KPop Demon Hunters features two fictional K-Pop bands, HUNTR/X and Saja Boys, which have achieved significant chart success. The film, Netflix's most-watched animated English-language title, centers on Rumi, a part-demon pop star who battles evil spirits alongside her bandmates. With songs performed by actual K-Pop veterans, the film incorporates a blend of fantasy and cultural references. The storyline includes a unique mythology about maintaining a 'soul gate' to protect humans from malevolent spirits, and showcases a fierce competition between the girl band and a demonic boy band.
The K-Pop bands HUNTR/X and Saja Boys currently occupy six of the top fifty spots of the Billboard Hot 100. Each has a song in the top ten, HUNTR/X's "Golden," a triumphant ballad about being yourself, at No. 2, and Saja Boys's "Your Idol," a vengeful rap chant, at No. 9.
Rumi, along with her pals Mira and Zoey, make up the arena-filling girl-band trio HUNTR/X. Each character is played in song performances by real-life K-Pop veterans.
The characters slaughter demons using their voices, along with various glowing blades, weaponry modelled on Korean history: swords, polearms, and throwing knives.
There's a thin mythology to the backstory, which has to do with maintaining the fictional honmoon -'soul gate' in Korean, though it's not an authentic term-that protects humans from demons intent on sucking out their souls.
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