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KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film about a K-pop girl group, Huntr/x, who lead double lives as demon hunters; they face off against a rival boy band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons.

Directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. Written by Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans, Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan, based on a story conceived by Kang.

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Celine: [narration] The world will know you as pop stars, but you will be much more than that. You will be Hunters. Demons have always haunted our world, stealing our souls and channeling strength back to their king, Gwi-Ma. Until heroes arose to defend us. Born with voices that could drive back the darkness. Singing songs of courage and hope. But Hunters are more than warriors. Our music ignites the soul and brings people together. With this connection, the first Hunters created a shield to protect our world, the Honmoon. Every generation, a new trio of Hunters is chosen to fulfill our ultimate duty. A barrier so strong it is impenetrable, that will keep demons and Gwi-Ma from our world forever, the Golden Honmoon. And now, that duty falls to you. That victory is within your reach. It is your voices, your song, that will create the Golden Honmoon.
HUNTR/X: Yes, Celine.
Rumi: [determined] Okay, this is our biggest show yet.
Zoey: [determined] The most songs.
Mira: [determined] The most moves.
Rumi: Which means the most carb loading.
HUNTR/X: [in unison chorus] FOR THE FANS!!!
[They start eating their food, just unlike with predators devouring their prey.]
Rumi: [mouthfully] I need 10,000 calories to get through the choreo.
Mira: [mouthfully] A thousand percent. A gajillion percent.
Rumi: [mouthfully] Mira, that's not even a real number.
Mira: [mouthfully] It is for our fans.
Rumi: [smells a roll] Ahhhhh! [as Zoey tears a bag of munchies apart to eat up] Our fans deserve the best. [pushes it into her mouth] Okay, time for our pre-game ramyeon!
HUNTR/X: [they lift up their cups] Happy fans, happy Honmoon! [clink them together, with Ding! comic was shown.]
Zoey: [notices there's no water in them] Wait, there's no water in these.
[Huntr/x are annoyed at realizing their plane's been hijacked by demons posing as flight attendants]
Mira: [terrible angrily] Ugh, I didn't even get to finish my ramyeon!
Rumi: [angered] Why do they always interrupt our snacking?!
Zoey: [garbled through a mouthful of chips, muttered] THEY WILL FACE MY WRATH!!!
Stewardess: Please take your seat.
Rumi: Yeah. We don't have time. She's a beast, right?
Stewardess: W-what do you mean?
Rumi: You're smiling all weird, watering plants with coffee, and those guys? Come on.
[Gwi-Ma berates one of his demon servants after a failed attempt to kill Huntr/x]
Gwi-Ma: Let me guess. They got away again?
Demon: [fearfully] The Hunters, they're too strong.
Gwi-Ma: I understand.
Demon: [hopefully] You do?
Gwi-Ma: I understand you are WEAK! [Gwi-Ma incinerates the demon, making the others quail in fear] Pathetic! Useless! All of you! Don't you idiots know once the Hunters turn the Honmoon golden, it's over for us?! [as the demons cringe, one begins playing a bipa atop a hongsalmun, drawing their attention]
Jinu: There once was a mighty demon king, stop me if you've heard this one before. He was in total control, he feasted on souls, the world trembled when he roared. [floats down and walks towards Gwi-Ma's throne, the crowd of demons parting for him] But then some Hunters sang some songs, now all he does is starve. Can't get at the souls, and his flame grows cold, just a whisper in the dark. [singing] And will he let the fire go out? Is this the end of him now? Dying king with a crumbling crown, will he let the fire go out? [Jinu stops before Gwi-Ma]
Gwi-Ma: [angered] I let you keep that voice, Jinu, and you dare to mock me with it?! [Jinu and four other demons approach Gwi-Ma]
Jinu: I'm not here to mock you. I'm here to help you. It's time for a new strategy. We fight the Hunters where they least expect it. Go after the very thing that powers the Honmoon. The fans. [the demons pose like a boy band]
Gwi-Ma: [scornful] A demon boy band? [he cackles in derision; the other demons laugh nervously] What makes you think that could work? [Jinu snaps his fingers, creating a glamour that makes him and his fellow demons look like handsome KPop idols]
Demon 1: Yeah, that's totally gonna work.
