Hikaru Utada announces release date for Ayataka CM song "Mine or Yours" and releases new artist photo in loungewear style
It has been announced that Utada Hikaru's new song "Mine or Yours" will be released digitally on May 2nd.
A pre-order campaign for "Mine or Yours" will also begin today, April 18th. 200 people who pre-order the song on Spotify, Apple Music, or iTunes will be chosen at random to receive an original T-shirt featuring the album cover. All applicants will also be able to download an original wallpaper, which will be available on Apple Music and iTunes at a later date.
Hikaru Utada is the ambassador for Ayataka green tea for the second year in a row! You can hear a new track "Mine or Yours" in the latest commercial, featuring Utada enjoying Ayataka during their daily life.
【KagePro】 Alien Stage AU: KuroEne, AyaEne, MaryEne AU 🖤💙❤️🩷👾🎤
KagePro x Alien Stage AU: Part 1 👾🎤
Summary:
KagePro (KGPR) x Alien Stage (ALNST) AU: KuroEne, AyaEne, and MaryEne AU 🖤💙❤️🩷👾🎤
Round 5: Ruler of My Heart - Saeru Hebi vs. Tateyama Ayano
Round 7 (Final Round): Blink Gone - Saeru Hebi vs. Kozakura Mary
KuroEne, AyaEne, and MaryEne centric AU.
Mainly focuses on my fave KagePro charas in an ALNST AU, and combines the lore and setting of both KagePro and ALNST.
This AU is centered around Takane/Ene multiships because Ene is my wife, so I'm the most invested in her ships.
Kuroha/Saeru: 🖤🐍
Takane/Ene: 💙🐇
Ayano: ❤️🧣
Mary: 🩷🎀
KagePro (KGPR) x Alien Stage (ALNST) AU 👾 🎤
Scan: @/ayara-resara
Artist: Sidu
Colour Edit: Me (@/stepswordsen)
Source: .dsd Sidu Illustrations Works 2011-2015 Art Book
Takane, Haruka, Konoha, Kuroha/Saeru, Ene
Some thoughts I came up with for this AU. I'll be combining lore details from both KagePro and ALNST canon to make the AU more interesting.
Mainly focused on my fave charas and ships. I'm the most invested in Ene multiships because Takane/Ene is my wife.
Also, I wanted to limit the scope and make it easier to write, since ALNST has 6 main charas.
Saeru Hebi (Clearing Snake) manipulated circumstances to get the cast to compete in Alien Stage, a life or death competition.
The tournament has been manipulated by Saeru to reset the time and keep up his pseudo immortality.
Haruka died from his his illness, leading to the creation of a clone, Konoha
Saeru steals Konoha's body before/leading up to a round that Konoha was supposed to perform (or he eliminates Konoha and takes his appearance)
KuroEne become involved with each other, and Ene has a Hate/Love relationship with Saeru and has conflicted feelings for him.
Ene is aware of his true nature and that he's a monster, but still feels drawn to him because he knows her better than anyone else.
He could always read her too well and would always know how to get at the heart of her feelings, so they build a connection. Ene gets attached to him.
Unknownst to her, Saeru retains knowledge of previous timelines and thus remembers all of their memories together throughout the time loops.
During his matches, Saeru weaponizes his knowledge and uses his opponents' grief to his advantage.
Saeru and Ayano compete in Round 5: Ruler of My Heart, and each sing the song out of their love for Takane/Ene.
Saeru preys on Ayano's grief (from losing her siblings and Takane earlier in previous rounds)
Ayano is struggling during her performance from the loss of her family/friends and love interest weighing on her.
Ene sees Round 5 being broadcast. Maybe she tries to return to Alien Stage to bust the others out
Saeru and Mary face off in Round 7 (Final Round): Blink Gone.
During their match, similar to Outer Science, Saeru taunts Mary about her friends' deaths to further drive Mary's despair and desperation, telling her that she is the "Queen of this Tragedy."
