History Webcomic / SaveMe

''The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Pt. 0: SAVE ME'' (or just ''SAVE ME'') is an official {{Korean webtoon|s}} or {{manhwa}} created by [=BigHit Entertainment=] and LICO (creator of ''Refund Highschool'') that works as a linear retelling of the ''Music/{{BU}}'', the story and universe from the music videos, short films and ''Notes'' of Korean group Music/{{BTS}}.

* AuthorAvatar: Like in the rest of the Music/{{BU}}, each one of the seven boys is partially based on a real-life member of BTS, taking on their appearances, real names, personality traits and other elements (though differing dramatically in others aspects, such as backstory).

** The characters' designs are composites of the members' looks from various eras throughout the Music/{{BU}} music videos. Jin has his "Blood, Sweat and Tears (Japanese version)" look, Namjoon, Yoongi, Taehyung and Jungkook have their "I NEED U" attires, Jimin has his hair styled like in "I NEED U" but colored like in "RUN", and Hoseok has his clothes from "I NEED U" but the hair from "Blood, Sweat and Tears".

* MindScrewdriver: ''SAVE ME'' seems to work as this for the Music/{{BU}} series as a whole (even more-so than ''The Notes''), telling the story much less ambiguously, with actual dialogue and a much more linear narrative structure, also working as an alternative starting point for a newcomer.

* RRatedOpening: In case you weren't familiar with the tone and content of the Music/{{BU}}, the Prologue chapter starts right off the bat by showing the "bad outcomes" (several from "I NEED U (Original ver.)", itself the RRatedOpening of the BU), which include a character with blood-covered hands, another one in jail, one standing very close to edge of a rooftop, and one character calmly standing in the middle of a room going down in flames. And at least one of them is still a minor.

The story, however, starts with Jin waking up on April 11 after returning to Korea from the US - 2 years after the group's [[BreakingTheFellowship separation]]. A month later he finds, to his horror and regret, that his six friends' lives have taken tragic turns [[note]]much like in the "I NEED U (Original ver.)" music video[[/note]].

Then Jin wakes up in his room, on April 11. And then he wakes up again. [[GroundhogDayLoop And again]]. Will Jin be able to save his friends from their fates, or is it too late?

''SAVE ME'' was officially announced in January 2019 by the Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/Smeraldo_Books Smeraldo_Books]] and published for free in LINE Webtoons, starting in January 16th and set to end in [[MeaningfulReleaseDate April 11th]] of the same year, which also happens to be one day before the release of the album ''MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA''. It updates every Thursday at 10 am KST. You can read it in its official English translation [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/bts-save-me/list?title_no=1514 here]].

* GroundhogDayLoop: Jin goes back over and over to April 11th, and does so until he can fix his friends' fates.

*** As of Episode 8, [[spoiler:he has had dreams of Yoongi dying in a fire and Jimin drowning in the sea, the latter of which is very similar to Jin's nightmare in Episode 1]].
*** [[spoiler:In the final chapter, a distraught Taehyung reveals that he has dreams about all of the other boys' fates (minus Seokjin) every night. He also dreams about himself, but doesn't remember what happens to him.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The character's hair colors seem to be taken from different music videos from the HYYH era. Most of them are pretty natural-looking, except for Hoseok and Jimin's, which is orange, and Yoongi's, which is ''pink'' (and naturally so, going by flashbacks).

** Jimin's mother is emotionally abusive, treating him as a burden [[spoiler:and forcing him to stay in a hospital for ''2 years''.]]

* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Jungkook]], both times.

** In Episode 1, Jin has a nightmare about all of his friends sinking into the bottom of the ocean, with him being unable to reach them. Some weeks later, he learns about what happened to them - and it isn't pretty. Interestingly, all of them in the dream are dressed exactly as in the "I NEED U" music video.
** Played with. As revealed in Episode 6, [[spoiler: Taehyung]] has dreams about events we've seen in previous timelines. He seems to perceive his dreams as these, but it's unclear if they're dreams about the future, [[FlashSideways the events of a past time loop]], or both.

