@@regulus7181it is not the "legit" voice actor. In this, Christopher Burns does the VA. The English credit for the actual MoM VA is Ray Chase. Thank you for doing the most basic research before commenting, fellow citizen of the internet.
@@mulletman9570 but the Back Cover cutscenes aren’t fan dubbed though right? I’m confused Because I swear it sounds like Ira is voiced by Matt Mercer in the Back Cover scenes but I legitimately can’t tell which bugs me because I can usually recognize his voice immediately
@@veronicanaumov2981 So it is Matt. I thought I recognized his voice. And yeah I was just confused until I reached the flashback scenes in the fan dub where the MoM showed up
@@sam15782008 Agreed! He’s the closest to the real deal as they’d ever find. He also does a killer Sora, Vanitas, Xemnas and Jack Sparrow! He’s a Jack of all trades, to be sure.
No I checked and none of the real actors who played their role from the original. Sadly this is a fandub and Im sure they did it for free. The real voice actors would want payment. Then it would basically become real. He will reprise his role in KH4
At 2:08:05, it made me realize something. I just now realized, it looks like not only was Ven "made" a union leader by "Ava" away from the location where at least 3 of the union leaders were made leaders (skuld, ephemer and brain), so was Strelitzia. At timestamps above, she's right outside the clocktower. The other 3 were made union leaders at the hilltop. We don't really get a confirmation from Lauriam where he was given the title by Ava but I'm gonna leave him out of this just to make this point. Strelitzia was the outlier out of the original union leader list, being the one who was killed and replaced. Making Ventus the outlier by not being chosen to be a union leader officially. Isn't it strange that Ava gave Strelitzia the guidebook away from the hilltop? It is a place for important events in the khux part of the series (you could argue outside the clocktower is the same but i still find it random). And it is used later by Brian and Ephemer as a question to determine who really was the traitor to skuld and Ventus. So it's not really a throw away thing if it's brought up waaay later in the series. If she was still alive and Ven didn't take her place, she could of easily been outed as a traitor just because she was given the title away from the key place. Maybe Ava knew something was going to happen to her, by reading the book of prophecies. I mean out in the open like that compared to hill seems kinda sketchy to tell someone important world shattering info. Someone like Ven or more specifically darkness could of heard nearby. Whether it was stated in the book or not, no matter what there was still gonna be a "traitor" by the masters plans design. Whether they were controlled by darkness or not. Misunderstanding could lead to a whole array of emotions. In an alternate reality, Strelitiza was outed as the traitor and in tandem, Lauriam would defend his sister with his life, causing confrontation with everyone. And we all know Laurium is ready to throw hands and summon his keyblade whenever. I mean remember when he lifted Brain but by his shirt and threw Ephemer aside? Some people would chose to defend strelizia while others would stick with the little info they got and keep suspicions...
Also before anyone brings it up, rewatching this also made clear that Ava made Ephemer the Leader leader of the dandelions and union leaders in her stead. He just wanted equal power amongst the union leaders. She says in in the first confrontation with Master Ava, Player and Skuld. So no I don't believe part of the reason Ava chose to give Strelitiza the book somewhere different is because she was going to be made leader. She could of originally been chosen to get the book of prophecies but I'd like to believe Ephemer would of been made the lucky wielder. At least logically. Since he does like looking for truths and answers. Brain was more of the strategist in my opinion. The "brains" of the group lol. While Ephemer was the heart and leader. If not ephemer for the heart, skuld sure was. If Strelitiza was going to be given the book of prophecies, then it would make sense for darkness to go after her. But I'm pretty sure it just chose the brightest light to extinguish just to get into the ranks. Strelitiza according to Lauriam was pretty verse in magic and while Ephemer and Skuld from the final battle in the game are pretty stronger, I wonder if Strelitzia would of gave at least one of them a run for their money lol. It's just a thought I've been having.
Man can we talk about MOMS acting being exactly like Ray Chase? and that Chirithy spittin solid lines at the speed of sound? So good. And that little line when the player was in the Keyblade graveyard. {you can rest now okay?} that really hit.
DAMO AND EVERYONE INVOLVED- what an accomplishment, I hope you all are so proud of yourselves! What a treat for all of us, one day I hope to be involved in such a heartfelt project! CONGRATULATIONS!!! AND THANK YOU!!!
Jesus that MoM va is amazing! But to be honest absolutely everyone knocked it out of the park! This is sooooo GOOD! Congrats to Damo and all the VAs hard work! ❤️❤️❤️
Literally this project is going to be and already is so SO IMPORTANT to the future of kingdom hearts. I know there are ppl who gripe about the mobile games but they are integral to kingdom hearts and are going to be even more so for Missing Link but more importantly Kingdom Hearts 4. This is really well done, thank you all for putting this together for everyone to enjoy and partake in it!!🎉
This is... just genuinely fantastic. I'm someone who is generally super picky about voice acting in general, but Jiminy Crickets, I was seriously blown away by how good everyone is! It sounds really professional and the whole video is so well made. Thank you (and the whole team and the voice actors) so much for this! You're doing SE's work that they should've done years ago. Union X and Dark Road has some of the BEST story that Kingdom Hearts has to offer (not to mention, IMPORTANT story) and it is such a pity that so many people have passed on it for such a long time. Hopefully this will make it more wide-spread and commonly known! Also I just want to say that I'm absolutely in love with Skuld's performance! God, if certain theories are true and Skuld is to make an appearance in future, I hope her official voice will be similar cause dang her VA in this really hits the mark of what I how I always imagined she would sound like.
