An Animated Series From Disney Almost Followed KINGDOM HEARTS

An Animated Series From Disney Almost Followed KINGDOM HEARTS

We're excited for the much-awaited release of Kingdom Hearts 3, and in anticipation of the game's release, we've learned that it was almost accompanied with an animated series! More below!

By LiteraryJoe - Jun 15, 2018 10:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Kingdom Hearts
Source: Nerdist
Any gamer who grew up in the early 2000's Playstation era will be no stranger to the titles, however, Kingdom Hearts is a series of crossover action role-playing games owned by Disney and developed and published by Square Enix (originally Square). Under the direction of Totsuya Nomura, a longtime Square Enix character designer, it is a collaboration of Disney Interactive and Square Enix, crossing over multiple Disney Properties and Final Fantasy Characters, based in a fictional universe tailored to the game narrative.

Over the years the games soared in popularity, having spinoffs on other platforms and ultimately multiple remasters. For years, people have waited impatiently as Disney has dangled the carrot that is Kingdom Hearts 3 in front of their noses, but it's finally upon us come January. Despite all of it's popularity, it is a little known fact that Disney almost pushed full steam ahead with an animated series way back in 2002. Thanks to host Hector Navarro's latest episode of Animation Investigation, we now have some juicy details on what the series would have entailed! It seems that Seth Kearsley worked on the pilot episode, though it was never picked up to series. Kearseley was willing to discuss the course that the first season would have taken had Disney allowed the series to see the light of day.

It seems the first act would have been centered around the famous Destiny Islands, familiar to any fan of the game as that is the location players start at in the first Kingdom Hearts title. Act two heads to the nostalgia breeding Traverse Town, where Sora meets Donald, Goofy, and Squall (er, Leon). Meanwhile, act three would have served to set up the journey ahead. 

In fact, the project was so serious that Kearsley worked with a writer on the game to get the tone right, and also with Disney to perfect the Kingdom Hearts look. He was even able to get ahole of backgrounds from Aladdin to use in the pilot presentation, and you can see those images in addition to a full breakdown on the information in the reveal video below. 



Let us know if you would be interested in a Kingdom Hearts animated series below! Kingdom Hearts 3 comes to Playstation 4 on January 29, 2019.
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