Time to post my Gook folder.

>>52717 Please come back to us, Gook.

>>52719 And, that's all that I have.

>>52720 Man, I miss Gookanon. Hope he's doing well these days, or as well as he can be living in South Korea.

tl;dr How was the movie?

>>52734 TL;DR - It felt like I was watching a gookaboo modern woman's South Korean musical. A lot of effort was put into making the K-Pop group animate like attractive dolls for girls and fags to fawn over, like a lot of Korean shows. Sad to see such talent wasted on this music video. I did not like most of the music nor voices; there's a lot of pitch shifting. The voices of Gwi-Ma and Jinu sound alright, yet they're demons I think the limited framerate would've been fine if all of the characters had something like doll seams and joints, especially considering how fake these pop stars and almost all of S. Korea look and sound. All of the songs were mostly in English the girl group has more songs than the boy band, yet the demon boys got way too many fans from just one single because they're hot?, which makes it almost seem like a musical but with only gooks. Speaking of which, I noticed how there were little to no other ethnic characters nor crowds, which might've been a mistake for a Sony & Netflix production. As for the story itself, it's bizarre. It's mostly just a battle of the bands, but there's demons to be killed. Then there come some plot twists. The main woman with that braided haircut (Rumi) is actually a half-demon that has to cover her demon scars and not let anybody know until that one big concert scene later. This is also the first time a demon boy band was made to steal souls throughout the several centuries of demon killing while there were past generations of those gookpop demon hunters. Later in the story, the main demon boy (Jinu) ends up falling in love with her, even after lying about his past to her where he actually betrayed his family for wealth. He sacrifices her at the end battle against that big bad fire demon. There was a little bit of character, but not enough that makes it any good, nor a complete trainwreck. It's not the worst animated film that I've seen, but that might've been because the bar has been set so low that gooks and their fans are putting more effort than most of Western animation.

Here is some of the OST in webm form. If you know who TWICE is, you might enjoy this film. I have never heard of TWICE until now.

This looks gay. Did J-pop ever manage to get wide western appeal like this beyond being some sort of tie-in with an anime? I don't really fancy it myself, but still. It's weird that Korea somehow managed to export its culture while being a congregation of automatons burning in hell together with possibly a wider appeal than Japan's. Maybe because it's calculated and manufactured rather than organic. >>52830 This sounds like every single pop song made in the last decade and half. Makes sense it's popular with western normalfags.

That former K-pop hag that raised Rumi (Celine) was barely developed in the movie; she could've been written better, or at least gotten more screen time besides the twist. Also, I wouldn't mind a prequel that took place in Korea around the late 1800s or early 1900s, even with the wars, disasters, and rape glossed over. It would be a good excuse to re-release old K-Pop like this song that was briefly playing in that waiting room scene. It was produced around the early 70s. I now just realized that this is the very first Western animated film solely focused on Korean culture (and it wasn't by Disney), and that alone might be why it's gaining some popularity on Netflix.

>>52856 Definitely why it's getting astroturfed. Female led animated movie aping anime & chasing a k-pop trend? Of course they'll glaze that to kingdom come.

The film touch on K-pop being a slavery industry? The samey bodies with no tits also suggest "intended to be fashion dolls that cheap out to all use the same body" if the film did well.

>>52929 I think it's very obvious this kind of movie is not exposing the horrors of the k-pop industry. Even if saying demons are secretly controlling it would be a brilliant plot over a rival boyband.

>>52931 Film definitely would have been way better if it turned out k-pop idols get sacrificed or something at a certain age or the people in charge of the k-pop industry are actually demons that have been manipulating and using the main characters for their own ends the entire time. Out of curiosity, how does that compare with something like idols and J-pop in Japan? I mean I can name multiple works out of Japan that are critical or negative of the idol industry or the Japanese entertainment industry in general, but I don't really hear much about the same from Korean fiction being as critical of its own entertainment industry. Earliest Japanese work I can immediately think of would be Perfect Blue made in the mid-nineties.

>>52931 >>52935 Probably a case of "don't bite the hand that feeds", especially now when the rich want criticism to be illegal & revealing bad shit they do can get you sued >ACTA, SOPA, TPP tried to do that. BBB definitely will

>>52935 >>52937 Both correct. This is a corporate made movie through & through. Completely blind to the real issues of the industry. Made to sell you an idea over using it as a way to make real social commentary.

