ユーリ!!! on ICE or Yuri!!! on ICE
Natively: 28
Summary
Yuuri Katsuki carried all of Japan’s hopes on his shoulders to win at the Gran Prix Finale ice skating competition, but suffered a crushing defeat. He returns home to Kyushu and half feels like he wants to retire, and half feels like he wants to continue ice skating. Suddenly the five-time consecutive world championship ice skater Victor Nikiforov appears before him with Yuri Plisetsky, a young Russian figure skater who is already defeating his seniors. Victor and both Yuris take up the challenge on an unprecedented Gran Prix series.
Availability
Just Watch
Amazon blue ray and dvd
Personal Opinion
Besides the fact I love ice skating and sports anime, the characters in this anime are human, touching and a funny. The story might have a little cute BL in it too
Also, it’s the first time in my life watching an anime I’ve understood for real why animation was really important. Here it’s stunning : Mappa did it (before the whole JJK season 2 scandal), and each ice skater has his own style, all is fluid and magical
Pros and Cons
Pros
- A ballet of strong emotions
- The animation is divine
- Yuri and Victor (the main characters)
Cons
- Might be a little difficult in comparison in what we’ve already watched.
- Should be useful to make a sheet on ice skating vocabulary? (even if some figures have the english names just adapted in japanese)
- I guess some of you have already seen it.