** Episode 14 shows [[spoiler:the boys finally happy and reunited... and then Taehyung murders his father.]]
* [[IllGirl Ill Boy]]: Starting Ep 8, it is revealed Hoseok has been hospitalized and Jimin [[spoiler: was also put in the hospital for 2 years because of his parents. Like in BU, it appears as a result of seizures and something happening in the arboretum.]]
** The chapter also features a little boy who seems to have narcolepsy, [[spoiler:just like Hoseok]].

'''WARNING: Like the ''BU'', ''SAVE ME'' deals with heavy themes, including suicide and abuse. It also manages to be ''more'' graphic than its parent series. Proceed with caution.'''

* BloodierAndGorier: Not overtly, but while there were also heavy themes in the ''BU'', the comic shows more graphically what was only implied or partially shown in the videos. For example, the comic shows a character's bloodied dead body [[DiesWideOpen with eyes wide open]] after falling off a building, while the videos would only show them standing on a rooftop and looking at the distance.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When Jin is asking the gas station employee about Namjoon in Chapter 1, the TV is displaying the news headline "[[spoiler:A high school student arrested for killing his father]]".

* MindScrewdriver: ''SAVE ME'' seems to work as this for the Music/{{BU}} series as a whole (even more-so than ''The Notes''), telling the story much less ambiguously, with actual dialogue and a much more linear narrative structure.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Turns out in Episode 6 that the more you change things, the more circumstances change for later events, making them harder to control. Jin figures this out rather painfully [[spoiler:when he accidentally gets Jungkook, Taheyung and Namjoon killed after colliding with a truck while looking for Yoongi.]]

*** If Jin changes things too much or too early, circumstances for later events also change, making them harder to control. In Episode 6, [[spoiler:getting Jungkook, Namjoon and Taehyung on his car early in the morning of April 11th ends up with the three dead on a car crash. From then onwards, Jin starts planning things to help each one of the boys at ''just'' the right moment to be able to save the next.]]

* RippleEffectProofMemory: Played with. Jin initially doesn't remember what happened after waking up, only getting a strange vague feeling that he has forgotten something, but after the third time he gains the ability to remember every timeline that came before.

** Any doubts about the tone of the series are completely squashed by Episode 2, where a character [[spoiler:kills himself in front of another. ''[[TimeTravel Twice]]'']].

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Jin's goal is to save his friends from their tragic outcomes.

** Hoseok has a naturally bright and cheerful personality, but he also seems to dodge questions about his condition by laughing it off or smiling sadly.

* AbusiveParents: Taehyung's father was physically abusive towards both of his children.

* AngerBornOfWorry: Deconstructed. Jin displays this after [[spoiler:stopping Jungkook from falling]] in Episode 04, but it reminds Jungkook of [[spoiler:his abusive mother saying the same words to him, whose anger is not exactly implied to come out of worry]].

* BlindingBangs: Yoongi is drawn this way.

** Jungkook's melancholic expression throughout the Prologue and the first 2 chapters remains almost entirely the same, [[spoiler:even as he's falling down a building to his death. It only changes after he's rescued.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: In the original timeline, [[spoiler:Jungkook throws himself off a building rooftop]], and (like in "I NEED U") [[spoiler:Yoongi sets his room on fire with himself still inside]]. While is not completely clear whether the former was ''actively'' looking to kill himself (though he didn't exactly ''mind'' dying, either), the latter definitely was.

* FriendlessBackground: The scenes featuring Jungkook in school in the present show him walking alone, never interacting with the numerous cheerful classmates around him.

