Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "KPOP DEMON HUNTERS MOVIE ANALYTIC DREAMZ REVIEW"

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:03 First off, we have to start with a bomb. As once again, yes, ladies and gentlemen, you're probably thinking to yourself, this man cannot stop talking about K-pop demon hunters. And guess what? You are correct. So anyways, when it comes to K-pop demon hunters, the main thing I was wanting to get into is my first, well, first and only, because, you know, there's only one review you could do for a movie. Anyways, obviously I broke down that overall soundtrack like a kilo of Miley Cyrus, but besides that point, the main thing we're doing for this specific segment is me giving my personal review of K-pop Dima Hunters because guess what, ladies and gentlemen, I actually watched the movie. You guys. And I was on the way, I was on the way to New York as far as when I watched the movie.
Starting point is 00:01:00 So safe to say, I definitely found a pocket of time. where I wanted to focus in on the entire movie and give my personal sentiments because of course the success for my K-pop demon hunters coverage throughout the year of 2025 has been very through the roof to the point where K-pop demon hunters coverage as far as me over here at notorious mass effect is probably one of the most engaged with coverage I've had as far as the entire year I mean we started off covering them June 30th of 2025 and let's just say a plethora of reviews have came out after the fact i mean i've talked about the soundtrack extensively i've talked about k-pop dima hunters coming to theaters for two days only and that was back on august 20th of 2025 because if you don't know they're set to have a second run for October 31st through the november uh through november 2nd so if you didn't know well now you know k-pop dima hunters is coming back to theaters and it's more of a single long type of release so i believe they're going to have lyrics and things
Starting point is 00:02:07 of that nature if you're not watching the video version analytic dreams video on spotify to see the video along with the audio because right now i have the actual trailer playing for um the Netflix k-pop demon hunters coming to uh theaters for a second run so as a hall of fame pocket watcher and of course me extensively covering the soundtrack to the point where the last time i talked about them september 23rd 2025 i said the k-pop demon hunters was netflix's most successful soundtrack ever and hold up before we let the bomb go off because of course they also have the second most play project in the world let in ladies and gentlemen let me show you this once again this is not normal for a soundtrack as you
Starting point is 00:02:56 can see they are battling it out with the likes of a t swift in a morgan walling as far as having the most popular music in the year of 2025. Oh, and then that's not it. Hold on now. And then when you come to actual releases from K-pop Dima Hunters, not only do they have golden, not only do they have how's it done, what it sounds like, take down, but also when you switch gears into the Saja Boys, which we're gonna get into them when I start my movie review,
Starting point is 00:03:29 when you get into the Saja Boys, safe to say, soda pop and your idol all of those tracks was about seven so seven tracks on the billboard hot 100 and we're talking globally so now you look at k-pop demon hunters in the light that i just put in there because of me putting immense respect for quite some time on k-pop demon hunters okay with all that glaze out of the way it is time for my k-pop demon hunters movie review so watching the movie i'm not go to lie to you i had high expectations and of course you know how you have high expectations and then you ultimately let down well to get my short review of this movie my expectations were not let down but when it comes to the movie and the quality it was a very simplistic story that they ran with
Starting point is 00:04:26 and of course i believe that this was a soundtrack before it was a movie now i'm not discrediting the movie because of course so much research and data analysis went into me covering k-pop demon hunters throughout this year but when it comes to the movie i was thinking to myself well maybe the movie adds an extra layer to make me appreciate the the music even more and the track that it made me appreciate more specifically was takedown because if you don't know my actual favorite track from the soundtrack is Saja Boys, your idol. So when it comes to that specific track, that's my favorite track off of the K-pop Demon Hunter soundtrack,
Starting point is 00:05:11 and that's not even one of the most popular. That's just my personal favorite. But as far as the movie, it makes you look at Take Down in a different light after you watched the entire film. And as far as the other tracks, the other track that made me look at different as far as the movie,
Starting point is 00:05:30 I forget which, I think it was a different which I think it was free it's a track where the main girl from the k-pop demon hunters which was roomy i believe and in the main guy from the saja boys i think it was genu i may be miss speaking but i don't think i am it was the track free and makes you look at that track different after watching the movie but in totality finishing the movie it was a nice kids movie and i'm saying kids because i do not want to judge the overall storyline too harshly because of course if it's a kid's movie the complexities of the storyline does not need to be there it just needs to be quality and i believe they gave a serviceable storyline to get us through all of the tracks from the soundtrack i don't know
Starting point is 00:06:13 if they played every single track from the soundtrack but of course uh they play a takedown free soda pop of course your idol that's another track that was a standout that's my favorite track off of the personal um that's my favorite personal track off of the soundtrack but of course when it came to the movie when your idol came and and the part that it played in the overall storyline i was thinking to myself hold on now i think the directors and the producers over at sony and Netflix knew that your idol was one of the standout hits because they played like their magnum opus they that track played like okay sager boys has officially won right now i want to spoil anything actually i am there's a spoiler review so i didn't
Starting point is 00:06:59 say anything too crazy as far as specifically i guess i did anyways i'm gonna put it in the title so y'all can't say hey man why he's spoiling the movie so anyways um back to my spoiler review right so anyways when it came to your idol that track played and that was at a point in the movie where like hey pop d my hunches just seemed like they was down and out and sod your boys have officially taken over or officially and efficiently taken over so With that being said, another thing I want to point out, because it's not going to be an in-depth breakdown, like the storyline is really not that complex. Like, it's literally roomy, spoiler, right? Getting the spoilers.
