haley joel osment's voiced sora in kingdom hearts 3 english.
who voices sora in kingdom hearts 3 english?
haley joel osment
sora was originally designed by "kingdom hearts" series director and character designer tetsuya nomura during a discussion between disney and square about who should be the protagonist of the series. wanting an original character, nomura made various sketches of sora until the design met the approval of disney. nomura came to regard sora as his favorite character that he had designed, and pushed for the character to have a leading role in the "kingdom hearts" story in spite of the character's youth. throughout the series, sora has been voiced by haley joel osment in the english version and miyu irino in the japanese version. for his depiction as a child in the prequel "kingdom hearts birth by sleep", sora was voiced by luke manriquez and takuto yoshinaga in english and japanese, respectively. sora's character has received generally positive critical response due to his warm personality and adventurous spirit. his personal and martial growth in the series also received praise, especially in his appearance in "kingdom hearts ii". additionally, sora has ranked high on various video game character popularity polls.
sora (kingdom hearts)
following the first "kingdom hearts", nomura was worried that players would be unhappy that sora would start "kingdom hearts ii" as a weak character with few powers who once again had to be leveled up like the first title. therefore, nomura developed the plot of "chain of memories" to explain how sora loses his abilities in castle oblivion and then starts anew. additionally, with "chain of memories" a new mystery regarding sora's memories of twilight town was added, which would be explained in "kingdom hearts ii". the team in charge of "kingdom hearts ii" expressed difficulties in animating sora's "valor" drive form for having a completely different motion except in sora's walking animation, which is shared with his regular motion. after finishing "kingdom hearts ii", nomura wanted to give sora a rest from the series in order to focus the following games on other characters from the series. moreover, the events from the endings of "coded" and "birth by sleep" hinted a new mystery regarding sora's character, which will be revealed in "kingdom hearts iii". although nomura stated in march 2010 that sora would once again be the focus of the next "kingdom hearts", he will share it with another character with great importance. in response to rumors saying that sora's story would end in "kingdom hearts iii", nomura answered that sora is the protagonist of the series and that his role will end once the series ends. for this game, nomura was interested in giving sora a new costume, but was worried about doing so because of the popularity of the character's "kingdom hearts ii" outfit. in the end, he decided to create a new one as "kingdom hearts iii" was a new numbered title.
sora (kingdom hearts)