Championship,Sign : Let's Send the Power of Sports Throughout Japan! Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Figure Skating Championship
Y: Hello!
Y: I'm Katsuki Yuri, one of the top figure skaters certified by the JSF.
Y: My first competition this season is the Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Championship.
Y: I hear I'm the oldest of the four skating in the senior men's single division.
Age,Y: Age
Age,Y: Age
Age,Y: Age
Age,Y: Age
Anything but the first spot!
Not the first spot!
Staff: Skater Katsuki Yuri, you're up first.
Y: Not again...
Y: I have the most horrible luck of the draw.
Guy: Hey.
Y: It was the same in the last Nationals...
Y: Hm?
Minami: I got to see you draw the first spot in person again, Yuri-kun!
Minami: I love it!
Y: Um...
Minami: What, you don't remember me?
Minami: What a shock!
Staff: Next up is skater Minami.
M: Right here! I'm Minami Kenjiro!
Y: Who's he again?
M: Yay! I'm going fourth!
Sign : Fifth Skate Face Beet-Red!! It's the First Competition! The Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Championship
Y: Face Beet-Red!! It's the First Competition!
Y: The Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Championship.
V: We've timed him to peak at the Grand Prix Final, so this isn't a problem.
V: He can take it easy and earn a personal best score today!
Y: I think I've told you this many times, but in last year's Nationals, I bombed everything.
Y: They wondered if I was injured, but embarrassingly,
Y: nothing was physically wrong with me.
Y: I lost, despite being a top contender, because I was mentally weak.
V: Wow.
OkayamaRink,Sign : Okayama International Skate Rink
Y: I haven't been in a single competition since last year's Nationals.
V: Maccachin's cheering for you, too!
Y: I've been practicing with Victor this whole time,
Y: Oh, yeah. Real cute.
V: Try to be happier.
Y: but to be honest, I'm still not sure about myself.
Y: I have to figure out if I'm in good enough shape for the Grand Prix series.
Y: The other skaters don't matter.
Coach: Minami-kun, focus, okay? Focus!
Y: I feel someone staring at me...
Coach: Remember how focused you were at the Nationals!
Coach: Don't get overwhelmed by the energy around you!
Y: Focus! Focus!
Minako: Wow.
Minako: What a crowd.
Nishi: It's been like this since the public practice this morning.
Minako: Is Yuri okay?
Minako: He tends to get nervous before competitions.
Y: Have you seen Victor?
Y: The competition's about to start.
V: Sorry to keep you waiting.
Y: Why did you change clothes?
V: Today is my glorious debut as a coach, so I should be in formal dress.
Y: You're exactly right...
Minako: That Russian coach stands out more than the skaters.
News: Ladies and gentlemen, this event is the senior men's short program.
V: As your coach, what should I say before sending you off to the program?
News: Will the competitors please take the ice for your warm-up?
V: What I'm thinking of right now is...
News: You have six minutes.
Y: My goal is to reach the Grand Prix Final.
Y: I can't get nervous already at this stage.
Minako: He's nervous...
News: Gentlemen, the warm-up has ended.
News: Please leave the ice.
Y: Why is Victor getting all prickly?
V: Yuri, turn around.
Y: Huh?
V: Turn around, okay?
Y: Um, like this?
V: Seduce me with all you have.
V: If your performance can charm me,
V: you can enthrall the entire audience.
V: That's what I always say in practice, right?
Y: R-Right.
Minako: Good luck, Yuri!
Nishi: Good luck!
Y: Remember...
Y: Just skate like you do in practice.
Y: I'm going to become a beautiful pork cutlet bowl!
Y: Come on, guys! What's with this lukewarm response?
Y: Back at Hot Springs on Ice, they were way more enthusiastic.
Y: No, I bet Victor would like this step sequence.
V: Yuri!
V: Try to imagine entangling more of the egg.
V: Think of the pork cutlet bowl!
Y: Right!
V: Yuri, dance more like you're trying to seduce me.
Y: That's right.
Y: I'm a pork cutlet bowl fatale that enthralls men.
