You know how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse increasingly succeeded? The company that worked on that movie is Sony Pictures Animation, and they had been working on projects for a while and made a new type of animation that was so much different compared to their other animated projects, and they have made other projects that had similar animation such as The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Wish Dragon and of course Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. But then Netflix collaborated with Sony to release a project, which for some reason was barely known when it was in the works, called KPop Demon Hunters. And let me start by saying it’s so amazing that I ended up having a huge passion for it.

The title pretty much explains the plot of the movie. They’re Korean pop singers but are secretly demon hunters and have an extraordinary lore behind it. At the beginning, we learned that there were other demon hunters in the earlier times and then evolved to the point that the other citizens of the world had no idea that there were actual demons around, and the demon hunters have been keeping the demons away from the people, and all they have to do is sing to the world so that the ‘Honmoon’ has no exposure of demons taking over and once it’s golden, no demons could ever cross their path. What the world doesn’t know that one of the members of Huntrix, Rumi is part demon and her leader has a job to help her so that she couldn’t get hurt by the other Huntrix members or anyone else. That’s what makes the plot so interesting.

I have been studying film long enough to know how film is being made, such as the animation. The animation inside KPop Demon Hunters is seen as a hybrid 3D and 2D styled animated project, and I have to say, the way they merge in the 2D with 3D is super smooth and the art of the movie in general looks incredible. I have never seen what their setting location, known to be Seoul in South Korea, looks like but even if the location in the real world doesn’t look super colorful, they still made the style in the background look super good. It’s also a good thing that animators tend to get creative with the style of their projects, so that every animated, or even live action movie,  doesn’t look the same. And KPop Demon Hunters does a brilliant job with every small detail, even I saw how clean they go throughout the whole movie.

One other thing I have to admire is the music they put in this movie. And don’t even get me wrong with the songs that the characters sing in the movie, those are definitely great songs. As someone who’s been through music in high school, I also admire the way the background music builds in through the scenes, and it sounds beautiful and clear. And the songs are all in an album that a lot of people listen to even if some of the lyrics are in Korean. Golden has definitely carried the whole soundtrack since it went super high up in the charts and it has a good reason to be up there. Golden and Takedown was definitely super fitting in the movie, so I can see why the album has gotten super viral even though that might just be my music taste lately.

I have never written my thoughts about a movie at all. But I would just love to talk about any part in this movie. And yes, I would say it’s a movie that’s worth having Netflix for just like how Disney+ has their Mandalorian series. I even think out of all movies and TV shows that are on Netflix, KPop Demon Hunters is the best film to stream on Netflix. If I have to give it a rating, it would be 9.8/10. I only just have a few points off because this movie was originally gonna be so much longer than an hour and a half, I bet that they cut off some great parts and that could’ve made it more better and not so boring. I believe the runtime got cut had something to do with Sony sold Netflix the rights to the movie.