Burnice, a personality from the motion sport Zenless Zone Zero, has contaminated all my social media feeds.
On Oct. 15, developer Hoyoverse launched a brand new trailer referred to as “A Burnice Particular for the Brokenhearted” to tease the brand new character in Zenless Zone Zero. As an alternative of exhibiting her preventing, the event staff gave Burnice the total pop-star remedy and made her the protagonist of a music video. Since its launch, the video has captured the eye of followers on-line with its mixture of absurd choreography and energetic digital beats.
The music video is unbelievable. Inside seconds of the track beginning, the bartender Burnice lands an ideal break up in a mini skirt and sings, “Mocktails, mixers, ice/The snacks are actual good/Soda, sour-mix, dry/I’m lit, you’ll be able to’t deny.” All through the video, she does the viral dance from “Gangnam Model,” and the digicam captures copious photographs of her bouncing chest in a tiny bandeau prime. At one other level, there’s a full dance quantity the place a number of characters dance in a triangle formation.
The video itself feels just like the fever-dream model of a spring break get together woman. However the track is a bop, and now, Burnice has contaminated all my social media feeds. Many individuals have been sharing fan edits of the character. Others have been analyzing the references and dance kinds. Some devoted followers have already recreated parts of the video whereas cosplaying as her. You may see a number of the examples beneath.
The Burnice video and the reactions to it are half of a bigger development the place Hoyoverse more and more makes use of music to market its mega video games. Management on the firm has constantly stated that it goals to develop a number of sorts of media, and that features music. Simply this month, the staff launched three music movies tied to its video games. On Monday, builders launched an intense digital track to indicate off Honkai: Star Rail’s new character Rappa, and some weeks earlier than that, followers acquired to see Genshin Affect’s Xilonen rap in her teaser. Then, in fact, we had Burnice.
So what does all of it imply on the finish of the day? Music has at all times been an necessary a part of the anime and online game formulation — simply have a look at Vtubers! The trio of music movies looks like simply the beginning for Hoyoverse; it’s attainable the corporate will launch its personal model of Ok/DA, the Ok-pop woman from League of Legends, down the road. So perhaps if she’s fortunate, Burnice herself will take to heart stage some day.
