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karibooo replied to your post “*sigh* Can I have seiyuu dramas where there’s no flirting between...”

Did Chris and Viktor really flirt? From what I got they just made dirty puns or smth

That’s basically what they did in the first drama and it was described as flirting by various reports. Depends a lot on the context I suppose. Which is the problem with these things. We’re not there, we need to rely on reports and translation without context.

For example, I’ve seen reports that Yuuri is attracted to Chris’s body in this, and I’ve also seen it reported that he simply compares his off-season body to Chris’ because he feels insecure about his own appearance. Very different things.

But since they had Chris and Victor flirt in Yuri on Stage I wouldn’t be surprised if they did it again in Yuri on Festival. For ~comedy~.

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karibooo replied to your post:hear me out: free! is not a sports anime. and to a...

It’s a sports anime. 80% of the show is ice skating. It doesn’t matter what you personally like to label it as but that doesn’t derive from the fact that it is a sports anime (and in many ways much more accurate and true to the nature of the sport that free! tbh as confirmed by actual proffessional figure skaters) :)

this post is over 10 months old so this was not a reply i was expecting but alrighty :)

1) i certainly do not remember the show being 80% ice skating. even as it was airing i could remember all of two routines, partly because that is not what the show wanted us to focus on. 

so if yoi is indeed purely a sports anime (it’s not), then it’s terrible at being what it’s supposed to be. the sport is the backdrop and moves the plot along, but the plot is centered on yuuri and victor’s relationship. that’s the point of the anime. even yamamoto (i believe it was her not kubo) said she set out to make an anime about the “deep relationship between an athlete and his coach” or whatever. the skating provides a framework for the conflicts and frequent abundant fanservice between both the two leads and supporting characters like yurio and otabek, and chris. 

2) i literally never said free! was accurate to competitive swimming. in fact, that’s kinda my argument? 80% of free! involves swimming or swimming-related things, and kyoani did quite a bit of research. does that make it a sports anime? hell no. it’s sports-themed josei character drama, just like yoi

3) pro figure skaters saying something is accurate has absolutely nothing to do with what an anime actually is as a production. that’s like saying “pro singers have confirmed there is indeed a lot of singing in utapri, therefore it is a Singing Anime with Singing Focus, and NOT a romantic comedy reverse harem adaptation of an otome game set in a music school”

look. you don’t have to justify your enjoyment of a fujobait series by pretending it’s More Than That. it’s fine. nothing wrong with liking this kinda stuff

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Shout out to @karibooo for being my #1 fan and also dAMN LOOK AT THAT FINE ART