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Wake Up Dead Man (Knives Out 3)
This is a loving tribute to locked room mysteries (I might give John Dickinson Carr another go) while not really much of a mystery movie itself, which I didn't mind because... I don't actually watch Knives Out for the mysteries. XD And I think it's great that every succeeding movie has been different, it makes the weaknesses less stark because you take them as part of a series. I love how this was more character-centric—at least, for the characters it was focusing on. I also felt it had more heart. I've been told that this is a very "current" movie but I think me not being American has made the entire experience more fascinating—in particular the depiction of Catholicism in the US—and less affecting.

Liann Zhang, "Julie Chan Is Dead"
Read this because of superborb's post here.

The first half of the book is about a down-on-her-luck woman impersonating her rich dead twin and taking over her influencer lifestyle. The second half is a psychological thriller.

The main character is so stressful omg haha but as much as I really struggled with the influencer + impersonation storyline, I must admit that it is the more compelling component! Technically I "enjoyed" the very vibes-driven second half more, but the stressfulness of the main character was what gave it flavor. When it was not stressful, it was very funny. The scenes about the pressures of being the only minority (or at least not having the privilege of living with blind spots) in the group were suitably incisive but not too heavy-handed. Honestly, the kind of book I'd recommend to IRLs.

F3 Concert Tour
I previously wrote that Ken Chu had allegedly been dropped from the F4 reunion tour due to multiple instances of publicly disclosing unfinalized tour info. This is now official news (the dropping of Ken Chu, not the reasoning behind it) and Ken Chu has been making a lot of noise about it. In the MV of the new song Forever Forever, Jay Chou and Mayday Ashin have been added to the group while Ken Chu has been uncannily removed from the Meteor Garden group shots which feels like historical erasure (speaking as someone who never even watched Taiwanese Meteor Garden lol).


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PS. Now watching Mobius which hopefully we'll finish by the end of the year! Interesting setting; Loving the use of Canto and the code-switching + feeling of nostalgia when they do action scenes, but I'm unfortunately not really vibing with it. It hasn't been a very well-directed/-edited series. The storytelling is sloppy, the humor is awkwardly timed and shot, the BGMs are very distracting, and the main characters don't have a sense of personality. Vastly preferring Reset which is ALSO a time loop drama starring the same actor.

+ Inexplicably Aokbab (most known for her role in the Thai movie Bad Genius) is in this. Even more inexplicably her character is Chinese-American (technically, 美籍華人 which I guess doesn't conclusively communicate her cultural identity). But her English is (though not her fault) worse than the non-American character's, and her Mandarin lines are dubbed over, so...??????? Feeling like they could have rewritten the character to fit the actress or cast someone else. It's such a disservice to cast her only to make her character speak two foreign languages.

Isora Matsuri, "Secrets of the Silent Witch" (vol 1–6)
Ongoing light novel series (with a newly released anime adaptation) about a traumatized and socially anxious witch / genius mathematician who develops a method of spell-casting without ever chanting, making her one of the most powerful magicians ever. Outside she is very intimidating and heroic, and inside she's a stuttering and tearful mess. After single-handedly saving a village from a black dragon, she retreats back into the mountain but is conscripted into guarding the Second Prince. To do this she must infiltrate the academy as an ordinary student while ~*keeping the magic secret~*. As a consequence, she learns to actually care about people and gradually heal and form relationships.

Thoughts

The high school setting and very YA situations aren't really working for me (especially with our MC, Monica, being the strongest and most ingenious witch to ever witch), but the politics are surprisingly interesting! The Second Prince (and ML) Felix is a popular and charismatic figure in the academy, and unnervingly conniving. He has a retinue of very loyal but elitist young men who befriend and are changed by Monica, the only commoner in the vicinity. This positions them as the "good" guys. However, outside the school walls, the Second Prince has many detractors, including Monica's own mentor/colleague. And as Monica protects him from assassins she learns that they actually have some very good reasons for wanting to murder him and prevent his ascension.

There are also some very nice twists with the Second Prince's character, the fun one is him being the #1 Monica Everett fanboy and having genuine interest in her magical research and papers.

Elizabeth Lim, "A Forgery of Fate"

"My father used to say, 'Green is from blue, and is better than blue."

"What does that mean?"

I gave Gaari my cheekiest smile. "It means you learn to surpass your teachers."

