#blood sweat and tears japanese teaser

[denizenhardwick]

Hi. What the hell is this timeloop bts game you’re playing and where can I find it

the time loop bts game was called bts universe story but it got shut down :( so i'm watching the story bits on youtube. there's a playlist here, but if you're new to the bangtan universe lore, i don't recommend starting there because this whole thing is very expansive and very confusing and the game just dives into it. the i need u and run mvs are where the whole thing started and provide a basic groundwork for the world and characters, so that's my recommendation. other videos connected to the bu are young forever, all of the wings short films x, blood sweat & tears (and the japanese version), all the highlight reels, euphoria, fake love (extended version) (and the teaser), epiphany, and the bts universe story teaser.

there is also the save me webtoon which covers the first couple loops in chronological order and could be a good starting point, but you apparently have to wait for a new chapter each day, which is annoying. and there are a couple books called The Notes, but i don't have a link for them yet, though i doubt they'll be hard to find this is bts we're talking about lol

basically, the bangtan universe (bu), often also called hyyh, is a story that bts has been building for years, including many of their mvs, promotional materials, a webtoon, books, and an app that was shut down earlier this year. there is also a tv show called youth that will be coming out... at some point, i haven't found an actual release date for it, based on the bu.

the bu revolves around seven boys (who currently share names and appearances with the members of bts) who met in high school when they were all late on the first day of class and given detention together. they were tasked with cleaning an old storage classroom, which later became their hideout as they became friends. a couple years after graduating high school, and after the group fell apart due to yoongi's expulsion from school, seokjin returns to korea from the states. he sees namjoon working at a gas station but decides not to say hi until a month or so later, when he learns that namjoon is in jail. from there, he discovers that yoongi and jungkook are dead, hoseok collapsed and was taken to the hospital, and no one knows where jimin and taehyung are.

seokjin wonders, if he had just talked to namjoon that first day, would he have prevented this? would he have been able to save his friends from their horrible fates? and something else asks, "if you could turn back time... do you believe you can straighten out the errors and mistakes... and save everyone?"

and thus begins the time loop.

the storyline touches on a lot of heavy subjects and i especially want to give a trigger warning for suicide. suicide is regularly discussed and depicted, jungkook and yoongi both kill themselves and since this is a time loop it happens over and over.

but yeah! there's a lot here, but if you're interested and willing to go on a bit of a scavenger hunt, it is a really interesting story and super cool multimedia experience, with a lot to sink your teeth into!

[lasclfreelance]

Band blood sweat and tears songs popular

The tracks on the album were arranged by Al Kooper, Dick Halligan and Fred Lipsius. “You Made Me So Very Happy,” appeared on the band’s second album entitled Blood Sweat & Tears. It also defines the importance of the arrangers who work on the albums. The Blood Sweat & Years recording of “You Made Me So Very Happy,” defines the brilliance of the band’s arrangements and song interpretations. The Blood Sweat & Tears version of the song “You Made Me So Very Happy,” was dramatically different from Brenda Holloway’s version. The song’s arrangement was pure Motown with that iconic drum and bass groove wrapping itself around the smooth Brenda Holloway vocal. It was originally recorded by Brenda Holloway and reached the number 39 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967. “You Made Me So Very Happy,” was written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. It is one of the band’s most well known songs. The song was released by the band in 1969. The Blood Sweat & Tears song “You Made Me So Very Happy,” was recorded during the David Clayton Thomas era. The great song “Back Up Against The Wall,” was released on the Blood Sweat & Tears album No Sweat. We open up our Top 10 Blood Sweat & Tears songs list with the horn’s blasting, guitars blazing and the drums pounding with a ferocious fever while that big band smacks you in the face and says “wake up,” it’s time to strut, boogie, run, jump, swing and everything that the music of Blood Sweat & Tears inspires to be. Our Top 10 Blood Sweat & Tears Songs list is an attempt to choose some of the band’s most essential songs while at the same time throwing in few surprises. The album was followed by B, S & T 4in 1971, New Blood in 1972, No Sweat in 1973, Mirror Image in 1975, New City in 1975, More Than Ever in 1976, Brand New Day in 1977, and Nuclear Day in 1980. BTS teaser - BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS Japanese Ver CHI ASE NAMIDA, BTS - Blood Sweat and Tears, Blood sweat and tears ringtone, Blood sweat and tears, Blood Sweat and Tears (Inst)., Blood, Sweat and. In 1970 the band released Blood, Sweat & Tears 3. The band’s second album simply titled Blood Sweat & Tears would become one of the greatest rock recorded ever released in Classic Rock History. The same year, the band released their second album with new lead singer David Clayton Thomas aboard. Blood Sweat & Tears released their first album in 1968 entitled Child is Father to Man.

