Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

Season 8 promotional poster (Tokyo).

Quentin Richardson as Hostilian Turbo.

Cnaeus Saccas as D-Cassius4000.

Xavier Dunn as Nightmare.

Oliver Spivey as Kirby.

Tiffany “Tiff” Dolabella as Tiff.

Tullus “Tuff” Dolabella as Tuff.

Gaspar Madden as Escargoon.

Ptolemy Dionysios as King Dedede.

Bernard Roy Jr. as Meta Knight.

Guest Stars:

Antonia Sergius as Lovely (1st phase)

Kleopatra Philopator as Lovely (2nd phase)

Scott Taylor as Mayor Len Blustergas.

Pitch Moran as Tokkori.

Julia Maxwell as Mabel.

Vividus Lowry as Paint Roller.

Leroy Fox as Monsieur Goin.

Conrad Buggzy as Bugzzy.

Joe Landry as the Unknown Council Member.

Harvard Maxwell as Gus.

Leo Cincinnatus as Chef Kawasaki.

Luca Partizanne as Chief Bookem.

Antonius Dolabella as Sir Ebrum.

Septimia Drusus as Lady Like.

Sirica Cato as Sirica.

Antonia Dellius as Garlude.

Tony DeSimon as Lololo.

Luna DeSimon as Lalala.

Marcus Antio as Henry.

Julianus Turbo as Adalwolf.

Caius Scipio as Louis Z. Cappy.

Denny Pollard as Drum.

Xanthos Pollard as Bass.

Thomas Robinson as Secretary of the Mayor.

Kine Howard as Kine.

Rick Alzell as Rick.

Coo Davis as Coo.

And Sebastian Dunleavy as Uncilen.

***Kirby: Right Back at Ya!***, formerly called *The Richard Irving Show*, also known in Japanese as ***Kirby of the Stars*** (星のカービィ, *Hoshi no Kābī*, Japanese pronunciation: [hoɕi no kaːbʲiː]), is a Roman-Tokyoese-Yukonese anime series based on Nintendo's *Kirby* franchise, which succeeded *Happy Days*, which ran from 1974-1995. Produced by Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting, Dentsu, A-UN Entertainment and Studio Sign, it was directed by Richard Irving and Quentin Richardson, with Irving handling series composition, Glycerius Maecenas designing the characters, Julius Norbanus serving as chief animation director, and Tony Partizanne composing the music. The series ran for eleven seasons on CBC and TBS, from June 1995 to September 2006 in Japan. In Alabama, the show aired on Fox Box, beginning in September 1995. Episodes have also been released on the Kirby TV Channel in Dream Land, and on the game compilation *Kirby's Dream Collection* (also for the Wii).

The anime first followed Richard Irving, a man who had his city attacked by Nightmare, helps fellow council member Hostilian Turbo defeat any enemy that tries to take them down from Doom-Cassius 4000 (Cnaeus Saccas). In later seasons, Kirby, a pink, spherical, childlike creature who does not speak coherent words but possesses the ability to take on new magical powers temporarily by sucking up their owners, crash-land on a planet called Popstar (similar to the planet that fell into Earth). Kirby then quickly befriend two yellow-skinned siblings named Tiff and Tuff. Over the course of the remaining series, Kirby and his friends fight to bring down evil emperor Nightmare, all the while evading King Dedede and his assistant Escargoon, who try to get rid of Kirby using numerous monsters provided by NightMare Enterprises.

## Seasons:

### Season 1 (1995-1996)

Richard Irving introduces himself as a young man, who is the son of a council member that is serving under King Dedede, who is on Popstar. Together, he and Hostilian Turbo both serve under him, as they fight off monsters created by King Dedede’s enemy, Doom-Cassius 4000. Hostilian quickly vanquishes Doom-Cassius 4000, but he vengeances Hostilian and Irving, telling them they would be back.

### Season 2 (1996-1997)

Irving and Turbo continue their pursuit to catch Doom-Cassius 4000, as monster come at them like fast, over the next few episodes, Turbo and Irving defeat many monsters, until they get to Doom-Cassius 4000 again. D-Cassius laughs and tells them he has captured King Dedede, and is turning him against them, D-Cassius4000 is chased down by Hostilian and Irving, and is killed when he is stabbed in the heart, resulting of him exploding.

Elsewhere, They then turn their attention to Uncilen, The king of neighbouring Terror City. Dedede and his allies then atack and defeat Uncilen, resulting of peace being spread once again.