Beauty and the Beast retelling set in a fantasy world with Chinese elements. The MC, Tru, has the gift of prophecy that manifests in art. When her father disappears, it falls upon her, the eldest daughter, to support her mother and sisters, so she turns to art forgery. The ML, Elang, is a half dragon who has lost his heart and been banished to live on land. The only way he can go back is by presenting to the Dragon King his Heavenly Match, so naturally this means a contract marriage storyline. There's also something about a curse but to be honest this seemed written to adhere to the Disney!Beauty & the Beast vibes more than anything, I really did not understand what was going on there lol.

Thoughts

I really enjoyed the magic and underwater setting and integration of Chinese culture/lore/tropes/food... not so much the obsession with noodles, because I often think "obsessed with a type of food" is used as a replacement for personality. In this case, the noodle conversations do have narrative relevance, it's just that I was not Feeling the Love. I also wasn't really feeling the themes of regionalism and discrimination, but those parts were pretty secondary anyway.

The first 70% was a 4/5 read for me, then got downgraded to 3/5 because the book lacked the narrative and romantic tension to pull off the last act. I simply didn’t feel anything or understand any of the characters. In fact, the only time I felt any real stakes in the story was at the beginning, when 1) Tru's mom had accrued a large gambling debt that Tru had to pay off urgently and 2) Tru had to guess (by painting) a mahjong tile correctly in a do-or-die moment. Everything after that felt only superficially dangerous. There's all this talk of the Dragon King having ~eyes and ears everywhere~ in their kingdom, and even of there being a spy within Elang's palace, but Elang and Tru continue to have conversations about their fake marriage + secret plan in a normal fashion. There isn't any real fear of being discovered, so the secrecy thing feels like a sham.

I did really like Tru's art powers. They never actually help her or give her a buff—it's really just prophecy with art as its medium. Nonetheless they're what Elang needs to execute his mysterious plan and the reveal for what that exactly was was very satisfying.

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MISC:

Found out from Twitter that Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway was originally written by Avril Lavigne and that an Avril Lavigne version was released a few years ago (for a 20th anniversary album?), There's a neat animated lyric video that features old clips and photos of her:

CW: Flashing / glitch effects

Relatedly, here's her singing Complicated for The First Take:

I've been thinking about how I've missed seeing music rotations and song recs and I realized I'm part of the problem because I just quietly update my streaming library and, if I'm not lazy, my journal.

Some relevant journal pages from August

(Don't mind the 不, I'm still relearning how to rewrite it lmfao)

Into the Woods - Moments in the Woods
But if life were only moments / then you'd never know you had one
Re: the show I just saw - it was the first time I've ever had a hard time purchasing tickets to a local production. I wasn't sure if it was the high-profile cast, the organizer purposefully limiting the tickets and making them difficult to procure, or the increased public interest in musicals... I had no knowledge of Into the Woods before I watched the show I paid for so I'm very glad I ended up loving it in spite of the strange bareness of the stage. 😂

NIKI - La La Lost You
I feel like this song equipped me with questions to ask a friend who'd moved from New York to LA (though my question of "so do you take drunk 2AM strolls in K-Town" has been rightfully ignored 😂)—we'd initially made plans to meet up in Vietnam in September (I've never been, but she goes back there to visit family), but she had to cancel because she suddenly had to move states for a new job. It worked out alright because I'd used up all of my "fun" money on the computer I bought in early 2025 and a series of musical tickets so travel would have sent me spiraling into financial anxiety... though I do feel kinda sad to not have made any vacation plans this year.

Tangentially, the podcast Song Exploder released an episode a couple months ago in which John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls talks about Iris. I've always known it to be the theme song of City of Angels, but I didn't know that City of Angels was actually a remake of a movie that came out a decade before that, so it was a TIL moment! More importantly, he explains where the title of the song came from haha.

G.E.M. - 泡沫 Bubbles (G.E.M. version)
G.E.M. released an album of rerecorded songs in June of this year, which was how I found out that she had been fighting her now-former label. This one is my first and favorite song of hers so the new version has just been on looping in my playlists.

Laufey - Silver Lining
This song has actually been in my Justice in the Dark playlist since it came out earlier this year (for the lyrics "I've been falling into bad habits / "staring into the abyss / drowning in red wine and sniffing cinnamon" and "when you go to hell, I'll go there with you"), but I've been listening to it a lot more lately.

