I'm so curious on how everyone got to know the boys. When you took the dive. What gave you the spark.
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Or it's just only me but that doesn't stop me from doing this self-indulgent post and writing my original villain story my plain boring story lol
by Harichani
TLDR: **How cartoonic characters got me into stanning, then I got curious about Enhypen’s lore despite me being very indifferent about vampires in the past and now I’m into it (oops?)**
Funnily I didn’t start following them due to the vampiric trademarks which attracts lots of fans, since I didn’t had the hots for vampires at all before!
In the past teenage version of me was surrounded by the long-going debate Edward vs Jakob in Twilight, I’ve watched the first Twilight movies and the sparkly vampires didn’t impress me. Then there was the manga Vampire Knights and I think I didn’t like the development of the plot so I dropped the story like a hot potato. In addition my classmates from high school talked about Vampire Diaries but the series was only available on paid premium channels so I was left out from the talks and it didn’t bother me honestly. So yeah vampires didn’t trigger an interest of me.
First time coming across Enhypen was the algorithm suggesting me the Drunk-Dazed MV but it didn’t click me immediately that there was a vampire theme going on~ Back then I interpreted the video as *’chaotic frat boy party with supernatural happenings due to alcohol intoxication and wow that’s lots of blood from the ceiling but why’*. Usually the raining blood should have triggered my research but alas I put a lot of energy into surviving the after-college job life during the pandemic. Well I moved on and the earth continued to spin.
Several months later (read: last year) the One and Only MV with Enhypen and all the cute Pokémons said hello to me on the YouTube platform and it was the catalyst for me getting into their music. The Pokémons lured me into it because I played some of the handheld games, collected the cards and watched some of the anime episodes in the child- and teenagehood. Watching them performing with the Pikachu Mascots made the deal to get know more about the group. I expected that the rest of their music won’t be that cute like One and Only. What I didn’t expect was the vampire concept. Then I had the revelation that they’re actually the same maniac group of the frat boy party music video. And down the journey I didn’t expect that the vampire concept was making multiple appearances throughout their discography. And it’s so, so good! Repetition can be boring but their formula is not monotone at all, it has a kind of depth and variety, the vampire motif is not restricting the creativity at all. Adult version of me is fascinated.
The whole creative team behind it deserves a whole separate appreciation post (I’m in love with Romance:Untold concept version for example, no kidding y’all) and Enhypen gives the art so much justice. The big bonus is that Enhypen embraces their vampire personas, and it’s sometimes so silly it makes me laugh. And that they have such wonderful personalities and lovely chemistries with each other.
So I came for the gaming nostalgia, I’m staying for the full-fledged biting immortal creatures. What a fool I am but I’m a fool in love with an artwork and the artists making it alive.
On a side note I haven’t read the webtoon yet. Though I might need to read the webtoon to fully enjoy Enhypen’s artistry, my mind still goes haywire thinking the possibilities and theories while watching their video content alone and I have lots of fun despite the missing knowledge from the webtoons. And at a chaotic moment I went to the Twilight subreddit once just to make a fact check with a research of mine.
Do I regret not immediately stanning them after seeing the Drunk-Dazed MV first? Nope, because back then I wasn’t at my best point of life and didn’t have enough love to give out like today. (Well I’m still struggling but I manage~) So thank you Pokémon and Pikachu for introducing me this lovely group 🥰
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If you have read everything till the end, thank you so much for your attention! Stay healthy and happy ✨❤️
From TXT actually. Lol
I checked them out a bit at debut and thought they were great, started paying more attention with SV / BM, and this last comeback made me an Engene 🤍 I love XO so much
Long short story, I only considered myself as an engene during manifesto era, but I already know about enhypen way back before, though I was only a casual listener. I did watch a few eps of i-land when it was active but didnt really dive into it because yes I do watch some kpop survival shows but i dont really stan the groups after being produced (might just be me lol). But then one day I came across this webtoon series of dark moon which i learned later on that its part of enha’s lore and that got me hooked up with the group. I started getting into their music, get to know them thru looking up, watched their yt contents (marathoned their en o clock eps), and then i also rewatched i-land from the beginning. I would love to see the boys and attend their concert someday tho I hope they would get a lot of rest they have been working way too hard. (curse you, hive 😡)
I had heard a lot about them but stuck to the two groups I liked and that was all for the longest time, then I saw their Sweet Venom Studio Choom video and I was hooked. Their outfits, the dancing, the singing, just THEM. Plus Jake’s ending 🤭
Saw the promos for I-Land and was interested to see the next group from the label since I already liked BTS and TXT. Watched I-Land from the first live episode until the end. What a journey it was! I’m so proud of how confident they’ve grown since then.
shout out x blank space edit made me aware of enhypen and then later i watched hybe carteers and watched i-land and i enjoyed these a lot and started listening to their music later too 🙂
I have been an Army for like 9 years now and downloaded rhythm hybe to play BTS songs and ended up playing all the bands
But Enhypen caught my attention like no other band other that BTS has ever done
Now I’m obsessed with them and their concept
I had just moved to New York from my home state and was setting up my room. I got my TV ready and was looking for some music to listen to as I was just excited to be on my own for the very first time in my life.
I was listening to TXT’s “Loser=Lover” and in the recommended Tamed-Dashed was there. I had only heard one song from Enha at the time (Fever bc it went viral in the kpop community at that time) and Tamed-Dashed was constantly being recommended to me but I just didn’t think about watching it. I decided to watch it for some reason that day and I was hooked from then on.
I watched I-LAND and I bought the Dimension: Dilemma album not too long after that. ENGENE since 2021 🙂
Saw an iland ep 1 premiere notification from bh channel back then and decided to watch it for funsies. Here I am 😅
was a casual listener to kpop, used to remember kpop exists every 4ish months and went to the Spotify playlist for top kpop songs at the time. it happened to be few months after their debut, so given taken was there. fell in love with it. decided to follow the artist since I loved the vibe and hoped the next songs would be similar. First kpop group I followed or learned the members of.