Kirby Manga Mania, Vol. 1: Volume 1

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Kirby Manga Mania: Jump into Dream Land with Kirby and gobble up some fun! Everyone's favorite pink puff teams up with his friends to keep arch-frenemy King Dedede in line. Fans of all ages can enjoy this sampling of a classic Kirby comic; just take a deep breath and hop on in! (story and art by Hirokazu Hikawa) Image: VIZ Media / Nintendo Viz Confirms Kirby Manga & Novels by Hayashi, Otsuichi (Updated)". Anime News Network . Retrieved 2021-09-25.

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The only oddity that may take some getting use to is that Kirby actually talks. And I’m not talking about his simplistic noises like “poyo” (although he does do that). He speaks in complete sentences and, while he is still a lovable kid, he acts more like a small child rather than like a baby. Not_Soos As great as Animal Crossing is I don’t think it could be enough of “heavy hitter” to carry a new console launch. Mario and Zelda appeal.to both the hardcore and casual crowd just enough to be Nintendo’s must haves at launch. I was there for the GameCube launch and while Luigi’s Mansion was great it wasn’t Super Mario Sunshine either. Kaliroff, Marc (2021-06-01). "Kirby Manga Mania Is A Merry Lot of Madness". Goomba Stomp Magazine . Retrieved 2021-09-25. Aside from Kirby himself, the manga features many of the characters from the Kirby series of games, including Meta Knight, King Dedede, and many of the regular enemies and bosses from the games as well. Very on brand for my first manga book to be Kirby. I'm not really sure how I want to rate Manga (I wasn't even sure if I wanted to count it towards my goal, but I've been in a reading slump and this felt approachable).Ultimately Kirby passes out in the grass. Yet the horrors don’t end there. Kirby’s body begins to wriggle. Nope, he’s not throwing up. It turns out the 10 people he’d eaten are still alive, and are crawling their way out of his mouth. It was a fun time don’t get me wrong but it was hard giving Kirby a voice in your head when in the video games he doesn’t actually speak and just makes sounds. Chapter 1: Kirby crashes a picnic party that he wasn't invited to while drunk on sake. Wut. It doesn't get better after that. Kirby isn't really the cute, loveable pink puff that he is in the games - he's kind of the ass of all of the chapters, for the most part: he causes all the problems and makes everybody uncomfortable. I found very few moments of this enjoyable. I don't read manga, so this genre is all new to me (my students like manga, so I figured I'd give a few titles a go based on my interests), but Kirby is supposed to be a kid-friendly franchise, and IDK how this got past Nintendo and HAL Labratory for approval. I wouldn't want to give this to any of my friends' kids or my niece or nephew. Huh? Did Kirby just display a command over the English language? Hikawa you madlad, what have you done? Ah, Free Comic Book Day, the day that means that spending time with my family on the weekend nearest my birthday always involves popping to a comic book shop at some point.

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A Fuse #8 Production Jane Mount Makes Good Interviews: A Discussion With the Creator of Books Make Good Friends The manga is not considered to be canon to the Kirby games or anime. While it draws from the premises introduced in the games, it introduces new characters, events, places, and Copy Abilities and Mix abilities never seen in other Kirby media. Furthermore, it has a far more zany, nonsensical and irreverent tone, with most characters given very different, exaggerated personalities and traits.

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Not_Soos interesting…. While I would love it, I don’t think Nintendo will do it. Zelda and Mario are so emblematic of the company. Maybe if Animal Crossing outsells the others in the next generation, maybe… In Chapter 1 of the Japanese orginal version, Kirby consumes a drink with a label that reads 「酒」 which means "alcohol." This was changed in the English localization to "Loopy Juice" to avoid references to alcohol. However, the kanji character can still be seen in one panel. Viz Media originally had plans to localize Kirby of the Stars: The Story of Dedede Who Lives In Pupupu into English for North America in 2009, making an announcement about the series. [2] The proposed English title was simply Kirby. For unknown reasons, these plans were quietly abandoned by 2011. Presumably, this release would have covered the complete series starting with the first 1995 volume, if it had happened. The real protagonist of the Kirby strips, in a reversal of the dynamics of many of the franchise’s games, is King Dedede, the often-selfish, penguin-like anthropomorphic bird that serves as several games’ antagonist. In most of the strips, Dedede is more-or-less minding his own business as he was in the initial one with the picnic—perhaps he’s readying his castle for an upcoming typhoon, or playing with his toy robot pet—when Kirby enters the picture, generally causing huge problems for Dedede. Kirby generally seems to do so not necessarily out of malice, but instead out of a combination of ignorance and a readiness for instantaneous action, which, given Kirby’s inhaling powers, generally has big ramifications.

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First off, Kirby is a complete jerk, especially to King Dedede. You could argue it's revenge for the games, but taken out of context of the games, Kirby just looks like a total, unabashed [bad word or three]. The series would later be published as a "best-of" collection, featuring a selection of chapters that Hikawa considers the best, in addition to bonus comics. It was published in English as Kirby Manga Mania by Viz Media, with the first volume being published on June 8, 2021. [8] Kirby Manga Mania Volume 1 Review". But Why Tho? A Geek Community. 2021-06-08 . Retrieved 2021-09-25.Well it's translated from the original Japan as Kirby of the Stars Dedede Pupupu Story Dedede Compilation. I believe Pupupu is Japanese for Dream Land. Not the bed company. This is Kirby I'm on about Though the proprietary legacy of the manga may have something to do with why its release was delayed, a different perspective emerges when we compare Kirby Manga Mania to Super Mario Manga Mania, released in December 2020. That collection is drawn from Super Mario-kun, which has been published consistently in CoroCoro since 1991. This is not the manga that showed Mario’s penis to the world, but it might as well have been.

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Obviously, there’s a bit of a disconnect between video game Kirby and manga Kirby. It’s an element that Kirby Manga Mania shares with Mario Manga Mania, a December release from Viz Media that was similarly a best-of collection of strips starring a Nintendo icon, in which the Italian plumber was ruder, cruder, cowardly, and generally more venal than he seems in his games. REVIEW: Kirby Manga Mania Is a Sweet Treat for (Young) Fans". CBR. 2021-06-23 . Retrieved 2021-09-25. When he’s not paying off a loan to Tom Nook, Liam likes to report on the latest Nintendo news and admire his library of video games. His favourite Nintendo character used to be a guitar-playing dog, but nowadays he prefers to hang out with Judd the cat.Kirby of the Stars was originally serialized in CoroCoro Comic from May 1994 to November 2006. [1] It has been released into 25 volumes, which have over 10 million copies in circulation. [2] The December 2017 winter issue of CoroCoro Aniki featured the series' first new chapter in 11 years, and the next issue would also feature a new chapter. [3] The July 2018 issue revealed that Hikawa was resuming the Kirby manga. [4] CoroCoro Aniki ended publication in print in the spring 2021 issue, where Kirby and other manga would continue to be published online. [5] Kirby Manga Mania [ edit ]