Everyone Stop And Look What YOI Animation Director Noriko Ito Gifted Us With Today

To me, the craziest thing about this panel isn't the extremely charged handshake, nor the intense eye contact, but rather the perspective.

Furudate is really good at toying with perspective to convey the story's motifs and themes. Here, thanks to the perspective, it looks like the net is above Hinata and Kageyama, when in fact it isn't that tall. In fact, I know it's right between them. But with the way this panel was drawn, it looks like they're facing each other with an unobstructed view.

The imagery here is clear: it doesn't matter that they're on opposite sides of the net now, there's nothing keeping them apart anymore. They stand on even ground, on equal footing, face to face.

Translation of the “looooong” comments made by Yuzuru during the press conference after the FS at NHK Trophy 2015  (by Sophie Moroi. “For the benefit of time, I have only translated Yuzuru’s answers, omitting answers from other skaters, sorry…”)

Original in Japanese: http://sports.yahoo.co.jp/

Q1)  What is your current feeling after the FS? Yuzuru: To be honest, I am rather delirious myself and am not sure what to say.  I am just simply very happy.  I also would like to express my appreciation to all those who have supported me so far.  [Meanwhile,] this is neither the Pyeongchang Olympics nor the following Olympics.   This is not my last competition, either.  I would like to make further efforts everyday, much harder, in order to make a performance that remains in your heart, regardless of scores.  

Q2)   Mr. Hanyu, how were you feeling as you nailed all the jumps one by one, and what was your emotion at the end of your programme? Yuzuru: At any rate, I wanted to land each jump in a careful manner.  I suppose everybody was really surprised by the final score, as much as I am.  To be honest, [probably] the performance was good but I cannot actually feel it; anyway, I am filled with indescribable emotion.  I feel as if I am floating.  As regards FS, not all the jumps were perfectly clean; and not all the elements including spins and steps were absolutely beautiful.  I performed each and every element by inserting my feeling into it, believing in my practice so far and my body.  I was able to feel the cheering voices and zealous eyes of the audience, whenever I nailed one jump.  While we are not on the other side of the TV, I was able to hear voices of hearts that I shouldn’t be able to hear in reality; I had a feeling that I was receiving power from all over Japan and the world.

Q3) Questions to all three skaters.  At the NHK trophy [this time], all the skaters challenged a quad for both SP and FS, for the first time in the figure-skating history.  There were a total of 25 quads, which means that one skater jumped 2 quads on average.  In the future, particularly towards the Pyeongchang Olympics, what kind of jumps and how many do you think will be required?

Yuzuru: My lutz are not as stable as Boyang’s.  I have landed 4Lz only once just by accident.  I cannot nail either 4Lz or 4Lo with the same quality of Boyang’s quads.  I have actually tried 4A several times, but neither succeeded in landing nor completing sufficient rotations. Then, if you ask me how many quads will be necessary in the future, I don’t know, either.  My memory of Olympics is not very certain, but I have a feeling that the figure-skating generation changes every Olympics.  The most impressive one for me is the Olympics at Salt Lake City; half of the skaters or all the skaters above 10th place were landing high-quality quads.  At Vancouver, on the contrary, Mr. Evan Lysacek, who didn’t have any quad, won the gold. If being asked which was correct and which was wrong, be it in Salt Lake City, Torino, or Vancouver, I would suppose that all are correct.  To be sure, there were heated discussions in the figure-skating world at the Vancouver Olympics as to whether it was OK for not trying quads, or whether Mr. Evan Lysacek deserves a gold.  Amid such debates which didn’t necessarily produce any “correct answer”, almost half of the skaters at the Sochi Olympics challenged quad(s) and fought the competitions. In fact, I myself am surprised to hear that all the skaters [at NHK] challenged quad(s).  However, the question is not only whether you jump a quad, but also you have to make a clean landing.  Only by achieving a clean landing can you get good points.  The base value of a 3A and that of a quad have no more difference than 2 points.  This means that, if you nail a clean 3A, obtaining GOE + 2 or 3, then you will get a higher point than a quad.  So, quite bluntly, as was the case for the Vancouver Olympics, if you get GOE +3 for all the jumps, then you could potentially win even without a quad.  That’s the rule of figure-skating, as I understand. Having said that, I have challenged a total of 5 quads including short.  That’s because my best weapon, I believe, is to try [several] quads, challenge more difficult entries and exits, and land a 3A, which is the nearest jump to a quad, with a high quality sufficient to obtain a point similar to a quad.   Also, there will be many other new skaters in the future. What I felt this time is that Mr. Boyang made a wonderful performance, including quads in the second half both in SF and FS, despite the fact that he has just moved from junior to senior.  I feel like we are witnessing the future of figure-skating, but at the same time that is not the only solution.  I also would like to try my absolute best and practice harder, aiming at more difficult quads and quads with higher quality.  

— After very short comments from Boyang and Mura —-

[MC: I am afraid we have already run out of time.  So, the press-conference is now over.]

Yuzuru: I AM AWFULLY SORRY FOR TALKING SO LOOOOONG!!!!

Translated by Sophie Moroi on YH international Fan Group on FB 

(gif: nonchan1023)

Update: video of a news programme on this.  At the end, Yuzu went to the interpreter to apologise for giving him so much work to do. ^^

does anyone know pieces for one percussion and one piano? ahh it would be great if anyone could tell me some :)

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Yuzuru Hanyu @ Echoes of Life 2025

Final shows in Tokyo

Photos by Hochi News

I think it’s common knowledge that in the Falsettos proshot, in the Thrill of First Love interlude, you can hear Christian say something to Andrew and they both laugh. What I DON’T think is common knowledge is that what he was saying was “I’m gonna f*ck you over camera 2”.

mike faist in the west side story trailer

he’s going to be the best riff ever

Magnus is the fruity and Alex is the edge. Don't fight me cuz I know you can't

EVERY Frame Matters

300 Artists, 300 Frames and a shared love for Good Omens and it's characters. We came together and created an animation of the kiss from S2. Here is the result:

@neil-gaiman

To get a better look at EVERY frame and artist, feel free to check out the project website here!

EVERY Frame Matters is a project organized by @dotswithbrainrot and @tsutsuya

Words cannot express this picture’s perfection