Netflix have introduced a brand new film referred to as Kpop Demon Hunters and the trailer has instantly introduced again a flood of League of Legends’ digital Kpop group, Okay/DA.
The animated movie has been developed by Sony Photos Animation, the makers of Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. The Machines.
The trailer stars a Okay-pop woman group trio, Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (Might Hong), and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo) who’ve a secret second life combating otherworldly threats and need to take care of a bunch of demons posing as a rival boy band.
Unsurprisingly, a gaggle of Okay-pop singers who’re additionally badass warriors reminded lots of people of Okay/DA, the digital Okay-pop group created by Riot Video games, which turned in-game champions Ahri, Evelynn, Akali, Kai’Sa and Seraphine into musical superstars.
Nevertheless, comparisons appear to go deeper than that with the outfits, music type, and even the fonts reminding individuals of the LoL band.
All over the place you look, discuss of this upcoming movie mentions Okay/DA. The highest touch upon a brief clip from the movie posted on TikTok saying “It’s lowkey giving Okay/DA vibes” has over 36k likes.
Scroll down additional, and also you’ll discover an onslaught of different commenters additionally mentioning League of Legends and Okay/DA.
These comparisons are additionally helped by the truth that the trailer incorporates a new authentic music carried out by three members of Okay-pop phenomenon TWICE; Jeongyeon, Jihyo, Chaeyoung.
And the latter two out of these three additionally lent their vocals to the Okay/DA music: I’ll Present You with Chaeyoung performing as Akali and Jihyo as Ahri.
The movie’s co-director, Maggie Kang additionally revealed that she had the concept for the movie seven years in the past. That takes us again to 2018, which is when Okay/DA debuted on the 2018 League of Legends World Championship ultimate in Incheon, South Korea.
She confirmed that it took seven years to get Kpop Demon Hunters made, from its first pitch to its eventual launch and shared some authentic art work she created for the movie.
Some consider Riot Video games missed out by not licensing an animated present or film for Netflix to comply with up on their extraordinarily profitable Arcane sequence, which discovered international reputation with an Arcane Season 2 launch occasion going down in London.
However it appears no one ever reached out to get the license, as former Head of Riot Video games Music Toa ‘Iceburrg’ Dunn posted on X (previously Twitter) expressing how he would have liked to work on the venture.
In any other case, Riot Video games remains to be having fun with loads of crossover with Japanese Popstars.
Particularly with Fnatic’s British Valorant star Jake ‘Boaster’ Howlett’s dances garnering celeb consideration.
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