When Guillermo del Toro proudly professed that “animation is cinema” during the 2023 Oscars , it felt like a rallying call for the medium to be taken seriously. One major studio that is constantly testing the barriers of what the medium is capable of is Sony Pictures Animation: from the handmade-feeling family comedy The Mitchells Vs The Machines to the multiversal innovations of the Spider-Verse films. Their latest venture, KPop Demon Hunters , is another delightful, hugely original addition to their impressive catalogue.

It plays like a cross between Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Popstars: The Rival_s. We first meet the HUNTR/X ladies — Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong) and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo) — diving out of a plane with Avengers -esque superhero coolness,

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