<Tr> <Th> Episodes </Th> <Td> 12 (List of episodes) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Anime and Manga portal </Td> </Tr> <P> Yuri!!! on Ice (Japanese: ユーリ!!! on ICE) is a sports anime television series about figure skating . The anime was produced by MAPPA, directed by Sayo Yamamoto and written by Mitsurō Kubo . Character design was by Tadashi Hiramatsu, and its music was composed by Taro Umebayashi and Taku Matsushiba . The figure skating was choreographed by Kenji Miyamoto, who also performed routines himself which were recorded and used as skating sound effects . The series premiered on October 6, 2016 and ended on December 22, with a total of 12 episodes . A Yuri on Ice feature film is currently in production . The series 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 Yuri K. and Yuri P. take part in the Figure Skating Grand Prix, with Victor acting as coach to Yuri K . </P> <P> Released to critical acclaim, Yuri on Ice has been well received in Japan . It won three awards at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival, a Japan Character Award and seven awards in Crunchyroll's inaugural Anime Awards . In Japan, the series was released in six parts on Blu - Ray and DVD, with all the releases coming No. 1 on the Oricon Animation Blu - Ray disc and Animation DVD disc rankings respectively . It was the second-most successful media franchise in Japan for the first half of 2017 . It was popular on social media outlets such as Tumblr, Sina Weibo and Twitter, where it received over a million more tweets that the next most - talked about anime series in the season it was broadcast . It also attracted praise from professional figure skaters . </P>

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