The meaning behind Ephemer’s name makes me feel kind of sad. It can either be a plant that survives droughts as seeds, or it can mean “temporary”. I like him as a character and he lasted a long time. Especially as a good friend. Plus, I like the name itself. It has a nice ring.
This was so unexpected to see in my recommendations but a few minutes in and I'm already blown away by the dubbing! It's incredible to see what you all have created. It makes the experience that much more engaging, and the plot that much more amazing! Thank you all for this!
Thank you SO MUCH! Every now and again I check back here to read comments like this to boost my confidence. I was honored to play Chirithy and I am so very happy you enjoyed it too!
What an incredibly ambitious project. Congrats to everyone involved, and thank you, Damo, for getting a team of incredible people together! You are all amazing 🧡
This was phenomenal! A massive thank you to everyone involved in this project! I've been looking forward to seeing what you guys cooked up for a while now and I'm absolutely blown away by it, couldn't have dreamed of it being any better! The fan voices for the characters with preexisting voices were often times so close that I had a double take on who voiced what and the previously unvoiced characters sounded exactly how I imagined them to sound like! The delivery from everyone was absolutely amazing and having Back Cover intertwined with the voiced X story honestly elevated Back Cover too. Also, I highly appreciate the small touches you made to the editing and structure Damo! Including Observations exceprt 1 as part of the secret ending and showing that splash screen for Unchained X are absolutely brilliant choices!! (I got a tiiiny feeling that Unchained art miiight come back by the end of Part 2 with a twist. Also the detail of the armor breaking during the fights, hello??? so good!!) I'm gonna force my friends to watch this with me while I patiently wait for Part 2 to come out :). Thank you guys so SO much for all the effort and work you put in for this great game and the community!
It's out!!! I'm so excited to watch this! So much work has gone into this and everyone should be proud of themselves, this is an amazing accomplishment for the Kingdom Hearts community. Thank you everyone who voiced, everyone who worked on this, and thank you Damo for organizing the whole thing to begin with and then editing it all together! We know how hard you and everyone worked on this! Thank you!!! (edit after watching, SPOILERS under 'read more') I've now seen the whole thing and it is beyond phenomenal! Strelitzia's death definitely hits harder voiced, oh my gosh, I admit I cried a bit. I also teared up when Chirithy said "You did great. You can rest now, okay?" That was an unexpected gut punch, geez! XD Everyone did such a good job, and it's so much easier to experience the story this way, I can only say again, THANK YOU! IT'S AWESOME!
Been waiting on this, going to save watching it properly for my KH replay leading up to KH4 so I can fully experience this in context, leaving a like and a comment to boost it though. Incredible work from all involved, congrats on finally getting this out!
Theory time: I was thinking... What if the keyblade hurts people as with feelings? Lemme explain. Invi and Aced are fighting, and they are getting hurt even though they aren't getting actually hit at all. That's because the keyblade, said to be the power of the heart to fight for what's good, can cause pain in other people's hearts, which in turn wears them physically as well. First of all, yes. I do know you can make physical damage with the keyblade, but it depends on what or who you're hitting with it. If heartless or nobodies, they are just monsters, so all you fight with is plain determination. When fighting a friend or a person, it's a heart-to-heart fight. Just like when you argue with a person, and it hurts you in your heart, every keyblade clash with another or any other weapon makes as much soul damage, so to speak. Take Sora and Roxas' confrontation inside the datascape for example. Sora said that Roxas' attacks actually hurt him whereas only their blades clashed, and none ever touched the bearers. Same here. We don't see the blades actually touching the opponents, but they still get hurt from just clashing them around. All the times the keyblade has been able to swing through an enemy, be it human or not, it's been a lethal or almost lethal attack. This reinforces my point of view that the keyblade wears people down by just clashing it. And no, I don't mean exhaustion. That doesn't seem to exist in KH in general, though there are a few examples... Anyway, this is just my take on it trying to make any sense at all from this wicked series where nothing on screen makes sense (people not getting really hurt, for example). If I'm wrong, someone better change my mind, or Nomura had better do it himself. I know it's a family-oriented series, but Disney doesn't hesitate hurting people visibly enough for the audience to have a proper sense of stake and seriousness. That's all I think.
This dub is fantastic! Thank you for not only compiling these clips but putting a voice to them! On a side note i hope you have a dub for Dark Road planned and i would love a tour of your medels. You have some i never saw before. Idk if i knew about the manga ones.
43:26 okay but something about Ephemer’s read here REALLY highlights how much he sounds like a conspiracy theorist, LMFAOOOOO It’s a good thing, promise!! I love these voice actors.
it boggles me that this project is the length it is even with back cover added in when even abridged uploads of purely union x cutscenes clock in longer or about the same length as this, are people just taking a really long time to progress the text in those or something?
