Are you happy about the announcement of this reprised role, or would you have preferred a new voice actor to take her place?
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Are you happy about the announcement of this reprised role, or would you have preferred a new voice actor to take her place?
Do you expect any sudden change in the rating, or is it going to stay as it is until the release? Let us know in the comments!
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Kingdom Hearts Clear Bookmark Vol.1 2 Set
Kingdom Hearts II Clear Bookmark Vol.1 2 Set
Kingdom Hearts World Sticker Set
Kingdom Hearts II World Sticker Set
Kingdom Hearts Rubber Magnet -Monogram Set-
Kingdom Hearts III Stainless Steel Bottle
Kingdom Hearts Vanity Pouch
Kingdom Hearts Cushion Cover -Monogram-
While these are currently Japan-only products, you can still pre-order the Cushion Cover, World Sticker Sets, Emblem Magnets, Vanity Pouch and more Japan-exclusive merchandise through AmiAmi if you live outside Japan but are still looking to spruce up your house with Kingdom Hearts decorations!
AitaiKuji has opened preorders for these products as well, with a release date of December 2018.
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You can view them in the gallery below.
New screenshots of Olympus have also appeared on the Press Site including renders of Hades, Hercules, Megara, Pegasus, Phil, and Zeus. Some of these screenshots were shown in the latest issue of V-Jump.
You can view them in the gallery below.
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Just in time for KH13’s 10th anniversary, we have rolled out the newest update of the website. Version 4 is now more functional and responsive to reflect the needs of our users. The previous version was first released in 2011, and although we had grown to love it, the site had to be rebuilt from the ground up to modernise it and allow us to easily iterate and add new content and features.
Look forward to more updates in the future! In the meanwhile, please enjoy the new responsive streamlined design, fully functional mobile site, improved post editor and media submission tools, refreshed video archive and gallery, as well as many other new features scattered around the site.
In the past, KH13.com has gone through 4 major redesigns. You can see snapshots of the older versions below and compare it to the current one. Feel old yet?
A brief history of KH13
In October 9, 2008, the domain for KH13 was registered; at the time, KH1.com through KH12.com were taken, resulting in the befitting and auspicious claim on the domain “KH13.com”.
In October 17, 2008 (October 18 in the webmasters' home country, Australia), the first article was published and KH13 was shared with the world for the very first time, and officially launched! While it all started as a fun project between webmaster DChiuch and Co-Webmaster Aaron, it soon became the full-fledged website for Kingdom Hearts news, media, and discussion that it is today. At the time it was conceived, high quality videos and media were hard to come by, so KH13 initially established itself by providing high quality trailer and cutscene downloads. Now, KH13 is one of the best and well-known Kingdom Hearts fansites for news and media.
Within 3 years, KH13 became more well known, paving its future in becoming one of the best and most popular Kingdom Hearts fansites for news and media. In 2011, we started sending representatives to E3 as part of the press. Our first rep was SQEX☆GAL, followed by many others such as Oishii, the Kingdom Hearts community veteran Churro, KH13 PR rep (and former News Team Leader) Toominator and Kingdom Hearts χ Team and News Team member Raxaimus. In the past years, we have established our press presence in many gaming events around the world. Most recently, Toominator and Raxaimus have represented us at the exclusive Kingdom Hearts III Premiere invitational event that took place last May in Santa Monica, California.
One important feature that has been prominent throughout KH13 is our gallery and video archives. Former KH13 Archives Team Leader and News Team member Sora96 has brought the video archives and gallery to what it is today, featuring over 29,000 images and hundreds of videos from the Kingdom Hearts series. Thanks also goes to Everglow, our former partner, for recording thousands of cutscenes and playthrough videos for KH13's archives. Our wide selection of videos and images has brought in many visitors for KH13.
KH13 today
At the present time, KH13 is one of the most essential news outlets on all things Kingdom Hearts, part and parcel of the Kingdom Hearts community. Our news, archives, KHχ and social media team are recognized for their effortful work in delivering the latest information and media to Kingdom Hearts fans and bringing them together to share ideas and resources that embellish the fandom and bring “hype” to the community.
The KH13.com community has also been growing on social media. Our Twitter (@KH13.com) has almost 34k followers. Our Facebook page (KH13.com, for Kingdom Hearts) has hit the 25k likes mark. We have a PlayStation community page, and a brand new Discord server! You can follow us on Youtube and Twitch as well.
