Five voices. One vision. AND2BLE arrives with Sequence 01: Curiosity — and the K-pop world will never look quite the same again.
here is a specific electricity in K-pop that lives right at the edge of a debut — that charged, crackling moment when a name the world barely knows is about to become one it cannot forget. Right now, that current has a name: AND2BLE. With their first mini album, Sequence 01: Curiosity, set to drop on May 26, 2026, the five-piece YH Entertainment act is not simply entering a crowded genre. They are rewriting what an entrance can feel like.
The concept photos for the Gazed version — all cool-toned shadows, architectural leather, and gazes that feel like they are looking somewhere just past tomorrow — are already circulating across fandom timelines like prophecy. One member, chin tilted, ring-stacked hand raised, platinum-ash hair catching a studio half-light: the image says everything about a group that understands aesthetics are not decoration. They are declaration.
Five Paths, One Frequency
Understanding AND2BLE means understanding the remarkable convergence of individual stories that built them. Four members — Zhang Hao, Ricky, Kim Gyuvin, and Han Yujin — are former ZEROBASEONE, the project group born from Mnet’s survival program Boys Planet that defined K-pop’s fourth-generation chapter. Zhang Hao finished Boys Planet ranked first, with nearly two million fan votes; Ricky fourth; Kim Gyuvin seventh; Han Yujin ninth.
They carried ZEROBASEONE through two and a half years of global stages before their final concert in Seoul in March 2026, closing that chapter with tears and full arenas. The fifth member, Yoo Seungeon, took a different route — one that required a different kind of courage. After ranking 16th on Boys Planet and missing ZEROBASEONE’s debut lineup, he channeled his momentum into EVNNE, the spin-off group from that same competition.
He built his craft, honed his artistry, and earned a reputation as a performer of genuine emotional depth. When his Jellyfish Entertainment contract concluded in December 2025, he returned to YH Entertainment and stepped into the space that felt, in hindsight, inevitable.
AND2BLE’s name encodes this philosophy perfectly. A fusion of “AND” and “DOUBLE,” with the numeral 2 standing in for “DOU” — rotate it 90 degrees and you trace the shapes of the letters O and U. The meaning: layered identities, each member’s individual essence doubling and amplifying the collective. Not one sound, but many sounds in unmistakable harmony.
Curiosity as aCreative Manifesto
Sequence 01: Curiosity is exactly the kind of debut title that rewards close reading. The word “curiosity” is framed by YH Entertainment as “the instinctive emotion humans encounter first” — a foundational feeling, something preverbal and pure.
For AND2BLE, it signals an album built not around confident proclamation but around the exhilaration of stepping into the unknown. There is no posturing here. There is only the genuine electricity of five people taking their first steps into an unfamiliar world with their eyes fully open.
The album’s three concept photo versions — Unnatural, Gazed, and Break — each offer a different emotional register of that curiosity. Gazed, the version captured in the cover image that launched a thousand fan edits, channels something colder and more cinematic: a studied intensity, a gaze that doesn’t ask for your attention but simply commands it.
Black leather over white collar, chain necklaces, architectural silhouettes against deep blue gradients. These are not idol visuals. These are fashion editorial decisions made by a creative team that understands the difference.
The album packaging itself deepens the narrative. Physical copies include Decode Cards, PET Filter inserts, and layered photobooking — every physical touchpoint designed as a piece of the decode-and-discover experience the group’s name implies. Even the pre-order acrylic boards function as artifacts in a larger story.
In an era when K-pop album design has become its own art form, AND2BLE’s debut packaging arrives with the confidence of a group that knows the physical object is still a site of genuine emotional meaning.
Leather, Light & Language
The first group images AND2BLE released — described in coverage as projecting a “classic, almost editorial aesthetic reminiscent of fashion campaign visuals” — made clear that styling was going to be a primary storytelling tool for this group.
Soft knits against refined white shirts. Later, in the Gazed concept: full leather suiting, statement rings, and chain necklaces worn with the ease of a group that has lived in those silhouettes for years.
K-pop’s relationship with fashion has deepened significantly in the fifth-generation era.
The groups who endure are those who develop a recognizable visual grammar — a language fans can read and translate across every comeback. AND2BLE’s early styling suggests a vocabulary built around duality: softness and severity, precision and intuition, the structured and the undone. It is, fittingly, an exact visual echo of what their name promises: the single image that contains multitudes.
TOOBLES: The Fandom That Was Ready
Before a single song had been released, AND2BLE was already trending on X globally. That is a testament to the infrastructure of fandom that travels with members who came through Boys Planet and ZEROBASEONE — loyal, organised, and deeply invested communities that had been waiting, in some cases for years, for exactly this moment.
Their official fandom name was announced as TOOBLES: playful, warm, and carrying the satisfying echo of AND2BLE’s sonic identity in its syllables.
Pre-debut content — logo motions, group and individual teasers, prologue videos, and trailer films — was received with an intensity more often associated with major comeback cycles. The group’s debut showcase, “Welcome to Qurious,” scheduled for May 26 at Blue Square’s Woori WON Banking Hall in Seoul, sold through with a simultaneous global livestream added to meet international demand.
This is not a group building a fanbase. This is a group stepping into one that already exists — and, more importantly, one that was worth waiting for.
The Shift They Represent
AND2BLE arrives at a fascinating moment in K-pop’s timeline. The “project group” era — survival show lineups operating on fixed contracts — is giving way to a new formation logic, one where agencies are building groups from the talent that emerged through that era, retaining the visibility and the fanbase while offering the permanence of a traditional debut. AND2BLE is the purest expression of that shift so far: four members of one beloved project group, plus one member whose own detour through the same ecosystem made him exactly the right fifth voice.
YH Entertainment has not introduced a boy group in four years. The weight of that timeline — and the careful deliberation it implies — gives AND2BLE’s debut a gravity that first-wave groups rarely carry. This is not a company throwing talent at the market and hoping. This is a calculated, creative, considered bet on five specific people whose combined experience, artistry, and global fanbase represents something genuinely unprecedented in the current landscape.
Watch them carefully. The gaze they wear in those concept photos is not borrowed. It is entirely their own — and it is pointed, without question, at the future.
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Credits & Rights
Publication: Kpoppie Magazine
Publisher:Velocity Entertainment Inc Japan / New Zealand
Issue May 2026 · Digital Cover Edition
Editorial Director: Kpoppie Editorial Team
Feature Writing: Kpoppie Magazine Staff
Art Direction: Velocity Entertainment Creative
Photography © YH Entertainment, 2026 All rights reserved
Artist Management: YH Entertainment, Seoul
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All editorial text, layout, and creative direction © 2026 Kpoppie Magazine / Velocity Entertainment Inc (Japan/New Zealand). All rights reserved. Artist photography and concept imagery © 2026 YH Entertainment. Used with editorial reference. AND2BLE, TOOBLES, Sequence 01: Curiosity, and associated marks are trademarks of YH Entertainment. Kpoppie Magazine is an independent editorial publication and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YH Entertainment or any related entities. All factual information sourced from public announcements and verified media coverage as of May 11, 2026.