I just have to say-- I'm on my third watch, but I've been busy with other things so I usually mute the tab before the halfway point and let it play through for retention reasons, but Damo, YOUR voice acting around 1:43:00, in the scene when Player is talking about how he feels in regards to Ephemer being gone, is FANTASTIC. You did an INSANELY good job. I know you were hesitant to use your voice in this project, but the voice acting in that scene is so raw and genuine I'd never guess you weren't a professional. You did an AMAZING job and you TRULY brought life to the character, and this project would NOT have been the same without your voice in it. Thank you for EVERYTHING you've done to pull this together, but thank you also for letting us hear your player voice, because it truly brought something very special and beautiful to the project.
Great job! But if you don't mind me asking, why did you change where strelitzia is introduced in the story? Her murder happening right before Lauriaum's introduction is kind of an important moment for the story pacing and trajectory imo. Lauriaum getting set up as her murderer only to be revealed as her brother is probably my favorite twist from back when the game was active, and even disregarding that, in my opinion it makes more sense to keep it with the other union leader introductions. At the very least, I'm not sure why you would need to change its placement in the story.
Because all these scenes are done in chronological order so it happens first and in part 2 we see the reveal of the union leaders. It's a little bit less suspenseful with Lauriam's reveal but when you watch this for the first time you still wouldn't know who did it
I can't measure mentally how much appreciation I feel for this work of art I came across right before I decided to start my journey of playing KH3. I was gathering the strength to give my inner child a hug, by being up to date to the whole series so I can get the most of the experience of playing KH3 (I completed the rest of the games in the series some months ago) and I came across this channel. You went through the trouble to make thorough explanations and even dub the series!! I spent almost all my day watching your content and I couldn't be happier to make this choice. Excellent work, well put together (like the rest of the videos) and the dub felt and was official. And I am not a fan of dubs. Your work means a lot to me. Thank you. Hope I get to see a part 2 but even if that won't reach the surface, thank you :)
Finally! I'm so hyped for this! I can only imagine how difficult and time consuming this project was and all I have to say is well done! I look forward to the other parts!
Damo if there was Kingdom Hearts Hall of Fame. You would definitely be in it. This dub is amazing and your contributions to the community can never be overlooked. Shoutout to all the people who lended their voices to this project. This is amazing work!!. I almost wish I could be apart of it lol. Can’t wait for the next part
Thank you damo for organizing this fandub and thank you to everyone who voiced in it! Everyone is doing a great job! Hoping part 2 is coming soon cause I've been looking forward to it since part 1 was released 💕
So happy youve finally gotten this out, man! Much love to you and all you do for this community, this is AMAZING! Thanks for all your hard work, and thank you to everyone involved!!
Ahh! So happy this is finally a real thing! Thanks to damo and all the VAs in this. Y’all have now made this much more accessible for many, many peeps. ❤
Sending this to everyone I can that hasn't yet experienced the plot of the mobile games. My partner and I watched all of the cutscenes a few months ago but it's definitely a hard sell for other people. You guys did an awesome job with this -- seriously, it sounds SO good -- and I hope that this allows the plot of the mobile games to be more accessible to more people. Big big kudos to everyone that worked on this!
Damo, all the VA’s & even the stream that helped in their way thank you, this project is so awesome and such a good way to help breakdown the story for those coming into the series. Truly a masterpiece
2:38:26 MoM: For fuck's sake Luxu, it's upside down, my fucking eye it's upside down, I'm getting dizzy, rotate the Key- oh, who am I kidding? As if he can hear me
thank you so much i never wanted to play Union X because i dont wanna play a kingdomhearts Gacha i already dont like gacha but to combine it with my favorite game series just NO you and your whole team did such an incredible service to the fandom THANK YOU
Holy crap thank you! If you guys ever need another KH obsessed passionate (has free time haha) voice actor! Message me :))) I’m sure so many others in the comments would love to also!!!!
I am a weirdo whose read the manga light novels and played all games originally and remastered (including chain of memories for my little game boy hehe)
Great job everyone!! your dedication is truly appreciated👍🏼 though I would suggest going slower with the text bubbles to sync better with the voice. I know this might be a tiring fix since you’ll have to record all the clips again but you can keep that in mind for the next parts. another suggestion is to gradually increase the keyblade’s lvl throughout the story, so starting with starlight lv1 and in 33:43 use starlight lv2 to show the progress your character has gone through Would be a nice detail!
This was very well made all things considered! Especially the VA for Skuld. Very much a standout amongst the cast! Looking forward to seeing the fandub for the remainder of the Union Cross story!
If we never get a remake I guess this is the most convenient way to experience the story of Union X. When will part 2 be released? When your done with Union X you should do Dark Road.
A huge thank you to Damo and everyone involved! I hope this video (and the other parts) becomes the primary resource for people who want to catch up on the story.
I'm assuming the battle gameplay scenes were some you happened to record before the servers shut down. But on the off chance that there's some way to still play this game with actual gameplay rather than just cutscenes, I would LOVE to know
🎉🎉🎉 WOO!! This is absolutely amazing! What a grand undertaking and that work if so many wonderful and talented people! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this and thank you for all the hard work you and your team put into this, Damo!!
this is truly something amazing… i know everyone has said this, but thank you Damo and thank you to all these wonderful and talented voice actors. you all have done something that is making the kingdom hearts experience even better than it ever was. LETS GOOOOOOOO
It's undoubtedly unfair to ask this, but good golly fuck do I wish this team does the same treatment for Dark Road. This is such an achievement by everyone involved that Square should literally be compensating you all because this is practically required reading to fully comprehend Kingdom Hearts' narrative. These games will literally never return, and attempting to watch a silent video of these "cutscenes" will only infuriate those making the attempt. Truthfully, it's because of this community that I now grasp how important every title is to the overarching narrative. That means that because of these people, I will be playing Missing Link on day one. They have done what none of the game's official marketing team will come close to doing.
