Kingdom Hearts is becoming an anime. Here is what our game-tagged shelf actually holds.

An anime based on Kingdom Hearts has been announced for Disney+. The same Anime News Network report covers the Kingdom Hearts IV game, which is reported to launch in late 2027 and to include a Coco world, and a new trailer featuring that world has been streamed. The rest of this piece is about our own shelf rather than the announcement.

The one entry we hold

Exactly one entry in our index carries Kingdom Hearts in its title. It is Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover, recorded as a 2017 OVA with one episode and a length of 62 minutes, tagged Action, Fantasy and Mystery. It carries zero source rows of any kind. Its page on animesphere.app was fetched today, returned HTTP 200, and states no free episode. We store no trailer for it. For a reader who arrived wanting something to watch, that is the whole answer our index holds under this name: nothing.

A count we cannot run, and one we can

Our catalogue table has no column recording what a work was adapted from. We cannot count how many entries began as video games. What we can count is a tag. Contributors to AniList, the catalogue our index is built from, vote descriptive tags onto entries with a rank from 0 to 100, and we store both. 186 of our 20,497 entries carry Video Games at rank 60 or higher. That tag marks works in which video games are a subject of the story, not a record of what anything was adapted from.

All 186 pages were fetched today: 186 returned HTTP 200, zero failures. Fifteen state a free episode, 101 episodes between them. The two largest state 37 and 26 episodes. The other thirteen state 38 between them, and nine of those thirteen state exactly one. Six of the fifteen carry an explicit language note on the page. The other nine carry our default wording, which establishes nothing about language, so we make no language claim about any of the fifteen.

One series that reaches its end: Zinba

Zinba carries no Video Games tag at any rank, so it is not one of the 186. It is here because it finishes. Its page states 52 free episodes against 52 recorded for the series, so the free run reaches the end. Every one was checked against its upload today: 52 of 52 resolved, zero fetch failures, 52 distinct uploads, none filed against two episode numbers, none shared with another series. The titles run EP01 to EP52 with no gaps, and each number matches the one we store. Every title ends with the words English Dub and Full Episode. The watch pages for episodes 1, 26 and 52 each report an automatic English caption track, which means the audio is English, and each runs 1,415 to 1,416 seconds against a recorded length of 22 minutes. All three report a playable status with no purchase required. The channel is Anime! on TMS Official Channel, which carries a YouTube verified badge, checked today. The country allow-list on its rows includes the United States. It is not unrestricted. We tag it Action, Adventure and Comedy.