### Season 3 (1997-1998)

Hostilian and Irving at this point are serving at the castle, resulting of Dedede having to retire them both, and send out another one of his guards, Escargoon, to defeat Adalwolf, the terror of the East, as he is holding a set of brothers, Drum and Brass (Denny Pollard, Xanthos Pollard), who Escargoon then has to save it from Adalwolf.

As Escargoon advances east to save Drum and Bass, Escargoon defeats a bunch of Adalwolf’s monsters, resulting of many story changes. Escargoon then advances towards Adalwolf, and after a gruesome battle, Adalwolf is killed, and Escargoon saves Drum and Bass.

### Season 4 (1998-1999)

Escargoon returns victorious, then, Hostilian is sent out without Irving, as he is assigned to bring peace to a quarreling Dream Land, lead by Thomas Robinson, who has a personality for Scott Taylor, a manager. As Hostilian is returning home, he finds out that D-Cassius is not dead, and is coming back for revenge. Over the next few episodes, he fights off enemies sent out by him, until the final battle, where Hostilian fights off D-Cassius’s attacks, and then slashes his screen, killing him for good.

Hostilian then focuses his strategy to Nightmare, an evil emperor of Darkness, and sends himself at it, sacrificing himself to save Irving, who know doesn’t know what is going on. He founds the Star Warriors, along with a soldier named Meta Knight,

### Season 5 (1999-2000)

With Hostilian dead, Dedede grows more angry at the fact his men are being massacred, and sends Escargoon and Irving to deal with Nightmare, before it is too late, meanwhile, he chooses to execute Drum and Bass, over a scandal about killing Dedede. Dedede then sends a guard, Aristotle Samos (Charles Roy), to pick new cabinet ministers. Samos chose John Dolabella (Antonius Dolabella), and his wife, Dryantilla as the two new cabinet ministers, crowning them Lady Like and Sir Ebrum. The family includes their children, Tiffany “Tiff” Dolabella and Tullus “Tuff” Dolabella. Dedede then warns them not to make the same mistake as Drum and Bass.

Escargoon and Irving meanwhile attack and kill the last of D-Cassius’s monsters, and then they chase after Nightmare, who at this point has killed Hostilian, as both Escargoon and Irving vow their Vengenance to Hostilian, by slashing at the Dark Emperor, which succeeds, killing him (he returned in the next season.) But a shard strikes Irving, killing him, which leaves Escargoon the last one, he then looks at note hidden inside, which read something about a backstory…

### Season 6 (2000-2001)

Escargoon, who at this point mourning the loss of Irving, finds a note reading: “Tens of thousands of years ago, an evil emperor of darkness known as Nightmare created a biological weapon in the form of armies of monsters, and sent it all over the universe to conquer it. However, as he kept creating them, some of them began to rebel against Nightmare. Then, Sir Meta Knight and other freedom- and peace-loving, righteous Star Warriors formed the Galaxy Soldier Army in order to bring down Nightmare and stood to combat his evil. However, the soldier army caves in under the inexhaustible supply of the monsters. While the few surviving Star Warriors were relegated to the fringes of the universe, they were looking for new ways to defeat Nightmare.” Meanwhile, Nightmare, Now defeated, He establishes a corporate empire, NightMare Enterprises, which systematically and efficiently created monsters and expanded its own power by selling them to large and small villains and money-hungry rich people throughout the universe.

Escargoon then returns to Dedede, still mourning over the loss of Irving. Dedede starts eying out for any now enemies, because at that point, they had defeated most of their opponents, except a guy named Henry, who is a rebelling Star Warrior. Escargoon chases up to Henry, and kills him by knocking him down the stairs, killing him. With Escargoon clearing out all of their enemies, Dream Land is now at peace again.

Meanwhile, Louis Z. Cappy, a warrior who had fled from the battle with Uncilen, founds Cappy Town, a town filled with all kinds of species. Becoming more popular as the seasons progressed.

### Season 7 (2001-2002)

Meanwhile, somewhere in the galaxy, as Henry is making the next generation of Star Warriors, Henry’s son Kirby, is born. Kirby was to gain strength against Nightmare as he slept in a spaceship he had acquired from parts unknown. However, the Star Warrior's spacecraft has the ability to automatically go to the planet where the monsters are located, and when the spacecraft catches the presence of Planet Popstar's monsters, it wakes Kirby up two hundred years ahead of schedule, and the inexperienced, clueless and baby-like Kirby, is unable to control the spacecraft as it crash-lands in Cappy Town (Pupu Village in the Japanese dub). After crash-landing, Kirby makes friends with Tiff and Tuff in the English dub and others in Cappy Town, and with their help, he was assigned to fight the monsters to overthrow Nightmare once and for all.