Starting point is 00:07:40 It's literally roomy dealing with also being a, no, is roomy taking out demons? Because she's a demon hunter, right? But she's also half demon. Hold on now. That was the bomb that was dropped in the entire story because whole time I'm thinking to myself, okay, they're not having too much. trouble with the demons that can't be the main focal point and then the main dude from um the sager boys came up for they have overall demon who's like a mysterious figure is not it's like an entity right and in the demon world the entity was like how are we going to take down
Starting point is 00:08:18 this k-pop demon hunters and then the leader of the sager boy showed up he was like i can do it right but then you come to realize i don't know if it's earlier after that shortly after that or before that i forget roomy actually uh revealed to the audience because you know stuff that's revealed to the audience sometimes it's not revealed to the main characters in the show and vice versa but they showed us early on that she was half demon so we're going throughout the whole movie of her hiding that from the other two cast members so i thought that was pretty cool and then i started to realize how the storyline was going to shape once it came to uh came to fruition but her being a half demon and her her mom, I guess, having some type of affiliation with a full demon.
Starting point is 00:09:03 Because how did they half demon end up? Like, hold them now. Time to start asking the real questions. You know what I'm saying? All right, my fault. We ain't going to talk about that. But Rumi was definitely a standout because, of course, the way that they had her half demon, half demon hunter storyline playing out. I thought that was the most intriguing factor.
Starting point is 00:09:22 Because whenever they fought the demons, they never really lost. Like, it wasn't really any way that the demons could have fought them. Like the Saja Boys, I don't think they ever had a real encounter and took them out physically. It was always musically. So when it came to K-pop demon hunters putting BTA on the demons, physically, they had no problem. They pulled out the weapons and it was a snapshot of what Power Rangers do to every single villain. That's what they did every single time they fought the demons. So when it comes to that, the main thing I was saying to myself is this was definitely a soundtrack before a movie.
Starting point is 00:09:58 usually you watch a movie and you think to yourself man this is a great movie that also has a great soundtrack i will go out on the limb and at this point in time i don't think it's a hot take i'm not going to say the soundtrack carries this film but if they were to have a sequel there's a lot of loose ends that has to be explained or not about by the or not i'm about to explain it right now by or not I mean, having K-pop demon hunters being so OP physically to the demons, you would have to create an actual intriguing antagonist besides the Sajer Boys who physically is also able to take them out in a fight. Because there's nobody in the entire movie who really threatened them physically.
Starting point is 00:10:46 It was all musically with the Sajja Boys. So I'm thinking for the sequel, have an actual entity. no no have the entity have actual body have it voiced by a famous actor or whatever and now whenever the k-pop demon hunters fight that entity it's like a shredder versus ninja turtles type of fight where they always get smacked around right because shredder is always putting the beat down a teenage new ninja turtles like you know just a little nerd lore for you so for a sequel you would need a more physical um you will need a more uh a more intriguing villain from a physical aspect
Starting point is 00:11:27 because from the sonically Sajaboy's was the perfect antagonist just from a song's perspective like I keep saying your idol is my favorite track that came from the Sajer boys I don't know if you can do them again because of the storyline but for the sequel if they do have a sequel
Starting point is 00:11:43 because you know sequels are hard to do especially after the soundtrack it's just blown up to astronomical statistical heights right so now you're looking at the antagonist as far as the Sajer Boys no longer existing how are we're already going to have a sequel and make it live up to the original i think have another version of the sager boys or no and have an entity that is as physically challenging
Starting point is 00:12:09 like a shredder to the teenage new ninja turtles and i want to go with the sager boys again i would just make maybe a girl group this time maybe make um a clone of them like technically the saja boys was a boy band make clones of the k-pop demon hunters and then that could be the sequel right i think that'd be fire so i think that could be the antagonist so replace the saja boys with clones of the k-pop demon hunters you know every superhero or yeah every show like this does it at some point in time time you get an evil clone and then now that's your antagonist spider man has it with venom them Batman has it with the Joker it happens time and time again it happened in Iron Man one make a clone of the K-pop demon hunters but instead of a boy band make it like actually clones of Rumi mirror and Zoe and make that antagonist of of K-pop demon hunters too like have them locked away or something I don't know you I'm not gonna make the whole storyline right I'm basically giving this as advice because of course I like the support that I've received from K pop demon hunters and soundtrack so much that was like hold on let me try to get some top tier expert consultation for k-pop demon
Starting point is 00:13:25 hunters while giving my movie review so that's what i'm doing currently anyways and as far as um the rest of the plot like i said it's a very simplistic story so i thought i was going to have a lot to talk to talk about i was going to get break it down by character by character but it's really not a lot so let me focus on roomie mirror and zoe so when it comes to roomie i already talked about her to have demon um half demon hunter's storyline that was fired When it came to Mirror, I believe, let me see, Mirror, K-Poc. Because like I said, I watched it on the way to New York, and that was a while ago. Shout out to the people who's subscribing and listen to that vlog.