My sheer delight when I got to the end and realized you'd dubbed that secret report 😍 What an amazing project! Loved the double screens during scenes that appeared in both Back Cover and UX. And the combat voice lines! Hearing Ava say "I'm sorry" and "It's over" during her fight in the war gave me chills. Major kudos to everyone involved!
I went into this thinking, “Oh, a fandub. Okay.” But you blew me away! The people you got sound really close to the official voice actors, and I underestimated how much more pleasant listening is rather than reading. You knocked it out of the park, and I can’t wait for Dark Road!
Damn the master of masters is evil as hell. He used the union system to fracture the realm of light, not once but twice. Just so he could trap 13 beings from his original realm.
I can't believe I had no idea of this dub video exited for more than a year, I only saw it in my recommendation about an hour ago. Also, the actor who did The Master of Masters got it amazingly accurate, I was convinced that it was Ray Chase who's doing the voice.
![The Entire Story of Kingdom Hearts Union Cross [KHUx] Explained](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jJ0J7mo5_J8/mqdefault.jpg)
Probably one of the biggest public services for this series-- excellent job by Damo and everyone involved (including me, THERE I AM GARY THERE I AM!!)
You deserve a pat on the back too!
I understood that reference
Hey, I saw you on TH-cam! See ya later, Bran Flakes! 👋
Would've been better without 😊
Hey I know this guy
The guy who voices Master of Masters did a SPOT ON job
It’s SCARY accurate
@@regulus7181it is not the "legit" voice actor. In this, Christopher Burns does the VA. The English credit for the actual MoM VA is Ray Chase.
Thank you for doing the most basic research before commenting, fellow citizen of the internet.
@@mulletman9570 but the Back Cover cutscenes aren’t fan dubbed though right? I’m confused
Because I swear it sounds like Ira is voiced by Matt Mercer in the Back Cover scenes but I legitimately can’t tell which bugs me because I can usually recognize his voice immediately
@@Boundwithflame23back cover has Matt as Ira, MoM is Ray Chase the fan dub doesn’t have those va’s tho it’s someone else imitating those VA’s
@@veronicanaumov2981 So it is Matt. I thought I recognized his voice. And yeah I was just confused until I reached the flashback scenes in the fan dub where the MoM showed up
The pumpkin head keyblade wielder having a muffled voice was hysterical
it was really hard to breathe in that thing
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE INVOLVED. Hoping more people can experience Union X's incredible story now that this exists!!
Also rewatching the official scenes again is awesome. Forgot how GOATed Ray Chase was
Did you actually get Ray Chase to voice this? If not, whoever is voicing the master is doing it perfectly. The voice acting in this is outstanding.
He’s from my KH3 dub :)
The voice actors are all listed in the description now!
@@OathOfTheThirteenth impressive. All he has to do is, send Square this project and he has the role if Ray doesn't want to reprise in the next game.
@@sam15782008 Agreed! He’s the closest to the real deal as they’d ever find. He also does a killer Sora, Vanitas, Xemnas and Jack Sparrow! He’s a Jack of all trades, to be sure.
No I checked and none of the real actors who played their role from the original. Sadly this is a fandub and Im sure they did it for free. The real voice actors would want payment. Then it would basically become real. He will reprise his role in KH4
At 2:08:05, it made me realize something.
I just now realized, it looks like not only was Ven "made" a union leader by "Ava" away from the location where at least 3 of the union leaders were made leaders (skuld, ephemer and brain), so was Strelitzia. At timestamps above, she's right outside the clocktower. The other 3 were made union leaders at the hilltop.
We don't really get a confirmation from Lauriam where he was given the title by Ava but I'm gonna leave him out of this just to make this point.
Strelitzia was the outlier out of the original union leader list, being the one who was killed and replaced. Making Ventus the outlier by not being chosen to be a union leader officially.
Isn't it strange that Ava gave Strelitzia the guidebook away from the hilltop? It is a place for important events in the khux part of the series (you could argue outside the clocktower is the same but i still find it random). And it is used later by Brian and Ephemer as a question to determine who really was the traitor to skuld and Ventus.
So it's not really a throw away thing if it's brought up waaay later in the series. If she was still alive and Ven didn't take her place, she could of easily been outed as a traitor just because she was given the title away from the key place.
Maybe Ava knew something was going to happen to her, by reading the book of prophecies. I mean out in the open like that compared to hill seems kinda sketchy to tell someone important world shattering info. Someone like Ven or more specifically darkness could of heard nearby.
Whether it was stated in the book or not, no matter what there was still gonna be a "traitor" by the masters plans design. Whether they were controlled by darkness or not. Misunderstanding could lead to a whole array of emotions.
