Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
Japanese promotional poster
星のカービィ (Hoshi no Kābī)
Genre	Fantasy comedy
Created by	Masahiro Sakurai
Anime television series
Directed by	Sōji Yoshikawa Mitsuo Kusakabe Yōichi Kotabe (supervisor)
Produced by	Satoru Iwata Taihei Yamanashi Seiichi Hirano Takeyuki Okazaki
Written by	Sōji Yoshikawa
Music by	Akira Miyagawa
Studio	Studio Sign Studio Comet (cooperation)
Licensed by	NA: 4Kids Entertainment Nelvana Limited (2002–2006)
Original network	JNN (CBC, TBS)
English network	AU: Network 10 UK: Pop US: Fox (Fox Box/4Kids TV) (2002–2006)
Original run	October 6, 2001 – September 27, 2003
Episodes	100 (List of episodes)

Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, known in Japan as Kirby of the Stars (星のカービィ, Hoshi no Kābī, Japanese pronunciation: [hoɕi no kaːbʲiː]), is a Japanese anime television series based on Nintendo's Kirby franchise. Produced by Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting, Dentsu, and A-UN Entertainment and animated by Studio Sign, it was directed by Sōji Yoshikawa, who also handled anime composition, and Mitsuo Kusakabe, with Miyuki Shimabukuro as character designer, Kazuo Iimura as chief animation director, and Akira Miyagawa as music composer. The anime aired on CBC and TBS in Japan from October 2001 to September 2003, with 100 episodes. In the United States, the anime aired on FoxBox from September 2002 to November 2006, with episodes being released in Europe on the Kirby TV Channel for the Wii and on Kirby's Dream Collection, also for the Wii.

The anime follows Kirby, who possesses the ability to temporarily gain magical powers by sucking up their owners. After crash-landing on the planet of Popstar and befriending siblings Tiff and Tuff, Kirby and his friends fight to bring down the evil emperor Nightmare while evading King Dedede and his assistant Escargoon, who seek to eliminate Kirby using monsters provided by NightMare Enterprises.