01x03 - I Am Eros, and Eros is Me?! Face-Off! Hot Springs on Ice

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Y: Hello!

Y: I'm Katsuki Yuri.

Y: Now that the Russian Punk, Yurio,

Y: has come in pursuit of my coach, Victor, all hell's broken loose.

Y: The Hot Springs on Ice event is now being held so that Yurio and I can face off!

WorldChampion,Sign: Hasetsu Exhibition Hot Springs on Ice Presented by Victor Nikiforov

Y: If Yurio wins, Victor will go back to Russia and be Yurio's coach.

Y: If I win, Victor will stay in Japan and be my coach.

Y: So I'm gonna give it all the eros I've got!

Title,Sign: Third Skate I Am Eros, and Eros Is Me?! Face-Off! Hot Springs on Ice

Y: I Am Eros, and Eros Is Me?!

Y: Face-off! Hot Springs on Ice.

V: First, Yurio's "On Love: Agape."

V: Agape... Unconditional love.

V: God's infinite love is self-sacrificing and uncalculating.

Y: Crap, this is hard.

Y: Victor can pull it off,

Y: but I wonder how Yurio will do it.

V: Kind of like that. What do you think?

Yuri: Yeah, I pretty much got it.

Y: Huh?!

Yuko: Wow... That was amazing.

Yurio: Hey, who's that chick?

Y: Oh, she's one of the staff here, Yuko-san.

Yuko: Sorry for interrupting your practice.

Yuko: It was so wonderful, I couldn't help myself.

V: Okay, Yuri. You're next.

V: Let's go!

Y: O-Okay.

Y: Choreography that Victor did for me alone...

V: "On Love: Eros."

SFX,Sign : Spurt

Eros... Sexual love.

Pleasure followed by pleasure.

One just drowns in it.

Y: D-Damn, he's so hot!

Yuri: What the... Are you sick?

Y: It's enough to make even me, a man, pregnant! Such eros!

Y: Huh?

Y: Can I skate this?

V: Yuri!

V: How was that?

Y: Oh, um...

Y: It was very "eros"!

V: Right?

V: So, about the program composition... Which quads can you land?

Y: The toe loop, and...

Y: I can land the Salchow in practice, but never in competition.

Y: Um, I think I can do it if I try!

Y: So, um...

V: Okay, you can practice the basics.

V: I'll teach Yurio first.

V: I won't teach you anything you can't do right now.

V: How many times have you messed up during a competition?

V: You have the skill to win. Why can't you make it happen?

Y: Well, that's probably because...

Y: I lack confidence.

V: Right. My job is to make you feel confident in yourself.

V: No one in the whole wide world knows your true eros, Yuri.

V: It may be an alluring side of you that you yourself are unaware of.

V: Can you show me what it is soon?

Yuri: Hey, Victor! Aren't you teaching me first?!

V: Right.

V: So, Yuri.

V: Think long and hard about what eros is to you.

Y: What eros is to me? What would that be?

WorldChampion,Sign : Hot Springs on Ice Yuri vs. Yurio Hasetsu Exhibition!!

Kids: Who knew we'd get a lineup like this in Hasetsu?

Kids: Lots of people will come!

Minako: Well, either way...

Minako: Yuri's back! Cheers!

Minako: Cheers!

Nishi: Huh?

Nishi: You had to do basic training for half a day because you didn't get "eros"?

Y: Yeah.

Nishi: You should have just made something up.

Nishi: I bet Victor hasn't thought much about it, either.

Y: Victor's a genius, so he can get away with that.

Y: I could see a story in the program, too.

Y: A playboy comes to a certain town

Y: and bewitches the women left and right.

Y: He decides to pursue the most beautiful woman in town,

Y: but she isn't swayed.

Y: Then, as they play the game of love,

Y: she finds it difficult to make the right choices

Y: and ends up falling for him.

Y: Then he casts her aside, as though he's tired of her,

Y: and goes off to the next town.

Nishi: "Wow! So hot! Take me!"

Nishi: That doesn't really sound like you, Yuri.

Y: Right?

Y: I bet people will say they'd prefer to see Victor skate the program.

Nishi: But you looked pretty sexy in the video when you copied his program.

Y: Well, I can't copy him.

