These days I decided to start a new anime.
Yuri on Ice is an anime of 12 episodes, directed by Sayo Yamamoto, a sports genre.
The plot unfolds with screaming animations and choreographies, magnificent performances of characters performed under various musical backgrounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0I1wGIV05s
All played by prominent players, the first of which is Japanese Yuri Katsuki, competing tightly with his enemy Russian boy , another Yuri, Yuri plisetky.
The two in addition to competing on the ice rink are also to have the best coach available, Victor Nikiforov.
Excellent skater and beautiful Russian boy.
All played on choreography and ambiguity. Victor as coach is admired as a boy, a sensual and ambiguous mentor figure, with scenes that clearly refer to a homoerotic love.
The story begins with Japanese Yuri, the boy after a series of victories loses the important Grand Prix Final and as he desperately meets Russian Yuri, who humiliates him further by advising him with his retraction from the slopes.
Yuri follows the counsel of the enemy and returns home, to his family baths in Kyushu, where he drinks his sorrows in food and long solitary workouts.
In one of these imitates Victor, his idol is filmed without his knowledge, the video becomes viral on the web, until he comes to Victor himself. Who remains enthusiastic about it!
And what does Victor do? He goes to Japan and decides to accommodate Yuri completely undressed in the spa of the boy's family.
The Russian coach decides to take the Japanese boy's case and to train him personally. To this news, the Russian Yuri gets angry and moves to Japan as well, deciding to have Victor as his personal coach.
So between the two Yuri starts a tight competition to win the Grand Prix and the attentions of the fascinating Victor who creates a very close and ambiguous relationship with the Japanese Yuri.
The anime has made it very difficult for him to play on the ambiguity of the relationships between the characters, underlining homoerotic relationships without ever reaching scenes where such relationships were explicit. Creating this sexy mentor character who trains the protagonist, who proves to him a mix of admiration and attraction.
So never crossing the sport genre for that yaoi (Anime themed love homosexual sex with explicit sex scenes) or shounen to (Anime always on the subject of homosexual love but without scenes of sex, only love and maximum kisses). The anime has left some disappointments for this choice not to make explicit the links between the protagonists and others, instead happy with a sporty, lightweight soul and with the protagonists a sensual pinch.
Between us, I am worshiping this anime, both for the truly beautiful choreography to see, a joy for the eyes, both for the subtle thread of ambiguity present in history.
How not to be subdued by the sensual Victor?
