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[TRANS] WayV’s interview with Leon Young July 2019 issue!

Their musical style changes frequently, sometimes extremely gentle and loving, sometimes explosive and fiery. The seven boys are like seven completely different gems, difficult to gather in the first place, and yet still able to radiate a unique and harmonious light, invoking surprise and curiosity.

KUN | Capricorn leader, full points for his leadership

Blood type: B Star sign: Capricorn Favourite food: Beef Favourite music genre: R&B I am Qian Kun, a treasure boy, waiting for you to unearth.

Qian Kun, who yearned for the skies since young, has a hobby for researching on planes, collecting model planes and also playing flying games. “I especially like to sit on the plane, every time we travel by plane I will take videos of the clouds in the skies through the small circular window.” Other than being a singer, Qian Kun’s biggest dream is to be a pilot. In WayV’s newest single <Dream Launch>’s MV, he could experience his “space obsession” —— traveling through space and time with the wormhole, and launching his dreams towards outer space.

As the leader, he can’t be this imaginative every day. In the team, all seven boys have distinctly different personalities, so collecting everyone’s different opinions, and bringing all the members closely together, will be impossible without impressive leadership capabilities. “Teamwork” is WayV’s team spirit, and Qian Kun is everyone’s “gege” that they admire and listen to.

Kun is very good at writing lyrics and composing, and when asked where his inspiration comes from, his words were quite shocking —— when he’s showering. “Often when I’m showering, a melody will suddenly appear in my head. I will then quickly rush out of the bathroom in a bathrobe and use the fastest speed to record the melody in my phone.”

Q: When did you realize you have a talent in music? A: When I was young, I would participate in the singing competition in our school every year, and would get first place every time.

Q: Who is your favourite singer? A: Jay Chou, I’ve liked listening to his songs since I was in the first year of primary school.

TEN | Be careful! The smiling eyes are electric

Blood type: A Star sign: Pisces Favourite food: Rice cake Favourite music genre: R&B I am TEN, born for the stage.

Born in Bangkok, TEN particularly loves Chinese traditional food. His favourite is rice cake, soy bean milk, youtiao (fried dough), and lamb skewers. Every type of food brings him a different surprise, and makes him say “wow, this is good!” every bite he takes.

When TEN was studying Mandarin, the other members were available to be his personal “language teacher”, so he improved at an incredible speed. Other than that, TEN has his own study tips as well, which is to learn Mandarin via watching Chinese variety shows. His favourites are <Running Man>, <Our Brilliant Masters>, and <Back To Field>.

TEN’s explosive dancing is one of the highlights of a WayV stage. He looks very gentle when he smiles, but is shockingly powerful when he moves. TEN says that he mainly trains two aspects of dancing: the first is physical strength, the second is the details of the choreography. He spends at least an hour in the practice room every day doing push-ups and planking, amongst others, then practices specific dance moves after completing physical training. Because perfect movements must have good muscle control as a foundation.

Q: What is your favourite sport? A: Badminton.

Q: How have your parents supported you in your career? A: They respect my decisions very much, and let me freely do what I like to do.

WINWIN | Dancing elf, more charming the more you appreciate

Blood type: B Star sign: Scorpio Favourite food: Shrimp Favourite music genre: R&B I am WINWIN, a guy that gets more and more charming the more you look at me.

“I’m slightly introverted, but others in the team always bring me lots of joy, so I feel like I’ve been ‘opened’ by them.” Though WINWIN appears to be mysterious and cold, he’s actually very soft-hearted. His favourite thing to do is to watch movies, listen to songs, and chat with his fellow members in the dorm.

WayV has a tradition of watching a movie together in the dorms every week. They would discuss the plot after the movie and share their own thoughts and realizations. Additionally, they also regularly hold “meetings” to share their own worries with other members, while providing suggestions to others. WINWIN likes to turn off the lights and light some candles when this is going on, creating a relaxed atmosphere around everyone.

From the time he was a primary 5 student, WINWIN studied traditional Chinese dance. Years of dance background gave every move he makes a sense of calmness and elegance. Dance has a priceless meaning to WINWIN, “it is the basis of my everything, dance is what brought me here today.”

