What?

  • Kingdom Hearts Re:Imagined is a passion project created my me and my brother Dan. This ongoing project is a digital fan-fiction comic created out of our love for the Kingdom Hearts video game series, set to reimagine the story of the climax of the “Dark Seeker Saga” of the series, Kingdom Hearts III (technically the 11th or 18th game in the series, depending on who you ask… it’s complicated).

Why?

  • We grew up with this series and it left a humongous impact on my childhood and the series is, broadly speaking, one of my favorite pieces of media. After so many years of waiting for the highly anticipated climax of the series thus far, Kingdom Hearts III, it finally arrived releasing in 2019. And we were… disappointed.

    We felt a huge sense of unrealized potential the climax game squandered by a messy story, rushed character development, plotholes, and core aspects of the series being missing which left the game feeling rushed and unfulfilled.

    After playing the series for so many years, studying the lore, replaying the games dozens of times over, we felt like there was a lot of missed potential in Kingdom Hearts III. So this passion project boils down to us finishing the game and thinking “we can do better than that”.

    Essentially, think of it like we are rewriting Season 8 of Game of Thrones (except Kingdom Hearts III is far less of a disaster than Season 8).

How?

  • Our project Kingdom Hearts III: Re:Imagined has been in the works for three full years at the time of writing this (January 2023) with a ways to go.

    This project was done entirely by me and my brother Dan. Dan wrote the entirety of the script himself after countless hours of brainstorming, plot and movie analysis, and cutscene rewatching. Meanwhile I drew every one of the hundreds of pages this comic has to offer in Photoshop.

Kingdom Hearts and all related imagery, characters, and everything related are owned by their respective creators. This fair use project is purely for fun and appreciation of the series, and is not acting as a substitute for the games being discussed.