Mary uses her Queen/Medusa powers to rewind time, out of a wish to see her friends again, one more time.
Source: Outer Science MV (Blu-Ray Edition)
I linked the Blu-Ray (BD) edition release since it corrects the colours. The original MV upload is much darker, so certain details are harder to see.
Brainstorming Ideas
Alien Stage competition takes place in the August month, and the Final Round is on August 15th (reset day)
Maybe Saeru arranged for Konoha's elimination in a previous round just so he could steal his body
Ene has a Hate/Love relationship with Kuroha/Saeru and conflicted feelings for him due to him stealing her loved one's body and taking his place
Maybe Ene infiltrates a control room and watches the events of Round 5 being broadcast. She hacks into the system and causes a smokescreen to help save Ayano and escapes with her, which Saeru was counting on
Maybe Saeru lets himself lose in the final round because Konoha's body is "indestructible." So if he gets shot, he doesn't get killed, unlike the others.
So Mary is the "winner" of the competition, but Saeru is the winner of the game overall because he ends up getting what he wanted in the end.
Mary resets out of desperation and a strong desire to see her friends again.
I feel like at some point, Saeru would tell Ene that she has a habit of "running away from confronting her more honest feelings and inevitable fate"
In MR2, Ene says she always ran away from her problems and avoided confronting her feelings, in an attempt to bury them and not have to acknowledge them.
Other Notes
Gonna write down some more thoughts so I don't forget
I feel like Ene is the type to sacrifice herself against her opponents... I think Saeru should rig the game so that she's only shot with a non-lethal toxin that makes her unconscious/comatose.
In another loop, if there's ever an Ayano vs. Mary round, I feel like Ayano would sacrifice herself for Mary
ALNST
Ruler of My Heart (ROMH) is implied to have been written by Luka (according to Vivinos' Patreon posts)
Just gonna link for this fan-written description since it links the official Patreon posts: (X)
I think some of the lyrics can be interpreted as references to Hyuna (by fan-speculation)
"Ruler of My Heart" could also be an implicit reference to how Luka constantly has to monitor/keep his heart rate in check due to his strict abusive upbringing and "teachings" by his owner.
ROMH lyric can be speculated as a reference to the artbook line.
My savior, pitiful lady
Make me your god, I can give you everything
- Ruler of My Heart Lyrics
"Pitiful thing. You're just running away from the current situation. If you just came into my embrace, your safety would be guaranteed." - Luka about Hyuna in the ALNST artbook
Rambles with Feila
Alien Stage: Round 5 - Ruler of My Heart
Gonna write down some more thoughts so I don't forget.
Just brainstorming some possible ideas.
Me: Just came up with an idea for a KagePro x ALNST AU where Saeru is in the position of Luka (except minus Luka's backstory details obviously) and uses his knowledge to his advantage by weaponizing his opponents' grief and distress during his matches.
I speedran watching some MVs recently cuz I was interested in MiziSua.
I think my fave ALNST charas are Mizi, Luka, and Hyuna.
Also, I love charas who are deranged and a freak 🫡
Saeru and Ene match-up... 🖤 💙
Saeru and Mary match-up should be the final round 👍
Ohhh, buddy!!! ‼️
I'm also really interested by the concept of adding KagePro's time loop into it with making it a loop where each tournament takes place on August 15th and then the timeline resets.
F: Saeru and Mary as Blink Gone 😭😭😭
ALSO THE TIME RESET PART, GENIUS
Also him fiddling around, switching the contestants' opponent each loop
Me: OH I was imagining Saeru and Mary singing “Ruler of My Heart” so they take Luka and Mizi's place
I was just gonna swap the rounds so it makes more sense. Though admittedly, I'm still deciding.
