Yuuri Katsuki and the Curious Case of the Gold Medal

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Alternatively titled: Girl With Two Finals Next Week Has Priorities in the Right Place, Clearly

For the sake of saving you the time of reading this long mess, here’s the gist: I’m going to argue that it makes the most narrative sense for Yuuri to win the gold medal. I’ll take down a couple of counterarguments while I’m at it.

But, hey, the show’s ending next week! This analysis will probably all be useless by Wednesday lmao. But the alternative to writing this is studying, so I’m going to write it anyway. Here we go:

Argument #1: There are skaters at the Grand Prix that are better than Yuuri, so it doesn’t make sense for him to win!

Here’s the really, really important thing that you have to keep in mind when you watch Yuri on Ice: Yuuri’s the one narrating. 

Like, I’ll repeat it, since it’s so important. Yuuri’s the one narrating.

Yuuri, who started the series off crying in the bathroom and having a panic attack. Yuuri, who has anxiety. Yuuri, who has such low self esteem in the beginning of the show that after participating in one of the most challenging and exclusive figure skating competitions there is and becoming the top 6th figure skater in the world, describes himself to us as:

Dime-a-dozen! What the hell?

Thanks to the narration, it’s deceptively, deceptively easy to look at Yuuri and think that he’s not as talented as his competition. Because that’s what he was literally telling us at the very beginning of the show. 

But that’s wrong.

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