So stop me if you heard this one, Square En Enoch and Disney walk into a Japanese office building.

I've heard this one and they met in an elevator.

What happens when you give a fresh-faced young character designer complete control over, say, the most dominant media entities in the history of Western culture,

years before stuff like the Lego movie and the Marvel Expanded Universe

and all the other kind of now commonplace meta-crosscultural,

you know, kind of postmodern franchises kind of mush together.

What if that young fresh face designer was just kind of a weird anime fanboy who just loved zippers?

I would say that the outcome of that would be a game series with the most insane naming convention that I've ever seen in my life

entitled kingdom hearts Jake you asked for it and so did all our many patron fans I was suggesting

I was the it was like hey what are some topics we can ask our audience and I said mortal

combat because I really want to do that one and you're old I said And I said Street Fighter. Because you're old. Street Fighter's important. And what's the other one that we put on the thing? I don't know. Mech Warrior. We're old. And then I was like, well, really, if you think about the timing, Kingdom Hearts came out in the mid-2000s. And, you know, it was kind of, kind of revolutionary. and now we're in the year 2018, the people that, the kids that played it was kind of kind of revolutionary and now we're in the year 2018

the people that the kids that played it have kind of grown up and the sequels on its way and it's

a long-awaited sequel kingdom hearts three is incredibly anticipated i mentioned that we were doing

a kingdom hearts episode while doing my twitch stream and it elicited this giant conversation about all the

properties that are rumored to be in the game. Everyone was getting so fucking hyped up. I was

getting hyped up. Jake, I'm so hyped up that I'm pretty sure on JRP Thursdays, the moment I'm done

with Final Fantasy 9 doing the full playthrough, I think I'm going to play

Kingdom Hearts 2. You've heard it here first, folks. That's right. This is your drug-free, clean and

sober, bruiser, Holden McNeely. And I am your healthy and pure, definitely not drinking Diet Coke

and crying about his decaying organs wizard Jake.

Dear God! And today we're doing an episode on the beloved series, Kingdom Hearts.

And it's like every moment of working on this, the love of the fans seeped into my research.

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