See why I don't care anymore? They brought this on themselves and not think beyond it.
I think the biggest issue your expressing is 2D rigging, which from what I understand is creating a skeletal model to animate on top of and then instead of animating the character every frame the animator just moves the rig.
I promise you these people are 100% 1) the chronically online animators themselves, 2) "friends" of the animators trying to get a job, 3) animation students wasting tens of thousands of dollars being taught those exact techniques in art school.
I gave it a whirl despite having zero interest in k-pop. It may not be consciously woke, but I can't help but feel it would not have passed with the genders inverted. The demon boys gets objectified a lot, and there is no "le demons are innocent" twist but the only good one is the expendable male love interest. The last 30 minutes are kind of a mess. Demon king is a fart cloud who is beaten with no fanfare. No exploration of how the public reacts to a boy band get exposed as demons then slain on-stage before thousands of viewers. One of the hunter girls is half-demon but it's never explored why her mother reproduced with one, and her mentor is vilified for trying to hide it even though demon heritage is shown as inherently dangerous. Nor is it explained how the generational warrior-musicians are recruited, or why they have to be female, or if other countries have demon issues as well, or if government(s) are aware of the supernatural. I mistook it for a series at first, and that might have given it more space to breathe.
How? Someone explain that one to me, please. I’ve heard about the changes made, how did this make money?
The Mexican kid steals a white kids radio to contact the Aliens, the white kid bullies him for stealing his shit and he's treated by the movie as the bad guy.
Yeah, I’ve heard that it’s kind of a nothingburger at best from most people. With some questionable writing choices too, and boring designs. Aliens are usually great because you can do some fun things with their anatomy, but basically everyone in the movie is some form of soft blob.
It's even "worse": He steals the radio from a black kid who is friends with the white bully. The black boy participates in the bullying later, but only because of peer pressure. Of course, the two kids of color become friends in the end.
