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For 9/17/04

Name: Supercutekirby

Q: Hi Ivyna!

Wassup.

Today I was watching my Kirby tapes (again) and I noticed something. You know the cake in the anniversary episode? Well, in the Scarfy ep, the Waddle Dees bake a cake that is EXACTLY the same as the one HNM made. Did they somehow order it from HNM? Can other people access Dedede's HNM "account", besides Escargoon?
Thanks for taking time to do this, even if it is tiring at times. ^^;

Mm, I think it's more a case of the animators using the same design twice. =P

I doubt the cake was from HNM, since they had that specific food they wanted Dedede to feed the Scarfies. (To make em EVIL.) That and the Waddle Dees carried it into the throne room, didn't they? Considered you download IN the throne rom...







Name: Star rod

Q: Hey, Could you pleeze post a pic of evry kirby ability in da show! if yur too lazy, thas ok!! just post a few pics of dedede on fire / or drownin / or covered in ashes.

Wah, this is the Kirby Gurus, not... Ask for Pictures Gurus! I swear that's all some of ya do. ^_^; It's okay sometimes but...

...And you have some weird pic requests. O_o Uh, I just put up a new section with lotsa art including ability pics so I'd go there... And not to mention all the screenshots. O_o

OOOOOO! I FORGOT!! Pleeze post a pic of Dedede Beating the crap out of Escargoon in the haunted mansion ep when Escargoon is taking a shower and dedede holds his mallet like in the movie Psycho!!

Sorry, I don't have that ep on DVD. =( I wish I did, I loved that scene.







Name: Lordofthesuplex

Q: Hello, I have a mere question to ask Miss Spyder. I have a friend from a message board that I shall call Nameless for this letter who recently put up a topic regarding the Foxbox's new schedule. Anyways moving to the point, Nameless tells me that there are only six more episodes left for 4Kids to air as they are skipping a lot of episodes in order to end Kirby much earlier than usual to make room for new shows. (He mentions Mew Mew Power being the show that they plan on airing in Kirby's place.) I'm taking a risk in asking this but is he correct? Are 4Kids planning on airing only 6 more episodes before the finale and just trashing the rest?

Tell Nameless he's not too bright. =P There's no WAY they'd skip that many episodes! It's just not feasible. O_o 4Kids has skipped 2 eps out of 72 so far, and while aggravating, it's not as horrible as skipping all but 6! XD

4Kids is starting with more marketing of Kirby, so they want the series to go on for a lot longer than 6 eps.

I'd rather not see this happen. This is what Shopro is known for. 4Kids skips very few episodes. Shopro on the other hand...sorry almost got off topic. Anyways, I'm really worried about if this is true as we might not get to see all of the Kirby abilities and I'm looking forward to a lot of those episodes. I really don't miss out on them. Please tell me if this is true or not.

Yeah, Shopro is WAY worse about skipping episodes. O_o Though they've done some good stuff....

Don't worry, you should get a chance to see all of Kirby's new abilities! Spark shows up in more than one episode, so even if they don't show the 'Hoshi no Fumu-tan' episode, you can still see it in others!







Name: SiR6

Q: Hi there! I mean, *bows down* Hail to Queen Goddess Ivyna J Spyder!

Aww. :D

You're completely cracked, you know that? That's okay, though, I still like ya. I've been reading all the past questions, and I'll get to mine after I finish laughing my head off at half your responses. Seriously, what would the Kirby fandom universe be like without you?

...Probably better off, but let's not dwell much on that. :D

Anyway, regarding Togeira: Am I the ONLY ONE ALIVE who sees any potential reference to Gordo? That's WAY too close a design to ignore. Why does no one else notice?

Oh, I believe you're right about that. XD Hm, or maybe to Captain Stitch? Well, it also sort of looks like the Needle demon Joe turned into in his first episode!

Secondly, the link to the ep list at your site s broken. Did the site go under again? I'm getting a 404 error message when I click that link.

Oh, yeah, it was down but it's back, but everything's moved around. XD The same list (with corrections) can now also be found at KRR! :D

Third... you've said they really altered Dedede's personality in the dub, and his motives.... didn't they KEEP most of that? I recall MK mentioning Dedede's jealous and suspicious of Kirby in "Dark and Stormy Knight", and Dedede twice mentioning he wanted to get Kirby out of Dreamland, but never that he outright wanted to kill him. There's more on this, but I don't wana clutter the submission with it. My main question is, didn't they actually keep most of Dedede's anti-Kirby motives intact?

Well that's sorta what I thought, but then a lot of people watching the dub (including myself at first) were getting a lot of weird ideas about it... I'm not really sure. XD

What they didn't focus as much on was that Dedede wanted to show that Kirby wasn't a hero like everyone thought. That's his logic- find a monster to beat Kirby, that proves he can't protect everyone and Dedede can kick him out. I'm not sure if they're ever really clear on that in the dub... That and the fact that later on Dedede doesn't order monsters for the specific reason of getting Kirby as much. =P

Then again I haven't watched the earlier dubbed eps in a while, maybe I should... *shudder* check them out.

