First of all, anyone hating on Kepler's music is showing their clapped taste. They have several top level bops and a SOTY contender, and do better than 98 percent of all groups in Kpop tbh in terms of musical quality. Their titles are miles ahead of even Izone ffs.
Secondly, aside from music, Kepler seems like a divided group. You've got the Korean faction on one side and the international faction on the other. I noticed it before and it seems to keep popping up but Yujin always mentions Xiaoting, Hikaru and Bahi as the members she is close with.
I wonder if Kepler should be split up with these four making up one group, and the other Korean members making up a second group. Would be VERY interesting to see the response of the few Kepler fans left, or even Kpop fans in general.
This person and the op need to stop doing drug.
Who is the most popular member in the group? As in, who will continue to be popular and be successful in entertainment industry when the group disbands?
Probably, if inter fans included, I believe it's Xiaoting. If only Korean concerned, it's Chaehyun. If Japan market singled out, it's Mashiro.
None seems charming enough to be top star on their own.
I assume Mashiro and Yeseo will go to Limelight. I like this group a lot and can see it grows much bigger but, no way they can be on the top tier, somewhere around the upper end of mid-tier at best.
Chaehyun possibly will go solo. I can't see her become IU or Sunmi or anywhere near those levels. It will depend on the song. She has nice sweet voice and fairly nice look but bland on stage.
Xiaoting most likely will go back to China and will be C-lister at best. They are countless prettier celebs than her there. Even those from popular Chinese survival show groups are B listers at best.
Bahi will just fade out. She may just leave showbiz after Kep1er.
But, if you look at the IZ*ONE girlies, you can see there is a discrepancy in which girls were promoted during their time in IZ*ONE. Yujin and Wonyoung of course got a lot of promotion. But, so did girls like Yena, Eunbi, and Minju. I'm sure that wasn't just due to a discrepancy in popularity and could have also been because maybe their companies actually fought to push the girls behind the scenes while the other girls' companies did not.
Please. Go to eye doctor. You need treatment.
She was my type at all 'coz I was not into kids. When she first appeared on PD 48, I thought she was tall and cute and that's it. When her team rehearsed "Very Very Very" on stage, I knew she was special. Just for the sake of having her as the center, her team completely eclipsed Sakura's team.
I don't know if her final #1 ranking was rigged but, it was crystal clear that she was most popular member in Korea. No question why might Mnet want her the center. If I were CJ ENM's boss, I would even pay Starship for Wonyoung and not the other way around. It was revealed that IZ*One contract expansion failed because 1 exact agency declined. That agency is believed to be Starship. Without Wonyoung + Yujin, IZ*One was worthless to CJ. Yet, you doubted Starship paid Mnet to push Wonyoung?
What questionable is anyone who doubts Wonyoung's star power and thinks Yena, Minju or Eunbi can ever come close to her level, even Sakura can't.