holy shit this was sO SO GOOD I AM SHOOK THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE MY ALL TIME FAV THE MUSIC IS LIT THE ANIMATION IS SUPER LIT EVERYTHING WAS SO GOOD HELP
Not entirely sure what style I was expecting. This was completely different from whatever it was.
BUT
I liked this a lot. Seems it'll be more comedic than I expected, for one, which is probably OK. A serious, dramatic anime about figure skating probably wouldn't attract much of an audience…so comedy is a good way to try and broaden the appeal. Not sure about the hot spring fanservice, but…we'll see if it reaches annoying levels. This time around it was mostly amusing seeing all the creative ways the animators came up with to conveniently censor characters.
What I would have liked to see was higher frame rates during the skating sequences. Sports anime (and figure skating is a sport, so this is included) rarely benefit from jerky motion when the actual sport is happening on screen. If anything, low frame rates make the action very confusing. I doubt this point will be improved during the broadcast season—or even in Blu-rays—but it is certainly worth mentioning that the action gets a wee bit frame-y. (Once or twice it looked like Yuuri's limbs stretched out temporarily, too…art quality might be an issue.)
The show's worth continuing, though. I'm looking forward to next week.
Shout by chairBlockedParent2017-01-11T19:54:13Z— updated 2017-01-20T17:50:16Z
okay, this is better than i thought it would be. i'm not really into sports in general but especially not into figure skating. always found the idea of it extremely boring. but strangely that wasn't the case here?.. like i'm really fascinated by how these routines get animated. must be hard as hell. and it looks really complex and comes off both detailed and fluid. i think i know why it's pleasant to watch and not even from an aesthetic point of view. it's just really fucking great to see skating being performed so smoothly and flawlessly, not unlike those weirdly satisfying videos of perfectly cut out pieces of cheese or something like that. so now i actually, to an extent, get the point of figure skating. that's cool i guess. also the gay is pretty obvious here from the get go. i wonder if it's gay gay or some dumb queerbating bullshit. if it's the former, good job, japan, on taking a step in the right direction.