Starting point is 00:13:59 I appreciate y'all. But anyway, so that happened like three weeks, I think at this point. Yeah, I think it was three weeks ago. Mirror was a taller one. Okay, yeah. So Mirror's storyline was solid. I like how she was able to call out Roommie for a lot of the stuff that she was going through. As far as Zoe, Zoe was.
Starting point is 00:14:18 my favorite because she was rapping she actually had rap verses in a lot of the songs and what the sager boys did they also had a rapper on their side and that just goes back into the overall um yen and yang as far as them having specific roles on each each group um so roomy had a lot no zoe had a lot of rap verses as far as particular songs so i liked her as well but of course my favorite was roomy because i like the overall storyline as far as half demon have demon hunter so when it comes into the Saja boys, I didn't really have any standouts besides the main character because of course Rumi, Rumi, and the main character was having a lot of different back and forths as far as if they was together, if they wasn't. And then of course he backstabed at the end
Starting point is 00:15:06 and then he and they up done, right? So that was the main intriguing thing for me, the main guy from the Sajja boys. Now, as far as plot points, the most intriguing factor to me was when they was trying to beat the Saja Boys in the competition. It kind of turned into like American Idol, but for K-pop, right? It was Korean Idol or something like that. You know what I'm saying? Like Korea Idol. The main thing with them is specifically making a song that captivates the masses more
Starting point is 00:15:41 than Sajie Boys. And I don't think that was executed as efficiently as a complex storyline would would call for it but of course once again it's a kid show so a lot of things that are loose ends are just throwing out the window and if it's an overall great story i guess it's a great kids movie but now i guess it was a good kids movie but you do have to keep in mind as a kids movie when you're watching the storylines play out because a lot of things don't make any sense and then you just got to be like well it's a kid's movie it doesn't have to make sense right and plus you know the superhero stuff supernatural but anyways that's the main thing um honestly that this review was
Starting point is 00:16:18 going to be longer let me see because usually I break down because you know I'm a Hall of Fame pocket watch I ain't gonna like to you it's one of one of the greatest perks to cover in the industry is knowing specifically what a lot of things is making from a lot of different places and let's just say let's just talk about the August 23rd 24 single long release in theaters right grossed over 19 million dollars and it was Netflix's ever first ever number one in the US box office so not only are they the most watched animated show on Netflix but they transitioned into the movie theaters after a plethora of people have already watched it for
Starting point is 00:16:54 not for free but for a subscription on their couches right they still went out and watched k-pop demon hunters in theaters i just wanted to show you all what type of marketing power has been going on for the entire 25 k-pop demon hunters statistically speaking have have been putting up some of the best numbers in the music industry and it's not even close i already showed you as far as the project being number two and it coming out in June 20th of this year and it's October 26th, 2025 as of me recording this and it's still the second most played album in the world
Starting point is 00:17:28 even Morgan Wallen can't take over K-pop Demon Hunters and he has the third most played project in the world and of course T. Swift, I mean, she's doing her thing she still has the most popular project. A T. Swift and K. Pop Demon Hunters collab would be fire but I just had that epiphany.
Starting point is 00:17:46 Maybe there's a bunch of different ways they could go with the sequel. What if instead of the Saja boys, the K-pop Dima hunters fight the entity in physical form that comes out at random times like maybe he can only come out at night, right? But then in a daytime, what if there's an American artist that's going up against them? And you already know who we could get for that. Now, a lot of people say this is hot take because I think Ariana Grande is one of the greatest singers we've ever had on Planet Earth. and she already has the acting background and she was in Wicked you guys just had a crazy epiphany so anyways um either that can work or it can but i was just thinking of ways for a sequel because this this definitely deserves some type of sequel as i believe they was looking for toys or something not looking but they're looking to create toys let's see the partnering with some type of brand and they're making toys but i don't oh yeah here it is okay so Netflix um Inc.