Q: Which song from the new album do you like the best? A: <Let me love u>, it’s a love song from us to the fans.

Q: Which of your facial features are you most satisfied with? A: Eyes. The outer corner of my eye tilts up slightly, and seem to have a classical beauty.

LUCAS | Clever and mischievous, imaginative and unrestricted.

Blood type: O Star sign: Aquarius Favourite food: Apples Favourite music genre: The quietest music and the most explosive music I am LUCAS, thank you to all the people who like me, you’re all really cute!

“Comparing before and after I joined WayV, the biggest change I made was learning how to take care of my younger brothers.” LUCAS says he used to always have the image of a “younger brother”, but after joining the team and facing members younger than he is, he naturally upgraded to become others’ “older brother”, and knew more about how to understand and help others.

At 183cm, LUCAS has a tall and straight figure. Coupled with big eyes that seem to be able to speak, his features make fans swoon. LUCAS, as someone who has lots of visuals and even more style, has been nicknamed a “walking poster”. When asked about his method of selecting and matching clothes, he has much to say, “we have to first understand our body before we can better match our clothes, and not just follow the trends.” He thinks colorful clothes can help add colour to the city, and if everyone can wear their own style, then the whole city will have a unique style to it.

Aquarian LUCAS always comes up with strange ideas, for example, he says that when he listens to music, he can not only hear the melody and rhythm of the song itself, but also the feelings of the composer and lyricist, and even how the drummer looks when they drum on the backing track. He also frequently lies down on the carpet to think about “the difficult questions in life”, like “the fans do so much for us, what should I do to let them feel our love too?” What is the answer? It is very simple, and also very pure - make even better music, which makes them happy after listening to it.

Q: What is your biggest wish lately? A: For WayV to hold their own concert, and interact with the fans with no distance between us.

Q: What would you like to remind the fans of? A: Eat more fruits, you can absorb many natural vitamins, which is more effective and healthier than taking vitamin tablets!

XIAOJUN | Honey voice, difficult to forget

Blood type: B Star sign: Leo Favourite food: Sour candy Favourite music genre: Ballad I want to be magic, I want to be bigger than I am.

“Take Off” is XIAOJUN’s favourite from the new album, “Even if I have no wings, I still want to fly, courage is needed to face your dreams. This is similar to my current state of mind.”XIAOJUN’s voice is not one to be easily forgotten, it’s crisp and hoarse, yet soft and dense; it’s fine, and gentle - he’s referred to by the fans as “honey voiced”.

XIAOJUN has been obsessed with music ever since he was a child, and usually likes to quietly practice singing by himself. Even though he is now a member of an idol group, and has to frequently face many busy announcements and tough rehearsals, he still persists in at least three hours of vocal practice every day. How does he protect his “honey vocals”, then? XIAOJUN has his own good practices, of course. “I drink a glass of honey water when I get up every morning, this can reduce heatiness, and moisten the throat.

”Though skilled, XIAOJUN admits that he is very nervous before meeting fans. Not long ago, WayV participated in Hunan Television’s “Happy Together”. When shooting the episode, many WayV fans went to the location of the shoot to support them. “Even though I look calm and collected, my heart is beating wildly. But on that day, the moment the curtains opened, I saw many fans holding boards with our names on them, heard them screaming and shouting our names, and only then did I really calm down.”

As someone who newly debuted, XIAOJUN thinks that luck was most important in him becoming a member of WayV, and that it was intended by the heavens. But he still wants to tell the juniors who carry their dreams and want to debut that, “you cannot lack in luck, but behind luck, you have to have an extraordinary amount of hard work. Luck will only find you when you transform your talents into skills.”

Q: Your eyelashes are long and curled, what’s your secret? A: Actually, you don’t have to take extra care, just use warm water to clean everyday, and don’t rub roughly when you wash your face.

Q: Amongst life’s sourness, sweetness, bitterness, spiciness, and saltiness, which is your favourite flavour? A: Sourness, it gives the tastebuds a curious feeling.

