maybe the real tragedy of alien stage round 6 isn’t that they’re in an idol death game or even the string of unrequited love here but rather that someone could believe the feelings he held for years and gave him the strength to go on were too shallow to ever express properly
a video from jump_henshubu on Twitter shows us what the change cards are! they’re lenticular cards depicting Reborn, Tsuna, Kyoya, Mukuro, Chuuta and Ron! the KHR ones show their TYL/adult selves and Tsuna’s HYDWM, Chuuta shows him grown up and Ron’s shows him styles differently!! why the Mukuro artwork is old and not the newest volume cover artwork like Tsuna, or birthday artwork like Kyoya’s, who knows lol. I’m assuming they’re just lenticular collecting cards to do with Amano’s interview which celebrates KHR’s 20th anniversary and Amano as a mangaka; which drops April 30th! 🎉
When it comes to Almyra, I headcanon that their political landscape/attitude is all about having a lot of room (and balls) to fuck around, as opposed to Fódlan being neurotic and inward-facing and closed off.
It's not that Almyra is necessarily morally "better" or whatever, but I like to think there's a certain confidence that comes from being a large superpower. Domestic unrest, infighting, turmoil— all of those are problems, of course, but they're also confident that at the end of all that, Almyra will still be standing, one way or another. In contrast to Fódlani nations thinking that if they lose control, if they don't get to have it their way specifically, everything will come tumbling down and it's basically going to be the end of the world.
And both of those attitudes get synthesized in an interesting way in Claude, who's like ok if this doesn't work out then it's not the end of the world as long as I'm alive. But also, if I fuck up then Leicester will tear itself apart and my career in Fódlan will be so fucking over, come on I ran away from home and changed my identity to do this please
Tl;dr gotta love a dude who is laid back and neurotic at the same time.
Whenever Till sings about mizi and or needing her I notice that he always imagines her child self..
I think it's honestly because he's scared of actually seeing Mizi and how she ended up after all these years, because she isnt that child anymore.
he idealizes the child who saved him from spiraling when he was younger and gave him a reason to keep going through the pain of being in Alien stage. He idealized what Mizi used to represent, a sweetness and flowery purity that is rare in the world he lives in. so he clung to it life a lifeline because she WAS his lifeline, but he has yet to recognize the Mizi who has changed so much from when she was a child. I hope Till has an open-eyed moment when he sees Mizi again not as the child she once was but as the woman she is now. I feel like that'll have a much-needed impact on his character development.