In an alternate reality, Strelitiza was outed as the traitor and in tandem, Lauriam would defend his sister with his life, causing confrontation with everyone. And we all know Laurium is ready to throw hands and summon his keyblade whenever.
I mean remember when he lifted Brain but by his shirt and threw Ephemer aside?
Some people would chose to defend strelizia while others would stick with the little info they got and keep suspicions...
Also before anyone brings it up, rewatching this also made clear that Ava made Ephemer the Leader leader of the dandelions and union leaders in her stead. He just wanted equal power amongst the union leaders.
She says in in the first confrontation with Master Ava, Player and Skuld.
So no I don't believe part of the reason Ava chose to give Strelitiza the book somewhere different is because she was going to be made leader.
She could of originally been chosen to get the book of prophecies but I'd like to believe Ephemer would of been made the lucky wielder. At least logically. Since he does like looking for truths and answers.
Brain was more of the strategist in my opinion. The "brains" of the group lol. While Ephemer was the heart and leader. If not ephemer for the heart, skuld sure was.
If Strelitiza was going to be given the book of prophecies, then it would make sense for darkness to go after her. But I'm pretty sure it just chose the brightest light to extinguish just to get into the ranks.
Strelitiza according to Lauriam was pretty verse in magic and while Ephemer and Skuld from the final battle in the game are pretty stronger, I wonder if Strelitzia would of gave at least one of them a run for their money lol.
It's just a thought I've been having.
Hmmm you make a good point there
2:00:36 Mike saying this all in one breath with the emphasis on DARKNESS has me laughing my ass off every time I hear it 😂😂😂
Man can we talk about MOMS acting being exactly like Ray Chase? and that Chirithy spittin solid lines at the speed of sound? So good. And that little line when the player was in the Keyblade graveyard. {you can rest now okay?} that really hit.
DAMO AND EVERYONE INVOLVED- what an accomplishment, I hope you all are so proud of yourselves! What a treat for all of us, one day I hope to be involved in such a heartfelt project! CONGRATULATIONS!!! AND THANK YOU!!!
Jesus that MoM va is amazing! But to be honest absolutely everyone knocked it out of the park! This is sooooo GOOD! Congrats to Damo and all the VAs hard work! ❤️❤️❤️
Literally this project is going to be and already is so SO IMPORTANT to the future of kingdom hearts. I know there are ppl who gripe about the mobile games but they are integral to kingdom hearts and are going to be even more so for Missing Link but more importantly Kingdom Hearts 4.
This is really well done, thank you all for putting this together for everyone to enjoy and partake in it!!🎉
This is... just genuinely fantastic. I'm someone who is generally super picky about voice acting in general, but Jiminy Crickets, I was seriously blown away by how good everyone is! It sounds really professional and the whole video is so well made. Thank you (and the whole team and the voice actors) so much for this! You're doing SE's work that they should've done years ago.
Union X and Dark Road has some of the BEST story that Kingdom Hearts has to offer (not to mention, IMPORTANT story) and it is such a pity that so many people have passed on it for such a long time. Hopefully this will make it more wide-spread and commonly known!
Also I just want to say that I'm absolutely in love with Skuld's performance! God, if certain theories are true and Skuld is to make an appearance in future, I hope her official voice will be similar cause dang her VA in this really hits the mark of what I how I always imagined she would sound like.
Me: loving Back Cover so much.
Also Me: get to the new sections get to the new sections!
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The meaning behind Ephemer’s name makes me feel kind of sad.
It can either be a plant that survives droughts as seeds, or it can mean “temporary”. I like him as a character and he lasted a long time. Especially as a good friend.
Plus, I like the name itself. It has a nice ring.
Thanks for the information
Both meaning fit great for his character 🙂
This was so unexpected to see in my recommendations but a few minutes in and I'm already blown away by the dubbing! It's incredible to see what you all have created. It makes the experience that much more engaging, and the plot that much more amazing! Thank you all for this!
Ngl the VA is 10/10, like Skuld sounds exactly like i imagined she would
Whoever voiced Chirithy did a FANTASTIC job
Right? Super adorable!
Thank you SO MUCH! Every now and again I check back here to read comments like this to boost my confidence. I was honored to play Chirithy and I am so very happy you enjoyed it too!
@@MistressNyxVA❤❤❤❤❤
What an incredibly ambitious project. Congrats to everyone involved, and thank you, Damo, for getting a team of incredible people together! You are all amazing 🧡
This was phenomenal! A massive thank you to everyone involved in this project! I've been looking forward to seeing what you guys cooked up for a while now and I'm absolutely blown away by it, couldn't have dreamed of it being any better! The fan voices for the characters with preexisting voices were often times so close that I had a double take on who voiced what and the previously unvoiced characters sounded exactly how I imagined them to sound like! The delivery from everyone was absolutely amazing and having Back Cover intertwined with the voiced X story honestly elevated Back Cover too. Also, I highly appreciate the small touches you made to the editing and structure Damo! Including Observations exceprt 1 as part of the secret ending and showing that splash screen for Unchained X are absolutely brilliant choices!! (I got a tiiiny feeling that Unchained art miiight come back by the end of Part 2 with a twist. Also the detail of the armor breaking during the fights, hello??? so good!!)
