Title says it all.
ppl like it. welcome to Earth.
It’s not actually a group, it’s just a movie. And they weren’t pushing it. Netflix released it thinking it wouldn’t go anywhere, and it took off. That’s why there isn’t a lot of merch for it (and it’s just now coming out), because they didn’t expect it to take off like it did. Now they’re pushing merch and kicking themselves for not doing it sooner. Now they’re pushing it to try to meet demand. It’s largely being pulled by grade school girls and young adults.
As for “new group,” I’d say you’re confusing KPDH with 22/7, only most people don’t know what 22/7 is. 22/7 is a Japanese pop group who have an anime which tells a fictional tale of a mysterious wall that spits out cards with orders that people follow, eventually creating an idol group to win the hearts and minds of the people. But 22/7 is an actual group that records music and releases it. Their best song isn’t even in the anime — it was released after.
With KPDH, it’s just a movie, though if the producers and whatnot were smart, they’d take the three singers who do the singing voices of the HUNTR/X girls, and have them record together… like 22/7 do. So by the time the next movie comes out, they’ve already had a couple albums out, and this can play into the lore of the new film. EJAE (Rumi) is a K-Pop star in her own right, but they don’t have to write songs. The pop industry has for decades had other people write songs for the performers. (The other two are also singers, none of them are very good on their own, though it’s subjective, but the other two are quite unlike HUNTR/X, with a lot of explicit stuff. Not something you want your grade school daughter looking into.) (They should also do the same with the Saja Boys.) (Of course, if KPDH has you jonesing for K-Pop, you could just listen to BTS if you like the boys, and Blackpink if you like the girls, then branch out from there. Or K/DA if you like cartoon bands — they did music for League of Legends, before Jinx/Arcane were the focus. K/DA is probably the most similar to HUNTR/X as far as I can tell.)
Imagine the KPDH v Saja Boys album sale battle…
I asked three 5-year-old girls what they were playing. They answered K-pop demon hunters. Each of them had a different garish hair color (represented by colorful beanies). That’s about all I know about K-Pop Demon Hunters.
Because it’s a popular movie with a catchy soundtrack that has a Grammy nominated song that was number one on the Billboard Top 100? It’s not like they’re pushing an obscure art film released solely for a run at an Oscar.
Sony makes the money. Just like they did with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and countless other products of Sony Animation.
Yeah, I’m confused on why they wouldn’t push KPop Demon Hunters. People like it.
It’s also really funny that Disney blamed their fans for not supporting original content after Elio flopped. Then KPop Demon Hunters comes crashing in and is popular as fuck.
It’s a good movie, I watched it with the kids, we all liked it. Children like it as much as they did Frozen back then.
It’s one of the very few original movies nowadays which doesn’t just reheat some old franchise, so I’m all for it to succeed and show that it’s worth to make new original movies.
Is it tho? Only one character is developed… and her story is to accept her demon side, and then ban all demons?
Also the first enemies in the movie say they are here li attack the fans, then the next demons do the same thing.
Their bodies are proportioned like barbie, their ankles would break under them if they were made in real life proportions.
Its got one arguably catchy song…about nothing.
I think it’s terrible too, but if people like it, I won’t yuck their yum.
It’s easy to make a movie sound dumb by attacking only the weak points and not acknowledging why it is very popular.
For Bladerunner for example:
Half the movie is just people wandering through neon fog acting like every sentence is the meaning of life. And yet somehow nobody ever explains anything.
Deckard is supposed to be this legendary hunter but spends most of the time getting tossed around by the very things he’s meant to “retire.”
The world looks incredible, yeah, but it’s basically style doing all the heavy lifting while the plot tiptoes behind hoping nobody asks questions.
And the big emotional moments? They land mostly because the soundtrack shoves them at you, not because the story bothered to earn them.
Original? It’s Korean Frozen, and Frozen wasn’t original either.
I’m gonna have to assume the creators and producers make money off this
Netflix
Oh boy… there’s some symbolism in it. It’s this: https://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-occult-symbolism-of-kpop-demon-hunters-and-its-messages-about-the-music-industry/
Only for those who dare dive into the symbolism of it. I did so, and holy spit…
It’s not too late to seek therapy.
So let me see if I understand; a movie about Korean and Korean-adjacent pop stars who have existed throughout the ages to fend off spiritual/mythological beings, features Korean spirituality/mythological figures and symbolism.
You don’t say…
Wow, that site is unhinged. Also, that article feels like it’s been heavily rewritten by AI, if not pure ai slop. Normally I enjoy crazy paranoid rants about demonic symbolism on cereal boxes, or whatever, but that article was shallow and vacuous.
