If you want to search for previous chapters, feel free to visit My KPOP Memories Timeline ~ 3rd July 2015 (Friday) MINX(pre-DREAMCATCHER) finally announced that they going to comeback with new song "Love Shake" and join the summer girl groups war! It had been 6 months already since the MINX 100th day fan meeting, and I finally at Korea again. My flight reached at Friday morning, after settling my stay at a guesthouse, I went to KBS to join the Music Bank recording. While lining up for MINX and waiting to enter Music Bank, I met up with friend C (the same friend at 100th day fan meeting), and by his introductions, I made new friends which is friend W from Singapore and friend J from Taiwan. There were less than 10 people that lining up for MINX, and more than half of the fans were foreigners! Luckily not many fans lining up, and since that time was summer girl groups war, not many famous boy groups promoting, so all MINX fans received entrance tickets. I was so happy to be able to witness MINX's Love Shake stage with my own eyes inside Music Bank!! After Music Bank ended, we all went to the back door of KBS, thinking to wait for MINX to come out. After seeing some famous groups came out, we finally saw Sua and Siyeon came out from KBS building with their manager, but they were not walking toward back door, instead going front door! Oh no! They were going front door from inside KBS area, so it was near. But we who already out from KBS area, we will be blocked by the guards if intended to enter again, so in order of us to reach the front door, we needed to walk around the whole KBS for half a circle! Friend C and friend J quickly ran towards the front door from outside of KBS, hoping to take at least a few pictures of MINX exiting. As for me, since I am old.......... No.......... I meant since I didn't have camera, can't really take pictures, plus there will be a small fan meeting tomorrow after Music Core ended, so now didn't see MINX also never mind. I walked toward front door with my own pace, while both of my friends ran so fast that totally out of my sights. When I reached the corner, I turned my head to look at KBS building again, and saw Jiu, Yoohyeon, Dami and another female manager coming out! Instead of going front door, they were walking toward the back door that we waited just now! Since my bias was Jiu, so I quickly turned back to the KBS back door again, anxiously waiting for them to come out, while wondering did they still remember me or not....... The female manager walked out through the back door, then followed by Jiu, Yoohyeon and Dami. “Annyeong hasaeyo!” I raised my right hand and said hi to Jiu. "OH!" Jiu's lips became a big O shape after she saw me and realized that I was the foreigner fan last time. Then Yoohyeon appeared from behind with smiley face and said to me:"Oraemani aeyo!"(long time no see)
Since Dami was too behind, so I didn't know how was her reaction, but yeah according to her personality, I don't think so she will have any big reaction seeing me.... Anyway I already very happy that Jiu and Yoohyeon remember me that time!!! After seeing them went into the car and left, I ended my happy Friday by having a nice meal with friend C and J. Since there was an announcement that MINX will be doing a small fan meeting the next day after Music Core, so I was very excited for it. However, that time I still didn't know that during the fan meeting.... because of a question that I prepared for fun, I changed my bias from Jiu to.............. Thanks for reading.
MIXNINE 1st round performances are the battles between male team and female team, so they took turns to perform on stage. Actually I felt quite relieved, because I was able to take shorter time to watch and write my thoughts about it~ A few songs were provided by MIXNINE for all participants to choose.
Berry Good member Jiwon appeared for awhile~ she chose Rap song, but I think her performance need to wait until next episode....... First round was the vocal battle between male and female team.
Kim Yoohyeon appeared for awhile~ but still.... very very very few screen time......
And the female team lost.............-_-") Next round is Rap Battle~
Finally Dami appeared~ One of her teammate is actually:
Berry Good member Daye~ See Daye~ When she first joined the team she smiled so happily~ but then........ .................. .................