I'm gonna force my friends to watch this with me while I patiently wait for Part 2 to come out :). Thank you guys so SO much for all the effort and work you put in for this great game and the community!
Part II is out! th-cam.com/video/KKsJRJF20lo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ba56AkSpA_o29cDz
It's out!!! I'm so excited to watch this! So much work has gone into this and everyone should be proud of themselves, this is an amazing accomplishment for the Kingdom Hearts community. Thank you everyone who voiced, everyone who worked on this, and thank you Damo for organizing the whole thing to begin with and then editing it all together! We know how hard you and everyone worked on this! Thank you!!! (edit after watching, SPOILERS under 'read more')
I've now seen the whole thing and it is beyond phenomenal! Strelitzia's death definitely hits harder voiced, oh my gosh, I admit I cried a bit. I also teared up when Chirithy said "You did great. You can rest now, okay?" That was an unexpected gut punch, geez! XD Everyone did such a good job, and it's so much easier to experience the story this way, I can only say again, THANK YOU! IT'S AWESOME!
I'm elated that I managed to make you feel something!
17:52 this entire scene is both amazing and adorable
Been waiting on this, going to save watching it properly for my KH replay leading up to KH4 so I can fully experience this in context, leaving a like and a comment to boost it though.
Incredible work from all involved, congrats on finally getting this out!
Theory time: I was thinking...
What if the keyblade hurts people as with feelings? Lemme explain. Invi and Aced are fighting, and they are getting hurt even though they aren't getting actually hit at all. That's because the keyblade, said to be the power of the heart to fight for what's good, can cause pain in other people's hearts, which in turn wears them physically as well.
First of all, yes. I do know you can make physical damage with the keyblade, but it depends on what or who you're hitting with it. If heartless or nobodies, they are just monsters, so all you fight with is plain determination. When fighting a friend or a person, it's a heart-to-heart fight. Just like when you argue with a person, and it hurts you in your heart, every keyblade clash with another or any other weapon makes as much soul damage, so to speak.
Take Sora and Roxas' confrontation inside the datascape for example. Sora said that Roxas' attacks actually hurt him whereas only their blades clashed, and none ever touched the bearers. Same here. We don't see the blades actually touching the opponents, but they still get hurt from just clashing them around.
All the times the keyblade has been able to swing through an enemy, be it human or not, it's been a lethal or almost lethal attack. This reinforces my point of view that the keyblade wears people down by just clashing it. And no, I don't mean exhaustion. That doesn't seem to exist in KH in general, though there are a few examples...
Anyway, this is just my take on it trying to make any sense at all from this wicked series where nothing on screen makes sense (people not getting really hurt, for example). If I'm wrong, someone better change my mind, or Nomura had better do it himself. I know it's a family-oriented series, but Disney doesn't hesitate hurting people visibly enough for the audience to have a proper sense of stake and seriousness. That's all I think.
Ava:"you tried to pull a fast one on me huh?"
Ephemer with his oants already down:"whaaaaat, who me? Naaaaaaah"
This dub is fantastic! Thank you for not only compiling these clips but putting a voice to them! On a side note i hope you have a dub for Dark Road planned and i would love a tour of your medels. You have some i never saw before. Idk if i knew about the manga ones.
43:26 okay but something about Ephemer’s read here REALLY highlights how much he sounds like a conspiracy theorist, LMFAOOOOO
It’s a good thing, promise!! I love these voice actors.
I love the Master of Masters VA he was amazing lmao
it boggles me that this project is the length it is even with back cover added in when even abridged uploads of purely union x cutscenes clock in longer or about the same length as this, are people just taking a really long time to progress the text in those or something?
No this is just part one lol there's a second video to conclude it all
2:28:56 Correction: The 2nd Keyblade War
Bruh how do I support this and how come I just heard about it?!?
I just have to say-- I'm on my third watch, but I've been busy with other things so I usually mute the tab before the halfway point and let it play through for retention reasons, but Damo, YOUR voice acting around 1:43:00, in the scene when Player is talking about how he feels in regards to Ephemer being gone, is FANTASTIC. You did an INSANELY good job.
I know you were hesitant to use your voice in this project, but the voice acting in that scene is so raw and genuine I'd never guess you weren't a professional. You did an AMAZING job and you TRULY brought life to the character, and this project would NOT have been the same without your voice in it.
Thank you for EVERYTHING you've done to pull this together, but thank you also for letting us hear your player voice, because it truly brought something very special and beautiful to the project.
😭😭😭😭
OMG !!!! ITS SO GOOD 🤩 FINALLY WE DONT HAVE TO MISS THE ANIMATIONS IN THE CUTESCENE AND ALSO LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY
incredible work to everyone involved! going to be recommending this project to everyone i know who wants to understand UX's story
Great job! But if you don't mind me asking, why did you change where strelitzia is introduced in the story? Her murder happening right before Lauriaum's introduction is kind of an important moment for the story pacing and trajectory imo. Lauriaum getting set up as her murderer only to be revealed as her brother is probably my favorite twist from back when the game was active, and even disregarding that, in my opinion it makes more sense to keep it with the other union leader introductions. At the very least, I'm not sure why you would need to change its placement in the story.
