星のカービィ

星のカービィ is a Japanese anime series based on Nintendo's Kirby franchise. Produced by Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting, Dentsu, A-UN Entertainment and Studio Sign, it was directed by Sōji Yoshikawa and Mitsuo Kusakabe, with Yoshikawa handling series composition, Miyuki Shimabukuro designing the characters, Kazuo Iimura serving as chief animation director, and Akira Miyagawa composing the music.

The series follows Kirby, a pink, spherical, childlike creature who does not speak in coherent words but possesses the ability to take on new magical powers temporarily by inhaling their original users. Kirby arrives on a planet called Popstar, near the village of Cappy Town, when his spaceship crashes there. He quickly befriends two yellow-skinned siblings named Tiff and Tuff and their friends Fololo and Falala. Over the course of the series, Kirby and his friends evade King Dedede and his assistant Escargoon, who try to get rid of Kirby using numerous monsters provided by NME (NightMare Enterprises).

Broadcast
星のカービィ debuted on CBC in Japan on October 6, 2001. Its original run ended on September 27, 2003, after four seasons and 100 episodes.

星のカービィ later began rebroadcasting on Tokyo MX starting June 28, 2007, until May 21, 2009.

Release
In 2009, 星のカービィ was available for streaming in Japan via the Everyone's Theater Channel for the Wii, with each episode worth 100 Wii Points. In addition, a special CG animated episode, titled "星のカービィ〜特別編〜倒せ!!甲殻魔獣エビゾウ", was released to the Wii no Ma service on August 9, 2009. On April 30, 2012, Nintendo terminated broadcast of the Wii no Ma channel.

On August 11, 2022, it was announced at the Kirby 30th Anniversary Music Fest concert that the complete series will be released in an HD Blu-Ray box set, later revealed to release on March 14, 2023.

Cast

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Music

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International versions

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Trivia

 * Almost all foreign-language dubbings of the series (including the Bulgarian voice-over) were produced using the 4Kids English dub using a base, rather than directly translating the original Japanese version.
 * The Cantonese, Filipino and Mandarin dubs are exceptions to this.