#jun yodaka

[alicenpai]

I'll make a gold medalist out of you! // i am once again asking you to please read medalist it's the best manga that so few people are reading right now ❄🧊

the story excels at depicting kids learning and thriving in a supportive environment, the value of hard work over talent, and pushing your limits to achieve your dreams. inori is not only competing against the other figure skaters, but against herself most of all. medalist always hits so damn hard ⛸

[mamangasick]

Medalist

Tsurumaikada

[happycricketbox]

I made a booklet on what Medalist is and why people should read it to share at CF18 yesterday!! I didn't print that many and they were all gone so i hope i'm able to Convert some people into reading Peak.

I put the original file on my itch io page so you can print one for yourself if you'd like :) heck, maybe print some and spread them around! Go for it! Embarrass yourself!! It's for a worthy cause.

[nyd-needs-cuddles]

TSUKASA AND JUN'S TENSION????? IS SO FUCKING THICK????? LIKE WHERE'S MY FELLOW YAOI FANS AT?????!?????

[yukiranine]

medalist panel redraw

[dancers-7]

Medalist by Ikada Tsuruma

[shimamitsu]

i'm so excited for the medalist anime but man our future seems so grim. we don't know if we'll beat the shitty studio allegations, i'm gonna have to see people compare it to yuri on ice 24/7 and let's not forget the yaoification of jun yodaka. i don't know if i can handle it

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Digital:

⛸️Medalist, Vol 9⛸️ By TSURUMAIKADA

❄️Tsukasa joins the All-Japan Novice meet. In it, Hikaru Kamisaki—the student of Olympic gold medalist Jun Yodaka—dominates with a quad toe loop, followed by a triple axel to round out the show.

[hikarukamisaki]

i think about how the ‘wolf’ metaphor is used for hikaru a lot.

in her chapters, she is frequently referred to as a ‘beast’ or a ‘wolf’, even in the chapter titles

the other characters also calls hikaru that as well, hikaru’s choreographer:

as well as jun, her coach.

she is frequently *drawn* like a wolf as well, having features like fangs, drawn devouring a bird, etc …

the wolf image is so prominent in hikaru’s character writing that when you compare to a recent chapter, chapter 40:

here we can see birdlike imagery used for jun yodaka…..?

which is interesting since we know that during the all-japan’s, hikaru’s program music was also jun’s…and jun’s line about how he will make her go down the same path as him…

is she the “wolf” devouring the “hawk’s” legacy…? turning everything that was once his into her own …?

i think hikaru being the wolf and jun being the hawk makes sense ….?

also this line she says makes me very intrigued. she really is the wolf that devours everything.

would also touch on her all-japans performance starting with the “pianist” pose when jun was a “ballet” pose

the story of la cage aux oiseaux (hikaru’s program music) told in the manga chapter is about a trapped ballet dancer who is rescued by the pianist into the world.

sounds ironic …? considering jun was the one who took hikaru out on the ice(?) he was the one who gave hikaru her “escape”. yet he is portrayed as the ballet dancer …? but it also makes sense since hikaru was the ‘key’ to jun’s ‘freedom’ (the offer that led to him being able to be on the ice again) …?

(that is it for this insanity post) uhh additional hikaru wolf imagery i wanted to add in but didnt know where:

famgs… 3 of these are from hikaru and inori’s second interaction too umm 😅

that is all thank you for reading if you did. i wrote all of this without a script can you tell

[paperstarry]

Somewhere between "Tsukasa Akeuraji, an aroace icon" and "Tsukasa, you want to to kiss Jun Yodaka soooooo badly" (both works too)

[happycricketbox]

Medalist dogs... someone has to

[mamangasick]

Medalist

Tsurumaikada

[happycricketbox]

ice skating dogs

[mamangasick]

Medalist

Tsurumaikada

[shimamitsu]

i hate to do this but i'll have to use jun yodaka as yaoibait. this is the only way