Demon 2: Yeah, 100%.
Gwi-Ma: [suspicious] Okay. I know you, Jinu. In over four hundred years, you've never done a single thing that didn't serve yourself. What do you want? [Jinu has a flashback to his human life]
Jinu: The memories. I want them erased.
Mira and Zoey: [chanting as they bring the food in] Couch! Couch! Couch! [relax on the couch] Couch!
Zoey: [relaxed] Oh, yeah. That's the stuff. Yeah.
Mira: [relaxed] So relaxing.
Zoey: What? [angrily] Cheater! Did she!
Mira: Did too!
Zoey: Did she!
Mira: Did, too!
Zoey: Did she!
Mira: Lies, dog fights!
[Mira and Zoey look eachother angrily.]
[Rumi rises up from behind the couch.]
Rumi: [grinning while crouched behind the couch] Hey! Stop quarreling! Have a good break?
Mira: [confused] Huh? What? But why?! No. We literally just sat… [Rumi stands up, revealing she's wearing her new costume] down.
Zoey: [quizzically] Why are you in your new costume?
Mira and Zoey: Rumi, you didn't.
Mira: [worried] Did you announce the new single?
Zoey: And the promo starts tomorrow...
Mira and Zoey: [horrified] TONIGHT?!
[A grinning Rumi shows the whining Mira and Zoey their own new costumes.]
Zoey: [whining] Rumi, no!
Mira: [whining] No-ho-ho-ho-ho-hoooooo!
Zoey: But what about the pajamas! But no. NO!
Mira and Zoey: [both wailing] No!!
Bobby: [as he gets out of the elevator] Girls, you won't believe this! [All three girls are in their new costumes; Rumi is enthusiastically standing at attention, while Mira and Zoey are hunched over and despondent.]
Mira: [whining] Bobby!
Zoey: [whining] No more wewaxy time!!
Bobby: Your new single is on fire! Everyone's listening to it! [Zoey and Mira immediately perk up]
HUNTR/X: YAY!
Bobby: So let's go promo!
Zoey: Okay, how do we handle this? What do we tell the fans? Maybe we should call Celine?
Mira: We know what she'd say, Zoey.
Zoey: Oh, right. [Clears her throat] "We have are Hunters. (speaks with Mira) Voices are strong. Your faults and fears must never be seen."
Mira: Whoa. You sound exactly like her.
Zoey: Yeah, that's how she says it.
Mira: No. We gotta hide it and fix it.
Zoey: For sure. We have to hide it. Mm-hm. Rumi, why don't we take a break? We'll skip the Idol Awards this year and...
Rumi: No. No way. It's our most important show. It's when we strengthen the Honmoon for the entire year. We can't skip it. We just can't. Not when I'm so close. These... I think was these demon guys sound like real beastly monsters.
Zoey: Hey, we'll get through this. We can get through anything. Together. Which is Taotie, Qiongqi, Hundun, Taowu and Bai Ze are where put in the jail on abandoned zoo.
Mira: Okay. We have two weeks to fix Rumi's voice. Any ideas?
Zoey: I do have one idea.
Zoey: Wait, why are you looking at me?
Healer Han: Eagerness to please. Maybe a little too eager.
Zoey: What? [laughs.] I'm not like that. You'd tell me if I was like that, right?
[He then looks at Mira.]
Healer Han: Hm... I see...
[Mira stares at Healer Han and she went unleashed her angry mode, then scares him with lion roar sound effects, causing him to flinch back with puppy dog eyes.]
Mira: Yeah, that's right.
Rumi: How does this help me get my voice back?
[Zoey and Bobby dancing to "Macarena (Spanish Musical)" on his phone, much to the annoyance of Rumi and Mira]
Mira/Rumi: Bobby!/Zoey!
Mira: Control those shoulders.
[Zoey and Bobby then stopped. Bobby turned off his phone]
Mira: Yep, making them hotter.
