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作者：Alexa-Tsui

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I went to watch the next-day viewing of yesterday’s Yuri on Festival event, and this time I took notes for the drama so I’ll write a more detailed summary, also because this one isn’t going to be sold on DVD. I believe other people have probably written reports too, but in cases such as this I think “the more the merrier” because it’s not recorded so it’s better to have more accounts. Also, now you’ll start seeing more Japanese reports & art too. Most people were keeping quiet out of consideration for the ones who could only watch the viewing and didn’t want spoilers.

Official title of the drama: “Fundoshi da yo!!! Sekai Metsubou Daipinchi Hasetsu Kunchi Spiritual!!” which roughly translates to “Fundoshi!!! The world is in danger of being destroyed. Hasetsu Kunchi Spiritual!!”

It was in 3 parts, separated by game and information corners.
I hope it’s not too confusing, but especially the last part is impossible to summarize decently because they talked a lot and I couldn’t possibly take note of everything, not to mention what they say is mostly crazy stuff, lol. For some parts and lines I double-checked looking at other Japanese comments online. If something is not clear feel free to send me an ask.

Continue under “keep reading”.

The story starts with Yuuri and Victor watching Hasetsu Kunchi, a local festival in Hasetsu, the day after the “Victor With Friends” ice show (and the Chihoko drama). Victor says “Look Yuuri, so many sumo wrestlers!” and Yuuri replies “It’s not sumo wrestlers, they are wearing fundoshi!”. He explains to him that fundoshi + happi (the “coat” they are wearing) are the traditional clothes people wear at the festival, and Victor seems very interested in the fundoshi. Yuuri flinches and says that he has a hangover from the day before, and they have a conversation somewhat like this:
Victor: “You were amazing yesterday~. (he says this in a sexy voice and the audience was like “wooohh”) I can’t believe you did that~.”
Yuuri: “Did I do something again??”
Victor: “Eh, you don’t remember? Last night you…”
Yuuri: “No wait, don’t tell me! Some things are better left unknown…”
Yuuri seems kind of resigned, like “I messed up after drinking once again.. well, as always..” (he says this in a monologue, not to Victor).
Yurio suddenly shows up and is super excited about the hikiyama (the festival floats). He comments that the floats look like the warriors’ cars in Mad Max. Yuuri explains that Hasetsu Kunchi is a harvest festival, and that the floats all have their own story. Victor sees one shaped like a squid, and Yuuri says it’s called “ankoku ika aramitama” (which Yurio translates as something like “dark ika wild heart”) (ika = squid) and it’s based on the legend of a dark squid that tried to destroy the world by spreading dark matter. Yurio is totally thrilled by the story. To placate the squid and save the world from destruction, people sang, danced and flattered the squid a lot. Victor finds the story original and proposes to use it as Yuuri’s new SP, wearing fundoshi as the costume. Yuuri curtly replies that he’d get kicked out for excessive nudity, and that if he had to leave figure skating because of something like that he’d probably want to hide under a rock and die. Yurio comments that “doing the squid dance in fundoshi” is exactly what Yuuri, together with his father, did the night before, and Yuuri says “ok, I want to hide under a rock and die” (he says “人間やめたい” in Japanese, that literally translates to “I want to quit being a human”, but the meaning is the same as “hide under a rock and die”).

The scene moves to Chris, who is enjoying the festival too. He notices people wearing fundoshi and says “oh, that’s the Japanese traditional T-back (thong)” (he says exactly that, in English). He wants to try it on, so he asks one of those people but mistakes the sentence in Japanese and ends up saying “I want to become your fundoshi”, of course shocking the guy. He then manages to convey the message using a Hasetsu guide that he got at Yutopia and finally gets to try the fundoshi. He comments that the fundoshi feels like “freedom and danger mixed together” and he likes it. In the end they also invite him to ride one of the floats.

