History Trivia / KirbyRightBackAtYa

** Pony Canyon released the entire series on VHS and Avex Mode released the first 36 episodes on DVD. They have since gone out of print and to this day, it hasn't seen a Blu-ray or digital release.

** Kirby's "Poyo" language was carried over into certain games.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The pilot for Kirby of the Stars ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXv2n6Ew1HQ as seen here]]) has a lot of differences that were changed by the time the anime went into full production. Examples including Tiff having a far more simplistic design, King Dedede being more based on his appearance in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' and having the role of a reluctant ally/rival more comparable to the games, Meta Knight being an antagonist with the ability to fly, Kirby not wearing distinct hats when gaining powers, and the total absence of prominent characters like Escargoon and Tuff. Interestingly enough, ''[[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 Dark Matter]]'' appeared as a monster despite not appearing in the show proper.

** Most of the 4Kids dub remains unavailable on video in North America and exists through off-air recordings. A few of those episodes did appear on the North American Funimation VHS and DVD releases, but they are now out of print. 4Kids ending their partnership with Funimation, as well as their 2011 bankruptcy, has made the dub even harder to find.

** The Latin American Spanish dub also suffered this fate when the master tapes were junked after the series got ScrewedByTheNetwork on Creator/{{Jetix}}. As with the English dub, the first half still exists through off-air recordings from Creator/FoxKids.

** The Latin American Spanish dub has been this for a very long time. Besides getting ScrewedByTheNetwork on Creator/{{Jetix}} (see below), it took until 2020 for somebody to find a bunch a VHS tapes with episodes from the first half of the series recorded from Creator/FoxKids. Now a good chunk of episodes can be found online but it is very unlikely the series will ever air again on the region, so the only hope for fans is to find more people with recordings of the episodes.

** Most of the 4Kids dub remains unavailable on video in North America. A few of those episodes did appear on the North American Funimation VHS and DVD releases, but they are now out of print. 4Kids ending their partnership with Funimation, as well as their 2011 bankruptcy, has made the dub even harder to find.

* RoleReprise: In the special "Kirby 3D" episode, almost the entire voice cast from the dub returned to voice their characters. The exceptions being the [[AuthorExistenceFailure departed]] Creator/MaddieBlaustein, so the voice of Chef Kawasaki was [[TheOtherDarrin recast]] and Creator/AndrewRannells the voice of Nightmare/N.M.E. who moved onto Broadway productions.

* BannedInChina: Kirby: Right Back at Ya! is currently banned worldwide under the order of the Association for Promotion of Advanced Broadcasting Services, or "A-PAB" for short. Any videos that get uploaded to YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VNshFCA-CY are often put at risk of getting taken down]].

** The Latin American dub has been this for a very long time. When it aired on Fox Kids, it had a decent afternoon schedule alongside other anime series like Ultimate Muscle and Shaman King. However, when the channel became Jetix (A channel infamous on the region for screwing over series on purpose so they can remove them to show more Fairly Oddparents and Pucca re-runs) put the series on a horrible time slot at the early hours of the morning and stopped airing the first half of the series before removing it entierly just a few years later. It took until 2020 for somebody to find a bunch a VHS tapes with episodes from the first half of the series recorded from Fox Kids. Now a good chunk of episodes can be found online but it is very unlikely the series will ever air again on the region, so the only hope for fans is to find more people with recording of the episodes.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: [[Creator/FujikoTakimoto Tokokori]] and [[Creator/TakashiNagasako Mayor Len and Professor Curio]] are [[VideoGame/TheLegendofZeldaOcarinaofTime Young Link and Ganondorf]].

* EarlyBirdRelease: The final 3 episodes of the series [[note]]Cappy Town Down, Combat Kirby and Fright to the Finish[[/note]] were released alongside the Air-Ride-in-Style 2-parter (Aka the first parts of the finale) as a single movie on the "Fright to the Finish" DVD over a year and a half before they aired on American TV.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The "Air Ride in Style" two-parter. In the Japanese original, these episodes (called "Crisis of the Warpstar") came close to the end of the series, and were supposed to be Kirby's training for the final battle. In the English dub, the episodes were stuck in the middle of the series in order to advertise the then-new game ''Kirby Air Ride''.

** Most of the 4Kids dub remains unavailable on video in North America. A few of those episodes did appear on the North American Funimation VHS and DVD releases, but they are now out of print. Their license has since reverted to its franchise owner and current copyright holder, Nintendo.

* TalkingToHimself: Creator/BanjoGinga as the N.M.E. Sales Guy and Nightmare in the original Japanese, Creator/TedLewis as Dedede and Escargoon in the English dub.
** Kayzie Rogers voices both Tuff and Lady Like.
** In the original, there's actually quite a few. For instance, Creator/TakashiNagasako as Mayor Len and Professor Curio; Creator/NobuoTobita as Chef Kawasaki, Kabu, Galaxia and others (including Max Flexer); and Creator/YukoMizutani as Lady Like, Mabel, Waddle Doo and several [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters]]. Kirby, Rick and Iro also have [[Creator/MakikoOhmoto the same actress]] in the original.

** Most of the 4Kids dub remains unavailable on video in North America. A few of those episodes did appear on the North American Funimation VHS and DVD releases, but they are now out of print. [=4Kids=]' license has since reverted to its current copyright holder, Nintendo.

** Most of the 4Kids dub remains unavailable on video in North America. A few of those episodes did appear on the North American Funimation VHS and DVD releases, but they are now out of print. It also hasn't seen a digital streaming release.

** Pony Canyon released the entire series on VHS and Avex Mode released the first 36 episodes on DVD. They have since gone out of print and have never been re-released digitally.

** At present, the North American Funimation DVD releases are the only way to watch 4Kids's English dub of the series.

** 4Kids's dub has never been re-broadcast since the late 2000s or released digitally.

** 4Kids's dub has never been re-broadcast since the late 2000s or released digitally, meaning the only places you can find those episodes are on [=YouTube=] (if the copyright police hasn't taken down the episodes yet) or any non-legal site.

** 4Kids's dub has never been re-broadcast since the late 2000s or released digitally, meaning the only places you can find those episodes are on [=YouTube=] channels if you want to watch them.

** Pony Canyon released the entire series on VHS and Avex Mode released the first 36 episodes on DVD. They have since gone out of print and have never been released digitally

** Pony Canyon released the entire series on VHS and Avex Mode released the 36 episodes on DVD. They have since gone out of print.