Hikaru Utada Concert Streamed Live Worldwide

Wednesday, Dec. 8th at 4am CST (7PM in Japan) Utada will be streaming her "Wild Life" concert Live to the World on Ustream. IPad and IPhone users can view a 300kbps stream. Utada will have one concert after this one before taking a hiatus from her music career. Utada has two US albums Exodusand This Is The One. She also performs the theme songs to Disney's Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2 for the PS2.

Luckily I am off Wed. so I'll be able to catch the concert and not have to worry about getting up later to go to work. Anyone else plan to watch?


Simple and Clean, Kingdom Hearts Opening


Sanctuary, Kingdom Hearts 2 Opening

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Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories Review

Just finished playing through Sora's story in Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories for the PS2. It's an interesting game, but the card combat system can become annoying in some fights, such as the final time you fight Riku. If anyone's stuck on this battle, I used Strike Raid because it stuns him and gives you time to use Cure cards and reload your card deck. Be sure and have at least 1 mega-potion in your deck though, so you don't end up running out of cards from using Strike Raid multiple times.
Overall I really enjoyed the game. And since I don't have a Gameboy Advance and never played the original version of Chain of Memories, it helped to fill in the gaps between Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. And not only do you get to find out what happened to Sora, and why he was in that pod at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts 2. You also get to find out what happened to Riku and King Mickey after they sealed the Door to Darkness in Kingdom Hearts 1. Once you beat Sora's part of the game you can start a new game as Riku as he tries to escape from Castle Oblivion and purge the Darkness from his heart.

I give Chain of Memories a 8 out of 10. If your a fan of the first two games, then you'll probably enjoy this one as well. Now I just have to wait for Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (Official English Site)for the DS, and Birth by Sleep (Official Japanese Site) for the PSP to come out.

Image from Wallpaperez.
Gameplay image from Amazon
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King Mickey Figure

Just saw this for pre-order at Animenation. It's King Mickey from Kingdom Hearts 2.


The Kingdom Hearts games are 2 of my favorite PS2 games. The way they mixed the Disney and Square-Enix universes without making it a kiddy game was really cool, and it introduced me to the music of Utada Hikaru. This figure is from Play Arts, who are also making Sora and Riku figures. The figures are fully poseable with up to 20 points of articulation. I'm seriously thinking of pre-ordering this, because I liked how Mickey got to kick butt in Kingdom Hearts. He looks really cool to.



Are you a fan of the Kingdom Hearts games?

Picture from Animenation.

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