Kirby Star Allies (TV series)

Kirby Star Allies is an Japanese-American-French-South Korean CGI-animated television series developed by HAL Laboratory Inc. and Nintendo of America. Based on the Kirby franchise created by HAL Laboratory Inc and it's game, Kirby Star Allies.
The series is aimed at children, teenagers and adults, basically every age.
The series was later on added to Netflix after a year of the first episode to celebrate it's 1-year anniversary.
Voice actors from the anime Kirby: Right Back at Ya! returns to this series as new characters get new voice actors.
== Development ==
Years after the development of Kirby: Right Back at Ya, HAL Laboratory Inc. said in an interview that they do want to do a reboot, which is CGI animated, and later then, it was silent about it, the production began in 2018, there was nothing said about it. A few years later, Cartoon Network confirmed that there will be a TV series based on Kirby, a few months away. The show had it's first commercial and the debut release date.
The series has been getting high reception from fans, and that it's a nostalgia train for people that watched Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. Which led to the developers to say that the show will be lasting for a very long time as long as they have ideas for episodes.
== Plot ==
The plot is based on the plot in Kirby Star Allies, where Kirby and his friends go on an adventure and to fight enemies, which later become Kirby's friends. Unlike Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, King Dedede is actually a friend to Kirby, and they have to fight off the antics from Hyness. And his three Jambastion Mages, Francisca, Zan Partizanne and Flamberge, who tries to take over Dreamland with their powers.
== Characters and Cast ==
Character 	Boss 	Voice Actor
Kirby 	Kirby is the hero of Dreamland, he has the ability to throw hearts at enemies so that enemies can instantly become Kirby's friend. 	Amy Palant
King Dedede 	King Dedede used to be Kirby's enemy, he now changed his mind, and decided to become Kirby's friend, he has a hammer, this time to "clobbah" something else than Kirby. King Dedede speaks with an Texan accent.	Nat Faxon
Meta Knight 	Meta Knight, the lone swordsman, the leader of the Knights, he joins Kirby on his adventure to solve troubles, King Dedede considers Meta Knight as his best friend. Meta Knight speaks with an Spanish Accent 	
Steve Blum
Bandana Waddle Dee	One of King Dedede's royal servant and a good friend of Kirby, he always uses his spear as his weapon and to fly with. 	Keith Ferguson
Marx 	A pretty strong jester with a load of power, he always uses his circus balls as a weapon and he can turn into his true form which makes him a black hole. He speaks with an Rastafarian accent. 	
Kimiko Glenn
Gooey 	Gooey is a blue ball which has water powers, Gooey isn't intelligent at all, he is also clumsy. 	Bill Faggerbakke
Rick 	A orange hamster who can spit fire, he has fire powers, and he always wants to impress Kirby and never wants to hurt Kirby's feelings. He speaks with an Australian accent. 	Billy West
Kine 	Since Rick and Coo can't swim, Kine is here to help, like Gooey, he has aquatic powers, and always helps Kirby during a adventure underwater. 	Jeff Bennett
Coo 	Since Rick and Kine can't fly, whenever they're helping Kirby on their adventure, Coo will do the flight. 	
Nat Faxon
Adeleine 	Adeleine is one of Kirby's old friends she aided along with Ribbon in Kirby 64, she returned so she can reunite with Kirby 	Mila Kunis
Dark Meta Knight 	Though he doesn't seem to get along with Meta Knight, he was forced to help Kirby, Meta Knight doesn't appreciate that Dark Meta Knight came along. 	
Steve Blum
Daroach 	Daroach, the leader of the bandit group the Squeaks has redeemed himself after his greed and stealing stuff, and now became Kirby's friend, it is unknown what happened to his team members. 	Tom Kenny
Magolor 	The pilot of the Lor Starcutter has redeemed himself after he tricked Kirby a few years ago, now he decided to stay at earth to hang out with Kirby and go on adventures with the pink puffball. 	Scott Menville
Taranza 	This man once kidnapped the King of Dreamland, but now, redeemed himself and became the pink puffball's friend, he helps Kirby by controlling some objects in the way, and to make things slow. 	Greg Cipes
==References to Kirby: Right Back at Ya!==
As the TV series has different directors, there have been numberous of refences of Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
*All voice actors returning, and with the same accent
*King Dedede mentioning that he used to try to "clobbah" Kirby.
*Meta Knight saying: "If Escargoon, Tiff and Tuff were here, it would have been even more sad..." 
*The NME Salesman didn't made an appearence in Episode 4: Trouble with the NME, but his voice appeared on the phone.
* Escargoon made a cameo in the end of the episode Friend or Foe.
