Yuri!!! On ICE: Yuri Plisetsky GPF in Barcelona EX "Welcome to The Madness"
ユーリ!!! on ICE Yuri Plisetsky GPF in Barcelona EX "Welcome to The Madness" (Yuri!!! on Ice: Yuri Plisetsky GPF in Barcelona EX - Welcome to The Madness)
- Sports
- Performing Arts
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 2 min
- Aired
- May 26, 2017
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
At the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Barcelona, 15-year-old Yuri Plisetsky takes the ice for an exhibition program determined to break away from his “Russian Fairy” image.
With bold, untamed choreography that’s unlike anything he’s shown before, Yuri pushes his performance in a new direction—one that lets him redefine how the audience sees him.
Otaku Consensus
Welcome to The Madness is received less as a standalone story than as a precision-cut character encore: MAPPA’s skating animation, the no-dialogue staging, and Mitsurou Kubo’s sharp sense of persona turn a 2:32 exhibition into a memorable Yuri Plisetsky statement piece. Its strongest appeal is how efficiently it channels the main series’ emotional performance language into choreography, while the common criticism is unavoidable: it is so brief and self-contained that viewers wanting new narrative material may find it closer to a premium bonus clip than a full episode.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Welcome to The Madness if you want sports anime intensity without exposition, tournament setup, or motivational speeches. This is for viewers who read body language, costume attitude, and choreography as character writing: a short-form performance built around Yuri Plisetsky’s volatility rather than a conventional scene. It scratches the same itch as the best competitive moments in Haikyuu!! or the most expressive routines in Yuri!!! on Ice itself, where technique becomes personality instead of decoration. The near-silent format makes it especially rewarding for figure-skating fans who care about how a program is framed, cut, and animated. At just over two and a half minutes, it is not a sequel substitute; it is a concentrated MAPPA showcase for one of the franchise’s most talked-about skaters.
Key Characters
- YYuri Plisetsky
Yuri Plisetsky fascinates fans because his elite technical grace and abrasive off-ice persona collide here in a performance designed to reject the tidy “Russian Fairy” label attached to him.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The short is structured as a single exhibition program rather than a dialogue-driven episode, matching AniList’s high “No Dialogue” tag and making the skating itself the primary storytelling tool.
- 2
MAPPA’s contribution is concentrated into a 2:32 performance clip, so the animation emphasis falls on pose transitions, rhythm, and camera energy rather than plot progression.
- 3
It functions as a character-focused addendum to Yuri!!! on Ice, centering Yuri Plisetsky rather than the main series’ broader ensemble dynamics.
- 4
The piece is tied to the Grand Prix Final exhibition context in Barcelona, a specific competitive afterglow setting that lets the routine feel like a public image reset rather than another scored program.
- 5
Its reception numbers are unusually strong for such a brief special, with a 7.99 MAL score from 39,670 votes and an AniList score of 79/100.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The OVA aired on May 26, 2017 and consists of one episode, making it one of the most compact official Yuri!!! on Ice anime entries.
- Fun fact 2
- A review of Yuri!!! On Ice - The Complete Series specifically identifies the Welcome to The Madness OVA as lasting 2:32, which explains why many fans discuss it as a performance extra rather than a conventional episode.
- Fun fact 3
- Mitsurou Kubo, credited in the data as the original creator, is the key creative name attached to the project’s character-first performance style.
- Fun fact 4
- AniList’s tag distribution is unusually revealing for this title: Ice Skating is marked at 92%, No Dialogue at 90%, and Dancing at 72%, reflecting how narrowly focused the short is on movement.
- Fun fact 5
- Yuri Plisetsky’s English dub portrayal is associated in the provided web data with Micah Solusod, while no Japanese voice actor credit is supplied in the research data.
Studios
- MAPPA