[becomewings]

Lollipop (pt.1)

→ pt.2 (NamJoon), pt.3 (All)

“Everything just couldn’t go smooth when composing music. It was hard to concentrate at first. And I was also not used to working with a partner. The woman was straightforward and outspoken. She popped in and out of my workroom whenever she felt like it. She never hesitated or beat around the bush when she evaluated my work. She took away my lighter when I tried to smoke and threw me a lollipop instead. … ‘This is really nice.’ That was what the woman said after listening to the unfinished piece yesterday evening. … It felt as if I’d heard the exact same words before.” — YoonGi, 15 June Year 22. The Notes 1.

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“Suddenly, a scene from one bright sunny afternoon appeared before my eyes. I was playing a tune in front of the piano in my workroom. It was that melody that continued to revolve in my head. ‘This sounds really nice.’ JungKook came closer. I chuckled. ‘You always say that.’” — YoonGi, 25 July Year 22. The Notes 1.

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Run 피 땀 눈물 (Blood Sweat & Tears) Love Yourself Highlight Reel '起承轉結' 血、汗、涙 (Blood Sweat & Tears, Japanese Ver.) Fake Love Teaser 1

[chimyoonmin]

That light, that light, please illuminate my sins

[behind-the-screen-of-bangtan]

Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)

← Back to Proof

Release date: 10 June 2022

Lyrics

Fanchant

Teaser, V, Jin, Jimin, Jung Kook, RM, SUGA, j-hope

Episode of the MV Shoot Sketch

Photos on Instagram: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Jimin, Jung Kook, j-hope, #9, V, SUGA, RM, #13, Jin, #15

Photo sketch: Weverse, Facebook

Naver post about the performances at music shows

Alternative versions: Special MV @ #BTSIsland

Colin’s notes and translation

NME: “BTS’ new single ‘Yet To Come’ offers poignant reflection and an optimistic invitation into the future”

Olivia McManus, the production designer, posted about SUGA's set on Instagram

Outfits: white outfits by Tailorable, V’s suit by Tailorable, other elements identified by BangtanStyling

SNS posts from the boys: j-hope on Twitter, V on Instagram, Jin on Twitter, j-hope on Instagram, SUGA on Instagram

They filmed at Dumont Dunes, a desert in California (src).

Both the truck and the bus have YET2COME plates.

The MV has the boys wandering in a desert and revisiting past eras of their discography. The place is nod to the sea and desert metaphor they used several times in older songs (see this post for more information).

Here’s a list of some nods to past music videos:

“No More Dream” MV

상남자 (Boy In Luv)” MV

V’s outfit also reminds of all the school uniforms they wore during the SKOOL LUV AFFAIR era.

”하루만 (Just one day)”  MV

“I NEED U” MV, 花樣年華 on stage: Prologue (cr.) and Euphoria : Theme of LOVE YOURSELF 起 Wonder

“I NEED U” MV, “RUN” MV, Euphoria : Theme of LOVE YOURSELF 起 Wonder, WINGS Short Film #5 REFLECTION, “FAKE LOVE” MV

You can spot gas pumps near the container. They’re nods to the gas station RM has been associated with since “I NEED U“. It’s heavily BU related and can also be seen in “Blood Sweat & Tears” Japanese version MV, in Euphoria : Theme of LOVE YOURSELF 起 Wonder. The same is true for the blue container, since it’s where Namjoon lives in the BU.

This post has more information about both the gas station and the container.

Concerning Euphoria, @_cottoncandy_JK has another parallel with Jin.

花樣年華 on stage: Prologue

“Epilogue: Young Forever” MV and Euphoria : Theme of LOVE YOURSELF 起 Wonder (cr.)

BTS has been running in most of their MV. From the finale sprint in the Japanese version of “No More Dream” to “Yet to Come” by the way of “RUN” obviously. But considering the angle of the camera and the fact Jimin turns back, Young Forever and Euphoria are two strong candidates as the inspiration for this scene.

