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 Unintelligible October 21, 2006
D. G. D. Davidson
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
Kingdom Hearts, which brings together characters from Squaresoft's Final Fantasy series and Disney's various cartoons, is probably one of the strangest and most ambitious projects in video game history. It's easy to see how Shiro Amano got the task of creating the manga adaptation; his renderings of both the Disney and Final Fantasy characters are flawless.
Amano's artistic abilities are the manga's only redeeming feature. The story revolves around a young boy, Sora, who finds himself (without explanation) the wielder of the powerful Keyblade, the only weapon capable of stopping an endless army of monsters known as Heartless. After some confusing adventures focusing on his relationship with two friends who receive no character development, Sora joins Donald Duck and Goofy, who are searching for the missing Mickey Mouse. Their dimension-hopping journey takes them through a variety of worlds based on Disney films and through endless battles with the Heartless and their Disney villain overlords, whose goals and motivations remain vague.
The convoluted plot is unintelligible and never receives enough elaboration to become coherent. The numerous action sequences, often featuring indecipherable pictures, only add to the confusion. Many of the events seem to have no internal logic. For example, in the Hercules subplot, we see the villain, Hades, lean on a sink to look at himself in the mirror. The sink cracks, and, somehow, Hades is either washed down a drain, flushed down a toilet, or maybe sucked into a space-time vortex. The only explanation for this odd chain of events is that Hercules had scrubbed the toilets earlier in the day. This, unfortunately, is characteristic of most of the manga's plot elements.
 A Decent Ending October 28, 2006
WayneXtreme (Indianapolis, IN USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Kingdom Hearts: Volume 4
By: Shiro Amano
This is the final book in the storyline of the first Kingdom Hearts game. In this book the gang heads to Hollow Bastion to confront their greatest nemisis, Maleficient. However, she's not the one they should be worrying about. I won't go into details because I don't want to ruin it for anyone out there who's had no experience with the games, but this is a pretty good book and it does give some insight into what happened to Riku.
The thing that really bites with the series is that they totally miss my favorite world of them all Halloween Town. I was very anxious to see the encounter and drawings there, but was disappointed that it was left out, hopefully it'll be added in future mangas since Chain of Memories is now out, and I expect KHII to be made into a manga as well. I still give this a 10/10.
Best book series. EVER! October 13, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
These books are amazing! It's a bit different than the video game, but it's still terrific! If your a fan of Final Fantasy, Disney, or both, you'll totally love it! The story starts with three friends named Sora, Riku, and Kairi, that all live on the Destiny Islands. They all are trying to find a way off the island to try and discover new worlds, when one night they get their wish. A storm hit the islands and now they are all sent to different worlds. Now Sora must fight with Donald Duck and Goofy to save the worlds, find Kairi, bring Riku back from the darkness, and find King Mickey. It's so awesome, you should buy it now!
COOOOOOOOOOOL July 2, 2006
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
this BOOK IS AWESOME
A MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE BUY IT!!
IT DOES DEREVE TO BE BOUGHT!!!
 No Bookmark or Poster? March 21, 2007
D. D. Eplett (O'Fallon, MO)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
My son was very excited to get this set of books. However, the bookmark and poster that were promised in the ad didn't come with it. Very disappointing - Amazon is usually great about this stuff. I'm not returning it because I'd have to pry them from my son's hands...but sad, sad that they ripped off a child.
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