{"id":428013,"date":"2026-05-14T22:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428013\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:48:07","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-is-coming-to-the-real-world-in-an-unprecedented-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428013\/","title":{"rendered":"‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Coming to The Real World In An Unprecedented Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

K-pop is dominating pop culture right now, but possibly the most popular K-pop band of all of them isn\u2019t even real. HUNTR\/X, the girl group from Netflix\u2019s massive hit animated movie KPop Demon Hunters<\/a>, broke records with the success of the movie\u2019s soundtrack<\/a>, leading even to an Original Song award at the Oscars. <\/p>\n

Netflix has already doubled down on the success of this movie with plenty of theatrical sing-along releases, the announcement of a sequel<\/a>, and even a possible Broadway show, but now things are going a step further with a live tour. <\/p>\n

Netflix recently announced<\/a> that KPop Demon Hunters will hit the road with a worldwide tour, partnering with AEG Presents to \u201cbring elements of the two-time Oscar-winning film to life in spectacular ways.\u201d Netflix has dabbled in live experiences and pop-ups, but it\u2019s never organized a full tour like this.<\/p>\n

Netflix hopes to replicate the massive crowd scenes in K-Pop Demon Hunters with actual fans on tour.<\/p>\n

Netflix<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that\u2019s about as specific as it gets. There\u2019s no details about what cities will host this innovative experience, or what talent will actually perform. Sure, EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami may have provided the singing voices for HUNTR\/X in the movie, but that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll be globetrotting and performing. <\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s not something fans should expect \u2014 when you see Elsa at a Disney park, you don\u2019t expect her to burst out into \u201cLet It Go,\u201d but this tour suggests the tone will be similar to the packed stadium concerts in the movie, so surely the talent will have the talent to match. Netflix does have precedent for recasting for live experiences: the Henry Creel in Broadway\u2019s Stranger Things: The First Shadow is certainly different from the one on the TV show. <\/p>\n

We still don\u2019t know if the original voice actors or merely soundalikes will be performing on this world tour. <\/p>\n

Netflix<\/p>\n

But regardless of who dons that purple braid, this is a big win for Netflix. KPop Demon Hunters has become the new franchise to build on, even if the connection is tenuous at best. For example, Discovery recently announced<\/a> its annual Shark Week program will include KPop Shark Heroes, a series following two voice actors from the movie, Ken Jeong and Rei Ami, as they \u201creshape the perception of sharks across East Asia and around the globe.\u201d <\/p>\n

If this phenomenon stretches to educational reality shows about sharks, then a world-tour, no matter who is performing, is sure to be a massive hit. So far, you only can RSVP for updates<\/a>, but who knows \u2014 maybe you\u2019ll get to see HUNTR\/X or even the Saja Boys in your city. <\/p>\n

KPop Demon Hunters is now streaming on Netflix.Learn Something New Every Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"K-pop is dominating pop culture right now, but possibly the most popular K-pop band of all of them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,1016,9903,2386,48279,409,157,1094,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-428013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-fantasy","tag-homepage","tag-hp-latest","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}