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30 minutes ago
- Forbes
SM Entertainment Stock Jump August 4: BoA, Aespa, Chanyeol Comebacks
SM Entertainment stock popped up nearly five percent on Monday, August 4 following milestone releases and announcements from some of the K-pop company's representative artists. According to final reports from the Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (KOSDAQ) trading board, SM Entertainment stock closed at 135,600 Korean won (nearly $98), gaining 6,100 KRW for the day to deliver a 4.71% jump. The healthy pop comes as BoA releases her 11th 11th full-length album, Crazier, on Monday, marking her 25th anniversary in the K-pop industry in a landmark career where her work helped establish SM not only as a powerhouse in its native Korea but also in Japan, where BoA has seven Number One albums. The title track single 'Crazier' sees the K-diva embrace a playful country-rock sound with lyrical declarations pointing to her longevity in the scene: 'Hear you talking loud but I'll get louder / You should know by now but I don't ever run away… / It's a crazy world, I've seen it all, but guess what? / I'm crazier.' BoA co-wrote and co-produced 'Crazier' while also contributing to a handful of songs across the new album including penning the seductive dance track 'It Takes Two' and the moody, acoustic-guitar-led 'How Could' as the sole songwriter. Beyond new BoA, SM Entertainment and its artists shared other major announcements that have seemingly sparked interest in investors. Chart-topping girl group aespa shared that their upcoming EP titled Rich Man will be released next month. The quartet has established themselves as reliable hitmakers with nearly all of their singles reaching the Top 10 of South Korea's charts. The 2025 Billboard Women in Music honoreees' latest single, 'Dirty Work' from June this year, is still a Top 10 hit in Korea while also charting on the Billboard Global 200. But aespa's 2024 tracks like 'Whiplash,' 'Supernova,' 'Armageddon,' and 'UP' are also lasting chart hits today showing the staying power of the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 stars. The physical single release of 'Dirty Work' also moved just over one million physical copies this year with an EP likely to produce at least a million copies as well given aespa's 2024 releases (1.6 million albums sold for Armageddon since its May release and 1.3 million for Whiplash since November). Rich Man drops in full on September 5. Meanwhile, Chanyeol of the popular boy band EXO also announced new music. The new EP titled Upside Down drops before the month's end. While the 32-year-old has been releasing solo music for over a decade through different movie, television and collaboration projects, it was only last year that Chanyeol released his first official project via his Black Out EP that moved over 415,000 physical copies globally. According to an announcement poster, Chanyeol is gearing up to release at least two new music videos from the album as well as deliver live performances post-release. And while it wasn't an official release from the company itself, KEY of long-beloved boy band SHINee shared over the weekend during his performance at KCON 2025 Los Angeles that his Keyland tour would be hitting the U.S. this year as well. SM Entertainment has also shared plans for new music this year from more of its artists including JOY, Haechan, NCT 127, NCT WISH and more. SM's jump on the KOSDAQ continues its momentum shown in 2025 so far. SM Entertainment stock is up nearly 90% year-to-date.
Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Yahoo
Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu "huge breasts" during localization according to The Pokemon Company's CEO, who "won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live"
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Apparently Nintendo of America wanted to give Pikachu… and I quote… "huge breasts" during the localization of Pokemon. Localization is a delicate process, some things that make sense in one region may not translate to another, not even on the actual act of translation either. A prominent example is Kirby looking pissed on the cover of every game for the American box art but being his usual cute Kirby self in Japan, or the Crash Bandicoot covers in Japan which were wildly different from the by comparison edgier US design. And turns out Pokemon had a redesign suggested that may have changed the way we see the games forever. In an interview with Nintendo from around the launch of Pokemon Gold and Silver (uncovered by Game*Spark and translated by Automaton), The Pokemon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara said: "When I first showed Pokemon to them, they told me it was too cute. The staff at Nintendo of America then suggested their own designs for the characters – I won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live." Ishihara added that "they kind of looked like the characters from the Cats musical. So, for example, Pikachu was changed into a character shaped like a kind of a tabby cat with huge breasts." When asked if it was akin to women who do Pikachu cosplay at conventions, Ishihara said: "They presented that kind of design to us for real. I thought it was interesting, in a sense of appreciating such cultural differences. However, I didn't want to compete in the [overseas] market with that kind of thing." Pokemon already caused all manner of controversy when they first arrived, with some even calling it satanic, so was the world ready to see Pikachu with breasts? Were other Pokemon going to get human anatomy added onto them? What exactly is Diglett? These are the questions we have avoided by The Pokemon Company standing its ground and saying no to a stacked Pikachu, and we're better off for it. Pokemon TCG Pocket pulls card art after apologizing for plagiarizing an illustration that an artist posted 4 years ago, leaving us with an unintentionally hilarious placeholder. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Yahoo
The Pokemon Company begs TCG Pocket fans not to blame artist behind plagiarized Ho-Oh, takes full responsibility after removing it
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Pokemon Company has taken responsibility for the Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket plagiarism, and has asked that fans not criticize the artist over the situation. Pokemon TCG Pocket's Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion had a bit of a rocky launch as it was uncovered that card art for a new Ho-Oh EX card was plagiarized from a piece of fan art, resulting in a kind of hilarious card design being implemented in the meantime simply showing text saying "New art coming soon." However, in the time since, The Pokemon Company has put out a further statement about the situation, explaining where the issue stemmed from. In a Tweet posted on the PokemonTCGP_JP account (translated via Automaton and machine translation), The Pokemon Company says, "Regarding the previously announced issue with the Ho-Oh EX (3-star) and Lugia EX (3-star) illustrations – it has come to our attention that there is criticism towards the cards' illustrator circulating online." It adds, "The illustration errors were caused by the production teams of The Pokémon Company and Creatures Inc, who provided incorrect materials as official documents to the illustrator, and we intend to take full responsibility for it." Effectively, the artist was commissioned by The Pokemon Company to create a reworked version of art supplied to them, meaning the fan-art that the card's design had taken from was given to the artist by The Pokemon Company itself. The tweet also asks fans to "strictly refrain from criticizing or slandering the illustrator in question" and says the company will "strive for more through quality control" in the future to avoid a similar situation. Nintendo of America suggested giving Pikachu "huge breasts" during localization according to The Pokemon Company's CEO, who "won't show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live." Solve the daily Crossword
