General Kingdom Hearts Manga Discussion

[MATGSY]

I'm more interested to find out how they handle the fact the Repliku didn't die in this continuity.

Present day Repliku joins the Org & gets long overdue scenes with No. I.

 

[KudoTsurugi]

Present day Repliku joins the Org & gets long overdue scenes with No. I.

Only they have the Riku haircut scene play out mostly the same, without the “other me” comment

 

[Ernest-Panda]

I will be annoyed of Amano pulls a Tomoco Kanemaki on us and just retcons things to line up with the game.

 

[KudoTsurugi]

Hopefully it won’t come to that🤞Though I do wonder how The Caribbean will be handled. It’ll probably be either skipped over, do what the novels did with Olympus and have this be Sora’s first visit, or have a gag where someone pulls out the KH2 manga only to find they skipped them

 

[KeybladeLordSora]

i imagine he wandered around until he reached the Dark Shore, though it will be curious to see Riku’s reaction

There's a big issue tho

Riku and Repliku never really met in the CoM manga outside of a gag chapter.

KH3 showing a flashback panel to the two of 'em in front of the Mansion Gate kinda means that Amano is kinda just...acting like they did meet legitimately in this continuity and that the battle they had where Repliku died did happen when we know it didn't in the CoM manga. Riku didn't even go to CO's Twilight Town either.

In fact, Repliku's little character arc kinda doesn't really happen either. He gets taken out of the story after Naminé gives him brain damage. Sora doesn't even acknowledge him after Larxene's taken out.

So this means the ONLY legit interaction with a Replica that Riku had in the manga canon was with Xion...and he doesn't remember that.

So yeah, with Repliku, Amano is kinda backpedaling or something to match the game.

Like how in the KH2 manga he had a small flashback in the early chapters showing Roxas on a mission with Axel during his time in the Org, but with Roxas having Oathkeeper as his main keyblade. That is until the Days manga where Roxas didn't get Oathkeeper until after his battle with Saïx. But Amano also does this thing where in the flashback to Roxas v. Riku in the early KH2 chapters it seemingly goes like the game, with Riku on the ground only to turn the tide with the rest of the battle unseen, but then in the Days manga it shifts to that bit never happening and instead Riku and Roxas are essentially equal only for Riku to just pull off the blindfold.

 

[Launchpad]

I mean, with BBS and DDD getting skipped outright, and several unshown details just needing to be assumed, it's obvious that this manga isn't meant to be its own cohesive front-to-back piece of media, and is moreso designed to be a supplementary piece of content to go with the games.

 

[KudoTsurugi]

Looks like we’re getting the “Let It Go” scene in the next chapter, based on the preview.



I wonder if this means they’re skipping the labyrinth 🤔

 

[Ernest-Panda]

Looks like we’re getting the “Let It Go” scene in the next chapter, based on the preview.

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I wonder if this means they’re skipping the labyrinth 🤔

I hope so.

 

[KudoTsurugi]

Awww that’s cute, they got some hot foods.. after Larxene buried them under ice blocks but still!

So yeah, Amano really abridged a fair bit this chapter, but also features some flashbacks from the movie that weren’t brought up in the game, a nice touch👍. Also, love Sora’s initial reaction to Olaf🤣

And we end the chapter on Elsa freezing Anna’s heart. With the way things are heading, I imagine this arc might be wrapped up in one or two more chapters.

 

[SweetYetSalty]

Excellent! Now that is the kind of stuff I was expecting from the KH Manga. Going to different places, adding Jiminy where he normally wouldn't be, and overall being a delight! In the words of Rabbit "MORE! MORE!"

 

[Ernest-Panda]

I love Shiro Amano so much.