Back to Yuuri and Victor, who have lost sight of Yurio. Yuuri explains to Victor that the floats are 14, though they were originally 15 but one suddenly disappeared. This 15th float represented “Ame-no-chihoko-nushinokami” and of course Victor reacts to the word “chihoko”. Yuuri (who is clueless regarding the “chihoko” issue) says that it’s a god of crops, relationships and basically like a god of love. Victor asks whether it’s a goddess and Yuuri replies that it’s a genderless god that was said to bring love to people. No one knows why it disappeared, some say that it might have burnt down and some that it was killed by the ankoku ika (the dark squid), but it’s also said that it will appear again when the world is filled with love.

They are interrupted by some floats coming their way, and they notice that Chris is riding one of them (it was funny how Victor said “oh, it has some familiar eros as a topping”). He jumps down (with a triple Salchow) and asks them how he looks in the fundoshi. Yuuri says that he stands out because he’s the only one who clearly has an athlete’s body. Chris wants to use it for his next program, but Yuuri once again says that he’d get a huge point deduction, so Chris proposes to use it for an exhibition program together with Victor. He wants to “make the rink wet with our fundoshi bomb” (I believe it’s a reference to Plushenko’s “Sex Bomb”) and Yuuri strongly opposes saying “You can’t do that, the rink’s not gonna get wet, it’s gonna become like the Genkai Sea!!!” (it’s a sea in Kyushu, in front of the Karatsu bay). They then have this conversation:
Victor: “Yuuri, we want to try the Hasetsu Kunchi look too, right?”
Yuuri: “’We’?”
Victor: “It’s a pity to only watch. A festival must be enjoyed by participating!”
Yuuri: “Ehh…” (clearly annoyed)
Victor: “Yuu~ri~”
Yuuri: “Don’t make that cute face Victor, it won’t work. I said I feel sick because of the hangover, didn’t I?”
And then Victor and Chris start chanting “en~ya~” “en~ya” (it’s a call the participants say during this festival) one after the other, over and over, changing the tone midway, with Yuuri repeating “no way” “I’m NOT doing it” “I’m not wearing that” “you’re not gonna convince me even if you change the tone” “I said NO” and then the drama fades out. (Of course it’s obvious that it was bound to be “famous last words”)

The second part starts with Georgi who seems to like the atmosphere of the festival and wants to incorporate it in his program for the next season. He then starts composing some “haiku” because he got interested after Yuuri’s mom told him about them. He also mentions Yuuri & his father’s squid dance, says that he wants to thank the Katsuki family for entertaining him during his stay in Hasetsu and takes note of the names of Yuuri’s parents on his notebook. He then receives a phone call from Yakov (we do not hear Yakov’s voice), who is calling him because he can’t reach Yurio. Yakov asks him to tell Yurio to get him a heated “washlet” (the Japanese toilet seat with incorporated “shower” function) from the local department store of electric appliances Best Denki if he passes by Fukuoka on his way back to Russia. While taking notes, he is worried that he might mix up “Yuri” and “Yuuri” so he writes “Yurio” instead because that’s how Victor was calling him (I’m sure Yurio will love Victor for this..). He suddenly happens upon Yurio and at this point we find out that Georgi is actually wearing a fundoshi too. Yurio is running away from the Yuri Angels. Georgi tells him that if he wants to hide he should wear a fundoshi, because “as leaves can easily hide in a forest, you can hide among fundoshi with a fundoshi”. Georgi then leaves after Yurio calls him “old man”, but he notices that Yurio is stalking him. When he confronts him about this in the beginning Yurio tries to feign ignorance, but eventually confesses that he lost sight of the others and can’t find his way back (here the audience went “awwww”). The scene ends with Georgi creating a haiku where he calls Yurio “lost kitten” and Yurio gets mad.

