Yuuri Katsuki

*This article is about the **Yuuri Katsuki** character. For articles that share the same name, see Yuri.*

## Yuuri Katsuki

### Alias

Debu/Fatso (by young Takeshi Nishigori)
Katsudon/Pork Cutlet Bowl/Buta/Pig (by Yuri Plisetsky)
Kobuta-chan/Piglet/Little Piggy (by Victor Nikiforov)

## Profile

### Likes

Ice skating, Victor Nikiforov, Vicchan, pork cutlet bowls

## Relationships

### Parents

Hiroko Katsuki (Mother)
Toshiya Katsuki (Father)

### Partner(s)

Victor Nikiforov  (Fiancé)
Yuuko Nishigori (Former Crush)

## Voice Actors

### English

Jessie James Grelle

**Yuri Katsuki**  (勝生 勇利, *Katsuki Yūri*) is a competitive figure skater and is engaged to Victor Nikiforov.

## Description

### Appearance

Yuuri has short, messy black hair and brown eyes. Yuuri wears half-rimmed blue glasses, but while he is skating, he removes them. Currently, he has no glasses and He combs his hair backward when performing his programs before a crowd.

Yuuri wore layers of clothing to hide his weight gain from binge eating. His warm-up outfit is usually a jacket and black pants with a stripe down the side. He wears gloves while skating and uses skates with standard blades.

Yuuri gains weight easily, but when he is in top form, he also has slight muscle due to his exercise and ice skating. Nonetheless, his body, especially his face, maintains a soft appearance, regardless of physical form. He currently lost weight and is looking slim.

Following Yuuri's presumed engagement to Victor Nikiforov while in Spain, he wears a gold ring on the ring finger of his right hand. Victor has a matching ring worn on the same hand and the same finger.

### Personality

Yuuri is known to be "the figure skater with the world's biggest glass heart." He is soft-hearted and easily devastated in the face of failureーso much so that he can slip into a depression for months at a time. He is a kind, quiet and easily embarrassed boy, but he is also shown to be stubborn and extremely competitive.

After being taken under Victor Nikiforov's wing as a student, Yuuri begins to steadily develop more confidence in himself. He becomes determined to chase his dreams, and even brushes off most of Yuri Plisetsky's attempts to insult or humiliate him. However, he still becomes easily discouraged and anxious and doesn't know how to deal with being the person to beat.

During competitions, he tends to be a bit colder and more self-centered due to his anxiety and competitive nature but is learning to pay more attention to those around him thanks to Victor.

## Etymology

* The name **Yuuri** (in this instance most likely) means "brave" (勇) (**yu**) and "profit" (利) (**ri**).
	+ It can also mean "Courage to win" (勇利).
		- The *toshi* (利) in Toshiya (利也) is also the *ri* in Yuuri (勇利) and Mari (真利).
* Yuuri's surname **Katsuki** means "victory" (勝) (**katsu**) and "living, life" (生) (**ki**).

## Trivia

* Yuuri's favorite dish is a 900 kcal breaded pork cutlet bowl.
	+ Yuuri gains weight very easily because of his anxious and depressive mood swings, binge eating and love for Katsudon (pork cutlet bowl), so he has to be especially vigilant concerning his weight.
* Yuuri owns a MacBook Air.
* Yuuri is shown throughout the episodes to have multiple mental issues; his most acknowledged one being anxiety. Along with anxiety, he is also shown to have depression and some form of binge eating disorder (BED). Though it has not been confirmed, it’s fairly obvious.
* Victor's love for poodles greatly rubbed off onto Yuuri.
	+ Yuuri's phone case features poodles and his lock screen as well as his phone profile picture is a picture of Vicchan. Yuuri owns a poodle soft toy that looks like Makkachin, and sometimes poodle soft toys are thrown for him during competitions.
* Mitsurou Kubo confirmed that Yuuri and Victor cannot live without each other and had to revise their initial plans.
* Yuuri became the ambassador of the Japanese city of Karatsu on the 29th of November 2017 as a birthday gift for bringing more than 40,000 overseas tourists to the town.
* Yuuri is seen to be representing the country of 'Jaran' in Episode 5, which was an accident.
* "Yuri" is the romanized spelling that Yuuri himself uses to spell his name, but his name is often spelled with two U’s to distinguish him and Yuri (Yurio) Plisetsky. Yuuri with two U’s is also a romanized version of the name "Yūri" and some choose to use this version of the name due to personal preference.