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Nomura shares message and new artwork for KH Union X's 5th anniversary

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Published on September 3, 2020 @ 01:45 pm
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Director Tetsuya Nomura has shared a special message to commemorate the 5th anniversary of KINGDOM HEARTS Union X, accompanied by a new sketch of Strelitzia and Chirithy.

goldpanner has translated his message below:

Hello, Nomura here.

I had been thinking it would be the 4th anniversary, only to realise we have entered our 5th year. We have only lasted this long in the arena with all these hard-hitting rivals because of your support, and I am so grateful.

The browser version of X began with the Foretellers Arc, and now, the story of the new Union Leaders is reaching its climax. Although I suffered grave regret discovering typos in the scenario we released for the 5th anniversary (※For details on the typos see the in-game notification. I am so sorry.), I have already handed the team enough scenario to cover the rest of the year, so please look forward to what is coming next.

Dark Road also began this year, which made things twice as difficult, but I have also already handed the team the stuff for chapter three. In chapter three another classmate will finally appear, and not appear - I myself am hooked by the developments, so please look forward to it.

Our 5th anniversary may be opening into turbulent times, but the November 11 release of KINGDOM HEARTS Melody of Memory is coming up next and I hope to hold some kind of festivities around then, and in the meantime I appreciate your continued support.

I poured my feelings of gratitude to you all for helping us reach the 5th anniversary into a new drawing of the phantom Union Leader. Once it has been colored I plan to use it for a 5th Anniversary commemorative medal - make sure to check the eligibility conditions and try to get yours.

KINGDOM HEARTS Series
Director Tetsuya Nomura

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Dast

September 3, 2020 @ 02:00 pmOffline

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Sign

In chapter three another classmate will finally appear, and not appear

I understand, and don't understand.

Looking forward to it though.

Clue.Less

September 3, 2020 @ 02:16 pmOffline

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Dast

I understand, and don't understand.

Looking forward to it though.

I was going to say the same ? Why do we even bother with this man? (❤)

Zettaflare

September 3, 2020 @ 02:48 pmOffline

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A classmate will appear and not appear huh? Maybe he/she will only be seen by Xehanort and no one else

ShardofTruth

September 3, 2020 @ 04:33 pmOffline

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Really nice sketch. Since Nomura seemed to have been sleeping through the 4th anniversary maybe he was told about this occasion in advance this time around.

Ballad of Caius

September 3, 2020 @ 06:11 pmOffline

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Plot-twist: the classmate is Strelitzia appearing in DR and not in KHUx

Sakuraba Neku

September 3, 2020 @ 06:31 pmOffline

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Beautiful drawing!

The real world is going to shit this year, but it's been great for KH content.
KH ReMind, KH Dark Road, finally some answers we've been waiting for KH UX, KH MoM... I may not bother in playing most of these games, but I admire Square-Enix's efforts in keeping new content coming.

Noivern

September 3, 2020 @ 06:59 pmOffline

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Seeing Stretlitzia artwork only makes me sadder that they offed such a beautiful female character with an actual unique design, instead of all the Kairi's (and Aqua, who is kind of older. blue Kairi. lol). Hope she actually shows up again soon since no one is truly dead in this franchise.

Also looking forward to chapter 3 of DR. Chapter 2 was weaker than the first one, but it did give us a good build up and I hope the new character is Baldr.

Absent

September 3, 2020 @ 07:04 pmOffline

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Maybe the classmate will be mentioned? A picture or image will be shown?

AdrianXXII

September 3, 2020 @ 07:33 pmOffline

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Always nice to see a new drawing by Nomura.

I'm hopping these means we'll get to learn more about Boldr.

I think it'll be another year until we have proper names for the upper classmen. I'm curious to know what Boldr's sister's name might be maybe Sif or Thurd?

Ballad of Caius

September 3, 2020 @ 07:47 pmOffline

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Absent

Maybe the classmate will be mentioned? A picture or image will be shown?

There's also the possibility that the classmate appears either only in the past or four years later.

the red monster

September 3, 2020 @ 09:40 pmOffline

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Hopefully it will put the ridiculous theory about yozora/luxord being the class mate to rest.

Zettaflare

September 3, 2020 @ 09:56 pmOffline

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Who knows Maybe Strelitzia is still a star in the final world despite Nameless Star being not Stella. She could be one of the ones Kairi and Riku talk to in MoM

Noivern

Hope she actually shows up since no one is truly dead in this franchise.

