Data Daybreak Town explained: Why UX repeats X • Kingdom Hearts Analysis 

Technically 2 videos in 2023... right? right??? 😭 I worked on this video aaalll month to get it out before new year's. Now if you excuse me... I'm going to play Re:Coded in bed 🛌 *Shedding Starlight* is a KH podcast that's newcomer friendly! We'll start with discussing KH1, no spoilers of later titles, and work our way through! Coming *January 22nd* ! Links in description!

WE ARE SO BACK LET’S GOOOOOOO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE PODCAST!

Incredible visuals and editing as always, a pure delight for the behold :) I'm not sure how any conclusion apart from the one you have drawn can even hold any water. As soon as the foretellers arrive in Daybreak Town's tower, the foretellers even discuss these exact events. Lauriam's line in particular should remove all doubt, unless the new Union Leaders are somehow being fooled here: KHUx [Devourer of Nightmares] Ephemer: Then it’s settled. Oh, and to avoid any confusion or chaos, let’s not say a word about the foretellers to anyone just yet. Lauriam: That’s wise. As planned, all the Keyblade wielders are undergoing their training again. It may be a good time to discuss the issue when that’s over with.

I finished the video earlier but I've watched it twice and realized I forgot to leave my thoughts! - I absolutely love the way the Cavern of Remembrance theme was used throughout the video transitioning between the KH2 and KH3 ReMIND versions - Every cutscene being sourced in the window box text is really cool, your graphics never miss - I also appreciate when you label things as hypothetical, comment, etc. It really helps! - CANNOT WAIT FOR THE PODCAST!! - I've always wondered about daybreak town's events repeating because of Ephemer's line that you mentioned but knowing that it's a bit more on the nose in the JP version of the game makes me feel relief - The glitches were something I was initially confused about, so this helped! 10/10

I LOVED hearing the ramping up between the different "Cavern of Remembrance" versions, slowly evolving the track up to the "complete" 2.5 version during the summary page!! All these custom assets and animations (the saccades and blinking of the Skuld&Ephemer artwork) made _my_ eyes widen. Such a cool concept for this video to have it be like accessing the Master's computer

Yet another banger, well worth the wait for videos like this, you're an absolute wizard with this stuff! looking forward to the pod too, just the thing I need to ease me back into KH after some time away.

S tier editing per usual, I'm SO edited for the new podcast!

I really admire you taking the time to make a beautifully edited video that explains the lore of one of my favorite Kingdom Hearts sagas. The lore behind Daybreak Town confused me a little upon keeping up with Union X, so this video is much appreciated! Also I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees KH being in 1 timeline. I can’t wait to see your future video on it since I feel that the KH timeline is like watching a time travel movie in real time. Events can be altered in the movie’s plot, but we the audience still saw the previous events in the same movie.

I love these videos because they are so well edited and really deep dive into speculation over Kingdom Hearts lore, and you *know* Nomura is gonna reveal this is way less complicated than we think it is

What a wonderful video! Thank you so much for making these, there are just so many things that go over my head, so having it be explained so well with beautiful visuals makes me feel very spoilt. I always feel obligated to watch your videos twice; once to learn something new and the second to appreciate all the visual components (this might even be my favourite aesthetic you've done, it's so charming and cute!) And you have no idea how excited I am for the podcast!!! This is like a dream of mine especially for a series as long running as KH, which I know for a fact I've missed and misinterpreted many details over the years. I hope everything goes smoothly and I'll be anticipating it with great excitement!

Great a podcast as we get into the even more complex new era of KH LETS GOOOO

I am 2 minutes in and I absolutely LOVE this editing style as well as how the information is passed along. This is a great job! Keep up the great work. Look forward to more!

Ahhhh a random secrect report appeared!!!!!!!

