Not only is it about the much-needed representation, but the anime delivers a great story-line about following dreams through shortcomings, and picking yourself up and trying again. This comes at an excellent time, as numbers of LGBT athletes have reached new heights in the world of sports, and the inclusion featured in the anime provides key representation. Weir announced the skate today, completely familiar with the series, encouraging viewers that ‘they may know the piece’. Perhaps who it has inspired most is the figure skating community- earning tweets from famous skaters such as Johnny Weir and Evgenia Medvedeva. The series debuted in 2016, and has gone on to inspire masses of people to follow their dreams, and be their authentic selves. You can watch their beautiful and captivating performance here. The theme song of the hit anime is called ‘History Maker’, and that’s exactly what it’s done – reaching yet another peak yesterday in Pyeongchang as Japan’s Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara performed the song named after the series title, ‘Yuri on Ice’ for the world. And now, it is not only a top-seller on Amazon, but has just been performed at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Yuri on Ice is a series unlike any other. Yuri on Ice is a series that showed a same-sex couple normalized in a healthy relationship, pursuing their dreams.
Yuri!!! On Ice was a series that almost didn’t get approved.
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