LIVE TRILOGY Episode III: The Wings Tour trailer

SUGA is standing on a player piano (src)

It has also been noted that the piano is not broken, contrary to all the other times (cr.). For more information about SUGA and pianos, you can check this post.

“피땀눈물 (Blood Sweat & Tears)” MV

Jin and V traded places during the blinding scene.

“DNA” MV

Jin’s outfit reminds the one he wears in “DNA”.

“봄날” (Spring Day) MV

The last scene is a reproduction of the train scene in “Spring Day”, they have the same pose. But considering they’re in a bus, we can also consider it a nod to the beginning of “No More Dream”.

[bts-lockscreens]

BTS - bs&t japanese ver lockscreens

like/reblog if you save 

[btsx50states]

[UPDATE] As revealed by the "Film Out" teaser, BTS will be releasing a new Japanese album that will include their Japanese songs since "Blood Sweat & Tears." "Dynamite" and "Film Out" will also be included.

[lokisasylum]

RUN or BS&T?

Every one is saying this teaser is giving them mayor RUN era vibes, ‘cause of the party in it, but why is no one mentioning Blood Sweat & Tears Japanese version???

Either way, I can’t wait to be a clown when the song turns up to be all cheery and shit. LOL

[trivialovies]

BTS MASTERLIST. [MVs/Trailer/Teaser/Short Films] -Kr & Jpn

Legend: [here] = GDrive copy; [link] = working link

Sources: YouTube (BigHit/BigHit Labels/HYBE, BangtanTV, etc.)

BTS Korean Music Videos (including teasers and other versions)

No More Dream Teaser #1 link

No More Dream Teaser #2 link

No More Dream MV link

No More Dream MV (Dance Ver.) link

We Are Bulletproof Pt.2 MV link

N.O Teaser #1 link

N.O Teaser #2 link

N.O MV link

Boy In Luv Teaser link

Boy In Luv MV link

Boy In Luv MV (Dance Ver.) link

Just One Day Teaser link

Just One Day MV link

Just One Day MV (Dance Ver.) link

Just One Day MV (Facial Expression Ver.) link

Just One Day MV (One-Take Ver.) link

Danger Teaser #1 link

Danger Teaser #2 link

Danger MV link

Danger MV (Mo-Blue-Mix) ft. THANH link

War of Hormone MV link

I Need U Teaser link

I Need U MV link

I Need U MV (Original Ver.) link

Dope MV link

Run MV Teaser link

Run MV link

EPILOGUE: Young Forever MV link

Fire Teaser link

Fire MV link

Fire MV (Dance Ver.) link

Save ME MV link

Blood Sweat & Tears Teaser link

Blood Sweat & Tears MV link

Spring Day Teaser link

Spring Day MV link

Not Today Teaser link

Not Today MV link

Not Today MV (Dance Ver.) link

Come Back Home link

DNA Teaser #1 link

DNA Teaser #2 link

DNA MV link

MIC Drop Teaser link

MIC Drop MV link

With Seoul MV link

FAKE LOVE Teaser #1 link

FAKE LOVE Teaser #2 link

FAKE LOVE MV link

FAKE LOVE MV (Extended Ver.) link

Waste It On Me (Steve Aoki Feat. BTS) MV link

IDOL Teaser link

IDOL MV link

IDOL (Feat. Nicki Minaj) MV link

Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey) Teaser #1 link

Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey) Teaser #2 link

Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey) MV link

Boy With Luv (Feat. Halsey) (ARMY With Luv) MV link

Heartbeat (BTS WORLD OST) MV link

Make It Right (feat. Lauv) MV link

Make It Right MV (Vertical Ver.) link

ON Kinetic Manifesto Film: Come Prima link

ON MV link

Black Swan Art Film by MN Dance Company link

Black Swan MV link

We are Bulletproof: the Eternal MV link

Who (Lauv feat. BTS) (Official Visualizer) link

Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat) (BTS Remix) (Jawsh 685, Jason Delulu and BTS) link

