The video game franchise gets the animation adaptation treatment for Disney Channel and Disney+, developed in partnership with the game’s creator Tetsuya Nomura and Square Enix.
Kingdom Hearts(working title), an original anime series, has been greenlit for Disney Channel and Disney+, developed in partnership with video game creator Tetsuya Nomura and the creative team at Square Enix. Disney announced the series and released a teaser image this past Friday night at D23. No release date was announced.
The series reimagines the games with a brand-new story that expands the Kingdom Hearts universe while celebrating its characters. Nomura is on board as a contributor.
A series of role-playing games created through the collaboration of Disney and Square Enix, Square Co. and Disney Interactive released the first Kingdom Hearts on PlayStation 2 in 2002. That game put more than 100 Disney characters — among them figures from Aladdin, Tarzan, Alice in Wonderland, The Lion King and The Nightmare Before Christmas — alongside Final Fantasy characters in an epic adventure about a 14-year-old named Sora who travels with Donald Duck and Goofy. Nomura directed and designed the characters. The series has shipped over 39 million units worldwide.
“There’s something really exciting about taking a world fans have spent years exploring through the games and bringing it to life in a completely new way,” said Ayo Davis, president of Disney Kids & Family. “And with a creative team that is working closely with the legendary Tetsuya Nomura, our new series will be unmistakably Kingdom Hearts, while giving fans a whole new way to experience the world they love.”
Disney also released a trailer for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts IV game coming next year quite the animated mashup:
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
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