Small, slightly obscure, but really cool thing that happens in episode 1 of Yuri!!! On Ice that I donāt think a lot of people caught:
They probably werenāt watching the weather forecast there in the first two shots, they were watching the news. This cold front came literally out of nowhere, as, like the announcer says, it was supposedĀ to be a perfect day for hanami, ergo going for a picnic to watch the cherry blossoms. But instead, lots of snow.
Now, for those of you who live in colder areas, like myself, you probably just wentĀ āwell, unseasonal snow happens sometimes, I remember once we had snow in mid-May.ā
For those of you who live in warmer areas, you probably wentĀ āidk how snow works, so I guess that sounds legit???ā
Snow in April on fuckingĀ Kyushu is beyond ridiculous, okay. They barely even get snow in the actualĀ winter months. This is happening on April 11th - or even later - and they shouldĀ be having temperatures in the 15-20Ā°C/60-68Ā°F range - or maybe even higher. And they probably were, before this. Thatās why Yuuriās so surprised and confused.
So why would they even bother including this?
Victor. Itās all about Victor.
In part, I suspect itās a literary/poetry reference, even if I canāt quite place it, becauseĀ āhe came from the north, bringing ice and snowā is something of a universal literary image.
But mostly, itās because, in Japanese, when someone does something highly unexpected and uncharacteristic, like, say, me cleaning my room, you express your surprise by saying āwow, does this mean itās gonna snow tomorrow?ā
And it didnāt just snow. It snowed a lot. Itās a reference to how ridiculously unexpected it is for Victor to wanna coach instead of skating himself, for him to show up in Japan out of the blue.
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