Plot: A world-renowned K-Pop girl group balance their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as demon hunters.
Demon Hunters was quite great.
Pros: The animation style does remind me of spider verse. I like the three girls on the team. With how it balanced humour, action and KPOP Music. I’m surprised myself of how affected into the storyline and it’s addressed a lot from believe in yourself and having friends to support you at all times.
Cons: I didn’t get into the relationship involving Rumi and Jinu. It didn’t developed the demons that well and there’s a waste of opportunity to not character eyes on fandom getting to scary.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Directed by Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans
Screenplay by Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans
Story by Maggie Kang
Produced by Michelle Wong
Voices of Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim. Ken Jeong & Byung-hun Lee.
Edited by Nathan Schauf
Music by Marcelo Zarvos
Production
company: Sony Pictures Animation
Distributed by Netflix
Voice Cast:
- Arden Cho as Rumi, the leader of Huntrix, who is the product of an affair between her deceased demon hunter mother, Ryu Mi-yeong, and a demon father.
- EJAE provides Rumi’s singing voice
- Rumi Oak as young Rumi and Young Fan
- Ahn Hyo-seop as Jinu, the leader of the Saja Boys. He is a demon with a past that haunts him.
- Andrew Choi provides Jinu’s singing voice
- May Hong as Mira. She believes deep down she isn’t worthy of family or friends as a result of being shunned by her parents growing up.
- Audrey Nuna provides Mira’s singing voice
- Ji-young Yoo as Zoey, a Korean-American songwriter and rapper from Burbank, California, who struggles with insecurity with her role in her friends’ lives.
- Rei Ami provides Zoey’s singing voice
- Yunjin Kim as Celine, Rumi’s foster mother and former demon hunter who fought alongside Rumi’s mother. She is fixated on defeating the demons with a black and white mentality, refusing to accept there is grey.
- Lea Salonga provides Celine’s singing voice
- Joel Kim Booster as Romance Saja, Variety Show Host 1, and Idol Host
- samUIL Lee provides Romance Saja’s voice
- Alan Lee as Mystery Saja
- Kevin Woo provides Mystery Saja’s voice
- Sungwon Cho as Abs Saja
- Neckwav provides Abs Saja’s voice
- Danny Chung as Baby Saja’s singing voice
- Liza Koshy as Host
- Daniel Dae Kim as Healer Han
- Ken Jeong as Bobby, Huntrix’ manager
- Byung-hun Lee as Gwi-Ma, the demon king. He is an evil and powerful entity, who manipulates and corrupts humans with weakness and insecurities.
I will highly recommend watching this film on Netflix.
Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe