Thread 150203430

Remember when you all said it wouldn’t be popular?

/co/ says that about a lot of shit and it's never right

No, actually.

total korean victory

I was correct.

Sony fucked up so fucking badly.

Tbh I am kind of surprised /co/ seems to hate this because by its weird standards it's really inoffensive.
>everyone is conventionally attractive
>straight romance
>the only last minute redemption still ends in an antagonist dying to atone
>the fight against the demons is treated as very black-and-white and Jinu and Rumi's dad are seen as rare exceptions
>things like character deaths aren't magically rolled back at the end
Is it just because they're Korean?

>>150203430 (OP)
I didn't know it existed until it replaced the 100 daily "Fixed sucks" threads

>>150203489
>Is it just because they're Korean?
and women

>>150203668
And /co/ hates unless there children
They don’t want “foids”

You guys suck. I'm going to hang out in the /co/ archives instead. They're all crying about how Frozen wasn't a 2D film.

>>150203430 (OP)
no. I said it wouldn't be good, and I was right.
>>150203489
>>everyone is conventionally attractive
the only people who see this as worthy of praise on its own are braindead weebs.

>>150203668
I didn't think /co/ had regressed so much that now they just hate all female protagonists no matter what. Can't imagine what the reaction here would be if Disney announced Frozen today.

>>150203489
/co/fags for whatever reason are just insane anime and Japan weeb worshippers, and they are actually assblasted that they lost the animation game
>Western animation has always been more popular, including many billion dollar films that anime only got to half of once
>China has the highest grossing animated film ever
>Korea has the highest viewed streaming project ever (both animated and live action)
>Anime... has some demon slayer film that made 200 million? Lol
Korea has been rising in media popularity and this is making them mad

>>150203430 (OP)
Lets all laugh at sony
https://fortune.com/2025/08/27/kpop-demon-hunters-sony-netflix-rights-deal/
> Sony Pictures Animation, which spent $100 million creating the phenomenon, will reportedly net only $20 million owing to a pandemic-era distribution deal.
>According to Puck’s Matthew Belloni, Sony agreed to a “direct-to-platform” arrangement where Netflix would pay back the film’s production budget plus an additional fee capped at $20 million per project. In exchange, Netflix retained all rights to the property and owes no additional profit participation, even as the film becomes a massive hit. This wasn’t Sony shopping around a finished film; Netflix essentially funded the production while Sony handled the creative work.

>>150203858
Oh my god how can one company be so retarded. How can they ALWAYS make the wrong decision? It's baffling.

>150203775
>/co/fags for whatever reason are just insane anime and Japan weeb worshippers, and they are actually assblasted that they lost the animation game
Who the fuck are you quoting? /co/ hates anime and weeaboos. The "anons" who post about anime are raiders and tourists.
This is a shill thread anyway and stop getting past my filters you faggots.

>>150203430 (OP)
Who would have thought taking asians and making them make vaguely racist faces would make a show so popular. seems kinda regressive.

>>150203775
/co/ doesn't watch anime. They watch these people. The only series they seem to know are My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer because of the headlines about sales numbers, which makes sense because they're targeted at middle schoolers. They're sold next to the Five Nights at Freddy's books at Walmart. They never bring up how Japan is running out of series from the 1980s to adapt and has lost the ability to target anyone except middle schoolers.

>>150204195
>The Critical Drinker
He sounds so pretentious and says things everyone can see clear as day

>>150203430 (OP)
I had no idea KPDH existed until i saw people sharing gifs of what looked like an overly sexual Grub Hub commercial involving an uncut sushi roll. Then I watched the movie and it was great.

>>150203430 (OP)
Are korean comics btfoing capeshit as well? I know they are on the up lately

How the hell are so many people watching it. How did the hell did it get so popular?

>>150204267
Disney has made nothing for little girls for about 5 years and something had to take their place

>>150203485
>>150203858
Sony is legitimately probably kicking themselves and counting the bullets. I can’t believe they fucked up this badly.