Dynamite Teaser link

Dynamite MV link

Dynamite MV (B-side) link

Dynamite MV (’70s remix) link

Dynamite MV (Dance Ver.) link

Life Goes On Teaser #1 link

Life Goes On Teaser #2 link

Life Goes On MV link

Life Goes On: on my pillow MV link

Life Goes On: in the forest MV link

Life Goes On: like an arrow MV link

Butter Teaser link

Butter MV link

Butter (Hotter Remix) MV link

Butter (Cooler Remix) MV link

Permission to Dance Teaser link

Permission to Dance MV link

BTS Japanese Music Videos (including teasers and other versions)

No More Dream MV link

Boy In Luv MV link

Danger MV link

For You MV link

For You MV (Dance Ver.) link

I Need U MV link

Run MV link

Blood Sweat & Tears Teaser link

Blood Sweat & Tears MV link

MIC Drop MV (short ver.) link

MIC Drop MV link

Airplane pt.2 MV link

Lights Teaser link

Lights MV link

Stay Gold Teaser #1 link

Stay Gold Teaser #2 link

Stay Gold MV link

Film out Teaser link

Film out MV link

Other BTS Videos (trailers, short films, etc.)

Debut Trailer link

O!RUL8,2? Comeback Trailer link

Skool Luv Affair Comeback Trailer link

DARK & WILD ‘What Am I To You’ Comeback Trailer link

2014 Live Trilogy: Episode II: The Red Bullet Teaser link

2015 BTS Live Trilogy: Episode I: BTS Begins Teaser link

Hwayangyeonhwa (HYYH) pt.1 Comeback Trailer link

Hwayangyeonhwa (HYYH) on stage: prologue link

Hwayangyeonhwa (HYYH) pt.2 ‘Never Mind Comeback Trailer link

WINGS Short Film #1 BEGIN link

WINGS Short Film #2 LIE link

WINGS Short Film #3 STIGMA link

WINGS Short Film #4 FIRST LOVE link

WINGS Short Film #5 REFLECTION link

WINGS Short Film #6 MAMA link

WINGS Short Film #7 AWAKE link

WINGS Boy Meets Evil Comeback Trailer link

2017 BTS Live Trilogy Episode III: The Wings Tour Trailer link

LOVE YOURSELF Highlight Reel '起' link

LOVE YOURSELF Highlight Reel '承' link

LOVE YOURSELF Highlight Reel '轉' link

LOVE YOURSELF Highlight Reel '起承轉结' link

LOVE YOURSELF 承 Her 'Serendipity' Comeback Trailer link

Love Myself Campaign Video link

Euphoria: Theme of LOVE YOURSELF 起 'Wonder' link

LOVE YOURSELF 轉 Tear 'Singularity' Comeback Trailer link

LOVE YOURSELF 結 Answer 'Epiphany' Comeback Trailer link

MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ‘Interlude: Shadow’ Comeback Trailer link

MAP OF THE SOUL: 7 ‘Outro: Ego’ Comeback Trailer link

that’s it for this section dm me on twt for any broken links, typos or corrections <3

[yourpinkpill]

Big Hit’s otp is back... Big Hit is very consistent I have to say. 😂

[gotmeolk]

This...gave me chills.

[mmarcexx]

防弾少年団 – 血、汗、涙 -Japanese Ver.- (MV Teaser)

[becomewings]

The Most Beautiful Moment in Life <I’M FINE>

     BTS Universe Story Highlights, pt. 1 / 4

» pt. 2

Introduction

BTS Universe Story, a mobile game published by Netmarble, was released on September 24, 2020. While the majority of the app is essentially a sandbox and engine for users to create their own interactive stories, it also includes official and canon BU content. The first eight segments were introduced between the release date and December 2020, gathered under the title The Most Beautiful Moment in Life <I’M FINE>.

“I’m Fine” is half of the I’m Fine/Save Me ambigram introduced in the Love Yourself era. Notably, all of the BU content available in the game so far falls between events of the webtoon Save Me (also called HYYH0 in its logo) and The Notes 1—chronologically, that is, while bearing in mind that time resets to the morning of 11 April Year 22 whenever SeokJin fails to avert a tragedy among his six friends. I want to assure anyone who is unable to play the game that you are not missing any new, major plot beats from the overall BU narrative. Instead, the stories provide more insight into the motivations and consequences of SeokJin’s decisions in the earlier time loops, as well as more depth to individual characters and their circumstances.

