I watched the H!S vers of the PVs in the episode, and when it got up to J=J's, I was surprised Karin was there cause I just saw her with MM, then I realized "oh wait, she IS in J=J, this is actually her group..."
Anyways, yeah, definitely a ton better. I saw some parts where it seemed like a Zukki closeup was appropriate, but they chose to have it as the dance shot instead, and Karin only so far showed up one close up in each PV so definitely no "replacing the entire group" feel here like yesterday's video.
12 gen =) So awesome to see them look all amazing and not at all looking as awkward as Id expect em to be.
The dances seem pretty good, too. Which is also why I think they focus so much on this "standard PV" format they have, cause they want to show the dance, and not individual dancing like C-ute does with their solo dance shots, but the group formation itself, which I think is the reason there's opinion about MM's PVs not looking as consistently effortfully made as C-ute's.
Looking forward to that Big Chance ver though, that probably will look less standard basing from the preview we saw.