We held many mini #KH13MeetUp’s at various events around North America and UK. Check out the hashtag on Twitter and don’t forget to meet us on the next one! We also released a very entertaining 2017 Re:Cap trailer for Kingdom Hearts news in 2017! A 2018 version is in the works…
Reporting Kingdom Hearts news in the past year
KH13’s 10th anniversary year has brought forth many exciting developments in Kingdom Hearts! But undoubtedly, the biggest piece of news is that of Kingdom Hearts III’s release date reveal at the Los Angeles Kingdom Hearts Orchestra (Encore) concert. Kingdom Hearts III is coming January 25, 2019 in Japan, and January 29, 2019 to the rest of the world.
Recently, Kingdom Hearts III’s box art has also been revealed and has already been branded (anecdotally speaking) as one of the best video games cover! Take a look at it below.
Monsters, Inc., Frozen, and Pirates of the Carribean - At World’s End were revealed to have worlds in Kingdom Hearts III! Wreck-It Ralph and Ratatouille will also appear as summon and mini-game respectively.
A whopping 9 trailers were revealed in the past year, and along with extra gameplay footage, fans had a lot of information to be excited about, gameplay elements to look forward to, theories to make, and returning characters to welcome back (and at times cry about)!
Monsters, Inc. trailer Making of Kingdom Hearts (not released to public) Classic Kingdom trailer Kingdom Hearts Orchetra trailer (not released to public) Frozen trailer Square Enix E3 Showcase 2018 trailer Pirates of the Caribbean trailer “Don’t Think Twice” trailer Extended Aqua cutscene + gameplay (TGS 2018) Toy Box, The Carribean, Arendelle, Olympus, San Fransokyo, Monstropolis, Gummi Ship and Ratatouille (Twilight Town) gameplay (TGS 2018) Toy Box Premiere Exclusive Boss Fight (TGS 2018) Arendelle Trinity Sled Full Sequence (TGS 2018) Big Hero 6 trailer (short) Big Hero 6 Extended trailer A never before seen character appearance is expected to show up in the next trailer...
Utada Hikaru’s “Chikai” and “Don’t Think Twice” were revealed as the Japanese and English theme songs for Kingdom Hearts III. (The full version of “Chikai” was released within Utada Hikaru’s new album, Hatsukoi.) “Face My Fears”, a collaboration between Utada and Skrillex, was later revealed to be the opening theme to Kingdom Hearts III.
Kingdom Hearts III Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Edition + Bring Arts went on pre-order this year, and a Limited Edition Kingdom Hearts III PlayStation 4 Pro was announced at E3 2018. A Limited Edition Kingdom Hearts III PlayStation 4 Slim was also shown off at TGS 2018.
While no new games will be joining the main story before Kingdom Hearts III (Square, please), a free Kingdom Hearts VR Experience was announced for PlayStation VR!
Kingdom Hearts’ 15th anniversary was celebrated towards the end of last year. Square Enix Cafe even held an anniversary campaign, where Sora’s birthday was revealed to be March 28, 2002.
The Dandelion Meeting for Kingdom Hearts Union x[Cross] then took place in April in Anaheim, California! That was our first experience of trying out Kingdom Hearts III’s LCD-style mini-games, which can now be playing in the mobile game itself!
(And while we’re on the topic of firsts…)
KH13 staff were amongst the first to get a taste of playing Kingdom Hearts III at its Premiere in Santa Monica, California! Extended demos of Toy Box and Olympus were available at the event; shorter versions of the demo made rounds around the world in various events. (At one of these events, a new area of Olympus within the demo was also accidentally leaked!)
Kingdom Hearts fans also contributed greatly to reveals this year. Interesting assets from Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage- were discovered. Deleted Monsters, Inc. assets were also found, after all this time, in Kingdom Hearts II! Off-camera secrets of KH2 were also revealed in the Boundary Break series. Furthermore, Everglow started his Kingdom Hearts Timeline series to piece the whole story together in chronological order to prep all fans for the final chapter of the Xehanort saga!
This was definitely the year for Kingdom Hearts merch. Square Enix came forth with many wonderful Bring Arts, including Kingdom Hearts III Sora, Riku, and Kairi. Disney even released Kingdom Hearts Tsum Tsums in Japan! Numerous companies like Hot Topic, Spencer’s, Funko, Bandai, Good Smile Company, and FiGPiN licensed a variety of interesting products, including a Keyblade Proplica, Sora and Riku Nendoroids, and KH3 Funko Pops. Kingdom Hearts II: The Novel, Vol. 2, was released in the West, with the 358/2 Days novel releasing next month.
