Kingdom Hearts Series

Since Tokyopop's 2011 closing, rights have been unclaimed for localizing Kingdom Hearts Manga. Queue Yen Press, a manga publishing division, that has claimed the rights for not only Kingdom Hearts, but Inu x Boku SS, Watamote, and Wolf Children.

When can you expect some lovely English Manga, you might ask? Here are some announced release dates for the Kingdom Hearts series;

Disney D23 is an official Disney fan club that was founded in 2009 and is sponsored by the Walt Disney Company. This year, they are holding the event in Japan, and will feature exclusive KH content!
Don't get to excited, as there has been no mention of the sort on future titles, but Mr. Shinji Hashimoto (Producer) is set to appear, along with several Voice Actors from the series. The event known as the "Kingdom Hearts Fun Event," will be October 14th 2013 from 3-4 PM.

Credit for the news find goes to Roxam.

Amazon has opened up a new page depicting the 6th Japanese Volume in the Kingdom Hearts II manga line-up. The publisher; Gangan comics has not released a Mange from the series' third game since 2009, making this issue to have a time frame of nearly 4 years.
According to Gangan, it will be released on May 22nd 2013 for the price of 470 Yen.

The Mobile se4rvice that released in 2008 will be terminated as of April 30th 2013. While the mobile game offered nothing to the story or development of the series, it acted as a portal where players could play minigames, download ringtones, etc. The news was posted on a reliable twitter account and will a translation by goldplanner can be seen below.

Hey everyone, the Sony conference came and went and while PlayStation 4 news is exciting (talk about it with us in our Gaming section!), there was no Kingdom Hearts shown at the event. We still have some news, though! In GameTrailers's pre-show they announced they would be doing one of their Timeline series, this time with Kingdom Hearts!

For those unfamiliar with GT, they did a Legend of Zelda series where they tried to connect the dots between the games. The following trailer reveals that Spring 2013 will treat us to a Kingdom Hearts Timeline!

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What do you guys think--do you like GT's timelines? Can they possibly make the KH plot coherent? Leave a comment and let us know!