Leo and Guang-Hong are watching the festival together. Leo says that he is considering creating a “wa-pro” (a figure skating program with a Japanese theme) for the upcoming season. He said that he was deeply influenced by Carolina Kostner’s 2017 SP programs “God of Thunder” and “Bonzo’s Montreux”, especially the use of drums and other rhythmical sounds combined with her skating technique. Guang-Hong says that he likes Akio Sasaki’s SP program “Japanese Dance No.5” and the ninja-like sound effects/performance. They both say that ninja are cool. Speaking about cool performances that include movements like slashing with a sword they quote Tatsuki Machida’s exhibition program to “Concierto de Aranjuez”. They then conclude mentioning Yuzuru Hanyu’s “Seimei” and Leo says that one day he wants to create a wa-pro that suits his own style. (I am thankful to the skating fans who listed up all the programs mentioned in the drama because I would never have been able to remember them…)

The scene changes to Michele and Emil, who find a fundoshi shop. Emil is fascinated by a very long fundoshi and asks Michele if he ever tried aerial skating (skating performance that involves lifting oneself up with a rope hanging from the ceiling). He said he has tried, and Emil proposes to do an aerial skating exhibition program together in the next season. He then starts saying progressively crazy things like “with the fundoshi we will be able to be free and fly to space!”. He says that, once in space, they will battle an enemy army and fuse together with the power of fundoshi. Since Michele doesn’t seem thrilled Emil says that if he doesn’t want to do it he will ask Sara, and of course he gets mad. Leo and Guang-Hong join them and get all hyper looking at the fundoshi too. Guang-Hong says that he wants to use the fundoshi to train to become a ninja, because of something he read on the Hasetsu guide he got from Yuuri’s house. Emil is like “we can’t do something so stupid” (the one who was talking about flying to space..) but Michele is actually interested in becoming a ninja because apparently Sara used to love ninja when she was little.

Third part. Yuuri, Victor and Chris are now in “Hasetsu Kunchi style” (fundoshi + happi).
Victor: “Yuuri, how do I look in the Hasetsu Kunchi style?”
Yuuri: (annoyed) “It looks great, of course. Both you and Chris have a nice athlete’s body even now in the off-season, of course it looks good on you.”
Victor: (evidently making fun of him) “Oh Yuuri, I know we’re in the off-season, but don’t you have a little too much flesh over that fundoshi~?”
Yuuri: (more irritated) “Yeah, my belly stands out, doesn’t it?? That’s why I said I didn’t want to do this… Oh, I might try to hide it with the happi”.
He also suddenly mentions feeling cold, which might be foreshadowing what happens later in the drama. Yuuri wonders where the others are, and Chris says “I’m going to help” using a Japanese expression that literally translates to “I’m going to strip” (人肌脱ぐ, I can’t come up with a more literal translation that would have a similar nuance right now..), so Victor tells him “if you get more naked than you are now it will be considered a crime in Japan”.
Chris starts doing a rotational lift (no one says who is lifting him lol) on the top of the float to act as a beacon so that the others can find them, and they actually do find them.

The first ones to arrive are Georgi and Yurio. Yurio is dressed in Hasetsu Kunchi style too now, and he says it’s because “fundoshi will hide other fundoshi”. Georgi asks what “en~ya~” means and Yuuri says it’s like the Russian “davai”. Georgi takes note.
They then spot a few long fundoshi in the distance and realize it’s Guang-Hong, Leo, Emil and Michele. Guang-Hong says “I told you that rotational lift was Chris!”. They explain that they were running because they are training to become ninja for their “wa-pro”, and Yuuri can’t understand how running in a fundoshi could be connected to the wa-pro.
Chris points out that Michele didn’t participate in the ice show “Victor With Friends” and Michele says he came because Emil told him he could see something extreme in Japan (he is probably referring to Victor doing the shachihoko pose on the top of Hasetsu castle, because I remember him referring to it as “extreme” in the previous drama too). He says that he was actually in Canada with Sara to prepare their new program but then Sara left him alone to go on a “girls’ trip” with Mila.
Yuuri asks about Phichit and Leo says he went to Detroit to prepare his new program with Celestino (they are basically explaining why the skaters who participated in the ice show are not here, though the actual reason is of course that their voice actors couldn’t come to the event). Guang-Hong says that Seung-gil is having his next program choreographed by Kenji-sensei (Kenji Miyamoto). Yuuri comments, almost to himself, “I see, everyone is getting ready for the next season”, and Guang-Hong tells him “why don’t you prepare a wa-pro too, since you’re Japanese?”. The word “Japanese” reminds Yuuri of Minami, and Guang-Hong tells him that he went back to Fukuoka because he has to study for an exam.

