A-am I imagining things or...
Does that elephant Dream Eater have Reaper wings and Beat's beanie?

Also look at Ephemer. What a goddamn cinnamon roll.

edit: forgive me, I haven't been keeping up with the news, this is all new info to me.

ephemer look cool and luxu looks short by the way is that pengunie taking a bath?

Look at the son... he is so cute.

But being next to Luxu... it feeds into theories.

but that had different va though

Have their VA's been confirmed and I just missed it? Otherwise, we can't be certain. We've heard both of them speak once.

ephemer is micheal johnston i don't know about luxu yet but i dont think it sound like him

here a thread about the va for ephemer

http://forums.khinsider.com/kingdom-hearts-hd-2-8-final-chapter-prologue/211236-michael-johnston-plays-ephemera-kingdom-hearts-x-chi-back-cover.html

Ephemer looks awesome.
Luxu is kind of a disappointment, but what did I expect, lol

mah booooiiiii Ephemer, looking good

So, quick info from your worst translator on the site (moi):

The elephant's name is Biitopoi which is essentially saying "I like the beat" or "I like Beat" (and Beat's last name is actually Biito lol)

The penguin is very straightforward. Yuagaripengin is "Penguin after a bath" because haha penguins in hot baths.

Precious Dandelion Child!!!! I must hug him!


Also Luxu's hood looks like a hand puppet.

you need to give him kermit eyes, help me obi wan you're our only hope

Ephemer looks great i expected him to be more short but whatever.
Luxu looks cool too.

Urrrghh that keyblade. It's taunting me. After all these years, I just want to know what its name is, so we don't have to call it Xehanort's Keyblade anymore.

Ephemer looks fantastic. I can't wait to see Skuld's render and/or just see her in Back Cover in general.

Same, dude. Sick of calling it "Xehanort's Keyblade".

I'd never thought I'd see the day where an elephant would ride a skateboard while a penguin is taking a bath.

Elephant with WINGS Don't forget the WINGS! :D

Ephemer looks freaking adorable. Are there any good translations of these out yet? My Japanese is a little rusty.

Dat my boi Ephemer? YAY!!! Now all we need is a Chirithy and Skuld render :3

Meh, I just call Xehanort's Keyblade "Lustful Ambition"

We already have a Chirithy Render. Also, please try not to double post :)

I really, really dig the Beat Elephant.
Much more than yet another Meow Wow reskin, for sure.

We are working on them!

Here's Chirithy

i doubt we even get skuld render we don't know if she in backcover or not

OMG! the cutest....i can't [video=youtube;CehifIS6CRc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehifIS6CRc[/video]


now pardon me whilst i clean up the scattered organic mush that was once my brain.

Can we talk about the fact that there is a penguin in a bath in a battle.

Or Flick Rush? Or the Frog trophy sobsobsob

yeah what with the penguin in the bath is that some kind refence i dont get?

I see in the screenshot of BBS 0.2's menu that the play time had reached 20:55. 20 hours and 55 minutes. TWENTY HOURS. TWENTY.

i think it depends on how much people are collecting or not

It is either an Evangelion reference to Pen-Pen who often liked taking hot baths as a warm-water penguin, all warm-water penguins, or something I'm missing culturally like the Suica mascot penguin rofl

YES! Cuz I mean, Ephemer doesn't really look any different than when we saw him in the trailer so I'm not really any more hyped to see him again lol. Thus the most exciting stuff here for me is the new Sauna Penguin (it has little sandals or slippers on I think too??) and then yeah the new trophies. Not sure what they are for, tho. You would think the one has to deal with Lord Kyroo or something maybe?? Idk.

Game testers / for media purposes like this can rack up hours fairly quickly. I'm sure you can get 21 hours yourself if you're determined though!!

The first thing I thought about when seeing this penguin dream eater actually was "Pen-Pen is in da house", lol.
Evangelion reference extraordinaire I'd say.

Also fits in well since we practically already have a Kaworu-reference in DDD anyways with Joshua.

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Also Ephemer is such a cutie-pie <3.

Luxu being about Ephemer's height though indicates that he's also a kid/young teen probably about Ava's/Gula's age range.

Praise be Nomura, our lord and Savior, for blessing us with PenPen the Dream Eater. You bet your butts I'm naming him that.

Forgot about our resident angel and I love Joshua so xD

I want to believe there are a bunch of Eva fans on the dev team. They like Madoka, after all. xD

don't you think nomura a eva and madoka fan as well master spockanort because i think there are alot insperations from those series in kingdom hearts

They do?