Still no word of Kingdom Hearts at Disney Parks (although Shinji Hashimoto is trying to work it out), but Donald Duck and Goofy in their Kingdom Hearts costumes reappeared, at Disneyland, after a long time!
In regards to the past and future of Kingdom Hearts: The old storyboards from Kingdom Hearts’s cancelled animated series by Seth Kearsley were also revealed and later auctioned to fans; Walt Disney made a historic deal to acquire 21st Century Fox, meaning even more IPs could possibly join the series; Nomura stated that Kingdom Hearts Union x[Cross]’s story would continue even after Kingdom Hearts III.
In conclusion...
As we enter our 11th year, we would like to thank our current leaders of our various teams, which includes Aquaberry, WakelessDream, faemarch, Wan_Pisu, and HaakonHawk; our vice leaders Leamax, Yoshirai, Ventus_, AndrewHankinson, and Justin; staff manager HarLea Quinn, and, of course, webmaster DChiuch. We would also like to thank all the current and past members of our various teams for their contributions to the website in the past year.
We'd like to also give the most important thanks of all to you, our readers, and the Kingdom Hearts community. Thanks to everyone here on KH13 for sticking with us for these 10 years. We hope to be around for many more, and to continue to provide the latest Kingdom Hearts news and media!
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The acrylic stands will be released on Kingdom Hearts 3’s Japanese release date, January 25th 2019, for 2,500 yen each which equates to about $22. No announcement has been made about a Western release.
The three acrylic stands feature Sora, Donald and Goofy in their Halloween Town, Atlantica and Timeless River forms respectively, as well as featuring the world title.
Will you be buying any of the acrylic stands? Let us know in the comments below!
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UPDATE [18 Oct, 2018]: YonkouProductions has added another page from the magazine, showing a screenshot of the Fire and Wind Titans. Some of the previously shown screenshots, including that of Hercules and Pegasus, are shown in larger size. See the page below:
Shueisha, the publisher of the Jump line of magazines, is the sponsor of the Jump Festa event, where a Kingdom Hearts III trailer was released in 2015. Jump Festa 2019 will be taking place on December 22-23, 2018; Square Enix is expected to reveal their lineup for the event sometime next month.
Are you expecting a Kingdom Hearts III appearance at the event this year? Let us know in the comments!
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Madrid Games Week will take place starting October 18th, in Madrid (Feria de Madrid), and will last until October 21.
Will you be attending Madrid Games Week and be able to try the Kingdom Hearts III demo yourself?
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Similarly to the previous expo experiences, where Square Enix brought real life version of Andy's House of the Toy Box world on-stage, the event will feature the same possibility, as well as exploring both Rock Titan and Olympus worlds through the available Kingdom Hearts III demo.
Are you going to attend Paris Games Week and try the Kingdom Hearts III demo yourself? Let us know in the comment section!
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You can check out the new Pop! Pens and keychains below.
UPDATE [Oct. 28, 2018]: GameStop has started accepting pre-orders for the Funko Pop! Pens. Each pen will cost $3.99 and will be available on October 30th.
Thanks to Churro for the update!
All these Funkos coming in! Will you be adding them to your Pop! collection? Let us know in the comments!!
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The release date for these Pops are currently unknown, but you can pre-order them now at GameStop.
Thanks to Briar Impastato_59095 for the tip and Kingdom Hearts Series for the collage.
[UPDATE]: Amazon has the Vanitas and Riku Funko Pops available for preorder releasing November 20. You can also preorder Vanitas, Riku, and Mickey on Entertainment Earth for $10.99.
UPDATE [Oct 27, 2018]: GameStop is accepting pre-orders for Kingdom Hearts III Vanitas, Riku , and Mickey Funko Pops. All three figures are set to release on October 30th for a price of $11.99 each!
For more information on the Kingdom Hearts III Funko Pop line, check out our guide.
Will you be purchasing these Funko Pops to add to your Kingdom Hearts collection? Let us know in the comment section below!
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We have previously reported a rumor on this particular Pop along with Riku, Mickey, and Vanitas coming out on November 30, 2018 in Italy.
UPDATE [Oct. 27, 2018]: The Funko Pop Kingdom Hearts III Sora (Dual Blasters) will be released on October 30th, 2018 at Gamestop. The figure has a price set for $11.99. You can pre-order the figure here.
Thanks to Churro for the tip!
Are you going to collect this Pop? Let us know! For more KH3 Funko Pop information check out our handy guide here!
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