KPop Demon Hunters Discussion and Review | Anime Watch Club

Welcome to Watch Club, a bi-weekly group discussion and review where the hosts of the what do you say anime podcast, nominate and vote on shows either that we haven't seen or shows that will hopefully lead to a great discussion. On todays episode, we will be reviewing the 2025 movie, KPop Demon Hunters!

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0:00 Intro

3:24 First impressions

13:58 Synopsis

15:34 The animation style of KPop Demon Hunters

20:11 Writing for TikTok and going viral

22:14 The depth of its themes and storytelling

30:16 Favorite tracks (and KPDH's only flaw)

39:21 Rumi's struggles and how she handled them

44:24 The cast, designs, and Korean folklore

50:43 Closing thoughts and scores

1:01:54 What we're watching next

Episode Transcript

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Again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Anime Watch Club, a
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(00:29):
Nominate and vote on shows either we haven't seen or shows
that hopefully took a great discussion.
On today's episode, the WADA sawpals of the of the What do you
say anime podcast. That's our band name.
By the way, we'll be reviewing the 2025 movie K Pop Demon
Hunters. Let's meet today's calorie
reduced superstars on lead vocals.
We got Jolene. Jolene, How's it going tonight?

(00:52):
Going well, got a little haircutdone, like we're starting a
little bit later. Sorry everybody, but I think it
was worth it. Hell yeah.
The choreographer of the group, We got Cat.
Cat. How's it going?
Damn, yeah I guess I yeah I guess I would be the
choreographer. Probably not good though.

(01:13):
I got 2 left feet dude. You're better than all of us
combined, so Congrats, you are leading our dancing.
I couldn't think of what Miles was, so I landed on.
He's the acapella guy. So acapella guy.
Miles, how's it going? It's going well.
I I Can't Sing. I can I can do spreadsheets for

(01:35):
the the band or something. You're the treasurer now?
Yeah, I'm the treasurer. Congrats.
You've been promoted. And Pat?
Yeah, I'm the the manager in thebackground working all the
deals, signing all the your endorsements and taking care of
you guys and your branding in general.
So yeah, that's that's what I'd do.

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And Pete, what's your role in this band?
Well, I thought I was the manager, so good question.
I I. Don't know.
It's literally what I do for a living.
So like, that's why I thought I would assume that that would be
me, but I don't know. Like, would you?
Yeah, but. Like I run the podcast and we're
we're the band. Maybe I would just be.

(02:17):
I'm not you're. The executive.
No, I'm like, I'm trying to think because like we had like,
our lead singer. What's like the ancillary
characters of like, a group. I'll be the rapper.
How about that? I'll be.
Yeah. You could be.
The guy with the six pack. No, no, no, no.
I I want to we can't be. No, no, no.
I want to be Zoe. I want to be Zoe, not.
Don't we all not? Genu.

(02:42):
Is are we all gonna is everyone's favorite character,
Zoe? Probably, but we'll find out in
the episode. Wait, Prosy do you as ABS?
Oh my God, he was so interesting.
Oh, I didn't know that. There we go.
OK, I just learned, but yeah, let's let's get to it.
OK, Sorry, I tried to yes, Sam'sthere and didn't succeed.
K Pop Demon hunters. This anime Wink Wink came out in

(03:05):
2025 on Netflix. Done by studio.
I don't know. So it's directed by Chris Apple
Hands and Maggie Kang or Kong, probably written by Danya
Jimenez and it has themes of pop, musical, action, adventure,
animation, comedy, fantasy, family and music.
So let's start with our first impressions.

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Yes, bangers all around for sure.
Miles, what are your first thoughts on this movie?
So maybe 1st 1015 minutes vibes,etcetera.
And would you recommend it? OK, so I I had limited exposure
to this movie despite it being like the world's most popular
thing. When you're me, you don't ever

(03:48):
do anything besides sleep and take care of your child.
But I had a great time with this.
I Pat had put the idea that thisis secretly takes place in the
Grubhub cinematic universe, and I thought it was very funny that
that scene happened. Like it was like literally like
scene 1. So I was like, OK, well, at
least we got that out of the wayso I don't have to anticipate

(04:09):
the sniffing of the giant sushi roll this entire movie.
We've we've already done this. It it's over.
It's not sushi. I'm just going to Trent will get
you in post, but it's not sushi.Oh, what was it?
What is? There's a difference.
OK, what is the difference? One is from Japan and one is
from. They have different ingredients

(04:33):
a lot of the time though. I don't.
I think Kim Bob can be stuff other than fit.
I don't. I'm not an expert, but they are.
Different. I like that answer.
They're different wrongs. OK, for sure I've shown my
ignorance in Korean culture, butthat food that looks a whole lot
like a sushi roll. Anyways, I think I thought that

(04:53):
the opening scene in this movie was like really awesome and set
the tone right. Like they're on the plane,
they're trying to make it. You see something's up.
They're like, hey, you guys are demons.
And they're they're they're demons on the plane and they're
like, we don't want you to get your concert.
And then they sing a fucking awesome K pop song and fight
demons. And then the plane explodes and

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they jump into the stadium and put on a concert.
And it was a lot of fun and I had AI had a good time and the
rest of the movie is is like that scene.
It's cool. I like it.
I I would recommend it. Is this movie perfect?
No, yes, this it has one flaw that isn't an actual flaw, but

(05:35):
it's it's a thing that I think movies like this and I'll get
into this. Pitch perfect has this flaw.
There's other anime that have this flaw.
Pete Pitch perfect has two flaws.
This movie only has one flaw. But just 200 times, we'll have
words. We'll we can talk about it

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later. Bonus, bonus content.
But I would recommend this movie.
I think it's a lot of fun and itit's a good time.
There you go. All right, Kat, what about you?
Yeah. So little thing about me not a
huge K pop fan. I don't like the culture behind
a lot of like a lot of the the Kpop groups because not because

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of like the actual like singers and like dancers, but mainly
because of the fan bases and theinsane like schedules they have
on them. Plus, I don't really like the
music itself. A lot of the time it's very
squeaky clean and there's not a lot of raw motion in it.
So I would I came into this movie like, OK, this is not

(06:40):
going to be this is not going tobe great musically.
And then I was proven wrong in the first scene.
So I really enjoyed. Oh, man, a lot like Miles, just
like sitting in and just going, OK, this is not going to be that
good. OK, there's some actual there's
some fighting in here. Oh, oh shit, the fighting is

(07:02):
going on with the with the musicand it's in town with the music.
It's like watching a music videoand then going on.
This is the thing that I want from a lot of my animated music
videos. Like I just I had so much fun
with this movie. I highly recommend it.
There you go. All right, Jolene, how about
you? Yeah, opening thoughts on this

(07:25):
movie were well, I'm going to bethe first person to party poop,
but the my opening thoughts in this movie were the first thing
that happened was they show a crowd moving at about 12 FPS
waving their. That is literally what it is
moving at, by the way. Is it?
It is. It is specifically 12.

