The farms best alogs got nothing on kpop stans
(that's what kpop fans are called, in case you aren't terminally online), even Hasan dents that manage to make it into every single community to defend their king roach got nothing on the kpop audience. The amount of money made from this industry is ungodly and on top the fact its blatant
child exploitation and the industry is often used as a
tool for
groomers,
sex traffickers and pedos. A thing some kiwis may not be aware of is that
porn is banned in south korea and so is hentai, so to them the next best thing is jerking it to half naked young females - a really big factor in all aspects of the industry.
Reasons to hate this movie without even watching it:
1. An easy cash grab, with Korean kpop culture being a global phenomenon it is bound to succeed as long as it carries the same aesthetics. Which is whatever, the bigger problem is it further promotes the kpop culture to a young generation making them easy targets in the future (this is the biggest one imo)
2. If this movie was about white girls, it would get hated on by everyone from every direction and likely cancelled, but because it's so ""inclusive"" (only Asians, but sepcifically Koreans, Asians are very racist amongst themselves btw) it gets the pass! And there's no way the studio will say no to the money and underaged girls coming their way
3. Speaking of inclusivity, isn't it so hecking bigoted that all the girls are skinny and pretty??? And the boys too??? Once again, they
only get to do this because its centered about another culture (let's ignore the fact approx %60 of the world is Asian)
4. All of the voice actors but
one (he's actually Korean and not a Korean-American) are either Korean-Americans or Korean-Canadians, each character has both a voice actor and a singing actor. What's the problem with this exactly? When casting for a cartoon or an anime they cry about
muh inclusivity, but when its about their cultures they insist on their entire cast being Asians, even though most of them don't even know much of any language but English
The music is ok, but not amazing. The animation is just passable. The story is literally ripped off from
every other magical gorl slop from early 2000s. There's nothing new, creative or interesting to see there. I wouldn't care if it flew under the radar, everyone is free to create whatever slop they like but it's tiring to see people coping that it's anything other than what it is.
edit: visually itsimilar to spiderverse or To Be Hero X (Chinese funded slop that they paid a Japanese studio to promote, so basically the same. Imagine how popular that would be if the main character was a kpop star instead of a hero) yet worse than either
