KPop Demon Hunters has LoL fans desperate for more K/DA

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 28/10/2025

Hit Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters is everywhere you look, and that has League of Legends fans missing K/DA.

Understandably, as the release of the highly acclaimed K-pop Demon Hunters movie with HUNTR/X immediately drew comparisons to LoL’s K/DA.

KPop Demon Hunters is Netflix’s most-watched movie ever, with over 236 million views, while the soundtrack has over 3 billion all-time Spotify listens.

The virtual K-pop group K/DA, consisting of LoL champions Akali, Ahri, Kai’Sa and Evelynn, have almost 1.6 billion listens on Spotify across just six songs.

October 28th marks FIVE years since K/DA’s last single ‘MORE’ released. That, along with the Demon Hunters hype, has LoL fans lamenting what ‘more’ Riot could have done with K/DA.

LoL developers Riot Games know a thing or two about making an animated hit for Netflix.

The LoL-based animated series Arcane ranked first on the Netflix Top 10 Chart across 52 countries.

Arcane racked up a ton of awards, including the 2025 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.

Which is all to say, K/DA’s insane popularity and the subsequent success of KPop Demon Hunters feels like a missed opportunity.

Especially as KPop Demon Hunters music supervisor Ian Eisendrath revealed in a Reddit AMA that K/DA directly inspired the movie’s soundtrack (and likely designs).

Despite K/DA’s immense success, Riot has not made any new music for the virtual group since the ‘ALL OUT’ EP released in 2020.

Riot did follow up K/DA with a K-pop-inspired boy band called ‘HEARTSTEEL’,

The multilingual band featured Ezreal, K’Sante, Kayn, Yone, and Sett. It had moderate success, but not to the same level as K/DA.

Meanwhile, K-pop fans can get their video game fix with Fortnite, which released KPop Demon Hunter cosmetics earlier this month.

Community demands more K/DA songs from Riot Games

As mentioned earlier, KPop Demon Hunters has K/DA fans eager for more content from the LoL band.

The five-year anniversary of MORE unlocked the terrifying wrath of K-pop fans as they realised how long it had been.

One Twitter user sarcastically joked it was a shame Riot hasn’t released ‘more’ K/DA songs since the ALL OUT EP.

While others were more blunt in their feedback, with one fan saying:

“If you ever feel stupid, remember Riot Games hasn’t made a K/DA comeback for more than five years despite it being the reason LoL peaked in popularity in 2018.”

That Tweet proved to be overwhelmingly popular with over 25,000 likes.

However, a K/DA comeback isn’t exactly simple, as it largely depends on Soyeon and Miyeon from K-pop group (G)I-dle.

(G)I-dle, now known as I-dle, went on a World Tour in 2024 and released their eighth EP ‘We Are’ earlier this year.

Getting hold of the K-pop stars could be difficult for Riot, and replacing them would surely be a controversial decision.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introuduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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