HENDERY | Curious BOY, always “unlocking” new skills

Blood type: O Star sign: Libra Favourite food: Chicken feet with fermented black soy bean paste Favourite music genre: Hippop I am HENDERY, who likes the colour pink.

HENDERY has a new wish recently, and that is to learn to play the jazz drums. He’s roommates with TEN. One night, he unknowingly started to play a beat as TEN sat on his bed and played the guitar. So TEN told him, “you can learn to play the drums, then we can perform together.” This sentence ignited a small flame in HENDERY’s heart, so he resolved to learn to play the jazz drums and was unstoppable afterward. He would go online to watch tutorials on jazz drums when he was free, and frequently forgets to eat because he was so absorbed.

HENDERY always likes to try new things. For example, before joining WayV, he didn’t frequently have hotpot, but was influenced by everyone and loves hotpot like no other now! Whether Hong Kong-style, Sichuan-style, or Chongqing-style, if it’s hotpot, he likes it! “If we have time, we go out to have hotpot twice a week! And it’s seven of us together every time!”

Looking back at his biggest change since debut, HENDERY thinks that his stage experience has become more diverse. He used to focus on the training itself but rarely paid attention to showcasing on stage. However, recently, he frequently finds and watches past performances by the group to re-assess himself on stage from a fan’s perspective. For example, when watching these videos, he would find that at one beat where he focused on a body angle, the camera was focusing on facial expressions instead - amongst his replays, HENDERY keeps working hard to find the best feeling on stage.

Q: The fans call you “Disney prince”, what do you think about that? A: Thank you all~ But I don’t want to be just a “prince”, I would instead like to showcase different sides of myself in songs.

Q: What do you hope for WayV’s future? A: I hope more people listen to our music, watch our dancing, that’s all.

YANGYANG | The most doted on by the group, the maknae is very busy

Blood type: O Star sign: Libra Favourite food: Hotpot Favourite music genre: melody RAP I am YANGYANG, easy-going offstage, perfectionist onstage, this is my “duality”.

As the “maknae” of the team, YANGYANG is the recepient of much love, and is always taken care of by the other members. “Uh…I am indeed a little mischievous sometimes, like when I purposely wake others when they sleep, but they never get angry at me.” WayV haven’t debuted for long, but they have completely become family from brothers, always looking out for one another. For example, when everybody goes out to eat, they would always ask the youngest brother what he wanted to have, then everybody would go according to what he liked.

The fans’ warm-hearted actions frequently touch YANGYANG deeply. Sometimes, when a new song has just been released, the fans still sing the song with them word for word at live performances. “They must have listened to it many, many times, this makes me feel really warm.”

<Say It> from the new album makes YANGYANG particularly excited, as it is the work of renowned band London Noise. YANGYANG has been a huge fan of London Noise since he was a child, and this time, he was able to sing what his idols made for him, so it’s a dream come true!

Q: Other than music, what is your biggest interest? A: I love car racing, my dad and I would go go-karting every weekend when I was little, I really like the feeling of a competition.

Q: Why is it that you can maintain a perfect body while loving to eat hotpot? A: Sorry, I just can’t gain weight, haha. But I usually workout to maintain my strength too.

Translation: Jess, Seol @ FY! NCT (NCTINFO) | Source: Leon Young — Do not repost or take out without our permission!

#NCT #wayv #kun #ten #winwin #lucas #hendery #xiaojun #yangyang #t:interview #t:trans #Leon Young #Leon Young: July 2019

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Persona 5: The Animation Episode 1 [First Impressions]

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Persona 5: The Animation Episode 1 [First Impressions]

Shadow’s First Impression

HOLY. CRAP. I have been SO HYPED for this series ever since it was announced. I was having trouble sleeping because I was excited today. When I finally sat down and watched it on crunchyroll I was already hyped over how crisp and clean everything looked. HOWEVER, as much as I love this game, this episode was paced semi-poorly. Now, I can understand why they did it since it literally takes two hours or so to get to the actual plot of the game. They had to cram a lot of set-up in this episode AND get to the actual plot of the game in 24 minutes. I had a feeling that the pacing might be a bit fast since it’s hard to shove 100 hours of gameplay into 24 episodes. I mean, look at the Persona 4 anime. It was actually pretty well paced until episode 13 and all of the sudden the pacing took off at hyper speed to cram the rest of the game in, which was kind of disappointing.

