Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

***Kirby: Right Back at Ya!***, known in Japan as ***Kirby of the Stars*** (星のカービィ, *Hoshi no Kābī*) is a Japanese anime series based on Nintendo's *Kirby* franchise. Produced by Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting, Dentsu, A-UN Entertainment and Studio Sign, it was directed by Sōji Yoshikawa and Mitsuo Kusakabe, with Yoshikawa handling series composition, Miyuki Shimabukuro designing the characters, Kazuo Iimura serving as chief animation director, and Akira Miyagawa composing the music.

The series, follows Kirby, a pink, spherical, childlike creature who does not speak in coherent words but possesses the ability to take on new magical powers temporarily by inhaling their original users. Kirby arrives on a planet called Popstar, in Dream Land, near Pupu Village, when his spaceship crashes there. He quickly befriends two yellow-skinned siblings named Fumu and Bun, and their friends Lololo and Lalala. Over the course of the series, Kirby and his friends evade King Dedede and his assistant Escargon, who try to get rid of Kirby using numerous monsters sold to them and delivered through an internet transport machine by the evil corporation Holy Nightmare Co., created by the being Nightmare as a front for his armies, as well as to make profit and train his monsters.

As of now, all episodes are available in the original Japanese, and all episodes that were dubbed are available in French, German, Italian, and Taiwanese Mandarin. Small fragments are missing of the English and Persian dubs, but most of every episode is available. Information on most dubs' staff is on Anime News Network, including the original Japanese, English, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Latin American Spanish.

## Notes

* The Italian dub of episode 42 skipped the recap from episode 41 on K2, but the Wii version still includes it, likely along with the 3DS version. The whole dub is available.
	+ However, if dubbing credits were aired on K2 for the second half of the series because of the few replaced voices, they are missing.

## Dubs

### Found by

Patryk Karpinski

An Albanian dub, *Kirbi*, aired on Tring Tring and Vizion Plus. Not much was known about this dub, outside of a single episode (episode 9) and part of another (episode 40) being available, as well as the opening being uploaded to Tring's YouTube Channel. The cast was also known from a fragment of the ending credits. Some episodes were rerun between January 4 and March 5, 2021 on Tring Tring, although no one recorded it at the time.

On July 31, 2021, Tring Tring would start airing the show again, but no episodes were recorded until August 23. Episodes ran until October 5, 2021. The episodes were recorded by Patryk Karpinski and uploaded to CDA.pl, although his account was blocked some time later. The full opening and credits are also on his YouTube channel. Episodes would also be uploaded to his Archive.org account, Parkinski27. The show would move to Vizion Plus in October, where it still airs at 8:00 AM local time as of December 18, 2021. As of now, 20 full episodes are available. 19 of these episodes were recovered by Patryk Karpinski, 14 being from Tring Tring and 4 being from Vizion Plus, with one recorded on both channels. The 9th episode was available beforehand from a blog called ab-film.blogspot.com, recorded from Tring Tring.

Available episodes are 3, 9, 20, 23, 27-32, 34, 36-38, 40-41, 43-45, and 49. They were uploaded to Archive.org in their US broadcast numbering, but these are the original Japanese numbering. It is unknown how many episodes were dubbed. Kirby de las Estrellas from Archive.org states that he has part of episode 4, and Patryk Karpinski says he has another episode to upload.

As of February 12, 2023, the dub is once more broadcasting, this time on Tring Kids.

### Status

**Partially Found**

An Arabic dub, *كيربي*, was released at an unknown time, most likely in the mid-2000's. Very little information is known. A clip featuring the show's instrumental localized opening and a sample of the first episode was uploaded to Aparat by Iranian media company Hedayat Resaneh (Kish Media Management) on October 12, 2017. It is assumed to be the rumored dub that aired on MBC3 because most Arabic dubs of anime that air on MBC3 usually leave the theme song undubbed with only the instrumental. Furthermore, the dubbing sounds professional and the music/sound effects were all intact, leading people to believe it is an official dub from the clean dubbing track and Kirby's voice clips. The Arabic-speaking population in Iran is also very small, so it is unlikely an Arabic dub would be produced and released in Iran officially. The dub is included on Hedayat Resaneh's website, who appear to only have released it on DVD. It is unclear how many DVDs were released or how many episodes are on the disc(s), but the website states that 52 episodes were dubbed.

