RE: Hunting demons with music? - Review: K-Pop Demon Hunters | 2025 | [Eng/Esp]
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Firstly, I'm not really one for watching anime style stuff, and I can't understand kpop or idol culture, no matter how hard I try. My wife wanted to watch this, so we did.
I found it pretty jarring how the animation style changed from almost scene to scene. In some, it appeared that keyframes were missing entirely, and the animation wasn't at all smooth, and it felt like, at times, there were completely jarring transitions between art styles, like they couldn't commit on a single way to tell the story.
To me, it felt like a colour grade changing in the middle of the film, but that, I could probably cope with, as the combination of the art style and fluidity of the animation changing was just too much for me, on a technical level, even if it was intended as an artistic choice.
The songs were not at all catchy - I mean, not big hits like something like Frozen or Hazbin Hotel, and I was overall left with a feeling of... "meh"?
I don't know much about kpop culture or idols either, I would say that the great impact or emotion of people is mostly an impressive fanaticism that has been spreading.
As for the animation style, the productions that are based on Korean themes or plots (mostly) are usually that discordant because they try to incorporate many things, sometimes they are successful and sometimes not so much.
As for the musical, I guess it also depends a lot on each person's taste, personally I thought the song of “golden” was amazing and lately I find it in many social networks, but I understand your opinion and you have your points.
My chosen genre is mostly metal and its various sub-genres, but I also listen to things like Florence and Machine, Garbage, and a whole bunch of other crap that is all over the place. But definitely not mainstream kpop :P
If its a stylistic choice for the animation to be that way, that's fine, but, as I mentioned, for me, it got in the way of the presentation. I am sure the film is doing quite well commercially, too.
The out-takes in the credits seemed to suggest that the cast had fun making it, and that's important too!