==Episodes==
===Season 1===
Episode Number	Episode Name 	Description 	Notes
1 	Friends Forever 	Hyness has returned and has spread Jamba Hearts throughout Dreamland once again! Kirby has recieved an ability where he can throw hearts to his enemies so they can become his friend. He finds Poppy Bros Jr., Burning Leo, and Driblee, and Kirby makes them help him to free King Dedede. 	This episode marks the debut of Kirby, King Dedede, Hyness, Francisca, Flamberge, Zan Partizanne, Poppy Bros Jr., Burning Leo, Waddle Dees and Driblee. This episode is the pilot of the series.
2 	A True General 	Bandana Waddle Dee was pleased that Kirby freed King Dedede from the Jamba Heart. Unfortunately King Dedede still doesn't trust Kirby, so Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee try their best to convince King Dedede that he should be grateful. 	This episode marks the debut of Bandana Waddle Dee, Waddle Doos, Bonkers, Sir Kibble, Chilly and Plugg.
3 	Nature Sabotage 	Kirby and his friends notice that Whispy Woods has gone missing, and are wondering if he was corrupted by the Jamba Heart too. They set out to start their quest to find whispy. 	This episode marks the debut of Whispy Woods, Chef Kawasaki, Mr. Frosty, Knuckle Joe, Wester and Rocky.
4 	Trouble with the NME 	King Dedede won't stop getting bothered by Nightmare Enterprises as they are in business again. Even when King Dedede refuses to order monsters, the Customer Service continues to pester the King of Dream Land.He starts a flaming argument with the Customer Service, till the NME sent a hit on King Dedede, so he asks Kirby and his friends for help to defend him from the monsters coming after the king. 	This episode marks the debut of Grizzo, Anger Masker, Bugzzy, Virdivia, Sizzle Guard and Blizzard Guard.
5 	Shadows of Nostalgia 	King Dedede informs Kirby that some person Kirby dealt with wants to see him again. Nerveous and scared, Kirby wondered who the person was, which turned out to be Marx. Marx acts friendly to Kirby, and they go out on an adventure for Marx to prove Kirby that he does indeed admire him. 	This episode marks the debut of Marx.
6 	A Fan 	Kirby meets Rick again, and Rick really tries his best to impress the puffball and get Kirby to become his best friend. Kirby is annoyed with this, so he tries to hide from Rick. However, Hyness plans to corrupt Rick, and he did that as soon as Kirby told Rick the truth about what he thought of his attempts which hurt Rick's feelings. 	This episode marks the debut of Rick, Kine and Coo.
7 	Another Old Friend 	Kirby and Gooey reunites with each other again, but over the years, Gooey has turned clumsy, so Kirby tries to avoid trouble and danger for Gooey. Despite this, Hyness finds out and decides to hinder Kirby from avoiding Gooey, attempting to get both into trouble and danger. 	This episode marks the debut of Gooey
8 	Traveling to Popstar 	Kirby, King Dedede and Bandana Waddle Dee want to find out where Meta Knight is, and why they haven't seen him in a while. King Dedede finds out that Meta Knight usually visits Popstar, so they travel to Popstar to free Meta Knight and the Knights from the Jamba Heart. 	This episode marks the debut of Meta Knight, Blade Knight and Sword Knight.
9 	Kine's Desert 	Kine's pond is drying out, so he asks Kirby and the squad for help, and they try to find out what is causing it. 	N/A
10 	The Walking Tread 	Whispy Woods is upset because of the fact that his friends can walk, but not him, so Kirby meets Daroach, who has the powder to make Whispy Woods walk, but this eventually cause accidents 	This episode marks the debut of Daroach, and the title of the episode is a reference to the series The Walking Dead.
11 	Pest Control 	Meta Knight meets Dark Meta Knight, Kirby allows him to be his friend, but Meta Knight doesn't agree with it, so Kirby, King Dedede, Bandana Waddle Dee, Marx and Gooey admire the darker doppelganger more than Meta Knight. 	This episode marks the debut of Dark Meta Knight. And at the flashback scene with the reason Meta Knight despised Dark Meta Knight was that Meta Knight, Dark Meta Knight, Galacta Knight and Ghost Knight were a parody of the band "The Jackson 5" considering they were with first, which marked the first appearance of Galacta Knight and Ghost Knight (past versions).