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We can get into it later, but the humans are all animated in
twos, so it's 12 frames in like a in.
Yeah, it. Yeah, I can just tell I'm good
at that shit. I think it's it's.
Technically 24 FPS, but there's only movement every two frames,
so it yeah. Yeah.

(08:08):
Anyway, yeah, we'll talk about it later because this is one of
my one of the things that kind of I like this movie a lot, but
that was the main thing that waspretty noticeable for me at
times, even if it was a stylistic choice.
But like Kat said, I think that the music was incredible for the
opening. I really did enjoy like the
combat choreography and stuff like that and how well it went

(08:30):
with just the general vibes of the music and everything.
I think as someone who is kind of used to seeing like kDa and
stuff like that in League of Legends, that would definitely
scratch a very similar itch as far as like kick ass imaginary
girl band goes. I think that we need more stuff
like this and anime in general as far as band stuff goes.

(08:52):
Give us kick ass bands where they're like, you know, doing
some fighting and shit. I love my character based band
girl stuff, You know, fucking love Abe Mujica and you know,
Carol and Tuesday and stuff. But give me more of this.
Give me more. Of this.
Literally killing someone. Yeah.
Bochy should kill someone. Yeah, no, I agree.

(09:14):
Bochy should. They should give Bochy a gun.
Pat did a real example but. I did, and no one heard it.
Yeah. It was Vivian Guy, which is
amazing fight scenes. It does.
Yeah, this would be a recommend for me for sure.
Perfect, Pete, what about you? Yeah, I watch this movie coming
off of the heels of watching Weapons, so this was a very

(09:37):
different movie compared to that.
And coming into it, I was like, oh, cool, they're they're
combining the two biggest Asian influences in the West, BTS and
Demon Slayer. I was like, OK, how are they
going to mesh this all together?Because I think like on paper, K
pop Demon Hunters seems like a straight to VHS movie.
And then sort of just how they introduced the beginning with

(09:59):
like generations of like different types of singers being
these hunters, I thought was like a cool way to tie in the
current generation of artists tothis like job.
So while maybe it's silly, I just like I I appreciate the
little effort that they did to like try to tie yourself into a
nice little bow. But I was blown away by this

(10:20):
movie. This was so much fun.
I think first impressions, like everyone said, the this is how
it's done song was great. I think it like really
solidified them as a band sort of like what they stand on just
with just with the song itself, you can take out the animations
of the fight scenes and it wouldstill be an incredible like
sequence. So I really liked what I saw to

(10:41):
begin with and I'm going to be singing its praises throughout.
2 thumbs up for me, highly recommended.
Two thumbs up. There you go.
I don't see any thumbs up right now, but you know, it's OK.
Yeah, there it is. There it is. 2 thumbs up and
yeah, that's some lean. Yeah, I got a double cup lead
right now in my in my cup. There we go.

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Yeah. So I agree with a lot of what's
been said with the music being ahuge highlight of this movie.
I, I think I liked almost every song like categorically, like
100% except for the last one. Other than that, every song was
like perfect to me, like for, for what it was doing and even
the last one. I see why it was written the way
it was. So it's not a complaint.

(11:24):
It's just I we'll talk about later.
Well, like our favorite song probably from the Oh yeah.
I found the animation frustrating before I watched it
while I watched it and like evenafter I I again, I made the
analogy to the Grubhub ads from like like 2 weeks ago and I

(11:45):
still stand on that that it doeslook like that.
And I agree with what Jolene wassaying as well, where it's
clearly stylistic things that they they did, but I personally
didn't enjoy them very much. And a lot of the the background
art is is fine. However, at the same time, so
much of the stuff I like from this film is the visual gags of

(12:06):
the, the, the characters themselves too.
So it was very hit or miss for me.
I think the OR the art was, I should specify.
And then even the movie in general was very hit and miss
for me too. Though like the plot, it's a
kids movie good thing and a bad thing at the same time.
We'll talk about that later too.I think it benefited from it at
times and also got harmed from being a kids movie or targeted

(12:30):
in that way. Yeah, I'm excited to just like
get into the nitty gritty with it.
So I would say I would recommendthis movie though.
I think it's a lot of fun. I also think you do have to have
some understanding of like Eastern Asian culture to
appreciate it fully, you know, like, yeah, I know what AK Pop
band is, why they're doing things that they're doing.
Any idea around like demons and stuff like that?

(12:50):
You you should have that going into it.
But if you're watching anime or you're watching this and you
probably already have that too. So I would recommend it to
pretty much everyone. If you're watching K pop Demon
Hunters and you don't know what K pop is, that's on you.
Well, yes and no, though, because like it's the number one
movie on Netflix. They just hit number one with on
the Billboard top 100 with golden.
Like I can't I can't blame some brand.

(13:11):
Like I can just imagine my dad sitting down on opening Netflix
and just being like, what the hell is this and clicking it and
he wouldn't get the jokes. Well, no, he he he probably is
it, but I'm saying like if if itwas put on in front of him, it
wouldn't resonate to him. That's all I'm saying.
You know what I mean? Like it wouldn't you wouldn't
get it as much as other people would.
So I wouldn't recommend it to mydad.

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That's that's the caveat there. Trent, put that over my face.
There we go. But yeah, let's get into
spoilers. Let's get talking about the
movie K Pop Demon hunters. Decently spoiler heavy, I guess
not really. It's kids movie, but things
happen, things change, things happen.
So yeah, let's get right into it.
Miles, do you have a first talking point or is this a bad

(13:55):
segue? Well, I do think first I will
give a a little overview of our plot.
You know, even though the name sort of pretty succinctly does
it for us. But we follow a band named
Huntrix or an idol group I guessnamed Huntrix which is 3 members

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Rumi, Mira and Zoe and they havea manager who's played by senior
Chang from community True and they are K pop idols and also
demon hunters. But Rumi the star of the group
has a secret and that secret is that she has to dye her hair.

(14:39):
Just kidding it's that she's half demon now.
This is an issue for her as there's a whole, you know, they
hunt demons. So like she doesn't want her
friends to find out that she's kind of a demon because like
that would be bad. Meanwhile, in the demon world,
they're like, you know what? If you can't beat them, join
them. We'll stop in order to to break

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down this barrier called like the Hun moon or something, the
Hong Moon, Hong Moon there, you know, we'll start a boy band of
demons and use our catchy songs to steal people's souls.
And then so we get to meet Ginu,who's the leader of said boy

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band, and there's some will theywon't they with with him and
Rumi and shenanigans and Sue. That is the thing.
So the first thing I guess I would want to talk about.
We've already mentioned it a couple times, so I think I'll
just bring up the the animation thing if we don't mind.
And we can, I don't know how much we need to talk about it,

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but specifically it looks choppythe way that it does a lot of
the time because the humans are animated on twos.
And So what that means is that if it's 24 FPS every like 2
frames, they'll be movement. So like 2 frames will be the
same and then it will move. And the demons are all animated
on ones, which means every framethere's movement.

