The Kirbys

The Kirbys (also known as Kirby the Adventure: The sequel or Kirby the Adventure 2) is an American animation series created by Patrick Sawyer, which retains too many features of its predecessor, but adapting to what the years of 2007 and 2015 were. this series came to Sawyer's head in June 2006, saying '' What if we do it one more time? '' From there was born the idea of ​​narrating the adventures of the Irring after the 2005 movie.

Plot
It is basically the same plot of the original 1994 series, but with the passing of the chapters more things have been added, so as not to seem like a clone of its predecessor.

Cast
Kevin Miller - Provides the voice of Kirby Irring and several male characters

Jonathan Stone - After Miller's departure, he provides the voice of Kirby Irring and various male characters.

Christopher Taylor Miller - Provides the voice of Ken Gallagher and the second voice of Kendall Simmons

Amy Poehler - Provides the voice of several female characters

Tara Strong - Provides the voice of Kynia Page and various underage female characters

Nancy Cartwright - He is the voice of Jimmy Douler, and the second voice of Kebory McBrown

Michael Black - Provides the voice of Kenny Johnsons, also voices Kenzey Balski, and some underage male characters.

Jeremy Shada - He is the voice of Kirby Purple (the irring's younger brother) and several underage male characters.

Katie Crown - It is the voice of Mrs. Flood, the supervisor of the school

Kevin Michael Richardson - It is the second voice of the Irring's uncle

Development
The series began in development in June 2006, when Patrick Sawyer, wondering "And what will happen after the movie", and also what would happen if the characters moved forward two more years, this caused Hopkins and Sawyer to start talking more. of the series, and decided to make a continuation of the movie, in the form of a series.

Production
The series started production in December 2006, this was announced by Sawyer, he said "I did not want to continue with the series, I wanted to work on other projects, but the doubts about my own creation, this led me to do this, if the series It will end, it won't have a good ending like the movie, but I'll try my best. '' The production of the first season began, some cel-shading backgrounds from the movie were recycled, and modifying them, new backgrounds were also made, the versions of the characters in the movie were also recycled, and obviously new ones were also made, for In early February 2007, the series ended production, announced for an April premiere, later renewed for a second season, which began production in January 2008.

Animation
Like all series of Nintendo Studios, the animation is produced by Nintendo Animation Studios, in Glendale, which takes a week to complete, for the start of production of the series, it took a total of 3 weeks to animate the chapters (due to the insertion of new things), and also like all Nintendo Studios series since 2005, cel-shading is used in the backgrounds, this for some camera movements, when the camera is not moving or a specific movement is not made, the backgrounds act as if they were drawn digitally, and when the camera makes a specific movement you will see the 3D effect on the backgrounds, the characters are drawn in 2D with different angles also done digitally, and when you make a movement around the characters, the angles act as a 3D cel-shading model, this for a better impression, this has been done since 2005 and has facilitated more the animation production of the series (as well as all series animated films from Nintendo Studios) and the sky now has a gradient blue color (or sky color) which had already been used in the 1992 and 1993 shorts, but here it has obviously been improved, and it also has a shadow system for characters and objects, which makes shadows that fit very well with the environment. And all this thanks to very special software, which has been used since the end of the 80's, but constantly updated.

Broadcast
The series premiered on Nintendo TV on April 15, 2007 in the Nintendo Premiere segment at 8:00 PM, and at that same time the episodes have been released until its end in 2015. In the United Kingdom the series premiered on FX UK (later renamed FOX) on May 20, 2007, and aired its first four seasons there, until for the fifth season it was moved to Nintendo TV UK.

Reception
The series generally received positive reviews from critics and fans, despite this they felt it was somewhat "unnecessary" since they considered that the film had a great ending, it was not necessary to make another series if a good one had already been made. final for a series that was broadcast for 10 years, but despite that, it had good reviews, Sawyer himself said in 2013 in an interview  '  'Yes, I also considered it unnecessary when I first thought about it, this series for me that It was an experiment to see how the story of the characters continued and how they matured over time, but I'm still glad that this series was seen in a positive way ''. And it also received good praise that despite the years, the simple but entertaining (and sometimes complex) and good plots were still fresh after 13 years (then 2007), or as many call it  The Nintendo Studios trick