I HAVE NOW, i can't believe it's never found its way onto my radar before considering that one of my greatest passions in life is idol survival shows where the survival is literal. average death games and idolverse angst and military academy child soldierdols and people dying when killed and complex entanglements of unrequited love and ambiguous relationships and sacrifice and rescue and doom enjoyer... rn hyuna and luka are probably 2pick, hyuna is so cool and reminds me of sakura kyoukos i have loved before and luka being a twisted fucking cycle path and defending champion is all exactly what i like to see.

will be meditating further on agendas but i’m primarily interested in luka → hyuna → mizi (arrow directions not entirely determinative), luka illusioning sua in order to provoke mizi into losing her shit was an image soooo compelling as was hyuna swooping in to rescue mizi and saving or trying to save her over and over and over again and ofc i will be there no matter what for whatever toxic enemyexes who never got over each other thing lukahyuna have going on… there’s a couple of scenes in all in, one where mizi is clinging onto hyuna on the motorcycle and they drive past one of luka’s ads and there’s a closeup of the image of his face reflected on hyuna’s sunglasses, and another where hyuna has been captured and then mizi charges in to rescue her and again it’s luka’s ad behind her (LOVE the hyuna pov shot of mizi’s resolve visibly kicking in as she shoots and Image Of Luka splits and blurs in the background now that’s cinema…). anyway those instantly crystallised evil triangulation visions in my mind. i really like the idea of hyunamizi resistance roadtrip where they experience joy and laughter and couldbesecondlove with each other but ultimately their histories and ghosts mean they were doomed from the start. but still it means something that they did save each other in the moment even if it could not last.

other scenes i enjoyed: hyuna desperately trying to stop mizi from risking her life to go to till and mizi shaking her off because she has to try to save till no matter what, ivan double checking that till’s score is higher than his while he’s kissing/strangling till to save him, child luka killing a boy just because he got too close to hyuna, till closing his hand around mizi’s with the last of his strength, the first time luka seems off-balance being when he sees hyuna again on the stage at finals.

finally the premise is sooo friendship cup from yugioh arc v season 2… to me...

whiplash is soooo good, i love dystopia cyborg model runway walk music and the girls all look stunning <3 and some of the visual language in the mv reminded me of dramas i have loved before so i'm very happy with this cb! LOL high five anon i have also preordered the limited ver and it's true that the shirts were a significant determining factor in my choice of which album ver/s to buy :') can't wait to go for a run in ningshirt (hopefully) pretending i'm 80% cybernetic augments. a little less subtle than the merch i usually go for but the art is just so cool.

how did you feel about the bsides? i think my ranking is whiplash > flowers > kill it > flights not feelings > just another girl > pink hoodie 🤔