<P> Yuri!!! on Ice (ユーリ!!! on ICE) is a Japanese sports anime television series about figure skating . It is produced by MAPPA, directed by Sayo Yamamoto and written by Mitsurō Kubo . The character designs were by Tadashi Hiramatsu, and the music was composed by Taro Umebayashi and Taku Matsushiba . The figure skating choreography was by Kenji Miyamoto . It revolves around the relationships between Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki; his idol, Russian figure - skating champion Victor Nikiforov, and up - and - coming Russian skater Yuri Plisetsky; as the two Yuris take part in the Figure Skating Grand Prix, with Victor acting as coach to Yuri K . </P> <P> The series first premiered on TV Asahi on October 6, 2016 and finished airing on December 22, 2016 with a total of 12 episodes . The series was made available for streaming by Crunchyroll shortly after its broadcast in Japan, Funimation also provided an English dub of the series, for their customers . starting on October 24, 2016, at 10: 00 p.m. ET . </P> <P> The opening theme was "History Maker" by Dean Fujioka, which reached number 43 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart . The ending theme was "You Only Live Once" by Wataru Hatano, and peaked at number 11 in the Billboard Japan Hot 100 . </P>

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