Because all these scenes are done in chronological order so it happens first and in part 2 we see the reveal of the union leaders. It's a little bit less suspenseful with Lauriam's reveal but when you watch this for the first time you still wouldn't know who did it
Chirithy's music background forshadowed the origins of the dream eaters
They did it! They released the Damo Cut!
I can't measure mentally how much appreciation I feel for this work of art I came across right before I decided to start my journey of playing KH3. I was gathering the strength to give my inner child a hug, by being up to date to the whole series so I can get the most of the experience of playing KH3 (I completed the rest of the games in the series some months ago) and I came across this channel. You went through the trouble to make thorough explanations and even dub the series!! I spent almost all my day watching your content and I couldn't be happier to make this choice.
Excellent work, well put together (like the rest of the videos) and the dub felt and was official. And I am not a fan of dubs. Your work means a lot to me. Thank you. Hope I get to see a part 2 but even if that won't reach the surface, thank you :)
Ah, my dearly beloved. Finally with voices.
This is amazing! You need to do Dark Road next! It’s so hard for me to focus on the story when there isn’t voice acting.
Read the description mate😅 he mentions it
Finally! I'm so hyped for this! I can only imagine how difficult and time consuming this project was and all I have to say is well done! I look forward to the other parts!
Part II is out! th-cam.com/video/KKsJRJF20lo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ba56AkSpA_o29cDz
This project is the justice the khux story deserves
Woah! Thank you so much, that's incredibly appreciated!
Damo if there was Kingdom Hearts Hall of Fame. You would definitely be in it. This dub is amazing and your contributions to the community can never be overlooked. Shoutout to all the people who lended their voices to this project. This is amazing work!!. I almost wish I could be apart of it lol. Can’t wait for the next part
Thank you damo for organizing this fandub and thank you to everyone who voiced in it! Everyone is doing a great job! Hoping part 2 is coming soon cause I've been looking forward to it since part 1 was released 💕
Part II is out! th-cam.com/video/KKsJRJF20lo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ba56AkSpA_o29cDz
I am proud of the work we put in here. Good work everyone!
“Thank you for watching! Until next time!” 2:44:43
~Chirithy
Thank you Dear Chirithy!!!!
This is now the definitive Union X experience
This is it. This is the way to experience this story. Literally everyone needs to watch this.
Jfc the guy who voiced MoM is INCREDIBLE; I thought this was official after hearing him!
This is canon. Nobody can say otherwise
It actually is canon though. Why would anyone dispute an officially licensed game? Lol
So happy youve finally gotten this out, man! Much love to you and all you do for this community, this is AMAZING! Thanks for all your hard work, and thank you to everyone involved!!
FINALLYYY MAAAAAN! See you in 2, and more, hours.
Ahh! So happy this is finally a real thing! Thanks to damo and all the VAs in this. Y’all have now made this much more accessible for many, many peeps. ❤
HOLY SHIT. It's out! The madlad did it!
Sending this to everyone I can that hasn't yet experienced the plot of the mobile games. My partner and I watched all of the cutscenes a few months ago but it's definitely a hard sell for other people. You guys did an awesome job with this -- seriously, it sounds SO good -- and I hope that this allows the plot of the mobile games to be more accessible to more people. Big big kudos to everyone that worked on this!
If there's ever a remake of this game it's gonna be really hard to call the player character anything but Damian
Damo, all the VA’s & even the stream that helped in their way thank you, this project is so awesome and such a good way to help breakdown the story for those coming into the series. Truly a masterpiece
How does ChrisBurnsVA sound so much like Noctis? How does MistressNyxVA sound so much like Kari Kamiya?
ChrisBurnsVA sounds SO perfect. I’m shocked out of my mind how good he did. MistressNyxVA too! Who is Kari Kamiya, what are they known for?
@@sawakonatsuki1787 The little girl on Digimon; her VA eventually did Chirithy in KH3.
@@mirrorman95 woah that’s insane I’ll have to give that a listen sometimes. Was it Jill miller who did it?
@@sawakonatsuki1787 Lara Jill Miller, yes.
Thank you! I tried very hard to cultivate the voice within my own capabilities!
So keen to watch! Thank you Damo and everyone involved for this amazing gift ❤️❤️❤️
So proud of all the amazing talent that went into this in front of the microphone and behind the scenes!!! Thank you Damo!!!
2:38:26 MoM: For fuck's sake Luxu, it's upside down, my fucking eye it's upside down, I'm getting dizzy, rotate the Key- oh, who am I kidding? As if he can hear me
thank you so much i never wanted to play Union X because i dont wanna play a kingdomhearts Gacha i already dont like gacha but to combine it with my favorite game series just NO
you and your whole team did such an incredible service to the fandom THANK YOU
Any way you guys can add subtitles for the parts that don't have any? Such as the Disney Interludes?
Holy crap thank you! If you guys ever need another KH obsessed passionate (has free time haha) voice actor! Message me :))) I’m sure so many others in the comments would love to also!!!!