Especially with the part where Mizi lashes out and attacks Luka as a trauma response (out of anger and grief)
Mary (in Mizi's position) attacks Saeru (in Luka's position) with her Queen/Medusa form 🐍
So that I could have my KuroEne and MaryEne vision with Mary having a match-up with Ene in a previous round, and Ene lets herself lose to Mary.
And then Saeru sings "Ruler of My Heart" out of “love” (twisted obsession) for whoever his S/O is. Ene, in our AU’s case.
ALNST
Iirc it was stated that "Ruler of My Heart" is a song that Luka composed.
Reading the lyrics, if you interpret it as Luka's POV towards Hyuna, it does seem like some lines are dedicated to Hyuna, because Luka’s love is toxic, obsessive, and controlling.
My saviour, pitiful lady
Make me your god, I can give you everything
The lyric, "Make me your god, I can give you everything" really reads as MiziSua and HyuLuka core.
Especially since Round 5 was officially a duet between Mizi and Luka, and then Studio Lico released official solo versions of ROMH for Hyuna and Sua
"Ruler of My Heart" indeed...
Hyuna’s life motto is that she wants to live her life for herself in All-In, she sings out of enjoyment, for herself, as her way of reclaiming singing from the Segyein/Aliens.
Though in contrast, Luka's toxic, obsessive, controlling love for Hyuna is still very child-like and "innocent"
Round 5: Ruler of My Heart
Saeru's "love" (twisted obsession) is very NOT innocent.
I also really like the idea of Saeru singing the line of "Make me your god, I can give you everything"
Especially considering his whole shtick in my KuroEne AU.
He plays up to his S/O's desires and gives them everything they ever wanted. Except for the thing they want most - to move onto the future with everyone.
Saeru tells Ene (during the final confrontation on August 15th in my canon-verse KuroEne AU with the MaryEne team-up Route), how he gave her everything she ever wanted and made all her wishes come true.
Though I'd want Ene to still be alive to see Saeru and Ayano's performance... I'd have to think about the order of the rounds so it can make sense 🤔
Or maybe Mary about Ayano (platonic), like maybe Ayano sacrificed herself for Mary earlier.
Anyways, I’d have Saeru and Ayano compete and sing ROMH about their feelings for Takane/Ene, and Saeru weaponizing Ayano’s grief.
Or it can be Mary about Ene (romantic) 🩷 💙
Or maybe Saeru and Ene should be “Ruler of My Heart” (with Ene mourning Haruka/Konoha) and then “Saeru and Mary” is Blink Gone
So Ig the options are to make "Ruler of My Heart" between either Saeru and Ayano, or Saeru and Mary
Like maybe Ayano thinks Ene is dead when she's actually not (just missing, and Saeru ensured she'd be able to sneak out)
And Ayano is clearly struggling in her match against Saeru and then attacks him out of anger and grief.
Like what point is there in Saeru singing “Ruler of My Heart” if Ene is not alive/there to see it 😭
Maybe Saeru should rig Ene to win one of her matches against an NPC so that she can still see it being broadcast 👍 Though she has no idea that the song is about her
Me: I think Saeru and Ayano singing “Ruler of My Heart” (Round 5) and Saeru and Mary singing “Blink Gone” (Round 7 - Final Round) would have a really nice set-up...
F: 💗
Me: EXACTLY 🤭 👍
F: Love love LOVE WHERE THIS IDEA IS GOING >:D
Me: 🤭💗
Misc Rambles
Me: I think similar to how Hyuna busts Mizi out after setting off a smokescreen so that she isn't killed after her loss in the round and violence against her opponent, someone probably comes to Ayano's rescue
Ayano is shaken up during her match with Saeru because she thinks that Takane/Ene is dead (though Ene managed to survive... somehow.)
Maybe Saeru manipulated events so that after Takane’s loss, Takane’s body would be escorted out after her match.
Maybe he secretly gave the order beforehand so that she could be revived in his lab.
Or Saeru purposely left opportunities to let Ene run away and escape Alien Stage. Though, she most likely wants to come back for the others to bust them out.