(16:09):
So the demons should look a lot.They look like more ethereal and
like fluid in a little otherworldly compared to the
people. Now, honestly, I think, you
know, and I don't know enough about like Korean folklore to
know if this would make sense ornot.
I feel like maybe you swap that and like have people look normal
and then like have the demons bea little like jilted.

(16:29):
But however, that was a artisticdecision and, and that's why
though I have seen a lot of people sort of be off put by the
sort of shakiness of that animation.
It didn't bother me. But I I guess I I do get that
people's thoughts on that reasoning or just the animation
in general. Yeah, I can go.

(16:50):
So one of the things that that Ikind of felt with the animation
is that like it only really I really enjoyed that a lot of the
animation was done in action. So like the choppiness of it
didn't really affect me that much.
It affected me in low action moments, especially like in the

(17:13):
like in the the gifts that we sometimes use where they're
where they're going like at likecloser to like the 3015 thirty
minute mark. Like that's the moment where I
was like, holy shit, that is really, really bad.
Like it just felt really jarring, but at the moments of

(17:34):
fights and like things where themovement had to be more, like
where the movements were so wideand stark, those were the points
at which I was really locked in and I didn't even care about the
about the trappiness. So and I don't know, like it

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just felt odd during the less less action oriented sequences.
It's worth noting too, with thismovie that I think, I don't
think it was expected to blow upin the way that it did in any
capacity. So it probably didn't have as
much of a budget. I say that as if though it
doesn't have like the top voice actors and actresses, you know,

(18:20):
like a ton of very famous Koreanpeople in this movie.
So maybe they did maybe they didhave a big budget behind it and
that so I don't really know where where to stand that.
Like with the the animation, I agree Kat that like in its
static moments, it or the light movement versus the fight
choreography. The animation was at its worst

(18:43):
because I think like the background art, the colors used,
the character costume designs, All of that was beautifully done
with on the artistic front. I just those gifts annoy me
again. I don't know if it's the, the
flashback, Vietnam flashback kind of thing or what, but I
just they and, and it's funny too, because like some of the
visual gags like the cat and theand the bird with the with the

(19:08):
hat loved them. But then they're like silly
faces. Like they're basically like
they're in this art style. It's the equivalent of like
going chibi mode almost. I I didn't love that stuff that
that's where I stand on the animation at least.
But again, like color palette. I loved the color palette of
this movie. I thought it was so, so well
done. I guess just really quick from

(19:32):
what I've read, which is about one day's worth of brief
Googling, they wouldn't have saved any money from doing the
animation like they did. Like with the less fluid thing,
it would because you would be rendering the same amount of
frames, you just would make slightly less frames.
So like, but from my understanding, the bulk of the
cost comes from like the computer power to like render

(19:54):
all of that and you're renderingthe same amount.
I don't know. So don't you know?
That's my understanding. I'm I've, I've read like two
articles on this. I.
That sounds like it would make sense, though, given like what?
Like how computers work and everything.
Yeah, no, that makes sense. I, I had a thought about halfway
through this movie, just I assume no one else had anything

(20:16):
to say on that. I don't think this movie like
halfway through it, it clicked in my head.
I was like, this movie is the epitome of a movie that was made
for shorts or TikTok or clips orreels or whatever with all the
reaction gifts that we've seen. Some of the the like the silly

(20:37):
moments. It felt like that throughout,
which I think it again, it had its moments where I was crying,
laughing at the things of the antics happening on screen, But
then I was also sitting there being like, this wasn't made for
the movie. This was made to be used to
market it or to be used in fan cams or to be used in different,
you know, forms of social media.And and I think that they even

(20:59):
reference that in the movie withlike a lot of the the quick cuts
from the crowds around and and things like that.
They did anyone else feel that way or catch up on that or not
catch up, catch on to that or get that vibe in any way or or
is that just me being a cynical marketer?
I I I think that's a you thing, thinking that this would go

(21:20):
great in a YouTube short becauseour brains don't work that way
because I'd never crossed my mind be like, oh, this would be
sick for TikTok. Yeah, oh, sick.
This would be cool for. I was too busy being like, this
show is really funny or this movie is really good.
Like I it never. Really is too a lot to be clear
yeah, I guess like it just like some so so many of the quick

(21:42):
cuts. I I wish I I almost wish I had
watched it today instead of a few days ago.
But like some of the quick cuts that happened in the movie that
were like it just felt very similar to what you would see in
like a fan Cam that was made by XYZ TikTok account about the
movie or or things like that, that they just for the virality
of it, which would of course help the movie and make it do

(22:02):
better, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like it's not a bad thing
necessarily that they did it, but it also felt like it
impacted the movie for me a little bit too.
It was very fast-paced. It was also here's another way
where it being a kids movie doesn't help.
But it didn't really go that deep, I don't think into some of
its themes. I guess it its themes were good

(22:25):
and I thought they approached them and the resolution follows
its themes pretty well, I think.But I don't think it went as
deep as I was hoping for it to with like the whole demon.
I'm half demon, I'm half human conflict, conflict of her lying
to her bandmates for so long. See, so you like how I'm going

(22:46):
to use this word, but I'm not trying to say it in a negative
way. But you liked how shallow it
dove into that. I I don't think every I don't
think every movie needs to have this deep philosophical theme
and messaging to get the point across.
I think it can just be popcorny and having fun with it.
And that's what this movie did. Yeah, the themes were there even
with, like, Rumi. This is from the official, like,

(23:09):
quote from the voice actress, that the last song with Rumi's
character is about mixed heritage, queer identity and
addiction. And this is coming directly from
their voice actress. And I guess in the movie I got
the mixed heritage part, but like, I don't think that they
push, like, the theming and messaging too much.

(23:30):
And I'd think that's a positive because I don't think this movie
was meant to deep dive into those themes.
It was supposed to explore them a little bit, while the main
focus being on the entertainmentitself.
Like focus on being a kids movie, right?
Like you're not, you know, beingsomething deeply philosophical,
which is too, well, I. And so that's where I felt where

(23:52):
I. Was I don't think it's a kids
movie. I don't think we should say it's
a kids movie. Like a kids movie is like Paw
Patrol. Movie.
Yeah, Paw Patrol. This is.
This is like a showing in for Netflix.
This is made for. Netflix labels it.
Yeah, but this is for 12 to 17 year old people like this is

(24:14):
definitely you guys like something to say.
Yeah, I think it's like a. Pixar movie where it's like it's
a family movie. Family movie.
I think that's a good way to frame it.
Yeah, so my thing with it is like it it feel like at times
where it does feel like it's supposed to be if there are

(24:35):
times where it is reminiscent oflike Frozen, but there.
But those times are like like inmy opinion, like few and far in
between where it's like activelytrying to be entertaining.
And the moments where it is trying to like hit those story
points of like this is part of the theme.
This is the this is the statement of our theme.

