MOA, we are so back! We’re officially in TOMORROW X TOGETHER comeback season! TXT have announced that their sixth mini album, minisode 3: TOMORROW, will drop on the first of April! We haven’t heard a preview or seen a single concept photo yet, and our heads are already spinning.
And the reason for our awe and confusion? TXT’s minisode 3: TOMORROW concept trailer. It’s well-established that tubatu always have epic, cinematic trailers whose audiences extend beyond MOA – just look at the ones they created for MAGIC, FREEZE, and The Name Chapter. The TOMORROW trailer is glorious, and we hope it continues to get the praise it deserves. It’s eerie yet sweet, complex yet quiet, and has genuinely blown our minds.
We truly believe it’s their best concept trailer yet, and we’re clearly not the only ones who think so! minisode 3: TOMORROW quickly became the most viewed concept trailer by a 4th Gen Boy group in 24 hours. We’ll admit we’re partially responsible for the record-breaking 3,744,655 views, as we’re absolutely obsessed with this video. Every time we watch it, we see something new that reminds us of The Little Prince or a moment in TXT’s career. There are plenty of MOA out there who are far smarter than we are, but here is every single hint and clue we managed to find in TXT’s minisode 3: TOMORROW concept trailer!
Note: This article contains spoilers for the concept trailer, duh!
A Fox Named TOMORROW
Where better to start than with the name TOMORROW?! TXT spent 2023 in their Name Chapter, succumbing to temptation and then returning to reality. Now, they’ve found their literal name, and it’s…a fennec fox?
In the story of The Little Prince, he befriends a fox who teaches him about treasure, friendship, and establishing ties with the people and things that you love. In TXT’s reimagining of the tale, they are the princes, and it seems that MOA are represented by the fox named TOMORROW.
At the start of the trailer, TXT have seemingly just landed (or have free-fallen…) in this world and forgotten both our name and their own. They discover the fox in a museum and vaguely recognize its significance, “I no longer remember your name.” In the magical world, they had adored the fox, swaddling it in Yeonjun’s scarf to protect it from the desert sand. In this realm, it takes them a long time to remember it, with the members covering for Yeonjun whilst he steals the fox from the museum. Luckily, the fox is understanding, “I’ve never stopped waiting for you.” The fox is always waiting for the princes, just like MOA will always wait for tubatu!
One thing we’ll admit we don’t understand, though, is where does the fox go? During the big heist, it sits at Yeonjun’s feet on the moped, but in the next shot, it’s vanished. Where did TOMORROW go?
The Little Prince
If you want to see all of The Little Prince parallels, then you need to see this fan edit. It’s so good that even The Little Prince‘s official social accounts have shared it.
If you come at four o’clock in the afternoon, then by three o’clock, I shall begin to be happy
The fox to the prince in The Little Prince
TXT debuted on the fourth of March… 0304… are you seeing what we’re seeing?
We’re lowkey blown away by how many references there are in this six-minute clip, but that’s not to say MOA didn’t already have their suspicions. We’ve had our eyes on The Little Prince since TXT’s end-of-year stages, especially at the GDAs, where they performed with fox masks and a rose. What, admittedly, did go over our heads is the album title. We should’ve seen minisode 3: TOMORROW coming when TXT literally put the word TOMORROW across the screen in massive letters. But we’re not perfect, we guess.
The Five Princes
The dreamiest scene in the trailer is in the woodlands, with the members dancing around a small red chair. This mirrors the day that The Little Prince watched the sunset 44 times because he was so sad, just dragging his chair slightly across his tiny planet. Even the color of the chair matches the one in Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s original drawings, proving once again that TXT and their team never leave anything to coincidence.
In the new ‘real’ world, TXT meets a cruel fate. They’ve swapped imagination for responsibilities, as shown by their IRL jobs, like Yeonjun flipping burgers. However, not all their childlike joy and curiosity have disappeared. In the scene where Beomgyu is being interrogated by the detective, the detective wears tinted glasses, while Beomgyu’s are clear. ‘Tinted glasses’ in Korean (색안경) is used to describe someone who is predisposed to see things negatively. (Kinda the opposite of ‘rose-tinted glasses’ in English). We have to credit this find to Sol on Twitter, but it really got us thinking. The detective, who represents adulthood, doesn’t believe in magic and can’t see the things that the little princes can see.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The fox to the prince in The Little Prince
TXT’s Discography
The Little Prince isn’t the only thing that TXT references in the minisode 3: TOMORROW trailer; it’s stacked with the group’s discography, too. The most obvious takes us again to the woodland scene, where TXT dance to an acoustic version of ‘Dreamer.’ We need the full version, and we need it now.
The second clearest reference takes us all the way back to TXT’s debut and the ‘Nap of a star’ music video, where we see Yeonjun buried under his duvet, looking startlingly like the drawing on the very first page of The Little Prince, which shows a snake just after it’s eaten an elephant. This was the narrator’s foolproof method of distinguishing grown-ups who had lost their imagination and those who hadn’t.
In fact, their ‘name’ has cropped up time and time again in TXT’s lore music videos, from ‘Magic Island’ to masterpiece ‘Eternally.’ They even start running at exactly 5:53 in the concept trailer, which explains why Beomgyu had to adlib his line with the detective without making the scene any longer. Nothing left to chance!
In addition to referencing their history, the minisode 3: TOMORROW trailer basically recaps the entirety of The Name Chapter before setting us up for the new era. The members experienced a loss of innocence, exacerbated by temptation, and now that they’ve recovered and returned to reality, remembering their name, it’s time to rediscover their imagination.
If you’ve gotten this far, we’re guessing you’re as obsessed with this trailer as we are! But just in case you haven’t yet, don’t forget to watch it here, and stay tuned for the album details below!
minisode 3: TOMORROW
So, that’s the trailer, but what do we know about minisode 3: TOMORROW so far? After they dropped the brand new logo at the end of PRESENT X TOGETHER, we’ve had a little more info! We know it’ll be released at 6pm KST (2am PT, 5am ET, 10am GMT) on 1st April, so it’s safe to say this will be the best April Fools ever. The mini album will contain seven tracks (which means it’s eligible for Daesangs…), and the three concepts are Ethereal, Romantic, and Promise.
What are your predictions for minisode 3: TOMORROW? And we’re genuinely begging you to let us know of any clues we might have missed in TXT’s concept trailer! Let us know on Twitter @TheHoneyPOP! Or, if that’s not your thing, you can also find us on Facebook and Instagram!
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