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EP. REVIEW: Yuri!!! on Ice

It is in fact improbable/impossible that the skating sequences are rotoscoped because, as explained more in detail [url=http://iwillbeyourhands.tumblr.com/post/151495858582/as-a-long-time-figure-skating-fan-I've-been]here[/url], Victor's routine is just slightly beyond what can currently be achieved in figure skating

Gabriella, you should probably pick one between 'Yuri', 'Yuuri' and 'Yurii'. Just saying it might help for a smoother read.

The spellings makes sense to me if we break their names down:
Japanese Yuri is spelt Yuuri in Katakana.
Russian Yuri is spelt Yurii in Cyrillic. Of course sister Mari renamed Yurii P. as Yurio in the second episode: let's see if that sticks.

I honestly don't understand what everyone sees in this series. It reads like a bad fanfic. If I had to compare it to any series, it gives me a vibe of Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, certainly not a deep and meaningful story. May be my expectations were too high when everyone has hailed it to be a contender for the aoy, I expected that it may become something that can rival Rakugo Shinjuu in terms of the interpersonal relationships, but I honestly don't see it.

You compare it to Free, I honestly think that Free is much better both in terms of the plot, in terms of the characters, and in terms of knowing what it wanted to be. It had potential, sure, but it just jumped right off of the cliff when they decided to have Nikifrov force himself into Katsuki's life instead of meeting on the equal ground. I like BL, I like fanservice, I certainly do not appreciate five innuendos per second that this series is trying to force. How awesome would it have been if instead of beating us over the head with "lol, sex", we actually would have stayed in Nikifrov's head for a bit? At least building on the moment on where he sees the video, doubting himself, conversing with other people about it. So that we actually could see what exactly he sees in Katsuki so far, getting a moment of "woah" that would be apparent even if they didn't state "you are skating to a song called Eros", and then this would have lead him to actually react like an adequate human being and admit his attraction? Would that have been so hard?

All the characters are little more than caricatures at this moment, no motivation, no soul. It may change later, but there is nothing to build on right now.

I hate all the fat-shaming that these two episodes have done (hopefully they got it out of their system), I hate the fact that they call Nikifrov and Plisetsky by their full first name - media is one thing, but no one uses them in private (well, may be Nikifrov, since he is older and in a mentor role of some kind, but Plisetsky would certainly be called Yura). I hate the occasional broken English that they force in, just because there are "foreigners" in the series. Either go all the way, or let us pretend that all of them speak in such a way that they understand each other.

It has good pedigree, it has good art, nice skating, but overall, it is just sickening to watch. Again, may be it is me. But it could have been so much more than what it is.