THE INCARNATION OF ADORABLE TURNS 18 TODAY
OR: IN WHICH FOR ONCE, MY ICON IS RELEVANT, INSTEAD OF JUST RANDOMLY CHEERFUL!
OKAY _SKATERS, GUESS WHAT TODAY IS
MIRAI NAGASU'S BIRTHDAY, THAT'S WHAT!
YOU HEARD THE LADY, LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED! SO COME ON INSIDE AND CELEBRATE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF THE CUTEST DAMN THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN. WARNING: THE AMOUNT OF ADORABLE CONTAINED WITHIN MAY ACTUALLY BREAK YOUR FACE.
BEFORE WE GET STARTED, HAVE A QUICK REFRESHER COURSE IN MIRAI'S ADORABLE!
HERE IS MIRAI TALKING ABOUT HER FAVORITE THINGS!
AND HERE IS MIRAI BEING ADORABLE IN A JAPANESE GRAND PRIX PROMO!
NOW THEN.
ONCE UPON A TIME, MIRAI WAS AN ADORABLE BB
YEAH, THAT'S HER ON THE LEFT. I'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO COLLECT YOURSELF.
THEN SHE STARTED SKATING!
SHE CONTINUED TO BE ADORABLE, BUT ON ICE! AND WITH OTHER BB SKATERS! AND WHILE WEARING A TEAM USA JACKET! AND ALL OVER THE WORLD!
SHE AND CAROLINE ZHANG WERE BIFFLES. THEY WERE ADORABLE TOGETHER!
HERE IS A REALLY CUTE INTERVIEW WHERE THEY EXPLAINED THAT THEY WOULD RATHER BE MICHELLE KWAN THAN HANNAH MONTANA (OFC).
THEY APPEAR TO HAVE SPENT THE BULK OF THEIR JUNIOR CAREERS TAKING ADORKABLE PICTURES TOGETHER AT BANQUETS
SOMETIMES, CAROLINE POSTS CANDIDS FROM THIS ERA ON FACEBOOK (AND TOTALLY DOES NOT LOCK THEM, TY CZHANG). MIRAI DOES NOT LIKE THAT VERY MUCH.
DID YOU HEAR THAT, GUYS?
MIRAI IS SHARPENING HER KNIFE RIGHT NOW.
BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID. I MEAN DOESN'T SHE LOOK TERRIFYING.
NOW THAT WE'RE A BIT CLOSER TO THE PRESENT, LET'S PROCEED YEAR BY YEAR!
2007!
HERE IS A NATS FLUFF PIECE ABOUT MIRAI NAGASU, 2007 US JUNIOR LADIES CHAMPION! IT IS - WAIT FOR IT - ADORABLE!
2008!
THE NEXT YEAR, MIRAI WON THE US NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AT THE AGE OF 14! THIS MADE HER THE SECOND YOUNGEST LADY IN HISTORY TO WIN THE TITLE, AND ALSO THE SECOND EVER TO WIN THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR TITLES IN CONSECUTIVE YEARS. NO ONE HAS SMILED BIGGER THAN THIS IN THIS HISTORY OF EVER.
2009
...DIDN'T GO SO WELL. MIRAI HAD A GROWTH SPURT, HAD A HARD TIME DEALING WITH IT, MOVED UP TO SENIORS INTERNATIONALLY AND DIDN'T DO SO WELL AT HER GP ASSIGNMENTS, PLACED 5TH AT NATS, AND WITHDREW FROM JUNIOR WORLDS DUE TO INJURY
;______________________;
SO LET'S JUST SKIP RIGHT OVER THAT AND TALK ABOUT:
2010!
...WHICH IS WHEN MIRAI:
1) PLACED SECOND AT NATS WITH A GORGEOUS, FABULOUS FREE SKATE THAT SENT HER TO THE OLYMPICS
AND MADE HER THIS HAPPY
AND MADE THE OTHER US LADIES THIS CONCERNED
SHE AND RACHAEL SHARED AN "OMG WE'RE GOING TO THE OLYMPICS!!!" MOMENT, AND THEN THEY WERE OFF!
