No worries <3 I think they're interesting too!! We get so much from Nomura, it's easy to forget that there's a whole colourful team working on these games :3
By the way, OP updated! I'll also post new ones down here now for simplicity's sake~
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Munenori Shinagawa
Animation Director / From: Tokyo Development Team / Previous titles: KHII, KHII FM, Re:CoM, KH Days, KH Coded, KH BbS, KH Re:Coded, KH BbS FM
Q. Was there something you had to be careful about when making the character’s movements?
Although the story is set after KHII, in this title Sora and Riku return to the way they looked when they were young boys, so I was careful to try not to make their movements revert to KHI too much. Riku in particular has trimmer thighs in his new clothes, which means his basic movements like walking and running are closer to KHII.
Q. How much did you reference the original animations and films?
A. There were many scenes recreated from the original work, so I referenced them quite a bit. However, recreating the Disney films was difficult in many ways. In the scene in La Cité des Cloches where Quasimodo goes from the cathedral to the plaza to save Esmerelda there weren’t enough building walls to get a run-up like in the movie, so it was an extreme struggle to make.
Q. What was the biggest hardship you faced?
A. There was a fairly large number of cutscenes for such a short production time. The cutscenes towards the end of development were all huge volume, and then when I was told on top of that ‘there’s going to be the longest cutscene in the KH series’, I thought ‘well that’s a lovely dream…’.
Q. If you have an unforgettable memory from during development, please share it with us.
A. (Mr. Tatsuya) Kando (director of The World Ends With You) had a strong attachment to the characters from The World Ends With You, and I’ll never forget how he checked them over and over. He said ‘Rhyme’s way of walking is cuter!’ and demonstrated for me. I just had to laugh at how funny he looked.
Secret of this title that only he knows:
Because Riku’s head looked bigger with shorter hair, we made his head a little bit smaller. Also, the Keyblade he wields is upside-down from how it has pointed up until now. We changed it because unlike with the Soul Eater the grip-part was sinking noticeably through his wrist.
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Also I got scared by my desktop while I was translating, made me laugh