Kirby Manga Mania, Vol. 1: Volume 1

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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].

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Kirby Manga Mania Volume 1 Review". But Why Tho? A Geek Community. 2021-06-08 . Retrieved 2021-09-25. In the first chapter in Kirby Manga Mania, Vol. 1, Kirby drinks a bottle of alcohol (translated as “loopy juice”) and proceeds to drunkenly destroy King Dedede’s relaxing sakura viewing party. He gives addled life advice to Dedede, flips a table in anger after failing karaoke, and falls asleep on a sushi advertisement. He also swallows his friend Chirby, who looks like a tiny Kirby with an ice cream cone on his head. All the while, Kirby punctuates his sentences with his catchphrase “pepoh.” 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. That right there, that feeling you have right now, is the whiplash you will experience when you begin to read Kirby Manga Mania or the series the chapters are sourced from, Hoshi no Kirby: Dedede de Pupupu na Monogatari. It is unlike any official portrayal of Kirby you are used to. Manga Kirby doesn’t fit with his portrayals in the games, where he gently and dependably defeats a cosmic horror or two. He doesn’t fit with the anime, where he is baby. Manga Kirby isn’t even the determined, pugilistic, angry-eyebrowed manlet seen in American advertising for so long. 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 ]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. 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. I love Kirby, but I'm not the audience for this genre of manga. I think most readers go into it expecting the soft "hiii~" of our spherical hero, only to find a toddler with godlike powers. Canonically correct, but a very different (and terrifying) kind of vibe.

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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. 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 Nintendo fans will want to keep an eye out for the free manga up for grabs on Comic Book Day this year.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.

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The manga's stories typically involve the cheerful, hyperactive, and gluttonous prankster Kirby getting into a scuffle with the eccentric King Dedede, who is usually friendly and easygoing until he becomes annoyed by Kirby's behavior and taunts. Despite their many conflicts, the two still regard each other as friends at heart, and they sometimes work together. Often, Kirby will also spend a chapter trying to achieve a goal in an absurd manner, letting himself get carried away with passing whims and fancies, or he will act out scenarios drawn from classic literature, television, history, and current trends. Genecov, Max (2021-07-01). "The Kirby manga was doing Kirby memes 25 years ago". Polygon . Retrieved 2021-09-25.While it may be different from the games the 1st manga volume brings a lot of charm to the characters with some good translation Kirby's still cute and Dedede is well... Dedede 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. The manga ran in Shogakukan's monthly CoroCoro Comic from May 1994 through November 2006, and was released in 25 individual tankōbon volumes. A special chapter was published in the December 2017 winter issue of CoroCoro Aniki, where it has been continued to be serialized. Viz Media planned to release the manga in North America in 2010, but it was cancelled. The manga was later published as a "best-of" collection with new chapters, which was published in English as Kirby Manga Mania by Viz Media. I really enjoyed it and I wonder what will happen in the next volume which is volume 7, I thought it was gonna end here. But the author has other plans. 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.