The Music of Kingdom Hearts II (KH2)

This video explores Yoko Shimomura's magnificent score for Kingdom Hearts 2: a soundtrack teeming with callbacks and self-referential musical material, and also one that helped further establish and lay important groundwork for the musical future of the series. Table of Contents: 0:00 - Introduction 1:52 - KH2 Categorization Chart 6:55 - KH2 Motif Connection Diagram 9:20 - Evolutionary tracks 11:17 - Roxas group 12:13 - Sora group 13:21 - Gummi Ship group 14:35 - Threat group 16:22 - Cavern of Remembrance group 17:40 - Nobodies group 19:30 - Fate of the Unknown group 21:39 - Dearly Beloved group 24:49 - Destati group 28:52 - Organization XIII group 32:22 - The World That Never Was group 33:47 - "Fantasia alla Marcia" 35:16 - "Darkness of the Unknown" 41:05 - Conclusion — ~Resources~ Read-along script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N... Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Charts: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wlk... — ~Donate / Ko-fi~ I very much appreciate coffee donations if you enjoyed the presentation! https://ko-fi.com/davidrussell — Thanks for watching! And thank you to KH-Vids for being a wonderful resource for extracting game footage, and to the KH community for being crazy fun to talk about this kind of stuff with. Also thanks to Jacob, Ica, Ro, Laura, and Daniel for helping me prepare the layout of the connection diagram this time--it was difficult to get everything to fit nicely, and I couldn't be happier with how it looks. Excited to explore the music in 358/2 Days soon! Get in touch with me: https://linktr.ee/davidrussell323