[video=youtube;TzCWRqdZhrE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzCWRqdZhrE[/video]

Starting at 2:09. The devs did text tests it seems and discussed Madoka lol



Evangelion is one of the most iconic anime franchises in Japan and an antithesis to the shounen genre. It has influenced plenty of series. xD

I don't think there are many Madoka references lol Except for maybe a cute cat thing revealing itself to be an evil cat thing...That is about as far as I'd go.

Dito, I will certainly name that penguin Pen-Pen as well.



Since in DDD Josh's usual snark/jerkassery from the original TWEWY is toned down somewhat he's even more similar to Kaworu in some regards. xD
With a bit creativity one may even relate Beat to Toji Suzuhara, will all the brashness and younger sister protective streak and all that.

I wouldn't be surprised by this one inch, lol.

All of this is loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove.
Ephemera is super-cute.

So fun note:

Ephemer has skinny arms and Luxu is buff so we can all give up on the theory that they are the same person. Luxu is also slightly taller even with the slight heel on his boots.

But what if it's a trap

TRUE. But he's too much of a cutie sobsobsob

plus they praobally have different actors as well

I'm really not a fan of that theory, so

i m not either but we don't happened when ephemer met that black coat in that scene in kingdom hearts x

I will always find hard to link a relatively "normal" kid with full of unclear doubts about the Foretellers who gets recruited(?) by the MoM during the plot with one of the six original apprentices.
With all due respect.

by the way ephemer scene i seem he talking to someone maybe even skuld?

I don't want them to be the same character but figures that many people automatically want to see that. Talk about individuality...

Individuality is an empty word, in a realm with people who actually WANT the Rebirth theory to be true.
Why having five new characters when they can be 2.0 versions of previous ones?

That screenshot of Ephemer in the scan has him tell someone to cheer up, so probably Ava instead of Skuld.

That's exactly the problem I see. I feel a bit alone with that but I still hope that no one from the Back Cover era is like a predecessor of any other character.

People are actually proposing that Ephemer and Luxu are one and the same now? With what reasoning for Chirithy's sake? They are nothing alike and while Ephemer is seeking for answers about the truth Luxu is the one who should probably know the most out of everyone except maybe the Master of Masters.
Doesn't really add up at all.



Ugh, don't remind me of that mindset.
By now it has gotten so far that I actually get some tingling sense of true annoyance everytime this theory gets brought up.
You can only repeat a certain "twist" once or twice in an ongoing tale before it starts to get stale, boring and annoying.

At least Ephemer and Luxu are both new characters so there wouldn't actually be yet another copy of an already existing character if for whatever reason they would really be connected or even "the same" (and I still do not get from where this suddenly comes, we haven't even translations for that article yet and them being featured beside each other is most likely only because they're both from Back Cover in this case).

same .

I hope everyone from back cover grows up and dies of old age like real people do

Xenogears pulled off the concept of Reincarnation fantastically well. Just because a Reincarnated version of a character exist doesn't immediately strip them away of their "individuality", plus, you have to consider the fact that it's just limited to the BBS Trio and Destiny Islands duo.

"I mean it makes sense right, Ephemera is so curious about the Foretellers yet unlike others he dares to ask questions. Maybe he knows them and wants to test them or see what they tell him if asked! Maybe he's a spy on behalf of the MoM!!!!!!!!!!!"

Theory busted tho cause the only one I see Luxu connected to if anyyyy is still Eraqus but hey.
We already know the community is crazy for the weirdest theories.

I get the feeling that the ones who see Ephemer and Luxu's placing as "evidence" are just seeing what they want to see at this point. I can't really think of a very strong reason why Luxu would be Ephemer beyond just being able to say

The universe-wrecking war happening when most of them are still teens might throw a wrench in that though...<__<



It does add another layer of useless baggage that doesn't enrich the story in any way though except making it more confusing, not to mention yielding yet another set of "visual" clones.
"Just" BBS Trio and Destiny Islands trio is funny to say when that is exactly the problem since strictly visually spoken we already have three Soras (Sora himself, Vanitas and Data-Sora), two Ventus' (Ventus himself and Roxas), three Riku's (Riku himself, Riku Replica and Data-Riku) and three Kairi's (Kairi herself, Naminé and Xion).
Out of these six characters in those two trios, only two are without a clone yet (only one even if you want to count Terra-Xehanort as a Terra-clone) and Aqua's high popularity within the fandom stems at least partly from the fact that she hasn't got a visual clone/derived other self of her running around.

