History Anime / YuriOnIce

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A lot of the characters' names in the anime suffer from this. An example would be Victor's dog's; is it "Maccachin", or "Makkachin"? Other examples would be:
** Yuri or Yuuri?
** Viktor or Victor?
** Jean-Jacques or Jean-Jack?
** In relation to the songs, some people use "In Regards To Love: Eros/Agape" and others "On Love: Eros/Agape". It seems that the Japanese original tends to the former, while translations and the English dub tend to the latter.

A [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-04-29/yuri-on-ice-anime-gets-brand-new-film/.115476 movie]] has been greenlit, called ''Yuri!!! on Ice the Movie: Ice Adolescence'', which [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-07-01/yuri-on-ice-anime-film-reveals-staff-title-2019-date-visual/.133649 was originally going to be released in 2019]], but has been delayed. However, on 26 November 2020, a PV that was previously screened in Japanese cinemas has since been [[https://youtu.be/8Mk4Uykq5I8 released to the general public]] along [[https://twitter.com/yurionice_PR/status/1331885656352632832?s=20 with a notice about the delay.]] On April 19, 2024, MAPPA [[https://twitter.com/yurionice_PR/status/1781155766172565922 canceled the movie's production due to various circumstances.]]

A [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-04-29/yuri-on-ice-anime-gets-brand-new-film/.115476 movie]] has been greenlit, called ''Yuri!!! on Ice the Movie: Ice Adolescence'', which [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-07-01/yuri-on-ice-anime-film-reveals-staff-title-2019-date-visual/.133649 was originally going to be released in 2019]], but has been delayed. However, on 26 November 2020, a PV that was previously screened in Japanese cinemas has since been [[https://youtu.be/8Mk4Uykq5I8 released to the general public]] along [[https://twitter.com/yurionice_PR/status/1331885656352632832?s=20 with a notice about the delay.]]

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not to be confused with]] the YuriGenre; quite the opposite, in fact, given that the predominant romantic themes are between two men. (Note that the transliteration is of ユーリ , which can often be transliterated as ''Yuuri'' as well, while YuriGenre would be written either as 百合 or, in rarely-used katakana, ユリ.) This has led to some fans joking that it ought to be named "''Yaoi!!! On Ice''", instead, though it isn't strictly YaoiGenre, either, despite its gay themes.

* SilverVixen: Minako, Yuri's ballet teacher, is his ''mom's'' [[SenpaiKohai senpai]], but she looks younger and more attractive than his ''sister''.

** In the early episodes, Victor is set up to look somewhat duplicitous, if not outright suspicious. He's seen with HiddenEyes, PeekABangs, DissonantSerenity shots and many a CheshireCatGrin, which would (and did) lead the audience to believe that he was using Yuri to further his skating career and would eventually hurt his protege when this was revealed. [[spoiler:As it turns out, nothing could be further from his mind. Victor's not setting up a XanatosGambit at all, he's just a {{Determinator}} in love, and the crossed wires that make him look suspicious are largely a combination of UnreliableNarrator, PoorCommunicationKills and a ForgottenFirstMeeting. He wasn't using Yuri to further his skating, he was using his skating to get close to Yuri -- and even then, he absolutely keeps his word to coach Yuri, with great success]].

* PeekABangs: Victor and Yurio both have one eye covered by their hair.

** In the ending credits, if you pause the video during the quick transitions between the Instagram pictures, you can see the skaters' comments on the photos (in SurprisinglyGoodEnglish to boot!), as well as other details like their account names and how many likes they have. You can also see that the last picture, a tender photo of Victor combing Yuri's hair, was uploaded by the Nishigori triplets.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish:
** The opening theme, "History Maker", is entirely in English. The lyrics are grammatically correct and mostly well-pronounced, though sometimes with the AccentUponTheWrongSyllable ("We'll make it hap-PEN!").
** As noted in FreezeFrameBonus, the skaters' comments on their Instagram photos during the ending credits are all written in decent English.
** In Episode 4, Yuko's text to Yurio is written in English, and it seems she's quite fluent in the language.
** "Theme of King J.J." has lyrics that make sense (save a few) and is well-pronounced, as expected of a theme song about a Canadian character. It's sung by Swedish singer Linus Norda rather than J.J.'s [[Creator/MamoruMiyano voice actor]].
** Though the title is definitely GratuitousEnglish, the lyrics for Georgi's free program song "A Tales of Sleeping Prince" still fall into this trope thanks to being sung by Japanese-American R&B singer [=AISHA=].

