The final volume of the Kingdom Hearts II manga will finally be released next week (August 22) in Japan. After starting back in 2006, it's great to finally see this manga series coming to an end. You can view the cover below. Thanks go to @ArikaMiz for the tip. Additionally, we also have chapter 63, the final chapter of volume 9 scanned and translated thanks to taime, catmaster0116 & corfidbizna.

Update: Tetsuya Nomura, the director of the Kingdom Hearts series posted a tweet regarding the final volume of the Kingdom Hearts II manga via the official Kingdom Hearts Japanese Twitter page. In the tweet he shows his appreciation on how well Shiro Amano, the artist for the Kingdom Hearts manga series has done with the manga. You can view a translation of the tweet below thanks to goldpanner.

The last volume of the comic adaptation of Kingdom Hearts II, by Shiro Amano, the first person other than me approved to officially draw Sora and the gang, releases on the 22nd this month. I wrote something for the paper wrapper. Please take a look. Now I am looking forward to the day he next does the honour of drawing for me.

Update 2: For the Japanese release, each copy of the last volume of Kingdom Hearts II manga includes a special message from the Kingdom Hearts series director, Tetsuya Nomura. You can find the message below in both Japanese and English. Translation provided by KH13 News Team member soraspromise.