\nGenres:<\/strong> Sports, Comedy, Drama, Ice-Skating, Shounen ai
\nRating: <\/strong>PG-13<\/p>\n
Started airing:<\/strong>\u00a06th<\/sup> of October 2016 After his crushing defeat at the Grand Prix Finale, Yuuri Katsuki returns home to Kyushu and tries to figure out what to do with his future. He was once Japan\u2019s most promising figure skater, but now wonders whether he should retire or continue skating. He gets his answer when five-time consecutive world champion ice skater Victor Nikiforov appears before him, offering to be his mentor. A big fan of Victor, Yuuri accepts and with Victor\u2019s help he continues to develop his skills. But will it be enough to win this time?<\/p>\n Yuri!!! on Ice has won the hearts of many fans, in particular those who love shounen ai suggestions, unfortunately it hasn\u2019t stolen mine. The storyline, animation and drawing style weren\u2019t always top quality. The series started off very slow and the pace didn\u2019t kick up until the sixth episode, this made the series less enjoyable for me. Fans of the series seem to mainly focus on the shounen ai in this series, on this point I do agree; they were endearing and fun to watch. I didn\u2019t score the show based on just the beautiful moments, which is why the score is lower than what most of the fans give it. This show didn\u2019t bring me to the edge of my seat, I had pretty much assumed it\u2019d end the way it did. Although the shounen ai moments were definitely worth watching this series for, I didn\u2019t care very much for all of the details and over explanations on ice skating.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the short answer, but continue reading if you\u2019d like to find out more.<\/p>\n As mentioned above, the story starts off slow. The first five episodes build up to the rest very slowly, which made it a less appealing series to binge-watch. Once you get to the sixth episode the pace does finally get kicked up a notch, which makes the series more enjoyable. On top of that there are a few more off of the ice and non-training moments, which also makes the series less boring. The on the ice moments weren\u2019t very thrilling to me, for reasons related to the animation. The storyline of this series and the ending were pretty predictable to me, although the shounen ai moments were a bit more surprising.<\/p>\n Yuuri faces multiple hurdles as he fights to get a gold medal at the Grand Prix Finals. As he progresses you see the relationship between him and Victor change. Victor is inexperienced as a coach and doesn\u2019t quite act like one, but his very presence motivates Yuuri to get more skilled. You watch his confidence grow over time. He wants to blow Victor\u2019s mind, to please Victor. Their \u2018love\u2019 is very sweet and at times innocent, but there are some more suggestive moments although they seem to be part of the humour of the series.<\/p>\n This series has a lot of sum ups and explanations, especially in the first few episodes. A lot of which I could\u2019ve done without, even though I\u2019m not very familiar with the sport of ice skating.<\/p>\n Yuri!!! on Ice has a lot of different personalities in it, there are quite a few ice skaters involved in the many competitions and most of them get a bit of focus in the series. You learn a little about their backgrounds and personalities, which makes them more fun to watch, in my opinion.<\/p>\n Yuuri Katsuki, the main character, has many sides to him. This doesn\u2019t initially seem to be the case, but as he gains confidence he clearly develops his skills, both social and on the ice. He seems eager to please Victor and clearly loves him. At times he seems desperate to hold onto Victor\u2019s company and it even seems like without Victor he\u2019d never have decided to continue skating.<\/p>\n Victor Nikiforov is a very carefree and yet serious character. He\u2019s very serious about how Yuuri can improve his skating skill, but aside from that he\u2019s not very serious at all. He seems quite eager to remove his clothes and clearly doesn\u2019t feel uncomfortable around other men while naked. This creates some funny moments.<\/p>\n Yuri Plisetsky, or Yurio as Yuuri and Victor call him, is a pretty rude teenager who has a lot of skill on the ice. Over time he softens slightly and seems to care a little more about some other characters. He becomes more and more motivated to win.<\/p>\n When it comes to the animation I\u2019m not entirely happy with the quality of this series. Or rather the lack of consistent quality. Sometimes there seem to be frames missing and at times characters are weirdly deformed. Some examples of this are necks that are way too long, bodies that have no figure to them, when they normally do and clothes and hair that don\u2019t quite move as they should when someone is skating.<\/p>\n The ice skating animations were clearly reused, quite a bit actually. The same flaws kept repeating and the way the routines were performed were nearly identical, I say nearly because sometimes a character fell and at other times they didn\u2019t. Even the intro of the series repeated animations, although these animations were a lot more worked out and fluent.<\/p>\n At times characters really didn\u2019t look as they should, it was pretty inconsistent. An example of this is Yuuri, when he was supposed to be fat. In one episode he went from fat, to skinny, to fat, to \u2018normal\u2019. Personally I wouldn\u2019t have known he was \u2018fat\u2019 at times, if the characters didn\u2019t constantly point it out. At times Russian Yuri looked a bit alien in both his movement and the way he was drawn.<\/p>\n \u2018History Maker\u2019 by Dean Fujioka is the intro song. It fits well with the animation that is shown. The song doesn\u2019t stand out a lot, it doesn\u2019t have an enormous amount of energy, but I do feel like the energy in this song fits with the anime. The intro fits with the series in general.<\/p>\n The outro song, \u2018You only live once\u2019 by YURI!!! on ICE featuring w.hatano, is pretty energetic. During the song pictures are shown that give even more of an impression of the characters in the series, which was a nice touch. Although there isn\u2019t any animation, just pictures, there are some flashes of light which keep well to the rhythm of the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yaoi-.. I mean Yuri!!! on Ice has created quite the hype. 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\nNumber of episodes:<\/strong>\u00a012
\nEpisode duration:<\/strong> 23 minutes<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/avo-magazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yuri-on-ice_2.jpg\")
<\/p>\nScore:<\/strong> 70 \/ 100<\/h4>\n
![](\"http:\/\/avo-magazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yuri-on-ice_1.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThe story<\/h4>\n
![](\"http:\/\/avo-magazine.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yuri-on-ice_3.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThe characters<\/h4>\n
The animation<\/h4>\n
The\u00a0intro & outro<\/h4>\n