Like always this has been a very interesting video, thank you so much for your hard work just to entertain us, i hope you and everyone in the comment section has a great end and beginning of the year, and that you podcast is successful, i know that i will be paying attention to when you upload your first one

So glad to see you back. Been a fan of KH since KH1 dropped all those years ago. All I'll say is this: if all of this really has been Nomura and/or Masaru Oka's intentions for the story of KH/KHX, then I'm glad they have a third person on board now (Akiko Ishibashi). Following the X story the last 10 years has been very frustrating for me, and maybe I'm not big-brained for not understanding it, but I'm so thankful for fans such as yourself for putting in so much effort into helping the community piece together the lore and make sense of it all. My gripe is, I truly feel it shouldn't have to be this way. Having to rely on videos such as these is a very real fault on the writers' part, in my opinion. I'm worried that, when KH4 rolls around, I will be expected to know and understand all of these complicated concepts the X saga introduced, all while mixing together the other cans of worms involving Yozora, the Nameless Star, "Unreality", and Missing Link. At least to me, the story has become so convoluted that I'm hoping a third writer can serve to either mediate the ideas being tossed around by the other two, or at least provide a method of communicating those ideas in a simpler way for the players. Mini-rant done, sorry if this comment seems inappropriate. I always look forward to your videos, because they're and so eye-opening, but this one definitely sparked these thoughts I've held on to for a while.

LETS GO YOU'RE BACK! Another awesome theory, I really love how you made the whole video seem like a computer!

I'm gonna be slurpin on Shedding Starlight with a soup spoon... just wanna point that out right off the bat. Like, fuck, I'm genuinely really intrigued and excited about that! So Mel, naturally your use of colours, graphic transitions and sound effects do wonders for the pacing. Everything is compiled so eloquently. I imagine setting out to make the computer desktop theme would force most people to be overtly flashy or "sci-fi", but this just feels warm on the eyes and ears. It flows so seamlessly to the point where they don't even FEEL like transitions, just a tightly knit package (even though the folder clicking idea is YES). Everything is congruent and visually compelling, but it's laid out in such a way that every word and every graphic is always at the front of my mind; nothing really needs to be overly digested, paused or questioned to nauseum, so it's only a testament to your script writing, commentary skills, expression and research. It's not just "good", but it strikes a balance between artistically stimulating but also EASY! Spinning those plates together without going down a rabbit hole of caveats or playing devil's advocate every 5 seconds in the attempt to circumvent those UMM ACTUALLY comments ain't a simple thing to accomplish. Refreshing. No bullshit, just "Here it is, here's why it is the way that it is, here are the receipts, now eat your damn feast". Even though I was always under the impression that UXs real Daybreak Town glitching was due to the projection of the data version, but I never once caught on to the Twilight Town tidbit from KH2! It just adds so much credence to that. I wonder if that kind of technology will overlap in the future? I keep forgetting how Twilight Town's basement and use of the Datascape could give us a peak into so much, from Daybreak Town and Scala's history to even how other worldlines work. I still personally believe that there is some sort of convergence between realities happening with the Datascape. I wanna take a moment to appreciate talking about Luxu's comment about data Daybreak Town not just being a regular Datascape world, but actually an entirely other worldline with no Keyblade war. It seems the ultimate wrench in the works of a lot of KH fan's minds are between those of us who are willing to accept Luxu's reports as vital pieces of information as opposed to those who would rather side with the notion that they are "lies"(?), retcons or just wrong. Also, coming off of the honeymoon phase of my latest video, your Brain imposter scares me a little more each day. That kid scares me I don't like it. idk something is so creepy about another version of you running around with higher knowledge and then just vanishes?? fuck these kids tbh

I love your vids so much, I just wish we'd see them a bit more often ❤

this is the best xmas present of this year thank you

I'll definitely be listening to that podcast when its out! 🌟

First time clicking on a video and just wanted to say that the graphics and editing is amazing

YESSS! BEEN LOOKING FORWARD FOR A NEW VIDEO🎉🎉🎉🎉

WOAH! I did *not* expect to see myself get a shoutout in this video! Thanks so much! I've been a big fan of your work for a long time, so I'm glad that I was able to contribute in some way.

Absolutely obsessed with the smooth transition between 2 and 3's Cavern of remembrance ost and your brilliant editing skills. I hope you will discuss worldlines soon as it really bothers me how a lot of fans think KH3 took place in another wordline after the keyblade graveyard incident, the Singularity Sora created is dispelled once he saves his friends' hearts and re-starts from when they first lost their battle. I'm also definitely with you how the term worldlines is strictly referred to reality and unreality and not how there is some kind of multiverse going on.

ooo really excited for yalls podcast! and of course grateful for another video!

the idea that the keyblade war from KHUX is a flasback and not part of the story repeat is pretty much confirmed by the game; that's why those quests were put under event and not story quests

As usual your videos are too good! So happy to see more of them, great points and it's the first time I see a perfectly reasonable explanation on the Data-like glitches in the real world Daybeak town during the UX ending, completely overlooked this scene from KH2. Excited to see more to come! Happy new year o/

I can't wait for this podcast! I really need to refresh myself on ancient KH lore.

Can't wait for the podcast! Just need to fight with my podcast app to get it to recognize the iTunes link (happens everytime)

The dedication and editing of this video is so freakin good. I eat this content up! Great work!!

So happy to see uploads from you again, in your Keyblade war video you had really good ideas & talk about such cool theories & topics

Another stellar video! Your visuals and editing never cease to amaze. Looking forward to Shedding Starlight! Instant subscribe from me! Very curious to hear your thoughts/explanation of Wreck-It Ralph's world. I never could figure out how that world appeared to exist in Union X's present day (and not data) rather than the future like all other Disney worlds, especially after information from Dark Road talking about how the worlds took time to rebuild themselves.

So awesome to see you back!!

Great video! Happy to see you back!

Cool good way to end the year missed your content tbh 🎉

Hi! Thank you for video, I'm sure this should help a lot the community to understand some points :) I love espacially the editing and your voice, which are fluid and understandable easily !!

Very interesting & clarifying! Thanks once again! & happy new year!

Another fantastic and beautifully crafted video, Mel! i can't wait to see what 2024 has in store for your channel!

I’m so happy I subscribed to you! I saw one of your videos and wondered when another video would come out!

Your videos are soo goooood!

Super excited for this analysis video! Thanks for uploading! Might comment more later!

You're back! I'm so happy to see you here!

Uhhh, it's not everyday we have a new TheSecretReports video! So, like and comment even before seeing is a must

AMAZING JOB! Thanks! I really appreciate it.

Oh goodness.... this actually cleared up something I've been wondering about since the Union Cross finale came out. I feel like a fog has been lifted!

the keyblade war scenes fromKHUX are definitely flashbacks and not part of the repeated story. That's why they weren't put under story quests but event quests.

Good to see more content from you Mel

The editing is peak

I'm so happy that you are back

Thank you for the video! There were definitely aspects of the data worlds that went over my head!

Wow the editing in this video is top tier!

Thank you for all the work you're doing with these videos!! As much as I love and adore UX and its story, there are multiple places where things can unfortunately get a bit confusing ;O; So these explanations really help with understanding the exact pieces of lore + offer a new angle to things I hadn't considered before! I wonder if the bit about "memories VS projection" will be more fully addressed in Missing Link, with the idea of unreality or such. I think both options answer questions that the other solution can't, but I do agree with you though that ultimately, at the moment anyways, it doesn't seem to matter which is "right"

Kudos for keeping all this straight and making such a well-edited video. Wish I could find myself more interested/invested in the phone game/X stuff but I'm sure KH4 is going to help (and also make clear what the most necessary info and story beats are).

Don't mind me. Just here enjoying this delicious video and taking notes for when I get back into making Kingdom Hearts content

She’s back! And she brought a friend 🎉

Your videos are always so well put together, its impressive Honestly I've never been part of the 'Kingdom hearts is overcomplicated' meme, but everything that happens in the timeline before Dark Road involves way too many moving parts. Nomura needs to reel in the number states of being imo. Realms of Light/Darkness/Between/Data/Winnie the Pooh's book/Unreality/Dreams Also are you saying that the Kh: unchained version of the universe is literally an AR layer on top of the normal, standard one world with basically chatgpt filling in all the characters who died in the war? Like not a Tron-style physical space inside a computer? If that applies to Twilight Town as well, what does that mean for Coded? What about Riku? They put bugs in him!

Kingdom Hearts: Production Value, uploads once again. Looking forward to the podcast

lets say you are spot on, lets say this is 100% the case no ones gonna get this, right. this is so deep under the surface of those mobile games that Nomura wouldnt be able to use it (altough im sure he would). the issue im having, is that this is an actual thing. that this story even exists and that it might even what drives forward the MoM saga right. i dont even wanna think about what this means for kh4. whenever that game comes out. or even the Missing Link mobile game, cause one was not enough ha. its just mind boggling. the whole thing ha.

YAY A NEW VIDEO 🎉🥳

Informative and very Aesthetic. A great refresher

This video was very informative. KH likes to be very complex and doesn't like to take the time to explain its concepts. Really appreciate the heart put in this video.

