The story follows the figure skating life of Yuri Katsuki, his dreams to achieve more on the ice after a rough season.
As the story progresses Yuri steals the attention of Viktor Nikiforov, world champion on the ice. Viktor attention is turned towards Yuri after he is recorded performing a program of Viktor’s. This story touches on failures Yuri faces with anxiety, him going home, his relationship with Viktor as he is pushed to do what he loves. Not only does the story focus on them, but his competitors across different rinks and competitions for the opportunity to skate for the Grand Prix. The show even touches on a rivalry between Yuri Plisetsky and Yuri katsuki to win the Grand Prix.
“I wasn’t there when it got cancelled but hearing that I feel bad especially it was really good, so give it another season, what do you mean you don’t have ideas,” Kayden Hunter said.
This original story is said to be one of the biggest sport anime’s of the last decade according to Erielle Sudario with IMDb. After its many awards on Crunchyroll like Animation of the year, best couple for Yuri and Viktor, best opening thanks to its song history maker, best ending. As well as its Tokyo anime award of best animation in 2017. It was praised by real figure skaters for its accuracy, to the point that a song from the show was used at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Each beautifully animated scene of figure skating routines throughout the show, has a mix of 3D, 2D, and rotoscoping techniques used for making each scene more realistic, mentioned by Alan Boon on starburst magazine. Rotoscoping is the process of making animation by tracing over actual video frame by frame.
“Originally I didn’t know about the second season, when I was watching the first season I was a weird kid I didn’t use the internet like that. I wasn’t too disappointed about the second season getting canceled because I didn’t know about it, but when the movie got announced im pretty sure the movie was an ongoing thing and it was one of those things every year they were like here’s the new date. I remember seeing it later in 8th grade, a newer trailer of it and I was like oh my gosh, this might be real and I sent it to my friend that had introduced it to me and then the next week I get an article the Yuri on ice movie is not happening. I was genuinely distraught, I thought they were going to do the same thing with Skate because it’s the same company. I was really upset because the Yuri on ice movie would’ve been really great especially since it would’ve been out when I was in high school and I watched it in middle school, big difference, big step but I’m still into it, but I was overall still disappointed to this day about it,” Jonae Davis said.