>>150203489
/co/ fellates shit like Digital Circus and Hazbin Hotel. this board has no fucking standards and the majority opinion holds no value on anything.

>>150203430 (OP)
As with most Korean-centric media, the vast majority of the fans are from India and other SEA nations. Don’t pretend this is popular with humans.

And yet Skibidi Toilet mogs KPDH out of the water. Unironically and literally.

>>150204288
I was gonna say Encanto but that was 4 years ago, christ.

>>150203775
The opposite from what I've seen. Most /co/ posters are stubborn myopic capeshitters or western cartoon watchers who refuse to branch out at all despite seemingly hating the current capeshit comics and cartoons. Whether that is mango, chickshit, or korea stuff the average /co/spawn refuses any of it.

>>150203489
>everyone is conventionally attractive
>straight romance
This only matters to /v/tards, the movie is misandrist quirk chungus girl power slop

>>150204356
>and Hazbin Hotel
nice try

>>150204195
I'm not really surprised, we're /co/ not /a/.

>>150203489
It's dei woke garbage. Not a single white person

>>150203430 (OP)
No, because nobody was tracking this thing's existence until it randomly showed up on the service. /co/ included. There was no awareness for there to be dissent.

also
>template thread spam
>twitter screenshot
>time-wasting question
>thinly veiled east vs west
>thinly veiled number bragging autism
fucking kill yourself holy shit

>>150205500
Blew it too early
Gotta lead up to that first if you wanna use it as bait

>>150205087
If you actually like animation, you should not care if it comes out of America, Japan, or flippin' Africa. It is a medium, not a nationality pissing contest.

>>150203430 (OP)
>millionth kpop thread
>bait thread
>IMG filename = phoneposter thread
This bot is working overtime.

>>150203489
It's just ugly as shit

>>150203489
Contrarianism

>>150203489
I like it thou that's all that matters, probably the only recent thing with female protagonist that didn't make me want to jump off a bridge

>>150204288
The Moana sequel made a billion dollas last year

>>150203430 (OP)
>ToonHive

>>150203430 (OP)
> May we see the math?
> No, just trust us lol

>>150204333
Sony’s determined to make up the difference, they’ve been talking sequels and a live action remake

>>150203430 (OP)
I don't remember anyone talking about it at all before last week, so no.

>>150205018
Way to prove his point

>stars in two biggest Netflix content ever

BASED

>>150203858
Not a bad deal i must say,not all Sony product would be Kpop or spiderverse hence Fixed,theres no guarantee that Kpop would having same effect if its not streaming first.

>>150203430 (OP)
&this is the one /co/ said would be popular

>>150203489
kpop is liquid dogshit for women and fags.

>>150203945
Tom Rothman and Amy Pascal.

>>150203430 (OP)
If the demons could transform into Zoey and Mira, why didn't they commit crimes while disguised as the Huntrix to ruin their reputation?

>>150203430 (OP)
I don't remember saying that at all...

>>150206537
>live action remake

>>150206406
>be the only movie in theaters for like a month and still no one talks about it

>>150207023
this one too

>>150203489
I don't hate it, but I am so busy I might not ever get a chance to watch it

>>150203430 (OP)
I’ll remember you spamming the zipperface eating the roll at me every time I take a comfort woman

>>150203489
The upcoming /co/ tournament will reveal if a majority of /co/ likes it or not if a female candidate or two manages to qualify.

>>150203489
I despise k-pop so anything related to it is on the auto-ignore list. I'd watch it if it wasn't k-pop related.

>>150203489
I haven't watched it so I can't give an opinion on the movie itself, but the music that has made its way around the internet is derivative (as is most k-pop) and the premise sounds like a straight to DVD cash-grab from some shit-tier animation studio trying to cash in on a fad. The title doesn't do it any favors either.
Maybe the movie itself is good? I can't get over these initial gripes.

>>150203430 (OP)
Except in Japan.

That ands Splatoon (the original) still had 100 times more fans then Squid Game (the Korean knock off).
>>150203775
>Western animation has always been more popular, including many billion dollar films that anime only got to half of once.
Only before the 1970s, after that all the biggest cartoons had Japanese involvement (The Simpsons being one of the few exceptions).


