Square Enix is reportedly working on a CG-animated Kingdom Hearts series for Disney+

[PS1gamenwatch]

https://www.cbr.com/report-kingdom-hearts-cg-animated-series-disney-plus/

https://twitter.com/Vullein/status/1265356096392265730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1265356109340127238%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbr.com%2Freport-kingdom-hearts-cg-animated-series-disney-plus%2F

Disney+ and Square Enix are reportedly developing a CG-animated Kingdom Hearts TV series.

"I was originally going to publish this as an exclusive article, but apparently a few other insiders have heard about it too so I'm just going to tweet it out I think," The Cinema Spot's Emre Kaya wrote. "There is a [Kingdom Hearts] series in the works at Disney+. Disney originally wanted to make it but that didn't work out, so Square Enix was asked to create a pilot using Unreal Engine. This series is most likely not live-action, but CG animated. They're currently casting."

This report was also corroborated by MCU Cosmic's Jeremy Conrad, who tweeted, "Yes, it's true," along with a GIF of Sora, Donald and Goofy, and The DisInsider Editor-in-Chief Skyler Shuler, who added, "Disney VO actors are expected to reprise their roles (Jim Cummings, Bill Farmer, Tony Anselmo)."

Developed and published by Square Enix, Kingdom Hearts is a series of role-playing games that combine properties from Square Enix (most notably Final Fantasy) and Disney. The games center on Sora, who's chosen to wield a melee weapon called a Keyblade in order to fight creatures called the Heartless and rescue his friends Kairi and Riku. He's joined on his quest by Donald and Goofy, and with the Gummi Ship, they're able to travel across various Disney-inspired worlds.

Over the course of the nine-game series, numerous other antagonists are introduced, including Nobodies, Maleficent and Pete, Organization XIII and the franchise's main foe, Xehanort.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

So this is basically the entirety of the KH series' cutscenes minus the actual gameplay? Or are they giving the cartoon (I hate the term "CG animation") an entirely different story? And if so, will it be any sort of cannon to the games aside from the characters? I'm asking just so I know what to expect when KH4 comes out in like 20 years.

 

[WeWuzFinns]

Kindom Hearts is heavily concentrated cringe. When I tried to replay these games as an adult they physically hurt me. Hopefully they get better writers than those who wrote the games, or this will be the worst thing ever, what everyone pretends to be the best thing ever.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Maybe it will be like the manga?

https://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts_Manga

 

[crocodilian]

Hopefully the long-awaited Fat Albert cameo will become a reality.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

This might be the most autistic thing Disney will ever produce.

 

[Xerxes IX]

I think it'll go for a totally different story with brand new characters. Note how it only said people voicing the Disney characters were expected to be on board. They'll want the series to be an Disney+ exclusive that'll draw more people, and for that it needs more normie appeal. I think current Kingdom Hearts would be deemed to weeby and niche for those purposes.

Or if they're going full blast Nomura autism it'll be a show about that Riku knockoff seen at the end of KH3. I don't know, I thought the fact that say, Sora's VA was conspicuously absent from that was interesting.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

Good luck trying to sell Lost + mid-functioning autism to your cro-mag fanbase, Disney.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

i would not mind a series about KH1, COM and KH2. those are simple and easy to follow compared to the autistic cluster fuck that came after. but anything Disney touches at this point turns too shit so i doubt they would be any good.

 

[Nobunaga]

If they dont say darkness, light, x-blade or shill sea salt ice cream in the first 5 seconds of the series they can go fuck themselves

 

[verissimus]

This is just going to be dead in the water if they can't make it a bit dark or action pack with some good tracks like in the games. That and have the appropriate voice actors, i.e. most Disney characters being voiced by their original VAs (for example James Wood being Hades).

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

They should be doing a sequel to Mario RPG.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

King of The Hill cameos or I'm out.

 

[TokiBun]

It'll have to make more sense than the games right? How does anyone keep a track of that "plot"?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

It'd be funny if they just ripped all the cut scenes from the games and made that the show.

Probably would be better than anything new they could come up with.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Honestly I can understand why people used to make fun of me for playing Kingdom Hearts. I liked the game because of the way how you get to interact with the Disney characters, but I’m noticing that I’m being lumped in with people that think their entire personality lives in Sora and the Disney crew.

That being said, I have no clue why they would do this. They should’ve just announced they’re making a Kingdom Hearts IV.

 

[Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake]

I didn't play the games, other people I lived with at one time did, and I have heard this shit enough that I hope anything Kingdom hearts fails spectacularly and fades into obscurity:

 

[Celebrate Nite]

How does anyone keep a track of that "plot"?

By having other people explain it to them in a more condensed way

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Nomura is a hack.
A HACK.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Did Square-Enix forget this disaster?