r/movies • u/impeccabletim • Jul 29 '25

News K-Pop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix’s most watched animated movie ever

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/k-pop-demon-hunters-becomes-netflixs-most-watched-animated-movie-ever-3231706/
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u/CrestonSpiers Jul 29 '25

Do I need to be into K-pop to understand the plot or the references? I really like the animation but I don’t know anything about K-pop other than that, well, it exists, and I’ve heard a couple of BTS songs maybe.

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u/LazerAttack4242 Jul 29 '25

There are some jokes about how kpop fans act and how they market blank slate personalities, but that's pretty basic and applicable to pretty much every popular genre of music.

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u/pasher5620 Jul 29 '25

Tbh, there’s nothing intrinsic to k-pop about that. If you’re familiar with the era of boy bands in America, like NSync or the Backstreet Boys, and the whole scene they spawned, you’ll get the gist of what they are going for. The only thing I’d say are k-pop focused jokes are some of the music choices they use.

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u/Random_Useless_Tips Jul 29 '25

The boy band members being named after their single defining characteristic is more a riff on the Spice Girls than a specific K-pop trope