This is incredibly well done

I absolutely love your videos

what a breath of fresh air for the new year.

I love this explanation of Worldlines, it makes the most sense❤

Oooo this sounds like a fun idea :D

Omg just in time for 2023❤❤❤. Seriously even with these videos and keeping up with the lore, this is complicated AF.

great video !

Lets gooooo a new secret reports video ꓷ:

How is your editing so good

Love your style and well-researched approach to your videos. No offense to other KH content creators, but they tend to feel very click-baity and overly use face cams for news and theories (and the editing can be sub-par). This video is the standard I set for anyone creating KH content and theories. Keep up the great work! You have a consistent viewer here. :)

Hm, I see, interesting, very well done, you did good covering this, this seems very likely, i will look forward to what you cover next, sounds interesting already. …i wonder if Missing Link will confirm anything about this?

amazing editing

Around 3:57 It would also explain how Mickey Donald and Goofy, didn't realize they were digitalize in Coded... A lot of people forget about this game, i didn't, because it gave the very important hint of *DATA CAN HAVE HEARTS...* Totally didn't or won't matter in the future.

This video showed up in my feed right when I was asking myself these exact questions. Coincidence? I think not:)

Splendid video as always. So. Enchanted Dominion and Castle of Dreams were only put in the Data-World as Darkness shows us. And supposedly Strelitzia’s murder happens during the real events. However, Strelitzia’s flashbacks of Player shows that she encountered them in Castle of Dreams. What do you make of this?

I know I'm gonna state the obvious but I really like these videos not only because every topic is thorougly resourced but cause they are so satisfying to watch! Really excited for your future projects! Talking about the topics of this video... I'm really sorry for the inevitable long ass comment: 1) I get the reasoning on why Keyblade Graveyard should be a data world (after all Re:Mind confirms that Scala IS Daybreak Town and Dark Road confirms KG is not in Scala but another world itself), but to me something is off. I mean, what was the point on creating that specific world? No one goes there to collect Lux. Was it recreated intentionally to trick Union Leaders in thinking they were "free" to leave the datascape when in reality they were always in the data one (as discussed in "The Cause of it All" cutscene)? If Keyblade Graveyard was a digital copy, shouldn't they know it once tampering in the Control Room? That would be enough for Brain to realize that they were tricked, but he starts to think the Dandelions are trapped only after the appearance of the glitches. To further my point, I wanted to add that, if I'm not wrong, there's not a monitor showing Keyblade Graveyard in Control Room but to be honest it doesn't mean anything: we don't see every monitor and, of course, if it was a secret it wouldn't be shown because the Master knew that the Union Leaders, the same guys that had to be tricked, would have access to the Control Room. To sum it up: it's hard for me to believe that MoM recreated in an accessible part of the datascape the KG, as we see the Union Leaders meeting there, when the whole point of Unchained X was creating a "worldline" (your reasoning on this is so on point, never thought about that) where the war never happened. Isn't it possible (and easier) that the Kayblade Graveyard was severed from Daybreak Town after the destruction of the city in the ending of UX? 2) I never thougt about the possibility of data world appearing outside. We have always seen that to materialize/digitize something, it needs to be hit by those "data-lasers" (like the DiZ's Encoder ray that tried to digitize Xemnas' KH, or the ray you touch to travel from Data/Real Twilight Town in the mansion, or the machine/factory in Hollow Bastion that makes Sora and the Heartless travel in/out Space Paranoids). So when you say that data worlds can be projected outside the datascape overlapping the real place I don't get why Brain thought that the Dandelions needed to access Disney worlds traveling from Daybreak Town to Data Daybreak Town to the world of choice (but of course it could be a wrong idea because they always were in the digital one), or how DiZ could pull up something like that with Twilight Town. On this topic I'm really not so sure, but I can't say you're wrong cause I can't explain what your theory brilliantly can with that scene in KH2 that never made any sense where Chip could see Data Twilight Town with bare eyes. It could even explain what's happening on Toy Box with all that "the world is split in two". 3) I'm so happy you touched the subject on Lauriam talking about data of people and Shift Pride: to me, it's the thing the confused me the most in Union X ending. In the video that they didn't know talking with data recreated people could be a choice and that Lauriam was the most confused about this in the ending because he was not present during the meeting about Shift Pride. It makes a lot of sense if Imposter Brain really "coded" alone Shift Pride (I really hope they will ever come back on fake Brain, maybe confirming it was the personification of the Datascape like Data Riku in Re:coded but I fear we will never see of this thing again in the future...). What puzzles me is that the whole point of recreated data people to me came directly from Lauriam: in Quest 846 (Shift Pride meeting) Ephermer tells the others that the idea came from Lauriam himself and then we see a flashback where Lauriam says "Once the Keyblade War ended, the world were recreated in data with people in them. I'm looking for someone who was supposed to have becamo a Dandelion but I haven't seen them anywhere. So I thougt I'd search the data.". In the ending of UX Lauriam says: "I thought this place was just a copy of the world, not its people. Besides, if everyone's data was brought over, shouldn't there be versions of us too?". So Lauriam already knew about recreated data people BEFORE Shift Pride and then he suddenly don't. In other words: "Lauriam" suggest Ephemer that there are recreated data people; Ephemer talks about with the leaders in the meeting (without Lauriam) and "Fake Brain" goes all "Wow! Great idea Ephemer! Never thought about that!". Then Lauriam shows up and doesn't know anything about it. Isn' it... weird? So I'm starting to think... if really there was someone/something that impersonated Brain... What if they impersonated Lauriam too in the scene giving Ephemer the idea of Shift Pride?

