Brothers Kirbys

Brothers Kirbys is an American adult animated series created by Patrick Sawyer, and premiered on May 27, 2014, on the Nintendo TV network. Currently having 7 seasons, more than 100 chapters and 4 movies, being one of the most successful products of the network.

The series revolves around Kired Lendel, a young Kirby of 4 years (5 years in season 6) who will have to live and overcome situations with his guide brother, Kirama Lendel. It also has the participation of the other brothers, who are a total of 14, who appear to a lesser extent, but some have episodes focused on them.

During its premiere in 2014, the series was received with good reviews, saying ¨that at least it manages to differentiate itself from the rest of the series for adults and that it knows how to handle jokes well¨ and also ¨that when it comes to simple but complex plots and episodic, Brothers Kirbys is perfect¨.

The most popular episode duology of the series to date, are the ´´Technophobia´´ episodes, released on August 11 and 24, 2022 respectively, belonging to season 7

The series originally ended on January 12, 2019, with the episode "Finale" and with a second movie, released on January 21, 2019. The end that was given in the movie did not convince the creator, Patrick Sawyer, who the May 27, 2021 announced a sixth season, which premiered on September 21, 2021, and is currently renewed through season 12.

On January 17, 2023, the eighth season was announced, which will premiere on May 14, 2023.

Premise
Kired Lendel, a 4-year-old boy (5 years from season 6) of Starland origin and a resident of City Kirby in the center of Dreamland, who along with his brothers (mainly Kirama) will have to learn to live in the new environment, while getting into various situations.

Characters
Kired Lendel (Voiced by Jonathan Stone): A boy who in the first season had a calm character, but sometimes eccentric, with the passing of the seasons he evolved and matured as a character. He hates children's shows and he also hates Halloween (sometimes) and they like video games and also classic Disney and Hanna-Barbera cartoons and more.

Kirama Lendel (Voiced by Jonathan Stone): Kired's twin brother and his guide on many occasions, he proves to be intelligent and careful, and always tries to prevent Kired from doing something stupid, although he has rarely had the same behavior as his brother, one of them he fakes it for that. take his place at school, due to Kired contracting AIDS.

Kevin Broster (Voiced by Michael Black): He is Kired's best friend, and the main one of Kired's group of friends, he always accompanies Kired in one of his many actions, he accompanies him no matter what happens, this is because his parents never have time for him, for therefore, seek to spend time with Kired or another person.

Kennia McAkrans (Voiced by Tara Strong): She is one of the members of Kired's group of friends. She and Kired have a hidden feeling for each other, but that they never show, their schoolmates always make fun of them when they are together, saying the typical phrase "Kired and Kenya together forever, and they are going to KISS" this bothers both, however this does not affect their friendship. He has also been seen with other people, but only as acquaintances or friends.

Ken Oliver (Voiced by Sean Giambrone): He is another of Kired's friends, unlike Kevin, he does not have much participation in the series, but nevertheless, he has served as an important character for some plots. What characterizes him most are his glasses, which he wears because he suffered blindness after seeing a flash when they took a picture of him when he was 2 years old.

Kevin Rich (Voiced by Jonathan Stone): He is a conceited boy of the same age as Kired. In his first appearances, he always sought to ridicule others, because he is a millionaire, especially Kired, who always ended up hitting or insulting him, although in recent seasons, his behavior has changed drastically, since he no longer he wants to show off, and he and Kired already have a friendly relationship, but his participation has decreased a lot, now appearing as a background character

Klein Donval (Voiced by Michael Black): He is the opposite of Kevin Rich, a poor low-income boy, who joined Kired's gang in the second season, he is quiet and shy, he always sat in the back door at recess, he always had a sandwich with moldy and dirty appearance, does not interact much with others, but has a great interaction with Kirama on some occasions

more characters very soon

Production
The series was originally scheduled to premiere in 1995, then pushed back to 1996, and canceled in early 1997.

In 2012, it was announced via Twitter that the project would be back in production, announcing its launch year, a 20-minute pilot was produced between February and March 2013, and when greenlit, another pilot was produced, this time shown on television during the end of 2013, when the pilot was well received by the audience, the series began production in January 2014 and ended in March, during that period 2 seasons were produced, this is because the series was renewed for a second season during its production. On May 1, 2014, the first commercial promoting the series was released on Nintendo TV, many people were eagerly awaiting its arrival, having high expectations, when it premiered on May 27, the series was a success, both as well as for continue producing episodes.

