Well, some of these references are obvious, while others may be a stretch…
1. Yuuri Katsuki - Yuzuru Hanyu
2. Viktor Nikiforov - Evgeni Plushenko
3. Yuri Plisetski - Mikhail Kolyada (except he is a nice guy actually, lol)
4. Otabek Altin - Denis Ten
5. Guanhong Qi - Han Yang (also can be
Jin Boyang, not sure here)
6. Seung-gil Lee - Kim Jin-seo (lol, I just suck at Korean male figure skating)
7. Kristoff Giacometti - Stephane Lambiel (wasn’t sure because of such a difference in looks, but hey, you see those eyelashes?!)
8. Chulanont Phichit -
Michael Martinez (well, this one’s solid 100%)
9. Kenjirou Minami - Shoma Uno
There are also Canadian and Italian skaters in the anime, but I couldn’t find any pictures. Though I believe them to be Jeffrey Buttle and Ivan Rhigini respectively.
Still strange, that France and USA were totally ignored.
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