Episode 20 and something's been pinging around in my head since the new KH4 trailer: Quadratum has no colour. Strelitzia is black and white. Sora is red and black. Luxord, black. Sigurd gets purple — and black. The city is greys and whites outside the advertising, the NPCs all dress business casual, and there are no kids, no animals, no hospitals, no schools, no parks — none of the life a city is supposed to contain. In this episode I think through the apartment that nobody seems to live in and why it matches neither Strelitzia's personality nor any real depiction of a Japanese home, why people who fear being swept up again don't decorate, the cog-in-the-machine reading where it doesn't matter that it's Sora — just what makes Sora useful, and how every other dark place in this series — San Fransokyo, The World That Never Was, Twilight Town — stil ...