Basically constant comments, and posts in some form of :
Is this show evil? Is this show appropriate for young kids? Child is watching Demon Hunter, and someone freaks out that it's a demonic show. I went to church, and they told us not to let our kids watch Demon Hunter.
First, I had to have this show explained to me by my son. It's considered Kpop because there's a few kpop voice actors. ( target audience ) The summary of the show sounds like a knock off Constantine to my ears. ( the 1st episode of DH is damn near the end of the movie Constantine) My son took the time to show me song lyrics that were being complained about. They all looked fine to my eyes. The people complaining may be feeling called out on being two faced, or a bad friend.
This point of the conversation I told my now adult son that the reason the movie Ice Age was so good was half the movie was double entendres the parents laughed at, and went over the kids head while still making them laugh. That IP got more movies them the writers had double entendre. But, it's the example I'm going to stick with.
Here's where I'm going to be clear I have an opinion. Keanu Reeves is making another Constantine, and he's already said it's going to be his last movie. Constantine is based on a comic. Constantine has a cartoon. I'm pretty sure the show Demon Hunter is going to have a fan base that will love the Second Constantine movie. Depending on how long that takes to be released it's either going to be the kids watching Demon Hunter, their parents or both. Not that I think this movie needs any help being a blockbuster.
But, if this comment marketing campaign hadn't got on my nerves I would have never known the show was basically a Constantine knock off. That makes two distinct parties that benefit from all the complaints bringing this show to everyone's attention. All press seems to be good press again.
If you have seen something similar for another show I would be interested if you'd like to share.
I thought it was very noticeable that they were forced to make this movie significantly shorter than they originally planned, because the pacing is abysmal. But aside from that, yeah it was alright.
Quite overhyped though. It's a fine girly girl movie, but honestly, nothing groundbreaking or outstanding. (Or it would've been 15 years ago, when the overall media landscape wasn't absolute dogshit.)
Yeah, that's why I added the "15 years ago" bracket. Quite frankly, I was shocked to learn this was an American movie, considering the state of the western entertainment industry.
I fully agree with the anime sentiment as well. There's currently about 3 types of anime/manga/webtoon that encompass the fantasy genre and honestly it's getting kinda tiring, but my god, at least I know "poor MC getting betrayed by the hero party even though he's the besterestest"-anime #463463424534 will not fucking lecture me about how police brutality exclusively affects blacks and how Trump is litsherally Hitler.
I look at people who complain about stories using tropes, and it strikes me as analogous to someone complaining that a house has a foundation and walls. Yeah, if that's all that's there, it's gonna be a pretty basic, bland structure. But at least it stands up without collapsing in on itself. Gripe about a lack of decor or a brutalist aesthetic all day, they probably could have done better to disguise the supports. But complaining that there's a solid, understandable, and practical construct just leads to the absolute nonsense we're saddled with these days.
It's sounds very Japanese Lolita girly.