Then there's also the saying of "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", meaning that connections and bonds/relationships formed by choice hold more meaning and importance than those dictated to oneself by mere biology or something bullshitty as "fate".



Wut?
Ok, well yeah, I don't see/remember any hints towards that anywhere but whatever, lol.

Maybe we should re-open the case if Kairi is really a Princess of Heart then?
A connection to Eraqus would at least result only in a first visual clone, not a third or fourth one, rofl.

In all seriousness though I am on the same bandwagon as you in this matter:

I still hope that no one from the Back Cover era is like a predecessor of any other character

My point exactly.
I feel like... I don't know, I think suggesting and supporting reincarnations theories make the fans think they're smart, or something.
Exactly since such tropes are ussually linked to complex and intellectuals works.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it does pop up a lot only for that reason (just like the "main character was in a coma the whole time" theory)



Works such as Xenogears, for example, yes.
By all means, the reincarnation in itself isn't bad, and it became quite the trend for a while in japanese media.
The thing is... KH already showed how it handles things such as parallelism and inheritances, and I know I said this countless times, but I feel they're more close to Naruto's level of reincarnation than Xenogears:

"See this dude? That's you in another time. Now that we've established that's you, we feel like we don't need to give him further characterization or background, because it's basically you and we all know you. Oh btw all the stuff you did was to feed the parallel, you actually don't have any kind of will of your own."

Maybe a little too critic, but that's the general gist of it. It's undeniable Aced shares a lot with Terra: but keep it a similarity, like Aced and Terra are two similar people like it happens in real life, don't try to forcefeed us that they're a mirror of each other.
Xenogears focused almost everything on the reincarnation thingie, and Kingdom Hearts doesn't have that luxury.



I know the end will be near when we'll receive the M Night Shyamalan medal on Ux.

Well, @BlackOs, Nomura did say he wants to include as many twists as he can, which is really… garbage.
I'unno, I do like how Gelandporn thought everything out and all, but I'm still not a supporter of the theory (or any rebirth theory for that matter).

How can you assume that the hypothetical reincarnation of the Keyblade protagonists have no purpose when you don't explicitly know why it was executed in the first place. I understand that you're fed up of the clones in the franchise, but truth be told, clones are fairly reflective of Disney characters too. Just look at how many different Mickey Mouse reincarnations there are throughout history...



Clones are just a staple in the Kingdom Hearts franchise and I highly doubt that they are going to go away any time soon. If the Foretellers end up being entirely original characters, that'd be awesome too, however, having them be reincarnation really isn't as bad as you're making it out to be.



I'm personally not going to assume Nomura's storytelling because I'm not Nomura.

However, you have to remember, Xenogears achieved that through a single entry, Kingdom Hearts X Back Cover can also have the possibility of achieving that too if it is executed correctly. I'm personally optimistic that it can be pulled off correctly.

Ohmigawd what if Luxu is actually a person with no darkness in his heart and the father of all princesses of heart and we just didn't know that yet?!?!?!?!?!?! Ohmigawd I mean he could basically be Eraqus and it'd make sense since Eraqus is obsessed with light?!?! Then he tried to kill Ventus because he was afraid of someone else having kids with pure light in them. Such danger, wow!![/QUOTE]

regarding Nomura and his twists, I really don't think the guy is a great storyteller at all. KH1 and some of the other games have a few flash-in-the-pan moments of brilliance, but I'm convinced it's either an accident or it's someone else doing something right.

Going outside of what people expect for the sake of being 'surprising' is shit. People like tropes. People like to see certain NORMAL things happen. And sometimes, they do! Donald and Goofy flying in and saving Riku from Ansem's Guardian isn't original genius writing, but it's goddamn fun and satisfying to see happen. The games need to have more fun and tell satisfying stories with straightforward arcs.

Alpha, come on.
I respect your point, but Mickey's redesign is hardly a reincarnation as addressed in this thread (which isn't about this, come to think of it.)

Nomura... I'm farily okay with what he decides to make, it's more about how he presents it.
Dude can make every clone and look-alike he wants, as long as the reason is easily accessible and doesn't spawn thousands fake theories that will stagnate in the fandom for a good decade.

I agree with your point of tropes, generally. There are some really good complicated stories, and some really good simplistic ones. And other that keep it balanced.
I like KH because I feel it has... if not the best, good elements of the two worlds, with a slight tendency to sometime going overboard on the plot twists.
I still agree with Kirbopher, who said that time travelling and how was introduced was the last thing the saga needed.

