Thank you for being the victim of my shallow emotions

Decided to try out artfight! (even though I'm super late to the party oof)

I just submitted my first character so I haven't gotten around to attacking anyone yet ^^;

I don't really know how similar the idol industry in Japan is to Korea but I spotted so many neat parallels between Perfect Blue and ZOMST Round 1.

(If you haven't yet, go check out the one I did on Mizi)

Alright! Here comes the angel in the white dress! Sua!!! Yay yippie!!!

Ahem.

While Mizi's infection is contained to mainly one area Sua's is much more spread out. Her right thigh has entirely rotted away, leaving her bone exposed. However the crystal rot has already started to grow there and will eventually replace the missing flesh. At first I thought maybe Sua had lost her thigh in a different round but since the bone is still there I'm unsure if that's the case.

Makes me wonder if the handlers purposely carve hearts into them to make the crystals grow there in order to make the zombie-ness more palatable in a twisted sense?

The infection on her upper body is a mirror to Mizi's, beginning under her left breast, travelling up her shoulder and upper arm, then covering most of the left side of her face.

Unlike Mizi though, Sua still has one of her eyes. I believe her missing eye is there to symbolise Sua turning a blind eye to Mizi's more unsavoury traits (i.e her violent outbursts, killing small animals as a child) in favor of romanticising the favorable ones.

Her remaining eye is there to show that she isn't fully gone like Mizi is. She isn't mindlessly performing like her, though she probably isn't that far off from where Mizi is at.

It's a blink and you miss it moment but at some point in the performance she struggles to keep her eye on the crowd, her gaze flickering in Mizi's direction.

She looks almost...bored? Like she doesn't find any value in the crowd or stage. She even closes her eyes when she waves to the crowd in the beginning. She couldn't care less about anything that isn't Mizi (maybe she isn't even capable of it, her mind only having the capacity to think of Mizi)

Which makes sense. Even when she was still human, being an idol was never really what she cared about. She simply wanted to watch Mizi sparkle at the closest possible spot, closer than anyone else could.

She didn't get her spot the first time around but she has it now and that is all that matters to her. Singing and dancing with her object of worship, her goddess, her universe.

I'm gonna do an analysis on the symbolism of the zombie designs as well as dig in to what state I think the girls minds are in.

Starting with Mizi!

Mizi's crystalized/rotted(?) parts are mostly contained to her upper body, starting at her collarbone then spreading up her right shoulder, neck, jaw and then fully covers her face.

Interestingly her mouth remains mostly in tact except for a missing chunk.

This chunk was also missing when Sua found her but was significantly smaller. My theory is that Sua putting her thumb in Mizi's mouth caused the gap to widen.

you can even see the outline of her thumb in the next frame. A "sweet scar" from Sua, maybe?

But I don't think Mizi minds...

Or rather she can't.

She has so much crystal rot on her face that it would not surprise me if most of her brain is entirely dead. Her mind is completely empty, the only thing that can occupy it is the dance choreography she practised with Sua, and the lyrics.

We already know that she smokes but I'm certain she had to be taking other substances as well. While I think she could endure it at first just by disassociating from it all, years of exploitation would wear her down to the point where she needed something stronger to endure the pain.

She is definitely not entirely lucid, her eyes even resemble zombie Sua.

"this seat's a jackpot" he thinks as he is sitting between Mizi and Luka.

Till is very much bi, he is just not into Ivan </3

Bonus:

So after watching the teaser and reading the new comic, I feel like a lot of people are misunderstanding what is actually happening.

Zombie Stage is a movie that the Anakt Arts High School's movie club is watching.

My theory is that from now on we will get MV's based on different movie genres/tropes, with the movie club members inserted into the roles of the characters.

This does make me wonder if Alien Stage is also just a movie in this AU.

By that I don't mean Alien Stage wasn't real, it just happens to be fictional in this specific AU.

I tried out a witch hat spell maker and wanted to make a short comic about it. I'm not great at finishing comics though so I kind of rushed near the end.

Was watching a reaction video to the newest witch hat episode when I realised....

The way brushbuddy is sitting.....

Makes Coco's hat look like it has a brim.