Track: I Am Not Alone | Artist: SoRi | Album: I Am Not Alone (single) Kotaku East East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. SoRi’s I Am Not Alone is a breath of raw, fresh, emotional air in a K-Pop landscape that often seems suffocated by expectations. Too much in K-Pop, choreography is shackled by rules and guidelines, bound by the realities of line distribution, group formation, and the television camera. (In some cases, idols may even perform a separate version of choreo specially edited for broadcasts.) Very rarely does choreography exude such confident, raw emotion and evocative, sensual movement as it does in I Am Not Alone, but against all odds, it does. Maybe SoRi’s background has something to do with the sheer spectacle of I Am Not Alone. Before striking out solo, SoRi used to be part of a duo group called CocoSori—and performed songs like, well, these:...
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Platforms: PC, PS4 Reviewed On: PC Developer: Ovosonico Publisher: 505 Games Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Review code provided free of charge by the publisher. Videogames don’t often affect me emotionally outside of making me annoyed or happy because I’m having fun. But The Last Day of June hit me in the feels. There weren’t any tears, yet I did walk away in a contemplative frame of mind. I was invested in the story it wanted to tell, a story of heartfelt love and terrible loss, of learning to accept, of sacrifice and of grief. That’s impressive because The Last Day of June doesn’t contain any form of dialogue, rather its small cast of strangely eyeless characters communicate solely through sighs, moans, giggles and other little sounds that work with the wonderful animations to give them more personality than most games with massive runtimes, budgets and voice actors ever manage. Part of this boils down to simplicity; without any voice acting emotions are kept simple and ...
Track: You And I | Artist: Dreamcatcher | Album: Escape The ERA Kotaku East East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am. If there was an award for “Song That Would Be Perfect For An Anime Opening”, Dreamcatcher’s You And I would be an immediate contender. Dreamcatcher is one of those groups that are currently treading water in that grey zone between unqualified success and abject failure; their releases never blow it out of the park, but garner enough fans, streams and sales with each passing promotion cycle to keep the group chugging along. Somewhat uniquely among girl groups, Dreamcatcher likes to focus on rock and even a tinge of heavy metal, as You And I’s powerful instrumentals attest. That influence can be readily seen from their debut song, Chase Me, and onward, with title tracks like Full Moon and What continuing that theme. Incidentally, Dreamcatcher’s You ...