'Kingdom Hearts 4' Trailer Showcases New World Based on Pixar's 'Coco' - Complex
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Kingdom Hearts 4's Coco world reveal and a Disney+ anime reboot are already igniting fan theories about which story threads get rewritten.
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Theory Briefing
- A new Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer confirmed a world built around Pixar's Coco, expanding the franchise into Pixar territory for the first time.
- Disney simultaneously announced a Kingdom Hearts anime for Disney+ that reimagines the saga with a fresh story, not a straight adaptation.
- The anime's 'fresh story' framing is fueling fan theories about which lore gets retconned, reordered, or quietly erased from canon.
- Two simultaneous Kingdom Hearts timelines — game and anime — raises real questions about which version will be treated as definitive.