anindigomind | Journal : On Ice (Reply)

I finally finished Yuri on Ice yesterday*. (*Thursday) Yeah I know it's taken me forever and I have no excuse except bad braining. The Bad Brain has been throwing up a lot of barriers the last few years, and focusing on... anything... is difficult. So, 12 episodes? The most I've watched of anything/finished in a long while. Well, I guess I watched Star Trek Beyond awhile back, but I couldn't focus on it and I need to see it again because what I did saw I really enjoyed.

Focus is a moving target.

Anyway. Before starting YOI I thought it had to be like 24 episodes long, judging by the heaps of discussions, available plot summaries, and wide variety of image sets. That it's only 12 episodes was a bit of the shock, though I'm not going to complain that it didn't take as long to watch lol. That 12 episodes there - that's probably the show's biggest, if maybe only real, flaw. The pacing HUSTLES, and it uneven as heck because it's trying to do ALL THE THINGS but were only greenlit for maybe a quarter of the things. I can respect the ambitiousness of it, because it isn't as grating the way other things that are fast paced but lacking all the underpinning support structure are.

It's also somewhat hilarious that any anime fan could have been blindsided by the relationship - in some ways YoI is more akin to classic fantasy adventure anime(at least the line between YoI and Utena is straighter then the main characters) then sports anime. (Honestly I could use a touch MORE sports - I still really 'get' how the scoring works*?) (*this is not an invite to explain it to me.) It goes right through to the ending - I've also seen mutterings about how vague a certain part is, but honestly? Dancing around declarations of love is pretty standard for anime romances - 'until i retire/never retire' is pretty damn direct if you ask me. At least no more ambiguous then 'I felt I could become a normal swordsman' DEAR GOD why do I watch this medium again?

Okay to summarize - Yuri on Ice is delightful, entertaining, shorter-then-expected, and one of those super accessible anime(is the dub out yet?) with a handful of problems that all come down to shooting for the moon but landing in the stars. May the second season have the room it needs.

We have a sort of plan to head down to Nebraska on Monday, to see the eclipse. Fingers crossed it all goes well.

8tracks playlist of the week : lathbora viran ; https://8tracks.com/seheron/lathbora-viran