That's a great drawing of Xehanort.

Over Black Friday, I finally picked up the last few manga volumes I was missing for KH (2 vol. 4, Days vol. 4 and 5). I bought my first KH novel, too. I wasn't sure what they were like and only wanted to get one at first to see. I didn't know what the best one to try them out with was, so I got the novel for 3D since 3D doesn't have a manga anyway. I hope I enjoy it. :)

Got it I mean ordered it! I can’t wait ?

Looking forward to finally reading all of the KH novels when this one is out. Been saving them until KH3 was finished.

Is it just me but is 162 pages too small amount of pages for what has to be covered in the third novel for KH3? Especially if they are including Remind in it too...

And what about what happens in MoM? That can't be a separate novel... surely?

MoM could be a prologue chapter in the next book based on a main line game.

I hope it has more then 162 pages. I don't know how big the Japanese one is, so I can't say anything. I've been waiting all 2020 for this book. Haven't read the first two volumes of KH3 on my shelf because I was waiting for this one to read them all at once. My patience will soon reward me.

Aren't the BBS and Days Novels supersized too? Like the English version has like three volumes all in one. Not that I'm complaining, it made it very convenient for me to collect them.

Has anyone got this yet and can verify page count? Mainly just to satisfy my curiosity?

Amazon UK doesn't have this in stock yet so can't get my copy for a while.

Does anyone think Yozora will be in this? Was Yozora mentioned in the KH3 novel that covered Toy Box?

I purchased a couple more KH novels today (I had the KH1 novel for a while but never followed up on it until now).

I’m surprised at how much the first KH2 volume leaves out from the games. I’m also surprised they decided to include Olympus even though it wasn’t in the KH1 novel.

Out of curiosity, what worlds are featured in the second volume?

I also skimmed the second KH3 volume and saw a Halloween Town mention (comparing how they look in Monstropolis to their HT costumes). Surely that must be in KH2 since it wasn’t in KH1?

I just played through Monstropolis again and thought to myself "why are they surprised / scared by being monsters, they've been in Halloween town before" ?‍♂️

Seeing the new tweet made me think “hey, maybe the novel rectified this”.

It did not.

The novels skipping over worlds and storylines pre-KH3 was one of the most disappointing things I realised when reading. DDD wound up with the Disney worlds being very basic and only a handful of pages long, and I kept thinking "why is it this short and disjointed?"

KH3 having three novels and each one dedicating 20+ pages to each world was a breath of fresh air. I'm picking up my copy of the final novel tomorrow at the post office but I'm expecting it to be similar to the first two novels. I hope that continues on with whatever novel comes next (not MoM, that is so not worth a novel. Make that a prologue to whatever bigger game gets a novel.)

Aren’t the English KH1, CoM, KH2, Days, BbS, and DDD novels just omnibus versions of the shorter Japanese novels?

Like, with KH2, the second half of the first English novel is the second Japanese one, and literally the only Disney world they used in that one is Olympus Coliseum.

In the novel’s defence, the Olympus visit is partially rewritten to be Sora’s first time there.

I’ve bought a couple more novels. I was a bit disappointed that the BbS one didn’t have illustrations for some reason (besides the coloured ones at the beginning and end).

An aspect of BbS I did appreciate was that the canonical ending to Disney Town was Terra’s one. With the negative stuff that tended to happen in his Disney world visits, it was nice to see him be embraced by a world for a change.

1. I can totally see MOM becoming a prologue like 0.2
2. I also think that the 3rd instalment had too much of a page gap compared to the other 2.

So what's the deal with the novels. I always play the games and I used to enjoy the Kh1 and Kh2 manga for the pictures. I'm not calling them dumb or anything, but what's the point of the novels? Are they just there if you dont feel like playing the game, or do they do something the games dont? Like in some of the old manga, there were some cute characterization moments you couldnt find in the games (Aerith making salty lemonade in Kh1 or Kairi giving Axel the finger (basically) in Kh2), do you get that out of the novels as well?

Also the novels are more gay. Huge plus over the manga.

I just wanna say that anyone that hesitates on whether to read the novels or not, should read them, they're amazing! The first one is a bit ropey but from CoM on the books are really great!

One of the weirdest/poorly handled moments I remember from the first novel was the scene with Sora and Kairi’s old cave drawings.

For some reason, Kanemaki just skips over that part near the beginning where Sora finds the drawings and adds the paopu fruit, but then incorporates it during the ending when Kairi finds them, with Kairi randomly seeing a vision/manifestation of Sora drawing on the wall, like in the games ending cinematic, only taken way too literally.

It can also have it's own plotline. Like in the KH2 Novels we spend a lot of time with Riku, Naminé and Axel. A lot of it being things that could have taken place in some form when KH2 came out.

eeek I need to add this to my collection. It looks amazing!

I hope they announce another novel soon that covers Union X or even Dark Road, with an epilogue chapter that contains the Melody of Memory stuff. I'm craving more!

I have loved these novel adaptations of the games! I have all of them except the ones for II, Union X and III!