Kingdom Hearts

キングダムハーツ
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Disney Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
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Synopsis

Sora is a young energetic boy looking forward to exploring the world with his friends, Riku and Kairi. The threesome is working hard on completing a raft that will allow them to leave their island but one day a mysterious force causes Sora to gain a special weapon known as the Keyblade. He fights some weird monsters and gets transported to a strange town. Meanwhile, Donald and Goofy leave their castle to search for the king and the chosen one who holds the "key" to saving the world. Sora is attacked again by creatures known as Heartless but is helped out by an old man named Cid and a warrior named Leon. He eventually meets up with Donald and Goofy and they join forces to go search for his friends and the King. (Source: Tokyopop)

Publication notes

Kingdom Hearts is based on Square's Playstation 2 video game of the same title. The series was reprinted in three volumes as Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix with additional chapters. The series was first published in English by Tokyopop from October 11, 2005 to July 11, 2006. Yen Press re-published the series as Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix in two omnibus volumes based on the three volume reprint on May 28, 2013.

Published

Oct 2003 to Jan 31, 2005

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Prequel

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

Sequel

Alternative Version

Kingdom Hearts

Main characters

Sora1184 fan favorites
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Sora is the protagonist of the Kingdom Hearts role-playing video game series. He is an upbeat and cheerful teenager and though he may seem simple-minded and naive at times, he possesses an unwavering heart and his strong sense of justice is extraordinary. At times, he is impulsive and quick to anger, but he is always sincere about what he says and does. He comes from Destiny Islands and is best friends with Riku and Kairi. He wields the weapon known as the keyblade which is a giant key that opens any lock. It also attracts beings known as Heartless and Nobodies. He is voiced by Haley Joel Osment in English and by Miyu Irino in Japanese. (Source: Kingdom Hearts Wikia) No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Riku495 fan favorites
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Riku is Sora and Kairi's best friend and an original character created by Tetsuya Nomura for the Kingdom Hearts series. Nomura has stated that Riku's name can be seen as "land"; the Japanese on'yomi pronunciation of land is riku. Riku is voiced by David Gallagher in the English version and Mamoru Miyano in the Japanese version. He is playable in the second story mode of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and as a world-specific ally in Kingdom Hearts II. At the beginning of the series, he is 15 years old and lives on Destiny Islands with his friends. When their world is attacked by the Heartless, the three are separated. Riku ends up at Hollow Bastion where he is found by Maleficent. Under her influence, he becomes an antagonist to help Kairi. Riku eventually becomes possessed by Xehanort's Heartless, the main antagonist of the first game, and is sent to the realm of darkness, where he helps Sora seal the door to the realm of darkness. In Chain of Memories, he awakes in the same fortress Sora had arrived at and begins traversing to the top from the basement. Along the way, Riku confronts the remaining darkness in his heart, and also encountered DiZ, a mysterious stranger. Upon reaching the top he finds Naminé, who is attending to a sleeping Sora to restore his memories. Riku then chose to find a balance between his light and darkness. A replica of Riku was created by Vexen in Castle Oblivion during the events of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and was referred to simply as the Riku Replica. After the events in Chain of Memories, Riku confronted Roxas in order to assist DiZ in reuniting him with Sora. During the fight, he used the power of darkness, which converted Riku into the form of Xehanort's Heartless. For most of the story, Riku remains in this form, helping Sora in secret and never showing his face, not wanting Sora or anyone else to discover what had become of him. Riku returns to his original form by the destruction of a machine intended to convert Kingdom Hearts into data. Afterwards, Riku and Sora battle and defeat Xemnas. In the end, they end up on a dark beach, and discuss how strong their friendship is and how much each of them wanted to be like the other, before a portal opens to Destiny Islands. The two use the portal and are sent home. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Kairi155 fan favorites
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Kairi is a friend of Sora and Riku, and one of the seven "Princesses of Heart". Her name can be seen as the meaning "sea". She is 14 years old as of Kingdom Hearts and Chain of Memories, and is 15 in Kingdom Hearts 2. She is voiced by Hayden Panettiere in the first two games and by Alyson Stoner in Re: Chain of Memories. In Japanese, she is voiced by Risa Uchida. (Source: Wikipedia) No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Donald Duck62 fan favorites
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Donald Duck is Disney Castle's Royal Magician. He was assigned by King Mickey to "follow the keybearer." He is voiced by Tony Anselmo in English and Koichi Yamadera in Japanese. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Goofy34 fan favorites
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Goofy is one of Sora's teammates, and the Captain of the Royal Guard at Disney Castle. He is voiced by Bill Farmer in English and Yu Shimaka in Japanese. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Ansem Seeker of Darkness6 fan favorites
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"Ansem" appears in Kingdom Hearts as the game's main antagonist. Devoid of a body, he watches Maleficent do his dirty work in gathering the Princesses of Hearts. Once Maleficent served her purpose, Ansem possesses Riku's body to regain a physical presence while dealing with Sora at the End of the World. Although his goal of reaching Kingdom Hearts is realized, the light behind the door to Kingdom Hearts destroys him, causing most of the worlds he destroyed to be restored while the others entered in a state of sleep. But in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Ansem is revealed to still exist and attempted to take over Riku again within Castle Oblivion. However, Riku subdued Ansem and eventually uses the villain's power before the essence of Xehanort's Heartless was purged from him prior to his battle with Xemnas. Ansem reappears as one of the main antagonists for Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, having being brought from a moment in time by Young Xehanort. Ansem takes advantage of the Sleeping Worlds to mess with Riku by attempting to open the youth's heart to darkness again. After being defeated by Riku in the Sleeping World version of the World That Never Was, later appearing in the Organization's attire, Ansem attacks Riku and Mickey to hinder them from interfering in Xehanort's attempt to convert Sora. By that time, it is revealed that Xehanort's scheme included Ansem making use of the bodiless form to make contact with Young Xehanort to enact the back-up plan. Ansem is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka in the Japanese version of the series. In the English version, the character was originally voiced by Billy Zane in Kingdom Hearts and now by Richard Epcar in all subsequent releases/remakes. (Source: Wikipedia) No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .