Kakao Entertainment announces new virtual K-pop idol survival series 'Girls' Re:Verse' - NME

Kakao Entertainment has announced the premiere of a brand-new virtual K-pop idol endurance series Girls’ Re:Verse.

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According to The Korea Times, Girls’ Re:Verse is an experimental K-pop idol endurance bid wherever 30 erstwhile and existent miss radical members volition play arsenic virtual world (VR) characters and vie wrong a metaverse called W. Only 5 contestants basal for a accidental to re-debut arsenic members of a virtual miss group.

The singers volition instrumentality portion successful the programme with virtual avatars, whose names, personalities and appearances are to beryllium customised by the idols themselves. The contestants volition bash truthful by entering 30 antithetic pods, done which they volition beryllium capable to link to W aft equipping their VR gear.

“Because nary 1 knows their existent identity, the girls are profoundly immersed successful the characters they person created, which makes them enactment bolder and genuinely showing sides of themselves that they would ne'er person shown successful real-life TV programs,” explained Cho Wook-hyung during a property league for the series, per The Korea Herald. Cho serves Girls’ Re:Verse as its enforcement producer. The real-life identities of these avatars volition lone beryllium revealed erstwhile they are eliminated from the show.

During the aforesaid conference, the 4 hosts for the upcoming bid were besides announced: tv big and vocalist Boom, erstwhile S.E.S subordinate Bada, erstwhile Street Woman Fighter contestant and dancer Aiki arsenic good arsenic EBS mascot Pengsoo.

“I liked the information that the girls don’t person to interest astir their looks and get to ore solely connected preparing for their show due to the fact that it’s a virtual endurance show,” Bada told press. “Everyone had charming voices truthful that, contempt them being avatars, I could immerse myself into the virtual satellite W. It made maine privation to marque a debut arsenic a virtual idol.”

Girls’ Re:Verse is acceptable to premiere its archetypal occurrence adjacent week connected January 2 astatine 9pm KST, and volition proceed to aerial caller episodes each Monday thereafter via some Kakaopage and its authoritative YouTube channel.