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sophia_sol) wrote2016-12-11 09:44 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2016-12-11 09:44 pm
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Yuri on Ice
Well this weekend I watched Yuri on Ice! That is definitely a thing. It was a weird experience because I know basically zero about anime conventions so I kept on being mildly baffled by choices it was making without knowing whether my bafflement ought to be directed towards anime as a whole or Yuri on Ice in particular.
I was enjoying myself but not super invested for most of the show. Possibly in part because I was just so confused by everything about Viktor and thinking he made no sense as a coherent character? And then we reached the end of episode 10 and I was like GOSH NEVER MIND I CARE A WHOLE LOT and also OH THERE WE GO THAT EXPLAINS SOME THINGS ABOUT VIKTOR.
Um. I still have no idea really how to talk about this show! It is too many things that I am not experienced with and so I kind of feeling like I'm just ineffectually flailing around the corners of understanding this show? But also I care about everyone (including all the other competitors), and it manages to be a sports anime about like the one and only popular sport that I'm actually interested in watching extended quantities of, and I am nearly positive it is being deliberately textually gay, so like. I am here for it. I will keep watching. AND I WANT THE NEXT EPISODE ASAP.
(I've tried reading the fic but so far it turns out that I am uninterested in pre-ep-10 fic, and also much of the fic I've come across so far is nothing but schmoopy romance which is just....not what I want to read about in extended quantities.)
note: spoilers in comments on dw side of this post
I was enjoying myself but not super invested for most of the show. Possibly in part because I was just so confused by everything about Viktor and thinking he made no sense as a coherent character? And then we reached the end of episode 10 and I was like GOSH NEVER MIND I CARE A WHOLE LOT and also OH THERE WE GO THAT EXPLAINS SOME THINGS ABOUT VIKTOR.
Um. I still have no idea really how to talk about this show! It is too many things that I am not experienced with and so I kind of feeling like I'm just ineffectually flailing around the corners of understanding this show? But also I care about everyone (including all the other competitors), and it manages to be a sports anime about like the one and only popular sport that I'm actually interested in watching extended quantities of, and I am nearly positive it is being deliberately textually gay, so like. I am here for it. I will keep watching. AND I WANT THE NEXT EPISODE ASAP.
(I've tried reading the fic but so far it turns out that I am uninterested in pre-ep-10 fic, and also much of the fic I've come across so far is nothing but schmoopy romance which is just....not what I want to read about in extended quantities.)
note: spoilers in comments on dw side of this post