Kingdom Hearts Stained Glass Clock Exhibition Opens at Shinjuku Station on Jan 9th
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- Published on January 6, 2017 @ 01:05 am
- Written by Joey
Kingdom Hearts will be on full display at the Metro Promenade of Shinjuku Station in Japan this year. To celebrate it's 15th anniversary, a special exhibition featuring iconic Kingdom Hearts characters on stain glass clocks will open on Janaury 9th 2017. Translations are below thanks to Goldpanner!
Square Enix will be displaying a memorial stained glass clock commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Kingdom Hearts series in the Shinjuku Station's Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line Metro Promenade from the 9th til the 15th of January 2017.
※This is an artist's impression.
※Please refrain from asking the railway and station staff about it.
With twelve stained glass pieces arranged around Sora's massive stained glass station, KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue Memorial Stained Glass Clock is designed to mimic a clock face. We will go into more detail later, but each piece of stained glass used in the display is a functional clock, and will be gifted to thirteen people in a campaign: an unmissable opportunity for fans of the series.
Beside the huge clock will be a giant 80 inch display playing clips from the series condensed into a one hour video, and a countdown until the release day for PS4 title KINGDOM HEARTS HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue.
There are additional plans to display a huge character mural of all the appearing characters gathered in one place, and a memorial exhibit of assembled clips and visuals looking back on the 15-year series.
Regarding the stained glass clock gift project, you can participate if you have a Twitter account. Upon following the official Kingdom Hearts account @_KINGDOMHEARTS, you should upload a photo of your favourite stained glass piece with the #キングダムハーツ15周年 hashtag.
The photo can be one you've taken of the actual display, but it seems you can also select a stained glass design prepared for a website set up especially for it.
This campaign will run from the 9th til the 15th of January. For more details on terms and conditions, please check the series 15th anniversary memorial website.
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Re: Kingdom Hearts Stain Glass Clock Exhibition Opens at Shinjuku Station on Jan 9th
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Omg that sounds so diddlying awesome and beautiful at the same time
I need to see it!
Also it is SO nice they're finally promoting the hell outta KH.
Re: Kingdom Hearts Stain Glass Clock Exhibition Opens at Shinjuku Station on Jan 9th
It's really cool that we have some official Station of the Hearts for some of the characters. Well it's technically not cannon I suppose but it at least gives us something.
Re: Kingdom Hearts Stain Glass Clock Exhibition Opens at Shinjuku Station on Jan 9th
Aw man I bet this is going to look gorgeous in person! Loving all the Station of Awakening artwork!
Re: Kingdom Hearts Stain Glass Clock Exhibition Opens at Shinjuku Station on Jan 9th
HOLY MOTHER
DID YOU GUYS UPDATE THE OP or did I just not see them??
The artworks look so gorgeus with all those effects! I. WANT. THE. CLOCK. ;~;
Btw, who's that black-haired girl? Is she from FF or something?
it's nice to see KH finally getting cool exhibits and events!! looks like the 15th anniversary is starting with a bang!
I just hope the west also gets cool events like these too
happy kh 15th aniversary everybody this year going to be awesome let the fun begin
Re: Kingdom Hearts Stain Glass Clock Exhibition Opens at Shinjuku Station on Jan 9th
They look gorgeous, I'm sure they'll look even more so in person ;-;
Btw, who's that black-haired girl? Is she from FF or something?
What black-haired girl? :wink:
Pfft and there's even thirteen of them. Classic. Also send help, my heart can't handle so much beautiful art at once.
Re: Kingdom Hearts Stain Glass Clock Exhibition Opens at Shinjuku Station on Jan 9th
What black-haired girl? :wink:
Pfft and there's even thirteen of them. Classic. Also send help, my heart can't handle so much beautiful art at once.
I only counted 12. That 13th one is just an illusion.
This. Is. Great.
I. Love. Stained. Glass. Works. So. Much.
This is amazing. This has me immensely excited for what's to come this year in celebrating Kingdom Hearts' anniversary, because with something so different and unexpected like this happening, who knows what else Nomura and co have up their sleeves? I have a feeling that once 2.8 finally releases, the hypetrain will leave the station full speed ahead.
I have a feeling that once 2.8 finally releases, the hypetrain will leave the station full speed ahead.
Can we take care to not crash it into a ditch like we did with D23 Japan? :P
All the poor Disney characters shoved into the corner like that. :(
So are these like the official stations of awakening for these characters? Geez, Xion doesn't have Roxas on her circle, but instead Sora? Harsh....XD
So are these like the official stations of awakening for these characters? Geez, Xion doesn't have Roxas on her circle, but instead Sora? Harsh....XD
I wouldn't consider these as official canon stations. We've seen several in-game and know what they're supposed to look like. Barring Sora's and the Foreteller station, they're just different pieces of official artwork thrown together.
