History Anime / KirbyRightBackAtYA

%% * GagBoobs: The notorious “Bouncy Tiff”. See below for more details.

-->-- English theme song.

* ColorFailure: Played with at the end of episode 49, with Kirby[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke rendered in 2D for the joke to work]][[/note]] becoming transparent and a paintbrush coming in to restore his colors. Doubles as an intentional moment of OffModel as well.

* OffModel: Parodied full-on in episode 49. Played straight in some other instances though, mainly with coloring issues.
** Kirby gets a stretchy arm in one scene of episode 6.
** Escargoon has an instance of two chins in episode 2.

* ConflictBall: The only reason that the war between the kids and the forest animals happens in “War Of The Woods”, is because Tuff assumed the worst out of the animals living in Acore (the tree Whispy fears might be in danger, and sent them to assist), despite Rick, an animal friend both Tuff and Kirby knew, being among the animals living there; and explaining to them that Acore lets them live inside him.

* CoolAirship: [[spoiler:The ''Halberd''.]]

* CoolSpaceship: Kirby’s Starship, and later in the series, Nightmare’s fleet of Destroyer [[FlyingSaucer UFOs]], a class of gigantic spacecraft capable of destroying an area the size of Cappy Town with just one shot of their beam cannons.

%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Meta Knight.

** The series, in general, is this compared to the games it's based on, most prominently with Meta Knight's backstory, although several individual episodes are much bleaker than the games usually are (Prediction Predicament being a notable example.).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Tiff and Tuff search for Kirby after he angers Dyna Blade, they discover him gathering fish. [[spoiler:They were for Dyna Blade's chick.]]
** Earlier, in Kirby's Duel Role, the duel between Meta Knight and Kirby has the former merely batting the latter with his sword, rather than slashing. Combined with the advice Meta Knight gives Kirby as they battle, this foreshadows Meta Knight's true motives.

* ForTheEvulz: Dedede likes [[PokeThePoodle causing trouble and making other people's lives as miserable as he possibly can]]. Why? Just because he thinks it's fun.

* HeelFaceTurn: Knuckle Joe. He even changes color when he does so, [[MythologyGag reflecting how "helper" characters have a different color scheme in the games]].

* {{Unperson}}: The monster Erasem from the episode "Escar-gone", has the power to do this. It enters Escargoon's body one night and by the next morning, everyone he ever knew doesn't know who he is.

''Kirby: Right Back at Ya!'' (''Hoshi no Kaabii'' in Japanese, meaning ''Kirby of the Stars'') is an anime adaptation of Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series. It was notably a joint production by Nintendo and the original series developer Creator/HALLaboratory (Warpstar, Inc.), with direct involvement from game series creator Creator/MasahiroSakurai. Creator/FourKidsEntertainment handled the dub.

* TheAnimeOfTheGame: More specifically, it was made as a sort-of tie-in to the recently released ''VideoGame/KirbyNightmareInDreamLand'' remake which had come out at the time (hence why Nightmare is the BigBad here, despite not being so powerful or reoccurring in the games).

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: One episode has the characters going through a world of dinosaurs created by a mad scientist (actually a MonsterOfTheWeek and a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''), with the added twist of the dinosaurs having the protagonist's DNA. On a general note, it's a parody of ''Film/JurassicPark'', complete with a kitchen scene.
** DinosaursAreDragons: Two instances where dinosaurs breath fire, both justified. One occurrence is in Dedede's dream, and the other when Dinosaur Kirby attacks everyone. He inhales a torch and gets the fire copy ability.

--> '''Dedede:''' I'm off to get this dream [[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interpolate interpolated]]!

** Dedede's tendency to add -zoi to the end of his lines in the Japanese version of the anime is also used in the Japanese narration of ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn''. Kirby likewise says poyo during some events in ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' and ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'', and uses the word exclusively in ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack''.

* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Kirby is one of the nicest characters in the main cast whereas Tokkori is the mean one due to him being a trademark [[GrumpyBear hot-headed]] {{Jerkass}}. Meta Knight mediates in-between combining his sanity with his mysterious personality.

%% None of the examples explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button:

* BerserkButton:
** According to Customer Service, [=WolfWrath=] despises being trained.
** One look at Fumu-tan of the Stars and slowly, but surely, Tiff takes her anger out on the Otakus who made it.

* BigEater: Take a wild guess.

[[caption-width-right:324: [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong "He's more than you think, he's got maximum pink!"]]]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

In 2011, Creator/{{Nintendo}} released the Kirby TV Channel in Europe, a free downloadable UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} channel allowing Wii owners to watch a constantly rotating set of episodes from the entire anime. In 2012, a 3D version of a special episode was released on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS. And in 2022, during the Kirby 30th Anniversary Music Festival, it was announced the series was getting an official HD Blu-Ray release. It will be released in Winter 2022.

In 2011, Creator/{{Nintendo}} released the Kirby TV Channel in Europe, a free downloadable UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} channel allowing Wii owners to watch a constantly rotating set of episodes from the entire anime. In 2012, a 3D version of a special episode was released on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS.

* NiceHat: Kirby gets one every time he transforms into an ability. Abilities that don't have hats in the games, like Crash, are given hats anyway.

* AlwaysALiveTransmission: In the episode "Cartoon Buffoon", Dedede gets a bunch of the residents of Cappy Town to work for him to make a cartoon. On the day the cartoon premiers, he and the crew have the animation broadcast and the voice work done and recorded live on television. This also applies to the cartoon that Dedede has his own soldiers make for him at the end of the episode after the first cartoon bombs, since his minions are actually [[UpToEleven drawing and inking in RealTime while feeding the projector.]]

%%* BalloonBelly: Kirby and Dedede take this to [[UpToEleven ridiculous extremes]] in Episode 61, "Fitness Fiend"

** King Dedede as well. In fact, compared to the games, he takes this trope UpToEleven. Although he does soften up as the series progresses.

* RejectedMarriageProposal: Princess Rona [[spoiler:[[SwappedRoles actually the real princess's lady-in-waiting]] turns down the besotted Dedede, as does Commander Vee [[spoiler:who is actually Rona]] on behalf of the princess. Angered, Dedede [[ThrowingDownTheGauntlet throws down a glove]] and orders a duel to win the princess's hand.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: In the final episode, [[spoiler:Professor Curio has to repair Dedede's Monster Transporter due to the destruction of the Halberd, forcing the heroes to use NME's delivery system to escape before the base explodes. He manages to repair it in time after Waddle Doo finds the missing part.]]

** The Italian dub referred to Kine as an European hake (or rather a fictional subspecies of it, complete with the [[BinomiumRidiculus fake Latin name]] of ''Nasellus Loquacis'' ("Nasello loquace", "Chatterbox hake").

* MegaCorp: [=NightMare=] Enterprises. A large and mysterious corporation which sells monsters to its customers.

** In "Snack Attack", Gengu's unpopular mini-figures becomes a hit with the kids in Cappy Time when they were combined with Tuggles' poor selling chocolate capsules. All of the action figures were based on the Star Warriors, some of who were still alive such as Meta Knight (which he found amusing.). [[spoiler:Subverted when a new stock become different-looking monsters, due to all of them being sent by [=NightMare=] Enterprises.]]

%%* {{Muggles}}: The Cappies, and everyone else that lives in the village below Dedede's castle.

%% * SugarApocalypse: The entire SeriesFinale.
* SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom: This has to be the only reason King Dedede ordered monsters from ''Night Mare'' Enterprises. Doesn't help that a few of the soon-to-be [[BiggerIsBetter gigantic enemies]] ''are'' [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter pretty cute]] [[KillerRabbit at first]], and some of them are even CuteAndPsycho.
** The dub doesn't have this, of course...making Dedede look like more of an idiot in the process if it was possible.