Repray Tour

Each show of the Repray Tour had a duration of 120 minutes and featured 12 different skating programs embedded into a story revolving around video games and the contrasts of virtual and real life.

On the first day of the Miyagi tour stop, Hanyu completed a 2.5-hour solo show with no mistakes for the first time, performing at the athletic level of skating competitions, including six quadruple jumps and five triple Axels with 31⁄2 revolutions.

[2][4] On March 11, 2011, Hanyu experienced the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in his hometown of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, which fundamentally shaped his life and career.

[7] The series was launched in November 2022 with Prologue, the first solo ice show production in figure skating, held in Yokohama and Hachinohe with five performances in total.

The initial tour concluded with a stop at Pia Arena MM in Yokohama on February 17 and 19, where Hanyu's first solo show Prologue was held in November 2022.

[19] The venue served as a morgue after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and is home to the disaster's annual commemoration event Yuzuru Hanyu Notte Stellata, which was inaugurated in 2023.

"[29] The first official visual, a blue-black pixelized image of Hanyu, was not revealed until after the conclusion of the second general sales period on October 27, 2023, eight days prior to the opening show in Saitama.

[32][33] In order to prevent unauthorized resales or transfers, customers were required to register for an electronic ticket with name, phone number, and a specific TV Asahi ID, using an SMS authentification system.

[30] The opening tour stop in Saitama marked the first time in figure skating that two solo shows of 2.5 hours length were performed on consecutive days.

[37] As noted by Russian world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, skaters usually do not perform more than three programs per ice show due to the physical limitations in fitness and stamina.

[38] In order to successfully complete 12 programs, Hanyu made various adjustments to his training routines, having notably increased the workload compared to his competitive career.

The choreography of "Megalovania" was focusing on spins, and "The Darkness of Eternity" contained 11 jumps, seven of them performed in combination, matching the content of a competitive free skate.

[2][48] At the end of the program, Hanyu also performed a triple Axel-triple toe loop-triple loop combination,[47] which was only attempted by Japanese skater Nobunari Oda in competition, successfully landed at the 2007 World Championships among others.

[54] Another documentary of 150 minutes with additional footage from the Yokohama and Miyagi tour stops and the creation process of the show was aired on CS TV Asahi on May 5, 2024.

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Audience on the first day of the Repray Tour at Saitama Super Arena