KPop Demon Hunters: Movie FULL LENGTH Reaction! PATREON COMMISSION!
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A trio of female huntresses, after demons in a fresh and inventive way? With actually legit, catchy music? This movie was so much fun and I can now see the spiral into the fan fiction and fan art world with this series because it's SO. FUN. and Creative!
I have been wanting to watch this movie for MONTHS now and didn't think I'd have time to fit it in on the channel - enter a TRUE Hunter: Nicholas! Thank you for commissioning this for the month; you're awesome!
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Comments
Honestly, maybe I have gone to A03 but this is one of the few times! And yesss, we’re not too old for any fandom! SO TRUE! Here, here! XD “WE WERE HERE FIRST!” Exactly! Haha!! This definitely feels like a fandom tease of a movie - hopefully, there’s a sequel, but it just leaves so much open to fan fiction and fan art and cosplay, etc. I would have liked it to have been a little “buffed up,” like you said! But I agree, in the moment, I didn’t have an issue with the movie because it was paced well and fun and had fantastic music, but in hind sight, you can tell it was “trimmed” to meet the *coughs* shorter attention span for kids…but at least it’s popular enough to have rights to a sequel! And if we get 9 movies on this series? DO IT. There’s…how many Land Before Time movies? How many Barbie movies? Give me more! XD There’s so much to explore, but honestly, while Rumi’s family would be amazing to get more information on…I’d be fine with more on Rumi and Jinu especially and even prequel stuff to get more on the Saja Boys! I really liked Jinu as a gray character! He had some good complexity to him and I appreciated him as a character along with what you said in the comment. That would be awesome if the girl with the picture to him as a reincarnation of his sister! I would love that to be true! But yeah, more into their relationship would be amazing! And yes, for that reason, having more with RuJinu would be so nice! And him in a sword? My Soul Eater/MDZS-loving heart was living for it! They both ended up with a lot in common and I liked that about how their relationship developed throughout the series. I totally agree, I would have loved a slowburn with their relationship - I definitely need a RuJinu movie just about their developing relationship for real! I loved how much you put into this comment! I’m all for reading essays (I am an English teacher so why not?!) and this was great! Thank you for the comment and kind words and YESSSS the TANGLED connection! LOVE! We love to see it! Thanks again! I’m so glad I could finally see this film!
Romaniablack
2025-10-25 21:36:04 +0000 UTCMaybe you've done it in other videos, but this is the first time I've ever seen you actually open up AO3 and check out the fic analytics for a fandom, and INSTANTLY 😂😭 not that I didn't know it, but you're truly a fandom girlie through and through lmao (shame on any of your students if they cringe at you watching this. We're not old okay, let alone too old for fandom!!!! We were here FIRST. ahem anyway-) You're so right that this movie feels tailor-made for fandom exploration, and that makes me feel kinda torn, because as great as it is and as much fun as I had watching it a couple days ago finally, a "tease" is definitely the best definition for it..... it really felt like there was so much left unexplained and missing scenes we should have gotten to buff up the narrative a bit more, as many others have said. I didn't really think like that in the moment as I was watching cause it's just so darn fun to watch, but after it's had time to settle I definitely feel like it needed "more". If the other comment is true about Netflix forcing them to trim it down cause of it being a kids' movie, that makes me so mad. :/ I'm glad it's become so popular that it's most definitely getting a sequel, and I read that the creator apparently has enough ideas for NINE sequels, so we're hopefully gonna be well fed and hopefully there won't be as much corporate meddling with future installments now that Netflix knows how much bank anything KPDH will make. So if all turns out well and we get a fully fleshed-out series of movies, these nitpicks I have will go away lol, but right now they remain. We REALLY needed actual information on Rumi's parents (yes, her dad being Gwi-ma is a popular theory lol but personally I don't want it, I want her dad to just be a regular demon tbh), about how they met, about her mom and Celine and the third person in the previous trio of hunters, and how her mom died (another theory is about Celine potentially having had to kill Rumi's mother, and maybe that's part of why she feels so protective over her). I felt like there needed to be another scene in between Rumi's complete low point where she asked Celine to kill her and when she got her confidence back and came back to reunite with her friends with What It Sounds Like; it felt like that happened a bit too quickly, with Zoey and Mira forgiving her so soon and offscreen, after they had gone as far as raising their weapons against her before (though I'll admit I often have this gripe with this trope in movies lol, not with the betrayal/fallout trope itself but with how quick the turnaround is). That could have been a great place to put some info revealed about her parents, to give Rumi the newfound hope she needed (the hope she gave Jinu 😭). And of course, we needed more of Rumi and Jinu's relationship, especially Jinu himself. Jinu's moral greyness/complexity is fascinating to me tbh. From what I've seen at a cursory glance of the fandom there's a lot of (expected *sigh*) polarizing debate as to how terrible of a person he actually is, and how much forgiveness he actually deserves. The information we get in the movie is deliberately left