Is it odd how I feel like the only real clones in the series are Repliku and the Data versions of Sora, Riku, and Roxas?

Clone might not be the perfect word, it's rather forced connections so rarely anyone is a real stand-alone-character.

Did anyone grow up with Buffy, Charmed, Sailor Moon, or Inuyasha because I have to repeat this Everytime a thread goes into denying the rebirth theory thinking it'll ruin the Fartellers or the current cast.

No matter who you were in the past, doesn't change who you are in the present. The future is yours to make, your ancestors or past lives don't make you, you do.

Even if and only if the Fartellers reborn into Kairi, Aqua, Terra, Ven, and Riku, all the present have to do is not let history repeat. Have trust in each other and keep the light and dark safe from those who will upset the balance.

I told myself this, but then my brain says, "It's a trickkkk"

I have no strong urge for them to be the same person. I also don't think it's a big deal if they were. It's not like the other 'clones' of the new series. They're both from the same game.

Just the way they are laid out on this page... it's probably nothing. But something is never nothing in KH. I have a very open mind as always.

Turns out, that's not how every media thinks. I've seen plenty of works where who you were was literally the only deciding factor.

Besides, this is quite different. I'm not afraid of the past (the Foretellers) ruining the present (Terra, Aqua, and company), but the opposite: that since the present was already established and -kinda- described, the devs feel like there's no need to further develop the past and that passing them as "former x" is good enough.

You're making a good point, but it's actually not relevant since it's focused on the present and the future, taking the past for granted, while the past is the only issue here.

Well that didn't take long for the rebirth theory to pop up

Don't want to stir the pot too much, but while I don't like the rebirth theory (everyone complains about sameface/clones but want reincarnations to happen what) I wouldn't really mind it too much if it happened, mostly because the only forced clones to me are the data versions, and everyone else feels different and unique enough to not be a straight up clones in my eyes. that's just my onion tho

What i'm worried about is that 2.8 is coming out in a month, and still no sign of Skuld. I know she doesn't show up until January in Global but considering she's been out in JPux for a while im getting a bit worried.

Anchor Arms.
Also they actually are the same height. Luxu's render is just raised a little higher in the magazing.

Namine and Xion really don't look that much like Kairi to me tbh

they literally have the exact same face model, the only thing different is the hair.

I feel like I really don't take the whole "clone" thing too seriously when my favorite show when I was younger was The Clone Wars, so people looking alike is pretty much whatever for me. Me not wanting the Rebirth theory to be true comes from the fact I find connecting the present day characters to the Chi ones to come out of nowhere, but if it was well handled I could probably handle it.

At this point, characters looking alike is basically a staple in this series, anyway, so I wouldn't exactly be surprised if the Rebirth theory's true. I think by the time Birth by Sleep came out, characters being connected to each other stopped being a twist and turned more into the expectation. Maybe the twist now is that they aren't connected.

I can assume that because we already had the "another version of you"-shtick already four or five times in the series with only small details differing between the several cases.
It was always only a device used to establish somewhat forced connections and to stir up drama and existential angst for the characters in question.
We do not need to run that scenario for the 10th time.
Kingdom Hearts III should be about saving the suffering people mentioned in Blank Points and finally defeating Xehanort for good, bringing the whole story established in KH 1 up to DDD to an closure, not about the major characters angsting and brooding over being some stupid reincarnations of some masked weirdos from 1000 years ago.

You're not seriously comparing mere redesigns of Mickey throughout Disney history to what the KH series actually does, do you?
That's not even an example of what "reincarnation" means in the actual context of the concept.

A "staple" that has already been criticized in more ways than one not to mention that something being a staple does not warrant overusing a trope/story device just because you can.
Considering how often we already had it it also isn't really a surprise nor "shocking" in any way, just lame, laughable and predictable.
If Back Cover really ends with one or more of the Foretellers revealing their faces to be just like anyone of TAV, Riku, Kairi or Sora at least my reaction will only be "meh, boring, an F for creativity and another F for milking already used storytelling devices to death."
That same goes by the way for the issue if Xehanort is revealed to be yet another pawn by someone else as the "man-behind-the-man"-device has also been used by the KH series more than enough by now.




Hmm, yep, quite twisty and "surprising" as Nomura likes it.
Or to throw in another twist, what if actually both Xehanort and Eraqus are Luxu, as in his light and dark side respectively. Luxu's heart was split into light and dark at the end of the Keyblade War, possibly due to being too close to the shattering X-blade?


