Manga Review: Apollo’s Song

Manga Review: Apollo’s Song

Manga Review: Apollo’s Song by Osamu Tezuka

Shogo Chikaishi is an unhappy young man. He has no idea who his birth father was, and his mother supported them by inviting a string of horny men to her bed. She had little love to spare for her child, who often got in the way of getting her customers to part with their cash. Sometimes he even glimpsed moments of his mother and her clients making the…

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“If 2020 is a flood, then the Minsk Ice Star was a flaming dumpster floating by. Held with spectators amid COVID, in an agonizing dictatorship during mass protests, with no media coverage, borders getting closed at random, two whole national teams withdraw(l), and yet another just doesn’t show up, but it goes on, warm-ups reassigned on the fly as three ladies are late, the live stream was going down repeatedly, the kiss & cry couch ruined by antiseptic, and Mishin wearing no mask, while his team loses by 19pts., etc. etc.”

“Cup of Russia is really proving how real the Eteri bonus is.”

“What on earth are those weird choreos. that Sambo-70 does in its dance classes??? Now I understand why Shoma didn’t want to stay with Eteri when he went there for a camp (during the time he was coachless, before the start of the 2019-2020 season). Sure, he was like: Nope after going to those dance classes, lol they look ridiculous.”

“Evgenia and Anna S. seem to be good friends, I wonder how their relationship at Sambo is right now?”

“Petition to make Mishin share the fancam he did of Sasha’s FS at the Russian Cup Stage IV pls, ngl that was so funny, he was like a proud grandpa recording Sasha’s jumps!”

“It amazes me how young kids like, Stephen Gogolev can adjust to such environment changes, body changes, all while being high school students and an elite leveled athletes so well. It has to be harder than it seems on the surface, coaching changes, injuries, and growth spurts are always so hard.”

“‘Nathan looks like he doesn’t care about and looks down upon figure skating as a sport!!!’ Cue Nathan using his free time to complete his coaching certification and coaching the younger skaters…. your faves can never and will never, sorry not sorry.”

“Omg, apparently in the month since Worlds got cancelled, Nathan went and became a certified coach.”

“I know I will get killed by everyone, but I am not a fan of any of the Eteri students’ jump entries, they always look and feel so labored, like it’s taking them every ounce of their body’s strength, and I feel as though some of their transitions into jumps can be smoother, so you won’t ‘know’ that they are preparing for a jump.”

“Is there a reason that all of the Eteri girls’ are this lean and quite skinny at this age when the other ladies from Japan or Korean are not as skinny and labeled the ‘skinny type?’ Sure, it could be genetics, but it’s also such an odd coincidence that literally almost all of her female students are known as the really small and thin as a rail type.”

“It confuses me because it seems that Team Tutberidze and Team Hamada use a very similar technique, but it doesn’t sustain the cases of the Eteri’s girls, whereas for the Hamada’s girls, it seems more sustainable.”

“I Don’t understand why Russia is pushing Sinitsina/Katsalapov instead of Stepanova/Bukin. S/B’s programs are more memorable compared to just blurs of ‘Barbie & Ken’ from S/K. As we know, TAT is behind S/B, and since S/K are always ahead of them, that just reveals how little of power TAT actually has in Russia, and how much Zhulin has way more power than we think (going a bit too far probably, but Zhulin’s ex-wife IS the current wife to the press secretary of Putin. Does that influence things? Maybe.).”