News and Topics 2016

And here we go for another year!!! Let's hope it is full of gorgeous Dai-chan stuff!!!

It starts with.... first 2016 hair-cut


https://www.instagram.com/p/BAOsw5PKI12/?taken-by=chai_kobe


OMG Dai is so cool and stylish, wild and "bad boy"

Maybe he is going to NY soon.

Great look for Dai! He is like a chameleon so many different styles and he always looks fabulous.

I agree Pattina he does look a little like a "cool bad boy".

No news on his schedule yet. My wish is that he stay in Japan for awhile longer
and do more ice shows. But I know that it is entirely possible that he won't.

This uber auntie fan misses his skating so much.
Thank goodness for youtube!

Thank you, PATTINA! 2016 will be the beginning of a new era for Dai-chan, definitely!!!

Stars on Ice Japan 2016 has announced the main cast and DAISUKE is confirmed as one of the regular skaters for the whole Tour!!!

OSAKA April 9-10, TOKYO April 15-17
http://figureskate-soi.com/#artist

This edition marks the 30th anniversary of the show, and it will be a special one.

Appearing alongside Daisuke so far:

Akiko SUZUKI, Patrick CHAN, Javier FERNANDEZ, Tessa VIRTUE and Scott MOIR, Kaitlyn WEAVER and Andrew POJE, Meagan DUHAMEL and Eric RADFORD.

Tickets will go on sale on February 20th.

Thanks ostile for the news!!!

Great news! I wonder why SOI Japan is so late this year. I believe the shows were in January last year. April can't come quick enough. Patience! Thanks for the update is ostile

Yessssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks, ostile, for info!!!!!

We'll have tv news, and videos and a lot of Dai-wonderful Dai-stuff!!

I just read the Oscar Nominations list  and Studio Ghibli's "When Marnie was There" was nominated for an Oscar as best Animated
Feature Film! Congratulations!

Shyla wrote:

I just read the Oscar Nominations list  and Studio Ghibli's "When Marnie was There" was nominated for an Oscar as best Animated
Feature Film! Congratulations!

Yes!! Congrats to Studio Ghibli.  Fingers crossed.

The occasion is right to look at Dai's little masterpiece, over and over again    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flweleFIHKM&feature=youtu.be

Hi everyone!!!

No news - Dai seems to have disappeared somewhere.... Let's wait patiently, we have a date with him next April  

IFS Magazine recall their first cover with Daisuke in 2008. So young and savage. So hot.        


Source  IFS twitter (please, note the hashtag. totally agree!!!)

https://twitter.com/ifsmagazine/status/688581663899648002?lang=it

Here is another Dai-related tweet    

https://twitter.com/ifsmagazine/status/688599133159067648?lang=it

Have a great Dai-Sunday

Hi Pattina! Dai is definitely keeping a low profile but April will be here before
we know it.

Dai is so young and cute on the cover of IFS, love the hashtag and so true!

The Real Athlete special with English subtitles:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUlOlFc6w-U

Very, very big THANK YOU to the translator!

Hello to all! Sorry for my being absent for a long time.

Thank you ilica, for the link of the Real Athlete Special.

To express the gratitude also visit the tumblr where the translator accesses. site ↓

http://flapper-dai.tumblr.com/post/137624574031/the-real-athlete-special-english-subtitles-he#_=_

And thank you everyone for your making this place active and updated!!

Hello Twind!  
Thanks for the link! Another amazing person, like you, helping us to understand Dai-chan's world. What would we do without you!  
 
As usually with Dai-chan, I cried and laughed at the same time watching the video...
Here is a gifset of some Dai-funny moments from the video:

http://iguana012.tumblr.com/post/137643666221/the-best-of-unco-dai-taken-from-the-real-athlete

Only one thing is missing for me - romantic Dai looking for a four-leaf clover!  I still can't get over this

Also - I'd love to see what could he do now with his Rachmaninoff program!

Thanks ilica and Twind for all links.

I've just finished to watch it. And I'm still in a deep ocean of feelings.

ilica wrote:

As usually with Dai-chan, I cried and laughed at the same time watching the video...

Me, too!!! Tears out of joy and tenderness, not sadness. Dai left a huge legacy. He might go on skating in shows, he might say "stop it" and follow another path.... the road we walked together will never disappear (as the song says).

The lovely moment when he talks about his plans for Halloween his face lights up with expectation and he looks like an adorable excited kid

Thank you Dai-chan from the bottom of my heart just for being yourself.

Still no news about Dai-chan. Clearly he is enjoying his DORON time

While waiting for our April date

Short tv news - I guess something related to 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, featuring Daisuke and his 2010 Vancouver bronze medal    

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3nwowh_2016-01-23-%E6%97%A5%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC-%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A1%E3%82%89%E3%81%A8_tv


USA Nats are ongoing and Sean Rabbit, last week, received a lot of support messages and good-luck presents from his Japanese fandom. Among the other presents.... the new D1SK towel, which was on sale at XOI. Sean, who in interviews said he admires Daisuke as the most artistic skater,  was so nice to thank his fandom in this way


Source https://www.instagram.com/p/BAdP3XUieaL/?taken-by=seanrabbitt

Plus, he brought D1SK towel to competition and used it in the K&C after the Short Program


Source https://twitter.com/purplearashi/status/690752213291892738?lang=it

OK - we are waiting patiently, looking for our April date but in the meantime this Auntie had a great idea

https://twitter.com/plum3sue/status/690051610140131328

Look here, but be careful!!  RED ALERT!!!

https://twitter.com/plum3sue/status/690505427675549696

We have often read/written about Dai's influence on younger skaters.