Nomura is much like George Lucas in this vein as he has many creative and good ideas, but sucks in presenting them in a conveniently and working way.
There is a quality gap between having the ideas and actually implementing them correctly.



That's why I explicitly call them "visual" clones when speaking about all of them. It should by now be obvious that these characters are all their own individuals with their own heart (and I am one of the people who staunchily defends that notion), but that doesn't change the fact that they're visually identical clones at the core.
Kairi, Xion and Naminé as well as Sora, Roxas, Ventus and Vanitas all have the exact same face, the only differences being clothing, hair styles and sometimes color as well as some (minor) differences in physique like i.e. Vanitas is a bit more muscular than the other three while Ventus is the skinniest out of them.

I measured from their right foot to their head and Luxu is slightly taller but I might have done the comparison wrong...

There are a few reasons why I keep getting Ephemera = Luxu vibes, but at the same time, it doesn't make much sense given what we know so far. Even his name "Ephemera/Ephemer" seems like a disguise or something. There's just something about cinnamon roll Ephermera that has me double take now and again and I don't know why. Yet.

Is it a 'twist'??? No, not really. Like most of Nomura's 'twists', fans guess them months and months before the games even release and they aren't even that crazy or wild.

Terra is somehow Xemnas/Xehanort/ASoD? Yep.
Roxas is Sora's other self/nobody? Yep.
Vanitas has Sora's face? I was here when people were lining up the points of their bangs!

There are no twists in the KH lore that I feel were out of this world or something we couldn't come up with. None except time travel maybe. Something I still have trouble grasping and wish Nomura had stuck to Xehanort using scientific clones and not just past versions of himself. But I digress.

If Ephemera is Luxu, it will be the most unsurprising twist ever imo. It's not much of a twist, and it doesn't change the story significantly. It just introduces lots of drama.

As unlikely as it is to happen (and it would open up quite a bit of cans of worms of time travel and shit), I'd actually like to see that Ephemer is actually of the same bloodline of Xehanort, but without being an actual Xehanort clone and without being evil. Like others have said in other threads, family has never taken such a huge presence in the series, so it'd be a little uncanny now, but I actually wouldn't mind it at all. Have yet to play chi, but everyone loves lil Ephemer, and if Skuld, Ephemer, and Player are somehow able to actually be present in the current timeline, it makes sense that one of them could be used as a potential Seed, and I can't see Xehanort passing up someone who has knowledge of the old Keybalde War and is of the same bloodline as him as part of the new Org.

But like I said, it opens up a whole new can of worms.

As for Luxu being Ephemer, I've been wondering this for months (as Kira mentioned other people seeing it miles away, as well as the fanbase ALWAYS being able to figure out the plotline about seven years before the game is actually released), but I have to wonder plot-wise, what would actually benefit from that? And honestly, I'm kind of holding out hope that Luxu is one of the good guys/morally ambiguous and the MoM is actually the villain (but is killed off or just sealed away for another saga AT WORST because Xehanort needs the spotlight in his last installment).

Translations have been added to the OP thanks to Zephyr!

so luxu was entrusted with the black box as well hmm if i was luxu i would question the box

thanks zephyr

I really don't know what significance there would be if Luxu was Ephemera. We don't even really know what Ephemera is after or what Luxu's true mission is. That's why a part of me is saying them being the same doesn't make sense, but the other half of me is saying those mysterious reasons why Ephemera is so curious and Luxu's true mission could be related.

Ephemera essentially means to enjoy for a short period of time. What if that means it's just a name he came up with temporarily to sneak around??

But then I wonder, well, why would he need to do that? If he's an apprentice, why is he trying to sneak into the tower and why would he ask the player to help?

Then my brain says, he did ask us to help, and then he ditched up on purpose before we managed to get in and was approached by a hooded figure.

Then I wonder, if Luxu trained with the others, wouldn't they know who Luxu is and be able to tell it's Ephemera? (especially Ava)

Then I realize that none of them may have seen each others faces ever and MoM hid them on purpose for some reason, therefore, there is a reasonable excuse for Ava not to recognize Luxu I guess.

Eh.

Wouldn't his fellow apprentices recognize him? There is no way they all kept their faces covered for as long as they've known each other and trained under their Master.

Not to mention the fact that Ephemer is constantly asking about the book. Why would he need to ask if he worked directly under MoM? It seems like he's had plenty of access to the book, and even knows the words of the final pages by heart.

