Yuuri Katsuki and Victor Nikiforov play it cool on the ice in this blue-themed poster from January’s Animage Magazine (Amazon US | eBay) that’s also used as the cover art for the supplemental booklet. Illustrated by animation director Kagetz Aizawa (相澤伽月), otherwise known as Masahiro Aizawa.
i feel like this is always going to be my favorite piece of official art, simply because i lack the capacity to come up with an explanation for it that isn’t “hi there, we were just making out,:
phichit chulanont has a youtube account. there’s a lot of videos on it and he has a good number of subscribers.
he posts videos of practices, food vlogs, youtube tags, and random little videos he takes when he’s just out with his friends, or edits he made.
but the video with most views on his youtube channel is called “Yuuri Katsuki sneezing for twenty minutes” and it’s just a compilation spanning many years of yuuri katsuki kitten sneezing, before scrunching up his nose adorably and looking confused.
it has over 500,000 views.
sometimes people on the street point at yuuri and go “hey it’s the sneezing dude”
yuuri is Very Confused.
actually you know what, i’m not done. here are the Top 10 Videos in Phichit Chulanont’s Youtube Account (excluding the above), in no particular order:
best quality: his wiggles– it’s just a seven minutes and forty-three uninterrupted second compilation of yuuri katsuki wiggling happily looking like the most precious cinnamon roll in the world. there’s countless gifs of it as well as at least three reaction videos were somoen just starts crying because he’s so precious
Dance Workshop Vlog – which is just phichit vlogging a one day long dance workshop he was a part of with yuuri featuring a lot of dancing, a lot of shy smiley sweaty yuuri and their fanbase imploding when they danced together to smth vaguely smexy
i lost yuuri – which is a 12 minute long video of phichit and his friends looking for yuuri at a party. they find him and lose him several times, adn here’s a couple of things they find him doing: playing mario kart and winning, engaging in a push-up contest with a solo cup on his back against a shitton brickhouse of a man, three blocks down petting a dog because he saw someone drive by with the doggo in their car and chase it down, sitting on the windowsill in the window at a mcdonalds drivethrough as the person who is working there feeds him chicken nuggets
Yuuri Katsuki & Phichit Chulanont – King And The Skater Final Pair Skate – this one unintentionally sparked a fandom war bc some ppl declared yuuchit canon because LOOK HOW THE STARE LONGINGLY INTO EACH OTHER’S EYES THEY ARE IN LOVE!!! and the other part of the fandom was like ITS CALLED BEING FRIENDS STOP BEING FUCKING GROSS. but the most important thing is that one of the leads of the king and the skater tweeted about yuuri and phichit’s pair skate and phichit cries before framing the tweet and hanging it up on his wall
to brighten your day – which is a two minute compilation video of phichit saying “tatter tots” and yuuri falling over himself laughing for literally no other reason than the fact that the thinks the expression “tatter tots” is funny
Food Vlog #6 Best Moments – which has a full one minute compilation of yuuri gasping and going “dog!” and then a short few seconds of him petting the dog he found. everyone in phichit’s friend group making yummy sounds at food. (someone makes a compilation of just yuuri and the comment section is less than decent). a compilation of phichit calling for yuuri when he sees smth he wants to try and saying ”selfie!”. and a compilation of yuuri rating the food from a 1 to 10 scale in how much he wants to marry it.
How To Make Tea At 3 AM With Katsuki Yuuri – which he filmed when yuuri was a lil tipsy and needed hella sleep. it consists in yuuri explaining how to make tea, except after he puts the water on the stove he climbs on top of the dinner table, lays face down and starts having an existencial crises which consists in a lot of Revelations like “elephants can never skip rope and i think that’s really sad” to “life is meaningless and we are all going to die” to “do you think victor nikiforov is a trickster god sent to earth to mock my very existence??? bc his latest costume is too much and i am weak” before getting back up to pour himself a mug of tea and sit on the couch sipping it like nothing happened
Finals Mood – which is a compilation of all of his friends, including yuuri slamming their heads on the table and groaning, muttering noooooooo, having v short existencial crisis that always start with “what if i just quit university right now”, mixing energy drinks and coffee and chugging it down.
practice video #31 – in which phichit convinces yuuri to do his impression of victor nikiforov so yuuri skates backwards basically doing the hand gestures from that one rihanna gif and winking
My Boyfriend Does My Make Up Tag – in which phichit opens the video saying he doesn’t have a boyfriend but really wanted to do this so he invited yuuri to do his make up for him while he answers some twitter questions. their fanbase, predictably, implodes
Here is a full set of the Yuri on Ice Pride flag colours series i have so far. I do plan to do more, I just got bogged down with thesis work. the requests you sent me related to this series have also been noted, but i thought in the mean time people might appreciate the series all in one place. For individual posts check out my “yuri on ice” tag.
I’m not sure if this has been done before, but in case it hasn’t, I just thought it was too precious not to share it!!
In episode 4 of Yuri on Ice, where Yuuri is trying to choose a song for his Free Skate, there’s a fleeting moment when you can actually see his entire list of rejected songs (right before he gives up and rings Phichit).
SO. A few months ago, after the nth time of re-watching YOI (where n was not yet an embarrassingly large number), I copied down the list and tried to work out what it said.
Turns out, it’s not only a list of songs but also a few comments he had for each song!!
Here’s the original Japanese from the scene and a rough translation. (Pardon my very basic Japanese. PLEASE LET ME KNOW if you spot errors and I will correct them!)
Does not seem likely for
skeletons to come out dancing at midnight.
Notes: The song title actually says the “dance
of life” but considering the dancing skeletons and the bright image, I think he’s
referring to Danse Macabre.
Notes: This title played merry hell with me. It says “Tile?Ceramic? splitting doll. Pi-po-pu” Ended up searching Japanese sites for possible
interpretations and the most likely one seems to be the Nutcracker Pas De Deux,
especially since he mentions Christmas…
It seems
the name of the prince cannot be guessed.
Notes: Another title that was quite difficult to guess,
because it’s not the official Japanese name of Nessun Dorma and literally says “Everyone
shall not sleep”. But since he mentions guessing the name of the prince, I
think Nessun Dorma is correct.
Thank goodness he rejected all of the above, because his final FS was much better ❤ ❤ ❤
Wow.
I mean, for fandom dedication and geekery levels, all I can say is
