Skate Leading Stars #01 — Felonies on Ice

January 3rd, 2021

 

This is not a well regulated sport.

Broadcast for this begins on the 10th, but Funimation started early airing this… last week. The second episode came out today actually, which made me notice the first. Kinda dropped the ball here, but in my defense, this is terrible.

Impressions:

The most interesting thing you can say about this is that they commit a major felony and competition violation that would get them blacklisted from any reputable sport and probably thrown in jail, and they just coast over it as a gag. The next most interesting thing is how messed up it is for your grandparents to be attending a 10 year old's sports competitions, holding up pictures of his dead parents. That's about the start and end of the list of interesting things though. Maybe the super weird news coverage of 10 year olds? Does that count? Because let's reflect on how deeply bizarre it would be to try to talk up personal high school rivalries, and then cut the ages in half.

A lack of fidelity to or focus on the (fake) sport is far from the worst thing, but what else is there? Dude always loses to his rival. Time skip. Rival is still doing sport. Dude decides to rejoin the sport he apparently quit and instantly wows literally everybody with a single move. This isn't a made-up sport show like Keijo where everything is bonkers. It doesn't have a particular passion or affinity for skating like Harukana Recieve. It does the standard slight over-animation of the sport itself to try to show its chops, but that's about it. The dude rants about how he can jump and spin while skating. That's as tied to figure skating as it gets, and the whole team thing is not a part of this episode at all, nor the next one for that matter since I did quickly flip through it.

     

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  • residentgrigo says:

    Vladlove also had a preview in December.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2im3P4AiHc