August update part 2 hehe
Yuri On Ice (topics and vague spoilers) and it's music.
And euhh I started and finished Yuri!!! On Ice, and it was honestly so fantastic. Firstly it was just had so many relatable topics going on there. Yuri is mostly so amazing. You've got enormous fanboying (but like still as a young adult), you've got the college life, realistic set-backs from pressure and anxiety (both to perform in life and to deal with figuring your future out as you are growing out of young adult phase when you're expected to know by now) and seeing growth in how to deal with it, you've got the late bloomer love, definitely partly caused by finding your queer identity and struggling with conventional gender expression and relationship ship roles. These are all topics I continue to struggle with too.
But then the thing even more.... THE MUSIC. Music is such a powerful medium. The wide variety of emotions music can make you feel.
So many choices that make a great piece. From the individual melodies and beats, to the totality of having lots of things going on or very little things, in various difficulties, all with their own way of succeeding to create something absolutely beautiful in succeeding to induce feelings. The progression of a piece can tell you a whole story, from various details and different sides of one feeling or passing through multiple emotions and thoughts.
Some pieces used in YOI have (and continue) to absolutely emotionally wreck me when I listen to it. I hate and love it at the same time. I get so overwhelmed with feelings and induce such powerful images. Even long after watching the anime and forgetting all the details I will still catch on to their themes through the music (like apart from how the music would feel when it's totally separated from the story it eventually supports). I love it so much I find it so fantastic that music can do such a thing. But it also absolutely wrecks me, since it makes me get very out of touch with my boring real life and makes me live in my head a bit too much from time to time. (a little bit too much out of my control really). But yeah That's that.
(I l o v e the opening making history, on love both eros and agape, Yuri on ICE, thème of king JJ, piano concerto in B minor (allegro), terra incognito, intoxicated, shall we skate, partizan hope, l'homme arme (I could go on really). I love how their own interpreties of the pieces and the relation to their own life and experiences are so incorporated in the plot lines. Really gives these pieces extra meanings outside what I would imagine.
Also don't forget that it has some BEAUTIFUL animation.
(I also keep being overcome with emotions by the OST of death note, and the songs used in Given)
