Kingdom Hearts III
"Kingdom Hearts III" was released worldwide in January 2019. Upon release, the game was met with generally positive reviews from critics.
Passion (Utada Hikaru song)
In early 2003, The Walt Disney Company and Square Enix confirmed the sequel to "Kingdom Hearts" (2002). That July, the creator of Kingdom Hearts, Tetsuya Nomura, aimed to have the game in stores by 2004, but several legal issues regarding the approval of characters and aesthetics from the Disney franchise obscured this, such as the Tarzan world being denied due to a change in ownership. Regarding the theme song, Nomura only had Utada in mind as he felt she was part of the franchise's family, and felt that her music could break both foreign and international markets. But scheduling time with Nomura proved to be difficult, as Utada worked on her second English language album Exodus in her hometown New York City; she had been signed to Island Def Jam the previous year as their headquarters discovered her success in Japan.