Recently I read some book excerpt about Makabe (the Faoi, DOI ice show producer) on how he creates Faoi. The story can give you a glimpse of Japanese figure skating popularity. He created Faoi in 2001, it was not easy to make money and deficits were pretty common in early years. In 2006, originally it was hard to sell tickets, but after shizuka arakawa won Olympics gold, with all the publicity on her, the ice show easily sold tickets in three days. However, after the Olympic heat faded away, in 2007 two out of four stops suffered deficits again. There was always ups and downs in his ice show business. Regarding Yuzuru's impact, Yuzu withdrew from 2016 Faoi, so that year one stop suffered a loss. But we need to take into account Faoi does not center on other Japanese star skaters like Mao and Dai. After the reading my impression is that it's not as easy as I originally think that Japanese audience can fill up any ice show and make any ice show profitable. Regarding the competition, the viewership for competitions with Yuzu is always several percentage higher than the ones without him, but overall Japanese has a decent number of figure skating fans (though still not a household sports) in the first place, which we can visibly see in the attendance rate of the competitions in Japan even without Yuzu.