** Everyone in this world who isn't one of the main seven seems to lack eyeballs.

* HopeSpot: In Episode 5, [[spoiler:Jungkook is saved, but Yoongi dies.]]
* [[IllGirl Ill Boy]]: Starting Ep 8, it is revealed Hoseok has been hospitalized and Jimin [[spoiler: was also put in the hospital for several years because of his parents. Like in BU, it appears as a result of seizures and something happening in the arboretum.]]
** The chapter also features a little boy who seems to have narcolepsy [[spoiler:just like Hoseok]].

** In Episode 04, [[spoiler:Jin and Namjoon manage to stop Jungkook from falling off the rooftop. Jin starts doing so by himself in later rewinds.]]

* RRatedOpening: In case you weren't familiar with the tone and content of the Music/{{BU}}, the Prologue chapter starts right off the bat by showing the "bad outcomes" - several from "I NEED U (Original ver.)", itself the RRatedOpening of the BU -, which include a character with blood-covered hands, another one in jail, one standing very close to edge of a rooftop, and one character calmly standing in the middle of a room going down in flames. And at least one of them is still a minor.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The character's hair colors seem to be taken from different music videos from the HYYH era. Most of them are pretty natural-looking, except for Yoongi's, which is pink (and isn't confirmed to be different in flashbacks, which are in black and white).

''SAVE ME'' was officially announced in January 2019 by the Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/Smeraldo_Books Smeraldo_Books]] and published for free in LINE Webtoons, starting in January 16th and set to end in [[MeaningfulReleaseDate April 11th]] of the same year. It updates every Thursday at 10 am KST. You can read it in its official English translation [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/bts-save-me/list?title_no=1514 here]].

** Due to Yoongi getting drunk, the hotel he ends up staying at in the night of April 11th randomly changes between each rewind.
*** If Jin changes things too much or too early, circumstances for later events also change, making them harder to control. [[spoiler:From Episode 6 onwards, he starts planning things to help one of the boys at just the right moment to be able to save the next.]]
** In Episode 7, [[spoiler:Jin manages to rescue Yoongi from, but doesn't quite save him - Yoongi really ''did'' want to die there, so he doesn't take the rescue well and is still suicidal afterwards.]]
* RippleEffectProofMemory: Played with. Jin initially doesn't remember what happened after waking up - only getting a strange vague feeling that he has forgotten something -, but after the third time he gains the ability to remember every timeline that came before.
* RRatedOpening: In case you weren't familiar with the tone and content of the Music/{{BU}}, the Prologue starts right off the bat by showing the "bad outcomes" - several from "I NEED U (Original ver.)", itself the RRatedOpening of the BU -, which include a character with blood-covered hands, another one in jail, one standing very close to edge of a rooftop, and one character calmly standing in the middle of a room going down in flames. And at least one of them is still a minor.

* StepfordSmiler: Both Jungkook and Taehyung are shown to hide their problems behind a smile. Jungkook immediately starts smiling, talking about the view and dodging questions after [[spoiler:being saved from falling]] in Episode 4 and 5. Having just [[spoiler:gotten out of police custody]] in Episode 5, Taehyung just laughs it off, and cryptically says [[spoiler:he's seen Yoongi in his dreams]] while still smiling.

''The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Pt. 0: SAVE ME'' (or just ''SAVE ME'') is an official {{Korean webtoon|s}} or {{manhwa}} created by [=BigHit Entertainment=] and LICO (creator of ''Refund Highschool'') that works as a linear retelling of the ''Music/{{BU}}'', the story and universe from Korean group Music/{{BTS}}'s music videos, short films and ''Notes''.

''SAVE ME'' deals with the story of seven boys, the BTS members' {{Author Avatar}}s from the ''BU'' universe. In a school ripe with {{Sadist Teacher}}s, and each having to deal with their own share of AbusiveParents and traumas in an environment marked by [[AdultsAreUseless useless adults]] and poverty, the boys' times together were their only moments of happiness.