Y: First up is a spread eagle into a triple axel.
Y: Great!
Y: I'll continue the momentum with a quadruple Salchow!
Y: Over-rotation!
V: I was drawn to you because of...
V: The way you skate like your body is creating music.
V: Great, Yuri!
V: It's perfect!
Y: The last jump is a combination, so it's worth the most points.
Y: A quad into a triple—
Y: Crap, it turned into a double.
Y: This is the last element...
Y: On to the conclusion for the love-crazed couple...
Y: Er, so how did it go?
Y: That's right, the woman casts aside the man she seduced
Y: and leaves for the next man!
Minami: That was so cool, Yuri-kun!
Minami: That was awesome!
Y: Who's that?
Y: I managed to finish somehow.
Y: I wonder if I did okay.
Y: What does Victor think?
V: The first half was great.
V: But you were too focused on jumps in the second, so your performance got sloppy.
Y: Right.
V: I don't really like that kind of thing.
Y: Right.
Minako: Why's he getting scolded?
Minako: He really got the audience fired up.
Nishi: He may score a personal best...
News: The scores, please, for Katsuki Yuri-san.
News: His short program score: ..
News: He is currently in first place.
Minako: He b*at his previous best by almost ten points!
Audience: Amazing!
Moro: While this won't be an official record,
Moro: this would've been among the top ten scores in the world!
V: Hmm... Since you weren't under pressure,
V: I thought you'd score in the hundreds.
Y: Right, you've scored above a hundred points to break the world record multiple times.
V: Oh, right, Yuri.
V: About tomorrow's free skate...
V: Lower the difficulty of the jumps and focus on performance.
Y: Huh?
V: You've never nailed them during practice, have you?
Y: But...
V: It's not a bad idea to lower the difficulty early in the season, is it?
V: You should prioritize adjusting your programs to help you reach your peak
V: for the Grand Prix Final.
: Representing Kure Higashi High School Skate Club, please welcome Fujiwara Hikaru-san.
V: Are you saying you can't listen to your coach?
Minami: That was amazing!
Minami: Yuri-kun's pure charms became a rich eros in the best form of betrayal possible!
Kanako: Minami-kun, get ready.
Kanako: It's almost time.
Minami: Kanako-sensei, you saw it, right?
Minami: You saw that triple axel?
Minami: For me, that was a GOE of ,, points!
Kanako: Yeah, I hope you can land your Achilles heel, the triple axel, this time.
Minami: Yeah!
Minami: I'm gonna show Yuri-kun my skating!
Moro: How do you feel looking ahead to the free skate?
News: This concludes the men's singles short program.
Y: Huh?
Y: Tomorrow's free skate—
V: Of course you'll see Yuri be perfect.
Minami: And I managed to land the triple axel, too!
Kanako: That was your best performance yet!
Minami: Oh!
Minami: Did you see my "Lohengrin" performance?
Y: I was being interviewed, so I didn't. Sorry.
Minami: I even had a similar costume made to the one from your famous "Lohengrin" program.
Y: That's a costume from my dark past...
Minami: You don't have a dark past!
Minami: Don't make fun of me for looking up to you for so long and trying to catch up to you!
Minami: I'm gonna give tomorrow's free skate everything I've got!
Minami: Please give it all you've got, too, Yuri-kun!
Minami: I won't forgive you if you slack off!
Moro: Wow!
Moro: Skater Minami's issued a challenge!
Moro: At last year's Nationals, skater Minami Kenjiro finished ahead of skater Katsuki.
Y: He's the one whose total score was way higher than mine because I self-destructed...
Moro: His first senior division competition
Moro: will be a clash over a possible changing of the guard!
Y: Minami-kun!
Moro: Here in Okayama, skater Katsuki will face him
Y: Crap...
Moro: with the first public performance of his free skate program!
Moro: The Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Figure Skating Championship's
Moro: men's singles free skate is about to begin.
Moro: All eyes are on skater Katsuki Yuri and his coach Victor Nikiforov.
: Hi!
