It was Valentine's Day yesterday but I'll spare you any romance themed blog entries and move onto a 4Kids anime.
(In case you haven't guessed yet I didn't get any Valentine's Cards and I'm taking it out on a 4Kids Anime)
So now give a warm welcome to Kirby.
Now the games don't offer much insight into Kirby's backstory so this anime cleans it up by saying that Kirby is one of the last star warriors of his kind and crash lands on Planet Popstar because he was drawn to it due to recent monster activity from the mostly villainous King Dedede. The bigger bad guy is Nightmare, who spreads his chaos around the universe by getting people like King Dedede to invest in his monsters sold by a weird smooth talking human who acts like the owner of a used car company. So for a hundred episodes watch Kirby fight a different monster every week along with friends Tiff and Tuff, and some support from the Spanish sounding Meta Knight.
Yeah Kirby is a monster-of-the-week style show and it knows it, I've only watched four episodes of this anime and I don't need anymore, this anime is so predictable that you don't even care what monster it is Kirby has to fight, it doesn't help that Kirby is known for being nigh invincible and that his feats and achievements make many of his Nintendo stable mates jealous. Thankfully Kirby doesn't talk because 4Kids were very quick to leave their trademark stamp on the anime; Meta Knight speaks with a Spanish accent which totally isn't ripping off Puss in Boots from Shrek and we have King Dedede sounding like a more refined Foghorn Leghorn, and yes I had to watch the dub that's all the Nintendo Anime Channel offers but I digress, Kirby is at the very least entertaining even if it is really predictable and uses some god awful voices but saying that 4Kids has never made Nintendo look bad since it did so well with Pokemon and you sense when watching Kirby that it was much easier to adapt than say Legend of Zelda or Metroid.
Final Verdict: It's tolerable in small doses and plays a lot of safe cards but it still showcases itself as 4Kids trash, slightly better quality trash but trash none the less but Kirby never loses any of his charm because of it. Depending on your taste in anime, I'd say take it or leave it.
