Kirby Right Back At Ya! | Maximum Pink

These are my canon voices for Meta Knight and Dedede, you can't change my mind!

Dedede's english voice is the only cannon Dedede voice I will accept

Meta-Kight - appears
Every Mariachi band in a 50 mile radius- "Its showtime"

“It never gets too dark or intense”


Fright to the Finish: Allow me to introduce myself.

I refuse to believe that Dedede’s voice in the English dub isn’t his canon voice

How to be anime Meta Knight:

Hire a mariachis band.

Talk in riddles.

Never give a straight answer.

"My name is Meta Knight! You killed my Airship Kirby! Prepare to die!" - Meta Knight

This anime was such a freaking enigma. So much bizarre meme material, yet the show stays nicely competent.

I like the episode where Kirby is tasked with delivering food to King Dedede and ends up sitting in the middle of the road and has an existential crisis.

Never got too dark? What about that two parter where the fortune teller predicted a meteor would destroy the town, then NME made the meteor come right away, and while everyone disaster-prepped, Dedede had to come to terms with his own mortality and his wasted self-serving life?

Them sticking with Kirby's Poyo language for the majority of the English dub was a smart choice.

Fun fact: Meta Knight is voiced by Eric Stuart, the same voice as James from Team Rocket in Pokémon. 😉

That’s not meta knight
That’s mexa Knight

I just wanna say that you can't NOT love Meta Knight in every aspect in this show

Eric Stuart as Meta Knight is the best casting call you could ever have

Meta Knight: "you got a smoke?"
Tiff: W h a t

I have a weird suspicion that Antdude adores Kirby.

Fun facts about the anime:
- The bird (Tokkori) in the original is voiced by the same person that voices Young Link from the N64 onwards (even in Smash Ultimate!)
- SO many characters/enemies that were in the games shows up in the anime at some point! Chef Kawasaki, Knuckle Joe, Rick/Kine/Coo, Whispy Woods, Kracko, even Scarfys, Mumbies, and Phan Phan. And of course, the Halberd shows up in the last few episodes.
- There are like, 10+ episodes that are just straight-up parodies of pop culture. From Jurassic Park to Harry Potter to Gone With The Wind to a modern art museum (complete with actual real-life art) to... Goodbye Mr. Chips, for some reason. There are so many references.
- The original has Kirby music! Some is direct from the games - Green Greens from Smash Bros. Melee plays during one heroic sequence. A few tracks from the anime were also directly featured in Kirby Air Ride (or maybe they were in the game first, can't seem to find out). Yes, the Kirby dance also makes an appearance. I don't even want to know how the dub handled that without the actual music track.
- Some of the 'new' transformations Kirby gets near the end, including Water Kirby, are contest winner submissions! Kids in Japan actually submitted ideas for transformations and a few of them made the cut in the anime. And Water Kirby is one that actually became canon in the games afterwards.
- The series actually uses a lot less 2D-3D mix as the episodes go on. Kirby is usually 3D but characters like Dedede are less frequently 3D near the end of the series.

The scene from this show where DeDeDe takes Kirby to a park makes me cry every time I see it.

(Episode 39)

"It doesn't get too dark". Clearly, you haven't seen the episodes Kirby gets a robot dog or the one where the town gets frozen over and he befriends a snowman. Not even a film like Infinity War or Endgame got me that close to crying with a fictional media.