Required fee up 12 % in a few hours . The fact that your payment ' went through ' isn ' t proof of anything being wrong or right . <| sep |> I know I ' m going to offend some people here but I can ' t help but feel that animating ice skating might still be too big of a hurdle for current technology and skills . It ' s literally a sport which is dictated by intricacies in movement , and I feel that animation is just not there yet . Watching Yuna Kim , Yuzuru Hanyu and more gives me freaking chills , so in YoI I can ' t help but feel a little disappointed . Yuri On Ice definitely has opened the doors to creating better and even more fluid animation , and the next ice skating anime will be better because of it . As of now , I can ' t fully empathise with all the wowed faces and impressed looks on the audience and everyone reacting to the routines . The show wants you to feel the Agape , the Eros , love , greed or the whatever message the skater is trying to deliver , and I think it falls short . Since Victor and Yuuri ' s interactions lie in part in how Yuuri skates his routine , I can ' t really get into their relationship , because I can ' t feel those emotions when watching Yuuri skate . I ' m rambling but I want to talk a bit about sports anime in general . In many sports anime like prince of tennis , Haikyuu and more , the matches themselves are the highlights . The way they are animated gives me goosebumps during match point and I feel myself absorbed in the show because of how exciting every single second of the match is made out to be . In Haikyuu for example , I find easier to enjoy the show than watching a live one haha , because its made much easier to understand in the show with those slow mo , internal dialogue moments . But it also speeds the heck up when need to . In YoI . I just am not excited during anyone ' s routine , sorry . This is most likely as I have said before , due to the very nature of Figure skating itself . TLDR The gap between real skating and the anime due to current lacking tech skills is affecting the way emotions are being delivered by the characters when they skate . Can ' t really get into the relationships developed in the show because partly they rely on the skating performances .