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Sony Images When Animation First Announce Kpop Demon Hunters In 2021, director, writer and long period of long time K-pop Devotee Maggie Kang (Lego ninjago movie) The project was meant to be a love letter as a love letter until the first days of the genre, where Korean culture grows. Team with joint director Chris Appelhans (Wishes the Dragon)Kang, on June 20, in the original cartoon premiere in Netflix, the magic girl’s performance was set out to make a film that combines the dazzling accuracy of K-pop choreography.
Kpop Demon Hunters A rising girl group of Huntrix, Rumi, Mira and Zoey (Arden Cho, May Hong and Ji-Young and Ji-Young giggles with juggling demons with juggling of the mystery Squid Game‘s lee byung-hun). To prevent girls covering the world’s music in the healing light, the sole plan to threaten the loyalty of Dihard Fanatbas: The opponent called the boys of supernatural boyband.
Before the release of the film, IO9, K-Pop Superfans, magical girl lovers and animated fans, but also spoke about how the mythmas enthusiasts inspire a new wave in the animated industry.
Isaiah Colbert, IO9: What caused the idea of uniting the world of K-pop idols with Demon Hunting? Is this a certain moment or inspiration that causes this unique combination of unique music and supernatural movements?
Maggie Kang: Initially, the demonology of Korean was a breed who was really awesome women – a breed in modern Korea. This was the last thing to be added because the Demon Hunu is usually made in the dark alleys in the dark. Not in front of people. I just wanted to have a vision of girls looking into society and felt like a cool thing to build a K-pop movie. Naturally, he made it musical and gave it a spectacle.
Track 01: “How it’s over.” Performed by Huntrix!
Kpop Demon Hunters Premieres This Friday! pic.twitter.com/u3y6cq23ch
– Netflix (@netflix) June 16, 2025
IO9: Obviously with this title Kpop Demon Hunters He also puts high expectations for electric motion and dynamic dance sequence. Kpop Demon Hunters Naturally, it is very pressure, especially for K-Pop fans, they are eagerly waiting for it. How did the team manage this problem and ensure the film delivered on both fronts?
Kang: It was difficult. It is a very loyal, special fan base waiting for more than each aspect. Whether it’s design, lighting, animation, we have been convinced that we see in K-POP today. The videos of the dance experience we see are good. “How will we get what’s as big as they do as real people” [and] make it an animation and lift it? “Some K-dram lighting and music video lighting is also so beautiful. It was difficult to bring and resemble it in the animated environment,” Okay, all this is a step forward.
Chris Appelhans: I think that if we all think we love K-pop, we love ourselves and see that we love ourselves and “our friend” are the most honest, original way to make the movie. And if we are lucky, other people who love K-pop will love it. But that’s what we can handle, and it was really useful, because it was inspired to raise this level to bring this level to the material, “he said. I feel like you say, a love letter from the environment we really know well. We also know these special products you can’t do this.
Kang: Wishing ourselves as a fan and wanting to push the environment,[and] To be our hardest critics.
One of the most difficult work for us for simulation artists is to create dynamic movement in a piece of jewelry.
In these dresses, Rumi has more than 35 individual jewelry from the earrings.
¿The most complex piece? Shoulder Tassels in the smoker !!
Kpop DHO June 20! pic.twitter.com/yunfvaqbtt– Cruz Control (@ Cruzencanada) 8 June 2025
IO9: What was the most exciting moment of the director Kpop Demon HuntersWhen you really hit a eureka moment, when you feel really peculiar and special?
Appelhans: In stages. Different scenes presented a different part of the promise. I see a few funny reference videos and animations for one of the girls’ conversations, I see this exact comedy, I like it, “God, girls will be really cute and adorable.” And the first time it sees great chorea and animation. Some of our Korean animators did not even want some things we did not want, they just took it and got them and got butterflies. Like, “Check, O my Gosh. We can do it.” We kept check boxes that are part of this all ambitious soup.
Kang: I look like me too. We wanted to find the shape language of the eyes and oral forms of the oral shape, but also to feel the form of expressions as they speak in Korean and girls want to feel the shapes of the mouth. One of the solutions we found – one of our incredible animators Sofia [Seung Hee Lee]-It’s really useful to feel the mouths of rounding the corners in Modassy. Such stages have truly broke these problems to determine certain languages for design and style.
Appelhans: Every time we hear the version of a song we do this, I tried this third attempt or ninth or a song really, “Oh we would feel like me.
Kpop Demon Hunter’s only contribution. Shouting characters look like my thing.
Congratulations to the rest of this movie. @sonyanimation pic.twitter.com/z48xjslspn
– Guillermo Martinez (@billybobmartinz) 24 May 2025
IO9: Speaking of pop songs, the film also provides contributions to talented members twice. How did you approach cooperation with K-Pop artists to bring music elements? Kpop Demon Hunters Exercise? What was the soundtrack to ensure the energy supply only by the film, and at the same time completed the emotional core?
Kang: For the whole film, it was really important to live in this K-pop space. And cooperating with a true K-Pop artist finally legalized our project in the world of K-Pop. Work with all these beautiful Pop writers writing for black labels and BTS, twice and eventually to collaborate twice. Ian Eisendrath and Sony music, which are the manufacturer of executive music, really wanted this album to feel like a true, legitimate K-Pop album, and they brought this amazing team and created an album that could keep it in the K-pop cavity.
io9: rLike, cartoons Turn red and Ultraman: Rising Like K-Pop and Tokusatsu, a story environment for cute fandoms, but also demonstrated the power of animation as a bridge. These films not only celebrate live animations and are eager to pre-existing fans and centralize the Asian heritage and allow them to centralize the characters in the original narratives of the characters. How important was the most important thing in balancing the global appeal of K-POP in connection with Asian characters?
Kang: One way to answer, we have told many stories about animation, lifeless objects [and] different animals. And we must still tell stories that are culturally special through a different cultural voice that can be very universal. It really promises to see more movies and animations, who are told through a different cultural lens. First of all, it is really important to try to show as many diversity as possible in animation, because first, it is still accepted as an environment for a younger audience. All this shows our different movies globally, and it really feels like we really do during animation. I think we must give more diversity in this stage.
Appelhans: What I saw in 25 years, today the day-to-day, the workers and talent and talent are different, and this means everything. Because when maggie emerges with an original idea, each department has incredibly experienced and talented korean artists and you do not need to do any homework. It has a favorite things that form their effects, their effects, artist. This allows you to make more interesting, more original movies than possible 25 years ago. It is a kind of heading under the hood, but it’s really promising and interesting.
IO9: You hope you will take away your creative colleagues in the audience and animation Kpop Demon Hunters Want to share this universal story with the world?
Kang: No matter what culture you are grew, anyone feels the same as a person, no matter what culture you have grew up. Tell many Koreans, and tell stories with characters who speak in many Korea, I hope that the audience and directors can see that we can all know that we are all human and love and accept
Kpop Demon Hunters Streams in Netflix starting from June 20.
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