ambiguous in a lot of ways, but for most people it paints a mostly sympathetic picture of him. He was living a miserable and tragic life, impoverished and starving and with a mother and little sister he was helpless to take care of (and either one or both of them appear to be sick), a doomed existence by all accounts. Gwi-ma preyed on his desperation and misery and offered him a miraculous out, and he jumped at the chance — and I don't think for a single second it ever occurred to him that his family wouldn't be able to be included in that. Apparently in that era he wouldn't have been able to bring his family with him to the palace, and imo it's pretty clear by his face in the last fullest flashback that he was completely taken by surprise at this — and then had no choice but to leave them behind, because if he'd dared to turn down the generous offer he'd been given they ALL would have been killed. Even if the latter isn't the case, I'm sure in his mind that was the best chance he had to get some fortune/favor and be able to bring that back to his family at some point to support them somehow. Naive? Yes, but uneducated and naive likely summed him up perfectly, sadly. The devil is a master manipulator and I really don't think it's a stretch to assume that Jinu had no idea what he was really getting into with being invited to the palace, to say nothing of the whole, you know, deal with the devil itself. Was it wrong and foolish to give in to such urges? Yeah, but considering his circumstances I can't really blame him, and I'm sure most people in his situation would fall victim in the same way. He messed up, but I know he truly loved his family and never wanted to abandon them, and he's been emotionally torturing himself over this for 400 years, under the oppressive emotional abuse of a demon king who god knows how much he's twisted and changed the memories to the point that Jinu doesn't even fully remember/believe what actually happened and how much he was truly to blame anymore 💔 it's heartbreaking to me. If you look at his mother's face when the doors are closing between them in the final flashback, imo she just looks sad but also content, like she's glad at least one of her children will get to live a decent and fulfilling life, even if it means they can't be with him. It was such a horrible situation, they deserved so much better and even if Jinu did give in to temptation, he's long since suffered enough for it 😭💔 (my personal headcanon is that the little girl who gives him the picture at the autograph signing is the reincarnation of his sister 🥹🥹🥹) But that's why I really need more of RuJinu, to go in more depth with their budding relationship, because this was literally just the beginning!!! I'll admit that even just 24 hours ago I was saying in the discord that "nah Jinu needs to stay dead; he deserves a peaceful rest after his centuries of emotional agony, and doing his first selfless act in all those years to save Rumi was a beautiful and fitting sendoff", and I DO still feel that way to an extent, I think, but then I read some posts in the fandom and now I've changed my mind lmao: his selfless sacrifice was just the first step, and his story shouldn't end here. His TRUE villainy in the movie was not his sin itself, nor his shame over it (which again was born from/festered by Gwi-ma's abuse, just like Rumi's was by Celine's (note I don't put those two on the same level at all; I know Celine truly loves Rumi, she just had misguided beliefs/ways unfortunately)), but rather stewing in his cowardice and shame so much that in the third act of the movie he projected it so hard onto someone he had seen was just like him — Rumi — to the point that he villified and guilt tripped and gaslit her and dragged her down into despair with him, even though as you said, Rumi LITERALLY DID NOTHING WRONG, ALL SHE WAS DOING WAS EXISTING. Because just like she said earlier that if there was no hope for someone like him to be saved, what hope was there for her (putting her own existence as a greater sin over Jinu letting down his family, details aside 😭 like girl you literally are just here living, pls 😭💔), Jinu in the end had to feel like it was impossible for Rumi to be saved, that there was no hope for her, because it would be proof he could give up trying to find hope for himself as well, because he was scared and tired of seeking said hope and potentially finding it only to have it be snatched away from him, tragically mirroring how the temporary hope he was granted in life ended up costing him everything. Rumi spends the whole movie giving him hope, slowly changing his mind and making him believe he can be saved, albeit ironically doing so with her own toxic coping mechanisms, but in the end Gwi-ma got into his head again and pulled him back into "safety", and made him reject healing because he was scared — because even though both Rumi and Jinu could be their authentic selves around each other (as seen in "Free"), Rumi's plan to ultimately rid herself and Jinu of their demon sides was never going to work, was not what either of them /needed/, and so that's why it had to fall through, symbolically/narratively. Rumi's plan to rid her patterns for good was not what she needed, and Jinu hides the full truth about what he did to his family (or how he perceives it, again who knows how much it's been twisted and warped in his head by Gwi-ma) until he's finally given up and weaponizes it to hurt her and drag her down with him, because he spends the whole movie up to that point scared that she won't dare accept him ("ALL OF ME!" 