Upcoming Girl Group’s Debut Album Design Faces Backlash For Looking Similar To NewJeans

What are your thoughts on this?

Recently, the upcoming girl group izna, under WAKEONE Entertainment, released photos of their debut mini-album, N/a.

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However, netizens felt that the album design seemed very familiar…

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…especially the individual member albums.

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Many netizens felt that it looked very similar to NewJeans‘ album design for OMG.

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Korean netizens felt that this wasn’t just similar, but more of a copy-and-paste situation.

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• “Literally NewJeans dupes everywhere.”
• “This is really too much?”
• “They really do look similar…”
• “I was anticipating the new group…but this is way too similar.”
• “This is literally copy and paste?”
• “It’s actually a bit too similar?”
• “What’s going on here now.”
• “It is really similar, but the style and details are a bit different.”
• “Wow this is too extreme.”

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• “This is going overboard.”
• “You could literally just say they are the same album.”
• “It looks like they just switched out the photos.”
• “Can K-Pop do nothing without NewJeans?”
• “What is this.”
• “It looks like something fan-made.”
• “What company are they from?”
• “It could’ve looked different if they just took out the white font.”
• “Are you kidding me? I can understand if it looks a little but the same, but this is…”

On the other hand, the group is set to make its debut on November 25.