BoA’s official music video for 歩幅 (Hohaba) is now on the BApal channel, with Monjoe credited as director. The song shares its name with the mini album it belongs to, and the title itself is written in Japanese.

A kanji title does not tell you how to say it

歩幅 is two characters, one for walking and one for width: a stride, the distance between one footfall and the next. Kanji carry meaning rather than a fixed sound, and most of them have several possible readings, so a two-character compound has to be learnt as a unit. This one is read “hohaba”, and a reader meeting it cold could reasonably guess wrong. That is why the official title prints the reading in brackets beside the characters — a convention Japanese releases use constantly, in romanised form or as small kana printed above the line.

About this release

The release is 歩幅, a mini album, and the video was published on 4 November 2026 (KST) on the BApal channel, which also carries the copyright line. Monjoe is credited as director. Production is credited jointly to BApal Co., Ltd. and Idol School Japan株式会社. The official description adds no featured artist.

Watching from outside Korea

If your keyboard cannot produce kanji, the bracketed “Hohaba” is the form to type when searching. The tag 베이팔 is the Korean spelling of the label name, and it tends to surface Korean-language posts that the Japanese title alone will miss.

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