I just love this much passion from like minded fans!!! Would love to give any knowledge I can
I am a weirdo whose read the manga light novels and played all games originally and remastered (including chain of memories for my little game boy hehe)
Great job everyone!!
your dedication is truly appreciated👍🏼
though I would suggest going slower with the text bubbles to sync better with the voice. I know this might be a tiring fix since you’ll have to record all the clips again but you can keep that in mind for the next parts.
another suggestion is to gradually increase the keyblade’s lvl throughout the story, so starting with starlight lv1 and in 33:43 use starlight lv2 to show the progress your character has gone through
Would be a nice detail!
saw your post on discord, and am here to help ^^
hope this video does well for you damo.
This was very well made all things considered! Especially the VA for Skuld. Very much a standout amongst the cast! Looking forward to seeing the fandub for the remainder of the Union Cross story!
Part II is out! th-cam.com/video/KKsJRJF20lo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ba56AkSpA_o29cDz
If we never get a remake I guess this is the most convenient way to experience the story of Union X. When will part 2 be released? When your done with Union X you should do Dark Road.
The work on Dark Road has already begun :)
A huge thank you to Damo and everyone involved! I hope this video (and the other parts) becomes the primary resource for people who want to catch up on the story.
Part II is out! th-cam.com/video/KKsJRJF20lo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ba56AkSpA_o29cDz
Absolutely phenomenal work, the Kingdom Hearts community is so fortunate to be filled with such generous and talented people
Doing God and Nemuras work with this
I'm assuming the battle gameplay scenes were some you happened to record before the servers shut down. But on the off chance that there's some way to still play this game with actual gameplay rather than just cutscenes, I would LOVE to know
🎉🎉🎉 WOO!! This is absolutely amazing! What a grand undertaking and that work if so many wonderful and talented people! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this and thank you for all the hard work you and your team put into this, Damo!!
Honestly I just got here and I can tell you the MOM sounds exactly how I imagined he should. I'm excited for this.
That Strelitzia looks a lot like the girl from the KH4 teaser trailer
Congratulations to Damo and team for taking on this incredibly ambitious and precious project. Thank you so much!! ✨
y'all are all absolute chads and i can't thank all of you enough for your contributions on this.
flawless.
Congratulations to Damo and the team, you're amazing! Player's name is canonically Damian now of course.
55th Like & 19th Comment, LETS FREAKING GO!!! About to speed run this video with 2X speed, Lmao. Keep up the great work Damo.
Gonn share this with my friends okay
Jesse McCartney better be in the Union Cross fan dub since he did Ventus so well
Impressive within impressiveness getting Ray Chase to reprise MoM for the FanDub! 10 / 10 friends are your power power!
the second MOM put that keyblade in luxu's hand he had fufilled his purpose, that's insane to me.
Alright! Now I really want Master Ava to come back in kingdom hearts 4!
Damien sounds like a Sim with all the "hums" LoL. Amazing work guys.
46:34 There's a traitor WHAT?!
this is truly something amazing…
i know everyone has said this, but thank you Damo and thank you to all these wonderful and talented voice actors.
you all have done something that is making the kingdom hearts experience even better than it ever was.
LETS GOOOOOOOO
Watching it all now! Such a wonderful job of all the cast. Congrats and thank you for this 👏👏
The arrangements and dub
It's all perfect !
And gotta admit your little giggles is so adorable xD
Still on the edge of my seat for part II, wikipedia doesn't cut it
1:13:29
>beats the everliving heck out of her.
>"Not bad."
Comment for algorithm. Awesome effort on this, very respectable content.
It's undoubtedly unfair to ask this, but good golly fuck do I wish this team does the same treatment for Dark Road. This is such an achievement by everyone involved that Square should literally be compensating you all because this is practically required reading to fully comprehend Kingdom Hearts' narrative. These games will literally never return, and attempting to watch a silent video of these "cutscenes" will only infuriate those making the attempt.
Truthfully, it's because of this community that I now grasp how important every title is to the overarching narrative. That means that because of these people, I will be playing Missing Link on day one. They have done what none of the game's official marketing team will come close to doing.
@@wpdenni Working on it :)
@@damo Never feel pressured. Go at your pace, at your time. Thank you for gifting me with the knowledge of intent, and for everything else!
Hum.
Invi gives Aqua's vibes
Ava => Kairi
Gula > Ventus
Aced > Terra
Ira > Riku
Nice, great job 😊😊
Excellent work. Always nice to watch these things to refresh the memories. Especially after playing the first game again.
My sheer delight when I got to the end and realized you'd dubbed that secret report 😍 What an amazing project! Loved the double screens during scenes that appeared in both Back Cover and UX. And the combat voice lines! Hearing Ava say "I'm sorry" and "It's over" during her fight in the war gave me chills.
Major kudos to everyone involved!
This massively improves the watching experience. Thank you to everyone involved in this project.
I went into this thinking, “Oh, a fandub. Okay.” But you blew me away! The people you got sound really close to the official voice actors, and I underestimated how much more pleasant listening is rather than reading. You knocked it out of the park, and I can’t wait for Dark Road!
Damn the master of masters is evil as hell. He used the union system to fracture the realm of light, not once but twice. Just so he could trap 13 beings from his original realm.
it is up! finnaly
I can't believe I had no idea of this dub video exited for more than a year, I only saw it in my recommendation about an hour ago.
Also, the actor who did The Master of Masters got it amazingly accurate, I was convinced that it was Ray Chase who's doing the voice.
Seeing game play of this makes me sad I’ll never be able to experience this for myself now