Zhang Xincheng - 喜劇 Comedy
I found it amusing that ZXC and Laufey's (mini-)albums came out on the same weekend... Girlfailure album meets boyfailure album... "I'm just a jester" meets "就當作是喜劇".

Ethel Cain - Nettles
Listened to this today when the weather and my state of mind were gloomy and gray and it hit SO GOOD. "To love me is to suffer me"—yeah, tell them!

Lord of (the) Mysteries (donghua)
Only saw two eps! The first ep reminded me so much of various parts of Persona 3: tarot cards (of course the MC is The Fool), Velvet Room, Dark Hour, and the two senpai who see your potential and recruit you into their secret magical organization. :P It's based on a super popular transmigration novel so I thought the MC would be OP and annoying, but the writing is surprisingly even about it, setting up an ensemble cast though right now there is little characterization that makes any of them individually compelling. The MC has a language buff from being Chinese. XD

The ending theme samples Moonlight Sonata and is sung by Curley Gao and I've been obsessed with it.


K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)
(Or, as I call it, the K-Pop Propaganda Movie haha.)

Non-spoilery thoughts

There are things I like about it: that it was an obvious labor of love and the money was spent on the music and animation, that the romance was meant to be part of a longer journey and not the destination, that you get a magical cat AND a magical bird. The concept of a boyband having devilishly infectious music was also 10/10. But because my fate is to be a hater, I did not think this was a good movie. The writing felt superficial, from the portrayal of girlhood to the conflicts of demonhood.

I would not have minded as much if the music (as good as it is) did not contradict the storylines: Golden and What It Sounds Like are the two big song numbers, which purport to represent the girls' journeys as a group, but they both end up being Rumi's solo songs. What wasted opportunities to do 3-part harmonies. :(

The movie also has a brand of wish fulfillment which, while sometimes funny, ultimately lands oddly. It's a fantasy about idols, but from the PoV of the industry which packages an artificial sense of "relatability" (just like you, they like to eat, go to the spa, and watch Tiktok videos) and "dedication" (they're doing this for the love of the game) in the girls, something I could roll with until the last part where Huntr/x gives up their vacation time because they want to make their fans happy. I guess that's a common superhero trope, but it's not even to save the world, and there's no real sense of empathy for the idols themselves since everyone just sort of forgets and moves on like nothing happened.


PS. While one of the more obvious comparisons to this movie is the fictional band K/DA (especially for Huntr/x's sound), what it reminds me more of is actually FFX-2! Like I can see a sequel where Rumi and the girls go on a quest for closure. XD

Goodbye, My Princess (Fei Wo Si Cun, tr. Tianshu)
Just finished this today!

PLOT: Xiaofeng is a princess from a western desert kingdom who enters a political marriage with the Crown Prince of an empire in the Central Plains.

This is an enemies-to-lovers story in the serious and literal sense as they are from opposing states who don't share the same language, culture or goals; Xiaofeng is guileless but unimpressed with Plains and palace culture, while Li Chengyin is cold and vindictive, (and later on, obsessive) to the point of not having a bottom line. Somewhere in between there's this guy in white named Gu Jian who cryptically alludes to events Xiaofeng has no memory of. As the story progresses, background conversations about power play and subjugation soon come to the forefront until they're impossible to ignore.

Non-spoilery thoughts

The main story is only around 300 pages and the next 250 pages are the extras… which is good, because I was getting concerned and being like "how long are we going to marinate in misery, I’m not strong enough for this"—evidently not that long for the readers but extremely long for some of the characters. Who deserve it. The suffering is satisfying enough for me to ignore the parts that felt emotionally unconvincing, mostly the present-day/palace stuff—I just don't buy the ML and FL falling in love. Certainly it is a trope, and it makes for a more interesting ML, but the FL's PoV isn't selling me on anything but circumstantial attraction. In some ways I wish the main story had been longer and we got to see more of the politicking and emotional developments. The extra chapters did add other PoVs and moments that fleshed out the plot and characters more; my favorite parts were still the shadows of angst and regret. I haven't seen the drama adaptation but I can see them integrating everything together effectively.

On the flip side, the FL being the PoV character makes for a moving story about debts, and I love that by the time it ends you see how her most important relationship is the one she shares with her bodyguard, A'du. Also loved the bits with Yongniang!

