I just caught up on reading this webtoon and now I don’t know what to do!
So, I wanted to try reading something in Korean and when I saw this I think 17 episodes or so had been uploaded. It wasn’t the first time I’ve tried reading a webtoon in its original language, but it is the first time I have successfully read up until the most recent update. And, with some heavy lifting from Naver Dictionary when I forgot the same words over and over, I must say it has been a really enjoyable read so far.
It’s been a week since IVE SECRET released. It takes me longer than a week to formulate thoughts on any music release, regardless of how many times I listen, but I had a very small thought about the title track.
While IVE SECRET for now feels very much like IVE EMPATHY part 2, XOXZ has a very different sort of feel.
Somehow XOXZ reminds me of Accendio in a way that tells me they totally should be related (like when you are watching something and mistake one actor for someone else even if they don’t really look alike at all). But I don’t think I’m too far off the mark with that notion.
Jang Wonyoung once said that one of the title tracks from IVE SWITCH was like Love Dive. I learnt never to believe media play like that ever since DIA’s WooWoo was purported to be the second Roly Poly, but it was still a heartening thought. That song turned out to be Accendio and it was nothing like Love Dive in the slightest.
That being said, I suddenly changed my mind right after deciding that XOXZ is kind of like Love Dive. If the siren section of Love Dive was inspiration for a song, I think XOXZ would fit the theme quite nicely. With its stripped back instrumentation and spacious soundscape, XOXZ certainly could be the echoed shouts responding to the whispers and sirens. To follow that thought of songs resembling fragments of Love Dive, isn’t Accendio a lot like the “you into me, me into you” line?
What if the big picture here is to reinterpret pieces of Love Dive (or give that impression) and trickle those songs throughout the discography.
It’s not that IVE are only as good as Love Dive but if they insist on selling Loved IVE versions of their albums I am going to assume there’s a Loved IVE version of their discography.
If ever the YouTube Music awards came back and provided the opportunity to declare YouTube as their best friend, I can assure you that the majority of my family would like Twice’s Chicago Lollapalooza set to grab a gong
When it comes to this blog I’m almost 4 months behind with my updates (on account of the fact I’ve been journalling media since the beginning of the year and only started this blog in April time). However, this month Debut or Die! has consumed my life to the extent that I absolutely must talk about it right now or else I’ll… Die!
Once again, I gave Lovers, Cats, and the Killer a chance because I had some free coins. It’s funny, in a way, having such great expectations about the cats in the story seeing as they’re highlighted in the English title. I’m sure if I was led to this work by the Korean title “Re:meet” I would probably have been annoyed at all the focus on the cats whilst expecting something else. The fact of the matter is, both “Lovers, Cats, and the Killer” and “Re:meet” offer equally important perspectives of the same work.
At 3 chapters for the main story and 2 side chapters this was incredibly short and sweet. Within the 3 main episodes the artist brought out the gorgeous high school romance so well.
I caught this webtoon at a lucky time. Ordinarily I like to read webtoons with a romantic element to them but I gave Sasaeng: Obsessive and Tenacious (SOAT) a go simply because it was free in April. It is currently on Tapas as WUF which, is great, but I don’t think I would have been patient enough to survive reading this one chapter per day.
The art is very pretty and… cloudy(?) in this work. Both this and the distance that the narrative places between itself and the characters has really helped build the anticipation in The Path of a Star for me.
Hush Nili 