>China has the highest grossing animated film ever.
That can change if Hollywood gets it's head out of it's ass.

>Korea has the highest viewed streaming project ever (both animated and live action).
K-Pop Demon Hunters is a US X Canadian co-production, Korea had nothing it do with it.

>Anime... has some Demon Slayer film that made 200 million?
$1.2 billion dollars.
>>150204195
Not true as My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer are far too sexual and violent for middle schoolers in the western world.
Japan however.... Doraemon which had a broader age bracket that younger then middle schoolers but middle and high schoolers still love get away with alot worse.
>>150204372
And Looney Tunes uploads on Youtube mogs Skibidi Toilet out of the water. Unironically and literally.
>>150210003
Thats just Famicom, everyone knew that film was going to bomb because Katie Rice worked on it, and everyone still hates her for stealing Atsuko Tanaka's job on Animaniacs'2020

>>150204195
>They watch these people
They are right tho

>>150203430 (OP)
No? It was already a massive hit by the time I even heard of it. Actually I guess maybe I saw that weird ahegao a couple of times before knowing wtf it was from

>>150203489
Because in the world of entertainment being boring is the worst sin you can commit

>>150210270
>And Looney Tunes uploads on Youtube mogs Skibidi Toilet out of the water.
I just went to check this and it doesn't seem to be true?

>>150203489
I thought /co/ loved this? It's always got like 3 threads.

>>150203549
Fixed was stupid, but definitely funny

Maybe my sense of humor is completely broken

I love how the easiest way to bait /co/ is to mention any east asian centric project in a good light.

what is this movie even about bro?

>>150203489
/co/fags are contrarians.

>>150211533
the hatred for anime/east asian content in generl is hilarious. they're just mad because its been mogging them in cultural relevance the past decade

>>150211646
>what is this movie even about bro?
KPop Demon Hunters

>>150211533
most anons put korean shit in a grey area that is neither /co/ or /a/ and has no specific board for in this site

>>150211533
>>150211657
Nope, easiest way to bait /co/ is to talk about anime’s critical shortcomings and commercial lack of success to other countries animation, especially to other Asian countries this year
They ALWAYS get emotional if you do

>>150211657
>they're just mad because its been mogging them in cultural relevance the past decade
Honestly it does make me mad, but not that anime and manga are doing well but how fucking badly capeshit crippled western comics

>>150203430 (OP)
>mfw Sony had less faith on Kpop Demon Hunters than they had on the fucking Emoji movie

>>150203775
>Anime... has
massively influenced everything else. It's to animated fight scenes what Hong Kong cinema has been to live-action ones. It also developed the alternating limited animation/sakuga production style that made all of those films financially viable, since Disney's "animate everything at 100 all the time" approach is incredibly expensive, but any drop from that used to get your film branded cheap. Setting the expectation that some moments will be mouth flap/environmental pan-fests in order to save budget for the big action scenes was a hugely important contribution to the art form. That's not even talking about the design influence, effects innovations, etc. Disney and Trying To Compete With Disney is basically all that exists without anime.

>>150204195
>and has lost the ability to target anyone except middle schoolers.
I'm glad someone brings this up but you won't get a lot of mileage out of trying to discuss this on 4chan. This place is full of low IQ people who grew up watching DBZ and treat repetitive shonen for middle schoolers as the default and peak fiction.

>>150203489
I don't enjoy shit getting forced down my throat. I'd probably be more neutral on it if people didn't make 5 threads per day about it.

>>150210219
This desu. K-pop is a cringe fake industry for sad people, it's basically Onylfans with extra steps. I don't mind if you like the music but let's face it that's not what 90% of K-Pop's fanbase comes for. So I'm going to be extremely skeptical of any K-Pop adjacent products that get shilled extra hard.

