If you've been watching HYBE build a transmedia layer under its music catalog and wondering how far they'd push it, here's the next data point. Dark Moon: The Witch of Yerasah launched May 20 — the first installment of the Dark Moon supernatural-romance franchise to ditch vampires entirely and run on werewolves alone, with &TEAM (HYBE's Japan-based boy group) at the center.
What actually dropped
Four formats, same launch day:
- A web novel simulpublished on Naver Series, Cmoa, ebookjapan, and Line Manga
- An animated music video for &TEAM's track "Bewitched"
- A weekly video content series unpacking character backstories
- A visual art series titled "Blood Print"
The story is set in a fictional 2010s-era kingdom called Aman. Same house themes as before — fate, identity, self-determined love — but the werewolf-only cast is the structural break.
Where Dark Moon's been so far
The franchise started as a webtoon built around ENHYPEN (vampires plus werewolves, ENHYPEN members playing characters), expanded into a web novel cycle, and broke into traditional animation in 2025 with Dark Moon: The Blood Altar on Crunchyroll. Yerasah is the first time the spotlight moves to &TEAM, and the first time werewolves get the whole stage to themselves.
Why anime watchers should care
The quietly important question is whether Yerasah graduates to a TV anime the way Blood Altar did. If it does, that's two K-pop-IP-to-anime pipelines running through HYBE inside two years — a small but real signal that the slow merger of K-pop production and Japanese animation is becoming routine. Bewitched doing the animated-MV double duty (music release + story beat) is the playbook HYBE is now templating across groups.
What to watch for: web novel serialization pace, any studio attached for future visual content, and how Bewitched performs in &TEAM's regular release calendar.