The only thing missing from this is how there’s a surprising amount of IVE self-referencing in their lyrics, referencing the Sailor Moon live action series and Precure influence on the MV story :0 I’ve not watched a lot of Precure, but the evil IVE doppelgängers and switch to physical fighting stunts totally pushed it to the front of my mind I’m not sure who directed the MV or costuming but I hope they’ll release some kind of concept bible someday 😖 it would have been so cool to sell with the physical disc

It screams sailor moon and I'm here for it

Damn it now I’m emotional too lol. I have a sailor moon inspired tattoo as well, I was born in ‘93 so I literally grew up to that anime. As soon as I saw the Switch promo, I was SO HYPE and I immediately saw the vision. Also love that Rei, the Japanese member, got to play the “main character” in this interpretation. I now feel like that’s exactly why she wasn’t just given the role of Rei bc if I was a creative director, my lazy ass would have taken that bait lmao. Also also love that my Ive bias Wonnie plays the role of my sailor bias Makoto. We’re both the tallest in our friend group with stunningly electric personalities so it just makes sense to me 😌⚡️💖

After i saw the music video i was like "hm this is so sailor moon" then started drawing the members as the characters so im glad somone else got the references loll 😅💕

thank you for the shout out! LOVED this video. I was working on my own discussion of the music video, and it's so cool we still picked up on totally different things again just like with Baddie.

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Amazing! I look forward to hearing your perspectives on it! Thanks for always offering such interesting commentary. 🥰

This also reminds me of madoka Magic’s with the witches being different versions of the magical girls

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Someday I will get around to that one. I hear so many good things. I just... also hear that it is SUPER DUPER SAD.

Ooh, now I need to know what other magical girls media you have consumed (japanese or otherwise). In my case, my first magical girls story was Pichi Pichi Pitch (Mermaid princesses transforms into magical girls and use the power of music and their voices to defeat bad guys. It was super popular in Spain and I could sing you most of the songs without even looking). Then Winx (Italian show about a group of girls who learn how to be fairies. Aisha/Layla is my favorite and a great example of how to add a new main character after the first season. The first three seasons are solid, watch the first movie next and don't watch the rest). Though I've consumed more stuff (like Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne), my personal favorite is Puella Magi Madoka Magica, it's such an amazing show and I fall more in love with it everytime Ive rewatched it, specially Rebellion

The amount of sailor moon refrences went over my head. Prolly coz Sailor Moon was out when I wasn't even born and the Crystal reboot cams out when I was pretty young, and also the fact that where I live Animes like Sailor Moon aren't common. Animes like Doraemon, Shin Chan and Kiteretsu are the ones that are on T.V. I can't even check it out now because I'll have school in one week 😭 This is really overthinking K-pop because I definitely didn't see many of these especially the disappearing wings at the end. This is enough motivation to watch any M/V 2 to 3 times to find LOOOOOOOOORE. I love this video sm! This and the Baddie theory are the best videos in my opinion. All your videos are amazing but these 2 are just the best ❤❤

I’m sorry but that screen grab of the unicorn floatie is way too good, I’m totally screen shooting it and putting my next sh-tty meme on it ( I suck at making memes)

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Hahaha amazing

now i know why loved this mv so much! i knew something felt familiar about it..

Love the video! Glad you did another IVE music video deep dive! (also this video made me wanna watch sailor moon)

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Yay, that makes me so happy! So glad to hear you enjoyed it even without being a pre-existing fan of Sailor Moon. It's such a ridiculously wholesome show. It's sweet, and heartfelt, and funny, and relatable. I hope this video inspires more people to check it out as well! Sailor Moon Crystal is available streaming on Netflix and OG Sailor Moon is on Prime, Hulu, and KZread.

@gothic_noah6446

Ай бұрын

@@overthinkingkpop Thank You!

This video was relaxing. Have a good day.

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! You too!

Hii!! I would like to also add, as a boy growing up/born in early early-late 2000s, the mv and its color palette + styling (Mainly the Evil IVE), action sequences, shots are very reminiscent of power ranger/camen rider/etc. villain type beat

love that u made a video on this !!

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Love that you watched it! 😘 Thanks for tuning in!

Ive did it for the girls and the gays. Period

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

No wonder I love them so much 🥰

@vojtechjasik9072

Ай бұрын

Hell yeah, I don't know what they're on about, but they've been making music almost too aligning with my taste in their I've eras. Like I'm already a huge Dive, they didn't need to go for me that hard this comeback. Accendio MV is definitely one of my favourite 4th gen MVs of all time, I'm in love 😍.

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

@@vojtechjasik9072 It's genuinely impossible for me to pick between Accendio and HEYA. HEYA is also just such an absolute smash. They're really delivering so hard with this most recent release.

Thank you for making this! I also had a suspicion that the music video and its lyrics had references to Sailor Moon. And as a long time Sailor Moon fan (it was my first anime/manga) I loved it!! I was so happy that two thing I like so much was made into one sort of speak. 💕✨❤️

This video is iconic.

