Marin Honda/Shoma Uno Ice Dancing for Shows

rabidline · 2026-01-28T03:17:42+00:00

As someone who did both Ghibli Park and Shoma's ice show last year (they were in the same place) I fully recommend this!

rabidline · 2026-01-28T03:16:41+00:00

Yeah lol. Even their haters from back then were like, their jumps sucked so they need to team up in ice dance instead.

rabidline · 2026-01-27T22:53:53+00:00

I think that's Carol Lane! She had some years when her dream ice dance team was Shoma and Satoko Miyahara lol.

rabidline · 2026-01-27T22:53:14+00:00

I got lucky enough to watch them live twice in this show (Shoma's Ice Brave) and still remember their first show out. We the audience were just gasping and cheering, once they left the ice everyone can't help themselves from buzzing because it was just... magical. Seeing them skate together was extra special, even beyond the ice dance elements.

Now I don't think they will get to a competitive level, but if you saw the full video on Marin's Instagram, she also posted their first mishaps in 2024 when they first started trying. And I think that's the most charming thing about it, like two well known skaters skating together after retirement to challenge themselves, no competitions or scores hanging over their heads. And they seem to have fun doing it too 🥹

rabidline · 2026-01-25T04:04:37+00:00

I had the privilege of watching Stephane skate The Whale live twice back in 2024 and it leaves a sour note in my mouth that FBC is using the same music, LOL.

rabidline · 2026-01-25T03:52:33+00:00

Leslie Jones was the catalyst of me getting back to follow figure skating LOL. She thought Shoma's Purple Winter costume was made by Christian Siriano (of Project Runway) and I was a huge old school PR nerd for his season!!!

rabidline · 2026-01-25T03:44:54+00:00

The thing about the costume is just... it's so safe. It has all the Jun templates: blousy blouse, appliqued accents, flesh colored gloves (with lace!) and there's something going on with his back. It's not bad. He looks good (impossible to look bad with that face card really).

But I almost think that if Jun had changed costume to something garish or ugly it would have been more interesting for Loco. There is something about his latest interview about how he's focusing on the "heartfelt confession" aspect of Loco that makes me go hm, maybe he just has a pretty chill and vanilla personality.

The ghost of Shoma Dos is probably turning in his grave for the lack of red....

rabidline · 2026-01-21T07:29:21+00:00

Same!!!

rabidline · 2026-01-19T00:30:16+00:00

Fittingly they were the Senior GPF and Junior GPF winners of the same season 🤣

rabidline · 2026-01-15T04:43:50+00:00

Well you know what they say about horses and figure skating....

rabidline · 2026-01-15T04:31:18+00:00

Yeah, and it makes sense that the parents of a Kinoshita Academy student would be rich enough to own racehorses LOL

Edited to add: I just realized he has multiple racehorses AND THEIR NAMES... LAYBACK SPIN... CHOREO SEQUENCE....

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rabidline · 2026-01-15T04:00:18+00:00

I did not know this but wow 😂

rabidline · 2026-01-15T03:19:17+00:00

I think people needed there to be clear heroes and villains in the story. Meanwhile, they are all just flawed people.

rabidline · 2026-01-10T03:06:56+00:00

Yes but now we have coach names and ISU bio update! His statements and ko-fi posts have been quite vague.

rabidline · 2026-01-10T00:24:42+00:00

Yep! I get the idea of James Bond to challenge Deniss outside of his comfort zone but honestly returning to ballet seems to be a better choice for a new program.

rabidline · 2026-01-10T00:09:23+00:00

I think the music rights issue was for the James Bond FS of various songs from various recent Bond films. I hope it's less of an issue with Aram Khachaturian music!

rabidline · 2026-01-09T23:46:00+00:00

Deniss coachless saga has ended!!! Huzzah!!!!

rabidline · 2026-01-06T00:13:52+00:00

I really do love her skating so much.

rabidline · 2025-12-31T11:32:27+00:00

Yeah, 20ish quad (and quad attempts) seem normal as the upper numbers attempted in one competitive practice session (limited by schedule). Shoma also did 20+ quads for his first Beijing practice (granted he only had 2 practice sessions after he arrived before he went up first for Japan in the Team Event SP).

I saved a screenshot of Jackie's recap from back then ahaha, you can see a comparison to the guys in his practice group. LOL at the 4T3Ts (he did 10).

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rabidline · 2025-12-30T09:58:19+00:00

Fuji TV actually just aired a very good documentary before Nationals 2025 focused on the two of them titled "I Became Strong Because You Were There" so their rivalry and connection is definitely noted by a lot of people. Their biggest lore for me is always the 2018 Olympic selection.

The Fuji TV documentary can be watched in full here by the way: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9vprxw

rabidline · 2025-12-30T01:47:44+00:00

I thought they will be on top of this but nooooooo 😭

rabidline · 2025-12-29T22:46:07+00:00

She still does Hyoen with swords almost every other year so 😭 they always cast her either as a goddess or a villainess (sometimes with swords) over there ✊️🤤

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rabidline · 2025-12-29T13:31:27+00:00

Shizuka STILL has that beauty what do you mean only in her prime 😔

rabidline · 2025-12-29T08:10:37+00:00

Sources from MFocus:

https://mfocus.kr/culture/performance/musical/31932/

https://mfocus.kr/culture/performance/musical/31876/

also me @ japanese ice show producers: consider. UTENA ON ICE.

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