(24:59):
This is the progression of our theme.
This is where the other shoe drops.
Like it's playing with like, youknow, the plot arc and stuff
like that fairly fairly decently.
But The thing is, like, I do think the movie does like try
and up the amount of like clippable moments, but at the
same time, I don't think it doesit in a way where it feels super

(25:22):
forced. I think it does it in a way that
is meant to be like a form of a form of quick storytelling.
Because they can't, in my opinion, I think that this that
the pacing that they had and thetime that they had was perfect.
Because if it would if like think about it, they added an
extra 30 minutes and harked on God, what's her name Zoe or the

(25:47):
other the the red haired chicks like her issues with like mixed
race heritage and addiction or not mixed race heritage but like
her thing of addiction maybe like 'cause I feel like that
might have been pointing towardsher maybe.
Nope. The addiction part.
Nope, it was on the roomy. Yeah, she has.

(26:12):
What's her name is? Mira has something about family.
Yeah. She has.
She was the she's the outcast ofher, like rich royal family.
Which ironically, she's the outcast too because like the
other two get a little bit more development than she does.
Which I think is another, maybe another talking point.
But anyways, Kat, sorry, continue.
Yeah, like I think that the the storytelling in the movie was

(26:38):
good for for what it is. And I don't think that adding
more to it would change, would make it better.
So I get where you're coming from, but I also think that
like, this is probably the most of the sum of his parts.
I think that's fair. I I I see what you're saying too

(26:59):
about how like the clip, like itdidn't detract from you for the
movie and and I guess I wouldn'tsay it like ruined it for me
either, to be very clear to it. Just it's something I feel like
I noticed and I've never really noticed it while watching other
movies before. So specifically as I did in
this, and I guess I'm just suspicious of Netflix and you
know, like, like I don't trust them in any way.

(27:21):
So have you? Ever seen?
Frozen. Frozen.
Gosh, maybe. Let's let it go.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you, guys. Yeah, the very good one.
I couldn't hold it back anymore,You know, It was just boiling

(27:41):
inside of me. And here I stay, Julian.
Do you have any thoughts on this?
I wanted more from the movie, but I realize that I'm also not
in the like, I wanted more development personally, but I
also realize that I'm not necessarily in like kind of any
demographic for this movie. And I think that for the people

(28:07):
who this is targeted towards that this is like more than
satisfactory. Especially people who are into
like K drama and stuff like thatwhere you're kind of used to
having like this kind of like thinly ridden emotional hot boy
as the male lead. Like that's very much a thing in
K drama. So I don't know, I wanted more,

(28:31):
but it's kind of a case of me wanting the movie to be
something that it's not and I don't, Yeah, so I can't complain
too much about it. I think for what the movie is
trying to be, it's entirely satisfactory and the pacing of
it is pretty solid in my opinion.

(28:52):
I think that literally the only actual plot complaint I have is
that I don't understand the point of Celine existing if
she's going to have like 45 seconds of screen time even
though. You have to be.
Thank you. Yes, that's well that's where I
thought that we were going to get more expansion on maybe the

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lore of it or the the connections or what, who her
parents were in the 1st place like which one was the demon?
Which one or, or anything. I guess it it was almost like a
red herring, just like at one point I was going to say, well,
like Ashley and I were watching.We were like, oh, maybe Ginu is
her dad, you know, or something crazy like that happening.
We thought that it only for a little bit.

(29:34):
No, obviously, no, no, I and again that once they started
falling in love, we didn't thinkthat anymore.
We were like, there's no way that would be in a kids family
movie. A family's the right way to
label it too. That's that's much fairer way.
But you know, like we were just like, oh, is that a that must
just be a red herring for it. But yeah, I was surprised that
Celine didn't even have and evenher final scene, she doesn't
even really give the answer or any helpful insight to Rumi in

(29:59):
that moment. You know, she's kind of just
there to be a, a sounding board for her, which, you know, works
out in the end. But I, so I, I'm glad someone
else brought that up because I Ialso felt frustrated by that.
We've been negative, though, I think for 10 minutes and not
again, maybe not even negative, just like wishy washy.
Let's talk about some of the stuff we love.
Like I, I think the music we we already have been ha ha music.

(30:22):
We've been dancing around it fora little bit.
What was everyone's favorite song from this?
Cause for me it was golden. I would love to hear what your
guys as well. OK.
This is this. This comes to my core complaint
with this movie and Pitch Perfect and your boy Kong Ming,
OK. We're not supposed to complain
right now. We're supposed to talk about the
good. No, I'm kidding.
I'm kidding. No, you're talking because the

(30:42):
issue that all of these where they have two vocal groups that
are combating. In some way.
OK, and like golden absolute bang over takedown banger bang
like all these shows or songs are banger but your idol holy
shit, so good. It's so good.
You can't just have them come inand win.
They can't be better. It's it's it's like what what

(31:07):
are you doing anyways? That's my favorite song and it's
the only flaw with this movie. There are other flaws with this
movie, but I don't care about them because they don't really
matter that much. And like it, it is just like a a
joke really. But like I always hate it the
way that it's like, OK, here's the because the the winning
group always gets this like sortof emotional song that's like

(31:28):
meaningful and about feelings and stuff.
But what I want is the villain song about stealing people's
souls via K pop, you know? And so anyways, your idol is my
favorite song. That whole bit went so hard.
I thought it was great though. I I kind of listened to this
entire soundtrack like 7 times. Yeah, it's really good.

(31:48):
It's. Really good, but that was me.
And who else? Let let me try man, because your
Idol was also my favorite song and it's it's one of those
things where it's like, I think like Golden is like the song I
would probably listen to the most, but I think your idol is
the Best Song, especially with how this is like the first time

(32:11):
where I thought like the the theme and messaging was going to
get like more like into it because during that song, and I
think there was like scenes before that, it's when we
started seeing the Saja boys do their join the pride.
You know, it's like the BTS army.
It's like the pride of the Saja boys and using their influence

(32:33):
to sort of create this like Internet army or fan army.
And then just the doing that is like so like, I guess predatory
a little bit. But then dropping that song
after that, they were doing all that just being like, yeah,
we're here for your souls. Like you belong to us.

(32:54):
We are your idol. I was like, yes, this is so
good. Like I love that.
They just like kind of. I do wish if anything, that was
dived into more, but I just thought that that song was
incredible. The whole soundtrack is like so
good. Like I don't know it it, it
reminds me of like when you werea kid and like CDs mattered.

