The thing about Alien Stage is that I've been watching Vivinos for a long long time. I was there when the first trailer dropped. I was there when all the previous videos dropped.
And I am still fairly certain that this is the first time a couple actually outright kissed.
This is the first kiss Vivinos ever put in a Youtube video and it was the most unrequited, unromantic, painful thing to exist in it.
The first kiss, and it was for a kiss of a couple I was kinda rooting for and it cost them everything.
losing my shit on how till literally never looks at ivan unless theyre actively fighting, like even in the flashback
and then during the song its the same thing
all ivan wants is for till to acknowledge him, just to look at him for even one second, give him a second thought- but he cant even do that
so then ivan does the fucking makout/choking sacrifice thing- "oh isnt he a hypocrite for getting mad at sua for doing the same thing?" no, because he was mad at sua because she knew what she would do would hurt mizi because she loved her.
ivan doesnt think sacrificing himself will hurt till, because till will never love him. HE KNOWS THIS AND YET HE STILL SACRIFICES HIMSELF FOR SOMEONE HE THINKS WILL NEVER LOVE HIM
AND EVEN NOW TILL WONT LOOK AT HIM
and then once he's certain till is safe, he gives him one last, real, selfish kiss
The cultural impact that is Round 6 needs to be studied (A list of things I've seen)
β - A lot of people finding out about Alien Stage's existence because of alnst twt losing their shit over it and the effect slowly spreading over to other subtwts.
β - The MV has gotten over 1mil views in less than 48 hours
β - People who knew nothing about alnst before are quickly go from curious to bawling their eyes out
β - As I'm typing this alnst has been trending on here for an entire day
β - The amount of alnst/ivantill fanart I've seen dear GOD
β - Some people's timelines and feeds are literally nothing but alnst. My twitter feed included.
β - More attention being drawn towards Mizi and Sua as a result
β - The sheer amount of analyses regarding Cure and some of its scenes popping up (Side note... poor, poor Till holy fuck)
So yeah. Doomed yaoi is what gets people's attention.
I still sometimes see people wondering if Samurai Remnant Saber is meant to really be genderless when most of the NPCs in the game assume they're a girl, so here's Nasu saying that Saber was conceived as so.