Hoshiko Hikari

With Berserk being such a popular manga in Japan (though I've never read it) it's quite possible that some inspiration was taken from it, whether intentionally or not. In turn, I think the manga Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle took inspiration from Kingdom Hearts. Both are about a 14 year old boy from a sunny, sandy world whose childhood friend and love interest (that's also a princess) loses her heart when dark beings invade their world from another dimension, causing him to go on a journey across many other worlds with a magician and a royal guard whilst meeting characters from other stories, in an effort to save her. Also both boys are voiced in Japanese by Miyu Irino.

Yes, it's Mont Saint Michel, which is also the inspiration for the Kingdom of Corona in Tangled. I didn't include every example of real places in the franchise as I was having so many issues with this website whilst making the post.

I knew someone would comment on this. I know that, technically, Big Ben is the name of the bell inside the tower, but most everyone refers to the whole tower as Big Ben, even though its official name, as only of 2012, is indeed Elizabeth Tower.

There have been various rumours floating around the internet recently about Disney making a Kingdom Hearts film or TV series which will apparently be a live-action/CGI crossover. Whilst I'm still sceptical about this as it's not the first time there have been such rumours and I also don't like the idea of seeing Sora being played by a real person (how will they deal with his huge feet?!) it does get me wondering what a live-action Kingdom Hearts project might look like. An easy way to start would be by looking at the real-world locations that feature in Kingdom Hearts as these could become filming locations. Here's a few below: Port Royal, Jamaica (photo from Wikipedia) Featured in KH2 and KH3 as part of The Caribbean world. Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France (photo from Britannica.com) Featured in KHDDD as part of La Cite Des Cloches Big Ben in London, England (photo from Britannica.com) Featured in KH1 as part of the Neverland world. Shibuya Crossing in Shibuya, Japan (photo from JapanTravel.com) Featured in KH3 as part of Quadratum. The name "Shibuya" hasn't been used to refer to Quadratum within the game but the location is pretty much an exact replica, down to the 109 building that Sora fights Yozora on. Shibuya has been mentioned, however, in KHDDD as the home of Neku and his friends. Additionally there are locations in Kingdom Hearts which resemble real-world places such as the following: St James Street in London, England (photo from Wikipedia) or any Victorian-era street in London really. Resembles Scala Ad Caelum in KH Missing-Link and the end of Kingdom Hearts Union Cross. Dubrovnik, Croatia (photo from Wikimapia). Resembles Scala Ad Caelum in KH Dark Road and KH3, mainly due to the use of cable cars, pale buildings and closeness to the sea. This may be a bit of a stretch though. There's lots of other examples I could mention but I think this article is long enough! Whether a KH film/TV series happens or not you can always visit these places in cosplay for a photoshoot! Sorry, I was having a lot of issues submitting this article and have ended up submitting it three times! Hopefully the admins will remove the duplicates.

So whilst I did enjoy Wish and there were some great songs in it, like many people I also felt that it didn't quite live up to Disney's previous classics. However I think there's potential for it to be a great addition to a future Kingdom Hearts game due to its themes and unique animation style. The climax of the film is especially perfect for Kingdom Hearts as I've demonstrated in the image below. Plus Magnifico could spawn an intimidating Heartless which would make for a great boss battle! What do you think?

I'm surprised the Book of Prophecies isn't an option.

I think Sora is most likely to be the one we play as in the tutorial, but Kairi could also work story-wise as we know she's starting to train under Master Aqua so the game could begin with her first training session where Aqua goes through the basics with her to see what Kairi knows.

We don't talk about The Wild...

The problem with having a Union Cross manga is that it would either have to be all drawn in first person perspective or a design would have to be chosen for the player character which would probably be the boy that appears in the Union Cross opening and Young Xehanort's dreams. Either way the player character in the manga won't be able to perfectly reflect the character that most Union Cross players created, given variables like their appearance, Union and gender. The Union Cross novel already tried to do it by avoiding gendered pronouns as much as possible but it didn't quite succeed.

What about Missing Link?

Good question about the old mansion. Would be interesting if it turned out to be where the Master of Masters once lived or something.

As much as I love Cinderella III, I'm not sure how it'd work in KH seeing as Lady Tremaine and her daughters seemingly all died back in BBS, unless someone else reverses time and changes their fate. Leroy could be a cameo character like Sparky but I wouldn't want a whole world based on that film when they haven't even given Lilo and Stitch a proper world yet. I'd quite like to see Bambi 2 become a KH world. It would be different to anything they've done so far in that Sora, Donald and Goofy would have to become woodland creatures and I think Bambi 2 would work better than Bambi 1 as it just focuses on when he's young and learning how to be brave, smart and strong to please his father. Sora and Co. can help him learn those things whilst ridding the forest of woodland-themed heartless.

Sorry if someone's already posted this but does anyone know where I can safely download the KH4 trailer from? I want to use it in a video.

I remember marketing for it. I believe there was some kind of McDonalds collaboration where you could win tickets to see it. Could be wrong though, it was 20 years ago. And I live in the U.K. so perhaps it was advertised more over here since it's partly set in London.

The Tinkerbell movies are more like a spin-off franchise than direct-to-video sequels, but I did enjoy them. I like the fact that Terence sounds just like Roxas (as they share the same actor).