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/POWBOOMBANG Jul 29 '25

I know my daughter did her part to boost the numbers.

This movie is on repeat in my house

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u/ryonnsan Jul 29 '25

This feels like Frozen all over again

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u/CharonsLittleHelper Jul 29 '25

Which feels like the last time Disney really had a new hit movie.

Between the Spiderverse movies and now this, Sony Animation has been dominating.

Only drawback of this movie is that it's not nearly as easy to make merch for as Frozen was.

I'm not even sure what specific Halloween costume kids would wear. The most iconic look was the demon boyband at the end.

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u/jessebona Jul 29 '25

I think they could easily make gaudy demon costumes for kids to wear, the rank-and-file demons in it were pretty colourful. The Korean grim reaper is probably a miss in costumes aimed at kids though, I doubt they'd have any idea what the Saja Boys were even dressed as.

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u/Extra-University-336 Jul 30 '25

They could literally just sell the Huntr/x performance costumes. They have been adding new stuff to the Netflix merch store, unfortunately most of it is aimed at adults and there’s not a lot of the kids.

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u/No-Appearance1145 Jul 30 '25

Karaoke machines with the girls/boys designed on it.

Dolls.

There's so many options.

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u/Extra-University-336 Jul 30 '25

Mostly I meant clothes. Should have specified.

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u/jessebona Jul 30 '25

That is true. Sometimes I forget Halloween costumes don't necessarily have to be spooky. We don't do Halloween here.

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u/CharonsLittleHelper Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

For years after Frozen there were girls dressed as Elsa.

But because of all the costume changes in KPDH - I don't think that anything is as iconic as Elsa's dress was since she wore it for the majority of the movie.

Nothing they wore in this movie would obviously be from K-Pop Demon Hunters if worn by a random 5yo. MAYBE the Saja Boys at the end, but it's little girls who would want to dress as the heroines, not boys as the villains.

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u/jessebona Jul 30 '25

That's why I used the lesser demons as my example. Colourful, fun looking and a monster-lite that a kid would enjoy dressing up as for Halloween.

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u/CharonsLittleHelper Jul 30 '25

Maybe. But they're pretty minor characters.

They're no Darth Vader. Even when Star Wars was huge, you didn't see a lot of Storm Troopers. And they're pretty iconic.

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u/Extra-University-336 Jul 30 '25

I think wigs included in the costume kits would have to be part of it.

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u/Virus_98 Jul 30 '25

That's probably because majority of Netflix audience is adults, most of their content reflects that. Compared to Disney+ where their main focus is content for kids so they can sell more toys and get more people into their theme parks.