It also attracted praise from professional figure skaters, with some skaters in the 2018 Winter Olympics performing to music from the show.
It was popular on social media outlets such as Tumblr, Sina Weibo and Twitter, where it received over a million more tweets than the next most-talked about anime series in the season it was broadcast. It was the eighth-most successful media franchise in Japan for 2017, had the second-highest combined Blu-ray and DVD sales of any anime in Japan for 2017, and had the highest combined sales for a TV anime that year. 1 on the Oricon Animation Blu-ray disc and Animation DVD disc rankings respectively.
In Japan, the series was released in six parts on Blu-ray and DVD, with all the releases coming No. It won three awards at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival, a Japan Character Award, seven awards in Crunchyroll's inaugural Anime Awards, and in 2019 was named by the website's editorial team as one of the top 25 anime of the 2010s. Yuri on Ice has been well received in Japan. take part in the Figure Skating Grand Prix, with Victor acting as coach to Yuri K. The series revolves around the relationships between Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki his idol, Russian figure-skating champion Victor Nikiforov, and up-and-coming Russian skater Yuri Plisetsky as Yuri K. A Yuri on Ice feature film, Ice Adolescence, was originally planned for release in 2019, but has been delayed to a later date. The series premiered on Octoand ended on December 22, with a total of 12 episodes. The figure skating was choreographed by Kenji Miyamoto, who also performed routines himself which were recorded and used as skating sound effects. Character designs were handled by Tadashi Hiramatsu, and its music was composed by Taro Umebayashi and Taku Matsushiba. The series was produced by MAPPA, directed and written by Sayo Yamamoto with original scripts by Mitsurō Kubo under the chief direction of Jun Shishido. Yuri on Ice ( Japanese: ユーリ!!! on ICE) is a Japanese sports anime television series about figure skating.