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Hello Patreon family , please enjoy your unedited access to my detailed analysis of Kpop Demon Hunters, a #1 Netflix anime that took the world by storm. I hope you enjoy the perfect mesh-up with my love for K-pop, anime, and psychology!

p.s., Supporters and Enthusiasts, the unedited version will become available before the YouTube version goes live :)

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ErinE

Cute movie. Catchy music. Love the animation. Reminds me of claymation.

Lizzie✨

I LOVED this reaction & breakdown, probably one of my favourites that I’ve seen. Sidenote, would you consider reacting to the show arcane, if you haven’t already seen it, I feel like there would be a lot for you to enjoy there.

Psychotherapist Reacts

I’ll think about Arcane since I’ve been doing heavy shows lately and glad you liked it!

Lauren Freeman

I'll comment as I'm watching a few things that I liked that you might have not mentioned or could have mentioned later: I found it interesting that the "demons" were a collection of different types of korean folk creatures i.e. dokkaebi, joseung saja, virgin ghosts, water ghosts, and probably others I didn't clock. I have seen many drama iterations of grim reapers where they have taken their own lives and live in sort of a purgatory where they escort souls to the afterlife in payment/repentance. I don't think this is rooted in actual folklore because my (admittedly limited because I can't speak korean) research just shows that they operated more as bureaucratic neutral entities, but I think this is an interesting culturally accurate foundation for Jinu's character to exist to have an arc of punishment and ultimately redemption. Also loved the mechanism of kpop being the sort of shamanistic mechanism of the musical ritual of protection/exorcism Most of the songs were written for the movie by korean/kpop music producers that actively work in the industry however there are a couple of pre-existing songs that were added to the movie included in the soundtrack. Strategy by Twice is the one playing at 46:29. There is also exo's - love me right and the melomance song (this is a reference/easter egg to a kdrama that Jinu's voice actor starred in) that plays when the saja boys first appear to the girls. I completely understand what you mean about feeling like I am listening to kpop songs in english. Kpop is one of my favorite genres so it was honestly pretty cool and trippy to hear the production style but for a native english speaking point of view (including the little bits of korean mixed in like you would hear a little english mixed in to a kpop song). I think the concept of shame and identity being so thematically important to this story is not only meaningful but also culturally relevant to the setting which i think is so special. Zoey's Korean-American heritage/"third culture kid" story and Mira's not fitting in/being rejected to her family of origin are also different lenses or perspectives on what I feel like could be similar core wounds and I think Celine's role in this being sort of an example of generational trauma. Also I was super sad at the flashback that showed little Rumi being indoctrinated by shame so early in life and the patterns being little visual cues to how that shame has grown over time until it eventually overcame her ability to hide it and the metaphor of it taking her voice away...just really lovely writing I think. I'll have more thoughts but I don't want this comment to be a book so if i think of more I'll make a separate comment.

David

Oh no, even you called the tiger and bird demons, well I guess even if you’re Korean you don’t know every Korean folklore, but yeah the tiger and bird are not demons, why those guardians are with Jinu is the real question, the bird (magpie) is the bearer of good news and fortune, while the tiger is the guardian that repels evil spirits, they don’t have Gwi-ma’s “the demon king" patterns (the purple marks like Rumi and Jinu have and actually all demons have) and they don’t break the Honmoon when they teleport (pinkish light) they can teleport without any incident in the Honmoon (white light) my theory is that the tiger and bird saw Jinu as a potential demon who could regain his soul and tried to help him and that’s why those guardians/messengers of the gods are following Jinu

Psychotherapist Reacts

This is very insightful!! Thanks for sharing all the things I missed my first watch, I’ve seen this x2 more since lol

David

Yeah, well they didn’t explain very well and so many people think the same about the tiger and bird, I only knew because of my fascination about Eastern Asia folklore and mythology, more precisely Chinese, Korean and Japanese mythology and folklore lol tbh I think it’s Netflix fault Sony wanted to do a 3 hours movie, but Netflix refused and was only willing to accept if Sony cut half of the time in the movie, so many things were left out

Psychotherapist Reacts

Yeah for sure but still crazy how this movie is still #1 on Netflix and now there’s a song along version playing in theatres

David

Yeah I saw it, it continues to break records, it’s the first movie on Netflix who is still growing in popularity even after 5 weeks it’s debut, most movies on Netflix reach their peak popularity in the first or second week and then they start to fall down in views, but this movie is getting more and more popular, iirc the first week had 10 millions views and now week 5 it has 25 million views, making a total of 210 millions views in all 5 weeks combined, still not number one Netflix most viewed movie, but getting there very quickly and it’s popularity isn’t dissipating lol it’s the second most popular English movie and it’s the most watched original animated film

David

Sorry just checked my claims, it has already surpassed Red Notice so it’s the most watched movie all time and most popular English movie of Netflix, it isn’t 210M views, now it has 236M views all time

David

It was something I never thought I would love to watch lol Tbh when I heard the name at first I was reluctant to watch it, because kpop isn’t really my cup of tea, I don’t dislike it, but it’s just not my type of music, as I listen more to rock or metal and I wasn’t sure about the whole plot mixing kpop idols with demon hunters, but I’m glad I watched, not only I loved the story and now Golden lives rent free in my head lmao

Raiyu Lilliputian

Until I saw this movie, Iv only ever heard of kpop, but never actually heard it before. I gotta say it’s leaving an amazing impression.☺️

Gardenia Gibson

Late watch, just joined your Patreon, because I love ur YouTube videos so much. But when you mentioned the vocal part of using it as a form of attack and defence , totally reminded me of Toge from JJK, recommend you watch it, would love to see the break down of that show from you