Moro: Katsuki ended yesterday's short program in first place by a large margin,
Sign : Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Championship Okayama International Skate Rink (Okayama City) Senior Men's Singles Short Program Standings Name Affiliation ) Katsuki Yuri Ice Castle Hasetsu
Moro: scoring a personal best of ..
Moro: In his free skate, he will attempt three quads.
Y: Victor and I decided to lower the difficulty and only do one quad, but...
Minami: I'm gonna try a quad, too!
A: Seriously?
A: You've never landed one, not even in practice!
B: I'll try one, too!
A: Okay, I'll try, too.
News: Ladies and gentlemen, we'll now begin the senior men's singles free skate event.
News: Will the competitors please take the ice for your warm-up?
News: You have six minutes.
Y: No, no.
Y: I have to focus on myself!
V: Yuri...
V: How can someone who can't motivate others motivate himself?
V: I'm disappointed in you.
Y: What about my own motivation that he just destroyed?
News: Representing Hakata Skate Club, please welcome Minami Kenjiro-san.
Kanako: Hey, are you listening to me?
Kanako: You're nervous, aren't you, Minami-kun?
Fans: Good luck, Minami-kun!
Minami: You don't have a dark past!
Minami: Don't make fun of me for looking up to you for so long and trying to catch up to you!
Y: Good luck, Minami-kun!
Y: Good luck!
Y: Minami-kun's f*ring up the crowd right off!
Y: I guess he's popular.
Minami: First, a triple axel.
Y: Oh, he'll make the next one just fine!
Minami: Next up, a quadruple toe loop!
Y: Wow.
Y: Is he going to go on a roll?
Y: Man, the way he's so inconsistent...
Y: He reminds me of the skater I used to be.
Y: I can't take my eyes off him.
Y: He already has the necessary skill set to compete in figure skating.
Y: I can tell by the cheers alone
Y: that you're the star on the stage.
Y: The scores, please, for Minami Kenjiro-san.
: His free skate program score: ..
: His total score: ..
Minami: Yeah!
Minami: My personal best score!
: He is currently in first place.
News: Representing Kure Higashi High School Skate Club, please welcome Fujiwara Hikaru-san.
Minami: Go!
A: Yeah!
News: Representing Okayama Fine Arts University High School, please welcome Omiki Yuto-san.
B: Okay, me too!
BCoach: Go!
Minami: Good luck!
Minami: Great! If he keeps it up, it'll be a personal best for sure!
V: Yeah, this costume's great.
V: You look beautiful in it.
V: Your lips are chapped.
Minako: I heard he's only doing one quad at the beginning this time, but...
Nishi: He hates making compromises, yeah.
: Good luck, Yuri-kun!
News: Representing Ice Castle Hasetsu, please welcome Katsuki Yuri-san.
Moro: For this first public performance of his free program,
Moro: the music is an original composition expressing Katsuki's skating career,
Moro: titled "Yuri on Ice."
Moro: The program was choreographed by Victor Nikiforov.
V: This program starts off with the Yuri from back when he felt he was fighting alone.
V: The first jump is a quad-triple combination.
V: He's been landing it just fine during practice.
Minami: A quad-double!
Minami: He nailed it!
V: He changed the triple to a double?
V: He's changing the jump elements?
V: Is he going to add a triple in the second half?
V: Or is he going back to having three quads?
V: Do you remember how I told you to focus
V: more on refining the program than being distracted by jumps?
V: You look too stiff!
V: This is the part that expresses when I showed up as your coach, right?
V: You look like you didn't like it at all!
V: A triple Salchow?
V: No, a quadruple! He stepped out of the landing.
V: So he did revert the program to having three quads.
V: Shake it off...
V: Good!
V: A triple loop!
V: That was perfect.
V: Now, Yuri's realized something like love.
V: The second half's coming up, and he already looks tired.
V: An outside spread eagle,
V: then an Ina Bauer...
V: Skate like you're the most beautiful person on the ice right now.
V: A triple axel!
V: Good, he hung in there.
V: Next up, a triple flip!
V: Even though he's not nailing his jumps,
V: the audience is getting fired up...
V: It's because he's skating in time with the music.
V: So close!
V: Yuri's being too impatient today.
V: But that's why
V: you can't look away!
V: I told you to make the last jump a triple for the points...
V: I wonder who he takes after, to be so rebellious toward his coach...
V: Oh...
V: It's me!
V: If I were Yakov, it'd be an instant lecture.
V: And I've done that, too, but...
Minami: Yuri-kun!
Moro: He showed his pride as Japan's top skater!
SFX,Minako:Yuri!!!
Minako: Yuri!
Y: Victor!
V: Oops, watch the nosebleed.
News: The scores, please, for Katsuki Yuri-san. His free skate program score: ..
: His total score: ..
V: It's amazing you scored that high after a jump like that!
: He is currently in first place.
V: Thanks for proving to me that you're able to get a lot of PCS points.
V: You can score even higher, so don't feel down, okay, Yuri?
Minami: Yuri-kun!
Minami: I totally lost to you.
Minami: I want to face you in the Grand Prix series someday!
Minami: Until then, please don't quit!
Minami: And another thing!
Minami: Please give me your autograph!
A: Me, too!
B: Can I take a photo with you?
Minako: Yuri! I was so impressed!
Minako: It was so obvious that you took the younger skaters seriously as rivals.
Nishi: What if you'd gotten hurt, slamming into the wall like that at the end?!
Y: S-Sorry.
Y: At first, I was just desperate because I didn't want to lose,
Y: but somehow, I started having a lot of fun in the middle.
Y: I don't remember a lot about it.
NM: Huh?
Y: Yeah...
Y: Anyway, that was the most fun I've ever had while skating in competition.
Mila: What're you doing, Yuri?
Mila: Oh, you saw the photo of Victor and the Japanese Yuri, didn't you?
Mila: Jealous?
Yuri: Shut up, hag!
Moro: Next, we have the skater Katsuki Yuri,
Moro: who's thought to be the next leader of men's singles in Japan.
Moro: Please, show us.
Moro: Um... Please show your theme for this year.
Moro: Skater Katsuki?
WorldChampion,Sign : Love Katsuki Yuri
Y: My theme in this year's Grand Prix series is "love."
Y: I've been helped by many people in my competitive skating career thus far,
Y: but I've never thought about "love" until now.
Y: Though I was blessed with support, I couldn't take full advantage of it.
Y: I always felt like I was fighting alone.
Y: But since Victor showed up to be my coach,
Y: I've seen something totally different.
Y: My "love" is not something clear-cut like romantic love,
Y: but the more abstract feeling of my relationships
Y: with Victor, family, and hometown...
Y: I was finally able to realize that something like love exists all around me.
Y: Victor is the first person I've ever wanted to hold on to.
Y: I don't really have a name for that emotion,
Y: but I have decided to call it "love."
Y: Now that I know what love is and am stronger for it,
Y: I'll prove it to myself with a Grand Prix Final gold medal!
Nishi: So we...
Yuko: ...were abstract.
Minako: After all this time we've supported him...
V: When you come back, we'll burn that unfashionable necktie, Yuri.
V: Let's buy a new one before the Cup of China.
Cele: Victor...
Cele: Unfortunately for you, it won't be Yuri who wins the Cup of China.
Cele: It will be Phichit Chulanont.
Phichit: Wasn't that jump great?
Phichit: Did you get a good video of it?
Cele: Oh, sorry...
Phichit: What?!
Phichit: We have to post it online as soon as possible!
Sign : To Be Continued!!!
V: Dajia hao!
V: I want to eat Shanghai crab!
Y: Victor, our event is in Beijing.
V: Crab, crab, shrimp, shrimp, xiao long bao!
Y: Next time, Sixth Skate: China's On! The Grand Prix Series Opening Event!!
Sign : Sixth Skate China's On! The Grand Prix Series Opening Event!! The Cup of China Short Program
Y: The Cup of China Short Program.
01x05 - Face Beet-Red!! It's the First Competition! The Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Championship
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After 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.
After 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.