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And then when CDs mattered, the track list mattered.
And so for me, this is like a really well constructed track
list that the songs like flow together like really well.
So I want to give props to like how they structured the songs in
the order that they did was fantastic.
And then also the last thing I'll say is the last, like, the

(33:38):
diss song that they had, which Ithink was overall pretty bad,
but the idea that they were writing it against the Sasha
boys. But then the lyrics were
directed when the demons came out at Rumi.
I thought that was really. That was a really interesting
twist, like sort of being. I love that scene.
Yeah. It's just like, no, we're

(33:59):
against the demons, but you're ademon.
We are against you. Like you, you think your friends
are with you, like, through thick and thin no matter what.
But then the demons make it seemlike, no, you are different.
We don't want to be associated with you.
I just thought how they, like, piece together the songs with,
like, the storyline and the plot.

(34:20):
What so? Well, like I want to give like
huge props. I was my favorite part of the
movie. Well, that has to do with the
mixed heritage theming there too, right, Where it's like,
well, so like to assign race is there like her Korean side
doesn't want her, her white sidedoesn't want her in.
If you were like saying like half to even half America human,

(34:43):
it's the same idea, right? Like that.
That was the culmination of it, where they feel as she feels
divided between her two heritages or her two selves, and
she doesn't even know who, how she identifies.
I suppose you know to to put it in layman's term.
Kind of I think it's more along lines of this.
Conversation. But I want to hear everyone's
favorite song because that's where we were and I just don't
want to. That's that's.

(35:04):
Well, we can circle back to thisbecause it is an interesting
conversation. It's Yeah.
That's a conversation. What was your favorite song?
Heavily related to anyway, yeah,my favorite song is honestly how
it's done. Like it like the opening song is
just a just a bop for me. Like that's that's the song that

(35:25):
I would actually listen to to like get into the I get into
like the idea of like something I was writing or something like
getting into like working out orsomething like that like that.
It's a it's a hype song for me. Like I get Golden and I also get
also get your idol, but like forme personally, if I'm going to
if I was going to listen to any of the songs that are here, it'd

(35:47):
probably be out. It's done over golden and your
idol. And also I agree with you, Pete
takedown is not great. Honestly.
Like it's just like. It's it's also like K pop
artists don't do diss tracks. Like it was so random.
Right, like is. BTS really beating with a TS

(36:08):
right now and they're all drop their songs like they'll do
that. So that was kind of interesting.
Well, yeah, yeah, that. But also like I, I don't like
how like it started and it was like takedown, takedown, take
that down at that. And it started and it started to
sound like it was going to be like a kind of like hip hop

(36:29):
based or like hip hop bass, hip hop beat song.
And then it goes into like, thisupbeat thing, and it's like,
that feels weird anyway, but yeah.
The music in general I think it like you said is good and I I
don't even really like K pop that much comparatively to other

(36:52):
genres. I've never been a big K pop guy
and I think that this does a good job of showing what K pop
IT music is like though to to toa common man.
A little bit. I feel like the lyrics are like
the same song, 85% English. Yes, but like what?

(37:16):
But that's intentional so that we can actually, yeah, yeah.
Like 100% to the American audiences, you know, But like
when you think about like a songlike what?
Again, we're just using BTS because they, the name's huge.
Like think about like songs likeButter or Dynamite.
Like they have they almost soundlike 3 different songs mashed
together with like the IT just the way they change time

(37:37):
signatures or BPM or anything else like tone.
They I mean K pop songs will sometimes sound like a rock song
and then switch to like like popout of.
Note they asked her right back. To rock, yeah, it's aster roll.
It's a great example. Yeah.
Yeah, like a song like that, that's what a lot of K pop music
is like for my very limited but.Yeah, I would say you're wrong,

(38:01):
but I know what you're trying tosay.
I would say a lot of K pop songsare not like that.
That's how it's been described to me by people that like K Pop
and and. I guess for the record, K Pop
doesn't do that for most of their songs.
Most of their songs are generic.So maybe most of their songs are

(38:23):
they OK, fair enough. But I like how they did that
with like this music. It didn't feel as significant.
It felt very much just like, I guess generic pop, which maybe
is what the. Yeah, yeah.
There we go. We got.
There I, I don't know. Well, I thought, I guess I have
to go yell at my friends for youlying to me.

(38:44):
You can just ask. I could tell you I listen to K
Pop. My entire K pop experience is
kDa and now these people so. I was going to say kDa.
It sounded. It sounded like kDa to me too,
which I liked a lot. Yeah, there's probably sub
genres in K pop. I don't know.
I don't know anything about K pop.

(39:04):
Jolene, did you have a favorite song?
Yeah, it was probably soda. Soda pop.
Oh, I like that. That's a good.
That's very catchy, which is like, yeah, good, because that
was the point of the song. Yeah, very.
Summary. Yeah.
OK, great. Now we can get back.
Let's get back to that scene youguys were talking about, because
I think that's a very good scenewhere the demons impersonate the

(39:28):
roomies bandmates and she's out there and they're singing the
song she didn't want to and she sort of snaps into it and is
isolated there. I just actually like really
liked that scene in a bunch of ways.
And Pete and Pat, you guys were talking about it.
So I'm going to let you get backto it because that's there.
And then we can all talk about that if we want, or we can move
to different scenes. But I think that's a very good
scene. So go ahead.

(39:51):
I don't. I don't know what else to say.
You were speaking, were you not,Pete?
OK. Were you done?
OK, I don't I what did I say? What did I say?
I don't remember. You guys were talking about like
how Rumi like how the demons impersonated her friends and
like made her feel isolated. And that's like when that came

(40:11):
out and every just that that scene.
Because like what I liked about it was that when she actually
like when her friends found out what it was, it wasn't the fact
that she was a demon that they were upset about in
particularly. It was more that she had hid it
from them and lied and you know,it done all of these things to
try to hide that fact from them.But like, I don't know, the

(40:34):
scene where they're that her bandmates are like demons
impersonating them. And like, I, I just felt that
like really felt like did a goodjob of conveying the isolation
someone like Rumi might feel in like in society, you know what I
mean? Where like, you think everyone's
against you, even people that you love and trust, if they knew
who you really were, they like, wouldn't like, you guys were

(40:57):
talking about that. I wanted to make sure everyone
got their favorite before we went down that tangent, but I
might have killed that conversation so I apologize.
No, no, it's OK. I, I, I had said like basically
what I thought too, which, but again, I just thought it was
cool that it, it does, like you said too.
Or the point you referenced about the her friends being more
mad that they lied to her than that she is half demon.

(41:17):
It's like, again, if you try to apply that to, to race or
anything along those lines, I think that that's how normal
people that function in society feel that way too.
Like if, if someone came up, like if Kat came up to me and
told me he was half white, like,I'd be like, cool, that's
awesome. Not or.
Why didn't you tell me earlier rather than not, you know?

