Yuri!!! on Ice

Yuri!!! on Ice is a 2016 Japanese sports anime television series about figure skating. The series was produced by MAPPA, directed by Sayo Yamamoto (of Michiko to Hatchin and Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine fame.) and written by Mitsurō Kubo (author of, among others, Moteki and Again!!).

After a crushing lose at the Grand Prix Final and several following competitions caused by a mix of personal tragedy and performance anxiety, 23-year-old Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki becomes rather uncertain on what to do with his life and his career, and decides to temporary retire back to his hometown of Hasetsu in Kyushu until he can figures what to do. However, when a secretly-taped video of him duplicating a rather difficult routine of his longtime idol, famous Russian skater and living legend Victor Nikiforov, is upload to the internet and becomes viral, it begins a chain of events that culminates with Victor himself landing in the town and offering to be Yuri's coach. This act also attracts the ire and attention of one Yuri Plisetsky, a 15-year-old Russian prodigy that is looking to debut in the senior Category and was aiming to have Victor as his coach and/or choreographer; it doesn't help that both Yuris had a run-in at the Grand Prix, when the Russian Yuri caught the Japanese one in the middle of a breakdown and told him to just give up already.

Note that despite the name, this series has nothing to do with the Yuri Genre; if something, it's closer to the Boys Love Genre in themes albeit not in tropes


 * Excited Show Title!: With three exclamation marks!
 * Spell My Name with an "S": because of two main characters having the same given name, "Yuri", when transliterated in roman letters, most people in fandom romanize the name of the Japanese protagonist as "Yuuri" to differentiate between them. Many fans also prefer to writer Victor's name as "Viktor" as the latter is the most common Russian form of the name.
 * Wham! Episode:
 * The seventh episode.
 * Then the tenth episode, who begins as a breather episode before the finale and ends with a revelation that put all the relationships between the characters under a new light, without actually retconning them.