Guang-Hong says that Minami wanted to get inspiration from a festival for his program, and Yuuri decides to send him a video he took of Hasetsu Kunchi for him to use as a reference (he also writes “good luck for the exam”). However, Guang-Hong remembers that Minami talked about the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival. Yurio comments that it’s a super cool festival, much bigger and cooler than Hasetsu’s, and that he found out about it at the information desk of Fukuoka airport. He also says that in Fukuoka there is “Best Denki, a very cool shop where you can find all kinds of electric appliances”, and that you cannot find it in Hasetsu. Yuuri mentions (with a sulky tone) a series of places that you can’t find in Hasetsu but only in Fukuoka, because it’s a larger city where people “can follow all their dreams”. Victor tells Yuuri that he should start thinking about his next program too, and you can hear that Yuuri is getting progressively upset about the matter. He says (with a self-deprecating tone) that he feels stupid for acting like a “senpai” and sending Minami a video of Hasetsu Kunchi while he had in mind Yamakasa which is much cooler, and that maybe he (Yuuri) should perform as a clown in his next program. Victor says that in the morning he met Minami in the onsen and he told him very excitedly that he loved Takahito Mura’s program “Shogun” and one day he also wanted to perform a program like that (here Suwabe imitates Minami’s voice and it was hilarious). Yuuri comments that it’s a cool program with which Mura won the Four Continents in 2014 and that he (Yuuri) would never be able to perform such a heroic program. Guang-Hong says that Minami even uploaded a video in which he skated Mura’s “Shogun”, like Yuuri’s video in which he skated “Hanarezu ni Soba ni Ite”.

The atmosphere gets progressively tense as Yuuri is clearly shocked by the fact that Minami looks up to Mura and wants to become like him, because he thought he looked up to himself. The scene where Minami tells Yuuri that he looks up to him is shown on the screen and Yuuri is like “Minami-kun said that he looked up to me, didn’t he???”. (It was amusing how one of the things that contributes to upset Yuuri is that Minami did “kidoku through”, which in messaging programs like LINE means that the other person has read your message but ignored it instead of replying to it). Victor says that Yuuri is starting to “break”, and the others suddenly see the dark squid float getting close. Yuuri starts saying nonsense like “Victor is my inspiration, and I’m Minami-kun’s inspiration, so basically I am to him what Victor is to me, so basically I am Victor. If Mura-kun becomes Minami-kun’s inspiration, it means that Mura-kun will become Victor. Victor Mura Nikiforov Takahito! He said that.. I was his inspiration.. You said it, didn’t you… MINAMIIII”. Guang-Hong sends a video of what’s happening to Phichit, and Yuuri jumps on the dark squid float. He starts exhaling something dark from his mouth and Yurio (who is convinced that Yuuri just drank too much) says “I bet it’s just puke”. Emil replies “But it’s like, swirling in the air. I’ve never seen such extreme puke!!” (Even after this they keep on referring to it as “puke” or “extreme puke” a few times)

Yuuri starts to speak with a low tone, like a villain, and says he is “ankoku ika aramitama” (he also says a few lines that are basically parodies of lines that he actually said in the anime) and he will destroy the world. Michele says he laughs like the final boss of a game, and Yurio comments that sometimes Lilia laughs like that too (roar of laughter from the audience). They try to speak to Yuuri but no matter what they say he replies with a sentence that ends with “I will destroy the world”. Georgi says that what Yuuri is exhaling is “dark matter”, and as soon as he says that Yurio suddenly gets excited (like “OMG DARK MATTER SO COOL”). Georgi says that it comes from disruptive feelings such as jealousy, which attracted “ankoku ika aramitama” and caused it to possess him. He explains that a long time ago a dark squid created a black hole with the dark matter it had inside and tried to destroy the world. He read this on the Hasetsu guide written by Yuuri’s father. He starts talking about the guide itself but Victor stops him and tells him “You can tell us on our flight back, we have to save the little piggy (kobuta-chan) first”.

