Hearts2Hearts Take Their First English Song Into Arena of Valor

Hearts2Hearts have opened a new language chapter through a game collaboration. Released on October 16, “Next Chapter” marks Arena of Valor’s tenth anniversary, and SM Entertainment’s album notes identify it as the group’s first English song.

The release connects a four-writer song with a wider anniversary programme: an official music video, a planned Bangkok performance and forthcoming in-game content featuring the members’ voices. For musicians, it offers a compact case study in how a pop song can carry a shared theme across different settings.

Four writers, overlapping roles

The published credits show two overlapping pairs. Both lyricists also have composition credits; both arrangers are composers too. The table makes those intersections visible, without treating a credit list as a transcript of the session.

The map does not reveal who originated the hook, how the writers divided individual passages or the order in which the song was built. Those are separate questions requiring session evidence.

SM describes the track as a synth-pop-based dance song with lively sounds suggesting entry into a game world. That is the label’s intended setting, rather than a claim of a separate listening test by this magazine.

A team message that travels

Our reading of the published English lyrics is that game-related actions and reassurance work together. Progress and victory sit alongside support between companions. Togetherness gives the anniversary concept an emotional centre that does not require familiarity with the game’s characters.

For a songwriter studying the text, the useful feature is the movement between action and relationship. Game vocabulary establishes a scene; the companion message gives the singers someone to address. Repeated invitations and short recurring phrases offer clear points to examine in a group-vocal hook.

The next stop is a stage

The group’s official Japanese website says Hearts2Hearts are scheduled to give the song its first performance on October 23 in Bangkok, at Arena of the Decade: RoV Pro League 2026 Winter. It also announces forthcoming in-game content including members’ voices, without a rollout date.

Another setting for the group’s pop

“Next Chapter” follows another screen-related release. “Candy Box Lover” became available digitally on October 11 as the ending theme for the fourth season of Catch! Teenieping in Japan. The official announcement described that song as electropop shaped around the excitement of opening a sweets box.

The two projects place Hearts2Hearts in different fictional worlds within days of each other. The useful comparison is the assignment each song carries: how imagery, words and credited work connect the group to that world. “Next Chapter” adds an English-language milestone and a documented game collaboration to that picture.

For a different kind of language transition, read our ICONIC HEART Korean-version credit comparison. Follow the broader catalogue in the Hearts2Hearts Artist Hub.