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Kingdom Hearts first-ever anime TV series coming to Disney
Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Say More Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable Selects Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag VidCon with Mashable All Series The popular Square Enix video game starring Mickey Mouse and friends is getting a TV show. The hit video game series Kingdom Hearts is getting its own TV show on Disney+. The next time is on your television screen, you might not be playing it as a video game but watching it as an anime TV series. A slew of Disney-related movies and TV shows have been announced over the past 24 hours as part of D23, the company's annual fan event, which is currently taking place in Anaheim, California. Disney announced that an anime TV series based on the video game franchise will debut soon on Disney+'s streaming platform and the Disney Channel.
'Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's' final fighter is Sora from 'Kingdom Hearts'
Since Sora is the last fighter to be added into "Ultimate," as a last hurrah, Nintendo showed Sora facing off all previously introduced "Ultimate" fighters and demolishing most of them. The developers designed Sora with similar controls to what he had in the original "Kingdom Hearts" franchise, and he also retains magical powers like Firaga (Fire), Blizzaga (Blizzard) and Thundaga (Thunder). Alongside his character, Nintendo also introduced a new battle stage, based on Hollow Bastion, Maleficient's castle in the original "Kingdom Hearts," a world that later was rebuilt into Radiant Garden in the second game.
Kingdom Hearts' Sora is the final 'Super Smash Bros. Ultimate' fighter
Nintendo has finalized the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster with the reveal of one last DLC fighter. Director Masahiro Sakurai revealed that Sora from Kingdom Hearts is joining the ranks. Sora is nimble and a skilled airborne fighter, but he's very light, so it's easy to launch him. Before the stream, Sakurai noted on Twitter (per Google Translate) that "new fighter may be a character you don't know." That dashed many fans' hopes that the fighter would be Waluigi or, as was previously rumored, Master Chief from Halo, though Sora isn't exactly an unknown quantity.
The Tokyo Olympics' opening ceremony featured an orchestrated video game soundtrack
The Tokyo Olympics opening kicked off early this morning, and the parade of nations, where athletes walk through Japan's Olympic stadium, had a Japanese twist. A medley of videogame music, orchestrated, formed the soundtrack for the parade. It all kicked off with the main theme from Dragon Quest -- which sounds pretty Olympian outright -- followed by hits from Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, Nier, Sonic, Chrono Trigger and, er, eFootball. There are some notable omissions -- no Nintendo songs (Pokemon? Zelda?) being the biggest one -- but some Street Fighter II songs might have fitted well into the competitive theme.