The evil ive and good ive battle made me remind of good precures and evil precures!

I was so looking forward to this and you really delivered, another amazing video 😍! I am in a pretty weird place, because I'm a huge magical girls' fan, but I've never actually watched or read Sailor Moon, I'm more of a Winx kinda guy, but I appreciate this video all the more, because I would've never found out and identified all of the symbolism. I find it pretty interesting that Rei and Gauel seemed to be the focus of the MV, but Wonyoung was the one creating a wand out of thin air, even though we never see it again, that's pretty interesting. Honestly I think if Rei portrayed Rei, it would be a bit too much, but I might just be biased, because my girl really rocks those pigtails. And finally I had no idea the wings from their hair disappeared in the end, so I misread the ending as a whole, very interesting attention to detail, you really outdid yourself in analyzing that 🥰.

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad you still enjoyed it even as someone with no prior exposure to Sailor Moon! Unfortunately, I have had zero exposure to Winx because it didn't come out until I was in college, so I was way too old for its target audience. @nayeonchantix did an episode about Winx Club-coded kpop, though, so definitely check that out if you haven't already seen it!

@vojtechjasik9072

Ай бұрын

@@overthinkingkpop How could I miss that?! I'll definitely check that out, thanks for the recommendation 🥰

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Anytime! Her channel is so underrated. Like I said in this video, I was channeling (pun) her with my lyrical analysis. She always has such great insight to offer.

@skittychuu

Ай бұрын

just a wild guess of mine but perhaps rei was sailor moon since she’s Japanese and maybe it’d be cool to give her a more standout role, seeing as it comes from her culture? (Awesome video by the way!)

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

@skittychuu That hadn't even occurred to me, but I love that theory!

thank you for your analysis, I didn't noted that were Sailor Moon references, I thought that where just magical girls references.

I’ve never watched Sailor Moon but now I want to. Where can I watch it?

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Amazing! Depends which version you're after. The OG anime is on Prime, Hulu, and bootlegged on KZread. Crystal is on Netflix. Both have their merits, but Crystal is way more concise.

Wow, this is so cool!

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Yay, thank you! I really like how this one came out

What if I said Naruto, Sailor moon, Pokémon, Dragon ball Z, One piece, and Death note are the most iconic animes at least in the west?

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Counterpoint: Neon Genesis Evangelion

@CatNagTaylorsVersion

Ай бұрын

@@overthinkingkpop I would argue that it’s iconic to anime enthusiasts in the west but hasn’t really become a cultural touch stone like the ones I mentioned above. There more in line with something like a one punch man and a full metal alchemy

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

@@CatNagTaylorsVersion Idk I couldn't give a fuck about One Piece OR Death Note so we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I'd say Gundam was more influential than either of those choices.

@ashurasama

Ай бұрын

​@@CatNagTaylorsVersion The most successful anime in terms of viewership are indeed the long-running adaptations of famous manga series, but downplaying the importance of cult classics such as Eva is very short-sighted. Anime wouldn't be where it is today if it weren't for fansubbers, then Adultswim, then Crunchyroll... promoting the more 'adult' stuff to US audiences, and leading to the current status of anime in most of the world. Also Eva's impact on the anime industry shouldn't be underestimated, it was the first big TV anime that was clearly targeting an adult audience, airing in prime time and garnering huge success. There's a very clear "before Eva" and "after Eva" when it comes to the production side, the show simply opened the door for adult anime on Japanese TV and thus directly changed the way the anime industry operates. Something being the most successful with general audiences doesn't make it "iconic", among the shows you listed only Sailor Moon and Death Note are in any way rewatchable, because the others are absolutely bloated with filler. Death Note is a faithful adaptation of a manga that's not overly long, and Sailor Moon manages to remain interesting throughout its run because the directing is effectively brilliant (Ikuhara's next show, Utena, went on to become one of the cult classics). I'm an old hag who grew up watching anime on French TV in the 80s, but the reason why I still watch anime in my 40s, is thanks to Eva airing back in 1995-1996. Because Eva allowed the other cult classics of the second half of the 90s to exist, and those are the shows I'll go back to if I'm feeling like watching old stuff, rather than the shows I watched as a kid on French TV. But hey, I'm not a nostalgic person to begin with, if I was I would listen to 90s rock on the daily, not kpop ^^;

i need everyone to watch this video it's perfect!

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Melt my heart! Day = made. Thank you for watching!

@heyalexisleigh

Ай бұрын

@@overthinkingkpop thank you for making it!

How does your brain work like this I’m so jealous😹

@overthinkingkpop

Ай бұрын

Little bit of ADHD, little bit of autism, and a whole lot of weed 😂

@abiStalli

Ай бұрын

@@overthinkingkpop 😹 lmaoo I love that ur so real 😹😭😭

I love your channel, I've already watched all your videos. Have you heard of LOONA? I would love to see your videos overthinking their lore ❤