I just don’t like Kpop Demon Hunters
I tried to like it, I really did, cause it's so popular and everyone loves it, and the art/animation and soundtrack are legitimately awesome, but there were several major parts that I just couldn't like, and tons of issues with the writing that I just didn't like; and it has nothing to do with “hating women” or whatever, I’m a feminist and I like tons of other things with girl main characters!
The main issues I have with it are:
The way that all the boys except for Jinu have no personality, seemingly just so that people won't feel bad for them when Huntrix kills them all
How the movie started to add nuance to the demons, and show that they aren't all pure evil with Jinu, and then went and had Jinu turn on Rumi and then die, and went and were like "actually demons are just evil monsters, let's watch our heroes kill droves of them(including the boy band) and re-seal the rest of them up! the only somewhat good full demon sacrificed himself and died! no nuance only black and white evil demons!"
The way that the above happened, while Rumi's being half-demon(intentionally or not) was coded as her being biracial and/or queer, and she was treated as a liar and in the wrong for not telling her friends(who, if you remember, were DEMON HUNTERS who ACTIVELY SAID THAT ALL DEMONS WERE EVIL CREATURES WHO DESERVED TO DIE and even WROTE A WHOLE SONG ABOUT IT), that she was half-demon! of course she didn't feel safe telling them! fuck that "i don't know why i didn't trust you to be on my side" shit! she knows exactly why she didn't trust them, and it's because they made it clear that there was a nonzero chance that they would kill her on sight if they saw that she had demon patterns(especially with that damn Takedown song)! and they PROVED HER RIGHT when they aimed their weapons at her when she needed them the most!
The way that only Rumi was made to sort-of apologize in What It Sounds Like, and Mira & Zoey never did, and then the end of the movie treats it like everything is perfect between them now, and also it brushes over any feelings Rumi might have had about Jinu sacrificing himself or any other of the somber emotional issues, in the name of "let's wrap it up in a pretty bow and have the girls laughing and going to the bathhouse together! isn't it sweet!?"
The way that Rumi went from "I want to destroy the Honmoon, I'm falling apart because almost everyone in my life turned on me when I needed them the most, I'm going full demon and having a massive breakdown" to "I'm a badass who is going to fix the honmoon and stop the demon king, I'm sorry for hiding my demon half, I'm confident and accept myself now!" without any build up or explanation at all
