For the rest of the BU, go here.
For the SAVE ME webcomic, go here.
- Angst Aversion: Due to the heavy themes present in the story (which sometimes gets Darker and Edgier than even the darkest of BTS' music), potentially triggering content, and/or the fact that the characters are going through the aforementioned heavy stuff are heavily based on the BTS members, some BTS fans don't get too involved with The Notes (even some who were interested in the BU in general).
- Epileptic Trees: This book opened a whole new can of theories out of Choi, Seokjin's childhood friend from Jin's backstory, with a popular one being that he was murdered in the warehouse where Jimin ran into, leading to Jimin's trauma.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Seokjin's expression at the end of the Highlight Reel video becomes this after you realize that not only is Seokjin back in time yet again after the girl he was dating died... but he's back in time after a loop of 3 and a half months, with all his work undone once more, and the girl died because of an extremely minor mistake of his.
- All the events of the loop that takes place in the novel become this after knowing they'll become undone once more by the end.
- Heartwarming Moments:
- The trip to the beach is this. The boys decide to go visit a rock that supposedly makes your dream come true if you yell it from the top. Unfortunately, after a lot of walking and reaching the spot, the boys find that the rock has been destroyed to give a better view for a hotel in construction; however, after finding that the construction noise is so loud that they can't hear each other, they take advantage of that to yell their dreams towards the sea anyway.
- In one loop, Seokjin realizes that Yoongi stopped himself from his suicide attempt after a wounded bird enters the room. Seokjin comes in later and finds the bird still in the room, now with bread crumbs and water next to it. This realization is what makes him resort to Jungkook to save Yoongi.
- When Jungkook apologizes for being the reason Taehyung didn't get to see his mom, Taehyung immediately tells him he has nothing to be sorry for, and that Jungkook is a good person.
- Yoongi's Redemption in the Rain, finally finding some sort of hope to move forward. Part of his epiphany involves a flashback to his days of playing the piano with Jungkook.
- I Knew It!: This book confirms what ARMYs had been speculating at the very least since "Euphoria": that Seokjin was the one driving in the car accident that hit Jungkook.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- The very beginning of the book shows 5-year-old Seokjin. He helps his classmate Choi run away from some men who entered the classroom looking for Choi's father - they hide in Seokjin's room, but Seokjin's father finds them and makes him let the men take Choi. Choi never returns to the class. Then, in The Stinger, we see a newspaper article about a 5-year-old missing...
- Seokjin mentions at one point that in one of the previous loops, Yoongi did set himself on fire, but survived.
- Taehyung's dreams which see events from previous or subsequent loops from Seokjin's Time Travel are so vivid that he sometimes can't tell dream from reality.
- The epilogue. It's April 11th again. Taehyung wakes up and recalls the dream he just had: the area where Namjoon's container is was enveloped in flames. He went to Namjoon's container, only to find its door was broken, there were bloodstains, and Namjoon lied dead on the floor.
- After recalling his dream, Taehyung feels a sudden pain in his palm. In the loop we last saw, he cut his palm by smashing a bottle after Hoseok stopped him from stabbing Taehyung's father. Is he remembering more of the loops each time?
- One-Scene Wonder: Choi, Seokjin's childhood friend who is implied to have been kidnapped in the very first Note, became a source of Wild Mass Guessing for the fandom.
