My feelings exactly. I never understood why the hell Disney, which is usually so protective of their IP's allowed a game to pair hands down some of the most historically recognizable Western cartoon characters with the most commercial, tasteless and nonsensical version of Japanese anime characters. The equivalent in the reverse would be a western studio pairing Akira with Ben10 or GI-Joe, as if those were on comparable levels. Worse actually, because Ben10 or GI-Joe are at least reasonably established. The characters of KH are complete nobodies. So Pair Akira with a Hanna Montana Montanta inspired jazzy and fashony girl drawn in a copy-paste approximation of Adventure Time and Sponge Bob's art style, or whatever else is hot in cartoon Network at this time and that will look aged in less than a decade from now.
I consider this whole series a spit in the face of Disney. And I'm not even a disney fanatic. I actually think as a corporation they drag both entertainment and cinema down more than they push it up, and their classic works are far from perfect. I dislike their over-hygienization and simplistic moralism, but credit must be given where it's due. For a studio as market driven/focused as Disney, they could do a lot fucking worse. With all their lame safe-playing, their classic feature animations are genuine pieces of art, from the hands of some of the finest illustrator and animators of the past century. You don't pay a homage to that sticking final fucking fantasy popedy pop shit on it. It's completely out of place. And that people play it and just go with it is incomprehensible to me. Seriously, that kind of thing makes my blood boil. But it's because I am an amateur animator myself. I care about aesthetical coherency, and about the aesthetical "soul" of things. And KH and Dinsey simply don't fit together. It's like telling Led Zeppelin to play along with Ke$ha. If hardcore Disney fans were not all nerdy infantilized submissive introverted manbabies who also happen to like anime (obviously, because 99% of anime is designed specifically to appeal to nerdy introvert manbabies) they would have set Square Enix on fire the moment the first images of the first KH were made public. I mean, that is what Led Zeppelin fans would have done, and even those guys are mostly middle aged beerbellied bank accountants and bald engineers, they might not be as rock-'n'-roll as they see themselves as, but they at least have half a testicle working. You can't say that about a Disney fan (or Nintendo fan)
ok, this rant got way too emotional. I guess it shows how dear the subject is to me.