Kirby Television

Background: In 1965, while Kirby Films, Inc. produces some Japanese movies, its television counterpart called "Kirby Television" (カービーテレビ株式会社) was formed on the same year. Its television counterpart began to produce Japanese animated shows joining forces with Kokuei Company. On December 9, 1971, Kirby Television joined forces with Toei Animation to produce more Japanese animated shows. In 1992, after the release of Kirby's Dream Land, the company stopped joining forces with Kokuei Company and Toei Animation. The company joined forces with Nintendo and HALKEN (now HAL Laboratory).

(April 27, 1992-)

Nicknames: "Kirby", "Poyo!", "Hi!", "90's Kirby"

Logo: On a shady blue background, 4 dots of light fly from the midpoint of each side of the screen and merge in the middle, exploding into a huge ball of orange light that fades to reveal the Kirby Television logo (it contains Kirby standing on the silver "K" with the text "KIRBY TELEVISION" and the byline "A NINTENDO AND HAL LABORATORY COMPANY" below). Kirby blinks his eyes twice.

Nintendo-HAL-Kirby Combo Variants:

Television: On a dark blue background, the Kirby Television logo quickly zooms backwards, placing itself on the right half of the screen. When the Kirby Television logo is in place, a flash of light reveals the words "KIRBY TELEVISION" in a rounded white font, along with the byline "A NINTENDO AND HAL LABORATORY COMPANY" underneath in a smaller font. At the same time, a spark forms an orange ball of light on the top half of the screen, which fades to reveal the Nintendo and HAL Laboratory logos. When both logos are in place, Kirby winks his left eye.

FX/SFX: The dots of light merging, the orange light, Kirby blinking his eyes twice; kinda passe today, but pretty cool Japanese animation for the time, and the design looks cleaner and less extreme than the other logos. The Kirby Television logo zooming backwards, the orange ball of light revealing the Nintendo and HAL Laboratory logos, and Kirby winking his left eye for the combo variants.

Music/Sounds: A short, somber harp/bass tune with two synth dings at the end when Kirby blinks his eyes twice. The end theme may also finish over it.

Music/Sounds Variants:

There's a keyboard remix of the fanfare that can be seen on some season one and all season two episodes of Adventures of Kirby

On Kirby and the Hologram, it's a fast-tempo 6 note jingle with a flourish-like sound on the 6th note. In hindsight, it's a stinger of the end theme.

On Adventures of Kirby and Meta Knight, the closing theme ends with a harp flourish and a ding when Kirby winks his left eye, which sounds like the Windows 95 jingle.

Availability: Current. Seen on some animated shows based on Nintendo's Kirby franchise.

Scare Factor: Depending on the variant:

None to low for the standard variant; the gloomy music and dark background don’t exactly make a clean mix, but this is a cute logo. Low for the original music variant, this is a cute logo as well.

On the Nintendo and HAL combo variants, it can range minimal for the TV variant's animation.