The translation was very enjoyable for me. I can see the kinship terms and names throwing people off, but it's immersive, and the writing flows like a book. Hoping for more cnovels to get this kind of translation quality in the future.

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In any case, translation toward English is not an act of benevolent charity — Penguin’s imprimatur did not rescue Truyện Kiều from obscurity. Nearly a hundred million people live in Việt Nam and several million Vietnamese people live abroad. Việt Nam is now more populous than the United Kingdom, Turkey, Australia, France, Germany, South Korea — and many, many other countries. A friend recently shared a reminder from her mother: Vietnamese doesn’t need you. We get so embroiled in our diasporic angst, writing heartfelt, tortured essays about not being able to impart cultural knowledge to any children we might have, but we’re lucky for what is not the case for everyone who has lost a language or had it taken from them. Vietnamese is not endangered, and its literature is not honored by translation toward English — it is English-using society that benefits from gaining access to literature produced in other languages. . .

—Som-Mai Nguyen, "Blunt-force Ethnic Credibility" (h/t superborb on Bluesky)


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In that instant, Kiyose realized something. If happiness, or beauty, or goodness existed in this world, for him, they would take the form of this runner.

Just finished Shion Miura's Run with the Wind (translated by Yui Kajira) and loved it. Although I barely remember anything from the anime, I adored it the first time I watched it and I now appreciate it as an adaptation. :') The big race (Hakone Ekiden) took almost half of the book and I'm amazed at how invested and emotional I was throughout it, even when I was just reading it! I did mostly have to skip Shindo and Haiji's legs because I was too anxious haha.

Also loved the bits where Musa was struggling with colloquial language (as a foreign student) and Shindo was always checking in on him. I actually don't remember Shindo at all in the anime, which makes me feel bad because he is such a GEM.

Some of the side characters (namely the rival athletes and Hana) were more obviously narrative devices than people and it took some time for me to get used to that, and I was very surprised to see the (one-sided) Kakeru/Hana developments.

Really enjoyed the English translation, the (consistent and intentional) choice to leave specific words untranslated and unitalicized, and the writing.

Some excerpts from the translator's notes:

Miura's writing has a warmth and an openness, though it's hard to put a finger on what exactly gives it that feeling. Her all-embracing love for human beings and their everyday lives, in all their messy glory, seems to seep through her words and touch us, too. Her characters come alive on the page, each possessing their own past and future. As readers, we are pulled into that embrace, and, like the spectators of the Hakone Ekiden, we feel absorbed in the Chikusei-so team's endeavor as if we were running alongside them ourselves.

My general stance in translating this novel was to prioritize the momentum of the story, the feel of each character (and their relationships, with all the banter), and the authenticity of the language revolving around running. At the same time, I wanted to retain as many Japanese terms as possible, and in a way that allows curious readers to look things up. After all, it's perfectly natural to come across unfamiliar words or concepts while reading any book, no matter the language it was originally written in. Luckily, it's easier than ever to find out what an engawa or a kamaboko looks like, or what a higurashi sounds like. Of course, there are many English videos and articles about the real-life Hakone Ekiden as well, packed with as much human drama as the story of the Chikusei-so team.

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llonkrebboj linked me to their translation of 人是_ by Zhou Shen, which naturally led me to falling in love with the song and being tempted to watch Wandering Earth 2.

Songs: 一蓑煙雨 by Zhang Xincheng & Waltz About Death by Angela Autumn

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My computer is broken again so it's gonna be another exciting weekend of troubleshooting attempts. I'm not optimistic that reinstalling my OS or restoring from backup will help. :( The silver lining is that I finally managed to send off a long-overdue family photobook for printing a few days ago, and I laid everything out on Canva, so the draft file is on the internet and nothing of value will be lost if I have to restore my computer from the last backup point. (I'm still worried that it will turn out so ugly it's ungiftable but at least it's theoretically reworkable in the future!)

In other news, the new Link Click donghua OP just dropped:


And this is what the band has to say in response to the mass wailing:

POSTING HERE SO I DON'T FORGET BECAUSE both their band name and album title are not the most searchable lmfao but oh my God this band!!! Their languages!!! Their songs!!!