King Dedede is jealous and suspicious of Kirby from the start. He and Escargoon, who is the last left of his guard, start constantly try to get rid of Kirby with monsters provided by the company for a high fee, and ultimately, their plans always backfire when Kirby interferes. Just as in the games, Kirby can inhale enemies and temporarily gain their powers, transforming into forms such as Fire Kirby with the ability to spit flames, or Sword Kirby to literally slice foes into pieces.

Kirby grows and becomes stronger before his final battle with Nightmare. In the end when Kirby and Tiff face Nightmare, which is in a dream, Tiff throws the Warp Star at Kirby, who swallows it and becomes Star Rod Kirby. Star Rod Kirby has the Star Rod which is Nightmare's sole weakness, allowing Kirby to defeat him.

### Season 8 (2002-2003)

Kirby, now having defeated Nightmare, witnesses Henry sacrifice himself for his own life. As many guest stars leap into the facade, including Lovely (Antonia Sergius/ Kleopatra Philopator), and Chef Kawasaki (Leo Cincinnatus), King Dedede and Escargoon continue to get clobbered by Kirby, as now he has passion about Tiff and Tuff, as well as a pair of twins known as LaLaLa and LoLoLo (Tony DeSimon and his sister Luna).

Escargoon tries to then sell out Kawasaki, who works at a restaurant. resulting of different issues solving between the people of Cappy Town, as well as constant riots, which are put down thanks to Kirby.

### Season 9 (2003-2004)

While Kirby continues to deal with opponents, he, Tiff and Tuff proceed to face Baias, the Warrior of the Clouds, which was summoned as a boss by what was left of D-Cassius. Kirby and his allies easily defeat Baias, slashing his eye out and killing Baias, as well as his heir, Telamenos.

Meanwhile, A mysterious ship crashes into the woods, containing a girl named Sirica (Sirica Cato) who seeks the Star Warrior who had supposedly stole the sacred sword, Galaxia. The Star Warrior turns out to be Meta Knight, who, many years ago, went on a mission alongside her mother Garlude (referencing to Cato’s mother, Garlude) to reclaim Galaxia itself, which had been stolen and guarded in a dark cave for years by the legendary ancient monster Kirisakin. Apparently, Sirica was led to believe that Meta Knight stole the sword and abandoned her mother to her death at its hands. The veteran warrior knows otherwise, and his legendary blade that he now holds today knows he is innocent as well, and Kirby and his new friends volunteer to do everything in their power to defend Meta Knight's innocence. Meanwhile, King Dedede, having been scared out of his wits of Sirica, consults Nightmare Enterprises about her and her assaults on him and Escargoon, and the N.M.E. Sales Guy suggests that he send over a certain familiar foe that Sirica, Meta Knight, and Galaxia all know very well...

After that, Kirisakin is taken down by Kirby, leading him to prepare for the siege of Castle Dedede.

### Season 10 (2004-2005)

With all the monsters vanquished, Kirby and the people of Cappy Town prepare to storm the walls of Castle Dedede, which at this point has caused the deaths of Irving, Hostilian, Drum and Bass. With Kirby’s men prepared, they storm the remains of the walls, crushing the rest of the guards, before Escargoon and Dedede are cornered by Kirby and his friends. Dedede denies everything, as Kirby then reliases that he needs to sacrifice one of them, so he slashes and kills Escargoon,sparing Dedede and forcing him to surrender, causing a victory to commence.

### Season 11 (2005-2006)

With Dedede out of the way, Kirby and his friends prepare a final assault onto Nightmare, with Sirica rejoining them. Nightmare’s men are lead by one Jakob von Jamba (Anthemius Dolabella), who promises to keep Nightmare alive, but at the end, Jakob succumbs to wounds sent out by Sirica, resulting of them chargin up the stairs for the final battle. At the end, Nightmare succumbs to Kirby, and freaks out.

‘The final episode, known as Episode 533, results of the final destruction of the Kingdom, killing King Dedede’s remaining 2 loyal guards, Julianus, and Gaius, as he is toppled, and Cappy Town expands to conquer the abandoned territory. The series ends with Tiff narrating that life in Dream Land went back to normal. But with Kirby around, it will always be an adventure.

A episode, named Irving's Finale, was filmed in 3D.

