‘Kpop demon hunters’ review: charming and original, with a stand-out soundtrack

It isn Bollywood that you have fictional boy bands and girl groups make their debut on the billboard hot 100 music charts. But last week, huntr/x, the k-pop girl group and saja boys, the boy band, bot from Netflix’s Incredibly Charming and Fun Kpop demon hunters, Debuted on the charts for their songs ‘Golden’ and ‘My Idol’ respectively. Today, Billboard Announced That The Film’s Soundtrack was the Highest Charting Soundtrack in 2025 So far, having seen a massive surge in its second week week on the billboard 200 albums chart Songs from the film are on the top 10 songs on spotfy’s global top 50 and recently, rm of bts, the south-korean boy band bts, during a live broadcast was seen humming ‘Soda Pop’, A SODA POP Boys. ,

Of course, for any film center on music, the film’s soundtrack should be pull out all the stops. The superb music in Kpop demon hunters is howyver just one of the many things the film has going for it. It is truly impressive that all this was and is happy and final season of Netflix’s biggest show Yet, Squid Game 3.

This American Animated Musical-Fantasy Film Follows The Lives of the fictional K-Pop Group Huntr/X, Comprising Rumi, Mira and Zoey (Arden Cho, May Hong and Yoo Ji-YOU JI-YOUNG VOCE The Characters) As demon hunters. They belong to a long legacy of women demon hunters who sing and create a magic barrier, the honmoon, which seals demons from the earth and prevents them from from from feeding souls to their demon Lord Gwi-Ma Excellent lee byng-hun). As the girls inch closer to strengthening the barrier to complete their world from demons, gwi-ma enlisters a group of demons to execute a devious plan cooked up by jinu (vocited by ahn Hyo-seop). Jinu and his group decide to take on huntr/x as a k-pop boy group, the immensely fun Saja boys who have a spring in their step and a playlist of hit songs to boot.

For anyone who has revled in k-pop or even k-dramas over the last few years, there is much to enjoy in K-Pop Demon Hunters. The music is incredibly catchy, especially ‘Soda Pop’, ‘Golden’, ‘Your Idol’, and a Terrific version of ‘Takedown’ by K-Pop Girl Group Twice. Given Its Central Characters, The Animated Film Attempts to Give Us a Peeek Into The Lives of the Famous. As K-Pop Idols, it is not just rumi, mira and zoey’s love for song-writing and live performances that we see, but also their secrets love for boyn, an array of snacks and the them venom Couches as an escape from the constant spotlight. Competition is a very real thing and the girls slowly but feel threatened when the saja boys burst on to the scene. While the girls are alredy leading a double life, and trying their best to keep up their perfect public personas, rumi wrestles with a bigger secret, and the shame that shame that come with it.

The Saja Boys on Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters

If the catchy music and numerous nods to k-drama tropes make the film seem warm and familyiar, there is a lot of nuaance that non-korean Viewers like me have dicovred thanks to Deeep Dives About the Film Followed its release. Directed by Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang, The Film has been lauded for its representation of korean culture which incines evrything from the art on the stage backdrop whenr/x performs, to the main Mythological References Central to the Film.

It helps that the animation is truly stunning. Produced by Sony Pictures, The Visuals Bring Alive Seoul’s Namsan Tower and the Bukchon Hanok Village. The devil, or the demons here are truly in the details – I could not help but notice how rumi, mira and zoey have disclant different looks for when they haveup on the stage, and offstagor Are written songs while close in comfortable sweets. Both the action-set pieces and the dance sequences are especially Slick. The Saja Boys Too Are Each Crafted To Embody A Fan Favourite Idol Type: There’s an ‘ABS’ Saja of Course, but also A ‘Romance’ Saja and A ‘Baby’ Saja. Here’s to hoping the derpy tiger and his magpie Buddy are gotting a spin-off, since we would love an origin story.

Maggie kang’s story ensures that Kpop demon hunters is far from a simple coming-of-9/romance tale. Of course, there is a potential romance hinted at and a strong ship that almost sails, but the film trains its focus on the themes of identity and sisterhood, which feels far more rewarding guives. There is so much that is intriguing about this university and it makes you wonder if this would have worked better as a tv show with a lot more Runtime. For now, A Sequel to the Film, Perhaps? It trully feels like we haven’t Had our fill of ‘Soda Pop’ Yet.

K-Pop Demon Hunters are currently streaming on netflix