Yuri on Ice has better, more complex, and tighter storytelling than Cowboy Bebop. It deserves recognition as a new classic.
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I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE WAS ABLE TO WRITE THIS STORY IT'S SO PERFECTLY DONE
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The latest episode also completely changes Yurio's reactions from outsized jealousy to worry and concern for Viktor!!!
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But seriously Viktor met his prince at a fucking BALL and then chased him out to a goddamn ICE CASTLE and broke the spell of depression
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and then even though his prince forgot him, he fell in love with him again
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it's a really traditional romantic story arc, but it's mirrored on both sides
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both are experiencing a rich emotional life of fear of abandonment while idealizing the object of their desire
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yuri on ice isn't a cheap mary sue anime that is propelled by the capricious desires of a deus ex machina perfect man
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BOTH OF THEM HAVE REAL FEELINGS
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This is some of the tightest and most complex storytelling I've ever seen! It's incredible!
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Anyways I hashed out a lot of this with
@ElizSimins while we repeatedly fell on our asses ice skating today -
I am in awe of the writing in this show. It's something I can only hope to aspire to, one day.
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In general I never watch anime for the writing. Because, like, lol why would you? It's mostly quite bad across all subgenres.
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You watch anime because you like the characters or the subgenre is your thing or you want to blow off steam or you want wish fulfillment
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But Yuri!!! On Ice is so well-woven that you could throw literary & film analysis at it for days and days
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It knows romance so well as a genre and it uses the inherent cheesiness of ice skating to quietly introduce all the tired tropes
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Sleeping beauties, ice castles, fateful meet-cutes while dancing at a banquet, etc
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It's all in there if you look for it, but the narrative-as-it-appears is grounded in realism
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Not a goddamn minute is wasted. Even the skating routines of OTHER SKATERS are about Victor and Yuuri.
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And the other skaters actually move the plot along too!
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@ElizSimins pointed out to me today that the big reveal in the latest episode is a reveal bc PHICHIT WASN'T AT THE BANQUET TO POST ABOUT IT -
also I have never seen a show use Instagram to tell pieces of a story, let alone doing it well and humorously and not clumsily at all
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Like, duh, this is a story about modern life, including life on social media makes it feel real
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the moment it all clicks for viktor, which is why he boldly makes the [SPOILERS] announcement a moment laterpic.twitter.com/Dk1IcsZPXK
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because now he knows Yuuri was being weird and cold to him because HE JUST DIDN'T REMEMBER, not because he doesn't care
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