Ice Skating and Romance: A Boundary Breaking Anime

Lauren Thompson
6 min readFeb 25, 2019

Licensed by Crunchyroll and produced by studio MAPPA, Yuri on Ice is a twelve episode sports anime about the world of figure skating. It first came out in 2016 to receive a widely positive reaction from anime fans. After spending over a year with it on my “to watch” list, I finally got on Crunchyroll and started watching.

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Lauren Thompson

A research writer and author of the Isle of Dragons trilogy.