Fom their Wikipedia article:

Collage (Chinese: 珂拉琪; pinyin: Kē Lā Qí; Japanese: コラジ) is a Taiwanese band that released their first album in 2021,[1] with two members: lead singer Natsuko Lariyod, who is of mixed Hakka and Amis ancestry, and Hunter Wang, who is of Minnan descent. Rather than use Taiwanese Mandarin, the band focuses on producing music using Taiwanese, Japanese, Amis and English. They incorporate indigenous people's music into their compositions.

I haven't heard their entire album yet but I definitely got teary just listening to 這該死的拘執佮愛 and 萬千花蕊慈母悲哀 even though I could understand next to nothing... to be honest, I feel like half of the emotion was from them having such a moving and fanviddable sound... And the rest is the songs being in (Taiwanese) Hokkien, which I suppose always hits hard even when they're incomprehensible to me. The titles of the later songs in the album seem to be Amis so I'm even more intrigued, especially since they are English-subbed on their Youtube channel. And the album and song covers are pretty, which is always a plus!

I also love how the Youtube descriptions have both the hanzi (like the actual Hokkien hanzi, not the Mandarin translation, which is often the case) and the Hokkien romanization. :')

I'll probably forget this because Hokkien will never be a readable language for me, but:

袂: bue (in Mandarin... 不 or 不會?)

予: ho (in Mandarin... 給 or 讓? The passive thing.)

Tsin (very) really is just... 親

下晡: e-po (afternoon / 下午 in Mandarin)

厝內 chu lai (home / 家裡)

無要無緊 bo yao bo kin... (in Mandarin, 無關緊要) - is this where boey ao kin (it's alright) comes from???

這該死的拘執佮愛 Stubborn Love in Chains (with simpler and possibly more singable lyrics):

Watch on YouTube

萬千花蕊慈母悲哀 Green Tara's Thousands of Sorrowful Blossoms

Watch on YouTube

Btw listening to a song in Hokkien is always an interesting (and frustrating) experience because even with the lyrics in front of me I can't process the words... As opposed to Canto or any other Sinitic language, where my instinct is to match the words up with Mandarin.

ETA: Finished the album. I have to say that there’s a song that appears to be about Japanese soldiers, which I have a knee-jerk revulsion to, regardless of whatever the context is. But it’s otherwise still a great album! Interesting that the Amis songs are often mixed with Japanese.

Re-posting because I was feeling nostalgic—technically it's a Qihun fanmix (concept: Gu Yu and Jiang Xueming make a mix CD together), but it's pretty much a 2000s Mandopop playlist with three out of the five S.H.E songs I know. Originally posted on Tumblr 3 years ago.



tracklist, stream links, and notes here on chillwaves

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Recently:

Finished watching To the Wonder, which certainly, uh, took a turn in the last ep. I think I have thoughts about the show and some notes about the production, but right now my only thought is that I could have been healed with more scenes of baby sheep.

Started reading Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (Rainbow Turtle fantranslation). I'm enjoying it a lot more than I expected! Some of the character moments were scenes I didn't even know I needed... But it really is so long and I'm bad at consuming anything for extended amount of time so I've stopped, somewhere around volume 5. I like that it's appropriately webnovel-y and very easy to read on the phone (it's very light on descriptions), while also being meaty.

Got myself stuck in the Proving Grounds of Eiyuden Chronicle. 🤣 I initially stopped playing because I wanted to wait for "the right time" to do a dungeon crawl, but, well, weeks have passed... Sometimes I turn on the game so I can "explore a bit"... But there's a puzzle element to this dungeon and I genuinely don't remember which dungeon configurations I've finished... And battles still take forever to load so I ragequit every time I try to continue. 🤣

Saw 毛雪汪 ep 90, featuring Wang Yuwen and Zhang Xincheng. I now get all my ZXC updates from gixininja, a Tan Jianci fan who... has conditioned me to think about Tan Jianci every time I think about ZXC. I initially wasn't going to watch this because I just don't have the spoons/attention span for variety shows (ZXC is doing a lot of variety shows this year and I simply am not following them), but she assured me it was my type of variety show (chill and cozy) AND informed me that Mao Buyi has a pug who is an official cast regular... She was right! There were also mentions of TJC, which I reported accordingly. XD

My key takeaway from that ep is that ZXC wrote a song for the drama he and WYW are in (whose English title is *drumroll* You Are My Lover Friend), and that WYW was NOT asked to sing for it, as previously agreed. (From what I understand, it's meant to be a duet?) (This is all told in good humor, since WYW and ZXC are childhood friends, and 80% of the ep is WYW exposing ZXC.)