Anyway, there was some confusion about it...

Fourth, when was Fire Kirby in "Labor Daze"?

Hm, that's odd. O_o I'm not sure how that got there, I musta copy-pasted wrong. ^_^;

Fifth, I've seen a lot about Meta Knight mentioning Kirby's attacks by their KSS names. What does he do for attacks that aren't associated with KSS' abilities (i.e. Tornado, Needle, Spark)

In the original? Oh, for the ones I've seen so far he'll just say what it is, no specific attack names... Usually Kirby says his own attacks if there are any.

Sixth, thank you for your help with the information on the last episode. I don't remember where ti was I saw that bit of misinformation I had, but I appreciate you correcting it for me.

No prob, I like correcting people! *TANK*

Seventh... I'm taking this to be a longshot... do you have any idea why Beam Kirby was never used in the show? It's supposedly Masahiro Sakurai's favorite ability, and the first designed for Kirby... why'd they forget about it?

Sadly, I still cannot read minds. =P It is odd, but there must've been some reasoning behind it! XD (Maybe they just pulled ability names out of a hat to decide. =P)

Eighth and last question. I was wondering, if you had any of your own Kirby transformation sequence ideas? I managed to get Mirror and Hammer completely wrong from what I'd thought they'd be like, and also worked on one for Burning and Hi-Jump... did you have any?

Um... Not that I've really thought of, no. ^_^;

That's all, I don't wanna burn you out (or make you want to break my kneecaps or outright kill me). And to whoever asked how many tmes they say "Krby" in the dub opening, it IS 25... 24 if you don't count Dedede saying it.

You're insane. :D







Name: DirtDevil

Q: If Kirby is 12,and the show is based when he was a baby, how is Rick in it? Hampsters do NOT live 12 years. I am a disgrace to the Kirby fandom

Aw, you're too hard on yourself. :D

Hamsters also aren't several feet tall and can't talk. :D

Also, the show is another, separate, timeline from the games.

Oh, Kirby has no official age in the games. They just refer to him as a 'young adult' or sometimes a little boy.







Name: mk gal

Q: this is most likely the stupidest question anything or any one would ever ask.... i was just wondering.... er... how high is kirby and mk's IQ? i know they are both really smart but i'm really asking this 'cause i wanna know...... who's smarter?

Umm... XD I really have no way of knowing this... I can't exactly give em IQ tests!

But I'd say MK is the smarter one. =P At least for now.







Name: some guy (lil kirby kid)

Q: why dont u have Top,Baton Twirling,Iron,Watter or some of the KSS abilities(Wing,Mirro,Bomb,Paint, etc.) Kirby. why does crash have a cap?

Er, not sure whatcha mean? What do you mean, why don't I 'have' them?

And I dunno why he has a cap! I guess they though Crash Kirby would look cool with a cap. :D (I think he does.)







Name: Fred M. Sloniker

Q: I see you've translated several of the Japanese Kirby songs. You rock! Two questions related to this:

1) Any advice on getting my hands on the OSTs (not just MP3s thereof)?

www.amazon.co.jp my friend :D You can buy from em if ya have a credit card, and view the buying stuff in english. Very reliable!

Here's the Anime OST

Here's the Second Op/End Single

2) Will you be translating the songs on the Kirby's Adventure disc? I especially want to know the lyrics to 'Goodnight, Kirby!', but I can't even find them in Japanese on the Web...

Only if someone can get me the lyrics. ^_^; I can't do it by listening...







Name: Broom Kirby

Submission: In the Series Finale (The one where Kirby fights Nightmare.) I know how Kirby becomes Star Rod Kirby but I don't know how he gets the Bomb and Fire abilites. Can you tell me? P.S. You might want to block the answer to this question.

He eats some bombs and some fire. :D







Name: John Jester

Q: I enjoy the Kirby Anime, but it came to my attention that 2 of the eps were banned from ever appearing in the US, which is where I live. Why? What was so bad about them to make them get banned in the first place?
Just incase, here are the names of the eps:
017 - The Ring Story of Parm and Memu
032- The Story Where no one becomes Toothless
Please inform me as soon as you can.
Thanks in advance.

This is an excellent question. :D

...But I don't know. NO ONE KNOWS.

I've seen both episodes- in fact I've translated em into English and I said in the previous Guru thingy what to do if you'd like to see em. =P

And really, there's nothing offensive in em. Nothing that would warrant cutting them completely. They're both quite funny too. Shame, really.





That's all for this time, kiddies!

Last Updated - July 19th, 2008