The story, however, starts with Jin waking up on April 11, returning to Korea from the US 2 years after the group's [[BreakingTheFellowship separation]]. A month later he finds - much to his horror and regret - that his six friends' lives have taken tragic turns [[note]]much like in the "I NEED U (Original ver.)" music video[[/note]].

Then Jin wakes up in his room, on April 11. And then he wakes up again. [[GroundhogDayLoop And again]]. Will Jin really be able to save his friends from their fates, or is it too late?

''SAVE ME'' was officially announced in January 2019 by the Twitter account [[https://twitter.com/Smeraldo_Books Smeraldo_Books]] and published for free in LINE Webtoons, starting in January 16th and set to end in [[MeaningfulReleaseDate April 11th]] of the same year. It updates every Thursday. You can read it in English [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/bts-save-me/list?title_no=1514 here]].

'''WARNING''': Like the ''BU'', ''SAVE ME'' deals with heavy themes, including suicide and abuse. It also manages to be ''more'' graphic than its parent series. Proceed with caution.

* GoreDiscretionShot: In Episode 6, [[spoiler:Jin's car collides with the side of a truck, with Namjoon's side getting the worst]]. When we see [[spoiler:Namjoon]] in the aftermath, we only see him from behind and then from the front, in which his face is obscured (as he's facing downwards), but with bloodstains on his clothes clearly coming from there.

** Jungkook gets this in Episode 5, first after being asked about home, and then when he's asked about Yoongi.

* BloodierAndGorier: Not overtly, but - while there were heavy themes in the ''BU'', too - the comic shows more graphically what was only implied or partially shown in the videos. This includes a character bloodily [[DiesWideOpen dying with eyes wide open]] after falling off a building.

** Episode 5 has [[spoiler:the pan to Yoongi being treated in an emergency room, covered in burns]]. Less tragically, there's the reveal of [[spoiler:Taehyung now standing along with Namjoon and Jungkook, having just come out of the police station, but also Jungkook's revelatory expression when learning about the arsonist.]]

''The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Pt. 0: SAVE ME'' (or just ''SAVE ME'') is an official {{Korean webtoon|s}} or {{manhwa}} created by [=BigHit Entertainment=] and LICO (creator of ''Refund Highschool''), based and expanding on the ''Music/{{BU}}'', the story and universe from Korean group Music/{{BTS}}'s music videos, short films and ''Notes''.

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Played with. Taehyung seems to perceive his dreams as these - which they technically are, in a way -, but could also be about [[FlashSideways the events of a different timeline]].

* BloodierAndGorier: Not overtly, but - while there were heavy themes in the ''BU'', too - the comic shows more graphically what was only implied or partially shown in the videos. This includes characters bloodily [[DiesWideOpen dying with eyes wide open]] after falling off a building.

* DissonantSerenity: Yoongi appears completely expressionless as he stands [[spoiler:in the middle of a room on fire]]. Jungkook's melancholic expression throughout the Prologue and the first 2 chapters remains almost entirely the same, [[spoiler:even as he's falling down a building to his death]].

* DrowningMySorrows: Yoongi gets drunk in a bar in the night of April 11, [[spoiler:right before he goes to a hotel room and set it on fire]].

** Namjoon briefly displays these while resignedly saying that him going to jail was inevitable in Episode 1.

* DrowningYourSorrows: Yoongi gets drunk in a bar in the night of April 11, [[spoiler:right before he goes to a hotel room and set it on fire]].

* DrivenToSuicide: In the original timeline, [[spoiler:Jungkook throws himself off a building rooftop]], and (like in "I NEED U") [[spoiler:Yoongi burns himself to death by setting his room on fire.]]

* InterruptedSuicide: In Episode 04, [[spoiler:Jin and Namjoon manage to stop Jungkook from falling off the rooftop.]]

** Any doubts about the tone of the series are completely squashed by Chapter 2, where a character [[spoiler:kills himself in front of another. ''[[TimeTravel Twice]]'']].

** Everyone in this world except for the main seven seems to lack eyeballs.