The goal of this guide is to summarize each of the eight stories and highlight noteworthy details, especially if they are not yet present in other BU media. Within each story (which I often refer to as an arc, due to their character-focused nature), episodes must be played successively, but the stories themselves can be played in any order. I will present them over a series of posts in the order they are listed under the <I’M FINE> heading. The Prologue and NamJoon’s arc are free to play; the rest are paid content. Please note that due to the app’s Terms & Conditions, I will not include in-game footage here. The images in this guide are sourced from the official trailers/videos and the live action MVs as appropriate.

Content warning: contains references to death, suicide, suicidal ideation, child abuse, domestic violence, blood, homicide, depression, trauma, PTSD

This guide contains major spoilers and includes references to other BU media

Do not repost, copy, or quote without permission

Game Mechanic

Before diving into the summaries, I would like to address the primary mechanic of the game: the user’s control of character choices at designated moments in the stories. It’s a primary marketing point that the player can influence the progression of the narrative, with a frequent in-app tip also declaring, “stories’ endings can vary depending on your choices.” The latter is not strictly true—and it cannot be true due to the structure of the game. Choices are presented within most (not all) episodes, but each episode is an isolated unit: episode 2 provides the same content regardless of what you choose in episode 1. Since the consequences of your decisions are not cumulative, each episode reaches the same ending, and each decision inevitably rejoins the “main” story path (effectively reducing the script size).

So what is the point of this mechanic? While the system is not nearly as complex as what major platform titles are capable of nowadays (I suspect due in large part to the story creation portion of the game), it does foster a sense of interaction with the narrative that isn’t present in static visual media like comics or film. The episodes with choices also have incentive for replay to discover the impact of changing a character’s dialogue or action. Sometimes the differences between the outcomes are inconsequential, but other times you unearth new details, interactions, or memories that are missing in the other path.

I say this partially in reaction to all of the comments and tweets I read for the game trailers and even Smeraldo Book twitter’s choose-your-own-adventure style teasers with The Notes 2 excerpts released last summer. Many users expressed excitement, through words or memes, about finally being able to give the boys the happy ending they deserved. I don’t fault anyone for wanting that happy ending—I wish for it, too. But no matter what the rather overzealous marketing has claimed, I don’t believe that the canon ending of BU is ever meant to be in the audience’s control. But I do feel that this mechanism fits the BU narrative. It echoes the “countless loops” SeokJin has experienced in an effort to save his friends, the choices he must make at every crossroad, and the butterfly effect those actions have on all of their lives. I think it is reasonable to interpret the simple branching paths in the game as alternatives SeokJin has explored across multiple loops in his struggle to find the “right” way forward. I’d love to hear if you have theories of your own!

Prologue

The prologue is a brief episode introducing SeokJin’s repeated struggle and failure to save his friends. He wakes up yet again in his bed on 11 April Year 22, the beginning of the time loop. After reflecting on the tragedies that keep befalling the others, SeokJin realizes that he has only tried to fix the problems he can see. He wonders: “Have I tried to understand the root of my friends’ misfortunes? How much do I really know about my friends? Maybe I was never brave enough to confront their real scars and the worlds they’ve been living in. But I need to do it. Because it may be the key to saving them all.”

How to Offer a Hand

In this story, SeokJin attempts to prevent NamJoon’s arrest after he gets in a fight with a rude customer at Naeri Gas Station, his place of work. The first episode opens on the night of 11 April Year 22 with NamJoon curling his fists, glaring as crumpled bills lie untouched on the pavement. (The money looks similar to the shot from the I Need U MV.) SeokJin reaches for his shoulder, but NamJoon shrugs him off and strides away to punch the customer who deliberately dropped the bills for him to pick up. The gas station owner runs over at the customer’s furious shouts and orders NamJoon to apologize. He refuses, and police officers soon arrive and charge him with assault. No one listens to SeokJin’s protests that the customer started it first. The man sneers as NamJoon enters the police car. “Do you even have money for a settlement? Hey, you’re done for.” NamJoon is sentenced to prison again, and SeokJin hears glass shattering before the loop resets.