Y: I'll never surpass him by doing that.

Nishi: Wait, you seriously think you can be better than him someday?

Y: Huh?

Y: Oh, um, no, not at all!

Nishi: I mean, how can someone as inexperienced in dating as you

Nishi: b*at the hottest bachelor in the world?

SFX,Sign: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

V: Stop, stop!

V: Hmm, something isn't right here.

Yuri: I'm doing it like you showed me, aren't I?

V: The way you currently are,

V: your greed is too obvious.

V: There's no sense of agape, unconditional love, in your performance.

V: It's good to have confidence,

V: but this program isn't where you should show it off.

Yuri: Huh?

Yuri: You're the one who's skated with complete confidence this whole time!

Yuri: Well, what's agape to you, then, Victor?!

V: It's a feeling, of course,

V: so I could never explain it in words.

V: Do you bother thinking about that when you skate?

V: You're funny, Yurio.

V: Well, maybe we need a temple.

Yuri: A temple?

Yuri: Ow!

Y: Damn it.

Y: I'm an adult male of twenty-three.

Y: I could totally show mature sexiness if I wanted to.

V: Hey, hey!

V: Take a photo of me in the bath so I can post it online.

Y: Sorry, but we don't let people take photos in the bath.

V: Really?

Y: It's no good...

Y: From a physical standpoint, I'm not even close to eros.

Y: Eros, eros...

Y: It's what causes you to lose the ability to make normal decisions.

Y: For me, what causes me to lose that ability is...

Y: I get it now!

Y: Pork cutlet bowls!

Y: That's what eros is to me!

Title,Sign : Silence...

Y: Oh, sorry.

Y: It's not...

V: Okay, let's go with that.

V: It's nice and unique.

Yuri: Seriously?

Y: Man, I'm so embarrassed!

Y: They totally think my ideas are way too immature!

V: Yuri!

V: Try to imagine entangling more of the egg.

V: Think of the pork cutlet bowl!

Y: Got it!

V: Next, Yurio!

V: Maybe the temple.

Yuri: Just tell me if I'm not up to par!

V: Your free leg's sloppy!

Yuri: Keep it up!

Nishi: Put your back into it!

Y: All right...

V: Hmm...

V: Well, maybe a waterfall would help.

Yuri: A waterfall?!

Yuri: I'm gonna k*ll him.

Y: Why me, too?

Yuri: Who cares?

Yuri: Damn it.

Yuri: Who cares about agape?

Yuri: Forget all of them.

Gramps: Yuratchka...

Gramps: You were the best of the bunch.

Yuri: Grandpa, can you come to practice again tomorrow?

Yuri: I can skate even better!

Yuri: I'm fine, even if Mom's not there!

Y: Yurio?

Y: Hey, Yurio!

Y: Are you okay?

Y: Let's call it a day.

Yuri: Oh... Okay.

Y: What's going on?

Y: Why did he suddenly look so vulnerable?

Yuri: Ugh... Where's Victor, anyway?

Y: He went to eat at Nagahama Ramen, I guess.

Yuri: What?

Yuri: We're going there, too!

Y: Huh?

Ramen,Sign : Nagahama Ramen

V: Vkusno!

Sign : Hasetsu Exhibition "Hot Springs On Ice" in Day

Y: Victor still isn't here, huh?

Yuri: They said he was drinking until dawn.

Yuri: Dumbass.

Y: Oh, Yurio...

Yuri: Huh?

Yuri: What?

Y: Please teach me how to land a quad Salchow.

Y: Please!

Yuri: You suck!

Yuri: Hey, Pork Cutlet Bowl. Watch me do it one more time.

V: Sorry I'm late!

V: Huh?

V: What were you practicing just now?

Y: I'm gonna check my choreography.

Yuri: Agape...

Yuri: Unconditional love.

Yuri: To me, that means Grandpa.

V: Looks like Yurio found his agape.

V: Maybe he's ready for the next stage.

Y: Huh? Next stage?

Y: Does that mean I have a next stage, once I perform the eros of the pork cutlet bowl?

Y: I still can't find it, though.

Y: I still lack what would serve as the backbone this program needs.

Yutopia: ,Hasetsu Hot Springs Yu-topia Katsuki

Minako: So, what will you do for a costume tomorrow?

