Story summary · spoiler-safe
The Alien Stage story
Alien Stage is set in a far-future arena where humans, captured by an alien empire, are forced to sing for their lives. Six performers are drawn together, paired into duels across six planned Rounds, and eliminated one by one. The songs are the fights. The audience is the antagonist. VIVINOS releases each Round as a stand-alone animated music video on YouTube, with sub-tracks (Part.1 / Part.2) between rounds that flesh out each performer's inner life.
The premise in one paragraph
Six humans — Mizi, Sua, Till, Isaac, Hyuna, Luka — are prisoners of an alien empire that stages musical duels for entertainment. Every Round, two performers sing against each other. The audience picks a winner. The loser is eliminated. There is no exit for the winners either: the survivor of each round moves into the next until one performer is left.
Round 1 — Mizi vs Sua
The opening duel of the series and its emotional foundation. Mizi and Sua are girlfriends forced into the first duel; Mizi wins, Sua is eliminated. The rest of the series is Mizi's arc trying to reconcile with what winning cost. Round 1 is the shortest Round in the show, and every subsequent song is written in some way as a reply to it.
This is also the Round that Zombie Stage forks off from — in the AU, Sua's body is not destroyed but preserved and reanimated. See the Round 1 recap or Candy Scar (the Zombie Stage retelling).
Round 2 — Till vs Isaac
The second aired Round. Till and Isaac have a long, unequal history — Isaac saved Till's life before the arena, and now the arena requires one to sing against the other. The Round is quieter than Round 1 (Isaac's Blood Bunny, Till's Round 2) but deeper: it's the Round where the show establishes that the emotional weight is what Alien Stage is really about, not the vocals.
Round 3 — Hyuna & Luka
The most recent released Round. Luka is the arena's celebrity, an established performer who cannot lose without losing his audience. Hyuna is the wildcard — older than the other performers, and the only cast member who was in the arena before this cycle began. Round 3 is where the show first opens the question of what happens after the rounds — a question Zombie Stage answers literally.
The sub-tracks (Part.1 / Part.2)
Between Rounds, VIVINOS releases per-character sub-tracks that give each performer a solo statement. Each cast member gets two:
- Mizi — Witch (Part.1), MirroR (Part.2)
- Sua — Bon Bon Jellyfish Planet (Part.2)
- Till — Mi Vida Loca (Part.1), Scars (Part.2)
- Luka — Addicted (Part.1), Sacred Light (Part.2)
- Hyuna — Cure (Original Strings)
How Zombie Stage fits
Zombie Stage is the first of ten planned AUs. It runs in parallel with Alien Stage and does not overwrite it — the events of Round 1 happen in both timelines; the difference is only in what happens to the loser. VIVINOS's own line: "the story is the same, the rule is different." See the side-by-side comparison for the full delta.