In the meantime, Michele is about to be sucked into the black hole but is saved by Emil with their fundoshi fusion technique that they wanted to use in the exhibition. Georgi says that, according to the guide, to defeat the squid people sang, danced and flattered it, but Yurio says he’d rather get sucked into the black hole than flatter Yuuri. Yuuri starts making painful noises and they realize that the festival song which is now playing is affecting the squid. They want to sing but don’t know the lyrics of the song, so they decide to use the “poems” written on Georgi’s notebook (which are mostly the random notes he has been taking so far, like the names of Yuuri’s parents etc) (EDIT: You can now find a full translation of the “lyrics” here!).

They sing and then encourage the audience to chant “davai~ davai~” together with them. Yuuri wavers between the squid and himself, and Victor tells him to remember his dream, to remember Victor’s first arrival in Hasetsu and the time he, Yuuri and Yurio spent together there. “Yuri on Ice” starts playing over scenes from the first episodes, and Victor recalls their memories in Hasetsu, among which the scene where they talked on the beach. He says that he was very happy when he asked Yuuri what he wanted their relationship to be and Yuuri told him to “just be Victor”.
Victor: “Remember your skating. Figure skating. All the people who support you. Me and you. What is there?”
Yuuri: “Love”
Victor: “Yes,”
Victor & Yuuri together: “Love”.
The dark matter starts to shine and they realize that darkness vanished from Yuuri’s heart. Suddenly, the float of “Ame-no-chihoko-nushinokami”, the god of love, appears. Georgi says that it appears when the world is filled with love, and that this is another thing he read on the Hasetsu guide.

Yuuri is finally back to himself. Victor grumbles “So this is Chihoko..”. Yuuri notices the float and exclaims: “Why is the ame-no-chihoko-nushinokami” float here!?”.
Victor: “It’s love”
Yuuri: “L-Love..?”
Chris: “So Victor is the one who makes Yuuri go crazy and also that brings him to his senses. I’m jealous~”. (The audience here was “woooohhh”)
At this point Georgi remembers to tell Yurio that Yakov wants him to buy a heated washlet from Best Denki. And Guang-Hong says that Phichit wrote on his SNS “my friend is a human again!” (parody of the line “my friend got married!”). Yuuri receives a reply to his message from Minami, where he says “Hasetsu Kunchi looks cool! I need to do my best to become like Yuuri-kun”, so Yuuri is all happy. The drama ends with Victor saying “The festival can’t start without you, Yuuri. Hasetsu’s night isn’t over yet.” and Yuuri yelling to the public “Everyone! Enjoy Hasetsu!”

And they lived happily ever after… (no they don’t say this but I think it fits).
From here on it’s just my impressions.

This drama was really amusing and I could comment about basically every part.. I love when Victor and Chris annoy Yuuri together (like, you suddenly wonder who is the oldest there, lol), and how Yuuri complains but gives in. Also, Victor doing a cute face when he’s trying to persuade him… And Yuuri who is basically treating Victor in a way you would never have expected only watching the first 2-3 episodes of the series (and that just shows how close they are now).

Also, Yurio being annoyed the whole time but going ZOMG whenever something “cool” is involved. It’s hard to call this drama “canon” because of its surreal content, but if the characters are IC there is a chance he might end up being called “Yurio” by his Russian rinkmates too, lol.

Unfortunately I don’t think the summary does Georgi justice, because lots of the amusing parts are impossible to take notes of while listening… Same for all the crazy bits in the third part, and of course the way they pronounced the lines, which is hard to express with plain text but was definitely one of the best parts of the drama. Yuuri changes his voice so many times… And Victor’s lines too can sound completely different depending on how he pronounces them (sometimes he uses a sexy voice, so lines that would otherwise be normal sound more sensual or suggestive). I wish they’d release this drama on CD as a standalone, so more people can listen to it, but I guess it’s difficult because they mention names of real people and, most importantly, real shops/brands.. They’d have to bleep them out, but I’d be ok with them doing it if it makes the drama releasable, lol.