Shedding Starlight
Kingdom Hearts is a series about love, friendship, good vs. evil, and light prevailing in the dark. Sounds simple? What about soul possession, human experimentation, and the end of times? The rumors are true, it’s deeper than you think.
We are Hannah and Mel, welcome to the podcast Shedding Starlight: A Guide to the Kingdom Hearts Mythos. If you’ve ever played the Kingdom Hearts games and wanted to dive deeper into the story, this podcast is for you! Shedding Starlight lays out all of the worldbuilding, hidden concepts, and character motivations that the games hid between the lines.
Podcasting since 2023 • 30 episodes
Shedding Starlight
Latest Episodes
Kingdom Hearts 2 - Season Breakdown
Kingdom Hearts 2 is an expansion on the series in every sense of the word: in gameplay, in scope, in story, in universe. In this season of Shedding Starlight, we’ve been guiding you through this weaving story, and planting seeds for times to co...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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15:16
Secrets Beyond the Keyhole - Secret Keyblade Wielders
A gathering of three keyblade wielders fighting for their destiny; a doomed fate foreshadowed by hooded figures. There are two secret endings to Kingdom Hearts 2, both of which leave pieces of a larger picture showing a seemingly tragic past fo...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:07:11
Maleficent & Pete - The hidden secret of Timeless River
Two mysterious resurrections of both a past enemy and a new player lead us to perplexing insights; Pete's troubled origins and relationship with Disney Castle show us a new side of this world that could lead to its downfall. But, in Maleficent'...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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54:57
Worldbuilding II - Are the worlds alive?
Kingdom Hearts II expands upon a web of connection between all the worlds in the galaxy. The door to light, the door to darkness, and the door the worlds themselves provided. They all lead to different places, appear in different ways,...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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57:45
Data Twilight Town - The consequences of a simulation
A maximum security prison built specifically for one boy; fake surroundings, fake friends, fake meaning. Its engineer ignorant to its true power leaking into our own reality. Today, we explore virtual Twilight Town, and why it's more than just ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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51:34