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Image courtesy of HYBE<\/p>\nMagical girl series launched in U.S. on October 20<\/p>\n
Image courtesy of HYBE<\/p>\n
K-pop girl group ILLIT’s original webtoon<\/a> Summer Moon: The Quprids is expanding beyond Korea to six global regions, including the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, and France.<\/p>\n According to HYBE<\/a>, localized versions of SUMMER MOON debuted on WEBTOON<\/a>‘s global platforms. The series launched on October 20 in the U.S., Taiwan, and Thailand; and on October 21 in Japan and Indonesia. The series will launch in France later in November.<\/p>\n Summer Moon: The Quprids 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’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 “true magic lies in embracing one’s authentic self.”<\/p>\n First released in Korea on August 4, the webtoon quickly rose to No. 2 in the female category and No. 3 overall on Naver WEBTOON’s Top 30 Rising Series chart. It also placed No. 4 in the female category and No. 5 overall on the Real-Time New Series Ranking.<\/p>\n Fans can read the official English version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The five-member group ILLIT formed through the survival show R U Next? in 2023. The group released their debut album SUPER REAL ME in March 2024.<\/p>\n Sources: Press release<\/a>, ZDnet<\/a> (Bong-sam Baek)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magical girl series launched in U.S. on October 20 Image courtesy of HYBE K-pop girl group ILLIT’s original…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-97182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}