The prejudice and societal pressure against gay rela- tionships.
It’s been a quite a journey for twelve episodes as Victor and Yuuri each discover life and love and a journey for the viewers as well as they watch their story unfold one routine at a time. When both members of the couple are male, they are ostensibly free of the inequalities. Viktor and Yuuri’s love story pretty much represents the famous line from their opening, “We were born to make history.” Episode 7 literally broke Tumblr with just one scene, and who could forget the wedding bells that rang from the ending of episode 9 and continued on to episode 10? Mitsurou Kubo, Yuri on Ice’s co-writer said in an interview that Yuri on Ice is a world in which anybody can love who they want without being judged and it is a world that she will protect.
