#olympic interview

I were to skim through my Yuzu playlist to make the list but then ended up getting into the spiral of re-watching my fav vids and finding out even more vids I hadn’t watched XD so I’m sorry this took such a long time.

So… if you know me, you’ll know that my first reaction to this question is SHUZO!! I absolutely adore all the interviews that Yuzuru has done with Shuzo Matsuoka-san, as Shuzo-san most of the time knows which question to ask after following Yuzu for so many years, and Yuzu is also very comfortable around him. Therefore, on the top of my fav list are some of Shuzo’s interviews:

First interview of Yuzuru & Shuzo - Houdou Station 7.11.2011: baby Yuzuru impressed Mr. Shuzo with his ambitious goals and 4T training

Inteview after NHK Trophy 2014 (translation here) insights on how Yuzu felt going back to competition after the collision. Yuzu later said that he learned a lot from this interview & it helped him get gold at GPF 2014

Interview after NHK Trophy 2015: His hot-blooded side and interesting competitive mindest

Interview after GPF 2015: Explanations to his reactions at GPF

Interview after NHK Trophy 2016: Insights on how he copes with expectations, and it’s interesting how he changed his goal in the middle of the interview

Some interviews from Pyeongchang:

Interview with Shuzo Matsuoka (subbed) - Houdou station 19.02.2018: funny and insightful as always

Interview with Shou Sakurai (full translations): I really like it as it touched several important topics with just enough details and some good humor from Yuzu

Interview with Nakai (partial translation here and here) [update: just found a subbed version here]

Press conference at Japanese National Press Club (subbing in progress by gladi and tadakixd)

Other than that, here are some other older interviews that I like:

Interview after NHK Trophy 2014 (my translation gifs here): a very inspiring interview that I hold very dear to my heart, I got a lot of motivation from it

“From a boy to a young man” - GetSports (14.4.2014): it’s not fully translated yet, but I made translation gifs for my favorite part of the interview here

“Scenery seen at the shelter” (4.3.2012): it’s not subbed, but I translated most parts (part1 and part2) Yuzuru’s reflections one year after the Earthquake 3.11, it was very real and heartbreaking to hear his 18-year-old struggling with such hardships and emotional conflicts

Asaichi 2015: I like it a lot, full of small questions, cute answers, but I only recommend part I and first few minutes of part II.

Kenji’s Room ft. Yuzuru (5 episodes) (summer 2015): this one is more like a talkshow than an interview, but I like it a lot as they spent enough time to explore from the most trivial snippets to Yuzu’s reflections on big changes in his life. Plus these two joked around a lot, it was cute and casual :D

Talkshow with Yuzuru, Plushenko and Mao at NHK Special Exhibition 2016 (partial translation here & my translation gifs here): the content is nothing new, but the interaction btw Plushenko & Yuzuru is adorable

I also like some interviews just for their interesting snippets:

Yuzuru answering to the question of how to raise children like him (translation gifs here): hands down - best answer you can get

Yuzuru pisses off his mom while doing image training (x)

JP media literally roasted Yuzu on set for the many times he failed on 4S over 2 seasons XD (x)

Baby Yuzu said his honest goal and regretted immediately (x): absolutely the most adorable thing ever

Mascot cannot stop caressing baby Yuzu (subbed) (x): I just laughed so hard at the sound effects

Cute short interview with PJ Kwong (x)

Yuzuru’s 5-minute answer to the question of how many quads are necessary for Pyeongchang + facepalm at the end (full answer here, translation here)

kuyashii!yuzu is BACK!!!! I’m so happy to hear that he’s satified with the result, but I did miss his ‘kuyashii’ a lil bit, so I’m glad to hear it now haha :))

he keeps talking about quad axel: “My ambition is the axel. There’s only the axel in my head. When I do image training before going to sleep, I start to do quad axel....” and typical yuzuru, he said it doesn’t mean anything unless he lands it in competition :))) oh boy, apocalypse is coming guys, just wait until he heals that ankle =.= *here take my ankle, i don’t think i’d do anything in life that needs so much of my ankle like you yuzu*

last summer, he calls his right foot ‘this child’: “I can’t jump the loop without using the strength of this child, my right foot is important”, awwwww :”<

jokes aside, so many things happened, both when he was a teenager and when he’s an adult, but he was able to preserve the fire he had since he was small and remains determined at all time. He stood on the podium with so many skaters, and he still do even now, I’m so glad that he fought through all this with his talent, his mental fortitude and hard work 

can vs cze, quarterfinals

“my roommate is Theodore...”

“…no complaints… no complaints”

“it’s college dorm style—i was used to it. i was in college a couple years ago”

This is mostly my archive for what I’ve missed this Monday, and also for those who are confused about the media flood that happened yesterday :))

A summary/schedule of his main activities here

Team Japan’s outdoor interview in Roppongi (full + shortened version with translations)

Press conference of Japanese Olympic medalists (full conference + highlights + Yuzu’s cut with translation)

Press conference at Foreign Correspondent’s Club

Press conference at National Press Club (full conference + alter link) (thankfully tada & gladi are working on the translation + subtitles) both the questions & his answers were so good :>

Meeting & award at ANA + messages for ANA’s SNS accounts.

Snippets from Medal report at MEXT & Disbandment ceremony of Team Japan for the Olympics here & here, summary of MEXT meeting here.

Interview with FujiTV’s “Minna no News”

Arrival in Narita + flowers & photos with ANA (this is from 26.02)

Don’t know if anyone has translated this yet, but here I gave it a shot. This interview is bittersweet but sweet enough so I can smile about it at the end.

[preview of the interview from 0:00 - 1:00]

Sho: Is there any difference between the landscape at Sochi Olympics and at the Olympics this time where you defended your title?

Yuzu: Definitely, things like the weight of my emotion, and also the thoughts that I had, I think those things were totally different. After all, four years ago, I tried my best recklessly and it somehow felt like "I was able to take to good medal!", something that I can be sincerely happy about. This time, I had a very strong feeling that "I'll definitely get that gold medal!", I had the pressure that I must get the gold. It really was a gold medal that filled my heart with many kinds of emotions.

Sho: Since you were small, I think you specifically said that it was your dream or your goal, your plan to get a gold medal, and then you got the gold medal at 19 years old, and again at 23 years old, did you have some kind of plan like this?

Yuzu: Of course I did have a plan like that. It was a plan I had when I was small, but I want to say to my child self that "One's life cannot go so well that simply." Still, I'm really satisfied that I got good results like this.