>>150203430 (OP)
For real is funny how Sony thought demon hunters was gonna be a mid media with no importance, and it turned out to be a gold mine, so sellig the ip to netflix was a catastrophically error from their part, but to be honest it doesn't surprise at the slightest, the Sony leaks from 2010's made see how much of a retards the higher ups are at Sony are.
I still laugh about their plans with spider-man, the spider-man spinoff without spider-man proved the idiotic higher ups thinking specially, amy Pascal.
Their only legit good idea was into the spider-verse and thay only came out good because it had actual capable people that actually cared about spider-man.
No one seems to remember the movie before spider-verse was the emoji movie, the worst corporative movie mistake ever made.
I'm not even gonna a mention their failures in the video game market, specially talking about handheld consoles.

>>150203430 (OP)
both of those shows are gay and retarded
there's alot of unemployed gay retards staring at netflix.
just because it's popular doesn't make it good.

>>150203430 (OP)
what the fuck....

>>150212004
>Popular = le bad!
Holy hipster retard! (I didn't watch it, nor will I watch it because I am racist and hate Kpop)

>>150213629
Being put off by constant relentless shilling of something that looks generically uninteresting at best does not make someone a hipster, you disingenuous faggot.

>>150203485
>>150204333
Doesn't Sony own the rights, or was it sold to Netflix?

>>150203430 (OP)
>Remember when you all said it wouldn’t be popular?

They did? When did that happen?

>>150211403
It is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ERPrxW_w60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deJinoeuEM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QfOHqclnLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueHkKj_aXxs
>>150211974
Not true, what has influenced everything else was animated wild takes, falling anvils/safes/pianos and doing things you CAN'T do in live action.

Everyone HATED limited animation (unless it came from Jay Ward or Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera between 1957 to 1963 of course) and only WANTS "animate everything at 100 all the time on 1s", and that "cost" is just boated executive/producer pay checks and celebrity voice actors, the actual animation doesn't cost that much; AND THATS NOT JUST WHEN IT'S 100% KEPT IN THE STATES BUT ALSO USING FRAME BY FRAME ANIMATION AND EVERYTHING BEING ANIMASTED ON 1S!!!!

Modern cartoons only use the same 3 or 4 expressions (something The Day The Earth Blew Up did right was that they NEVER drew the same face twice), Nobody wants mouth flaps, they want the mouths to match the words.

And action cartoons = Cancer; They're not even cartoons, they're just action serials that just happened to be animated and CAN BE DONE IN LIVE ACTION, now of days we get a billion Invisibles just to get 1 Looney Tunes Cartoons out of it and it's sickening

The designs to modern anime is just Flimation garbage with FUCKING BAMBI EYES! Either do Bob McKimson (specifically his work for Bob Clampett between 1941 to 1945) or GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE ANIMATION INDUSTRY as your rancid kind isn't allowed; Chuck Jones is also acceptable

I know there is anime post 60s (Osamu Tezuka, Fujiko F. Fujio) that isn't Filmation with Bambi eyes and follows the guidelines set by Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Frank Tashlin, Bob McKimson, Chuck Jones, Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera and Friz Freleng (See Laura Haruna) but those are net to non existent now of days (Theres those blue wolf scenes from Bullet/Bullet but those are the exception, not the rule, the main show is just bog standard anime)

Shut the fuck up Famicom.

>>150215651
Meant to reply to >>150213479

>>150204267
There's no way this isn't botted. I remember Solo Leveling doing something similar. American feds are propping up Korea.

>>150203430 (OP)
Eh, k-pop stans are just the most austistic insane demographic in human history. See: every twitter hastag fancam hijack.

>>150203489
>Is it just because they're Korean?
Sure, Korean culture is cringe, but the film is also ugly and boring, basically the worst thing you can be in an animated medium.

>>150215953
Solo Leveling is only popular in South Korea, and there has been American feds in South Korea since 1953 when the Korean war was put of a truce to keep a eye on NORTH Korea.

>>150203430 (OP)
I don't care if it has a million views, It's mid

>>150203430 (OP)
/co/ is full of nothing but retards.

>>150215651
>Famicom
Who? I just think k-poop hunters looks like utter shit and only does well because kpop stans will consume slop no matter how shit

>>150217130
Sakuga otaku.