(41:40):
Kat, do you have anything to sayto that?
Yeah, I do, because this is the thing that actually like
pertains to me for specifically.That's crazy, right?
Anyway, why? Did.
You know, of course I knew, of course I know.
That was the why I picked him instead of like one of you.
I guess I should have picked youguys and like made a joke about

(42:02):
it that way, but I was just like, Oh well, Cat can relate to
this and I was going to try to like yes, and it to him.
So that's why I said that. OK, I'm sorry, am I that Yeah,
go ahead Cat, though if you wantto talk about though I'd love to
hear what you want to say about this like mixed race back as as
the mixed race background out ofthe group like our most.
As the mixed race background. As the mixed race authority.

(42:24):
Right. And you called yourself that 10
minutes ago. That's literally what you called
as. A joke, but like here's the
thing. So it, I, I relate to it in the
fact that like the general public, a lot of the people that
I were around growing up in the very, very Deep South, like in

(42:45):
a, in a town where it felt more like the 70s than the 2000s.
Like I was like, white people looked at me like it goes that
mulatto, like it's a it's a whole thing that, that it felt
like, Oh yeah, I don't live in the hood with a lot of the other
black kids in my school. Also the white people are white

(43:08):
people. So that's a whole thing.
And like, they're like, oh, yourmom's black.
Oh, your dad, your dad's white. Oh, we haven't seen them.
Anyway, that's a whole differentamount of trauma that I don't
want to drop off. But like the thing about it is
that I think it does a really good job of like showing that,
showing that like isolationism that that I personally felt when

(43:29):
I was younger, as well as kind of adding in a bit more of like,
I guess the the specific like Asian culture, like dynamics
when it comes to family, especially with like how like
how you were like almost honor bound to state to stick with
them, which is something that I wasn't as that I wasn't

(43:52):
subjected to. So it's AII felt seen, but it
also felt like I was getting a glimpse into someone else who is
very similar to my, who would bevery similar to my situation.
There we go. Cool.
Yeah. I I I see what you're saying.

(44:12):
Where culturally it's a little different or, or at least
compared to your experience. It's it's different.
I I can definitely see that. What else did we like about this
movie? Yeah, OK, OK.
I love the cast. I think how they handled both
sides of like the protagonist and the antagonist was great.
I loved how they kept it sort ofbubbly even on like the the

(44:34):
antagonist side. When you have things like the
guy who is jacked is just named ABS like that's fun.
The the the mystery, the mysteryguy, his name's just mystery.
The guy who acts like a baby, his name is just baby like
Things like this when they addedto the cast was just a a breath

(44:57):
of fresh air. It was so fun.
It kept it light the whole time.And then being the productioner
that I'm that I am or becoming, the designs for like their
outfits were insane for both sides.
I loved it. The contrast of the Saja boys
from being the soda pop dudes that they are into doing the my
idol and being and then showcasing like their demon form

(45:21):
was sick as shit. I love the fact that they use
like Farumi's character that shewore turtlenecks all the time
and it was for a reason. Like little things like I think
there's there's I guess in general, the movie did like a
lot of little things. Awesome.
And if you picked up on it like I did a little bit, it added

(45:41):
more and more to the show or to the movie.
So I just want to say like this.The cast is just like I was
saying, even someone like Bobby who's in the show or the movie
for like, I don't know, 3 minutes total.
I thought like served this part really well.
He was funny with the, the, the group and everything like that.
And it's hard to pick, like a favorite just because I

(46:02):
thoroughly enjoyed, like, almosteverybody in like the roles that
they played. Yeah, I think you got a little.
Zoe, I'll pick one, right? I mean, my favorite Zoe as well,
but like, I did really like everybody, yeah.
I like Zoe too. She was great, very funny
always. And and to dive a little further

(46:25):
into what you were saying specifically Pete, I think that
with the costumes and everything, like you said, they
did a good job. And I guess I'm not the Korean
authority that I thought I was, but from my limited
understanding of Korean mythology, the outfits were very
historically accurate or, or fitthe the Korean history, you

(46:47):
know, with the like, like the hats.
I'm not going to play and act like I know I thought they look
cool. No, I know, but that's my point.
Like they were cool looking and they also again, from my very,
very limited understanding of Korean history, the little
research I've done on it, it waspretty accurate and myth,
especially pertaining to mythology or that like kind of

(47:11):
belief system or ideals. I thought that that was really
sick. And it was seen throughout the
movie too, like not just on, youknow, just in the idle
performance. It was also in the way the cat
and the bird were drawn, in the way that they interacted and
their fixations and the things like that that that were I
thought were really awesome. Anybody.

(47:32):
And what else did did we like? Because I think we're all pretty
high on this movie. Just really, really quickly, I
know that I, I read an interviewwith one of the writers and they
had mentioned, you know, trying to get like to, to do a good
representation of Korean mythology in, in their writing
for all of this and everything. Like the, I don't know exactly

(47:55):
what it is, but like the tiger and the bird are like big
figures in Korean mythology. And the way that they did the
demons, I guess is, is good. I haven't had enough time to
look super far into it, but one,one of the main writers I know
is Korean at least. And then also like the entire
cast or like a large amount of the cast is like they did a very

(48:16):
good job with making sure it wasgood Rep I believe.
You ever seen Boy in the Heron? No.
OK, it reminded me like boy in the Heron where I was just like,
I'm just going to assume that this is something to do with
folklore or something to do withmythology.
Yes, yeah. But I mean, it would be
interesting to know, you know, in like, if only we were a

(48:38):
podcast that could have done research and like, fuck me for
not, but like, you know, like exactly why, you know, because
if we were doing like American folklore sort of things, you
know, you would, you would pick Bigfoot different than you would
pick like a Chupacabra for something, you know, it's just
sort of, you know, like why those were picked to something
that I definitely want to like look into because I think that

(48:59):
even though I sort of agree withthe ideas that like there's,
there's some more I would like to applaud.
I think a lot of love and care was put into this movie.
And I think that, you know, I would like to to fully explore
all of that for things that I liked.
I mean, we've talked about it, but like movie's pretty funny.
There's a lot of good visual gags, Zoe and the like.

(49:19):
There's a scene where Zoe and the what was the manager's name?
Bobby Bobby one every time Bobby's on screen is very funny.
They're like, I I like that theythey really liked him.
Like he wasn't like, you know, he was sort of the overworked
manager trope, but it wasn't like too bad or anything.
Like they seem to really value him, which I thought was nice.
And then there's the scene wherethe Saja boys come out with soda

(49:42):
pop and then him and Zoe are like singing it together and
like dancing before they get caught.
And like, I thought that was really funny.
There's just like a lot of good group dynamics in this in this
show, our movie even, you know, and I thought, you know, they
they felt like a band and friends and I thought that was
that was good. So.