All true, hence why I don't think it makes much sense for them to be the same person, but I still get the suspicious pangs.

You know I keep thinking it's real unfortunate for the foretellers that all their faces were kept hidden. Because one of the easiest ways to communicate feelings, tell if someone is lying, tell if someone is sincere, or manipulate/move a person's heart is through their eyes. It's probably silly to think this but I can't help but feel if they could see one another's eyes they would of been able to communicate better and work together/trust one another more.

Fashionably decorated Aqua’s head, back, shoulders, etc. can be customized as well as the costume’s pattern and color. These items may be available through completing ‘Challenges’.

Challenges! I'm hyped already. For people who don't care about the accessories, I think it might still end up being rewarding to complete these since it looks like it might add a bit of extra fun to the game without being overly-necessary to accomplish.

(But personally I'll be doing my best to get them all done because I really want that lace that you can see on the second page of the Famitsu scans)



It is really a shame, and that is exactly what they are trying to convey here I believe. They are shielded from each other so they never know the other's true feelings which is dangerous. This has been in the series for years, in fact.

I'm glad the accessories come with challenges. In Lightning Returns, you basically could buy 20 or so in every shop and there was zero satisfaction about it.
Earning them though sounds cool.

who do you think ephemer talking to "please cheer up"

So situation commands is how we are getting the 4th tier of magic then, good glad to see that's not being dropped after DDD had two instances of it one of which was cutscene only. I mean it's being called -gun and not -za but that's always been a translation thing even in FF they are basically used interchangeably.

Most likely Ava, he says that line to her word-for-word in the game.

yeah your right before he leaves and meet with the player

What's in the box?

WHAT'S IN THE BOOOOOOOOOOX

っぽい is used similarly to みたい and らしい, where it's just "like." So it's "like Beat."

It's following a pattern, as Sudo Neku's JP name was ネクッポイ
Rhyme Spirit based on her Noise form when?

Hearing Luxu was entrusted with whatever's inside that box instead of getting a Book of Prophecy has got me thinking, and I just came up with a really intriguing idea: what if the reason Luxu never received a Book is because the MoM is grooming him to wield the X-Blade and take his place one day, like how Eraqus passed down the secrets of the Land of Departure to Aqua in BBS?

That also got me thinking of something else: there's that old legend about the Keyblade from the Gathering secret ending in KH2: "one legend says it's weirder saved the world while another says he brought chaos and ruin upon it." It may be that, if what I suggested above is true, that the quote is actually referring to both Luxu and the MoM, but after the war, the legends depicted the two as one person with two contradictory backstories instead of 2 separate people who each had different roles in the conflict?

Dream Drop Distance looks fantastic there! I wish that Square would release direct feed footage, I'm desperate to see ignore in motion. I wanna see the Elephant skate.

That's what I'm thinking as well. It doesn't add up except if one wants to insinuate that either a) Ephemer is a consumable liar and excellent actor, b) has some memory-problems himself or c) is schizophrenic and has two different personalities.



Like Master Spockanort, I assume that this is done deliberately in order to invoke exactly this dilemma.
"Eyes are the window to the soul" is a common saying and since in KH the heart takes most of the functions and traits of what other works and mythology define as the "soul" it fits rather nicely.

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Also, in the translation of Back Cover, this passage:

A mysterious person in this world is revealed.

To whom may this refer to?
The "Player"-character?
Maleficent? (as of the Unchained 0 ending from browser chi)
Ventus? (due to being drawn twice or thrice in connection to the chi-cast already by Nomura himself)

Mr. Mew Dream Eater when?

Thanks for catching that. Actually it's not referring to a 'person'. I've accidentally fragmented the sentence without context so it actually says this. I'll fix it.

"It is a tale of the Master of Masters and his 6 apprentices that have the ability to see into the future. Records of the mystery of the world are revealed."

Oh, interesting.
I was actually wondering the same, thanks for the update translation.

All y'all slept on my post but look at that, we have challenges that can be viewed from the Objectives menu.

Welp, alrighty.
So that's what it says, no hidden hint at another character but the world as a whole.

Hmm i wonder how we're going to get Sudo Beat Yuagari Penguin and Catnuki i wonder how's that going to work

Well, Sudo Neku was just an average Dream Eater you needed to create, I'm assuming these guys will too.

Hmm we'll just have to wait and see when the Game comes out and find out ourselves

I can imagine they're rewards for completing something like Portals or Flick Rush. Maybe doing the boss fights again unlocks them lol.