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[January posting meme] Yuri!!! on Ice
I'd added this to my Crunchyroll queue within a few days of the first episode airing. The Anime News Network reviews were good, and enough of my anime friends liked it that it seemed worthwhile.
Was not expecting it to turn into the next thing that fandom, the monolith, latched on to. I'm usually not in the same places as mainstream fandom, I think. Like, I watch the MCU movies/TV shows casually, but I'm not into fic, don't really care much about the characters, etc. It was WEIRD to watch how many non-anime fandom friends got into this show! Weird in a fun way, mostly. I loved reading people's reactions on twitter, the fanart that still comes up on twitter, etc. I'm now following a number of actual ice skaters thanks to guidance from![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
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My favorite on this show was Plisetsky, hands-down.
Part of me feels cynical that it's a show focused almost entirely on dudes that swept main fandom, and not something like, Yuri Kuma Arashi. I understand why people like it - I like it, too! - it's just that usually I'm poking around in anime and manga because I can find stories that actually focus on women, so it's disappointing that ~the show that transcended media lines~ was so dude-heavy.
I've added Fujioka's HISTORYMAKER to my iPod, and it's now in my regular rotation. I loved both the OP and ED songs, and sequences, from this show. They were so fun.
The key animation throughout the series, though, was sometimes painful to watch. It'll be interesting to see whether the bluray releases are as big of a step up from what initially aired as Sailor Moon Crystal's were.
Anyway, I am looking forward to season 2 airing, and seeing everyone's reactions along with it.
Was not expecting it to turn into the next thing that fandom, the monolith, latched on to. I'm usually not in the same places as mainstream fandom, I think. Like, I watch the MCU movies/TV shows casually, but I'm not into fic, don't really care much about the characters, etc. It was WEIRD to watch how many non-anime fandom friends got into this show! Weird in a fun way, mostly. I loved reading people's reactions on twitter, the fanart that still comes up on twitter, etc. I'm now following a number of actual ice skaters thanks to guidance from
My favorite on this show was Plisetsky, hands-down.
Part of me feels cynical that it's a show focused almost entirely on dudes that swept main fandom, and not something like, Yuri Kuma Arashi. I understand why people like it - I like it, too! - it's just that usually I'm poking around in anime and manga because I can find stories that actually focus on women, so it's disappointing that ~the show that transcended media lines~ was so dude-heavy.
I've added Fujioka's HISTORYMAKER to my iPod, and it's now in my regular rotation. I loved both the OP and ED songs, and sequences, from this show. They were so fun.
The key animation throughout the series, though, was sometimes painful to watch. It'll be interesting to see whether the bluray releases are as big of a step up from what initially aired as Sailor Moon Crystal's were.
Anyway, I am looking forward to season 2 airing, and seeing everyone's reactions along with it.
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The canon gay definitely helped. And I think it also got a boost from having characters that were explicitly from so many different countries, so people got to see their ethnicities and heritage celebrated in a way that a lot of shows don't go into. Steven Universe is big for similar reasons. (Although probably not with MCU-type fans? That's an impression, not a scientific survey. I know it's popular with mahou-shoujo fans.)
The animation just made me really sad that Crystal couldn't have been this good. You watch the skating routine sequences, with all these lovingly animated muscle movements, even the motion of the hair, chests heaving as they try to catch their breaths afterward...and compare that to Crystal's "let's crop the frame as awkwardly as possible so simple actions happen offscreen and we don't have to draw them" and "all you get for this action moment is the camera panning across a dramatically-posed still"...it's kinda soul-crushing.
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Yeah, Sailor Moon Crystal is so disappointing in comparison to so many shows airing right now, like I'd prefer KyoAni or someone had gotten it, even! I still need to finish up with season 3, which I at least was grateful to find as a big step up from the first two seasons.
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I dropped Crystal before the end of s1, tried to pick it back up at the start of s3 because the henshin sequences looked so much better, but ended up dropping it again. They didn't even put in the effort to animate nice things for the opening credits! (Another area where YoI isn't just competent, but knocks it out of the park.)
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There's a remarkable skater-AU novel in SGA. And that's all I know on the subject. /o\
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http://naraht.dreamwidth.org/634709.html
where I saw your perfect storm: YoI set to Hamilton music!
http://lola.dreamwidth.org/108151.html
yes, the animation is beautiful. Maybe I do need a new fandom.
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I watched it but I didn't get staggeringly excited in the way that some of my friends did. I liked it, but ... I think I'd rather just watch actual ice skating. Partly I think it's because I am so unaccustomed to the media-norms of anime that I found it hard to latch on to. And partly it's that I just didn't click with it. I liked it! It was sweet! I'll probably watch season 2. I just have no fannish enthusiasm about it.
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