Hopefully Xehanort is an exception to that rule, lol

DraceEmpressa

September 3, 2020 @ 10:52 pmOffline

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Nomura :*draws*
Fandom: *pops bottles* bless this man
Nomura: Oh and Melody and Memory might be tied to the mobile games
Fandom: Cease the overcomplexity you madman

no really, it seems that fandom generally agrees while Nomura is a great artist he's a quack in writing.

though, didn't he say this art of Strelitzia would later be colored and used for a medal? cmiiw, but wasn't it said that the medals in KHUX are images of the future? which means, it's an image after Strelitzia is recovered in the future? granted, we know it's KH and ppl don't stay dead, but it certainly clues that she will look as a teen after recovered. then again this is KH, Nomura can do anything to debunk my expectation

Sign

September 3, 2020 @ 10:56 pmOffline

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DraceEmpressa

Nomura: Oh and Melody and Memory might be tied to the mobile games
Fandom: Cease the overcomplexity you madman

UX holds a lot of collabs and celebration events for new releases. Nomura's comment has nothing to do with the story like what you're implying.

Chie

September 3, 2020 @ 11:16 pmOffline

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Yes, the "overcomplexity" of two games in the same series being... in the same series. I wish these memes would stop

Ballad of Caius

September 4, 2020 @ 02:26 amOffline

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the red monster

Hopefully it will put the ridiculous theory about yozora/luxord being the class mate to rest.

I mean, the theory of the upperclassmen being lost in Yozora's world is fascinating, so it isn't that much of a bad thought.

the red monster

September 4, 2020 @ 04:39 amOffline

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Ballad of Caius

I mean, the theory of the upperclassmen being lost in Yozora's world is fascinating, so it isn't that much of a bad thought.

It is.
but the actual yozora/luxord being part of the class sounds ridiculous to me.

Dast

September 4, 2020 @ 05:35 amOffline

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Nomura must know that mentioning a character but not showing them onscreen will make people speculate whether they've appeared elsewhere in the series after UX, especially when he's being enigmatic about their appearing in this letter.

So I don't think it's that unreasonable for people to be guessing if he is actually Yozora/Luxord etc. even if working out all the internal logic is hard.

AdrianXXII

September 4, 2020 @ 10:43 amOffline

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Dast

Nomura must know that mentioning a character but not showing them onscreen will make people speculate whether they've appeared elsewhere in the series after UX, especially when he's being enigmatic about their appearing in this letter.

So I don't think it's that unreasonable for people to be guessing if he is actually Yozora/Luxord etc. even if working out all the internal logic is hard.

Yeah, Nomura designs the series in away to encourage us to constantly question and speculate. Like the whole Keyblade Legacy thing with Luxord and Demyx.

For all we know they could have been Xehanort's upperclassmen, seeing they haven't even remotely been hinted at in the past year and a half of UX.

The moment he introduced Ven, Lauriam and Elrena, he also opened the door to the question, who will reappear later on.

Zettaflare

September 4, 2020 @ 04:30 pmOffline

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Better that Luxord and Yozora are upperclass men then the secret identity of an known character. At least they are still technically their own persons. No clue what Nomura has planned for Demyx though

Ballad of Caius

September 4, 2020 @ 05:03 pmOffline

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AdrianXXII

Yeah, Nomura designs the series in away to encourage us to constantly question and speculate. Like the whole Keyblade Legacy thing with Luxord and Demyx.

For all we know they could have been Xehanort's upperclassmen, seeing they haven't even remotely been hinted at in the past year and a half of UX.

The moment he introduced Ven, Lauriam and Elrena, he also opened the door to the question, who will reappear later on.

One of two things happened with Luxord and Demyx and the whole Keyblade Legacy thing:
Either they really aren't Wielders,
or they're part of the upperclassmen.

Zettaflare

Better that Luxord and Yozora are upperclass men then the secret identity of an known character. At least they are still technically their own persons. No clue what Nomura has planned for Demyx though

The way that Nomura announced Demyx's presence in Re:MIND made my mind incline more in favor that the MoM is Demyx. I think that theory is still open for discussion unlike Sora=MoM.

SuperSaiyanSora

September 9, 2020 @ 08:36 amOffline

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Ballad of Caius

One of two things happened with Luxord and Demyx and the whole Keyblade Legacy thing:
Either they really aren't Wielders,
or they're part of the upperclassmen.