Rising from his bed on the morning of 11 April, SeokJin reflects on his failed efforts so far. He has hit the customer’s car, called for NamJoon in the middle of the incident, and stopped the fight himself, the latter of which caused his friends to avoid him later. The fight has even escalated; the details are unspecified, but the audience is provided an ominous shot of SeokJin speaking to a police officer alone at the scene. NamJoon is not the kind of person who would normally respond to that kind of provocation with his fists. SeokJin realizes that he cannot merely stop the fight but must discover and fix the true cause of it.

With this in mind, SeokJin heads to Naeri Gas Station during the day and tries to engage NamJoon. This is their first time meeting since they both returned to Songju, although SeokJin has experienced it in many loops already. “It’s been a while,” he greets (as he does at the end of the Blood Sweat & Tears Japanese version MV). Before SeokJin can dig deeper in their conversation, NamJoon is called away by his boss. SeokJin enters the small employee break room which serves as NamJoon’s living space when he’s not at the container, hoping to find some clues about his friend’s life. SeokJin locates something bundled in newspapers. If the player chooses to open it, he sees a strange shard of glass inside that may belong to a car or motorcycle headlight. He continues on, finding the book Cosmos by Carl Sagan and a notebook. SeokJin hesitates over the invasion of privacy but decides to read it since he needs all the information that he can gather. The journal entries detail NamJoon’s daily life since returning to Songju: his work at the gas station isn’t too bad despite the occasional rude customer; he purchased a book and hopes to get more in the future; he picked up a second job at a wedding hall to help catch up on bills; his brother NamHyeon got in trouble again, leading to more expenses; and his dad’s health has worsened, with hospital bills after an emergency surgery rising to levels that the family cannot afford. SeokJin knew that NamJoon was the de facto head of household due to his father’s illness but was unaware that it was to this degree. He feels sorry for NamJoon yet is also impressed by his maturity, for NamJoon never writes how difficult his situation is.

NamJoon arrives and asks what SeokJin is doing in the room. If the player chooses to answer “reading” instead of “just sitting there,” SeokJin privately observes that the conversation flows more easily when they talk about books. NamJoon says he must leave and declines when SeokJin offers to wait for him there. SeokJin knocks over a pile of books along with money and receipts as he stands. He thinks it is unusual that NamJoon picks up the books before the money. The books seem to be more than a hobby to NamJoon, holding special meaning. Walking to his car, SeokJin wonders if it is pride or determination not to falter that keeps NamJoon from journaling his grievances. He realizes that money is a constant source of frustration and misery to NamJoon, and that’s why he can’t stomach being insulted over the customer’s dropped money. SeokJin’s new plan is to prevent NamJoon from picking up the money. He also calls Palgok County Hospital and offers to pay the patient bill for NamJoon’s father. Anticipating that NamJoon will be angry if he finds out, SeokJin says the payer is Songho Foundation.

That night, SeokJin returns to the gas station with the excuse that he forgot to fill up earlier. The luxury car arrives with a honk, and NamJoon hurries over to assist. He shakes with anger when the customer drops the money on the ground. “Why aren’t you picking it up? You don’t want it? What’s with that look? Pretty arrogant for a part-timer, aren’t you?” goads the customer. SeokJin intervenes. Whether the player chooses to have him advise NamJoon not to pick it up or to order the customer to pick it up himself, the end result is the same. SeokJin asks the customer, “Why are you harassing a pitiful part-timer?” The customer drives away, and something about NamJoon seems off. His face is expressionless, not mad or humiliated. “SeokJin, you…” He stops. “Never mind. Thank you for your help.” The words sound difficult for him to speak.

SeokJin believes that he has saved NamJoon, although this ending feels sloppy. He continues on in the loop to rescue JungKook and later YoonGi, but uneasiness plagues him. Though he meant to help NamJoon with his actions, SeokJin wonders if he hurt him instead. On 5 May Year 22, he returns to the gas station and follows NamJoon when he leaves work early. NamJoon enters a bookstore, and SeokJin sneaks in after him to watch from afar. He overhears employees talking about NamJoon, worrying that he might dirty the pages of the book he’s perusing. NamJoon is too absorbed in the book to notice one of them calling for his attention. SeokJin recalls a memory from their school days when he found NamJoon reading alone in their classroom hideout: he asked why NamJoon read so diligently, and his friend explained that he found it comforting to empty his thoughts of everything else while focused on the book. In the present, SeokJin wonders how he forgot how much books mean to NamJoon. He sacrifices some of his food and transportation budget to afford them, but they enable him “to endure the weight of the world he’s forced to bear on his shoulders.” After realizing this, SeokJin wants to apologize for carelessly sympathizing with the reality that NamJoon has weathered alone.