### Year(s)

2004

A Cantonese dub, *星之卡比*, aired on TVB Jade starting on June 20, 2004. Only the voice actors for Fumu, Bun, Meta Knight, and King Dedede remain on the Chinese version of Wikipedia, as well as the localized names of Fumu, Bun, Meta Knight, King Dedede, Chief Borun, and Escargon. Many users on sites like BaiDu Zhidao have remembered this dub and have asked where to find it.

According to another user, no one saved the dub in the first few years of the fansite that hosted it, and they went missing when the website crashed. Only about 20 episodes were dubbed.

### Found by

Ivyna J. Spyder
Flipimé-kun (The TTI Guy)

An English dub, *Kirby: Right Back at Ya!*, aired on Fox in the United States as part of the FoxBox block, later known as 4KidsTV, from September 14, 2002 (previewed on September 1, 2002) to December 2, 2006, finishing reruns on December 27, 2008. It was dubbed by 4Kids Entertainment. The first six episodes also ran on The CW as part of TheCW4Kids between June 6, 2009 and July 11, 2009. On Pop in the United Kingdom, the series aired from 2004 until 2009. A handful of episodes are also seen on DVD, or on Kirby's Dream Collction for Wii, and others were formerly available on the 4KidsTV website. 50 episodes were released on Kirby TV Channel for Wii by Nintendo in 2011 and 2012 in Europe. The first 53 were also released on Nintendo Anime Channel for Nintendo 3DS by Nintendo of Europe on February 13, 2015, with a new episode being added weekly. However, the series was removed on September 30, 2018, and the anime channel itself was removed from the 3DS digital store a month later, on October 31, 2018.

All 100 episodes were dubbed, but episode 77 is missing most of its ending and a small section at the beginning. This was also the case for episode 70 until 2022, when fan Ivyna J. Spyder shared a digitized copy of the episode, transferred shortly before their VCR broke. Because of this, the episode's video and audio are frequently off-sync, but user Danius restored them, marking the episode found. Additionally, on January 23, 2023, Archive.org user Flipimé-kun (The TTI Guy), owner of old episode host Totally Tooned In, uploaded some old Kirby recordings from old DVD-R's, mostly sourced from rips of 4KidsTV broadcasts and On Demand showings from 2008 and 2009. This unexpectedly included episode 70 in full, along with other episodes previously available in lower quality from re-encodes.

Episodes 76, 80, 81, 82, 93 and 94 are also missing the first few seconds of dubbed audio at the beginning (episodes 89 and 91 are only missing the very first second of dialogue). The TV broadcast versions of episodes 98 and 99 are missing entirely, leaving only the edited direct-to-video movie version available, and episode 100 is missing part of the recap at the beginning. This was also the case for episodes 96 and 97 until they were uploaded to MySpleen on December 5, 2022 by user JonnJonzz01, from their original 2003 broadcast, among other episode premieres from *The Flower Plot* to *Sweet and Sour Puss*. The special 3D short also went on to be dubbed and is available from its release on the Nintendo 3DS.

Although the current uploads online are missing portions or are missing the broadcast version entirely, fan Ivyna J. Spyder has stated that they have all of the episodes in full on VHS tapes. Unfortunately, their VCR is broken and fixing it is a low priority. As long as the tapes are in decent condition, however, they can be ripped. Ivyna is also the person who found episode 86 and episode 88 in 2015 by digitizing tapes. On that note, episode 88, which is infamous for being pre-empted by a baseball program on Fox, was able to be recorded because their parents had satellite and DVR equipment, so they didn't have to worry about local stations replacing it with sports.

Some episodes not mentioned are missing brief portions of audio at the beginning or end that only consist of music and sound effects, but they can be filled in using the more complete Italian dub.

You can read more about the dub itself here.

### Year(s)

2009-10

A Filipino dub, *Kirby: Right Back at Ya!*, aired on GMA 7 in 2009, rerunning on QTV 11 in 2010 on weekday mornings, based on the Japanese version.

All that remains of the dub is its cast, available on Anime News Network. It is unknown how many episodes were dubbed.

