Looking Back on Kingdom Hearts: How it Reflects Animation History, Making Sense of Its Crazy Story

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Kat and Nadia are joined by Kingdom Hearts fan Caty McCarthy to look back on the history of the series up until now. How does it reflect animation history, and what the heck is up with that story? We answer these questions and more as we reflect on Tetsuya Nomura's masterpiece (?) til now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, US Gamer's official RPG podcast. I'm your host, Kat Bailey, joining me as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:52.9	Hello, hello, happy Kingdom Hearts Week, sort of getting there.
0:56.3	Is that what it is? Is it Kingdom Hearts Week? Is that a federal holiday now?
0:59.8	I think it should be, because God knows we've been waiting for it long enough.
1:04.5	Yeah, everyone must dress up as, like, Mickey Mouse wearing, like, Edge Lord robes.
1:08.8	Is that how it goes? I like that idea, actually.
1:11.4	We all get to go as Kingdom Hearts characters.
1:13.7	I want to go as Roxas.
1:16.0	Roxas is the kid with a spiky blonde hair, right?
1:18.3	I think so.
1:19.5	Roxas is the nobody, right?
1:21.6	Yes, okay, yes.
1:22.5	So I want to go as, I don't know, one of the dudes with like, with like the rope.
1:26.4	I think Axel's what I'm thinking of.
1:27.7	Oh, Axel. Yeah, no, Axel's really popular. That's the one with the red hair and is part of Organization 13.
1:33.5	Yeah, and like, he's just like one of those subjects who, especially back in the, you know, the Oats was a huge fan favorite, like was the subject of like every Yowie fan fiction ever written in that time period. Yeah, I think that was the point.
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