Y'all, I'm hyped up because this is the series with all of the hugs from Riku. Bless Tomoco Kanemaki <3

KH2 Novel! This makes us one step closer to getting the Days, BBS, and DDD novels and I REALLY want the BBS novel.

Oh, definitely. The BBS ones had the most additional content out of any novel in the series. Shame about the lack of Amano illustrations, though...

I just really want it because BBS was plot wise always the game with I felt the biggest lost story potential. It was incredible on paper but then the actual game script and pacing just killed it. I only got to read a few translated bits of it but it already was everything I wanted. Granted I'm not fond of the addition of Vanitas's backstory but hey I will trade that for a well written TAV any day of the week. You know it be great if like the novel writer was brought on board for the games. Nomura comes up with the plot and handles the big important scenes, and the novel writer handles pretty much everything else especially in terms of character interactions.

Quick question did Coded ever get a novel?

Tomoco wrote Days with Daisuke Watanabe and Nomura so idk how you feel about that game.

Yes! Coded did have one novel!

There's a BBS novel? Where can i find it?

So many things to look forward to. :'D
gotta buy 'em all... <_<

That is literally my favorite game script/story in the series so guess that just doubles that opinion that should be done more often. How was the coded novel? Like I'm a bit curious what you could write a novel about given it was so much more of a gameplay driven game than a story one.

It is only in Japanese right now, and Goldpanner never got around to translating it in her free time so all you can find are summaries of it.

If you are cool with it being in Japanese, you can order copies of it from Amazon.co.jp!



Yep. 2017 is the (expensive) year of KH sobsobsob



That's great then! Personally my dream is for Shiro Amano, Tomoco Kanemaki, Jun Akiyama of KH1 & FFXII fame, and Masaru Oka to all be major players in KH3's scenario development. xD Amano for his humor, Tomoco for her ability to humanize characters, Akiyama for his ability to contain the madness and keep it all straight, and Oka because KH3D remains the one game in the series that hurt me besides BBS.

The coded novel is really short from what I understand. Not sure what was actually in it since I never bothered to check out any summaries of it xD

I'm glad this is finally getting a release!

I wonder how many novels they will have to release to get all of KH2 released in English... A shame they are not putting them all together in one novel.

I believe there were four volumes of Kingdom Hearts 2, so if they combine two per volume, we should get two volumes. If not, then we are getting all four volumes. Considering the page count, though, I think we might be getting four volumes.

Yyyyeeeessss!

Yen Press / On has been on and off with their organization of the omnibuses. Days's manga was the only one serialized individually. KH2's last two volumes are disproportionate (the first two were two and a half volumes, Vol. 3 was two, and Vol. 4 will have three). Now KH2's novel releases may be individual, whereas the previous novels are not? I'm just wondering why out of curiousity.

In any case, praise be to Yen~

It does set off the OCD. xD

I'll just ask rather than wondering lol

Maybe because they will get more money that way! :p

I'm 97+% sure the two images posted on the OP are the first two of four covers of the novel, so my bet is we'll get two collected volumes.
If the page count is 288, then that fits with my KHI novel, which was also two volumes in one, and finished at 276 pages.
And the three volumed CoM novel ends at 400 pages. Divided by three that's about 133 pages per volume, compared to what would be 144 pages per KHII volume, I'd say it is a safe bet, that we get two collected volumes.

And I should probably pick up vol 3 of the KHII manga omnibuses as soon as I get the chance, I guess I missed its release.

Those were images I added to the OP to show what the novel covers looked like from the Japanese release. There is no artwork up for the novels by Yen Press as of yet lol

Fair enough.
I still expect it to be two volumes combined, though.

I kind of hope so. It'd be more to read without waiting forever for volumes to release.

Ahahaha, *shiny eyes*.
That's one of the messages I've been waiting for.

It's still quite a while until June 2017 but still, the novels are gems that are worth the wait. ^__^

The bookworm inside me is satisfied.

Ooh, with the final part of the KH2 manga coming and now KH2 novel coming up, man... 2017 will be a great year.

It was really nice to see Sora´s inner thoughts during the CoM novel, and I am interested to see what he thinks about different things. Ooh man, the confrontation between Sora and Roxas, bot at the end of the prologue, and in the Dark City will probably break my heart. D8

If you want some more heartbreak and Sora's internal thoughts, head to the official KH novels translation thread, Goldpanner actually got the last chapter of Side: Sora from the DDD novel translated, meaning the whole The World that Never Was-section of Sora's side. ;)

Oh god, meaning that it has the bit with Sora going trough the painful memories, seeing Namine, Xion and Roxas, Ven, Terra and Aqua. Like that scene broke me in the game and the possibility of seeing more Sora´s thoughts about them. D8 Man.... I have to check it out.

It is.

It also has some really good gems like this:
[spoiler=Sora's thoughts]
Yeah. I’ve thought that all this time. Roxas isn’t me, so why does he have to be inside me?
---
So much for the stupid notion that "Roxas is where he belongs and shouldn't have his own existence". Not even Sora himself agrees with that bullshit!!! ;P
[/spoiler]

Sephiroth0812 It is. It also has some really good gems like this: [spoiler=Sora's thoughts] Yeah. I’ve thought that all this time. Roxas isn’t me, so why does he have to be inside me? --- So much for the stupid notion that "Roxas is where he belongs and shouldn't have his own existence". Not even Sora himself agrees with that bullshit!!! ;P [/spoiler]

Yusss! Even more the reason to read the novels.

I really hope that this time they stick to single-volume releases instead of omnibus releases. We lost a great deal of beautiful color illustrations because they smashed stuff into one bigger volume! I'm really excited for this novel release and I really do pray that they will be releasing them in a timely manner instead of keeping us waiting so long for the next book. In this case timely means: NOT WAITING OVER A YEAR FOR THE NEXT ONE!

Overall I'm still impressed with YenPress, they will forever be an improvement over TokyoPop.

Does anyone know if Coded had a novel or manga? Figured I'd ask while I'm talking about the books.

[coded] had a novel, but the manga discontinued after KHII's storyline.