Who is the gay couple in yuri on ice

That’s because, in Yuri!!! on Ice, Episode 12, after Yuri wins silver in the competition, Yuri and Victor skate a romantic program together in the exhibition event. Finally, the ending scene shows Yuri running in St. Petersburg, Russia towards where Victor and Yuri P. are waiting for him. Yuri!!! on ICE broke new ground with a kiss between two adult queer men. In the latter, there is an apparent engagement, although both romantic instances were protected from potential outrage by suggestion.

In episode 7 of Yuri on Ice, our main characters kissed — with an obscuring caveat — but as I’d argue with most sports anime, kissing is probably yuri least gay thing that happens. Who Yuri!!! on Ice isn't only a sweeping romance. It's a coming age of story for Yuri, who's fear of opening up kept him reserved and closed in, even from himself.

In interviews, director Sayo Yamamoto and writer Mitsuro Kubo have shared insightful tidbits about Yuri and Ice unique and progressive intimacy. They clarified that the series occurs in a world free from homophobia. This reveals why Yuri and Victor felt the gay couple pursuing their feelings. February 6, February 6, Frog-kun. Just friends? The show is just a fujobait, and nothing more.

Yuri on ice took the performance culture out of context. Shows getting big and starting to appear everywhere and being celebrated constantly always seems to produce a large and vocal crowd of contrarians.

Everything about the scene was made to make it clear they kissed without showing it, and the writer confirmed it to be a kiss later. Search for: Search. While I respected Yuri as a conflicted character, Viktor annoyed me to high heaven. It was first and foremost a sports anime, and a really engaging one. Like Yuri, I was nervous and doubted myself.

Teen titans has a romance so understated that it felt one sided most of the time. Yuri on Ice was not my favourite anime ofbut it was still an anime that I enjoyed enough to mention on my shortlist of faves for Crunchyroll News. The quality of the skating in this looks like the exact opposite of skating scene in Argylle. And I can totally get why many diehard anime fans who actually care about plots and animation quality are angered by this.

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Email Required Name Required Website. At least in China, this show has a love-it-or-hate-it audience. Is it the be all and end all of anime? Thanks for the comment. I cried a lot. Yuri meets victor in the end of episode 1, meaning they were practically strangers to one another in early parts of the show. I am based in China and I can tell you there are many fujoshis over there and the majority of YOI fanbase there is indeed the fujoshis.

They literally exchange rings and got engaged. I am not a massive fan of ice skating, but I did grow up on watching Olympics and some major tournaments, so I had pleasure to watch perfomances of many talented skaters, both males and females. But still I did like YOI. Comment Reblog Subscribe Subscribed. Sign me up. However, I loved the Endless Night anime short by the same core staff.