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most likey at the concert or at the showcase
We hope so too, but he regularly posts his datamines on reddit and in a discord channel, both where SE community rep Glacie regularly interacts with members of the community. Glacie hasn’t had any issues with his datamines yet (though this is a bigger beast), but considering Sign got a C&D over some random medals years ago, maybe this will tip her over the edge?
yeah you right either way we prbally get reveal early june so idon't this will be a big deal
Yeah, considering the Lion King stuff, this does seem like a June thing.
Might not have been found during the search or not offered due to similar hairstyles being available.
This is where it's edging towards problematic for me though, I'm a big fan of dresses and actively hoped Kairi would be rocking either a skirt or a dress, but this particular design doesn't look far off from something patched together and mass produced for the "young anime girls" section of your local Ross department store. It's borderline infantalizing and I'm not comfortable with that. That said, everything in Ux is kind of chibified so it's possible it'll look a lot more age-appropriate in KH3 proper. With both Sora and Riku's costumes designed to convey a more "mature" theme, having Kairi stand between them as the "little girl" with the key is just...not a great message to send.
I agree with you 100%, but it's the double standard this reinforces which bothers me. Girls/women have to carry out this delicate balancing act of presenting their assertive character without ever losing that "feminine virtue" heavily associated with youth and girlhood and purity (all represented within the stereotypical "princess" persona), but boys/men aren't constrained by that set of factors when considering their presentation, and that's really on display here. We've seen this dominant color shift in both Sora and Riku's clothing towards subdued blacks and greys, and if I didn't like that before I really don't like it now in how it sets them apart from Kairi aesthetically. If Sora was still sporting bright yellows and reds and Riku was steeped in greens and blues I would feel more confident in how their shared status coheres, but the impression Nomura sends with these outfits (intended or not) is that Sora and Riku have grown into young adulthood while Kairi is still just a girl, and that's a bad dynamic to go with from the outset.
But you're not accounting for the fact that one set of cartoon aesthetic logic is consciously or unconsciously gendered while the other is not. All of the Organization members wear a standard cloak; it's purely functional within the fantastic framework of the story. If Larxene had been depicted in CoM wearing very selectively applied latex and leather straps and eight inch heels as the only exception to the Org. dress code that would obviously have triggered some concerns (not least of which that is definitely a Marluxia look first). That's a bit of the feeling this dress gives me about Kairi; her femininity is being used to frame her role and presentation in the story, rather than her owning her femininity as a matter of character.
