{"id":50942,"date":"2025-08-07T17:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50942\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:51:09","slug":"k-pop-girl-group-illit-releases-original-webtoon-summer-moon-the-quprids-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50942\/","title":{"rendered":"K-pop Girl Group ILLIT Releases Original Webtoon Summer Moon: The Quprids &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming-of-age school fantasy series follows 5 high schoolers who transform into magical girls<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"414\" height=\"600\" alt=\"kvwzlndfnjcvqu-6aekdcjnchumbm04lpxyz70ta1r7o2i2r1lf4rgodxysfbgagd-huqddxajefxqmbdcixoq\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.8\/227318\/kvwzlndfnjcvqu-6aekdcjnchumbm04lpxyz70ta1r7o2i2r1lf4rgodxysfbgagd-huqddxajefxqmbdcixoq.webp\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/comic.naver.com\/webtoon\/list?titleId=840900&amp;tab=tue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Naver Webtoon&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Naver Webtoon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=270586\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HYBE<\/a>, the Korean entertainment company best known as the agency behind global supergroup BTS, announced that its original webtoon series SUMMER MOON: THE QUPRIDS, inspired by the musical themes of K-pop girl group ILLIT, premiered on August 4 via Naver Webtoon.<\/p>\n<p>The series debuted with six episodes available simultaneously, and will have weekly releases every Tuesday on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>SUMMER MOON is a coming-of-age school fantasy series that follows five ordinary high school girls \u2014 Yeoreum, Miso, Ah-yeong, Gayoon, and Unha \u2014 who unexpectedly transform into \u201cmagical girls\u201d ahead of their school&#8217;s largest summer festival. The story starts as a lighthearted teen romance and will gradually evolve as the girls face emotional challenges and magical threats, ultimately learning that &#8220;true magic lies in embracing one&#8217;s authentic self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, an English version of the webtoon is not confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialvalue.kr\/news\/view\/1065573319876787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Social Value<\/a> (Min-young So), ILLIT&#8217;s X\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=24886\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SUMMERMOONMAGIC\/status\/1951629057336176965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">account<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming-of-age school fantasy series follows 5 high schoolers who transform into magical girls Image via Naver Webtoon&#8217;s website&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-50942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}