This post turned out longer, than I thought it would, so there is a read more
After I tried to process Youtuber Hanyu Yuzuru Senshu,
And after that did not work,
I did notice something
Yuzu, in these live streams and videos and photos, reminds me of Yuzu, at a time not too long ago, yet it feels very nostalgic
Yuzuru’s Sendai Parade, April 2018
SharePractice, August 2022
If anyone still remembers that
The same glow on his face,
The same contentment in his eyes,
And an over all aura of calm and happiness, even though he is still working hard,
(If you are newer to the fandom and don’t know what I am talking about, after Yuzu’s second Olympic Gold Medal Win, the city of Sendai organized a parade through Sendai (just like after Yuzuru’s first OGM Win in 2014), Yuzu’s home city, where he then was driven around on a platform, and waved at people, and over all seemed really happy, I can recommend watching it,
Link to it on YouTube here (2014) and here (2018)
Link to information on it here)
Also
Now that I have again looked at some pictures of Yuzuru
I want to share these pictures with you
More from the Victory Parade, April 2018 in Sendai
More from SharePractice, August 2022
From Continues With Wings or CiONTU, Yuzuru’s very own ice show (look it up it is great), April 2018
And
From the 2018 Olympics, because a happy Yuzuru is the best Yuzuru, February 2018
And one from his Pro Athlete Announcement Press Conference, because I really quite like whenever he does The SEIMEI Pose, July 2022
When you think of figure skating, don't forget who the king IS. In the generations before him, and the generations after him, Yuzuru has been, and will forever be--
It was such a pleasure to spend New Year's Eve with you my baby 💕 Thanks for making us happy to start a brand new year 🥰 I will still be with you in 2023 ❄️ I will follow you forever 🫧 Happy New Year my baby 💫
I feel like this is an important root that gives me the will to start all over again, so here's a lengthy post of sincere gratitude.
I dedicate this drawing to Yuzuru Hanyu - for giving me the energy to being able to bloom again - in my arts, my creations.
Knowing Yuzu changed my view of life; I haven't touched art anymore since my high school and college years but because I discovered him, the ethereal beauty of his performances pushed me hard to grab a pencil and just. Get inspired and start sketching.
So many times I wrote that he makes me believe in dreams again, after years of no direction of where I want to go, what I want to be - losing all the creative side and the passion in it. I used to draw and write a LOT of fantasies and fictions before I was 15.
I don't even remember how I lost ALL of it after. My days revolved around short term targets and aiming towards... I don't know... unfulfilling achievements? I progressed but I found no meaning it it.
In 2018 I found Yuzu and, of course, it's not an immediate influence. But I found myself being able to "fantasize" once again. In 2020, I finally restarted making art, simple as it may be. But I did. Started that first rough sketch of anything in my mind.
I think, now most of my works are heavily inspired by him - even indirectly, might be through his programs, his words of wisdom, his program music. His performances build others; this, I want to thank him for making me able to express myself again.