Toemarok

Amazing as an intro to a series, but only pretty good as a standalone movie. It takes a potentially controversial premise of religious cooperation and somehow manages to make a pretty non-offensive and entertaining intro-story to an ip. First, the characters are pretty great, albeit a bit rushed. Father park may turn out to be a badass priest on par with Wolfwood, Abel, Anderson, etc.; but the complexity of his character was only touched on during the movie. And his and the other characters’s designs are great, unique, and really fun to see animated. And for 3d, the animation is great! Most of the story is pretty lackluster, though. There are some really great scenes with some amazing Christian aura farming and heartfelt moments, but the overall plot is really simple and predictable. Like seeing the cool moments and reading a plot synopsis would be a pretty good way to experience this. But if more content and a full series eventually comes, then maybe the slower parts of the movie will be more worth watching. But the movie’s kind, and not overly cheesy, treatment of Christianity improves the movie a ton for me— enough for me to bump my 6/10 rating to a 9/10.

I feel like i'm missing a lot watching this movie, because it plows through the story without much explanation. Though it's a pretty obvious plot, which is that you have a Priest who fights demons, but there's more to it, so that's why I'm thirsting for more. After watching the movie, I did some quick research. It seemed like it's an adaptation of a webtoon, but the movie is more like a sell for you to read the original material, and it actually did its job because the story is very intriguing. It's dark, sad, and epic. The animation is similar to Arcane, and it's really good, especially the fight scenes, they are very well animated. I watch a lot of kdramas, though I'm not Korean. I can tell the themes are deeply rooted in Korean culture, so it wasn't that hard for me to guess some aspects. It's a pretty sensitive topic as it tackles religion, so just keep that in mind and be very open about it. There wasn't enough time for me to get attached to the characters. There are a lot of them, so it was more of a quick intro to each character, their background, and what they can do. Overall, very cool idea for a story with great animation. Sadly, the webtoon doesn't have an English version yet. Even on you know what sites.