12 	Paintjob 	Kirby reunites with one of his old friends Adeleine and Ribbon, so they take the pink puffball to the museum to show him her art, Hyness notices this and tries his best to make paintings that are better than Adeleine's paintings. 	This episode marks the debut of Adeleine, Ribbon and Vividria
13 	Motherly Gooey 	Gooey is going to prepare his visit to his mother, but Hyness puts an curse on the blue blob where he can only talk in a rude way for a experiment or the priest, Kirby tries to get his way out of it, but at an attempt, Gooey tries to talk it out in King Dedede's castle, but Hyness came and puts the curse on the inhabitans in King Dedede's castle, which leads to King Dedede, Meta Knight, Bandana Waddle Dee, Marx, Dark Meta Knight, Rick, Kine, Koo, Daroach and the Non-Dream Friends fighting and quarrelling with each other.	The massive fight is similar to the fighting scene in Band Geeks from SpongeBob SquarePants
14 	Marx'ing this Territory	After tons of times of Hyness easily being defeated by Marx, the priest decides to put a curse on Marx that removes Marx's ability to turn into his true form, so Kirby, Marx and the squad will be going to get the jester's ability back, and with a celebration of King Dedede singing 	The song that King Dedede is singing at the end of the episode is Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley but covered by King Dedede's voice actor Ted Lewis, who is singing the song in King Dedede's voice
15 	Unexpected Irritation 	Dark Matter comes to Dreamland just to dethrone his arch-enemy King Dedede, who gets annoyed by Dark Matter's antics, and tries his best to get rid of him. 	Despite Dark Matter not making a significant appearance in Kirby Star Allies but as a form for Void Termina, he appears in this episode.
16 	The Show's Cancelled 	After a crazy accident from Hyness, it allowed everyone to break the fourth wall. Which caused the series to vanish and it turns into a live action with the voice actors, so Makiko Ohmoto (Kirby), Ted Lewis (King Dedede), Eric Stuart (Meta Knight), Scott Hill (Bandana Waddle Dee), Coolie Ranx (Marx), Samuel L. Jackson (Gooey), Mila Kunis (Adeleine), Tom Kenny (Daroach) and Rob Riggle (Hyness) have to get the show back before they stay in their voice actor forms permanently. 	This episode has a massive fourth wall breaking.
17 	Friend or Foe 	Susie, Taranza and Magolor enter Dreamland, but Zan Partizanne tricks the three newcomers into thinking that Kirby and his friends are plotting something evil against the three for revenge while they want to have a truce with Kirby. Kirby and the squad finds out, and the Jamba General didn't like it anymore, so Kirby, Zan Partizanne and the Squad goes to find the Deluxe Heart, one is in a Creepy Abandoned Mansion, where they apparently find someone even more special. 	This episode marks the first appearance of Susie, Taranza and Magolor. And in this episode, Escargoon from Kirby: Right Back at Ya! makes a surprise cameo in the end of the episode.
18 	Multilanguaged Cameo 	King Dedede feels like he should be booking singers from another country so he can help them gain more fame in other countries instead of just their country, so he tries to find a person till Marx set up a portal, which had a Moroccan-Belgian Artist under the name Jalal Hamdaoui enter, which made the King of Dreamland very glad to help him, but Hyness just wants to ruin it. 	Moroccan-Belgian Artist Jalal Hamdaoui makes a cameo in this episode, but as a CGI model, a scene of him in real life was shown. And apparently, he sung the song "Golou l'Mama" alone in the episode while in reality, he sung this song with Cheb Rayan, another Moroccan-Belgian Artist.
==Broadcasts ==
*United States - Cartoon Network
* United Kingdom - Nickelodeon
*France - Cartoon Network, TV3
*Saudi-Arabia - Cartoon Network Arabic
*Morocco - Cartoon Network Arabic, 2M Maroc (French Dub)
*Netherlands/Belgium - Nickelodeon
* Germany - Nickelodeon
*Spain - Cartoon Network
*Italy - Cartoon Network
*Turkey - TRT
*Japan - Kids Station
*China - CCTV-14 
*Russia - Carousel 
*Ukraine - Pixel-TV
*Switserland - RTS Deux
*Canada - Family Chrgd
*Romania - Boomerang 
*Philippines - GMA Network
*Portugal - SIC K
* Finland - Yle TV2
== Songs==
*Never Gonna Give You Up - Sung by King Dedede in Marx'ing his Territory
* Welcome! - Sung by Marx and Gooey in Friend or Foe
* Golou l'mama - Sung by Jalal Hamdaoui in Multilanguaged Cameo
==Quotes ==
See here for the quotes.
==Gallery==
Escargoon Cameo Friend or Foe.PNG|Friend or Foe - Escargoon explaining where the cure is to make the newcomers normal.
==Trivia==
* This is the second Cartoon Network series based on a game developed by a Japanese game developing company with the first one being Sonic Boom.
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