Even the happy virus Daye also too stressful until........... By the way A.de member Haeyoung who was same team with them:
Her rap is very good! Of course, Dami is very good too:
So cool!! The voting result:
Lost............. Not even half the points that male team received..........ㅠ_ㅠ Last round is Dance Battle, see the female team:
Okay, maybe can't see clearly. Here are the aces:
Plus HUB Rui, 4 elites~ MIXNINE was so kind to show their individual points to us:
Jiu....... only lost to Ryujin by 10 points~ So this team which gathered some aces:
Finally won against the male team! Congratulations!! The rest of the performances need to wait until next episode....... About the online voting ranking:
Bonus Baby member Hayoon improved greatly, jumped from 47 to NO.30. Polaris trainee Choi Hayoung also jumped from 35 to NO.26, Berry Good member Shin Jiwon jumped from 33 to NO.25~ Wow... Screen times did help a lot in voting. While the top9:
Lee Sujin finally advanced into top 9 by kicking out Lee Hyangsuk~ The ranking of Beak Hyeonju, Kim Minji and Kim Hyunjin all dropped a bit, last week really not enough screen time for them..... Jeon Heejin who received a lot of screen times rose to NO.5, then Choi Moonhee also advanced greatly into NO.4!! That's all for today, for me this MIXNINE is just..............."COMPLICATED" Thanks for reading.
For me, this episode is just fantastic! First is because everyone had longer time to prepare for the performances, so they are more well prepared comparing with the My Turn stages. Second is because everyone was like still in warming up stage during MV mission, but now they clearly know that they will get eliminated if they don't do well, so they are more desperate and put more efforts in the mission. So the starting of this episode, is just a dancing battle, (I suspect other position battles might show at future episodes.) I think KBS purposely let some male contestants to appear on the screen, so that the boy group fans will not complain, since the performances by male participants will only be aired at next week. Talking about male participants, I feel like the ending date of 1st voting period which is at 3rd December is not good for the male participants. Their performances will only be aired at 2nd December, so some who did well but having higher probability to get eliminated, might not have enough time to be saved by voting...... For female dance battle, Mint won 1st place with 90 votes, Lee Juhyon is 2nd place with 87 votes, while Good Day member Viva is 3rd place with 85 votes. The difference of votes are not big though, well done Viva!! During the dance battle:
Laboum Haein and Good Day Chaesol are totally reaction queens~ hehehehe~ Then the Restart Mission finally started! Everyone is allowed to choose one of the 7 songs that provided, but if too many people chose the same song, they will do a voting to decide who stay who leave. And then are the performances that we long awaited for! First to be aired is Black Team:
NCA is the main character of Black Team, she received a lot of screen times, and the voting result by live audiences:
Congratulations for NCA for beating strong opponent Lee Hyunjoo and won 1st place!! However Good Day member Genie.......
Frankly speaking I was shocked. I went to Good Day fansign events a few times, and Genie always gave me a vibe of strong and carefree feeling, so when seeing her tears dropped, I........ㅠ_ㅠ Genie don't cry, your votes are quite a lot if comparing with 9th place from other teams~ I personally hope that Genie will not get eliminated after the 1st voting period.......... Next is Blue Team:
They are all actress. They acted and did a prank to celebrate Yuna Kim's birthday~ and the live audiences voting result:
Congratulations to Hyosun for beating strong opponents like Euijin and Yuna Kim, Blue Team 1st place is yours! I have a feeling that she might get into top5 of the online voting next week~ I personally think that Good Day Viva did well too, (yeah I am biased) please support her~ I also changed my mind at Baby Boo member Dabin, her singing is good~ yeah damn good~~ Next is Yellow Team:
The main character of this team is definitely the leader Miss Yoonjo, she received a lot of screen times during practice sessions. And the live audiences voting result:
Congratulations to Miss Yoonjo for beating strong opponent Somyi and received 1st place! The problem is votes received by this team are quite low, according to my calculation, this team definitely can't get no.1 in this mission. Well.... All powerful rappers and vocals went to other groups~ They will aired some comments about Yellow Team by the participants:
Wow, is like trying to create antis for them, the editing is so evil. Next is Orange Team:
Frankly speaking, when I first saw the line up:
I laughed~ Their heights are all almost the same, so cute~~~ However even they are cute, but the dance expert still very strict, even gave a "slap" in Jiwon's face:
See, her smile was frozen....... Then during the performances......... Jiwon ah, I know you are hungry for the screen time, but this:
I think you stick your face too close with Yebin........ I think you worked hard and hoped for more screen time, but this time you just worked too hard, is not good if you offended Dia's fans. The live audiences voting result:
The smiling of the 1st place：
Actually Jiwon's smile a bit awkward actually, since the 9th place is her teammate....... The crying face of the 9th place:
I started to think that Lucky's image as a cry baby might win herself a lot of votes, I am looking forward for next week online voting result~ Anyway, congratulations to Jiwon for beating strong opponents like Yebin and Suji, the 1st place is yours! I suddenly have a feeling that.... Jiwon might rose to 10th or 11st place at next week online voting result, she might even advanced into top9, but maybe a bit hard....... Next is Green Team:
They were a bit overconfident at first, but after being lectured by the senior, they worked harder and obtained a very good result:
Congratulations to Yang Jiwon!! Because of this performance, I started to change my mind about Areum and Joo, they did well. Also, finally Bestie Hyeyeon and Good Day Heejin had the chance to show their singing skill!! Next is White Team:
Too many rappers in this team......... The poor Laboum member Haein was forced to give up some of her parts for the Rappers, see her reluctant facial expression:
The voting result：
Congratulations to Melody Day Yeoeun! Previously I thought that Bomi is a black holoe, but I changed my mind after watching this performance. Bomi's rap left a deep impression at me. Then Matilda Saemi and Seol Hayoon both are good too~ Last is the Red Team:
At first, Laboum ZN, Dal Shabet Woohee, Good Day Chaesol, this 3 girls were fighting to be babo.... no.... I meant for singing the "babo" part, and it was funny.
LOL at the words on Chaesol, it is wrote there "next babo is waiting"~ Then SIS Anne sleeping part, I laughed too:
Gee~ Gee~ Z~zzzzz Since when the Gee symbolizes Zzzzz~ By the way Laboum Yujeong and ZN you two:
You two not scared that might wake Anne up? hehehehe~ The voting result:
Congratulations to Woohee! And Sandy........aiks........ she is so pretty and cute~ Finally I finished writing about all 7 stages, next week are performances by male participants, so maybe I will take a rest? I think the popularity of newbie groups like Good Day, HUB and SIS did increase because of The Unit, no matter how the final result will be, I guess they already achieved the early reason for joining The Unit. Next let's take a look at the ranking of online voting:
Someone left the show, aiks........ Then Good Day member Genie rose 10 places to NO.49, her mistake on previous episode brought her more votes? Matilda member Saebyeol rose 12 places to NO.45. Acemax-Red member Lena also rose 9 places to NO.39. Will these 3 girls continue to rise up next week?
I am shocked to see that SIS member Anne didn't rise after receiving so many screen times last week........ Then Kang Minhee dropped 11 places until NO.31, Dal Shabet Serri also dropped 16 places until NO.29, What happened? Is it because of not enough screen times? Then Lee Borim rose 19 places to NO.25! She received a lot of screen times last week........ Melody Day Yoomin also rose 9 places to NO.23. Joo who didn't do well last week, dropped out from top9, NO.11 now.
For the top9, congratulations to Lee Suji for rising up to NO.9~ Lee Hyunjoo rose to NO.6 while Euijin rose to NO.2~ Frankly speaking not a lot of changes between top9. This meant that their votes are quite stable, so here comes the question. If they keep receiving a lot of screen times because of voting, then this whole show will not has any suspense anymore, the audiences might get bored watching it, since the top9 always the same persons, no need to watch.... I think KBS should distribute some screen times for NO.10 to NO.20, so that some of them can actually challenge the top9, create some rivals, make the show to be more interesting~ For example, those cutie members like Somyi, Jiwon, Lucky, can try to challenge the cuteness of Lee Hyunjoo. Or can let Yujeong, Seol Hayoon, Yeoeun try to challenge those vocals in top9. If not, I am quite confirmed that the current top9 will most likely be the final 9 winners. Thanks for reading. Please LIKE My Facebook Page& FOLLOWMy Twitterto make sure you are always updated with the blog~ Previous articles: KBS The Unit: My thoughts about evil editing & My Turn stages(orange, white, yellow, red) KBS The Unit: My thoughts about evil editing and team performances(black,blue,green team) KBS The Unit: my impression about Sonamoo Euijin KBS The Unit: my review about episode7,8 Memories with AOA chapter2
