Ansem's Reports: Difference between revisions

{{nihongo|'''Ansem's Reports'''|アンセムレポート|Ansemu Repōto|lit. "Ansem Report"}} are a series of pages collected throughout ''{{c|Kingdom Hearts|game}}'' and ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]''. The reports explore the mythology of the series, and focus largely on the nature of beings, what they become ([[Heartless]] and [[Nobody|Nobodies]]), and the nature of darkness and nothingness. The second report, also known as the {{nihongo|'''Secret Ansem Report'''|裏アンセムレポート|Ura Ansemu Repōto|lit. "Hidden Ansem Report"}}, explains the background and plans of specific characters, primarily [[Terra-Xehanort|Xehanort]], [[Naminé]], and [[Organization XIII]]. Though both reports are originally thought to be written by [[Ansem the Wise]], he claims in his Secret Ansem Report that he is only responsible for Ansem's Report part 1, while his apprentice [[Terra-Xehanort|Xehanort]] stole his identity and wrote Ansem's Report parts 2-13<ref>The pages of the Ansem's Report are numbered 0-12 in the Japanese versions of ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Kingdom Hearts II'', and this numbering is preserved when they are mentioned in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.</ref> (with parts in particular 10-13 being written after Ansem the Wise's banishment to the [[Realm of Darkness]]).