hello, have you ever thought about creating a playlist/list of all your favourite Yuzuru interviews? can you pleaseeeee create one (if you haven't), since you seem to know a lot about this <3
I were to skim through my Yuzu playlist to make the list but then ended up getting into the spiral of re-watching my fav vids and finding out even more vids I hadn’t watched XD so I’m sorry this took such a long time.
So… if you know me, you’ll know that my first reaction to this question is SHUZO!! I absolutely adore all the interviews that Yuzuru has done with Shuzo Matsuoka-san, as Shuzo-san most of the time knows which question to ask after following Yuzu for so many years, and Yuzu is also very comfortable around him. Therefore, on the top of my fav list are some of Shuzo’s interviews:
First interview of Yuzuru & Shuzo - Houdou Station 7.11.2011: baby Yuzuru impressed Mr. Shuzo with his ambitious goals and 4T training
Inteview after NHK Trophy 2014 (translation here) insights on how Yuzu felt going back to competition after the collision. Yuzu later said that he learned a lot from this interview & it helped him get gold at GPF 2014
Interview after NHK Trophy 2015: His hot-blooded side and interesting competitive mindest
Interview after GPF 2015: Explanations to his reactions at GPF
Interview after NHK Trophy 2016: Insights on how he copes with expectations, and it’s interesting how he changed his goal in the middle of the interview
Some interviews from Pyeongchang:
Interview with Shuzo Matsuoka (subbed) - Houdou station 19.02.2018: funny and insightful as always
Interview with Shou Sakurai (full translations): I really like it as it touched several important topics with just enough details and some good humor from Yuzu
Interview with Nakai (partial translation here and here) [update: just found a subbed version here]
Press conference at Japanese National Press Club (subbing in progress by gladi and tadakixd)
Other than that, here are some other older interviews that I like:
Interview after NHK Trophy 2014 (my translation gifs here): a very inspiring interview that I hold very dear to my heart, I got a lot of motivation from it
“From a boy to a young man” - GetSports (14.4.2014): it’s not fully translated yet, but I made translation gifs for my favorite part of the interview here
“Scenery seen at the shelter” (4.3.2012): it’s not subbed, but I translated most parts (part1 and part2) Yuzuru’s reflections one year after the Earthquake 3.11, it was very real and heartbreaking to hear his 18-year-old struggling with such hardships and emotional conflicts
Asaichi 2015: I like it a lot, full of small questions, cute answers, but I only recommend part I and first few minutes of part II.
Kenji’s Room ft. Yuzuru (5 episodes) (summer 2015): this one is more like a talkshow than an interview, but I like it a lot as they spent enough time to explore from the most trivial snippets to Yuzu’s reflections on big changes in his life. Plus these two joked around a lot, it was cute and casual :D
Talkshow with Yuzuru, Plushenko and Mao at NHK Special Exhibition 2016 (partial translation here & my translation gifs here): the content is nothing new, but the interaction btw Plushenko & Yuzuru is adorable
I also like some interviews just for their interesting snippets:
Yuzuru answering to the question of how to raise children like him (translation gifs here): hands down - best answer you can get
Yuzuru pisses off his mom while doing image training (x)
JP media literally roasted Yuzu on set for the many times he failed on 4S over 2 seasons XD (x)
Baby Yuzu said his honest goal and regretted immediately (x): absolutely the most adorable thing ever
Mascot cannot stop caressing baby Yuzu (subbed) (x): I just laughed so hard at the sound effects
Cute short interview with PJ Kwong (x)
Yuzuru’s 5-minute answer to the question of how many quads are necessary for Pyeongchang + facepalm at the end (full answer here, translation here)
Haha sorry that this turned out to be such a long list :))) There’re tons (like TONS!!) of old and new contents about Yuzu that I haven’t watched, so this is just a very subjective list of mine :”> hope you’ll enjoy this!
