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it's pretty bad

literally nothing new in any capacity

No new thoughts or anything

Kanemaki saw she had to write a story for Sora and went "pass"

It's just a rehash of KH1

nomura probably explicitly asked her to not do anything new

probably

she's pretty good otherwise

consistent quality

she wrote the Days DS game btw

Nomura co wrote

At least with Terra he described what it was like being trapped with Xehanort and how he feels after being freed. Or Marly on his memories and how it feels to get his memories back and all the feelings with them. Sora didn't have anything remotely new like that.

yeah she's xion's mom

or the other way around, dunno, it was a very collaborative process

indid

Xion is supposed to be modeled on her, right

no i don't think so

I thought that was why she has black hair

kairi has the same haircut as Utada each game

I mean that's just a coincidence

should've saved the pic

Utada didn't get a bobcut til after KH3 dev time was done

might have been true for the first game tho?

even then, in deep dive kairi already has long hair

@Noleen ur right

she told nomura the hair she'd have in a few years

It had nothing to do with kanemaki's appearance, she just came up with Xion's name and backgrounf etc

> Nomura: That was Kanemaki-san (Tomoko Kanemaki, scenario writer). I admired the many meanings included in it, and decided on it straight away. KH scenarios are always written by many scenario writers, but I was troubled about who to ask this time. Since this would be a continuation of the series so far, I couldn't ask someone without an understanding of the subject matter of KH. Kanemaki-san had previously written novels for the KH series, and I thought it would be good to work with her on the actual games, so this time I asked her.

why didn't you ask her again

Ohh, beasts castle

Nomura:
> KH scenarios are always written by many scenario writers
BBS:

DDD:

KH3:

> I believed in what Beast said to me, and then I was able to fight. If the power of believing is love, then - then maybe the power of love might be something similar to the power of connecting with others.
That's cute

In truth he wasn't wrong in 2009, KH2 had like four writers

KH1:

Poor Watanabe, working on a phone game

bby we want u here

@MiyreaZED beast castle is page 160-162

Damn, Beast's Castle got 3 pages

Haha so we really are never getting FF characters again