The next episode is from NamJoon’s perspective, revealing his excitement over being able to purchase a book for the first time in two months. He wants to buy two but can only afford one. The employee at the register sighs and asks why he leafed through a book he wasn’t going to buy. NamJoon apologizes, and she mutters, “So dirty.” He notices his reflection, clothes worn and smelling of gasoline, and realizes she’s talking about him, not the book. He tries to shake off these depressing thoughts, but he is still not accustomed to this treatment despite experiencing it regularly at work. As NamJoon begins to exit the store, the security alarm goes off. The employees demand to check his bag despite his insistence that he didn’t steal anything. Their certainty of his theft angers him. NamJoon allows them to look through his bag, and they are suspicious of the like-new book in it which he brought from home. One begins to call the police until SeokJin appears, vouching for NamJoon by saying he saw everything. The employees accept that the alarm malfunctioned and excuse their suspicions as a mistake.

Outside, SeokJin asks NamJoon if he is all right. NamJoon is thankful but wonders how SeokJin materialized right when he needed him. “How’d you find me here?” he asks aloud. SeokJin explains that he happened to notice him while walking through the neighborhood. NamJoon wonders if it’s because they said goodbye on a weird note last time. He thanks him and turns to leave. SeokJin calls after him. “I’m sorry. I wanted to apologize. I didn’t mean to upset you that day at the gas station. It was a mistake to have called you pitiful. If my rash actions hurt you, I’m really sorry.” NamJoon accepts his apology, believing it to be sincere, and says that things would have turned out a lot worse if SeokJin had not intervened. Thunder rolls overhead, and NamJoon uses the impending rain as his excuse to depart. He declines SeokJin’s offer of a ride and runs home, feeling his friend’s eyes on him.

Before he can settle down to read at home, NamJoon receives a call from his cheerful mother. She thanks him for paying off the entire hospital bill. NamJoon is perplexed and asks what’s on the receipt, since he didn’t pay it. His mother wants to leave it be, but he insists that they investigate so they don’t get in trouble or sued. She reads that the Songho Foundation is credited as the payer. NamJoon calls the hospital, introducing himself as the guardian for Kim YoungMin, but they can’t transfer him to the administrative department at this time. Disappointed, he looks up the foundation’s website, unable to recall why it sounds familiar. He wonders why a scholarship foundation in the city would get involved with him. Spotting photos of a recent launch ceremony on the site, he recognizes a few people: Songju High School’s principal, the familiar-looking face of the foundation’s chairman, and SeokJin. First, NamJoon forces a laugh, and then it’s difficult for him to breathe. He thinks that SeokJin really had pitied him at that moment. The only thing keeping NamJoon going is the idea of getting through life on his own strength. Why does he have to live like this?

The last episode opens on 5 May back in SeokJin’s perspective. He is confident now that he has saved NamJoon, although it occurs to him that a better alternative may have been to simply pick up the money himself instead of stepping forward. (This decision is enacted in a later loop and depicted in the Euphoria MV.) While reflecting on what comes next to save his other friends, he receives a text from NamJoon. “What’s your account number? I’ll pay you back for the hospital bills. I don’t need your help. I’ll handle my concerns on my own.” Heart sinking, SeokJin wonders how he found out. With a sense of foreboding, he tries calling NamJoon, but no one answers. SeokJin texts him back, pretending that he doesn’t understand, and tells NamJoon to call him. SeokJin’s second attempt connects while he’s gathering his car keys to visit the container. “That’s enough. Just send the account number over text,” NamJoon instructs. SeokJin coaxes him to talk for a moment, and NamJoon asks flatly, “Are you going to apologize again?” SeokJin attempts to salvage the situation, but his friend turns cold when he insists that NamJoon is misunderstanding and that he just wanted to help. “So, why? Why are you helping me?! Yeah, you’re always a good person. You’ve done nothing wrong and I’m the one misunderstanding.” SeokJin apologizes again. NamJoon refuses his request to meet in person. “No, I thought maybe there was a reason for everything you did… But I guess I misconstrued it. I’ll pay you back, so I’d prefer if you stopped contacting me.” Long after the call ends, SeokJin stands holding his phone, feeling that the glass is going to break at any moment. He wants to believe that it’s not over, but hope is slipping through his fingertips.

