Le Sserafim Documentary: The World Is My Oyster (2022)

Le Sserafim is one of the group that the debut is i look forward to. Since there's 2 ex-Izone members, Sakura & Chaewon, and PD48 trainee, Huh Yunjin. Despite the controversies, their debut was amazing! I love all of the songs in the album. It's been months after the release and I still didn't get tired listening to their songs.

After watching this I'm amazed by all of the girls bravery. This documentary shows that debuting under big company doesn't mean they had it easy, they go through so much and work harder for better results to get where they are now.

It's amazing how Kazuha could keep up with the other girls within short training period. Sakura finally getting a proper training where she could improve her skills. Chaewon could show different side of her than the ones she shows during izone days, Yunjin could finally perform on stage, and Eunchae could also show her potential despite her young age. They have great dynamic together and really living up to their name, FEARLESS.
For Haruka, seeing how the mentors compliment her seems like she had great potential. I hope she could also debut soon.

Other impressing thing is the editing. If i wasn't a fan of the group, i would've thought it's originally 5 membered group. But for those who knows, you could notice there are lots of scenes that oddly zoomed in and the awkwardly edited interviews.

For the question why did they have to edit Garam out, my speculation it's because Garam is no longer in the company. So it's illegal to show her, it would've create backlash and she could sue the company since they're making profit of her without her being in the company.
I understand for those reasons they couldn't show her. But imagine how interesting it would be if they allow the girls to talk about Garam, what kind of relationship they had and how they went through all of the scandal.

Overall i love this documentary, it's just 20 minutes long with 4 episodes. If you're a new fan or you just like Le Sserafim in general. I'd recommend this.

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Meet the fearless Le Sserafim

Le Sserafim is one of those rare groups that keeps me coming back for more. Honestly, I get tired of songs pretty easily and after a dozen plays or so, I usually remove them from my playlist. But they debuted back in May and I still listen to their mini album almost everyday. However, even though I've been absolutely obsessed with their music since debut, I couldn't really find the time to get to know the members a little better. I'm a 27 year old who loves kpop, but like pretty much everyone my age, I have a job and responsibilities that usually get in the way of binge watching all the content kpop groups release all the time.
Once I saw this on YouTube, I had to check out more about the group that completely won over my ears (and heart) in 2022. It's a pretty easy watch, only four 20-minute episodes, so it's perfect for fans who don't have a lot of time in their hands.
I really enjoyed the honest and emotional approach the documentary has, it made me appreciate these girls, and idols in general, much more. It's not an easy job AT ALL, it may seem glamourous and all, but idols work so hard and they go through so much, from endless exhausting practice sessions to dealing with the public eye and judgement, they really stuggle, and the documentary showed all of that in a very touching manner.
I love how they showed that basically all members had the option to not choose this life, Chaewon and Sakura could have just enjoyed the fame and money from their IZ*ONE days, Kazuha could have persued a career in ballet, Yunjin could have stayed in the USA and gone to college, Eunchae could've carried on being a regular student and stayed in her comfort zone being so young and all, but they were all FEARLESS and worked super hard to debut as Le Sserafim. I'm definitely a Fearnot from now on.

PS: Imagine all the trouble they went through to delete Kim Garam from everything? No idea how they pulled that off, but the editing team deserves a lot of praise.

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