### Year(s)

2003-04

A German dub, *Kirby*, aired on Disney Channel starting on November 12, 2003. Episodes premiered on weekdays until December 17, 2003, when the show went on hiatus. Reruns lasted until February 23, 2004, and more occurred on May 3, 2004, until the 27th episode premiered on May 14, 2004. This time, episodes premiered on Mondays through Saturdays (skipping May 20, May 31, June 1, and June 9) until June 14, 2004. Reruns lasted until October 29, 2004, with another occurring on December 25, 2004. More reruns occurred from January 8, 2005 to February 14, 2005, and March 12, 2005 to April 8, 2005. A clip from Disney Channel shows that the series aired until at least October 2006. The series is also known to have aired on Toon Disney.

49 episodes were released on Kirby TV Channel for Wii by Nintendo in 2011 and 2012 in Europe, releasing the 52 dubbed episodes, excluding the episodes originally numbered as 38, 52, and 53 (37, 49, and 50 in German). All 52 episodes were also released on Nintendo Anime Channel for Nintendo 3DS by Nintendo of Europe on February 13, 2015, with a new episode being added weekly. However, the series was removed on September 30, 2018, and the anime channel itself was removed from the 3DS digital store a month later, on October 31, 2018.

The Wii versions of the episodes were uploaded to YouTube by channel KirbyTVGerman, which uploaded all episodes, except, for unknown reasons, the first half of the 35th (34th) episode. While these uploads were claimed, they would all be put on Dailymotion and/or Archive.org later by other users, including Helenagomezz on Dailymotion, and DKL3 and Kirby de las Estrellas on Archive.org (Dani88alv or Danius on Discord). Disney Channel/Toon Disney recordings of episodes 38, 52, and 53 were uploaded to YouTube on March 31, 2019 by user Kevin Krause, downloaded from an older YouTube channel with videos that had since been deleted, although even these reuploads would be later claimed.

The remaining episodes were downloaded by Discord user Koops on April 20, 2019 when user YSB showed him the episodes were on the Nintendo Anime Channel servers, which were still publicly accessible, for a few months, once datamined from the app, despite its shutdown. The episodes were in a proprietary video file format called .moflex, encoded for the Nintendo 3DS system in 240p, with extremely loud mono audio, in 48000 Hz (even on Kirby TV Channel for the Wii system, which natively supports 480p, the .mo videos were downscaled to 288p, likely to support both fullscreen and widescreen modes, so these are similar quality to what would be on Wii). All of the .moflex files in English, French, German and Italian were uploaded to MEGA on March 5, 2021, after sitting on his hard drive. User Tanooki12 later converted the missing episodes to MKV format (thanks to reverse engineering work done by Gericom, allowing support for Nintendo's Mobiclip video codec to be added to FFmpeg, which was utilized by Tanooki12 to process the episodes) and uploaded them to MEGA, sending them to user Dani88alv. As of now, the episodes still must be uploaded to Archive.org.

### Year(s)

2004-05

A Hebrew dub, *קירבי*, aired on Arutz HaYeladim from 2004 to 2005. Very little is known about the dub, and all that has surfaced is its theme song. An alternate upload of the song is also preserved in a multilanguage video. It is unknown how many episodes were dubbed.

### Year(s)

2005

A Korean dub, *별의 커비*, aired on Tooniverse starting on January 3, 2005, airing to March 31, 2005 with 52 episodes, from Mondays through Thursdays. Reruns only occurred from Fridays through Sundays at 9:00 a.m. Only the theme song and five episodes (the first three, the sixth, and the eighth) are available. The seventh episode is on YouTube, and at one point, all of the first eight (except the sixth) episodes were available on the same channel, but they have since been claimed, though the first two have been mirrored to BiliBili. The third and the eighth episode have audio of lower quality, and are synced to an English version of the video.

### Year(s)

2014

A Persian dub, *غریبه ای از فضا*, aired on IRIB Pooya starting on October 18, 2014, airing to November 24, 2014 with 39 episodes. One new episode aired a day at 4:30 PM, with a rerun the next morning at 8:05 AM (two new episodes aired on the day of premiere, one at 8:05 AM and one at 4:30 PM).

While all episodes are available, most are missing the beginning few seconds, and episodes 4, 5, 12, 14, 17, 21, 25, 33, 36, 42, 47, 49, and 53 (3, 4, 9, 8, 13, 12, 20, 26, 29, 34, 36, 37, and 39 in the Persian dub) are missing some dialogue at the beginning. Episode 29 (23 in the Persian dub) is missing the first 7 seconds, but a fade was added, so it is likely censorship.