I really hope they change Xion's. It doesn't make sense that Saïx and Xemnas are there instead of Roxas. Other than the rest look stunning.
Is this hints on what's to come? If we count the people who can wield keyblades in the stain glass collection, they're exactly 7: Sora, Riku, Kairi, Roxas, Xion, Aqua and Mickey. 7 Guardians of Light perhaps? Or is it all just a random selection?
Also, there's 2 artwork/character representatives per game that's already released except for re:Coded and X:
KHI: Two Sora artworks
CoM: Sora and Riku
KHII: Sora and Kairi
Days: Roxas and Xion
BBS: Aqua and Mickey
DDD: Sora and Riku with Mickey in both of them.
Okay, in other words, it's interesting and I just wanna get at least one of them.
Is this hints on what's to come? If we count the people who can wield keyblades in the stain glass collection, they're exactly 7: Sora, Riku, Kairi, Roxas, Xion and Mickey. 7 Guardians of Light perhaps? Or is it all just a random selection?
Also, there's 2 artwork/character representatives per game that's already released except for re:Coded and X:
KHI: Two Sora artworks
CoM: Sora and Riku
KHII: Sora and Kairi
Days: Roxas and Xion
BBS: Aqua and Mickey
DDD: Sora and Riku with Mickey in both of them.
Okay, in other words, it's interesting and I just wanna get at least one of them.
You forgot Aqua in your initial count, but yes that is pretty interesting! You could be onto something, especially considering they are all in the 13 clocks.
But I'm hesitant to dismiss Axel/Lea since he was juxtaposed to Saix/Isa in KH3D to indicate he'd be facing off against him at some point...
I find it a bit odd that Saix is on Xion's station of awakening despite his cold & harsh attitude towards her & Roxas doesn't appear on her station.
Thanks nomura, you've made clocks canon.
Xion's stained glass looks stunning, as well as the one for KH1's cover art. Here's to the year of KH.
After years and years we get official stained glasses for more characters, even if they wont become canon if not used in-game of course. But I have tears in my eyes at the beauty of this T w T
All those times I surfed for fan-designs of stained glasses, all those good and bad ones on deviantArt, my search is now concluded officially lol
I love the fact that they chose to promote the beautiful stained glasses! They are truly something special as reflections/representations of the heart
You forgot Aqua in your initial count, but yes that is pretty interesting! You could be onto something, especially considering they are all in the 13 clocks.
But I'm hesitant to dismiss Axel/Lea since he was juxtaposed to Saix/Isa in KH3D to indicate he'd be facing off against him at some point...
Oh my goodness. Thank you so much! I did forgot to write Aqua's name in! But I'm sure I counted her so it's still 7.
Well, this is just a theory anyway so who knows what'll really happen in KH3? :biggrin:
God I love them, especially the one with Xion. I guess it would make make more sense that instead of Saix and Xemnas those places would have Roxas and maybe Riku.
Can we take care to not crash it into a ditch like we did with D23 Japan? :P
You'll never know with this fandom in all honesty, but I'm inclined to say that at least the part of fandom that is the KHInsider-community won't be the one to crash it.
I wouldn't consider these as official canon stations. We've seen several in-game and know what they're supposed to look like. Barring Sora's and the Foreteller station, they're just different pieces of official artwork thrown together.
Exactly, I am too of the impression to not interpret too much into them like with some Foreteller-poses but just enjoy them for what they are: A celebration of 15 years of Kingdom Hearts as a whole.
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I'm totally digging that mural with (nearly) all the characters on it though.
It's funny that several characters are present twice on it but the FF cameos, Luxu and Young Xehanort are completely omitted.
God I love them, especially the one with Xion. I guess it would make make more sense that instead of Saix and Xemnas those places would have Roxas and maybe Riku.
Because Saix and Xemnas have a slight role in Days
So are these like the official stations of awakening for these characters? Geez, Xion doesn't have Roxas on her circle, but instead Sora? Harsh....XD
I find it a bit odd that Saix is on Xion's station of awakening despite his cold & harsh attitude towards her & Roxas doesn't appear on her station.
God I love them, especially the one with Xion. I guess it would make make more sense that instead of Saix and Xemnas those places would have Roxas and maybe Riku.
From my perspective, Xion’s station of awakening makes complete sense. I believe that this station of awakening is depiction Xion when she has become self-aware of what she truly is, a replica of Roxas. Having Axel and Saix at one side is also symbolic of how they used to be friends but that was fractured because of Xion, Sora is who she wants to return to and Xemnas is who she doesn’t want to return to.