Bobby: Backup dancers, ready to go.
Rumi: We'll write a brand-new song. A diss track to expose the Saja Boys.
Zoey: And send those disgusting demons back to the depths where they belong!
Mira: Yeah!
Zoey: [excited] YEAH!
Mira: [so excited] YEAHHHHH!
Zoey: [really excited!] Yeah!
[The two stopped making battle cries when Rumi stared at them.]
Rumi: [excited] YEAHHH!
HUNTR/X: YEAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
[Rumi, Zoey and Mira charge off to attack.]
Zoey: We're gonna kick their ass butts!
Bobby: That's my girls! Not sure about this whole demon thing. I mean, they seem like nice people — but loving the energy!
[Rumi ran back to the stage, panting, the patterns covering her back, chest and head. She saw her friends.]
Rumi: What? How are you here? You were just on stage. That wasn't you? Oh. Oh, thank goodness. [looks down and saw it, the demon patterns. She gasped] No. No No! No!
Zoey: ...How do you have patterns?
Rumi: These were supposed to be gone. You were never supposed to see!
Mira: You were hiding this from us this whole time?
Rumi: No, I-I have a plan to erase them. Jinu was supposed to... I... He was–
Zoey: [betrayed] Jinu? You're working with him?
Rumi: No! No, no, I was using him to fix all this! To fix me! So we can all do our duty! We could all be strong! Be together!
Zoey: How could we be together, if we can't tell your lies from your truths, Rumi!?
Mira: [sniffles] I knew it. I knew it was too good to be true.
Rumi: Mira, no! Didn’t you see? See the gold? We're so close! [Mira and Zoey step back away from her] No, don't leave! Don't leave! I can still [demonic voice] FIX IT!
[The Honmoon reverberates, causing Mira and Zoey to look at Rumi in horror, who also reacts in horror at what she just did, before Mira raises her gok-do. Zoey whimpers, fighting back her tears.]
Rumi: [tearfully pleading] Zoey, please...
[Zoey says nothing, as she draws two of her knives with a cold expression. Rumi finally breaks down and runs away crying. The moment she is gone, Zoey and Mira lower their weapons, distraught]
Rumi: [confronting Jinu] Say you didn't do this. [he snaps his fingers, revealing the Mira and Zoey who attacked and humiliated her on stage were demons. Rumi angrily shoves him] How could you do this?!
Jinu: It was all a lie.
Rumi: It was real! What we had was real, I know it was!
Jinu: The things I said? I just needed you to trust me, that's all. [he turns to leave, but Rumi grabs his arm]
Rumi: No! No, I know your story. You were a good person, and you still are. You just made a mistake.
Jinu: [angrily] I left them! [Rumi recoils from him in horror] That's right, I lied to you. I only made a deal with Gwi-Ma to get myself out of that miserable life! [Jinu flashes back to his human past, remembering his mother and sister being turned away at the palace gates, and hiding his guilt from his fellow courtiers] I left my sister, my mother, alone, while I slept on silk sheets in the palace with my belly full every night [anger turns to sadness and his voice breaking] I left them. I left them...
Rumi: [voice breaking] But that's not all you are. This is just your demon talking. You have to fight it!
Jinu: That's NOT how it works!
Rumi: [demonic voice] YES, IT IS! [the Honmoon reverberates, much to her horror]
Jinu: Listen to yourself. Is it working? You're a demon, just like me. All we get to do is live with our pain, our misery... That's all we deserve.
[Meanwhile in Jeju, Celine is horrified of what was happening. She felt a presence nearby. She pointed her weapon, only to see that it was Rumi, exposed by the glowing purple patterns and glowing gold eye.]
Celine: [realized] Rumi?
Rumi: I thought I can fix it all. Fix me. But I ran out of time. They saw. They know. There's no denying it. This is what I am!
Celine: Rumi, no!
Rumi: You knew I was a mistake from the very start. [sinks to her knees to draw her sword] Do what you should've done a long time ago. Before I destroy what I swore to protect. Please... [demonic voice] DO IT!

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