'The Art of KPop Demon Hunters' Available Digitally for Free, Coming Physically February 2026

The Artbook Collector
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November 29th 2025

KPop Demon Hunters quickly became a cultural hit when it released in the summer, winning over viewers with its catchy music, stunning animation, and performances. Looking to share more with fans, the artwork that helped make the movie happen is explored in The Art of KPop Demon Hunters, a new book coming next year, but not before you can enjoy all of its contents online right now.

Reported first by Cartoon Brew, the 142-page book can be viewed online here, with the option to play music from the movie as you scroll through the pages. The book unsurprisingly has a large focus on costumes, with the many outfits showcased throughout. As well as this, there is also art for the characters themselves, location designs, weapon concepts, and keyframes of moments from the movie. The colours and art styles across the book are spectacular, so fans will no doubt enjoy this new look at the art from Sony Pictures Animation's art team. It also gives insights from the artists and creators behind the movie, detailing their goals and decisions for the designs seen on the pages.

Physical collectors need not fear though, as on January 1st 2026, you will be able to place a pre-order for the book, with fulfilments beginning February 1st. The book comes as a paperback and is being sold by Nucleus on their website, which you can find here - The Art of KPop Demon Hunters pre-order page.

It's certainly unusual for an entire book be shown online for free like this, but I happen to have some insight into this as someone with a YouTube channel of flip throughs! The videos I post, though are not high resolution digital pages, work as great previews for those that are interested in a book, but want to see what they are buying first. The wonderful thing about art is that you can enjoy it endlessly, so getting a preview in no way takes away from the value of the physical copy. It's also a great way for those that may not own artbooks to get interested in adding one to their shelf.

For a movie as popular as KPop Demon Hunters, I like the fanservice of making this available to the masses and I expect it will help drive sales of the physical book too. I am surprised though that they haven't gone with a mass market artbook, partnering with Abrams Books as Sony Pictures Animation did before for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie. It would no doubt be a huge seller, but this mass access approach might have felt better suited for this film.

KPop Demon Hunters is an animated action-fantasy film that follows the popular K-pop girl group 'Huntrix', who are also secretly demon hunters. They are onstage global idols, but but night they battle supernatural forces threatening humanity. The mix of fast-paced fight scenes, vibrant music, and creative choreography, as well as blending Korean pop-culture with fantasy action, helped make it a massive hit. KPop Demon Hunters was released on Netflix in June 2025 and became their most-watched original title and has won multiple awards.

Be sure to check out the free look at The Art of Kpop Demon Hunters, and pre-order the physical copy January 1st!