[ SECRET POST #3706 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3706 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I like the skating, but that's not the wanky part so it doesn't get talked about.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about elsewhere, but here on FS there was... someone who said that YOI wasn't a "real" sport anime because they didn't skate enough. People disagreed in the comments, but having now seen the show, I now think that person never watched past episode 4 or something.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen lots of people talking about the skating, but that was mostly focusing on the animation of the skating sections.

[(Anonymous)]

Yuri on Ice is one of those series that has been so hyped I'm afraid to even try it.

(Plus I was more interested when I only heard the name and thought it was about lesbians, my bad.)

[(Anonymous)]

OP

I was waiting for it to be over before giving it a shot. It's really short, you could knock it out in a weekend if you wanted to. You might not, once you hit that middle block, but I'd say by the third episode you should know pretty well whether the show is for you or not.

[(Anonymous)]

People like you are the most annoying. Yuri is a name and it's not even written the same way as girls love. What about the promo art and trailers gave you the impression it would be about lesbians? Do you realize how stupid it would be to title it Yuri on Ice? Just as stupid as it would sound to call it Yaoi on Ice.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that there felt like too much skating. There were so many characters that got way too much screen time. I liked seeing the variety of routines to some extent, but it was a little annoying to see them multiple times from characters that really didn't matter to the plot at all. I would've preferred more Victor/Yuri screen time to that.

[(Anonymous)]

Preferred more Victor/Yuri
Yeah, I'm sure you would because this fandom is filled with disgusting shippers who can't appreciate the actual skating. MOAR FANSERVICE.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know what was worse, the cheap animation or the internal monologues about feeeelings of characters we'd never met or cared about.

I saw someone on twitter explaining they were all ACTUALLY about Yuuri and Victor but that's too many levels of obfuscation for me.

[(Anonymous)]

The endless skating is really hard to bear, but to be honest the silly internal monologues helped me find some shred of interest in those sequences.

[type_wild]

Yeah, it wasn't quality that made this one a hit *g*

[(Anonymous)]

You can keep telling yourself that, but the show is continually winning not just popularity awards, but awards from major anime critic's circles too like TAAF. You don't have to think it's good, but a lot of people who aren't into it for shipping and whatnot think this is a damn 'quality' show.

[(Anonymous)]

Did they redraw the terrible skating scenes for the BDs?

[raspberryrain]

Sport in a sport anime! Scandalous!

[(Anonymous)]

Not even a sports anime series with ten times the number of episodes as this one had would ever spend any time showing the audience all the matches that don't involve the heroes unless there were a compelling plot reason to do so.

[(Anonymous)]

I actually liked the skating sequences and found them very beautiful. There weren't enough episodes in the series for it to ever feel like it was dragging to me. Though, I would agree that more time should've been spent on Victor and Yuri (and theoretically Yurio, but I actually think he got enough screen time and character development so idk). Or pick just a few skaters and focus on developing them, though I get that's hard when the audience is never supposed to know who will advance after each competition.

[(Anonymous)]

I could have done with fewer skating sequences from one-off nobodies (was I expected to care about that guy who loved his sister or whatever?), or at least shorter sequences. If they hadn't stretched their resources animating so many goddamn programs, they might not have had to recycle so much animation when it came time for the characters we actually cared about to skate.

[sachiko_san]

Halfway through marathoning it, I was expecting something like Free! what with the character development and only showing Yuri, Victor, and Yurio skating. I'm disappointed in the lack of character development, but I'm staying for the bishies and art.

[(Anonymous)]

OP, are you me? I thought there was way too much time spent on skating routines of people I didn't care about, too! (Like seriously, I didn't need to know about that guy who was gonna jizz over his skating routine) Like, I wouldn't be too upset if I didn't feel like too much was focussed on these routines at the expense of character development for the main guys. I feel like Viktor got a raw deal. I'd rather have them cut out or down some of the skating routines to get some more backstory for the ACTUAL LOVE INTEREST OF THE SHOW lol.

[(Anonymous)]

(Like seriously, I didn't need to know about that guy who was gonna jizz over his skating routine)

speak for yourself, Chris was the most hilarious character next to the Canadian one. they were the real stars of the show!

[(Anonymous)]

OP

I waited the entire show expecting Victor's implied flakiness to be developed into a real flaw or something. I don't think it's too much to ask for him to get... a character arc? No? Maybe they're saving it for the second season, but it felt lacking.

[ibbity]

If I wasn't so darn lazy, I would probably have watched this already because I love me some figure skating and I've heard nothing but good things about the skating scenes.

[(Anonymous)]

There was poor animation and boring music here and there, especially with the less important characters' routines. Anyway, I'm a skating girl myself but how much can you really get invested in watching animated characters -- underdeveloped ones at that -- skating? A guy does four quads in his program? Sure he can, he's fucking animated!

[(Anonymous)]

This show wasn't called QUALITY on Ice for no reason. The Skating scenes were terrible with off model characters. Whoever told you they were good were probably rabid fans.