Luxord and Demyx haven't made an appearance at all during UX, and we're in the final stretch now. So either they're gonna make an appearance at the 11th hour, or they're the missing Upperclassmen. Xemnas said that numbers IX-XII were part of the "Ancient Keyblade legacy", and we know Larxene and Marluxia absolutely were. But an ancient legacy doesn't mean it necessarily mean Demyx and Luxord have to be from the UX era either. Legacies are passed down, and we don't know what happened to the Upperclassmen at all, they just disappeared.

Ballad of Caius

The way that Nomura announced Demyx's presence in Re:MIND made my mind incline more in favor that the MoM is Demyx. I think that theory is still open for discussion unlike Sora=MoM.


MoM = Master of Masters, Melody of Memory (which is now officially confirmed that the naming isn't a coincidence, it's intentional).... Melody of Memory is a musical game, and who plays an instrument? Nomura's crazy enough to do it.

Chie

September 9, 2020 @ 08:55 amOffline

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About Luxord and Demyx though, I feel like Marluxia, Larxene, Luxord and Demyx are all in the same position. They're still (relatively) young despite dating back some years (whether that's ~80 or ~countless, either way), and don't remember their pasts (or at least Luxord and Demyx seem not to; if Demyx is MoM this is an act and he's the exception). This doesn't rule out Luxord and Demyx making it to the present via another method, but it being through the same circumstances is the simplest explanation. Especially since using the simulation/black box (if that theory is true) to bring characters forward in time without aging them is a pretty special loophole of the Master's.

I was skeptical on MoM being Demyx due to how obvious it seemed, but if we assume that all four must have been in the same position in the first place to end up in the same position later, then Luxord = Player and Demyx = MoM seems like the simplest solution.

Ballad of Caius

September 10, 2020 @ 12:05 amOffline

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SuperSaiyanSora

Melody of Memory is a musical game, and who plays an instrument? Nomura's crazy enough to do it.

Fuck I hadn't made that connection 0_0

Sign

October 5, 2020 @ 03:52 pmOffline

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Colored version is up

Oracle Spockanort

October 5, 2020 @ 04:10 pmOffline

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Strelitzia ???

Remember when everybody hated her and didn’t understand why she existed then she immediately died and everybody took back every mean thing they ever said about her and now she’s so loved and missed?

I’m feeling all of those emotions when I look at Nomura’s artwork of her

Noivern

October 5, 2020 @ 06:47 pmOffline

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Out of all of the characters this franchise has wasted, no one deserves to be brought back more than this little girl.

An amazing design with interesting character concept killed off in like 5 minutes to develop her brother. Such a waste.

Sakuraba Neku

October 5, 2020 @ 07:00 pmOffline

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Oracle Spockanort

Strelitzia ???

Remember when everybody hated her and didn’t understand why she existed then she immediately died and everybody took back every mean thing they ever said about her and now she’s so loved and missed?

I’m feeling all of those emotions when I look at Nomura’s artwork of her

It be like that sometimes. It happened to me with Roxas in KH2.
Started KH2 wondering "Who the hell is this guy? I want to play as Sora". After the prologue ended and Roxas disappeared I was left like:

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Xblade13

October 5, 2020 @ 07:09 pmOffline

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Sakuraba Neku

It be like that sometimes. It happened to me with Roxas in KH2.
Started KH2 wondering "Who the hell is this guy? I want to play as Sora". After the prologue ended and Roxas disappeared I was left like:

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Kingdom Hearts isn't the only franchise that has done that to me. Red Dead Redemption 2. I hated Arthur for a good portion of the beginning of the game, but by the time it gives you a different character to play as I missed him lol. Though that did have more time for development than Roxas or Strelitzia.

the red monster

October 6, 2020 @ 03:38 amOffline

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Sign

Colored version is up



After all the attention she's getting they better bring her back somehow.

Katsagu

October 6, 2020 @ 11:57 amOffline

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Why are the UX and DR designs so cool, but on mainline sora everyone is checker pattern or black cloaks. AHHHHHH!!!!

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Idreamaboutcats

October 7, 2020 @ 03:53 pmOffline

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Ugh, God, I hate thiiis. I haven’t spent a single jewel all anniversary, so I don’t have any of the illus. anniversary medals. I can still pull for the RAX medals and get the Strelitzia medal, but there’s the nagging voice on the back of my mind that something’s better right around the corner.

I also need more cards for DR, so even less motive to pull.

I’m really tempted to give in and waste 61k jewels for Strelitzia though…

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