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KPop Demon Hunters: Plot, Cast, Ending & Where to Watch

2025 · United States of America · Fantasy, Music, Comedy, Animation · 1h 36m · English

KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 United States of America fantasy film directed by Chris Appelhans. This guide covers the plot, full cast, an overview of the ending, where to watch, and similar films you might want next.

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Original Title
KPop Demon Hunters
Director
Chris Appelhans
Writers
Maggie Kang, Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Chris Appelhans
Country
United States of America
Runtime
1h 36m
Release
Jun 20, 2025
§ 01 Plot · 6 min read

KPop Demon Hunters Plot Summary

KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film co-written and directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. It was produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix and stars the voices of Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Lee Byung-hun. The story follows a K-pop girl group, Huntrix, who lead double lives as demon hunters. They face off against a rival boy band, the Saja Boys, whose members are secretly demons.

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KPop Demon Hunters (2025) is a United States of America fantasy film, directed by Chris Appelhans, running 96 minutes. When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats. Stars Arden Cho and May Hong. Critical reception: IMDb 7.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 91%, Metacritic 77/100. Tagline: "They sing. They dance. They battle demons.." This guide covers the plot, full cast, ending, and where to watch.

§ 02 Cast · 6 roles

Cast and Characters

Arden Cho headshot
Arden Cho
as Rumi (voice)
Cho leads the film with the harder of its two emotional registers — the on-stage stadium-anthem confidence and the off-stage isolation of a woman who has been told, since childhood, that she is the only person in the room allowed to carry a particular secret. Her singing and speaking performances are credited separately, but Cho's voice work in the dialogue scenes is what makes Rumi's third-act self-disclosure land as a coming-of-age beat rather than a generic action-movie reveal.
May Hong headshot
May Hong
as Mira (voice)
Hong plays Mira as the group's tactical brain and the script's primary skeptic — the member of Huntrix most willing to call out a producer, an industry insider, or a teammate when the public-facing narrative stops matching the locker-room one. The performance lets Mira's wit be load-bearing rather than decorative; the friendship between her and Zoey is the film's quietest engine for whether Rumi gets to come out the other side of her secret with a band intact.
Ji-young Yoo headshot
Ji-young Yoo
as Zoey (voice)
Yoo's Zoey is Huntrix's youngest member and the script's most direct route into the film's fan-culture vocabulary — a Korean-American performer who reads as someone who joined the industry from the audience side first. Yoo plays the joy of being on stage as a kind of structural achievement, which is what gives the late-film fan-base sequences their actual emotional weight.
Ahn Hyo-seop headshot
Ahn Hyo-seop
as Jinu (voice)
Ahn — a Korean-Canadian leading man whose live-action drama work has been built on a particular kind of unreadable charm — voices Jinu as someone who knows he is being deployed as a weapon and is uncertain, on a scene-by-scene basis, whether he minds. The romance line between him and Rumi works precisely because Ahn refuses to give Jinu a redemption arc on the predictable schedule; his late-film choice lands as a decision rather than a reveal.
Yunjin Kim headshot
Yunjin Kim
as Celine (voice)
Kim's Celine is the film's most morally complicated character — a former Huntrix-generation hunter now running the lineage's management side and the woman whose private decisions, decades earlier, set up the film's central conflict. Kim brings the same controlled authority she carried across her live-action work on Lost and the Korean-drama circuit; the performance gives the film its institutional gravity without tipping the role into pure antagonist register.
Ken Jeong headshot
Ken Jeong
as Bobby (voice)
Jeong voices Bobby, Huntrix's manager and the script's comic outlet — a Korean-American industry veteran whose job has, until the demon side of his clients' work crashed the schedule, been to negotiate brand deals and survive variety-show appearances. Jeong's timing is what keeps the film's tonal whiplash workable; the same character can deliver a line about merchandise margins and a line about banishing a curse without breaking the scene's rhythm.
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Ending Overview

How does KPop Demon Hunters end? Our spoiler-aware breakdown walks through the final act beat by beat — including the choices, motivations, and ambiguous final shot that viewers most often debate.

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Frequently Asked

What is KPop Demon Hunters about?

When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.

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