But I’ll try to see this more as a summarized retelling of the game and enjoy it nonetheless just to see all the characters I love again in animated, 2D glory. Hopefully they won’t go too fast in the pacing though where people who haven’t played the game can still enjoy it without feeling lost or left behind. As one who has also played Persona 4 I was both shocked and ecstatic that they referenced so many Persona 4 characters. (i.e. Naoto Shirogane and the picture of Rise Kujikawa). I’ve always enjoyed the fact that the Persona series (at least from 3 to 5) kind of acknowledge the existence of the other characters from the other games. Makes for some nice Easter eggs for long time Persona fans. I like how they even threw out some early spoilers that people who have played the game will recognize. (I see you, Takemi)

The interesting thing about Persona 5 is that everything in the game up to a certain point has already happened. And after being arrested and interrogated, the plot is essentially a retelling from the protagonist, in this case Ren Amamiya’s pov. So be prepared for a lot of jumping from past to present through out the episodes. (It got pretty ridiculous in the game at certain points where it would jump to the present after establishing a bond with certain people lol) The pacing definitely felt super fast in the first five or so minutes of the episode but I do appreciate it slowing down and giving some breathing time for the start of the interrogation with Sae.

But the fact that they crammed in so much information was a tad overwhelming. From a failed heist, being interrogated, first arriving to Tokyo, weird app causes the world to halt, meeting his guardian, telling why he’s on probation, seeing his new school, introduced to the velvet room, learning a teacher was a target, meeting two new characters, walking into a weird castle, being attacked by weird creatures, to unlocking his persona… that’s A LOT to take in, especially for the first episode. Hopefully after this episode it’ll slow down a little.

We get the gist that Ren has committed a crime of assault and is sent to the city on probation under the care of a cafe owner, Sojiro Sakura, who took him in out of a request of one of his regulars. I believe one of the weaknesses this first episode experienced is that in the game we are shown a lot of instances where everyone just seems to be against Ren from the start, but how the episode was portrayed, I feel like Ren just experiences a lot of indifference from everyone. It still shows that he’s in an unfortunate position, but I don’t feel as strongly for him as I do in the games. I know I shouldn’t compare the anime too harshly to the games, but it’s bound to happen. But hopefully they’ll expand on it in the next episode or so.

Right now, Ren feels like the typical self insert, bland protagonist. But considering he has to stay out of trouble and keep a low profile, it makes sense for him to be kind of soft spoken as he was flung into a really terrible situation. Hopefully the anime can give him some good character development to help him flourish into a character of his own instead of the silent protagonist.

Overall, I can’t say this was a solid first episode due to it cramming in so many plot points. However, I can’t say I didn’t enjoy seeing this game being animated. I’m still super hyped for this series and there’s no way I’m missing any of it. I just hope that they can pace this series so that people who haven’t played the game can enjoy it as well because this series deserves all the recognition.

Possibility of Watching: Guaranteed

Possibility of Blogging: High (Though a lot of people want this so I can share if needed)

Midnight’s First Impressions

I loved Persona 5, I bought a first game copy and I played and played and then once I was done the game. I played again, this time in Japanese because why not right? So when I heard there was going to be an anime I was genuinely on the fence because on the one hand it’s Persona 5 and all aboard the hype train. That being said the first episode leaves me with a lot of the same worries I had before it aired. Which is mostly the idea of rushed content because this is a long game with a lot of things that go in it and animes only have so much time to tell that same story.

