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There was a lot for <\/span>Kingdom Hearts<\/span><\/i> fans to digest<\/span> a<\/span><\/a>t this year\u2019s D23 event. A new trailer for <\/span>Kingdom Hearts IV<\/span><\/i> revealed Sora will go to a world based on Pixar\u2019s <\/span>Coco<\/span><\/i>, segments featuring playable Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, and the much-anticipated return of Riku, Sora\u2019s best friend and rival. During the \u201cDeep Dive into <\/span>Kingdom Hearts<\/span><\/i>\u201d panel, Haley Joel Osment and David Gallagher, the long-time English voice actors who have been playing Sora and RIku since they were teenagers, took the stage to talk about the series, and then did something they had surprisingly never done before in the RPG\u2019 25 year history: gave a live performance together as Sora and Riku. But what was a lovely moment for fans of Square Enix and Disney\u2019s beloved series took on a much sadder meaning just a day later following the death of the original English voice of l Kairi: actor <\/span>Hayden Panettiere<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Osment and Gallagher performed the ending of <\/span>Kingdom Hearts II<\/span><\/i>, which shows Sora and Riku opening up to each other in the Realm of Darkness. It\u2019s been a while since the two have had a moment to just talk, having been on intertwined but separate paths since the first game. As they talk, a message in a bottle washes up on the Realm of Darkness\u2019 shore, and inside, the two find a message from Kairi, the third of their trio of friends from Destiny Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n