(50:06):
I think that's a really good wayto describe it, that they feel
like friends. And I agree to yeah, Bobby was
clearly like respected and did good work for them too.
You know, like he he had his role.
And like a lot of those like little connections that we're
able to make our feelings. The reason we feel that way are
those little connector scenes orthose moments where they do

(50:26):
interact off to the side or as agroup or whatever.
I think that the the movie really does like vibes wise.
This movie was excellent the whole time.
Could not could not have had better vibes for me the whole
time. I had a lot of fun with it.
All right, let's get into our closing thoughts on K pop demon
hunters Miles. What are your closing thoughts

(50:47):
and your final score? Are we wait or should have done
this before? Are we doing it out like 4 stars
or five stars or? What?
What do you want to do? I think everybody, how about
this, everybody just do whateveryou want.
Yeah, let's do. That, yeah, do whatever you want
it. Fucks up my spreadsheet I wanna.
OK, solid numbers for miles. He's sick.
I'll feel bad. Thank you.
I apologize. That's how I am you.

(51:10):
You know what? Do a fun score and then do a
boring Miles hates fun score. Everybody give it a 6.9.
Rounded however you so desire. OK, as I normally kick this off,
I will. I really liked this.
A thing that we didn't actually talk about a lot is is the
romance between Rumi and Jinu. I was kind of cookie cutter, but

(51:35):
honestly, I, I kind of liked it.I thought it was fun.
Enemies to lovers is like a trope that in my opinion, like
it can't be fucked up. I'll just be like, yeah, yeah,
you guys do that. Yeah, I fall in love.
Even if it's like written basic or whatever, I think they're
like little like love ballad together was nice and she was

(51:58):
animated in ones in that. So she was embracing her demon
side that sort of fun. So it was smoother animation for
her and that right before going back to the choppy I I really
loved all the songs in this. I like the theming and stuff.
I I do think that, like, I wish it would be a little deeper
because if you sort of examine it too closely and you go like,
well, demons are these people who have like, trauma and stuff.
And then also we just banished them, you know, who knows?

(52:23):
But it doesn't examine it that closely.
So I'm not going to either. I'm gonna, I'm gonna give this a
nine. I had a great time.
And it's mostly a musical and like an actiony thing and it was
funny. And I'm gonna be playing the
soundtrack forever. So now it's in for me.
Yeah. Also, Rumi just tries to write

(52:45):
off abandoning your family as like, it's just a mistake.
You can be forgiven for that. You know, like, I thought that
was pretty funny. Like in the moment she when she
was like trying to justify to him or get him to convert to her
side. I thought that that was pretty
funny. Like, like one of those like,
don't look too deep at it or it'll stare back at you kind of
things, you know? So yeah.
All right. 9 out of 10, that's your boring score or your your

(53:06):
fun score. What's your boring score?
Oh yeah, my boring score is 10 out, 10 No 9 out.
I'm just I'm giving it A9. Obviously.
Yeah, no, but I I mean, I only, I only have a boring score.
I don't do anything fun. That's right.
That's right. I I can't believe I forgot that.
I'm sorry, Cat. What about you?

(53:29):
Yeah, honestly, so just to just to kind of point out the romance
again, I actually thought that the romance was just kind of not
forced. It was more of a plot vehicle
than anything that that really felt like I had anything going

(53:49):
behind it. In my opinion.
It was just there. And if I'm if I'm being cynical,
it was there to provide a love song and a reason for what like
marketing people feel like girlswant like that.
That's that's my thing. Like I I wasn't it was it was
there. But The thing is that

(54:12):
regardless, like it came up withlike the in my opinion, the most
like median song in in the movie.
Like it was smack dab in the middle when it came to like
quality, in my opinion. Now that being said, my score,
yeah, no, that's it. There we go.

(54:32):
All right. Cool.
Jolene, what about you? Yeah, I think that, like I said,
I'm just not really quite in thetarget audience for this.
The music was fantastic and I'lldefinitely like listen to more
of that. But like, I didn't necessarily
need like a whole movie for the songs for me personally, which
kind of puts like, I guess a sort of cap on how high I can

(54:55):
give this film for a score. And it's still pretty good,
don't get me wrong. But I think overall, like my cap
for this movie is an 8 out of 10.
And I think that this is one of those movies where the next
couple films that show up in this franchise are going to blow

(55:15):
this movie out of the water. I assume because they did not
expect it to be as huge as it is.
Yeah, I hope we get sequels. That'd be fun.
We're getting 2. We're getting.
Two projects in the world. In there with.
University 223 and a live actionis what I heard but who knows.

(55:37):
I've only heard of. Someone does.
I heard reading 2 sequel projects taking place in their
world. I don't know if it's a sequel of
them or somebody else because wedid have like a brief stint of
when they did the rankings that there's they also use real.
Oh, I can do that. My final thoughts.
Yeah, well, Pete, what are your final thoughts?

(55:59):
It's cool that they use like real K pop.
Like I think like the bands. I think like the number 3 on the
rankings was twice. I'm like that's just a real K
pop group. So that was really fun for my
fun score. I'm going to give this a 6.9
because it fucks. Like I had a lot of fun watching
K pop. Demon Hunters.
Very rarely do we get movies, I feel like where it's just, you

(56:21):
know, cookie cutter popcorn shit.
Like that's what this was and that's what I was looking for.
Like, I love that it was just sosimple.
Like it wasn't complex. It wasn't trying to be something
it's not. It was just a fun, silly premise
of K pop idols killing demons and I thought they executed
that. Fantastic music, great cast,

(56:41):
great. Some minor issues, but this
movie was awesome. Like I these are the type of
movies that I was like I would watch and like if this was on,
you know, if you're an old head and you had cable and this was
on like USA Network, like I would watch it and not change
the channel type of movie. Like I just love these really

(57:04):
fun, simple movies and I just feel like we don't get enough of
them. So I'm going to get this a nine
out of 10. And yeah, I love it.
And I can't wait to see more of this universe.
Yeah, I'm very curious what theydo with it.
I think that'd be a lot of fun, especially like he's like with
more budget. I think it'll be very cool to
see like what what do they decide to change, if anything,

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in their stylizing or in their animation or or anything?
Yeah, I I had so much fun watching this movie.
It it felt like it flew by. I do that.
I do wish it was longer because I wanted to watch more, but I
also think it would have been good for the movie to be a bit
longer. I feel like kind of touched on
it earlier, but Mira doesn't really get explored too much

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other than she's the angsty one.She's the, you know, the rebel
whatever wish. Wish there was a little bit more
to that. Jinu would like to maybe he, I
don't know, he kind of got redemption from something that
feels irredeemable to me. But well, you know, the end kids
movie, you know, not everyone's evil, blah, blah blah.

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That's that's what it is. Not kids.
Sorry. Family movie.
What? What a cast, though.
So much fun. And I I did not expect to enjoy
it nearly as much as I did. So my, my fun score is going to
be 4 stars out of five S Final score of an 8 out of 10 for me.
Hell, yeah. There we go.
All right. Yeah.
Put that Excel spreadsheet. Miles.