😭💔) if she knows the ugliest part of him. But that's exactly why his sacrifice for her, his first selfless act since he was alive and the most honest he ever is with her, is SO meaningful...... it should be the first turning point of their relationship, the first step in his healing...! To have my cake and eat it too lol I truly hope we get maybe at least one movie where he's just hinted to be a part of Rumi's sword, so we get the slowburn angst of her missing him but knowing he's always with her, and then eventually it'll be all the more satisfying when they find a way to bring him back 😤 like there could be a whole movie about the trio going to the underworld to deal with a new threat and finding a way to bring him back 🥺😭💖 YES, IT'S FANFICKY, BUT I WANT THE ACTUAL MOVIES LIKE THIS DAMMIT. MAGGIE KANG LISTEN TO THE FANFIC WRITERS, EVEN THOUGH I KNOW YOU'RE PROBABLY ALREADY THINKING LIKE ONE ALREADY SO WE SHOULD BE IN GOOD HANDS Seriously though, we need so much more in potential sequels, that I know fanfics could give me as I type but I'm greedy dammit lol (I'm also terrible at finding what I want on AO3 in popular fandoms, because my tastes are so specific/strict 🥲🫠). We need the info about Rumi's parents, and Celine. We need fleshing out of Mira and Zoey's backstories/families. We need to see the aftermath of Rumi telling Mira and Zoey everything, and their reaction to learning about her bond with Jinu. We need the Jinu character development, and the sweet, sweet, hurt/comfort RuJinu slowburn romance (SO glad they did not kiss in this movie. SAVE THAT PEAK FOR THE END, IT WOULD FEEL SO GOOOOD). We need more focus on the moral complexity of the demons, cause something I forgot to mention earlier is that I found it really odd and a missed opportunity that it seemed like the story was gonna focus on the demons having feelings and being human and the growing moral dilemma of killing who the huntresses had always thought were unfeeling monsters, only for it to pivot to only being about Jinu specifically and no one else lol (I guess only the demons with pretty boy human faces get human rights, even though even the other Saja Boys are basically nothing characters lol..... that sure feels wrong but ok. Still don't understand logistically why they're the only ones to look human too...). We need more of the worldbuilding and lore about the previous Huntrix trios. We need more of the magpie and that freaking tiger especially, because a cat being named DERPY of all things is automatically a 10/10, sorry I don't make the rules 😭 who came up with that name??? it's perfect. I love it. I love him, he's so derpy indeed 😭💙 Sorry for dumping essentially a Jinu and RuJinu character study/essay in your comments lmao, but the more I was typing the more I realized I had to say and it helped me put together my thoughts 😅 this movie is like fine wine, it's aged better the more time I've had to think about and process it (I say even though I saw it literally two days ago lmao-), even though it's also made me crave so much more that I HOPE the sequel(s) deliver on. 😭🙏 As soon as I realized how much in common Rumi/Jinu have with Rapunzel and Flynn from the movie Tangled (and trust me, MANY others have made the connections too), I was sold LMAO this movie felt like a good old warm fuzzy Disney romance in the best possible way 🥹💖 and the sisterhood between the main three is so lovely as well. And the songs are utter bangers. What's not to love? I was dying to see what the hype was all about, like you, and I get it now. Now if I can just find the fics and art perfectly catered to my interests to tide me over until we get more movies 😂😭
Dana
2025-10-20 00:53:00 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this movie as well! It was great to see some Korean culture in such a fun and visually beautiful movie! I love that it's accurate to Korean culture! And yes, love we're seeing more movies on niche and geeky topics but being embraced as mainstream and fun! And yessss, Rumi x Jinu are such a ship! I wish we had more of them as well! I'm so glad the movie connected to you so much! And ooohhh, that note about the outfits of her friends having the patterns, showing their embracing of her as a friend. I love that! I definitely see how a sequel could be made with all the points that and plot material they didn't have time for - but yes, there's a ton of rewatchability with this movie and I'm excited to see it again! Thank you for the comment!
Romaniablack
2025-10-19 22:03:15 +0000 UTCThis movie was so much fun, and not what I was expecting in the best ways possible. It truly felt like a love letter to K-Pop culture, which was a lot of fun. Even for me, who knows little about the subject and little about Korean culture in general. But I have heard people who have been to Korea talk about how the Korean culture felt very real an authentic - like Zoey taking Rumi to the shaddy little doctor who gave the pouches as the remedy, they were saying that was pretty accurate with their experience in Korea - which is a lot of fun. Honestly, I love how we are seeing more shows and movies about these kind of topics - K-pop, cosplaying, video game, that were once considered niche and geeky but are now being embraced and celebrated in ways that feel close to my own heart. Rumijinu was adorable and I wanted more of them T_T By the time that final song comes, I was crying with it and that was probably the biggest surprised to me; I was NOT expecting to cry with this movie but it just connected with me so much. A fun little detail that the friend who made me watch it point out to me is how the final outfits that Zoey and Mira have, the details in them look like Rumi's patterns, because they have now embraced her and Rumi has nothing to hide anymore. Amazing. If there's more story I want more on Rumi's parents and her relationship with Celine, because that's still turning around in my mind. But I do think that there are a ton of things that are worth exploring, fanfic fodder indeed. This movie in general has such great rewatchability; and I feel like you could latch to something different each time.
Alexandra Q
2025-10-13 00:34:42 +0000 UTC