ALTHOUGH NOT BEFORE MIRAI DID THIS REALLY ADORABLE EX PROGRAM AT THE GALA
AND DID A SUPER QUICK INTERVIEW ABOUT THE FREE STUFF SHE'S GOING TO GET AT THE OLYMPICS - AND NO, SHE'S NOT GOING TO SHARE.
2) WENT TO THE OLYMPICS, SPUN SO HARD HER NOSE BLED, AND CAME IN 4TH!
ALSO SHE TOOK A MOMENT TO TAKE THIS PICTURE, WHICH I LOVE:
AND TO PUT TOGETHER A MONTAGE OF HER PICTURES FROM THE OLYMPICS, WHICH YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WATCH FOR THE CAPTIONS ALONE
3) HAD THE TOP SCORING SHORT PROGRAM AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
FIERCE MIRAI IS FIERCE
ADMITTEDLY THE FREE SKATE DIDN'T GO THAT WELL BUT IT'S A HAPPY DAY AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT OKAY.
LAST OFF-SEASON, MIRAI TOURED WITH STARS ON ICE!
SHE CELEBRATED HER 17TH BIRTHDAY WITH THEM!
BE MORE ADORABLE MERYL I DARE YOU NO- OH WAIT, THIS POST ISN'T ABOUT YOU. SORRY.
THEY THREW HER A PARTY
AND THEN SASHA GAVE HER SOME BIRTHDAY ADVICE!
ALL OF WHICH BRINGS US TO...
2011!
THIS SEASON HAS BEEN A KIND OF WEIRD ONE FOR MIRAI. ON THE ONE HAND, SHE KEPT COMING IN FIRST IN THE SHORT PROGRAM, HEADCASING HERSELF OUT IN THE FREE, AND THEN LOSING (BRB SOBBING, #SHITGETITTOGETHERMIRAI). ON THE OTHER HAND, THOUGH:
MIRAI WON HER FIRST GRAND PRIX MEDAL THIS SEASON!
SHE GOT THE SILVER AT TEB. LISTEN TO HER BE ADORABLY EXCITED ABOUT IT IN THE KISS AND CRY. (EVEN FRANK CAN'T HELP BUT SMILE!)
GORGEOUS PODIUM IS GORGEOUS
SHE ALSO WAS HILARIOUS IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE.
TRANSCRIBED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE:
WHEN ASKED AT AROUND 5:06 WHY SHE LOVES SKATING, MIRAI ANSWERS:
"I love skating because... I love the feel of the ice, and um... I want to become the best, and um... I like all the glitter and the shazam and I - I just love everything about it. I love that... (laughter) ...I love that, um, like, you can do things that you can't do off ice, and actually I'm really clumsy off ice, and, um, I've taken dance classes and people have given me weird looks because I can't dance very well, but um... everything is for skating and I'm always thinking in the back of my mind, like, "If you - if you got out on the ice, I would show you what's what." I just - I just feel like I can become a different person on the ice and I love that feeling and, um, I just... it's like loving a person, like, you can't really define it in words that well but you know you just love it.
Not that I have any love or like - experience.
Yeah."
#THEGLITTERANDTHESHAZAM
NEVER EVER EVER GET MEDIA TRAINED, MIRAI :DDD
NATS DIDN'T GO SO WELL FOR MIRAI; SHE FINISHED THIRD, JUST OFF THE WORLD TEAM. ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, THOUGH, SHE MADE A NEW FRIEND!
~MIRAI/TONY THE TIGER BROTP~
AND SHE GOT HER CALCIUM!
(LOL WHAT NO OFC I'M NOT PIMPING OUT MY OWN PHOTOS SHUT UP.)
AND SHE STILL GOT TO BE IN THE GALA, WHERE SHE DID HER ABSURDLY ADORABLY LITERAL "FIREFLIES" EX
(THIS IS THE ONE FROM 4CC BECAUSE THE ONE FROM NATS ISN'T ON YOUTUBE ANYMORE FFFFFUUUUUU YOUTUBE.)
