Stars on Ice Japan 2018: Osaka (March 31-April 1) & Yokohama (April 6-8) + Legends show (March 30)

[Sylvia]

http://figureskate-soi.com

Cast (as of Feb. 26): http://figureskate-soi.com/skaters.html

Shoma Uno, Javier Fernandez, Alina Zagitova, Evgenia Medvedeva, Kaetlyn Osmond, Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir, Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford, Patrick Chan, Nathan Chen (Osaka only; U.S. SOI starts on April 6), Keiji Tanaka, Satoko Miyahara, Kaori Sakamoto, Kana Muramoto/Chris Reed, Miu Suzaki/Ryuichi Kihara (Yokohama only), Evgeni Plushenko, Nobunari Oda, Mai Mihara, Wakaba Higuchi, Marin Honda & Rika Kihira.

 

[seabm7]

There is another show in Osaka the day before (i.e, March 30),

http://figureskate-mwg.com/

by the same organizers. It's called "The Legends, Medal Winners Gala".

Cast (as of March 1) : http://figureskate-mwg.com/skaters.html

Evgeni Plushenko, Alina Zagitova, Shoma Uno,
Evgenia Medvedeva, Patrick Chan, Javier Fernandez,
Satoko Miyahara, Akiko Suzuki, Nathan Chen,
Kaori Sakamoto, Takahito Mura, Noburani Oda,
Kana Muramoto/Chris Reed, Keiji Tanaka

 

[NoStefaniaNo]

Oh how I wish I could be at that show in Osaka.

 

[Sylvia]

Let the post-Worlds show season kick off this coming weekend!

Will Osmond and Chen have time to fly home from Milan first or are they going directly to Japan, I wonder?

 

[honey]

Let the post-Worlds show season kick off this coming weekend!

Will Osmond and Chen have time to fly home from Milan first or are they going directly to Japan, I wonder?

In the press conference Osmond said she was going directly to Japan from worlds on Monday.

 

[kittyjake5]

This twitter user has uploaded a bit of SOI Rehearsal and short interview with Alina. Scroll down past Dai tweets.
Thanks to uploader!

https://twitter.com/purplearashi

 

[livetoskate]

This twitter user has uploaded a bit of SOI Rehearsal and short interview with Alina. Scroll down past Dai tweets.
Thanks to uploader!

https://twitter.com/purplearashi

How awesome to see so many skating greats together practicing for SOI in Japan. I hope to see a show there, maybe next year. If only we had this kind of coverage in the US.

 

[Sylvia]

Japanese news report showing practice (March 30, 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ML6Ka6_TfA

The Legends/MWG show videos (watch while you can):

Opening number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzBF8_Vp58M
Opening, cont. (Plushenko): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HavgBCo14jw
Patrick Chan introduces Nathan Chen (debut of "Back from the Edge" by James Arthur): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYA-nO8D7Fo
All of Nathan Chen's appearances in the Legends show edited into this one video, starting with the opening and ending with the finale to "Bolero": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMpABDkRQs
Plushenko introduces Zagitova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm-vwTNlip0
Chan introduces Medvedeva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXR3n8vXWTg
Medvedeva/Zagitova introduce Plushenko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Iiwb7q2Jg
Suzuki introduces Oda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvMEdpZIzA
Oda introduces Suzuki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAIGqnCKPuY
Special talk show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHyBK8IF44Q

 

[seabm7]

More "The Legends" videos:

Mura (Intro by Tanaka) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVkOSSwsQyg
Muramoto & Reed (Intro by Miyahara) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUjsw_1AmfY
Tanaka (Intro by Mura) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAnIGMYGj80
Sakamoto (Intro by Muramoto & Reed) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpHOpvdm8o
Miyahara (Intro by Uno): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQVtluxJS8
Nathan Chen (Intro by Chan) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOiYQVW5nY
Patrick Chan "Lovers in a Dangerous Time": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT92bmkGfRA
Mura retirement ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfiPPJ-u_0I
Fernandez (Intro by Chan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nLO6zkHTQM
Uno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPr7RSnOsoE

Finale "Bolero": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ayjkiEY5_8

This year's Final is pretty good. It starts by Plushenko and ends by Plushenko, based on his short program music.

 

[Sylvia]

Yuka Sato did the group number choreography for the 3/30 Medal Winners Gala ("Bolero" finale) - group photo off-ice: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg8boxChAq_/?taken-by=yukasato0214

Some Stars on Ice photos from the debut show in Osaka can be seen here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/JSOI18?src=hash

Photos by Asahi Shimbun:
Zagitova: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-6RVjFnm4/
Medvedeva: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-6ZjUl61c/ & https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-6kvblIaq/
Zagitova & Medvedeva: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-6wYLF_ra/
Uno's cantilever: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-_EJwFCtM/
Tanaka: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-_KW_Fp-9/
Sakamoto: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-_UWbFpQN/
Miyahara: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-_dDklQvK/
Honda: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg-_nTMFX-i/
Uno & Zagitova: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg_AH4dltwn/
Group: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg_AXuGFHud/

Nathan Chen skated to "Nemesis" ("A sense of excitement exuded from the crowd as soon as the music started playing."): https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20180331-00000119-dal-spo

Live TV broadcast is scheduled on Friday, April 6 from 1:55-5:00 pm on CS Broadcasting and TBS 2: http://www.tbs.co.jp/tbs-ch/item/s1766/

 

[seabm7]

Broadcast and rebroadcast schedule:

TBS: terrestrial
TBS 1, TBS 2: CS Satellite

The Legends Osaka
March 30 1:55 - 5:00 pm (Live TBS 1)
April 5 11:00 pm - April 6 2:00 pm (TBS 1)


Stars on Ice Yokohama

April 6 1:55 - 5:00 pm (Live TBS 2)
April 14 3:30 pm (TBS)
April 21 1:30 - 4:30 pm (TBS 2)

 

[lala]

Plushenko's video on the ice! He shows almost all skaters

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhBujEgF2Ih/?taken-by=plushenkoofficial

 

[Sylvia]

On ice group shot shared by Meagan Duhamel of the SOI Osaka cast (originally posted by @skatingguy in the Japanese news thread): https://www.instagram.com/p/BhBLoKIhS-X/

Girls of Japan SOI: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhAzRl3hOS_/

Boys of SOI: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhA4pUhBI_V/?taken-by=ericradford85

And this is what some of the cast did for fun in Yokohama: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhHBvjkhZcV/?taken-by=meaganduhamel

 

[lala]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhGQ_HcHKgi/ - on way to Yokohama

Meagan's Insta story https://twitter.com/yokotanpeshenko/status/981163876543709184

 

[Sylvia]

SOI Yokohama videos - watch while you can! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCrV2cBCDAoIf--Xm-krXng/videos

 

[seabm7]

More broadcast schedule

* Medalist Special
TBS
April 14 15:30 - 17:00


* Extended version
TBS 2
May 4 12:00 - 16:00
May 21 18:00 - 22:00