And indeed......Uncle Dai started a trend      


Shoma followed ....


Source for gift (thanks a lot to uploader)   http://shoma-uno.tumblr.com/post/130746693600/magicaleggplant-why-shoma-is-actually-dais

And now Sean Rabbit - well, it's not precisely upside-down but Sean will learn quickly

Thanks to kind translator/uploader

From XOI broadcasting (23rd December - short version), Dai commenting his number with Mao at XOI 2014

Dai is so cute and extremely handsome (both in XOI 2014 and during commentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63dPU_RnlkQ&feature=youtu.be

If you can watch FujiTV via KHole, a tv show is ongoing.

They will show Daisuke dubbing The Little Prince. I've seen a brief anticipation. I don't understand if he is the narrating voice or dubbing some character. But OMG... his voice is able to melte ice!!!

Try and be patient. He will be aired during "Entertainment" section

As far as I understand, Dai is the narrating voice for the audio-book The Little Prince.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/b?node=4117601051

OMG his voice is so incredible - I could faint              He stutters sometimes.... so adorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usMgzc_tlUQ

OMG omg The Little Prince being read by Dai-chan     In that soft, dreamy, soul-stealing voice              It's too much for my heart, so maybe it's better I can't understand!

Thanks Pattina! And thanks for the other links!!


I've watched US Nationals and Sean Rabbit was adorable with D1SK towel!

https://mobile.twitter.com/atchan0327/status/692177998380929024#



The figure skater Daisuke Takahashi(29) participated in an “Audible” recording in Tokyo. Audible is an application to listen to all different genres of reading materials such as nursery tales, novels and business books. On this occasion Takahashi recited a children’s book of his own choice, “The Little Prince”. Takahashi said, “this is a book for men or women of all ages and I wish this to be listened across all groups of people.And I’d like to hear their impressions of my reading." This recording is going to be distributed from Today, 27th as a special content. (Sponichi 1/27/2016 Paper version）

ilica, please, recover from fainting!! we need you here!!  

Twind, thank you so much for post and translation!!

So The Little Prince was Dai's  own choice

Dai-chan wrote:

And I’d like to hear their impressions of my reading

OMG.... ladies fainting all over the world is not enough???          I posted the link to YT video on an Italian FB Group for Figure Skating lovers. Lovely comments about Dai's soft, powerful and melting voice!! And of course they did not understand a single word.    Oh, and nice comments about Dai being so handsome, as always.



Source - thanks to uploader  

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBBWms7JDns/?taken-by=takarin210

Above they are the pitures on Sankei Web paper and this is the translation of the article.

http://www.sankei.com/sports/news/160127/spo1601270024-n1.html

Daisuke Takahashi, the prince of figure skating, recited “The Little Prince” and said: “It overlaps the struggles of my own whose future undecided”

On 27th of this month “the Little Prince” recited by a figure skater Daisuke Takahashi (29) was added on the list of contents on Amazon Japan’s audio reading materials of “Audible”. With monthly fee of ￥1,500 (about $12), with the first month of free trial, you can join the program using an Application on your smart phone and get unlimited access to the materials. Mr. Takahashi invited; “I’d like this to be listened by many different people” introducing his hearty work.


After he retired from competing on October 2014, he performed in ice shows and study the language in New York City. During his recording session on the 13th in the studio in Shibuya, Tokyo He frankly shared his impression of the first experience of reciting a book, “I already knew my verbal articulation was bad but following the words with my eyes in time was also a challenge.”

　
In the Control Room (the room for the director and other staff) an apologetic low voice saying “can I do it one more time?” was quite often heard from the recording booth. Even when the staff felt that it went quite good, he gave himself thumbs-down over and over “for it went reading-line monotonous” to remind us the stoic way of his days as an athlete.


The book he read is “the Little Prince” by newly translated by Keijiro Suga (Kadokawa Tsubasa Library). The original is the world-famous fantasy of the deep interaction of the hearts of “I” and “the Little Prince”. He himself chose this title “because this overlaps the struggles of my own whose future is pretty undecided”.


Mr. Takahashi says, “I think it is a book to make you aware once again that things look very different depending on which direction you see them from. Especially after I retired from competing and had no major purpose in my life, I am at a loss and every day I change what I would want to do. But this story suggests me here and there that it may be OK, from many points of view I may have some final place to reach to and that makes me relax and breathe. What I picture myself and what other people see in me are very different from each other and since I got no clear goal it would cause me waver and that overlaps this book.” He sees his current situation to connect with the story.


While spending time of charging in his life based in New York City, Mr. Takahashi says, “it is the time to see and feel many different things now. It’s probably all right not to have a goal yet and wander around. I am feeling like, I hope I can find something in five or ten years or so”. He eagerly added, “I want to continue to try what I want to try and experience successes and failures”


How will the reading of Mr. Takahashi during which he was relating his situation to the book be received by his fans and audio book regular users? “When I thought I did it well I felt good, and that is similar to how I felt when I could do things in the skating practice. I definitely hope many different people listen to it and tell me about their impressions.” Though they are done by two different things, the body and the voice, Mr. Takahashi finished to express in the same way as he did in figure skating, and now he is boldly asking for the score from the serious judges. (by Shigeki Harada)