Kingdom Hearts II (manga)

The Kingdom Hearts II manga is the third series of the Kingdom Hearts manga. It was based on Kingdom Hearts II.

The series has had an irregular release pattern due to Amano working on the Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days manga, resulting in it being postponed for several years. In Japan, the series was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Gangan, spanning a total of ten volumes, with the last issue being released on August 22, 2015. The Tokyopop version only translated volumes one and two before losing the rights to the manga. However, between 2013 and 2017, Yen Press reissued the whole manga into four volumes.

Kingdom Hearts II seems to take a more serious tone than , but still has some humorous scenes.

The front cover of the Tokyopop and Yen Press first volume shows Roxas and a sleeping Sora floating in what appears to be a scene from Roxas's awakening during his Dive to the Heart. The second Tokyopop cover features Sora, Donald, Goofy, Naminé, Hayner, Pence, Olette, Roxas, Axel, DiZ, an unknown hooded figure, and several members of Organization XIII; with an image of Hollow Bastion in the background. The second Yen Press volume shows Sora, Donald, and Goofy in front of Beast's Castle and The Land of Dragons. The third volume shows Sora, Donald, Goofy, and King Mickey fighting Shadow Heartless with Kairi holding Pluto in the background.

Volume Three
The third volume of the Kingdom Hearts II manga was released only by.

Volume Four
The fourth volume of the Kingdom Hearts II manga was released only by. This is the last volume of the series. Unique to this volume is the printing of two different covers: Kindle edition and paperback edition.

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Main Characters
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Differences