SHE FINISHED HER SEASON WITH A FABULOUS, CLEAN FREE SKATE AT FOUR CONTINENTS, WHERE SHE PLACED THE HIGHEST OF THE US LADIES, TAKING HOME THE BRONZE MEDAL.
FLAWLESS PODIUM TBH
FUN FACT: MIRAI HAS HAD THREE TOTALLY DIFFERENT DRESSES FOR HER "MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA" FREE SKATE THIS SEASON!
(WHICH ONE DO YOU LIKE THE BEST?)
WHAT HAS MIRAI BEEN DOING NOW THAT HER SEASON IS OVER, YOU MAY ASK?
TRYING TO GET A 3A, THAT'S WHAT!
SOMEDAY, MIRAI IS GOING TO HAVE A 3A AND ROTATE ALL OF HER JUMPS AND STOP HEADCASING AND WIN ALL OF THE THINGS.
(DON'T DISILLUSION ME ON HER BIRTHDAY OKAY.)
LET'S FINISH UP WITH SOME FUN FACTS ABOUT MIRAI!
FIRST OF ALL:
SHE LIKES TO HANG OUT WITH OTHER CUTE THINGS, LIKE PUPPIES AND BABIES!
SOMETIMES, SHE APPARENTLY TRIES TO MAKE BABIES FLY:
ONCE, SHE LED A PARADE!
LOL YOU HERP THAT DERP MIRAI
EVERYONE LOVES HER.
LITERALLY EVERYONE! HERE ARE A BUNCH OF PICTURES OF MIRAI WITH HER FRONDS:
THIS ONE IS FROM J10'S FACEBOOK. HIS CAPTION? "Omg omg omg...its Mirai Nagasu. lol She's adorable!"
WE'RE MIRAI'S FRIENDS TOO, BTW.
IN CONCLUSION: AS OF TODAY, MIRAI NAGASU HAS BEEN ADORABLE AND FANTASTIC FOR A TOTAL OF EIGHTEEN YEARS! HERE'S HOPING WE GET TO WITNESS HER ADORABLE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIRAI!!
OKAY _SKATERS, GUESS WHAT TODAY IS
MIRAI NAGASU'S BIRTHDAY, THAT'S WHAT!
YOU HEARD THE LADY, LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED! SO COME ON INSIDE AND CELEBRATE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF THE CUTEST DAMN THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN. WARNING: THE AMOUNT OF ADORABLE CONTAINED WITHIN MAY ACTUALLY BREAK YOUR FACE.
BEFORE WE GET STARTED, HAVE A QUICK REFRESHER COURSE IN MIRAI'S ADORABLE!
HERE IS MIRAI TALKING ABOUT HER FAVORITE THINGS!
Click to viewAND HERE IS MIRAI BEING ADORABLE IN A JAPANESE GRAND PRIX PROMO!
NOW THEN.
ONCE UPON A TIME, MIRAI WAS AN ADORABLE BB
YEAH, THAT'S HER ON THE LEFT. I'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO COLLECT YOURSELF.
THEN SHE STARTED SKATING!
SHE CONTINUED TO BE ADORABLE, BUT ON ICE! AND WITH OTHER BB SKATERS! AND WHILE WEARING A TEAM USA JACKET! AND ALL OVER THE WORLD!
SHE AND CAROLINE ZHANG WERE BIFFLES. THEY WERE ADORABLE TOGETHER!
HERE IS A REALLY CUTE INTERVIEW WHERE THEY EXPLAINED THAT THEY WOULD RATHER BE MICHELLE KWAN THAN HANNAH MONTANA (OFC).
THEY APPEAR TO HAVE SPENT THE BULK OF THEIR JUNIOR CAREERS TAKING ADORKABLE PICTURES TOGETHER AT BANQUETS
SOMETIMES, CAROLINE POSTS CANDIDS FROM THIS ERA ON FACEBOOK (AND TOTALLY DOES NOT LOCK THEM, TY CZHANG). MIRAI DOES NOT LIKE THAT VERY MUCH.