I also have to say that it also felt very freeing to just sit back and watch this without having any thoughts about subbing or translating or cutting the video into bite-sized segments... And to not really feel a thing except mild interest in music. I feel like my Chinese has deteriorated a lot over the past year of stepping away from fandom and most cmedia, but it's really nice to just be a regular viewer lol.

Anyway this is the ep... I didn't realize how clickbait-y the episode description was until now haha:

Watch on YouTube

I did these back in September but I was going through my works this year and thought I'd round them up for archiving purposes...


Note: Dailymotion doesn't appear to automatically display external subtitles, so you have to tap the captions icon (bottom right) or gear icon (upper right).

SO many feelings about this performance and how much Tank is leaning on the cast to help him get through it—and Ella, Zhang Jie, and Penny giving him the best support. He was a nervous wreck beforehand and utterly relieved afterwards. （；へ：）He nailed it, though!!!


Related Links:

subbed: Tank, "Three Kingdom Love" (Time Concert performance)

subbed: Tank's Time Concert entrance—reuniting with Ella!

subbed: Ella and Tank talking about meeting in 2005

subbed: Tank talking about his physical and mental deteriorations (an edited cut for copyright reasons)

subbed: Reminiscing about Hana Kimi (S.H.E, Tank, Fahrenheit era) (this one has lots of typos oops!)

First of all: Zhang Xincheng has been releasing tracks from his mini-album, culminating in a music video that I (unexpectedly) like a lot! The teaser caught my attention because it was giving sapphic vibes, so the part in the MV with "our unbreakable friendship" made me LOL.


Lyrics are by ZXC himself. While they are not the most poetic, they are sincere and uplifting. Both visuals and message remind me a lot of Reese Lansangan's St. Petersburg (about giving the listener the time and space to wander) and Easier (a song for her fan-community: I know I can’t change the world to make it better, no / I can’t heal the wounds / But I can proudly show you how I bruise).

St. Petersburg in particular is one I remember accompanying me when I felt sad and overwhelmed, so much that I have an embarrassing blog entry about it from 2016. (And I'm highly reccing the MV if you want the island + community + FOOD experience and a true sense of space and light, and not just the idealized aesthetic hehehe (it's pretty much a travelogue set to music)

+I've been listening to Easier a lot lately!




I spent September and October making lyric videos of ZXC's other tracks (all compiled here) and at this point I'm ready to retire my Youtube channel lol??? I've been feeling extremely non-fandom-y and lately I want to go back to personal journaling; my planner is nothing but boring and increasingly long daily to-do-lists now and I think it's affecting me. I need quiet time and visual stimulation!!!!!

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Time Concert: Old Friends

A list of ep2 things!

It is revealed that G.E.M. almost declined to join the show (at Jason Zhang's invitation) because she was nervous about having to sing covers; she attributes the success of her songs to the people who wrote and produced them for her, declaring her own singing quite ordinary. (+ She debuted early and never had the chance to play around with music or do covers, it seems.)

Ella is very consistent in her advice to just enjoy the time onstage. :') It's very sweet and it makes me glad to know that she likes performing!

Tank talks about how his older sister always fully supported his decision to pursue music (whereas their parents objected) until she passed away from heart problems. :( If I Become a Memory was written for her. And he talks about how Ella always made him feel safe and reminds him of his sister. Their siblingly dynamic is so sweet and cute!

ELLA, using her normal outside voice:
SO? NOT NERVOUS ANYMORE, ARE YOU? :D :D :D

TANK, embarrassed and long-suffering:
Can you lower your voice!!!

Personal Angel transforming from a song written for Hana Kimi to a very personal one about his sister, his friends, and all the people who've given him strength and watched over him. ;___; And Ella singing it with him because he still had stage trauma, and it turned out to be such a lovely duet, one I loved before knowing the context of their performance. I guess it makes sense for Ella to be so natural with harmonies since she used to be in a girl group, but her voice really is so smooth and unique. ;___;

Roy Wang (TFBOYS) telling Tank that Personal Angel had also given him strength. He has covered it before (Tank, smiling: "I saw.") and the covers helped him get fans.