>>52961 >Completely blind to the real issues of the industry. Made to sell you an idea over using it as a way to make real social commentary. I honestly get tired of social commentaries because it just becomes the author's way to preach to the audience rather than tell a good story.

>>52963 Correct.... buuuut in this case it's addressing a real issue in a popular music industry most are ignorant of. It also would just a lot more interesting if they were unwitting soldiers for a cabal of demons keeping their pecking order in check.

>>52929 >K-pop being a slavery industry? They did sneak in innuendos.

>>52935 The lyrics from the Saja Boys' songs could show some awareness, except that it would also have to apply to the girl band, which the movie does not address. I think if there is some deep social commentary on the K-Pop industry, it's unintentional.

>>53013 Why am I instantly reminded that American TV shows from two decades ago used to make fun of this shit?

>>52707 Halfway through the first picture, and it is about as weird as you would expect. I think it is one of those things you save and wait years for an excuse to post without completly derailing shit.

>>52734 >How was the movie? It was ok, the visuals are good but there isn't any actual stakes in the story. It feels like it should be setting up a series but isn't interested in that.

>>52963 It is hard to write a good story about a thing if you are going to ignore most of it. Using this movie as an example, the message of "just be yourself" is a criticism of how manufactured the K-Pop identities are because of the industry. The thing that undermines that message is how there are much bigger problems around it, making it look like you put a band-aid on a paper cut when the patient still had a nail stuck in their thumb.

Didn't one j-pop idol get death threats for having a boyfriend?

>>53027 Mayu Tomita in 2016. Not for having a boyfriend though. It was because Tomohiro Iwazaki, an obsessive fan of hers, was sending lots of comments to her blog & twitter page & mailed her gifts to which she then returned to sender, which pissed him off. He showed up at her small concert in Tokyo & stabbed her many times with a pocket knife before being taken away. The Haruhi seiyuu, Aya Hirano, did get threats because she was having sexual relationships with the guys in her band. Backlash from the fans got bad that they destroyed their Haruhi merch & demanded she be removed from voicing more anime characters

>>53043 >>53027 What causes people to become obsessed with celebrities like this? I've never taken anything more than a passing interest in them or assumed they have better morals than your average politician. Even if I like some of their stuff, I've never thought of them anything more than entities that spontaneously manifest on my computer or TV for the sole purpose of my entertainment and vanish when I turn the screen off. Is this just an ugly manifestation of religious fervor?

>>53055 >What causes people to become obsessed with celebrities like this? parasocial bullshit an general horiness.

I hate everything about the way this movie looks. I'm not sure how to explain it, exactly. The combination of exaggerated facial features and an attempt to inject anime/manga visuals on top of a hyper-realistic Pixar style just feels incredibly off, like those cheap snapchat filters that were all the rage a few years ago. Turning Red did this too, but it felt a little more bearable since the entire movie was still stylized so it wasn't as off-putting. THIS >>53005 especially feels just wrong to watch. Kpop shit is cringe, this entire movie is cringe, I'm having a real hard time putting into words everything about this that I hate but it's gay and dumb and I hate it. Why is she sniffing a sushi roll that's just seaweed and rice and vegetables? That wouldn't smell like anything. It's not a steaming kielbasa or a hotdog or a yummy burger you dumb bitch, it's vegetables. The choppy framerate shit is giving me a fucking migraine. Is this what getting old feels like?

>>53069 We're not out of touch. It's the people making this shit who are wrong. Low framerate animation is genuinely migraine inducing. Like your brain knows something is missing.

>>53055 Same impulse behind waifuism, just directed towards 3d.

>>53069 >>53080 It didn't seem to be a problem for stop motion animation (and maybe any CGI recreating it), while stylized 3D CGI doesn't seem right. Take a look at these webms (one of which is a Blender short film in a similar style) and >>53013 to see what I mean. Some parts of that "Your Idol" music video didn't seem choppy. Come to think of it, RWBY might have a smoother framerate than much of K-Pop Demon Hunters.

