4 Cutest K-Pop Boy Group Character Series That Melt Fans’ Heart

Recently, many K-Pop idol groups are launching their character series, which are created based on the representative animals or facial features of each member.

These characters are often featured on various occasions such as concerts and fan meetings, and some idol groups even produce exclusive animation contents for the characters and open pop-up store selling merchandise of these character series. Some K-Pop fans joked that these characters are becoming more popular than their “parents” that they are making comebacks more often than them! 

Many of these character series are gaining immense popularity among K-Pop fans due to their cute appearances that portray the image and personality of their respective idols in an adorable way. Here are 4 cutest K-Pop boy group character series that capture fans’ hearts with their irresistible cuteness that make you want to take them home! 

1. CRAVITY – CCREW

CRAVITY‘s character series CCREW consist of 9 animals including pig + wolf Woolpi (SeRim), penguin Queeni (Allen), tiger Rangmo (JungMo), quokka Wookka (WooBin), duck Dakong (WonJin), gimbap+dog Gangmong (MinHee), puppy+cloud Teori (HyeongJun), dragon Yong-T (TaeYoung), and rabbit Tommy (SeongMin).

CCREW were first introduced to LUVITY in November 2021 at CRAVITY’s fan meeting <CRAVITY COLLECTION: C-DELIVERY>, and the characters’ merchandise were on sale starting in January 2022. 

What makes this character series particularly special is that all the members participated in creating the characters. Before CCREW were officially launched, CRAVITY revealed the entire process of creating CCREW through a YouTube series “CRAVITY character maker”, from brainstorming the characters from scratch, picking the colors of the characters, to presenting the final products to one another.

The fact that CCREW are made by the members not only showcased their creativity and personal styles, but also made LUVITY feel more connected to the characters. 

CCREW also often appeared in CRAVITY’s online content, such as CRAVITY’s variety show <CRAVITY PARK>. In season 5 “Crew Chase” special episodes (ep.56 & 57), the members played a pursuit game where they were divided into the attacking and defending team, and the defending team had to find their CCREW plushies and put them into the CCREW Zone.

CCREW even appeared in the opening and ending in season 7. Moreover, every time when CRAVITY have pre-recording performances, they would post a photo on X (Twitter) showing the location for checking-in with a CCREW plushie. The CCREW plushie sometimes even holds a mini Remembong (CRAVITY’s official light stick)! Isn’t this so cute? 

2. Stray Kids – SKZOO

Stray Kids announced their official character series SKZOO in December 2020, and SKZOO made their physical debut in the form of plushies and figures merchandise in February 2021.

The 8 characters include wolf Wolf Chan (Bang Chan), rabbit LeeBit (Lee Know), pig + rabbit Dwaekki (ChangBin), ferret Jiniret (HyunJin), quokka Han Quokka (Han), chick BbokAri (Felix), puppy PuppyM (SeungMin), and desert fox FoxI.Ny (I.N). 

Since Stray Kids performed ‘God’s Menu’ in life-sized SKZOO costumes at the “SKZ-X” fanmeeting in February 2021, SKZOO have become a common guest in Stray Kids’ fan meetings and concerts. In Stray Kids’ latest “dominATE” world tour, SKZOO even appeared as huge balloons, and many STAY said that these SKZOO balloons looked absolutely adorable with huge heads and tiny bodies! 

Apart from live shows, SKZOO are also featured in various channels. From 2023 to 2024, KakaoTalk launched SKZOO emoticons packs in line with their new album releases.

SKZOO was even found in a special animation on Google to celebrate STAY’s birthday, a special animation was added to Google on August 1, 2024.

On that day, after typing “Stray Kids” or “SKZ” in the search bar, an animation displaying a crowd waving Nachimbongs (Stray Kids’ official light stick) and holding a SKZOO plushie of the member whose voice saying Stray Kids’ slogan “Stray Kids everywhere all around the world” appeared. Just like Stray Kids, SKZOO are also “everywhere around the world”! 

SKZOO are not only cute, but they are also very talented dancers. Stray Kids released several SKZOO animated music videos for some of Stray Kids’ title tracks like ‘God’s Menu’, ‘S-Class’, and ‘Chk Chk Boom’. The music videos reenacted the scenes from the original versions perfectly, and characters’ dance moves and facial expressions are just the same as their dads’! 

3. ATEEZ – ANITEEZ 

ATEEZ introduced their official character series ANITEEZ in January 2024 with the teaser video “ANYone know ATEEZ?”.

The 8 characters comprise of squirrel JJOONGrami (HongJoong), rabbit DDEONGbyeoli (SeongHwa), golden retriever TYUdeongi (YunHo), maltese HETmongi (YeoSang), purple cat SANdeoki (San), chick bbyongMING (MinGi), black cat WOOYOnyang (WooYoung), and JJONGbear (JongHo). 

Besides having lovely appearances, ANITEEZ also have very cute voices, that they speak in an “alien language” resembling Animal Crossing’s characters.

Like Stray Kids, ATEEZ also dressed in their respective ANITEEZ characters’ costumes during their “ATINY’S VOYAGE FROM A TO Z” fan meeting in July 2024, and the members talked in a cute voices like ANITEEZ using voice-changing microphones. Many ANITY commented that the members talking to each other with ANITEEZ’s voice was very cute and funny! 

ATEEZ also made various animation content for ANITEEZ in line with the characters’ pop-up store events, featuring interesting storylines such as the characters going on adventures across the sea and desert, resonating with ATEEZ’s pirate kings concept.

The latest animation featured the characters entering the set of ‘Say My Name’ music video, which aligned with the “ANITEEZ X #ANITEEZ POP-UP EXHIBITION & STORE” event in August this year.

Also, in 2024, ATEEZ posted a short video during each member’s birthday with ANITEEZ characters delivering birthday messages to their respective members. The characters looked really lovely and sweet celebrating their dad’s birthday! 

4. PLAVE – MMMM

Most K-Pop idol character series are animals, but some of them are different. PLAVE’s characters MMMM (meumemimu) are creatures from Caelum (the virtual world where PLAVE are from according to PLAVE’s worldview) that are made of data, pixels, and starshards.

The creatures are called MMMM because they make sounds like meu, me, mi, and mu, the pronunciation is also the same as replacing the consonants of each word of the Korean name of PLAVE (peu-le-i-beu). 

MMMM consist of five characters, namely Meymu (YeJun), Moi (Noah) , Miimu (Bamby), Muhmo (EunHo), Meowmi (HaMin). As you might have already noticed, same as the name of MMMM, all the characters’ names are created by changing the consonants of each word of the members name. Isn’t this interesting?

MMMM made their first appearance in January 2025 during PLAVE’s live broadcast. Look how cute MMMM walked (0:24) and teleported themselves around by transforming into pixels (1:42)!

PLAVE also took MMMM to “Idol Radio”, and the host THE BOYZ’s SunWoo was completely shocked when he saw MMMM coming into the studio (3:37). Many PLLI said that their reaction was the same as his when they first saw MMMM, did you also react in the same way?

PLAVE also took MMMM abroad to their showcase in Japan in June 2025, where they introduced MMMM to Japanese PLLI. MMMM even stood on the shoulders of their respective members, and the members patting their MMMM characters and interacting with them were truly lovely, not to mention how Bamby drove all PLLI into a frenzy by kissing Miimu at the end (3:30)!  

Which of the above K-Pop idol character series is your favorite, and are there any other group’s character series you think are cute as well? Let us know in the comments!