Y: Oh! I totally forgot!

Yuri: I didn't bring anything, either.

V: That's taken care of!

V: I had them send all the costumes I've ever worn in competition from Russia!

Y: Wow!

Yuri: There are lots of stupid-looking ones.

Y: Hey, you wore this one at the Grand Prix Final last year!

Yuri: Hey! Don't pick anything flashier than mine!

Y: This is from the Junior World Championship!

V: Oh, yeah.

V: I had long hair at the time,

V: so my costume suggested both male and female genders at once.

Y: Oh, that's right...

Y: I choose this one!

Minako: Oh, come on! Who is it?

Minako: Huh?

Minako: You want to practice in my studio this late at night?

Y: Minako-sensei, I need you to teach me something.

Moro: We're here at Ice Castle Hasetsu, venue of the Hasetsu Exhibition: Hot Springs on Ice.

Moro: Right off the bat,

TV: ,Hasetsu Exhibition: Hot Springs on Ice

Moro: we have skaters Katsuki Yuri and Yuri Plisetsky.

Moro: Both your new short programs were choreographed by Victor Nikiforov.

Moro: You'll be presenting them today in competition.

Moro: Tell us how you feel going into the event!

Y: Um, it'd be great if you'd try the hot springs afterward.

Sign : Hasetsu Exhibition: Hot Springs on Ice

Moro: Hey! We're not asking you to promote tourism!

Moro: Promote yourself!

Yuri: We don't need two Yuris. I'll crush him.

Moro: Yes, that's it! Thanks for giving us what we wanted to hear!

Moro: Spasibo, spasibo.

Moro: Last but not least, let's hear from Victor Nikiforov,

Moro: who's switched to coaching out of the blue!

Phone,Sign : Hasetsu Tourism Ambassador

V: Hi!

V: Hasetsu is a great place. Come and visit at least once!

Y: What are you doing, Victor?

V: Huh?

Yuri: Stop that! It makes today's face-off look cheap!

Yuri: You'd better be ready to evaluate our battle!

Y: You'll grant the wish of whichever one of us wins, right?

V: Oh...

V: Of course!

Yuri: You forgot, didn't you?

TV: Thank you for coming to the Hasetsu Exhibition: Hot Springs on Ice,

Minako: Wow, this is amazing.

Minako: How many years has it been since so many people were in this rink?

TV: presented by Victor Nikiforov.

Yuko: Yurio-kun!

Yuko: It's almost time.

Yuri: Okay.

Yuko: It's the see-through costume of legend from Victor's junior days!

Yuko: I never thought I'd see it in person! It's so beautiful...

Yuri: You're gushing all kinds of fluids again.

Yuko: You look really good in it! Good luck!

Yuri: O-Okay.

Yuko: Oh, you have to go.

Yuko: Come on, get a move on!

Moro: Now, a champion with wins in the Junior Grand Prix Final and Junior World Championship.

Moro: Hoping for a

Moro: brilliant senior division debut, with programs choreographed by Victor Nikiforov,

Moro: Yuri Plisetsky!

: Davai!

Audience: Yuri, davai!

Audience: Davai!

Audience: Yuri, davai!

Moro: He will be skating to "On Love: Agape."

Moro: His first jump is a triple axel.

Moro: Excellent.

Yuri: Everyone's drawn into Yurio's agape performance.

Yuri: I can tell it's completely different from what I saw in practice.

Yuri: That's when Yurio's performance changed.

Yuri: No one can look away from this beautiful, ever-evolving monster!

Moro: We're approaching the quadruples he was prohibited from performing in competition.

Moro: Not to mention they're in the second half of his program.

Moro: A quadruple Salchow, followed by a triple toe loop!

Moro: He unveiled the quad with a flourish!

Moro: Here comes his final jump, a quadruple toe loop!

Moro: He nailed it!

Moro: What an astonishing fifteen-year-old!

Moro: He nailed all of his jumps!

Yuri: Sorry, Grandpa.

Yuri: I'm too busy trying to skate the program

Yuri: to really think about agape at all!

Moro: The last element is his signature move, the combination spin.

Yuri: Damn it...

Yuri: Just end already!

Moro: Amazing! A masterful performance!

Moro: There's a lot to look forward to this coming season!