The episode finishes in NamJoon’s perspective. On 8 May and 9 May, he accepts part-time delivery work and reflects on his three jobs. Whenever he thinks he’s at his breaking point, he focuses on his new goal of returning SeokJin’s money. On 10 May, NamJoon wakes up to his buzzing phone and is called in to work. On a scooter, he passes by a bus stop and notices graffiti. (This is the same bus stop, with matching graffiti, that appears in the Highlight Reel.) Mesmerized, he wonders if it’s TaeHyung’s. As soon as NamJoon looks up, the scooter’s brake fails, and he crashes. The shattered glass on the cold pavement reminds him of the headlight shard and the kid who looked like TaeHyung. (So the piece of glass SeokJin saw in April was really a memento NamJoon retrieved from the scene of the crash in the mountain town, where the delivery boy whom he privately called TaeHyung died. This event is described in NamJoon’s 17 December Year 21 entry in The Notes 1.) NamJoon’s vision grows blurry, and the distant sound of an ambulance doesn’t come any closer.

The arc concludes there, but it obviously marks another reset for SeokJin. It is interesting to note that in this failed loop, NamJoon suffers the same fate that he narrowly avoided in the snowy mountain town before returning to Songju.

Please stay tuned for the next Highlights post featuring JungKook and YoonGi!

[behind-the-screen-of-bangtan]

MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E

Held on: 10-11 October 2020

Poster

Teaser 1, Teaser 2

Official tweets

Photo Sketch

Outfits and accessories: tweets by Bangtan Style

Setlist

Opening VCR

Intro + ON

N.O

Intro + We Are Bulletproof pt.2

VCR

Intro : Persona

상남자 (Boy In Luv)

Ment

Dionysus

VCR

Interlude : Shadow

Black Swan + Jimin’s solo

VCR

욱 (UGH!)

00:00 (Zero O’Clock)

VCR

시차 (My time)

Filter

Moon

Inner Child

VCR

Outro: Ego

Boy With Luv

Ment

DNA

Dope

No More Dream

Butterfly // 봄날 (Spring Day)

RUN // IDOL

Dynamite

Ment

We are Bulletproof : the Eternal

Details

Several people noticed that during “ON”, j-hope had 3 tattoos on his left arm:

HOPE

Fiat lux: let there be light 

Oriri ex dolore: arise from sorrow

The intro before “We Are Bulletproof pt.2″ references the intro BTS did at the 2014 MBC Gayo Daejejeon and that they later filmed again, for a better view.

The VCRs surrounding the Shadow part had references to WINGS:

RM exhaling smoke like in 피 땀 눈물 (Blood, Sweat & Tears)

SUGA running like in WINGS Short Film #4 - FIRST LOVE

We also find back the black matter from BTS LIVE TRILOGY EPISODE III - THE WINGS TOUR trailer on V and Jung Kook’s faces

Jung Kook shaking his head like in “血、汗、涙 (Blood Sweat & Tears)-Japanese Ver.-”

In the VCR introducing the vocal line’s solo songs, you can see the Corona Borealis behind V (src).

Jimin had tattoos on his palms during “Filter”:

Illecebra: latin word meaning to allure, entice (src)

Arcanus: latin word meaning hidden/secret/private/mysterious, or intimate/personal/confidential, or trustworthy (to keep a secret) (src)

For “Outro : Ego”, j-hope was in a car registered “BTS 13613″, like in the MV.

MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E CONCEPT PHOTOBOOK

Naver post

Thread (addendum) with details about nods and references in the pictures

You can see in the Twitter thread that a lot of the aesthetics are similar to the ones for the concert.

MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E (오,늘) ONLINE EXHIBITION

A virtual exhibition held during the 2020 pandemic, in parallel to the MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E online concert. It consisted of a virtuel space in which you could move and observe a variety of pictures and videos.

[bts-lockscreens]

bts - blood sweat & tears japanese mv

like/reblog if u save, dont repost

[kpopmultifan]

BTS has released the MV teaser for the Japanese version of “Blood Sweat & Tears” which is scheduled to be released on May 10th.