### Found by

Marcelo Flávio
Ryze
reborn1000

A Brazilian Portuguese dub, *Kirby!*, aired on Fox Kids starting on July 28, 2003 (previewed on July 7, 2003), later airing on Jetix from August 1, 2004 until 2005, with reruns lasting until mid-2008. The entire series was dubbed and aired, except for episode 89. Only five episodes initially resurfaced, the first four of which were sourced from the two DVD volumes released by Imagem Filmes on September 15, 2005 and April 20, 2006. The only other episode available was the 88th episode, uploaded to YouTube by user Marcelo Flávio on April 28, 2017.

On February 26, 2022, Archive.org user N64Player uploaded 58 additional episodes of the dub to archive.org, bringing the total to 63. These episodes were provided by users Ryze and reborn1000 from TheToonZ. Episodes included were new TV rips of those already found, as well as recordings of episodes 7-21, episodes 32, 45 and 46 (aired on Jetix after the original finale), and episodes 56-100 (excluding episodes 85, 86 and 93. Episode 89 was also excluded because it was neither broadcast nor dubbed).

Alongside the actual episodes is some dubbing information on Archive.org and Anime News Network.

Between the Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish dubs, episodes 38, 53-55, 85, and 93 are not available from either.

### Found by

Patryk Karpinski

A Serbian dub, *Kirbi*, aired on Happy TV in the 2000's. Little is known about the dub, but 15 episodes were released on DVD by Globalcall (later Katex), which Patryk Karpinski found on Chomikuj.pl, a website requiring payment for downloads, originally uploaded by NenadSr on October 23, 2020, and uploaded them to Archive.org on October 31, 2021. Prior to that, the instrumental theme song was also available, and both versions of the opening in English were uploaded from a camera recording of a DVD to YouTube on June 3, 2018, by user Aca Gavrilovski, pulled from episode 17 and episode 18. YouTube user Milan Stojanović uploaded clips of the dub and its DVD menus between October 8, 2021 and October 22, 2021. While they are labeled as the first 15 episodes, the actual episodes are in this order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 7, 8, 9, and 10.

It is unknown how many episodes were dubbed, and if any were skipped in dubbing or if episodes were specifically selected for DVD.

Serbian YouTuber OldClassicGamer claims to have all of the episodes from this dub, as he supposedly has or had some kind of connections or contact with Globalcall or Happy TV, although it's a mystery on how true this is, as he has never shown or released anything publicly to prove this. Some people believe he is lying or that he just owns all the Serbian DVDs, or somehow got the complete series recorded from Happy TV airings.

### Found by

Mauritrax and AventurasKirby

A Latin American Spanish dub, *Kirby*, aired on Fox Kids starting on July 28, 2003 (previewed on July 7, 2003), later airing on Jetix from August 1, 2004 until 2005, with reruns lasting until mid-2008. The entire series was dubbed and aired, except for episode 89. All of the first 52 episodes have resurfaced, except for 32, 38, 46, and the second half of 34. Past then, only episodes 80, 82-83, 86-88, 92, and 94 are available. The special 3D short also went on to be dubbed and is available.

You can read more about the dub itself here.

### Found by

quepasatrooon

A European Spanish dub, *Kirby*, aired on Toon Disney starting in September 2003. Only the eleventh episode is available, alongside a promo from the same taped recording. It is unknown how many episodes were dubbed.

## Voice-overs

### Year(s)

early 2010's

A Bulgarian voice-over, *Кърби*, aired on EKids in the early 2010's. Not much was known about this voice-over, outside of a single available episode, episode 54. The staff is also known from the credits of this episode. An upload of the opening, containing a single second of the 8th episode, is also available. Episodes 52 and 53, as well as a promo, are available on vbox7.com, but they are geoblocked to Bulgaria. It is unknown how many episodes were aired.

## References

1. ↑ https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/479414781.html
2. ↑ http://sketchpride.blogspot.com/2010/01/kirby-right-back-at-ya.html
3. ↑ https://youtu.be/fJXikrj6Z3o

## External links

* *星のカービィ on The Dubbing Database*
	+ *Kirby: Right Back at Ya! (English dub) on The Dubbing Database*