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Farafra
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It really should have gone to 'I Lied To You', but a well deserved win nonetheless.
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Axbox360
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And nothing for anime.
Meh…. |
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LinkTSwordmaster
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Felt really bad that this was a big win for them, and they got cut/music'd TWICE. Left a really bad taste in my mouth. Am glad they got two wins for it though.
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Tenchi
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Hopefully it gets a Blu-Ray release now.
I know that not everything shown on Netflix gets a (non-bootleg) physical media release but it's utterly ridiculous that an animated movie which is that popular, highly-acclaimed and award-winning still doesn't have one. EDIT: Apparently, K-Pop Demon Hunters is finally getting a Blu-Ray release from Criterion. I still haven't seen listings for it anywhere so it's news to me. |
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Tenbyakugon
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We will celebrate a step toward AAPI equity, even if we are now having to protest being given less time in acceptance than their colleagues of other races. |
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mdo7
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To be honest, I knew they were going to win even before it happened. My favorite part of the acceptance speech from Maggie Kang, the director said that "This is for Korea and for Koreans everywhere" which in my opinion is the best remark I've heard. I say this because some of you on ANN back in 2013 were skeptical that I correctly predicted that K-pop would take over and surpass J-pop or J-music in general when it comes to mainstream popularity and appeal amongst music listeners that aren't niche music fans.
Anyway, big congrats to this animated film, and big achievement for K-pop genre in general. |
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Beatdigga
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An award outside the usual Best Animated is already a big deal, particularly for a genre of music that, as the recipient said before she was cut off, has been mocked in the West for a very long time.
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Dancing Green
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I prefer Bong Joon-ho's quote of "once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films". K-Pop Demon Hunter is a weird film to rally this behind since it's an American production in English. Korean media has already been popular for years now from Squid Games to Parasite. Maggie Kang acting like this is the first award Korean media has even gotten is pretty odd unless she specifically means Korean-American, hence the "AAPI" term. But then Crazy Rich Asians was a thing wasn't it? I guess it depends if we're separating Korean media and Korean-American stuff because Korean media like webtoon and those previous series and films I mentioned were already popular. K-Pop Demon Hunters trying to act like they are the first is weird. |
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ZelosZoidberg
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Glad they won,pissed they cut them off. They always do this for the Best Animated Feature Oscar... |
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MarshalBanana
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mdo7
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I'm already aware of this since I became a K-pop fan in 2013, it always baffled me how and why Japan sabotaged their own music genre from replicating the same global success like their Korean counterparts. I mean could AKB48 become Japan's SNSD/Girls Generation and Twice if they had allowed them to a world tour the same way like Blackpink are getting? It could've been if Japan had done this in early 2000's and around the time Youtube launched in 2006. J-pop's accessibility for global audiences has been a subject of debates amongst J-pop/J-music fans (whatever is left of that fandom) when we witness K-pop blowing up like crazy worldwide.
Yeah, it ticks me off that they cut off from finishing their long acceptance speech.
That's also another favorite quote of mine when Parasite won the Best Picture at the Oscars a few years back. And I'm glad you mentioned that because a long time ago, it was thought that people wouldn't watched foreign films because of subtitles, but now because due to several situation with the audio problem in Hollywood films and TV shows where even speaking in English has become more harder to understand, the closed caption/CC and subtitles/SDH option has become more popular mainstream in the last I think 10 years, hence why people can watch foreign films with subtitles with no problem or drawback, and why foreign films/foreign-language TV series (including anime) aren't getting dubbed in English like in the past.
I think it's because of the K-pop fandom despite the film is not made in Korea or Japan is probably why it got a lot of love not only from K-pop fandom, but also people that aren't even hardcore or long-time K-pop fans (like me, I've been in the fandom since 2013). Yeah I want to add that both Crazy Rich Asians and the Korean film, Parasite have also helped boostered Asian/Asian-American representation in Hollywood (that and the mainstream popularity of K-dramas thanks to streaming that also factor in and contribute to that too). K-pop Demon Hunters just also bolstered and solidifies K-pop fandom credibility and Asian-American representation. It's funny, when K-pop Demon Hunter came out, nobody thought the film would do well. I guess the film was originally an underdog until I don't know what made it went "frozen"-level mainstream popular even amongst non-Kpop fans. But I'm happy to see that film won the Oscars for Best animated film category. At least K-pop fandom in the US are here to stay and won't go away anytime soon. EDIT: I just found out that Chase Infiniti, one of the actress in One Battle After Another is a K-pop cover dancer. So we got another K-pop adjacent related stuff alongside Kpop Demon Hunter. Last edited by mdo7 on Wed Mar 18, 2026 9:19 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I'm glad Kpop Demon Hunters won as it was well deserved though I wish Arco got more love from the awards shows this year. I'm not surprised no anime won as besides 100 Meters there wasn't really any real standout standlone anime movies from 2025. Maybe Chao could have stood a chance at least a nomination but GKids isn't releasing that till later this year so it wasn't qualified.
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soul.assassin
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Ah, once again the triumph of hallyu.
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