The first episode covers the games prologue and tutorial with some neat added bits of foreshadowing, such as Crow shooting at Joker and causing a diversion. It also covers the first bit of gameplay with the MC [Named Ren here] coming to Japan and taking up residence at Cafe Leblanc, getting to visit the school and the start of his first palace excursion into the castle of the gym teacher Kamoshida. Hearing Joker being called Ren is going to take some time for me after being so used to him being called Akira by most of the other official material. I can’t recall if they gave him a name in the OVA that came out featuring a more in depth phantom thieves mission of one of the mementos missions in the game. This is something i’ll have to look into later, but I can not recall him being called Ren at any point prior to the announcement of this anime.

There were various little clues and easter eggs for people who have played the game and people who enjoyed Persona 4. The news interview discussing Akechi and how he is considered the second coming of the Detective Prince after Naoto from Persona 4. The giant image of Rise [which is something actually in persona 5 the game if you move the camera around to look], spotting Takemi in the crowd and the maid service flyer falling out of Kawakami’s pocket during the school meeting.

I am genuinely curious to see which Confidants [Social links…god calling them Confidants is still weird] the anime if going to choose to cover. Of course, it will cover the ones of the main Phantom Thieves team but I am kind of curious to see if they will do any outside of that. I want to think that the pacing after this will improve because a lot of what was cut from this episode was game tutorial. For example the first shadow fight in the casino and the ‘How does anyone navigate this subway system’ parts of the game that were meant to teach you the basic controls.

I come out of this episode with a sense of “Well, it has a lot of potential.” and can only hope that the anime taps into that potential and goes for the gold.

Possibility of Watching: Guaranteed Possibility of Blogging: High [But i’ll step down if I need too]

Berry’s Impression

I’m going to give a quick background of myself when it comes to the Persona series. Persona 5 is the first and only Persona game I’ve played. I had played maybe about 20-30 hours of Persona 3, but stuff happened and I lost my save file and stuff like that and I never went back to it and I never went to play the fourth installation. But I really wanted to give the Persona series a chance and had tried out P5 and was absolutely hooked. I ADORE the game, with its story, its characters, music, visuals, everything. So I was extremely excited when an anime was announced and was equally as excited when I sat down to watch this episode.

And just like Shadow and Midnight, I basically share the same worries as them. Yes, I found the episode to be rushed with lots of things being thrown at us. I haven’t seen the P4 anime, but I saw how fans complained about the adaptation and was worried the same would happen with P5. I mean, fitting 100+ hours worth of gameplay into only 24 episodes? Sounds kind of crazy, but I still want to remain positive.

One positive thing I can say is what Midnight said, that the episode hinted at some stuff to come later on such as mentioning Akechi. The opening sequence at the casino was as stylish and sexy as it was in the game, and the art itself looks great. Also, they’re using music from the game so that’s an automatic 10/10.

Also, Ren/Akira? Looking like an absolute snack. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

And while the episode was rushed, they included all of the important information such as the palace, the Velvet Room, Arsene, the train incidents, and Ren transferring to the school and living with Sojiro. But I do have to agree with Shadow when it came to feeling for Ren. Anime Sojiro is actually a lot more nicer and indifferent, whereas in the game he was a lot more hostile towards Ren for his situation. The same goes to Kawakami and the principal. They looked down on him and Kawakami showed clear disdain for having to have him in her homeroom class. In the anime, it was more like “Okay, make sure not to screw up, okay? Bye.” I felt real bad for Ren in the game because the characters treated him pretty badly, but in the anime it’s kind of whatever. And as for Akira, so far he’s sort of quiet and bland. Of course in the game he’s the silent protagonist, but you get to choose some dialogue options that could either be serious or funny. But even then, in the game I felt like he had a rebellious and cunning personality that I’m sure we’ll see later on. Poor kid has to get used to his new life right now.

The anime is following the game very faithfully, but I still do worry about the pacing. But I can’t lie and say that I didn’t enjoy it. I love Persona 5 a lot and consider it being maybe my favorite video game of all time, so I’m going to enjoy watching this series a lot. Let’s hope this anime goes well and brings in lots of new fans!

Possibility of watching: Guaranteed

Possibility of blogging: High (we….kinda gotta figure this out among us;;😉