

One scene of _Yuri on Ice_ (YoI) displays a register receipt from a jewelry
store. For less than a second, possibly even as short as a few frames, most of
the receipt is visible, and it is clear Yuri is about to purchase a **Gold
Wedding Ring**. Immediately the bulk of the receipt becomes masked by Yuri's
credit card. At the beginning of time code 13:26 of [episode
10](http://www.crunchyroll.com/yuri-on-ice/episode-10-gotta-supercharge-it-
pre-grand-prix-final-special-721639) a lucky freeze-frame can capture:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ckvo0.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ckvo0.jpg)

After that instant, the only significant receipt info which remains unmasked
is the price, 768.94 €.

Is there a verifiable reason the exact nature of this purchase is almost
hidden from the viewer?

In the English subtitles, Yuri refers to it as simply a "luck charm". There is
a [Tumblr post](http://spurisani.tumblr.com/post/154207813929/okay-i-fully-
understand-everyones-excitement) which explains that the term in Japanese is
"omamori" and has a deeper meaning than a non-Japanese speaker would associate
with "luck charm". (I have no direct knowledge that this post is accurate, but
it feels right.) So those in Japan would apparently get much more out of this
scene, even if they could not read the receipt.

Within hours (probably minutes) of episode 10 airing, there were people
posting the information on this receipt. It is likely that, even though the
details would slip by the vast majority of viewers, any internet-savvy _YoI_
fan would know what the receipt said. So the scene seems to be intentionally
hiding information, but with the knowledge that it will be revealed by the
fans. Does this confuse anyone else?

Also, can anyone read the first word on the line with "Gold Wedding Ring"? I
think it starts with an "F" but I cannot make it out, even in a sharpened
version of the image. (The video was viewed, and image captured, at 1080p
resolution, expanded to full screen on my 1920x1080 display.)


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Why was "Gold Wedding Ring" displayed for less than a second?


# Was the text of receipt hidden, and why?

I didn't get the impression that the receipt was anymore _intentionally_
"hidden" than, say, Yuko's text message to Yuri Plisetsky in episode 4; I saw
the text of the receipt as simply there to fill in necessary visual details
(in the same way in which it might be necessary for books or pages of homework
in the "background" of other anime to contain some relevant text). However,
the text of the receipt _does_ affect how we perceive Yuri's intentions or the
scene where rings are exchanged, so one could argue that at the very least,
useful information is being _unintentionally_ hidden (by virtue of the fact
that this piece of information is more or less a background detail).

I haven't seen (at the time of writing) any discussion of the text of the
receipt in (translations of) the "official" discussions listed
[here](https://whiteboxtreasure.wordpress.com/index/yuri-on-ice-masterpost/),
so it's difficult to go beyond guesswork in thinking about these issues.

# What does the receipt say?

My best guess is that the receipt reads "Flat Gold Wedding Ring". This is
prompted both by the observation that [other people](http://currently-in-
orbit.tumblr.com/post/154176315435/okay-so-according-to-his-receipt-yuuri-
picked) have made the same guess and that "Flat" was my first guess of an
English word that could fit the context.

Originally, I was uncertain about this reading, as the final character in the
first word did not look like a lower case T to me; as a lower case T, it
seemed too short. However, upon a second look, I noticed that instances on the
receipt where there is clearly a lower case T _in the same font_ (i.e. in the
instances of "Ticket" and "Total" that we see) have the same problem. With
this in mind, I was able to throw out my objection.


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