Yuri: I'm better than this!

V: Yurio!

V: That was the best performance I've seen from you so far!

V: Go on, greet the audience!

Moro: Yuri Plisetsky, who's enthralled the audience!

Y: That was amazing.

Y: He'll definitely rank among the top senior division skaters.

Y: Right...

Y: If I lose, Victor will go back to Russia.

Y: I don't want that.

Y: I have to win.

Y: I want to win.

Y: I want to win!

V: Yuri.

V: It's your turn.

Y: U-Um, I'm...

Y: I'm going to become a super tasty pork cutlet bowl,

Y: so please watch me!

Y: Promise!

V: Of course.

V: I love pork cutlet bowls.

Moro: We're pleased to introduce a skater who represents Japan,

Moro: a late bloomer who's become a rising star,

Moro: Katsuki Yuri!

Audience: Good luck, Yuri-kun!

Moro: He will skate to "On Love: Eros."

Audience: Yuri!

Audience: Good luck, Katsuki-kun!

Moro: He's been having difficulty expressing "eros,"

Moro: but he said he'll think of how he'd love to eat his favorite dish,

Moro: the pork cutlet bowl.

Minako: I pulled an all-nighter to help him practice,

Minako: and he's no ordinary pork cutlet bowl.

Y: Who am I dancing for?

Y: I know who.

Moro: What a seductive step sequence!

Moro: It's hard to believe he's imagining a pork cutlet bowl!

Minako: Good!

Minako: You're known for your step sequences and spins.

Y: I want you to teach me how to move in feminine ways.

Minako: Huh?

Y: Trying to be the playboy isn't me.

Y: I want to be the most beautiful woman in town, who seduces the playboy!

Y: I won't drastically change any moves,

Y: but I think this is a lot closer to how I feel.

Minako: At first, I wasn't sure what he was being all serious about,

Minako: but his performance has integrated his emotions.

Minako: It's changed.

Moro: Now, we have a spread eagle into a triple axel.

Nishi: Man, this program is tough.

Nishi: Scheduling all the jumps in the second half just because he has stamina

Nishi: is pretty spartan.

Moro: Oops! He stepped out of his quadruple Salchow!

Moro: He managed to stay on his feet by putting his hand down.

Yuri: About what you'd expect.

Y: Don't panic!

Y: A mistake like this isn't enough to make me lose my charms.

Y: I'm better than any other woman out there.

Y: You ask why?

Moro: A quadruple toe loop, followed by a triple toe loop!

Moro: He nailed it!

Nishi: A quad-triple combination at the very end? Is he insane?

Nishi: He nailed it, too.

Audience: Welcome back, Yuri!

Audience: Welcome back!

Nishi: Guys, it's not "welcome back."

Nishi: That was a Yuri you've never seen before.

Nishi: No one could look away.

Nishi: I'm looking forward to this season now.

V: Yuri!

V: That was the tastiest pork cutlet bowl I've ever seen!

V: Wonderful!

Y: Th-Thank you.

V: But can I say something?

Y: S-Sure.

V: What was with your triple axel out of the spread eagle?

V: That was the worst attempt so far.

V: I know you had Yurio teach you the quad Salchow in secret, but what was that?

V: Huh? Yuri?

Yuko: Yurio-kun, hang on.

Yuko: You're going back without even hearing the results?

Yuri: I already know the results.

Yuri: That performance...

Yuri: I'm going to keep going under Yakov.

Yuri: Later.

Yuri: Dasvidaniya.

Yuko: I see.

Yuri: Don't get me wrong!

Yuri: I'm the one who'll win at the Grand Prix Final!

Yuri: Tell him that!

Moro: Katsuki Yuri has won the Hot Springs on Ice event.

Moro: A word, please.

Y: O-Oh, um...

Y: I'm going to try and win the next Grand Prix Final with Victor!

Y: Thank you for your continued support!

Y: The battle for my very last figure skating season has begun.

Sign : To Be Continued!!!

Y: Who'd even be happy to see me naked on ice?

V: At the very least, I would be.

Y: Huh?

V: Fourth Skate:

V: Like Yourself...

Title,Sign: Fourth Skate Like Yourself... And Complete the Free Program!!

V: And Complete the Free Program!!