 * Before fighting Seifer in the game, you are given the choice to choose from a Struggle Sword, Hammer and Wand. In the manga adaption, Seifer tosses a Struggle Sword (the well balanced one) at Roxas' feet, giving him no other option but to use this.
 * The only Keyblade's Sora/Roxas are able to use are Oblivion, Oathkeeper, and the Kingdom Key.
 * When Roxas first encounters the Dusk Nobodies, they form a sort of cage around Roxas and carry him towards a portal. Just before they reach the portal, the Keyblade appears.
 * The photo is with Roxas and his friends at the beach instead of in front of the gate by the Haunted Mansion.
 * Dusks and Assassins are seen floating around, giving Axel (who is standing on the roof of the Haunted Mansion in the "real" Twilight Town) a picture of Roxas. He then burns the picture and wonders where "the real thing is hiding."
 * It is explained that the lesser Nobodies cannot tell the real thing (Roxas) from a photo, hence stealing the pictures from around Twilight Town.
 * Roxas does not choose the Dream Sword, Shield or Staff here, but skips right to the battle with the Twilight Thorn.
 * The Struggle posters are changed slightly, including a sponsor in the corner. The sponsor is the Nomura company, the same one featured on the TV and Chicken in the Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories manga.
 * Roxas and the gang do only the Poster job with Roxas being mentioned not doing so by Olette after losing the first set of 5000 munny.
 * Riku was never asked by DiZ to reveal his name (which he would answer Ansem when asked) and also that he had to do some chores like mopping around.
 * It was never mentioned that Hayner in the game got another set of 5000 munny from his relatives.
 * Axel pins Roxas to the ground while telling him his place in Organization XIII.
 * Roxas falls off the Bell Tower while trying to catch his ice-cream that was sliding off of the stick.
 * In the Struggle tournament, contestants wear suits with the orbs attached to them.
 * The battle between Vivi and Seifer as well as Roxas and Setzer were not shown at all but both ended up being winners respectively.
 * Instead of on the train, the gang admire their crystals in The Usual Spot. Roxas realizes that his is missing while digging through his clothes, in his room.
 * Roxas and his friends only check out the haunted mansion, instead of all seven wonders.
 * DiZ mentions something about "disposing of Naminé." DiZ wanted Riku to erase Naminé after her job was completed.
 * The scene where Axel appears to Roxas and tells him of the orders to eliminate him is changed. Instead, Axel appears to Roxas bringing with him snacks and offers some to Roxas; then he tells him of his orders.
 * After Roxas and Axel's fight, Axel says the same thing he says in the game up to the point when Roxas saying "Yeah, I'll be waiting." Instead of Axel giving a remark to Roxas that only he'd be in the next life, Axel just says that he'd be waiting as well.
 * Roxas only strikes DiZ's digital projection once here. DiZ's digital projection only appears once to him at this time, not twice.
 * When Sora awakens in the manga adaption, he goes to sleep again, only to be yelled at in the ear by Donald to wake up. Sora also does not jump out of the pod and embrace Donald and Goofy here, but only stretches, yawns and asks where they are.
 * When they enter town, the end of Summer holidays festival is on and they decide to look around. Sora ends up telling Hayner and Seifer to stop fighting. Seifer tries to beat Sora up but Sora uses his prizes to beat him.
 * Before Sora and his companions get their tickets, some Nobodies appeared as well as King Mickey, all of which were witnessed by Hayner, Pence and Olette.
 * Sora was shown being bored when he and his comrades did not reach Yen Sid's Tower yet.
 * Goofy was seen playing a crossword puzzle and there was simply no other words than "king" filled in as well as it not fitting the spaces.
 * Yen Sid personally ended up in combat against Pete and the Heartless instead of having Sora take care of them.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy were seen having Tea Time with Yen Sid, when in the game it was serious business (which the fairies being Flora, Fauna and Merryweather were also seen having their own Tea Time).
 * Sora's new outfit, was turned into a ballgown with tiara and an unknown outfit though this did not happen in the game, before getting to the intended one by the fairies.
 * Yen Sid gave Sora a hand knitted 'Keyblade Cozy' resembling the face of King Mickey before he leaves.
 * Sora is not shown to use Drive Forms, and does not obtain the Star Seeker.
 * Sora was not shown to wield two Keyblades, unlike in the game, when he was with the fairies.
 * Goofy was seen reading a manga as well as the Gummi Ship running out of gas and also Sora and especially Donald were forced to smile no matter what happens which leads to one another twitching here and vexing there as they go for Hollow Bastion (previously Radiant Garden).
 * Maleficent is resurrected at the Villains' Vale rather than in Yen Sid's Tower.
 * There is a scene involving Yuffie and Leon disposing of Heartless (which some show Heartless threatening to behead Leon with his own Gunblade), they are then given rice balls by one of the people in town after Yuffie stated that they would have to pay for their services given. They are then shown having a conversation before Sora arrives in Hollow Bastion.