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Well, that was like, really? Miles?
That's the same. Thank you.
Yeah. It's like I did that on purpose
or something. That's crazy.
Our final score adds up to an 8.6 out of 10 which is pretty
good. Better at IMDb they it has a 7.7
out of 10. Only 50,000 people though.
I feel like again, it's crazy tothink that this is blown up on

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like Billboard top 100. It is the top song on that.
That's it's the first female group to do that since Destiny's
Child. It's the I saw the couple stars
like this earlier. No since Destiny.
Kyle, I know. You hey do not.
Respect on the shell. And Kelly Rowland.
Kelly Rowland. I forgot the third one.

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There's there's a Kelly. Rowland.
Kelly Rowland is the one, the second one.
I would say the third one is theone that I don't know very well.
Maybe I it's showing my my age here but also it is the first
song from an animated film to bethe top of the top 100 I think
in a long long time as well. I forget I I saw like 4 stats

(59:41):
for. It it's Sunflower from Spider
man. Into the spider first, yes, like
it's very similar to Sunflower. Yeah, it's it has that big of a
blow up. It's like the first, I guess
Asian or non-us focused one to blow up to the US top 100.
So that's pretty cool straight to streaming too.
I think, like the impact, like people know about this.

(01:00:03):
It seems it it blew up on Netflix overnight.
It feels like it feels like it just was the top of the movies
and it's been the top of the movie list all summer.
Pretty cool, Pretty, pretty cool.
I also like how they didn't havethe one one final.
I guess closing thought that I meant to say in my closing
thoughts. I love that the cast, like
obviously it was a superstar cast, but the actual, the VAS

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and the people singing. For Rumi, Mira and Zoe are not
just like, oh, just it's black pink or it's twice, you know,
it's it's unknowns. Maybe not unknowns in their
field, but it's unknowns to the general audience.
It's producers, it's backup vocalists, it's lyricist

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themselves actually getting to sing and getting a chance to
star in something. I thought that that was really,
really cool. Yo Rui Rumi's voice actor from
Minnesota, or with the school inMinnesota?
What up? There we go see like cool stuff
like that, you know, rather thanjust getting black pink and BTS
to voice these characters, whichmaybe that wasn't an intentional

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choice in hindsight, maybe the the price would have been a
little bit too much, but hey, I they had a lot of big ladders
like this. They did.
They did very limited roles though, outside of, I guess I
don't know, like they had the who's the dog?
I am a surgeon guy is Healer Hahn.
I am. A Surgeon.

(01:01:30):
Oh, Daniel J Campbell. Thank you yes he's the the
medicine seller. That was very that was a great
little like 5 minute scene. Love that.
All right, but yeah, that's K pop demon hunters wrapped up.
I'm sure we'll keep talking about it in our discord cuz our
discord does love it. You should join the discord.
Come talk to it to us about it. Would love to hear more of your

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thoughts. And yeah, Miles, what are we
watching two weeks from now? Yes, we voted on shows and as we
as we usually do, there was a winner.
It was a fun little quirk where we had four shows and the point
holes were 15/20/25 and 30. Oh, fun.
Isn't that fun? Yeah, I love.

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That so that was neat. In 3rd place we had the portrait
of Petit Cosette, which will be gaining its third legacy point
as I ramp up for the Halloween season just for it to lose to
the new Mononoke movie. Oh yeah, that comes out like a
week. Yeah, I might have to just get
that one done so I can get back on the train.

(01:02:35):
Oh yeah. In second Marabachi, which is.
And in first we had comedy Sama Kiss.
So we will. Be watching comedy Sama kiss
cool. Yes, cool.
Yeah, All right. And then let's.
Start pills. Are you you you don't sound you
sound great. I don't know.
I mean, never better. Yeah, let's nominate what we're

(01:02:59):
nominating. And I guess yeah, we're still
far enough out where that would be the 8th of September.
So in honor of 9/11, we'll be nominating anime that.
Takes new. York on planes.
There we go. That's even worse.
All right. Miles made it worse.
Miles, what are you nominating for?
My favorite, my favorite movie, Forget that takes place in a

(01:03:23):
field in Pennsylvania is no. I will be nominating The
Portrait of Petit Gazette again as I hoard legacy points for the
only chance the show has to win,which is when we're all forced
to pick horror shows true in about two months.
So we're we're seeing if the strategy will work, I do not

(01:03:45):
know but but vote for it, do it.There you go.
All right, Cat, what about you? Yeah, so I actually wasn't
expecting to win. I'm sure Briley is going to be
very excited to hear about it. That being said, I am going to
be nominating a different romance, one that I still
haven't finished, that I know a bunch of you really enjoy.

(01:04:08):
I'm going to nominate my dress up darling.
Oh OK, my dress up darling. There we go.
What about you? Yes, season 2 is airing right
now. Can I, can I just go ahead and
nominate the new Mononoke movie,since it's comes out on Thursday
and it's a movie. Yep.
And we have plenty of time. Yep.
I'm just gonna nominate that then.
Oh, yeah. OK.
Will it be available on Crunchyroll or something?

(01:04:30):
It's on Netflix. Oh it's on Netflix already?
Alright, perfect. I I was just making sure we
didn't, you know, sometimes it takes like 6 months for us to
get it not. No, it's.
It's not on the 14th I believe. Should be just fine.
Hell yeah. Awesome.
What about you? I'll re up Meibashi witches

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second place. I'm very happy with that
outcome. That was my first place vote.
I'm I'm very curious you. Would hate it.
Yeah, you wouldn't focus. Oh my God you would hate this
show AM. I thinking of a different if I
am I thinking of a different witch show?
It does have witches in it though.
But they're idols. Right.
Yeah, they're idols. Oh.

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Yeah, I was like, you voted for it first.
Then what was it? Yeah, I did, because I thought
maybe I was mixing it up with the other one that was assigned
for. Secret.
I legit have no idea. No, they did talk about this for
Secret. It had an interesting secret
standard discussion, but I also don't think they touched on the
fact that they were idols in that discussion like.
That might be it. There you go.
So yeah, my my last 10 was Zombieland Saga though, so who

(01:05:37):
knows. Who knows?
You never know until you try, right?
Might as well vote for it first.Well, I I think I'm going
Mononoke myself, but we'll see. We'll see.
But yeah, all right, I will nominate Lazarus again.
First time he hasn't gotten a legacy point since I started
nominating it. And a little disappointed.
Guys, there was only four, four shows nominated.

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So come on, let's step our game up again.
Let's get back into that second place grinder that we've been on
for however many months, not months, but you know what I'm
saying here. I think we're all tired.
Yeah, let's let's wrap this up. Thank you guys for listening to
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