Forum › I kinda wish there was some Alchemy Stars stuff on here

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joined Aug 29, 2023

Alchemy Stars has been around since June 2021 and is shutting down in a month, and honestly... I find it funny that throughout the game's (admittedly quite short, for a gacha game) 3.5-year-long existence, not a single fanart/doujin of it was uploaded on here, especially with the game's female-dominated cast and amount of implied yuri pairings. The main story gave us Vice x Carleen, Reinhardt x Wrath, and Yingel x Axelia. The side chapters were the start of Sharona x Philyshy. From limited events, we got Beryl X Raphael, Erica x Florine, Ruby x Rouge, Rinne x Yao (honestly, Kayano and Amemori are also possible matches), Azure x Jona, Nina x Sanae, Ciel x Rainbow, Pollux x Antares for doomed yuri, and probably more (I admit, I have missed some events). There's also Irridon's dream event, which was chock full of Irridon x Paloma. There are probably more that I missed, if any fellow Navigators would point them out, I'd be grateful.

At the same time... I can see why this was the case. Unlike, say, Path to Nowhere, which knows its fanbase has a lot of queer women and himejin in it and panders to them, AS is a game for general audiences, but the majority of fans I've met definitely steer in the direction of its male characters and BL pairings. Sure, certain yuri pairings are semi-popular: Vice x Carleen, Reinhardt x Wrath and Sharona x Philyshy are "the big three" in this regard, but even then, they never really got as much fanart. But, this is nothing new for gacha game fandoms.

But, oh well, there's still hope for the future. Alchemy Stars will live on in our hearts, and maybe one day, someone draws yuri fanart of it and it ends up on here. When that day comes, I'll be very happy. Splendor Illumina.

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