KPop Demon Hunters Characters

Rumi, Mira and Zoey make up HUNTR/X, the trio at the center of KPop Demon Hunters, the animated film from Sony Pictures Animation that arrived on Netflix in June 2025 and was directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. Their shows are not only shows. The group's singing sustains the Honmoon, a barrier that holds demons off from the human world, and the work of maintaining it passes down from one generation of hunters to the next.

HUNTR/X: Rumi, Mira and Zoey

Rumi is the lead vocalist and the leader of HUNTR/X, and the character the plot turns on. Arden Cho voices her, and EJAE provides the singing voice. She is secretly half demon, with patterns spreading across her skin, and the only other person who knows is Celine, the former hunter who raised her. What the film does with that is unusual for the genre: she tells Jinu that shame about her demon heritage had weakened her voice, and talking to him healed it. The concealment is not a twist held back for the ending, it is the thing she has to put down.

Mira is the group's main dancer, voiced by May Hong with Audrey Nuna on the singing voice. Zoey is the main rapper and the group's lyricist, as well as its maknae, the youngest member, voiced by Ji-young Yoo with Rei Ami singing. Maggie Kang has said she wanted to set the three apart from Marvel heroines who were "just sexy and cool and badass", and to combine those same qualities with girls who "had potbellies and burped and were crass and silly and fun". Both halves are on screen, and the second one shows the moment the trio are off stage. In the fights each carries a different traditional Korean weapon, a saingeom sword for Rumi, a gokdo polearm for Mira, shinkal throwing knives for Zoey, and the hunting itself comes out of Korean shamanism, where song and dance were part of the ritual rather than decoration around it.

The Saja Boys and Jinu

The Saja Boys are five, and Jinu leads them. They are demons who present themselves as a rival boy band, sent by Gwi-Ma, the demon king voiced by Lee Byung-hun, to pull fans away from HUNTR/X and let the Honmoon weaken. The name works twice over: saja alludes to the jeoseung saja, the Korean folklore figure comparable to the Grim Reaper, and to the Korean word for lion, which is why the band's logo is a lion head and its fandom is called the Pride.

Jinu leads them and is the only one the film develops in depth. Ahn Hyo-seop voices him, and Andrew Choi sings for him. He is a human turned demon, and his bargain with Gwi-Ma is for his painful human memories to be erased, which tells you most of what the film wants you to know about him. His scenes with Rumi work because the two of them are carrying versions of the same secret. The other four are named for K-pop archetypes and are cast twice over, once for dialogue and once for singing: Romance Saja is Joel Kim Booster with samUIL Lee singing, Mystery Saja is Alan Lee with Kevin Woo, Abby Saja is SungWon Cho with Neckwav, and Baby Saja is Danny Chung, who does both. The film gives the four of them far less history than Jinu. Their designs start saccharine and darken across the film until they take on the look of the jeoseung saja outright, black hanbok and horsehair hats, for "Your Idol".

Both groups perform across the soundtrack, HUNTR/X on tracks including "Golden" and "Takedown," and the Saja Boys on "Soda Pop" and "Your Idol." Those songs are not decoration in the plot. They are the mechanism by which each side gains or loses ground.

What has not been confirmed

A sequel has been announced with a 2029 release, and Sony Pictures Animation has itself described that date as optimistic, so it should be read as a target rather than a fixed release. No casting, story details or returning characters for that film have been announced. Anything circulating about new members, new demon groups or a specific plot for the follow up is fan speculation, not studio information.

If you came here to sort out who is who before buying anything, the character notes above line up with the merchandise: the dolls cover all three of HUNTR/X, in fashion, singing and action figure versions, but only one Saja Boy, Jinu. The other four have no doll at all so far. The costumes page is similarly lopsided: Rumi, Mira, Zoey and Jinu each have at least one, and no other character does.