Joshua

"As for how Traverse Town got split in two, I have a feeling you'll have to ask this guy."

—Joshua to Sora about Young Xehanort.

Joshua is a character who appears in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. He appears in Traverse Town.

Development

Joshua, along with Neku, Shiki, Beat, and Rhyme are the first characters to appear in the Kingdom Hearts series who originated from something other than Disney, Final Fantasy, or Kingdom Hearts fiction, although they are from another game that is property of Square Enix, as well as being designed by Tetsuya Nomura.

Appearance

Joshua is a lanky, fair-skinned teenager with scraggly ash blond hair and lavender-colored eyes. He wears a white button-down shirt, with a fairly exposed neck and collar. Joshua wears dark grey pants and plain white shoes with black laces. Joshua can also manifest shining blue, ethereal wings on his back.

Origin

Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu is a character from Square Enix's The World Ends with You. A sly and precocious boy with an incredibly deep view of the world around him, he is shrouded in mystery. Joshua partners with Neku in the beginning of Neku's second week of the Reaper's Game. Joshua is an illegal player, meaning he didn't die to enter the game, but joins it anyway since he claims he can see the dead and has watched the Game many times. During the week, Joshua looks for the "Shibuya River" with Neku, using a tracker Mr. Hanekoma installed in his and Neku's cellphones.