First I'd like to say, I only gave story an 8 because it's the same story as the game series which is amazing. As for the rest, my upcoming critiques apply to pretty much all of the Kingdom Hearts manga adaptations and I will be using this review for all of them. The art isn't that bad, I just wish that Tetsuya Nomura himself could've done it. His concept art for all of his games is so beautiful, and it would make my life if he did the artwork for a manga. Nomura would've made the manga an overall 9 for me. It's my favorite game series and the way Shiro Amano compresses epic battles such as the fight between Axel and Roxas in Kingdom Hearts 2 to around 5 pages is just disgraceful to the series. As is the way he writes lines for Sora and others that they never said, creating corny garbage. In Chain of Memories Sora walks up to the door to face Marluxia, upon reaching it he says, "Open Sesame!" if that is not the corniest line in KH history I don't know what is... Shiro Amano also fails to implement Sora's most powerful skills and abilities such as Ars Arcanum, Sonic Blade, and Ragnarok. He doesn't even really need to give a detailed explanation or anything. Sora develops these powers by fighting with the Keyblade until it evolves further and further giving him more and more strengths. The amount of power Amano gives the Keyblade underpowers it far too much. The only reason I keep reading the Kingdom Hearts manga series is because I am such a big fan, I just hope they will make a few of the fights as epic as they are in the games and maybe give Sora some of the awesome power he obtains throughout the story. I mean, he even removed drive forms from the movie!! Sora roughly possesses half of his true power in this crap excuse for a series. Amano's failure to accurately show the character development, the greatness of battles, strength of the characters, and the emotion of the characters is a detriment that truly undermines the series. In short, Kingdom Hearts deserves a better manga.