Thread by @axelsandwich

✨ #プロローグ Prologue Yokohama 2022 Day 2 (5/11/22) reaction + occasional translations thread ✨

⏰ Broadcast time conversions:

https://twitter.com/HanyuAika/status/1586712107864801282

👀 Ways to watch the livestream as an international fan in the above thread but also here:

https://twitter.com/pep_on_/status/1581851777917669377

This thread will be a mix of translating any interesting fan tweets, personal reactions to the live broadcast, live interpreting where possible, depending on how the broadcast goes, so please know this isn't a formal translation thread, but I hope it might be helpful 🙏

While you wait, it's worth reading the latest translations from Yuzu's interview yesterday - amazing @tsukihoshi14 worked tirelessly late into the night to bring this to us & it has a lot of context into his programs

Pt 1:

https://twitter.com/axelwithwings/status/1588750342313082881

Pt 2:

https://twitter.com/axelwithwings/status/1588751410539401216

Today's Prologue audience includes Nobu!

https://twitter.com/nobutaro1001/status/1588753019071778816?s=20&t=KJ4kJwOuYVyvkFGgocMBYA

Broadcast is starting!! 😍💕

ahhh, all the clips of yuzu at comps ;; __ ;; warm up, entering the arena, practice... and RJ 2.0 music

oh, I see why everyone was teary before he's about to troll us with the 6min practice TT____TT

It feels like he's really trying to bring us into that inner world of competitions here, the heartbeats, the breathing, the sense of nerves and the music too ;;;; beautiful storytelling

Almost 8000 pairs of eyes and scrutiny zeroing in on a single person ;;

"Number one, Hanyu Yuzuru-san."

yessss backwards crossrolls my LOVE

YESSS HE BROUGHT BACK THE ARM FORWARD ON HIS FINAL SIT SPIN!!!!!

First victory at a national competition when he was nine :)) omg these videos, my hearttttt

'I'm skating at the rink Arawaka-san skated at and she got the first Olympic gold (for Japan). I'm also a person from Sendai so I want to get the first Olympic gold for the Japanese men' ;; __ ;;

Paganini was WILD, he was so noodle but so dramatic, Nanami-sensei's choreo still slapssss

*shamisen sound intensifies*

I LOVE thisssssss god, I love the music and change, yuzu get the yoshida brothers as well, you know you want to reprise Storm

the segment with just the shamisen may be one of my favourites already

'Once again, thank you for coming to Prologue.' Paraphrased: He thought about many things for this show - the past and the present, and everyone's thoughts in the past. He hopes the Yuzu inside everyone's hearts, him being here today can all be combined

Niimura-san is reminding him about everyone watching live on broadcast and in live viewing. Yuzu: 'Ahh...where's the camera?'

Q was about how he could fit into all his old costumes
His size hasn't changed in 10yrs. "My body (weight/composition?) has changed but somehow...I can still wear it." (LOL)

Q: Do you have plans to do the 4F?
A: I want to do it but my success rate isn't that high. But for me, the 4F is difficult. My Flip is such that if I put too much power into it, it becomes an outside edge. If I do jump one where I'm confident that 'it was inside!' I'll do it

He thanked everyone around the world :)))

(sorry I missed the last Q).

He said "everyone may have been spoiled online but does everyone have the bangles?"

"Ahh it's beautiful."

It's voting time!!!

Voting options are the same as yesterday! (lol Nimura-san teasing him about if he remembers what year he skated Etude)

Blue - Etude
White - From Russia with Love
Purple - Let's Go Crazy
Green - Hana ni Nare

ETUDDDEEEEEE COME ON PEOPLE!!!

'Let's do LGC with no spin and only StSq from (music sounds)... because spins tire me out... and let's do Hana ni Nare'

OHHH DOUBLE WISH GRANT

yuzuru, looking at a sea of blue and purple: i feel like there's more green than yesterday...... (JUST SAY YOU WANNA DO HNN LOL ANYWAY @amyuzu1012 CONGRATS)

LGC MY LOVEEEEEEEE

idk how he manages to make that costume look ethereal at a drop of a hat ;;;

'I really feel once again that I'm skating together with everyone. ...Even in the 6min warm-up, I could hear everyone's voices of support under the mask, it would be nice for that world to return...I want to continue skating as Yuzuru Hanyu from here on. I ask for your support.'

He'S SKATING HELLO I LOVE YOU ??? FJKSHFSJF LOLLLLLLL

says he can't do the marker and tshirt because of covid FKJSHFKSJHFKJSH LOL FJKSFKSJHJKFKJHF ????jkfjkf this was from the youtube requests LOL

Requiem of Heaven and Earth over clips of 3.11 ;; ____ ;; my forever program ;;;;;;;;;;;

so much for a 16yr old to shoulder ;;

RJ1 and all that preceded it, the unexpected adversity, the gritted teeth of the fight, the fire of his triumph sobs......

THE FOOTAGE FADING OUT TO HIM ON THE RINK. IT'S GIVING STORY! IT'S GIVING NARRATIVE!!!!!

Olympics, you give him the video licensing rights!!!!!

ready to cry because this is me-becoming-fanyu season ;;;;;;

FOREVER AND EVER, THE MIRACLE OF PYEONGCHANG

oh gOD this program is going to kill me already

the glow of the lifestream following him oh my goddd

I'm so glad he's showing the potential for light work and all this new technology to really making figure skating this incredibly immersive experience ;;;

the 4S and 4A parallels, the pursuit of them both even when everyone was saying it was hopeless ;;;

"my story will continue" ;;

feeling like I've just been emotionally beat up in a dark alleyway and dragged through concrete, how are we all doin

sobbing

'Even if it was unrewarded effort, even if the path I walked was in vain, if people could see skating like mine and feel happiness, I cannot be more fulfilled. I am happy.'

how I wish the crowd could cheer and hype him up freely again, these performances deserve it so much ;;;;

he's worked so, so hard, two full solo performances in a row with no break in between, rest well lovely boy ;;;; seeing him take the solo laps around the rink is really driving it home ;;;

'I am truly happy to have everyone watching me. Everyone's wishes and ideals are my dreams too. From here, I will skate for myself but also for everyone. I will give my all from now on. I ask for your support.'

thank you so much miracle boi ;;;;; it is happiness always to see you happy

man I am so emotionally wrung out by that ;;;;; I think I need 15 business days to process everything that I just saw

omg spartacus footage too!!!!

TV Asahi showing all the performances from Day 1, get back on the stream if you haven't alreadyyy

no wonder they extended the broadcast time!! they were like HERE, HAVE DAY ONE and they're RIGHT

ok I think the HYK was def (and maybe An Endless Dream) from today but thank you, I was crying too hard to fully watch the program, v considerate of tv asahi