During their match, Saeru imitates Takane/Ene's touches around Ayano, because he knows exactly how she acts around him and what those touches feel like, based on his memories and intimate moments with her from previous timelines.
I'd love to see Ayano attack Saeru OMGGG
Imagining Ayano with Mizi's angry feral expressions... ‼️❣️
Idol/Stage Outfits
Me: I imagine their idol outfits are their Design Poll Outfits and Seek At Mekakucity Outfits 🖤 💙 ❤️ 🩷
I could also come up with some alt outfits for them to wear in this AU
Kuroha/Saeru, Takane/Ene, Mary, Ayano
F: I was thinking that Ene might look more like Hatsune Miku 😭
Me: Ene's Seek at Mekakucity outfit is my fave alt outfit for her...
Ayano and Mary also have Seek at Mekakucity outfits too but their clear sprites weren't posted
I'd add the Seek at Mekakucity outfits, but Tumblr has a 30 image limit
Me: Oh interesting idea...
Glowy like this YYB Miku MMD model
Takane's death/loss
Me:
One idea that could be interesting:
Takane is on the verge of death in the previous round (maybe even giving the round up to Ayano) but then Saeru takes her body so her consciousness can be transferred to an android body he made that has Ene's appearance.
Of course, Ene is completely unaware of this.
So Ene has no idea what happened to her between the time she lost the last round. Her memories during that time are completely blacked out.
Or when Takane/Ene gets shot after her loss, he makes sure it's done with a non-fatal poison/toxin, so it just knocks her out
Me: The final round with Saeru and Mary (Blink Gone) could be with MR2 Saeru and Queen/Medusa form Mary...
Me: I also love the idea of a Saeru vs. Mary round cuz of Blink Gone's lyrics:
The clock goes Tick Tock, Tick Tock
Does Saeru Hebi secure the win then? And then Mary uses her Queen/Medusa powers to reset?
ALNST
Me: Gonna show the caption for this HyuLuka art
OP's tags are so goated
I really like the ALNST main ship arts where one is completely love struck and the other is in complete distress.
The MiziSua one is so deeply intimate...
I love the ominous vibes of these arts.
F: MY LORD I haven't seen this yet
Me: Also the placement of his hand on her waist... Jesus christ
That's sexy though 🤭
F: And the pointing finger ☹️ Mf is selfish
Me: I also noticed how Hyuna has this distressed blank eyed stare/look...
Similar to how whenever she gets PTSD thinking back on her memories of Luka (due to the trauma he caused her from killing her brother), like in All-In. She has a protruding vein on her left cheek in this art.
F: The intense gaze on one another is just 😭😭😭
With the MiziSua one, Mizi is looking away with teary eyes while Sua's eyes are closed (cheerfully too, damn)
Me: Vivinos and Qmeng have such nice art styles... The HyuLuka one looks like Qmeng's art?
OH yeah good point!
I like all semi-canon ALNST ships, but I think my fave ALNST pairs are MiziSua, HyuMizi, and HyuLuka (tentative list/placement)
Konoha's defeat/loss
F: Irt this
Saeru steals Konoha's body before/leading up to a round that Konoha was supposed to perform (or he eliminates Konoha and takes his appearance)
F: Tbh... I think Konoha would immediately lose 😭
So both ways (stealing the body and letting Konoha die first) are actually possible
Me: Yeah... As a stage competitor, I don't think Konoha has Kuroha/Saeru's charisma at all.
Also added with how selfless Konoha is. He wouldn’t want to hurt anyone and would sacrifice himself for his friends.
Saeru would know exactly how to manipulate the situation/circumstances to get the reactions he wants from his opponents, to sway the audience’s opinions in his favour.
He knows exactly how to use his knowledge/intelligence to his advantage.
So Ene is probably shaken up by Konoha's loss and Saeru subsequently stealing his body.