Last season was an absolute goldmine for me in terms of discovering new appealing skaters, or recalibrating my opinion of hitherto unappealing skaters. Specifically, last season, I fell hard for the skating of Alena Kostornaia, Emmy Ma, Wakaba Higuchi, Apollinariia Panfilova/Dmitri Rylov, Dmitri Aliev, Eun-soo Lim, and Anastasia Tarakanova, among others. Although some of these skaters have stumbled this season, their skating still speaks to me and I would readily start a flame war defending them on Twitter, or whatever.
This present season has not yielded quite the embarrassment of riches when it comes to new discoveries. Perhaps it's because the 2018-2019 season is a post-Olympics season, which tends to be a rebuilding year. Or perhaps it's because skaters and choreographers are still adjusting to the flood of new rules this season. Nonetheless, all is not lost in this valley of tears, for there are still skaters who have newly caught my eye this season: