#there were other couples too ftr I just bought all Yuri/Victor

[pensulliwen]

Yesterday I happened to be in Tokyo so I stopped by a doujinshi shop for the first time in a while. After looking through the slim pickings of other series I like, I gravitated over to Yuri on Ice—and genuinely spent around 40 minutes flipping through everything. Shelves upon shelves, half of the entire floor to ceiling bookcase just full of hundreds of Yuri on Ice fan comics. It was one of the largest sections I saw, bigger than Naruto and One Piece; the only fandoms with a larger collection I noticed were Attack on Titan and Kimetsu no Yaiba.

A one season, 12 episode anime about men’s figure skating from 2016, rivaling some of the biggest and most popular decade-spanning, ongoing/recently finished series in sheer volume of fan works.

The fact that MAPPA doesn’t want to capitalize on that built-in audience is wild, but at the end of the day we are lucky to have an endless supply of incredible artists to keep the fandom going. Shoutout to all of them! The artists behind these 6 doujin I bought are YUBINBASYA, SHIRIKAWA, Yumaichinose, Fukagawa9 (深川) and Tatsumian (辰巳庵)。