01x05 - Face Beet-Red!! It's the First Competition! The Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu Championship

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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 beat 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 firing 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.