## Characters:

Richard Irving (カービィ, *Richādo āvu~ingu*) (1995-2000)
Voiced by: Suki Amariko (Japanese); Richard Irving (English)
Richard is a Star Warrior born under a council member serving under King Dedede, he is a passionate warrior, having spread his legacy out far. He is seen for the first five seasons, sometimes, he is sawn talking to Whispy Woods. His mission is to stop D-Cassius4000, a robot sending out monsters to deal with him and his teammate, Hostilian Turbo. Turbo and Richard defeat D-Cassius. Richard dies at the end of Season 5 to Nightmare.
Hostilian Turbo (カービィ, *Hosutirian Tābo*) (1995-1999)
Voiced by: Takahashi Honda (Japanese); Quentin Richardson (English)
Hostilian is a Star Warrior that arrived to King Dedede from another planet, having been employed under King Dedede. His mission is to kill Uncilen, a bandit terrorising his home city. Turbo successfully defeats Uncilen, before both Hostilian and Richard Irving take a break. Irving and Hostilian then defeat D-Cassius4000, before Hostilian dies at the end of Season 4.
Kirby (カービィ, *Kābī*) (2001-2006)
Voiced by: Makiko Ohmoto (Japanese); Oliver Spivey (certain lines) (English)
Kirby is a young Star Warrior. He is spoken of in legend as *Kirby of the Stars*, because a Star Warrior's ship is designed to go wherever monsters are. Kirby's ship detected the creatures Dedede was ordering and he was awakened 200 years before schedule. Due to this early awakening he is still only a child. He does not speak a word, mainly only saying "poyo." This is to avoid giving him a fixed impression, as Kirby is a game character whose image differs from one player to another. However, he can speak simple words, such as the names of people and food, in baby talk. In the original games (mainly in the instruction manual of the earlier games), he is merely established as "young", but in the anime, he is established as something close to a baby. He may shout the name of a special move in combat, but this is set up as his internal voice getting through to him, not him actually speaking. Most of his combat techniques in the show are copy abilities only. There are a total of 29 types of abilities: 24 from the games, 4 originals created by the audience (Baton, Water, Iron, and Top), and 1 original from the special episode (Kabuki).
Drum (カービィ, *Doramanu*) (1995-2000)
Voiced by: Yoshi Otsunaru (Japanese); Denny Pollard (English)
Drum is a character who was one of the two brothers trapped by Adalwolf that were saved. He was executed in Season 6.
Bass (カービィ, *Besu*) (1995-2000)
Voiced by: Maliki Shimahura (Japanese); Xanthos Pollard (English)
Bass is a character who was one of the two brothers trapped by Adalwolf that were saved. He was executed in Season 6.
Tiff (フーム, *Fūmu*) (2000-2006)
Voiced by: Sayuri Yoshida (Japanese); Tiff Dolabella (English)
Tiff is the daughter of a Cabinet Minister. She has lived in Dedede's castle her entire life due to the wealth of her parents. She's very intelligent for her age, with much of her interest being in the environment, with her favorite subject being marine biology. She can also be short-tempered and definitely speaks her mind on things, especially when she thinks King Dedede is up to no good, though sometimes her intelligence is scoffed by the fellow Cappies. Tiff is the only one who can summon Kirby's Warp Star when he is in danger, for Meta Knight said that Kirby cannot keep it safe himself, so she can control it because she truly cares for him.
Tuff (ブン, *Bun*) (2000-2006)
Voiced by: Rika Komatsu (Japanese); Tullus “Tuff” Dolabella (English)
Tuff is the younger brother of Tiff, who sports shaggy hair with hidden arcane eyes (oddly never mentioned by his friends). He is in many ways her complete opposite, preferring to play outside rather than read books. He can be quite a troublemaker, even when he's really trying to help, usually tending to fall short to Dedede's schemes. He is typically impetuous and always getting into mischief, such as pulling pranks and cracking jokes but is now friends with Kirby, even though he gets jealous of him sometimes.
King Dedede (デデデ大王, *Dedede Daiō*) (1995-2006)
Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata (Japanese); John Carter (1995-2001), Ptolemy Dionysios (2001-2006) (English)
