Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
2001 anime series based on Nintendo's Kirby franchise
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! is a Japanese anime television series based on HAL Laboratory's Kirby franchise. Produced by Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting, Dentsu and A-UN Entertainment and animated by Studio Sign, it was directed by Sōji Yoshikawa, who also handled anime composition, and Mitsuo Kusakabe, with Miyuki Shimabukuro as character designer, Kazuo Iimura as chief animation director and Akira Miyagawa as music composer. The anime aired on CBC and TBS in Japan from October 2001 to September 2003, with 100 episodes. In the United States, the anime aired on FoxBox from September 2002 to November 2006, with episodes being released in Europe on the Kirby TV Channel for the Wii and on Kirby's Dream Collection, also for the Wii.
The anime follows Kirby, who possesses the ability to temporarily gain magical powers by sucking up their owners. After crash-landing on the planet of Popstar and befriending siblings Tiff and Tuff, Kirby and his friends fight to bring down the evil emperor Nightmare while evading King Dedede and his assistant Escargoon, who seek to eliminate Kirby using monsters provided by NightMare Enterprises.
Plot
Long ago, the emperor of darkness known as Nightmare created armies of monsters and sent them across the universe in order to conquer it, but over time, some began to rebel against him. Star Warriors, which included Sir Meta Knight, fought for good and formed the Galaxy Soldier Army to fight against evil and defeat Nightmare. Despite their efforts, they were unable to defeat his endless supply of monsters, and the surviving Star Warriors retreated to the edges of the universe, where they still sought to defeat Nightmare.
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