If anything, I interpret the people in the stained glass as people who mattered, regardless if they were loved or not. Aqua's also has Master Xehanort too.
Saix was indeed a powerful presence in Xion's life, as why Roxas isn't there, maybe it's becuase him and Xion are replicas of each other.
So he's more part of Xion's entire self, and not just a person that mattered to her.
If anything, I interpret the people in the stained glass as people who mattered, regardless if they were loved or not. Aqua's also has Master Xehanort too.
Saix was indeed a powerful presence in Xion's life, as why Roxas isn't there, maybe it's becuase him and Xion are replicas of each other.
So he's more part of Xion's entire self, and not just a person that mattered to her.
This makes honestly the most sense and also reinforces why these stations have to be looked at with a meta-sort of eye and not from an in-universe, canon perspective as in-universe stations certainly only show loved ones and friends on one's station.
Aqua has Vanitas on "her" station too for Chirithy's sake, someone she has literally zero connection or positive feelings towards.
Mickey has Terra on his station despite never truly meeting him or forming a connection for that matter while Riku has Ansem SoD on his who is also certainly not one of Riku's "loved ones".
These stations thus serve to visually display connections between characters and games towards the audience to celebrate the 15th Anniversary and each single entry of the series, with X[chi] being represented by the five-union glass station.
Chain of Memories is represented by two stations, the first and second, easily recognizable by the card-symbols in the outer ring of the stations.
The third represents KH 2, with both Kairi and Sora in their KH 2 attires and featuring Roxas and Naminé in the central circles.
The fourth and fifth stations represent Days, the sixth x[chi].
The seventh and eighth station represent Birth by Sleep (and by extension BBS 0.2) as they both feature Terra and Ventus in the central circles while the ninth one obviously represents Re: Coded.
The tenth and eleventh one represent DDD, in an almost mirror like fashion to the two CoM-ones while the twelfth station represents KH 1.
These are definitely stunning, but man does nothing top the original 4 imo (Snow White, Belle, Aurora, Cinderella):
The design is impeccable and with D23 happening this year, I can't help but wonder if Disney will release something commemorative.
I agree, these are beautiful, but the PoH ones are gorgeous. Too bad it's impossible to get more Disney-related stained glasses now that Disney is irrelevant in KH.
They are super fanart-y, I don't like them one bit. They didn't even add missing details like Xion's other hand, so they are nothing more than collages. On top of that they somehow missed the most important detail too, since almost all central characters don't have their eyes closed.
Xion sure is missing her hand. I'd hate winning that clock.
See this just makes me more certain that Saix and Xion's relationship is meant to be a reverse parallel of Axel and Roxas's, even if these heart station clocks are non-canon. (Though I think CoM Sora being on there instead of Roxas makes sense if you think about it how technically he represents both of them)
That looks so cool and pretty! Nice!!
This looks pretty cool!
Sure it has errors like Xion missing a hand.
but it looks good.
Vanitas isn't an error though?
It is kind of strange that some of the character's stations have their personal antagonists on them like Ansem for Riku and Saix/Xemnas for Xion. Wonder what was the intention behind that?
It is kind of strange that some of the character's stations have their personal antagonists on them like Ansem for Riku and Saix/Xemnas for Xion. Wonder what was the intention behind that?
Like others have stated already, I think the characters aren't only meant to be people the chars love. But people who played a role - why else would MX be on Aqua's stage, for example?
I'm somewhere between liking these and thinking they look like cheap fan art. That and it kinda bothers me that the character's eyes aren't shut, but they're not canon parts of the games so it's whatever
They're most likely meant to broadly represent each title and the people most influential in both good and bad sense.
Like said, I would not necessarily try to read/interpret any deeper meanings or intentions for the actual in-universe canon into them as they're almost certainly not meant to be canon representations but are on a meta-level, representing things to the real-world audience.
They look pretty! *looks at Riku ones* Definitely pretty. Kidding, they all look nice. <3
In the translation it says that
"Square Enix will be displaying a memorial stained glass clock commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Kingdom Hearts series in the Shinjuku Station's Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line Metro Promenade from the 9th til the 15th of January 2017."
Isn't that meant to be 15th??
On the actualy aesthetics, I really like these. I wish they would realise the alice mockup they did pre-KH1 (and actually do one for Kairi and Jasmine so that we then have all 7)
Always in Japan. We have it pretty good, but I wish we got some of this stuff.
Quick, how do you make a clock?
OMG. I love it even more now. I need this!
Like the D23 Japan Auction KH1 pre-production Sora maquette signed by Nomura, I'll caress of all these beauties until my alarm brings me back to reality.
Muke
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