DID YOU HEAR THAT, GUYS?
MIRAI IS SHARPENING HER KNIFE RIGHT NOW.
BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID. I MEAN DOESN'T SHE LOOK TERRIFYING.
NOW THAT WE'RE A BIT CLOSER TO THE PRESENT, LET'S PROCEED YEAR BY YEAR!
2007!
HERE IS A NATS FLUFF PIECE ABOUT MIRAI NAGASU, 2007 US JUNIOR LADIES CHAMPION! IT IS - WAIT FOR IT - ADORABLE!
2008!
THE NEXT YEAR, MIRAI WON THE US NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AT THE AGE OF 14! THIS MADE HER THE SECOND YOUNGEST LADY IN HISTORY TO WIN THE TITLE, AND ALSO THE SECOND EVER TO WIN THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR TITLES IN CONSECUTIVE YEARS. NO ONE HAS SMILED BIGGER THAN THIS IN THIS HISTORY OF EVER.
2009
...DIDN'T GO SO WELL. MIRAI HAD A GROWTH SPURT, HAD A HARD TIME DEALING WITH IT, MOVED UP TO SENIORS INTERNATIONALLY AND DIDN'T DO SO WELL AT HER GP ASSIGNMENTS, PLACED 5TH AT NATS, AND WITHDREW FROM JUNIOR WORLDS DUE TO INJURY
;______________________;
SO LET'S JUST SKIP RIGHT OVER THAT AND TALK ABOUT:
2010!
...WHICH IS WHEN MIRAI:
1) PLACED SECOND AT NATS WITH A GORGEOUS, FABULOUS FREE SKATE THAT SENT HER TO THE OLYMPICS
AND MADE HER THIS HAPPY
AND MADE THE OTHER US LADIES THIS CONCERNED
SHE AND RACHAEL SHARED AN "OMG WE'RE GOING TO THE OLYMPICS!!!" MOMENT, AND THEN THEY WERE OFF!
ALTHOUGH NOT BEFORE MIRAI DID THIS REALLY ADORABLE EX PROGRAM AT THE GALA
AND DID A SUPER QUICK INTERVIEW ABOUT THE FREE STUFF SHE'S GOING TO GET AT THE OLYMPICS - AND NO, SHE'S NOT GOING TO SHARE.
2) WENT TO THE OLYMPICS, SPUN SO HARD HER NOSE BLED, AND CAME IN 4TH!
ALSO SHE TOOK A MOMENT TO TAKE THIS PICTURE, WHICH I LOVE:
AND TO PUT TOGETHER A MONTAGE OF HER PICTURES FROM THE OLYMPICS, WHICH YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WATCH FOR THE CAPTIONS ALONE
3) HAD THE TOP SCORING SHORT PROGRAM AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
FIERCE MIRAI IS FIERCE
ADMITTEDLY THE FREE SKATE DIDN'T GO THAT WELL BUT IT'S A HAPPY DAY AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT OKAY.
LAST OFF-SEASON, MIRAI TOURED WITH STARS ON ICE!
SHE CELEBRATED HER 17TH BIRTHDAY WITH THEM!
BE MORE ADORABLE MERYL I DARE YOU NO- OH WAIT, THIS POST ISN'T ABOUT YOU. SORRY.
THEY THREW HER A PARTY
AND THEN SASHA GAVE HER SOME BIRTHDAY ADVICE!
ALL OF WHICH BRINGS US TO...
2011!
THIS SEASON HAS BEEN A KIND OF WEIRD ONE FOR MIRAI. ON THE ONE HAND, SHE KEPT COMING IN FIRST IN THE SHORT PROGRAM, HEADCASING HERSELF OUT IN THE FREE, AND THEN LOSING (BRB SOBBING, #SHITGETITTOGETHERMIRAI). ON THE OTHER HAND, THOUGH:
MIRAI WON HER FIRST GRAND PRIX MEDAL THIS SEASON!
