kingdom hearts manga?!?!

[compilingautumn]

i've heard talk of it.

can anyone verify this?
is it in the works? is it already done?


if it is in the works/already exists i might have to cry, and that could go both ways.. i mean i'll cry tears of rage if i see donald and goofy drawn as if they were anime characters. and they could be tears of joy if everything is true to the game and the art is done right.

[Asuka Was Here]

Yes, it exists. It's supposedly really cheap (for a manga), as well. They published a brief review of it in - I think - the October issue of Newtype USA. Form what scans they provided, it didn't seem like they tried to anime-fy the Disney characters.

[ryouchanx4]

Oh, yeah I saw the first one in Borders recently... I dunno if there's more, but I saw number 1

I didn't check out the price though, So I don't really know how much it costs...

[Vulpes]

I really, really hope they didn't anime-ify Disney characters, for that would be very, very disturbing and just plain wrong. ...My brain is aching from the mere thought of such a thing. +x.x+;

[compilingautumn]

as i said. i'm prone to cry if they do.

[Asuka Was Here]

...why don't I find the magazine article and scan the images so that we can decide once and for all whether they've been animefied?

[Vulpes]

OK. This would be a good thing and keep us all from agonizing over it.

[compilingautumn]

well i got curious and did a google image search.. and here's my opinion.

donald and goofy look alright.. not 100% like the game, but i'm not going to complain. so they get an ok. sora was anime-ified.. thats rather unfortunate.

i'm not one to read mangas, but i might pick this up just because i'm absolutely bonkers for kingdom hearts.

[Vulpes]

Yay for Disney characters not being killed too badly ...

[compilingautumn]

but a booooo to the other characters being killed. poor sora.

[Asuka Was Here]

compilingautumn said:

well i got curious and did a google image search.. and here's my opinion.

donald and goofy look alright.. not 100% like the game, but i'm not going to complain. so they get an ok. sora was anime-ified.. thats rather unfortunate.

i'm not one to read mangas, but i might pick this up just because i'm absolutely bonkers for kingdom hearts.

Oh. I see. I guess I wouldn't really have noticed if Sora was animefied, since I'm not too terribly familiar with the game... I think, however, that they may have had to animefy the non-disney to some extent - it was a CG game, was it not? (I am so totally not a gamer -.-') So its not like they could just pick out a perfect CG version of Sora or any other character and plop them into the manga.. .the Disney characters, however, were originally 2D cartoons, so they could be used as they were in a manga...

I dunno, I suppose that doesn't matter (or make a lot of sense, really), but whatever.

I may end up picking up a copy if I see it as well, for anime club...

[Vulpes]

Eh, they're bound to kill a character or two, it always happens. Though it does make for the rabidity of fans. *Hides fangs*

[compilingautumn]

but but.. there's plenty of flat, two dimensional artwork for them to base it off of. why... didn't... they? *cries*

[Vulpes]

*Pats* It's because they're stupid, imcompetent artists who are thinking: "Oh! Let's destroy peoples' childhoods by making characters they've loved their entire lives into some horrible travesty that scares the blood out of their faces!" So just rant and rave at the pictures and curse the artists for causing such damage, it works.

[orochimaruchan]

If you think weird art is terrible, try playing Kingdom Hearts in Japanese.....that was the most whacked out experience I've had in a long, long time.....

[Nentou Doujin]

How can it be a manga if the characters don't look animeish? The artwork of the game itself looked like manga drawing to me. The manga isn't that good though. The really sped everything up so that almost every fight that took a long time in the game ends in like one or two pages and everything else is really rushed.

[orochimaruchan]

The game does have a very cartoony feel to it, probably to preserve the whole disney cartoon aspect, but the Pirates of the Caribbean world was really detailed and realistic, which was really, really freaky the first time I played through it, it was also in Japanese which made it weirder. Anyway, the artist of the manga has a different style than Nomura, which should be obvious, so there's no way the manga would look like the game unless Nomura himself drew it. Manga's based on games are rarely very long, I remember the Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time manga was only 2 volumes long and took a lot of liberties, but the point is that a manga won't flow like a game will flow, so things have to be changed. Also the format that both the KH manga and the Chain of Memories manga are in are different, neither were weekly series, and generally weekly series are the only series with long draw out fights that span multiple chapters. The KH manga was produced in a monthly video game magazine I think, if not then maybe bi-monthly. It also has very short chapters, only 10 to 13 pages long about. Even a weekly series has about 19. The CoM manga was produced in Square Enix's monthly shonen GanGan, and had at least 30 pages each chapter, it's only 2 volumes long compared to the 4 volume long KH manga. There's a KH2 manga running in GanGan now, but it's still only on Roxas's storyline.

[Vulpes]

Ever seen American-made manga? That stuff doesn't look like anime. It just looks painful.

[Sathira]

KIngdom Hearts Manga is to be realeased in November of this year

[Asuka Was Here]

... Umm, Sath, it's already out... I think they're up to volume 4 now.