Starting point is 00:18:50 Major Deal with Mattel and Hashbro's a Hasbro for K-pop Demon Hunters' toys. So they already get started, ladies and gentlemen. Drop a bomb for that one. The key to a longevity type of career is making different, is entering different waves of marketing, whether it's streaming, whether it's theaters, whether it's musically, and now they're attacking toys, games, and products.
Starting point is 00:19:19 so when it comes to that basically um they're trying to partner with metel and hasbro and with that being said that they're going to be developing products across multiple categories including dolls action figures accessories collectibles all right i'm going to stop playing the button but y'all get the point placets and collaborations with co-brands with hashbrose category spanning special feature plush youth electronics and roadplay among other categories with a special k-pop demon hunter's edition of monopoly go shipping in january so anyways you know as far as over here at notorious mass effect you know i couldn't get through a movie review without throwing some analytical facts at you so uh the main thing besides giving my overall movie review because that was that was
Starting point is 00:20:16 basically it's a simplistic story um it is solid it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination and animation is top tier i mean same people who made spider man i into the spiderverse and across the spider verse beyond all that stuff right same team so now you're looking at it from that standpoint animation is just straight up top tier like one of the best animated shows i've seen literally it could be an anime if he wanted to that's how great the animation is just straight fire um from the facial movements when they're eating to the facial movements when they get upset or happy it's just very exaggerated in the greatest way possible and it doesn't have to slow effect like the Spider-Man to the Spider-Verse, which isn't bad.
Starting point is 00:20:53 I'm just saying this. It's his own thing. It's not just copying Spider-Man to the Spider-Verse. So I'm trying to see if I'm missing anything. That was basically, I basically glaze this IP to the moon and back. I ain't got to cap to you. And I waited for a while to put out this review because I wanted to do it justice by actually watching a movie.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Because I always think, you know, I have time. And then I don't have time. I come to realize my whole day planned out. so I was able to watch this movie while I was going to New York I already said that a bunch of times but hey I was just letting y'all know I actually carved out the plain time to watch K-pop Demon Hunters so just imagine me imagine me on the plane watching K-pop Demon Hunters they probably think it to themselves I didn't know that demographic list in the K-pop demon hunters and I'm thinking
Starting point is 00:21:39 to myself you guys see that's the problem so anyways I need to make this longer than it needs to be I literally covered everything I have a whole list right here it's as far as I've very I've already talked about that a bunch of times we just talked about it's we know I only got into the sing-along money that it generated we can get into a bunch of other stuff but of course I have so much k-pop demon hunters coverage that you can just type in k-pop demon hunters analytic dreams with a z and it would pop up just so much um last time I talked about then was talking about how it was Netflix's most successful soundtrack ever so I'll probably got into a lot
Starting point is 00:22:14 of more analytics for that specific segment but oh also don't forget actual up-to-date info is that the movie is coming out again. I said this earlier, but I want to say it again. There's a second run set for October 31st through November 2nd. And it's going to be a crazy event because, of course, it's the holiday seasons. And I'm pretty sure everybody's going to go out to watch this movie. They're going to be like, hey, what do you want to watch? Well, you ever heard of that K-pop Demon Hunters? And, um, even if you watched it, it's more of a sing-along. Even when they launched it the first time in theaters, it was a sing-along.
Starting point is 00:22:54 So they probably already know that people seen this already and just going in to watch it again, which, to be fair, the songs are fire. Now, I don't want to take that away. That's definitely still the highlight of the movie. The songs are straight fire. You're an idol to this day. I'll be saying the lines. Like, what would you say, preaching to the choir? Can I get the mic a little higher?
Starting point is 00:23:16 Like I say that 24-7, just walking around for no reason. So anyways, I like this song. What else? Yeah, that's basically it. Hopefully I like my K-pop Demon Hunters review. You know, I don't watch movies and TV shows, unless it's attached to superheroes. So to me, even put out a review the K-pop Deema Hunters.
Starting point is 00:23:33 I want to end this off by saying, the support from my K-pop Dema Hunter's coverage, just know, I sincerely appreciate it. And with that being said, click my link, sure in my bio. Let me know one of my social media. What did you think about my K-pop Dima Hunter's movies? review and will you be going to watch it in theaters when it goes for a second run set for
Starting point is 00:23:55 October 31st through November 2nd?

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