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K-Pop Demon Hunters is an upcoming Sony film directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. The film follows a demon-hunting K-pop girl group as they go up against an unlikely new enemy: soul-stealing demons disguised as a K-pop boy band. The animation for the film was created by Sony Pictures Imageworks, the same team behind Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, and the soundtrack includes a contribution from TWICE members Jeongyeon, Jihyo, and Chaeyoung on the track "Takedown." The trailer for the film received generally positive feedback in late May, with several internet users commending the animator's decision to depict characters with exaggerated, anime-inspired facial expressions. Other internet users expressed excitement over the film's primary antagonist being a K-pop boy band.

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K-Pop Demon Hunters is an animated musical film directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. According to Variety,^[2] the film is animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, the same team behind Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse. The project was announced in March 2021, aiming to blend Korean folklore with K-pop culture.

The story follows Huntrix, a K-pop girl group that secretly battles demons, as they go up against their greatest foe yet; a K-pop boy band that steals the souls of their fans. The official trailer for the film was released on YouTube^[1] on May 22, 2025, gathering over 700,000 views in a day.

The soundtrack includes a contribution from TWICE members Jeongyeon, Jihyo, and Chaeyoung on the track "Takedown." The film is set to premiere on Netflix on June 20th, 2025.

The Twitter / X^[3] account @DiscussingFilm shared the trailer for the film on May 22nd, 2025, gathering over 8 million views and 75,000 likes in a day.

First trailer for ‘K-POP: DEMON HUNTERS’, a new film from Sony Pictures Animation.

Releasing June 20 on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/aXU3sZQXbH

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 22, 2025

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Several internet users reacted to K-Pop Demon Hunters when it was first announced, with Tumblr^[4] user @ankle-beez posting a now-deleted Sony Animations tweet about the film on March 8th, 2021, gathering over 1,000 notes in four years.

On March 30th, 2021, Artstation^[5] user Nicole Arriaga posted fanart about K-Pop demon hunters, gathering over 2,000 views in four years.

Several internet users reacted to the official K-Pop Demon Hunters trailer when it first dropped in late May 2025, with X^[6] user @broppis posted a screenshot announcing that three members of the band TWICE members contributed to the song "Takedown" in the trailer, gathering over 18,000 likes on a post that read, Never Kill Yourself.

Also on May 22nd, X^[7] user @taejiurina quoted a trailer for the film K-Pop Demon Hunters, writing, "The exaggerated comical expresions, the low fps animation and the premise of a girlgroup fighting against evil (a boygroup) oh girl I'm SAT," and gathering over 33,000 likes in a day.

Also on May 22nd, X^[8] user @zb1mp3 tweeted a picture of the Shrugging Nurse GIF alongside a caption that read, "once this comes out ik somehow the male characters will be the most popular and talked about."

On May 23rd, 2025, TikToker^[9] @fufu_sijo posted a video zooming in on one of the K-pop boy band members, writing, "Guys, please hear me out," and gathering over 55,000 likes and 15,000 views in a day.

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