating champion Victor Nikiforov. See also: List of Yuri on Ice characters and List of Yuri on Ice episodesĪfter a crushing defeat in the Grand Prix Final and other competition losses, 23-year-old Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki develops mixed feelings about skating and puts his career on hold he returns to his hometown of Hasetsu in Kyushu after 5 years abroad. Others criticized its depiction for being unrealistic, and of visual censorship that arguably makes it ambiguous to some viewers. Yuri on Ice has raised discussion concerning its depiction of a same-sex relationship between its protagonists, with some critics praising its depiction of anxiety, its covering of homosexuality in a way that differs from most anime and manga such as the yaoi genre, and for dealing with homosexuality in a country and sport that has present-day issues with homophobia.
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It also attracted praise from professional figure skaters, with some skaters in the 2018 Winter Olympics performing to music from the show.
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It was popular on social media outlets such as Tumblr, Sina Weibo and Twitter, where it received over a million more tweets than the next most-talked about anime series in the season it was broadcast.
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It was the eighth-most successful media franchise in Japan for 2017, had the second-highest combined Blu-ray and DVD sales of any anime in Japan for 2017, and had the highest combined sales for a TV anime that year. 1 on the Oricon Animation Blu-ray disc and Animation DVD disc rankings respectively. In Japan, the series was released in six parts on Blu-ray and DVD, with all the releases coming No.

It won three awards at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival, a Japan Character Award, seven awards in Crunchyroll's inaugural Anime Awards, and in 2019 was named by the website's editorial team as one of the top 25 anime of the 2010s. Yuri on Ice has been well received in Japan. take part in the Figure Skating Grand Prix, with Victor acting as coach to Yuri K. The series revolves around the relationships between Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki his idol, Russian figure-skating champion Victor Nikiforov and up-and-coming Russian skater Yuri Plisetsky as Yuri K. A Yuri on Ice feature film, Ice Adolescence, was originally planned for release in 2019, but has been delayed to a later date. The series premiered on Octoand ended on December 22, 2016, with a total of 12 episodes. The figure skating was choreographed by Kenji Miyamoto, who also performed routines himself which were recorded and used as skating sound effects. Character designs were handled by Tadashi Hiramatsu, and its music was composed by Taro Umebayashi and Taku Matsushiba. The series was produced by MAPPA, directed and written by Sayo Yamamoto with original scripts by Mitsurō Kubo under the chief direction of Jun Shishido. Yuri on Ice ( Japanese: ユーリ!!! on ICE) is a Japanese sports anime television series about figure skating.