Animation
The animation is produced by the company's internal studio, Nintendo Animation Studios, which is done in a week, due to the use of various animation techniques that other studios do not use and also various software. But only one episode was made abroad in conjunction with the studio in charge of animation, the responsible studio was Rough Draft, in South Korea, this is not the first time, since this has been done since the early 2000s but very rarely.

Broadcast
The series has always been broadcast on Nintendo TV, at any time, because it is a channel aimed at teenagers, young people and adults, in the event that chapters premiere, they are always broadcast in the Nintendo Premiere segment at 09:00 PM, although the pilot premieres at 5:00 PM, something that was done with this pilot and the first chapter, the rest premiere at 9:00 PM on random days, since 2018 the first 3 seasons are broadcast on Comedy Central and Adult Swim, due to a contract broadcast of the series. Internationally it is broadcast on the Nintendo TV channels of each country, subtitled in the regional language of the country or dubbed in the national language of the country, the series is broadcast from 2022 on Cartoon Network in the ACME Night segment with TV-PG rating, therefore, the series is edited to be broadcast.

Theatrical films
The first movie premiered on April 27, 2016, and tells how Kired after accidentally causing global contamination and earning the hatred of all citizens, another danger looms over the city and possibly the world. The film cost $80.0 million dollars and raised $110.6 million dollars in the United States, and $205.7 million dollars worldwide (Therefore I collect a total of $316.3 million dollars) and was well received by critics and viewers, with a rating of 7.9 points. It was produced by Nintendo Movies and distributed by 20th Century Fox, due to a distribution contract.

This movie had a more generic plot, that as robot aliens invaded the city and Kired was supposedly their target. When Patrick Sawyer was asked about the movie he said "I don't understand who chose this plot idea, but I'm not saying it's bad, just that it didn't convince me to be the end of the series." The film cost the same as the previous $80.0 million dollars and collected $95.8 million dollars in the United States and $125.5 million dollars worldwide (Which gives us a total of $221.3 million dollars in total), collecting less than the previous one, despite this it received good reviews, not for the plot, but for other factors. Like the previous one, it was produced by Nintendo Movies and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Unlike the previous one, this one managed to get to the roots of his first movie, the plot is that people in Starland are mysteriously disappearing, when Kired and his brothers coincidentally go on vacation there, and now it will be their responsibility to find the reason of these disappearances. The film cost $85.2 million dollars, collecting $147.7 million dollars in the United States, and $210.5 million dollars worldwide, For what raised in total was $358.2 million dollars, it also received better reviews than the second, the only problem that they highlighted about the film, was that it came out in some occasions of the main plot, and it focused on other things, but it didn't affect the movie itself, so it didn't go beyond that. The film was produced by Nintendo Movies and distributed by 20th Century Studios after its contract renewal, and released on August 27, 2021, with a rating of 8.2 and an age rating of PG-13 in the United States, by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Streaming films
This movie was released on July 15, 2022 by HBO Max, it was originally planned to be released on May 27, 2018 in theaters, but was shelved to focus on the second movie, it was later announced that it would be released in 2022, and in June It was announced that it would be released on the HBO Max service. The movie is about Kired making a false summon to prank his friends, but this ends badly, as evil entities invade the city and now Kired has to fix it, while Kirama tries to solve the case of his lost brother. 'The White Kirby. The film received good reviews. The film was a co-production with 20th Century Fox, and due to the delay of the film until 2022, it was decided to release it under the original name, that is, 20th Century Fox.

Comics
A series of comics were published from 2017 to 2020, they respectively have the same aspects of the series, but of course, there are also things that do not appear in the series, they were written by the creator, Patrick Sawyer, and published by Comics S.B. inc.

Brothers Kirbys the 100
As its name says, it is the 100th episode of the series and belongs to the third season and aired on September 12, 2016, it was censored and removed from television due to a scene that was too violent (and therefore classified as TV-MA) and to avoid licensing problems with other companies, because other characters from other animation studios appear. After that it has not been seen again, it is not even available on HBO Max. in 2021 the episode was uploaded to Drive for download.

Budget per season
Like all Nintendo Studios series, the budget is paid per season, that is, when Nintendo Studios produce more than one season for their programs, they decide better to pay for the production of seasons. The seasons cost a total of $1,000,000 (one million dollars)

TV Age Rating

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 * TV-MA-DLSV.png (Only the episode Brothers Kirbys the 100 and Rule 34 in the original broadcast)
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