I can't say any of it is simple, but the horror implications and technical connections of this whole part of Union are somehow still Elegant to me How long could you live in a 'nearly-perfect', holographic double of your world before you realized something was wrong? And, of course the world of 'Wreck-It Ralph', being a world about the connection between the digitally-created world and the real one, would be the potential escape from the data Daybreak Town to the real one. But what would happen?- You need certain components to go forward in time. Would the Dandelions trying to escape thru Wrech-It Ralph world simply not work? Or, does this imply somewhere out in The Age of Fairytales is a fairytale that starts "Once upon a time in Los Aburridos, California..."???

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Rewatching, Great vid as always! Big question about the X timeline though. Player gets Keyblade 2 years pass… (per Strelitzia flashback) Keyblade War then X is repeated and Union X occurs. Do at least another 2 years pass as the recording plays? Do the Dandelions experience those 2 years as well? How do the Dandelions age? If they forgot all of X and relived it at the same rate, wouldn’t they have seemingly aged 2 years instantly as of their first day in the new worldline? Alternatively, would they wake up 2 years younger than they were at the time of the Keyblade War to account for this? Master of Masters gives Foretellers their roles five years prior. Is this the same year Player received the Keyblade? If so, is it confirmed that the new events of KHUX take place over the course of a year? To give an example of how my brain is picturing the aging: Ventus is 16 in BBS (per Nomura) Ventus is 12 when given to Eraqus (per BBS’s ‘4 years prior’) Ventus is 11 when found by Xehanort (per DR placing it 1 year before bbs flashbacks) *Ventus is 11 in Union X* *Ventus is physically 10 in UX Year 2* *Ventus is physically 9 in UX Year 1* *Ventus is 10 in X Year 2* *Ventus is 9 in X Year 1* Is this a correct way to understand it? I’ve never heard anyone discuss it but it seems like a major point to me. Can you help me understand it?

Looking forward to the Wreck-it Ralph world discussion. Never would I have thought that movie could be so important to the lore of Kingdom Hearts.

What I wanna know is why Game Central Station spontaneously connected to data Daybreak Town seemingly through time?

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NEW SECET REPORTS! I WAKE

Your videos look amazing, are you interested in creating subtitles in multiple languages?

SHE'S BAAAAAAAAACK

WE ARR SO FUCKING BACK

woah I feel like a former amish now experiencing the wonders of modern technology

Don't ever leave us again!

OMG THEY HATHS RETURNED.

WE ARE SO BACK

How did the union leaders get trapped in the datatown?!

Wake up babe, peak just dropped.

The simplest answer really is because everyone outside of Japan didn't officially get Chi. So Unchained X was just for our benefit. 😂 Everything else is just usual Nomura madness trying to make a story out of it like he did with Mickey not having clothes. 🤣 But I'll admit, that's what makes kh a funny thing to watch lol.

Kingdom hearts content being recomended straight at launch? Weird youtube, but greatly appreciated

Man its really been a while.

Somebody pay this woman!

The animation is amazing. I love this. I'm subbing and I would like to collab!