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riku is in the middle of shibuya crossing...u know, a crossroad...
im encasing this moment in crystal (chat from stream the night before the panel)
i looks like he has a kinda long white untucked t shirt under neath so probably not unless he has a window .
kh4 spoilers. guys i can't stop thinking about sound ideas coming back
i even did this a little while ago lmao. didn't id every building but i thought it was neat that they mixed shibuya and shinjuku
this thread is really neat and is giving more context to the trend of how Sora is treated like a character that has to become a real boy (Pinnoccio parallels, having Jiminy, these scenes with xemnas) I had no idea HJO was hand picked by Nomura..just adds fuel to this suspicion
i also find the placement of the buildings in the command menu to possibly be a nod to this. Tokyo Metro bldg is in the middle. I also have a silly section of my video going over how i think in the 2022 trailer that hikarie and scramble square are sora and riku metaphors. they're on opposite sides
The MoM looks at Shinjuku, and the tokyo metro building is very clearly visible on the horizon. He's already bridging the two locations in the secret movie together just by his location in Shibuya (Sora) while looking North into Shinjuku (Riku). But then he makes a Heart over the moon with his hands
im back on my bullshit but the Tokyo Metro bldg in this secret movie in particular is representing 2 beating hearts (sora and riku) and Yozora sitting on top of it is just. like. icing on the cake. because he is Basically their fusion -
heres the location IRL, you can't quite make out the two spires of the tokyo metropolitan govt bldg (red arrow points to it) but it's important for the shot that they were both visible, BECAUSE -
So, first for setting - the MoM is standing on Hikarie I believe, and looking North at Shinjuku. He's generally located where Sora is in the secret movie, and looking over to the area Riku/Yozora is in. You can see shibuya scramble square and stream next to him in the first screenshot -
Dude its almost like this is sora's Darkside or something
kh4 spoiler maybe people Know this already but Sora's defending the People in the same building that he is chucked into. the glass is completely missing though, so it either got punched out or vanished somehow (location is the same, tile and wall on the right is the same)
the command menu mixes both shibuya buildings (such as 109/104) and Shinjuku buildings like the tokyo metropolitan govt building shown above. u know, like the secret ending of kh3
looks even crazier in this frame. also might depend on if its the direct trailer or official one? i cant remember which one i pulled first screenshot from
kh4 spoilers i also like, forgot to point this out, but there's some sort of reality distortion happening when the darkside attacks. the traffic cone is like fracturing, almost.