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Also since we're on this subject; is anybody else still confused over the "she's like Sora" scene and Riku's reaction with the "What!?" over it? I can't tell if it was supposed to be a joke or not and why the reaction was so over the top. If it was about the idea of Aqua being another Sora clone, why would it be so surprising since he's met at least 2 before? I still don't understand this scene.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that scene was the result of a nuance being lost in translation. I've read that the word Mickey uses in JP can mean something more like "physically resembles," rather than just "similar to" (which is what his use of "like" in English implies). So, his full line would have translated to "Aqua [physically] resembles Sora," or, more conversationally, "Aqua looks like Sora." Hence Riku's confusion, because he'd probably (rightly) assumed that Aqua looked like a grown woman, not a teenage boy.
As far as the localization goes, though, I don't think Hirokey and Zul are too far off the mark. That's just how the scene reads in English.