Big Hit Music made the call on Thursday morning Seoul time: when Tomorrow X Together take the stage in Nagoya on May 24, fans in 53 territories — Korea, the US, and Canada among them — will be able to watch it on cinema screens, live in most regions and on a delayed broadcast in others. The Japan leg of the quintet's Moa Con tour just turned into the group's biggest broadcast event of the run. The MOA in the name is TXT's fandom, a name set in August 2019 after a fan naming call; our K-pop fandom names list has what it stands for, next to 35 other groups' names.
The five members are marking their seventh anniversary on this tour, and the broadcast call signals how Big Hit is treating the milestone — less a Japan-fan reward, more a platform moment.
Why a Nagoya date became the broadcast anchor
Pulling a single Japan-leg show into 53 markets is a deliberate spotlight choice. Big Hit picked Nagoya over the two stops closest to the cities Western fans know best: LaLa arena TOKYO-BAY in Chiba and GLION ARENA KOBE in Hyogo. The Japan run is eight shows, two at each of four arenas, from May 23 at IG Arena in Aichi to June 24, with MARINE MESSE FUKUOKA Hall A also on the route, per Wikipedia's list of the group's live performances.
Nagoya opens that run, and the broadcast takes its second night. That gives Big Hit one full show to shake out the production before cameras roll for 53 regions, while the band is at the start of a month-long run rather than the end of it.
The broadcast lands on top of a chart moment
The livestream rollout doesn't happen in a vacuum. TXT released their eighth EP, 7th Year: A Moment of Stillness in the Thorns, in April. The mini-album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 3 and sold over 1.8 million copies in its first week. Lead single "Stick with You" pulled five trophies on Korean television music chart shows.
That's the chart context Big Hit is leaning into. A 53-region cinema broadcast is a margin play — ticket revenue from screens the agency does not have to tour to — that only pencils when the album cycle is already pulling weight. Translation: the demand math worked, so the agency expanded distribution.
What a Moa Con is, and why Japan's gets screened
Moa Con is TXT's anniversary show for its own fans. The name combines TXT, the fandom name MOA and "concert", per Sports Kyunghyang, and the 2026 edition opened with three nights at KSPO Dome in Seoul from February 27 to March 1, all three streamed online. The agency framed it as a thank-you for seven years and promised a live band; for Nagoya, The Music Universe adds solo stages for each member. The Moa Con itself only plays Korea and Japan, so the cinema screening is the only way in for fans anywhere else.
What this means if you're planning to watch
This is a cinema live viewing from IG Arena in Nagoya, not a Weverse stream. Tickets go on sale May 7 at 9 a.m. ET, and at 10 a.m. KST in Korea, through the participating cinemas. TXT return to cinemas in October with a concert film of their fourth world tour, ACT : TOMORROW, one of six programmes at HYBE CINE FEST 2026.
The start time is the variable most fans miss. In some territories the screening runs later than the Nagoya show to fit local time zones, so go by your cinema's listing rather than converting from Japan time.
Mina's Take
The interesting move here isn't the broadcast itself — it's the choice of Nagoya as the anchor. The Tokyo-Bay dates in Chiba would be the obvious flagship, Kobe the obvious upgrade. Picking the Aichi opener suggests Big Hit Music is willing to let a non-headline Japanese city carry a global event broadcast for a HYBE group, which is a quieter shift than the headline implies. The seven-year framing also does more work than the press release lets on — it converts a tour stop into an anniversary moment, and Western fan media tends to cover anniversaries more aggressively than mid-tour broadcast announcements. If the May 24 broadcast clears whatever internal benchmark Big Hit set, expect another HYBE group to use a non-Tokyo Japanese city for a flagship stream within the next 12 months.
What to watch next
- The participating cinemas in each of the 53 regions — the listing, not Weverse, is where your screening time will be.
- The HYBE playbook in reverse: BTS' Arirang shows brought fans to Korea instead — the tourism numbers — and the album went platinum in France thirty days after gold.
- Whether Big Hit adds a second broadcast night for Chiba, Fukuoka, or Hyogo — that decision signals how the agency rates the cannibalization risk.
- Every other confirmed K-pop date we are tracking sits in the October comeback calendar.
- The next full tour: TXT's fifth world tour, Steal the Wind, opens with three nights at KSPO Dome from November 13 to 15, per the Korea JoongAng Daily.
Correction, September 21, 2026: an earlier version described the Nagoya broadcast as a Weverse livestream with replay windows. It is a cinema live viewing, with delayed screenings in some regions and tickets sold through cinemas from May 7; the sections on buying and watching have been rewritten.
Correction, September 30, 2026: an earlier version called the Nagoya broadcast a midpoint of the Japan run and set it against Tokyo and Osaka dates. Nagoya opened the run, and the stops nearest Tokyo and Osaka were in Chiba and Kobe; the analysis has been revised.
Sources
- TXT Moa Con in Japan — The Korea Herald
- 2026 K-pop tour masterlist — concerts and fan meetings — Soompi
