Kirby Manga Mania, Vol. 1: Volume 1

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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.” 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 collection of classic Kirby comics—just take a deep breath and hop on in! ” Though there is still a bit of a clash between the open, writerly, Apollonian Kirby of the games and the bombastic, readerly, Dionysian Kirby of the manga, it is manageable because of what the internet has made with Kirby. The pink orb is clay in its hands. Single images evoke whole worlds. Even devoid of context, he evokes a gentle possibility that only good things will happen to him and his friends, the details of which are almost all up to you and your daydreams.

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REVIEW: Kirby Manga Mania Is a Sweet Treat for (Young) Fans". CBR. 2021-06-23 . Retrieved 2021-09-25. A Fuse #8 Production Jane Mount Makes Good Interviews: A Discussion With the Creator of Books Make Good Friends 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).Komatsu, Mikikazu. "CoroCoro Comic's "Kirby" Manga Series Reaches Milestone of 10 Million Copies". Crunchyroll . Retrieved 2021-09-25. 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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While this is faaaar from what I would want in a Kirby manga (given the deep lore of the games), it is a pretty cute, fun little group of misadventures. It's definitely kid oriented, as it should probably be, but still kind of a fun, casual read. 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.The cover looks adorable, so I thought that this would be a cute little book. I was wrong. Now, my brother tells me that this is likely a classic "gag" manga, but I'll be honest, if this is what goes for a gag in Japan, then I don't want to read any more. I expected the Kirby of the games, a cute pink puffball who eats things and gains their powers. Now, I've only read two stories (that was all I could stomach), but that was not the story that I was seeing. 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. While Kirby’s campaign promises don’t go beyond him yelling that he’s going to be king of the world, how he inevitably gets there is some “stop the steal” type shenanigans. Kirby systematically takes out his competition by burning them alive and crushing them after transforming into a boulder. When the votes are about to get tallied, Kirby inhales the people who are in camp Dedede, winning the election and becoming king.