>>53185 It's the overuse of threes or fours specific they are over using long frame delays. You can compare yourself with your videos by slowing down see the frame delays

>>53069 The way I'd describe it from just looking at >>53005 alone is making deliberate obnoxious expressions with higher animation quality to reinforce it; accentuating her facial movements like the stupid fucking mouth she's making

>>53015 In the American case, it seemed more like making fun of something you dont like, simple as

>>52833 The album (or really "Golden") is currently among the top charts for ARIA and Billboard's Hot 100. >“Golden” climbs to No. 2, “Your Idol” enters at No. 6, and “Soda Pop” debuts at No. 9. https://archive.is/PcQ2O It almost makes sense if you consider that the movie is a Disney musical in disguise.

>>54102 I say that it's in the "Top 100," but I meant to say Top 10 for Billboard. The virtual gook band is currently #2 worldwide, but they were briefly #1 earlier: https://archive.is/zyg5P As for whether or not it's better than most of the pop songs on the radio, I am not sure.

>>53069 Once you find out those gooks are nothing but expensive whores bending over to the elite that brainwash their nation into useless retards, the illusion gets shattered, they might kill vampires in a Sailor Moon fashion but in reality they just swallow semen.

>>55568 >>54102 It probably got more successful than most Kpop songs because most Kpop songs aren't in english, I imagine.

>>52830 >If you know who TWICE is, you might enjoy this film. I know who they are. They were my favorite K-pop group (though I'm not super into the genre), but they've gone way downhill in the past year-and-a-half. Between that, NewJeans being unable to make music, and Dreamcatcher effectively disbanded, there is no one good anymore. >>54102 Dahyun a cutie.

>>55622 >Once you find out those gooks are nothing but expensive whores bending over to the elite that brainwash their nation into useless retards >in reality they just swallow semen. True, sadly.

>>53069 Reminder that Sony Pictures is literally the source of the Emoji Movie and the Angry Birds movies. They're all about latching onto flotsam and shitting out movies about it. Also reminder that when Elon Musk fired all the uneeded Twitter employees, at least one of whom admitted to controlling what gets to trend, Japanese Twitter users noticed that K-Pop things in trending immediately ceased. K-pop is literally a forced meme by corporate interests, and modern women are retarded enough to fall for it.

>>56269 >K-pop is literally a forced meme by corporate interests, and modern women are retarded enough to fall for it. Wouldn't surprise me.

>>56275 It more or less disappeared for a bit once the mandatory military service requirement kicked in.

A really limited theatrical release of the film (that has sing-along lyrics) somehow ended up becoming the top spot last week. It seems like it's the highest grossing Netflix film released in theaters so far. As an aside, one of the directors, Chris Appelhans, is married to author Maurene Goo, who is a Korean-American writer (their son is a hapa too). https://archive.is/1AQoe https://archive.is/8qyjw >>56269 >>56321 It's already here to stay since there's gullible people in America (and Europe and Australia) that really love South Korea and their entire modern culture that's totally not Western.

>>56344 I haven't seen it really popoff like in the past, though with this film succeeding it most likely will cause another massive resurgence.

>>56321 Wasn't it mandatory already? Or are you talking about the K-pop band members?

>>56344 >marine goo

>>56382 I sometimes wonder about overseas Korean interest in general besides Best Korea. I can't help but think that it all began around the 2010s despite having their own history decades ago. Did it all began when PSY did that horse dance?

>>56388 I still believe this was some sort of deliberate shill-psyop campaign for testing out attention draining techniques in apps and other shit. No one actually likes this song and people cover it only because it's a meme.

>>56388 >Did it all began when PSY did that horse dance? K-pop or interest in "Korean culture" in general? Because the latter has had it's ups and downs. Manwha, MMOs, and films have had a dedicated following since the Aughts, but none of the them have really "taken off" to the level of mass pop-culture recognition when compared to Chinese films and Japanese manga/vidya. Until the 2010's, the most popular things Worst Korea was known for in mass media was doing the animation work for Western cartoons.

>>56382 >I haven't seen it really popoff like in the past You didn't see NewJeans' Get Up EP go to number one on the Billboard 200 and them also being the first foreign band to perform on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve? You didn't see Twice's With You-th album hit number one? To go slightly further back, you didn't see BTS's Butter go to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and their compilation album hitting number one the following year? You didn't see Blackpink's Born Pink album hit number one?

>>56474 NTA, but this is the first time I am hearing any of the first time I am hearing any of those names, except for BTS. >Billboard Hot 100 Unrealated, but I've only ever heard about these so-called "billboards" from news articles. Never really thought about them as actual entities before.