 * Pete was doing some chores which Maleficent even commented and we learn that Pete would feel sick going through the corridor of darkness.
 * Unlike in the game, Leon and the others apparently did not forget Sora while his memories were being restored.
 * Sora was seen still smiling with force, no thanks to the side effects of face staying in a certain fix after some time.
 * Aerith got the habit of putting things, like milk, into Leon's soda in an Omake and sugar into Cid's barley tea before Yuffie shows up with her fellow allies.
 * Merlin mistook Cid's words of Heartless as Cockroaches, suggesting for their plan to dispose of the Heartless to be putting a poison-injected dumpling for the Heartless to take back and then consume, and they would trump the creatures in one fell swoop.
 * Aerith did not state they missed Sora and his companions,
 * Merlin did not need to re-teach Sora magic again.
 * Leon takes Sora and co. to see the 1000 Heartless instead of going off by himself first. He also didn't point out the Nobodies like he did in the game.
 * Sora's first encounter with Organization XIII is interrupted by Xigbar being blasted by a Claymore.
 * Donald and Goofy were not away but were with Sora and Leon who all fought together with Sora remain standing but the other three all wiped out.
 * Leon weakly returned to Cid after the battle with the Nobodies and falls face first on the floor.
 * The Organization is shown having a meeting very similar to the ones shown in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix.
 * Axel and Naminé are shown together at the clocktower. Naminé attempted to use the Corridor of Darkness with limited success.
 * Naminé sews Axel's damaged coat, to which Axel comments that she is horrible at sewing.
 * Sora, Donald, Goofy, Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, Cid and Merlin are all shown together having dinner. Yuffie apparently says something to get on Cid's nerves.
 * Instead of visiting each world twice, the events of both visits are merged together.
 * Xaldin is fought and defeated as soon as Beast regains control of himself. He then retreats to The World That Never Was where a Replica of Vexen (from the end of Chain of Memories's manga adaption) kills him.
 * Originally, Xemnas was going to send Demyx to the Land of the Dragons because Demyx criticized him. But then, Xigbar volunteered himself to go there instead.
 * Xigbar is the one responsible for Shan-Yu's army of Heartless.
 * When Mushu encounters Sora he wonders why Sora doesn't recognize him. He then quickly reads through the Kingdom Hearts manga and expresses his anger about his scenes being cut.
 * The gang find out that Ping is a girl, when they find her bathing in a river.
 * Shan-Yu uses the Storm Rider to attack the palace.
 * Shan-Yu is just about to kill The Emperor when suddenly Sora's Keyblade hit his head and Sora re-materializes the Keyblade on his hand. This is somewhat a spoof of the original Strike Raid ability, since Sora throws his Keyblade straight instead of making it spin in the air.
 * Instead of telling Captain Shang and Mulan to "play nice", Sora hands them the Paopu Fruit he received earlier from Riku.
 * Mushu gives Sora his gong before they leave. Since Mushu states that Sora can hit the gong to call Mushu any time he want to, this is most likely a reference to the Summon system.
 * Sora fights Shan-Yu on the roof of the palace and makes short work of him; after Shan-Yu's defeat, Xigbar kills him.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy don't land in The Underworld and instead land in the Coliseum entrance where they hear Meg's cries for help and rush down to The Underworld to save her.
 * The Hydra is an opponent Sora faces in a tournament who he defeats by ring out.
 * Kairi throws her message in a bottle to Sora with much force, instead of gently lowering it into the water.
 * Chi-Fu appears in The Land of Dragons.
 * Kairi meets Seifer during her stay in Twilight Town. Seifer actually developed a crush on her.
 * Axel burned Hayner and Pence's hair while kidnapping Kairi.
 * Olette tried to stop Axel, with a baseball bat, covered in nails.
 * Vexen's replica follows Axel and Kairi to observe her.
 * The past Mickey helps fight Pete, along with the past Pete whilst Sora and co. don't even get the chance to fight him.
 * The past Pete called his boat "Willy" as in "Steamboat Willy."
 * Pete dumps the Cornerstone of Light into the river. The past Pete then hits Pete and say he shouldn't throw unknown objects into the river. The past Pete then dives to get the stone out from the river.
 * When Sora, Donald, and Goofy are just about to leave Timeless River, Donald's vision on what will happen if he do something to alter the future is revealed. Donald was thinking about "Mount. RushDonald", (spoof of the actual Mount. Rushmore) "Statue of Donald", (spoof of the actual Statue of Liberty) and "King Donald".
 * Donald found the seed of the thorns that covered the room, Daisy then violently stomped on the seeds.
 * At the end of chapter 30, it's revealed that Mickey was going to save the Disney Castle. But after Sora, Donald, and Goofy saved the castle, he states that it's not his turn to appear and then he left, thanking the three heroes.
 * Axel stole Demyx's coat, which had a transmitter in it.
 * Saix met Seifer's gang and beat them up for information on Axel.
 * Kairi escaped Axel, by biting his arm.
 * Seifer's hat now has Kairi's name printed upon it, as a result for his love for her.
 * Axel tells Kairi that he would dissolve into the darkness if he didn't wear an Organization coat.-->