Magic Hour (マジックアワー, Majikku Awā)
Attack	Power	Critical Chance	Flinches
Ray of light	2.06	X	X
Final Limit
Ray of light	2.28	X	O

Magic Hour (マジックアワー, Majikku Awā)
Press the button at the right times to dive repeatedly and create columns of light that send enemies flying.
LV	CP Required		Attack			No. of Hits			Power		Additional inputs
LV1	—		Magic Hour			1			3.0		5 times
LV2	750		Magic Hour			1			3.1		5 times
LV3	800		Magic Hour			1			3.1		6 times
LV4	850		Magic Hour			1			3.2		6 times
LV5	900		Magic Hour			1			3.2		7 times
Element			Status Effect				Reload Speed			Command Gauge
Physical			—				25 seconds			+10
Buy					Sell
Price		Shop LV			Base				LV Bonus		Ability Bonus
—		—			1250				312.5		625

"You can't stop me!"

—Dual-wielding Roxas during the Limit Break.

"Give me strength!"

—Dual-wielding Roxas during the Final Limit.

Magic Hour is a technique that appears in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. It allows the user to generate giant pillars of light that damage the opponent.

Mechanics

In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Magic Hour is Dual-wielding Roxas's Limit Break. It consists of him jumping a few feet off the ground, then summoning the pillars of light to rain down randomly around him. The Final Limit increases the size, speed, and strength of the pillars, and also shields Roxas in a cloak of light. During both phases, Roxas can stall the attack with , forcing him to drop down, allowing him to move elsewhere and resume the attack with .

In Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Magic Hour is an Ultimate attack command exclusive to Aqua that takes up two slots in the Command Deck, has a maximum level of 5, has a normal reload time of 25 seconds, and refills the Command Gauge by 10%. It also has a Command Shop value of 2500. Magic Hour causes the user to teleport to the air above an enemy, and dive down to generate a single pillar of light. The player is required to press when signaled to continue generating the pillars.

Learning Magic Hour

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

• Dual-wielding Roxas has Magic Hour as his Limit Break.

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

Command Meld

Magic Hour is an Ultimate-class Attack Command that can be melded through two different recipes, listed in the Giga Attack Recipe.

Other Appearances

Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix

Roxas can use Keyblade Release, an attack resembling Magic Hour, during the boss battle against him in The World That Never Was. Roxas floats several feet in the air in the center of the arena with a cage of vertical lasers encircling him, during which he is completely invincible to attack, while firing down a succession of 14 homing light orbs on Sora.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

In Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Xion's Laser Rain attack during the final form of her boss battle resembles Roxas's Magic Hour.

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded

Data-Roxas can use Magic Hour as a boss. It is identical to the Limit Break from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days; at 10% HP, he will use the Final Limit version.

Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind

During the Replica Xehanort boss battle, Roxas can use a variant of Magic Hour called Miracle Hour (ミラクルアワー, Mirakuru Awā) as a special command during his team attack with Ventus and Xion.

Double Form's finish command resembles Roxas's Magic Hour variant featured in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days.

Final Fantasy Record Keeper

Magic Hour appears in Final Fantasy Record Keeper as one of Roxas's Soul Breaks, learned through the Omega Weapon (KH) Keyblade. It allows him to deliver fifteen ranged physical holy, dark, and non-elemental attacks to one enemy, temporarily infuse him with the power of holy light, gain Awoken Knight Mode, increase his Cap Break Level by 1, and cause eevry third knight ability he uses to trigger the follow-up attack Dual Hero.

Notes and references

• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days abilities
• Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Attack commands