As part of the 10 page Famitsu special featured in the latest issue of the japanese magazine, Tetsuya Nomura and Masahiro Sakurai discussed how much the series has grown since Kingdom Hearts 1's release in 2002. Nomura also shared a message about the anniversary and Kingdom Hearts 3.
Japanese Kingdom Hearts fans got to pick their favorite characters from the franchise and these are the results:
Favorite male characters
- Sora (284 votes)
- Roxas (210 votes)
- Axel (188 votes)
- Riku (98 votes)
- Terra (38 votes)
- Ventus (32 votes)
- Vanitas (14 votes)
- Demix (10 votes)
- Xigbar (7 votes)
- Xemnas (7 votes)
- Mickey Mouse (7 votes)
- Marluxia (7 votes)
- Cloud (7 votes)
Favorite female characters
- Aqua (397 votes)
- Xion (208 votes)
- Kairi (182 votes)
- Naminé (112 votes)
- Laxerne (10 votes)
- Olette (6 votes)
- Tifa (6 votes)
- Maleficent (3 votes)
- Ava
- Yuffie
They also got to vote which new Final Fantasy characters they would like to see appear in Kingdom Hearts 3:
- FFXV protagonist, Noctis (236 votes)
- FFXIII protagonist,
Lightning
- FFIX protagonist, Zidane (81 votes)
- Chocobos (30 votes)
- FFV protagonist, Bartz (22 votes)
Some info is still to be translated (most of the Sakurai & Nomura bits and other character rankings) Source: Kh13.com, @aibo_ac7