SHE GOT THE SILVER AT TEB. LISTEN TO HER BE ADORABLY EXCITED ABOUT IT IN THE KISS AND CRY. (EVEN FRANK CAN'T HELP BUT SMILE!)
GORGEOUS PODIUM IS GORGEOUS
SHE ALSO WAS HILARIOUS IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE.
TRANSCRIBED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE:
WHEN ASKED AT AROUND 5:06 WHY SHE LOVES SKATING, MIRAI ANSWERS:
"I love skating because... I love the feel of the ice, and um... I want to become the best, and um... I like all the glitter and the shazam and I - I just love everything about it. I love that... (laughter) ...I love that, um, like, you can do things that you can't do off ice, and actually I'm really clumsy off ice, and, um, I've taken dance classes and people have given me weird looks because I can't dance very well, but um... everything is for skating and I'm always thinking in the back of my mind, like, "If you - if you got out on the ice, I would show you what's what." I just - I just feel like I can become a different person on the ice and I love that feeling and, um, I just... it's like loving a person, like, you can't really define it in words that well but you know you just love it.
Not that I have any love or like - experience.
Yeah."
#THEGLITTERANDTHESHAZAM
NEVER EVER EVER GET MEDIA TRAINED, MIRAI :DDD
NATS DIDN'T GO SO WELL FOR MIRAI; SHE FINISHED THIRD, JUST OFF THE WORLD TEAM. ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, THOUGH, SHE MADE A NEW FRIEND!
~MIRAI/TONY THE TIGER BROTP~
AND SHE GOT HER CALCIUM!
(LOL WHAT NO OFC I'M NOT PIMPING OUT MY OWN PHOTOS SHUT UP.)
AND SHE STILL GOT TO BE IN THE GALA, WHERE SHE DID HER ABSURDLY ADORABLY LITERAL "FIREFLIES" EX
(THIS IS THE ONE FROM 4CC BECAUSE THE ONE FROM NATS ISN'T ON YOUTUBE ANYMORE FFFFFUUUUUU YOUTUBE.)
SHE FINISHED HER SEASON WITH A FABULOUS, CLEAN FREE SKATE AT FOUR CONTINENTS, WHERE SHE PLACED THE HIGHEST OF THE US LADIES, TAKING HOME THE BRONZE MEDAL.
FLAWLESS PODIUM TBH
FUN FACT: MIRAI HAS HAD THREE TOTALLY DIFFERENT DRESSES FOR HER "MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA" FREE SKATE THIS SEASON!
(WHICH ONE DO YOU LIKE THE BEST?)
WHAT HAS MIRAI BEEN DOING NOW THAT HER SEASON IS OVER, YOU MAY ASK?
TRYING TO GET A 3A, THAT'S WHAT!
SOMEDAY, MIRAI IS GOING TO HAVE A 3A AND ROTATE ALL OF HER JUMPS AND STOP HEADCASING AND WIN ALL OF THE THINGS.
(DON'T DISILLUSION ME ON HER BIRTHDAY OKAY.)
LET'S FINISH UP WITH SOME FUN FACTS ABOUT MIRAI!
FIRST OF ALL:
SHE LIKES TO HANG OUT WITH OTHER CUTE THINGS, LIKE PUPPIES AND BABIES!
SOMETIMES, SHE APPARENTLY TRIES TO MAKE BABIES FLY:
ONCE, SHE LED A PARADE!
LOL YOU HERP THAT DERP MIRAI
EVERYONE LOVES HER.
LITERALLY EVERYONE! HERE ARE A BUNCH OF PICTURES OF MIRAI WITH HER FRONDS:
THIS ONE IS FROM J10'S FACEBOOK. HIS CAPTION? "Omg omg omg...its Mirai Nagasu. lol She's adorable!"
WE'RE MIRAI'S FRIENDS TOO, BTW.
IN CONCLUSION: AS OF TODAY, MIRAI NAGASU HAS BEEN ADORABLE AND FANTASTIC FOR A TOTAL OF EIGHTEEN YEARS! HERE'S HOPING WE GET TO WITNESS HER ADORABLE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIRAI!!