** When Yuri goes back to his old skating rink, he runs into Yuko, his old rinkmate and childhood friend. When thinking about her, he smiles and thinks about how she's "still really cute", and we even get a flashback montage of their relationship together and their mutual admiration of Victor. After he performs Victor's championship free program for Yuko, he looks as if he's about to confess to her... and in pop Axel, Lutz, and Loop, her ''daughters'' by their mutual rinkmate Takeshi. It turns out she had settled down in the five years he was away, and he's already seen the kids before. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Sometimes boys and girls are just friends.]]

** Victor can pull off programs that are at the very limits of human ability... but he's not immune to aging. In a sport where youth counts, he's thinking about retirement at an age when most young adults have just started their careers.
** Despite being able to mimic Victor's impressive programs, Yuri is hampered by his tendency to comfort eat. In most sports anime, that would be a [[BigEater cute quirk]]... but Yuri isn't a rookie teenager, he's a professional athlete and his food preferences count against him, even though it's fairly mundane rather than obviously unhealthy. In addition to that, as with Victor, time is not on Yuri's side, with retiring at 24 a serious possibility.

** What happens when you tell a dog not to eat some food, and the food is right within the dog's reach? [[spoiler:The dog in question, Makkachin, will eat it, of course. After all, without a human around to tell them off, there's no way a dog could overcome their instincts that easily. There's also a very good chance that the food will make the dog sick...]]
** J.J. is a great skater and is seen as a favorite to win the Grand Prix Final, but he's also only ''nineteen'' with [[spoiler:a lot of expectations placed upon him, which pressures him to the point that he has an anxiety attack in Episode 11. It happens at the last minute and almost seems to come out of out of nowhere since he looked quite confident before starting his performance, but [[TruthInTelevision anxiety attacks occurring out of nowhere is actually realistic, and happens very often. Seeing an exaggerated version of his situation and how he views the other skaters is also not uncommon during an anxiety attack.]]]]
*** Anyone who has watched figure skating IRL has seen this happen.
** Yurio may be the extremely skilled, but he's fresh out of Juniors, and he lacks both the physical and mental experience that the other Senior skaters have. This manifests itself first in the Onsen on Ice informal competition, when he competes for the first time with a Senior level program and starts to get sloppy and fall apart near the end because of how fatigued he was. This motivates him to actually start listening to his coaches and make up for the physical deficit, but during the Rostelecom Cup, [[spoiler: his worry over his grandfather, Yuuri and Victor, and the intense environment send him into the beginnings of an anxiety attack right before his program. He doesn't do badly objectively, as he still secures a spot in the Grand Prix Final, but he does feel the need to clarify to press afterwards that his lack of competitive experience made him a bit of a nervous wreck (in harsher words, of course, and only to stop them from thinking that his skating had gotten rusty).]]

* ExcitedShowTitle: Three exclamation points, right after the first word.

* OffModel:
** Pause during any fast-paced skating scene and you'll see LOTS of it. [[EnhancedOnDVD It does get mitigated in the Blu-ray version]], where the animation is greatly enhanced and the transition of movement appears a lot smoother.
** One glaring example that was never fixed is a scene in Episode 2 where the colors of Axel and Loop's vests are mixed up (for some reason Axel's vest is pink and Loop's is purple).

* SilverVixen: Minako, Yuri's ballet teacher, is his ''mom's'' [[SempaiKouhai senpai]], but she looks younger and more attractive than his ''sister''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the ''Anime/JapanAnimatorExpo'' short ''ENDLESS NIGHT'', which Sayo Yamamoto also directed. The short's primary focus (figure skating), core concepts, and some of its imagery (most notably that of [[spoiler:two men pair skating together]]) are all transferred into this series.