Round 1 · Zombie Stage
Little Bunny
작은 토끼
- Artists
- Rubyeye
- Album
- ZOMST Original Soundtrack Part.0
- Released
- 2026-06-26
Little Bunny lyrics from Zombie Stage Round 1: the Korean, romanized and English acapella lyrics performed over Sua's aftermath, with credits and meaning notes.
작은 토끼 — a canção de ninar de Zombie Stage cantada por Rubyeye como Mizi, lançada em 26 de junho de 2026 como trilha sonora original de ZOMST.
작은 토끼 — Mizi（Rubyeye）が歌うZombie Stageの童謡。2026年6月26日リリース。Round 1でSuaのシーンに使用されています。
Quick answer
- What is Little Bunny?
- “Little Bunny” is “작은 토끼”, a Zombie Stage song (Round 1) released 2026-06-26, performed by Rubyeye.
- Opening line
- 깡총깡총 작은 토끼 어디가나 숲에 가나 Kkangchongkkangchong jageun tokki eodigana supe gana
- Sung by
- Rubyeye
- Written by
- Manju · Choi Yongsu
What it means
"Little Bunny" is the quietest track in the Zombie Stage catalogue and the most frightening, because it does what the arena does: it turns a child's nursery rhyme into an autopsy. Sung over the aftermath of Round 1, its hopping, dirt-pawed bunny is not a cute animal but a stand-in for Sua — and the 'sound that kept coming over and over again' is the thing the survivors cannot stop hearing.
깡총깡총 작은 토끼 어디가나 숲에 가나
Kkangchongkkangchong jageun tokki eodigana supe gana
Hop, hop, little bunny where are you going? Into the forest?
깡총깡총 하얀 발에 흙이 묻어 도망간다
Kkangchongkkangchong hayan bare heulgi mudeo domangganda
Hop, hop, running away with dirt on your paws
작은 토끼 뒤에를 보니 아무것도 없었는데
Jageun tokki dwiereul boni amugeotdo eopseonneunde
When the bunny looked behind itself, there was nothing there.
깡총깡총 서둘렀다가 숨을데도 못찾았단다
Kkangchongkkangchong seodulleotdaga sumeuldedo motchajatdanda
Hop, hop, so quickly, it couldn't find a place to hide.
한걸음 더 멈춰보니 조용해진 숲 어딘가에서
Hangeoreum deo meomchwoboni joyonghaejin sup eodingaeseo
When it paused for a moment, somewhere in the now quiet forest.
바람아닌 발소리가 자꾸자꾸만 들려온단다
Baramanin balsoriga jakkujakkuman deullyeoondanda
a sound, not the wind, kept coming over and over again.
깡총깡총 작은토끼 누가 따라 숲에 오나
Kkangchongkkangchong jageuntokki nuga ttara supe ona
Hop, hop, little bunny, whose following you into the forest?
깡총깡총 하얀 발에 자그마한 발자국 하나
Kkangchongkkangchong hayan bare jageumahan baljaguk hana
Hop, hop, on your white paws. A tiny footprint appears.
작은 토끼 다시 보니 하나 둘이 늘어났네
Jageun tokki dasi boni hana duri neureonanne
When I look at the little rabbit again, the footprints have grown from one to two.
깡총깡총 달아난데도 빙글빙글 돌아온단다
Kkangchongkkangchong daranandedo binggeulbinggeul doraondanda
Hop, hop even if you run away, you come spinning, spinning back.
같은 길로 돌아온단다
Gateun gillo doraondanda
You come back along the same path.
Editor's note
Little Bunny — meaning
"Little Bunny" is the quietest track in the Zombie Stage catalogue and the most frightening, because it does what the arena does: it turns a child's nursery rhyme into an autopsy. Sung over the aftermath of Round 1, its hopping, dirt-pawed bunny is not a cute animal but a stand-in for Sua — and the 'sound that kept coming over and over again' is the thing the survivors cannot stop hearing.
A nursery rhyme used as a weapon
The song borrows the shape of a children's counting rhyme — short lines, repetition, an animal that hops and hides. That form is the point. Zombie Stage's arena does not only kill performers; it packages the killing as entertainment for an audience that wants to feel innocent while watching. By wrapping Sua's aftermath in nursery-rhyme cadence, the track implicates the listener: you are humming along to someone's death, the same way the in-world fans cheer. The infantilised delivery is not decoration; it is the accusation.
The bunny that looks back and finds nothing
The recurring image is a small animal running into a forest, glancing behind itself, and discovering absence. Read against Round 1, this maps onto Sua's final moments and what she leaves behind. The horror is not violence described in detail but the negative space: 'there was nothing there.' The song never names the body, the blade or the auction block. It trusts the absence to do the work. For fans of the wider Alien Stage universe, this is the same technique VIVINOS uses in the mainline — grief expressed as a missing shape rather than a graphic act.
The sound that will not stop
The track's turn comes when the rhyme pauses: in the quiet forest, a sound 'not the wind' keeps coming. This is the survivor's symptom, not the victim's. Mizi survives Round 1, and the song belongs to her side of the story more than Sua's. The endless repetition of the sound is what survival costs — the performance ends, the audience goes home, and the person still alive is left with a loop they cannot switch off. It is the cleanest statement in the Zombie Stage catalogue of what the arena actually takes.
Where it sits in the Round 1 arc
Sequenced after 'Candy Scar', 'Little Bunny' functions as the hangover. Candy Scar is the duel's sweet, unbearable surface; Little Bunny is the silence after the applause. Playing them back to back is the intended experience: the first makes you complicit in the cuteness, the second makes you sit with the consequence. New listeners who only know the fanchant hook should start here to understand why the fandom treats the Zombie Stage AU as a tragedy wearing a pop costume, not a pop song with a sad ending.
Why it matters for the Zombie Stage AU
Zombie Stage's premise — performers kept as livestock, losers dismembered and auctioned — could easily become lurid. 'Little Bunny' is the proof that the AU's ambition is elegiac rather than shock-driven. By refusing to dramatise the violence and focusing instead on the residue of memory, the song positions the AU as a study of what audiences do to the people they watch. That theme is what separates Zombie Stage from a simple alternate-death scenario, and it is the thread the site traces across every Round 1 page.
Meaning notes are written by long-time Alien Stage viewers, cross-referenced against VIVINOS's own YouTube community posts and SCALAR's release liner notes. Corrections welcome at [email protected].
Credits
- Composer:
- Choi Yongsu
- Lyricist:
- Manju
- Vocals:
- Rubyeye
- Arrangement:
- Choi Yongsu
- Producer:
- Kang
Featured in this song
Lyrics transcribed by fans for educational and reference purposes. All rights belong to VIVINOS / SCALAR / STUDIO LICO. For takedown or correction requests contact [email protected]. Romanization follows the Revised Romanization of Korean; translations are non-literal where required to preserve meaning.