King Dedede is the self-proclaimed ruler of Dream Land, who employed Irving and Hostilian at the start. Later, Dedede becomes greedy, scheming, jealous of Kirby, and even outright sadistic, even going as far as to say that people's suffering amuses him, no one had ever tried to dethrone him until the last episode, despite the fact that he also commonly threatens the children and environment. He's actually harmless for the most part, but his intense dislike of Kirby compels him to purchase monsters from Holy Nightmare Inc. and cause mayhem for the people of Dream Land. He loves buying new "toys" and acts like a spoiled child, despite his age. He is often jealous of the attention Kirby gets, and while at first he even wanted to defeat Kirby, later he focuses more on trying to kick him out or just make him look bad. He is portrayed as someone who is essentially good in the original games, merely childish and selfish, but in the anime he is portrayed as someone who can do some pretty bad deeds without hesitation. He is also depicted as a dictator who mostly abuses the absolute monarchy, but just like in the games, he comes off as gentle at heart. In addition, while the game version of Meta Knight has become more of an ally since the anime, King Dedede's personality has not changed in the games.
Escargoon (エスカルゴン, *Esukarugon*) (1997-2005)
Voiced by: Naoki Tatsuta (Japanese); Ted Lewis (1997-2001), Gaspar Madden (2001-2005) (English)
Escargoon, an anthropomorphic snail and the main protagonist of Season 3, lived with his mother on a farm before leaving to make it big. But despite the fact Escargoon is well-educated, knowing a great deal about chemistry and electronics (even writing a book on botany), he's been working for Dedede for many years as an assistant and punching bag. But it seems that he truly cares for the king and is always concerned for his welfare, despite the abuse he receives from him on a daily basis. While Escargoon usually goes along with what Dedede wants and helps him with his schemes, he may actually be a nice guy at heart who only acts mean because he wants Dedede's approval. Escargoon was killed by Kirby at the end of Season 10.
Meta Knight (メタナイト, *Meta Naito*)
Voiced by: Atsushi Kisaichi (Japanese); Bernard Roy Jr. (English)
Meta Knight works for Dedede as well, along with his followers Sword Knight and Blade Knight. However, it is revealed that Meta Knight is a Star Warrior like Kirby, and one of the only ones to survive the war with Nightmare. He carries the sacred sword Galaxia, which only a select few can wield, and is the second strongest Star Warrior in the galaxy, after Kirby. He is portrayed as one of the coolest characters in the anime, which is dominated by characters with comical appearances. Though he has appeared as an enemy in all of the earlier game titles, in the anime, he is an ally of Kirby and his friends (until the third episode, he is portrayed as neither friend nor foe). The bat-like wings shown in the original games and the true face under his mask are not shown in the series. In most of the scenes in which he appears, he wraps his lower body in his own cloak, and he is rarely shown with his cloak hanging down as in the games, and does not show his lower body, hands, or sword unless it is necessary for combat or other purposes. Also, while his personality in the games is cool and single-minded, in addition to those traits in the anime, he is occasionally portrayed as mischievous, airheaded, mysterious, and narcissistic. As mentioned above, the character has become more of an ally since the anime.
Customer Service (カスタマーサービス, *Kasutamā Sābisu*) (2000-2006)
Voiced by: Banjō Ginga (Japanese); George Patton V (English)
As the public face of NightMare Enterprises, he handles much of the company's sales (and advertising) from the center of Nightmare's Fortress. In both the Japanese and English versions he can be quite sarcastic, and enjoys finding ways to make things difficult for King Dedede, although he is much more subtle about it in the original. In the English dub, he went through a drastic personality change; his persona is more that of the stereotypical "slimy used-car salesman", using a large amount of slang. In the original, his image is that of a polite Japanese salesperson, using a large amount of honorific language (even when he insults customers like Dedede). The English dub makes it seem like he wants nothing more but to defraud or swindle Dedede for every nickel he has, rather than actually helping him.
Nightmare (ナイトメア, *Naitomea*)
Voiced by: Hojo Marashura (Japanese); Xavier Dunn (English)
Nightmare (known as eNeMeE in the English dub) is the main antagonist of the series and the president of NightMare Enterprises. Nightmare only appears in the shadows for most of the series. His full form is only seen at the very end of the penultimate episode and in the series finale. Very little is known about him or his origins, but as his name suggests, he is a living nightmare. He thrives on suffering, creating monsters to sell in his company and use in his armies to continue his conquest of the universe in order to bring himself more power. He also gives off the illusion of being invincible, since he can open his cloak and suck all attacks into the area where his stomach and chest should be.
## Trivia

* A few former *Happy Days* actors, including Scott Baio, Anson Williams and Ron Howard starred in Episode 4 of Season 5 (The Appointment), as guest stars defending the front gate of Castle Dedede.