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include("../../../tmp_en/3.php"); ?> Interviews include("../../../tmp_en/4.php"); ?> DE include("../../../tmp_en/5.php"); ?>In interviews, the people behind the video games and other media reveal many interesing details about the creation of their works. Many interviews have also been held for the Kirby series since its early days. This page’s goal is to collect all interviews which have Kirby as their topic. Additionally, interviews about Super Smash Bros. are taken into consideration as long as at least one passage refers to Kirby. In some cases, the interviews are not “typical” ones with a questioner, but panels involving the creators only. Those are not treated separately.
The data for the interviews is mostly self-explanatory. The date applies to the release of the interview and not the day it took place, which is often not even known. If an interview is available online, the appropriate links are listed. Many interviews are in Japanese in their original version, the last column contains links to official or fan translations in English language (and, for consistency with the German version of Kirbytraum, in German as well).
Finally, a listing of interviews follows which have neither Kirby nor Super Smash Bros. as their main topic, but still include some words on the creampuff.
1990s | 2000s | 2010s | Other Interviews
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Kirby’s Creation and Kirby’s Adventure |
Masahiro Sakurai Satoru Iwata Shigeru Miyamoto Hiroaki Suga Takao Shimizu Takashi Saito |
Player’s Guide | 1993 |
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Super Smash Bros. |
Satoru Iwata Masahiro Sakurai |
Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun |
1999-03-13 |
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Yoshiki Suzuki Kouichi Watanabe Hirokazu Ando |
1999-03-18 | ||||
Hitoshi Kikkawa Isao Takahashi Masahiro Sakurai |
1999-03-24 | ||||
Tsuyoshi Wakayama Tadashi Hashikura Michiko Takahashi Masahiro Sakurai |
1999-03-30 | ||||
Masahiro Sakurai | 1999-04-20 | ||||
Satoru Iwata | 1999-04-28 |
Topic(s) | Interviewee(s) | Source | Date | Original Version | Translation(s) |
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Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards | Takashi Saito | N.O.M | 2000-03-01 |
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Kirby in General | Masahiro Sakurai | ||||
HAL Laboratory | Masayoshi Tanimura | ||||
Kirby Tilt ’n’ Tumble | Toshiaki Suzuki | N.O.M | 2000-08-01 |
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Kirby Tilt ’n’ Tumble |
Kazuhiko Taniguchi Iwao Masuyama Akio Ikeda Yasuzumi Nakai Toshiaki Suzuki Hiroki Sakagami |
Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun |
2000-09-29 to 2000-11-04 |
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Kirby Anime |
Masahiro Sakurai Soji Yoshikawa Keiji Nakatsuji |
CBC |
2001-08-29 to 2001-09-26 |
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Kirby Anime |
Soji Yoshikawa Naotsugu Kato Masayoshi Tanimura Makiko Ohmoto |
N.O.M | 2001-10-01 |
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Music of Super Smash Bros. Melee |
Shogo Sakai Hirokazu Ando Tadashi Ikegami Masahiro Sakurai |
Sma-Bro Ken!! (Smash Bros. Dojo!!) |
2002-01-18 |
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Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land |
Masahiro Sakurai Eitaro Nakamura Teruhiko Suzuki |
N.O.M | 2002-12-01 |
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Kirby Air Ride |
Masayoshi Tanimura Yusuke Kataoka Norimasa Tanikawa Hiroaki Suga Kenichirou Kita Ashura Benimaru Sanae Kubota Hirokazu Ando Shogo Sakai Shigefumi Kawase |
Nintendo Power | late 2003 |
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Kirby: Mouse Attack / Squeak Squad |
Atsushi Kakuta Masanobu Yamamoto Kenshiro Ueda |
N.O.M | 2006-11-01 |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Vol. 1) | Masahiro Sakurai | Iwata Asks | 2008-01-22 |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Vol. 2) | 2008-01-23 |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Vol. 3) | 2008-01-24 |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Vol. 4) | 2008-01-25 |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Vol. 5) | 2008-01-28 |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Vol. 6) | 2008-01-29 |
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Vol. 7) | 2008-01-30 |
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Kirby Super Star Ultra |
Tetsuya Abe Shinya Kumazaki Mari Shirakawa |
N.O.M | 2008-11-01 |
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Topic(s) | Interviewee(s) | Source | Date | Original Version | Translation(s) |
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Kirby’s Epic Yarn |
pages 1 to 3: Emi Watanabe Nobuo Matsumiya Atsushi Kono Kentaro Sei Etsunobu Ebisu pages 4 to 6: Tadashi Ikegami Hirokazu Ando Jun Ishikawa Masanobu Yamamoto Kentaro Sei (p. 6) |
Iwata Asks | 2010-10-07 |
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Kirby Mass Attack |
Masanobu Yamamoto Mari Shirakawa |
1UP.com | 2011-09-20 |
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Kirby Mass Attack |
Masanobu Yamamoto Mari Shirakawa |
IGN | 2011-09-20 |
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Kirby’s Adventure Wii / Return to Dream Land |
Shigefumi Kawase Shinya Kumazaki Hiroaki Nakono Tadashi Kamitake ab Seite 3: Hitoshi Yamagami Yurie Hattorie |
Iwata Asks | 2011-10-21 |
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Reasons for “Angry” Kirby in US Marketing | Shinya Kumazaki | GameSpot | 2014-04-28 |
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Kirby in General |
Shinya Kumazaki Yurie Hattori Satoshi Ishida |
VG247 | 2014-05-22 |
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Kirby: Planet Robobot | Shinya Kumazaki | Nintendo Dream | 2016-04 |
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Auch in diesen Interviews verstecken sich Infos über Kirby. Oft sehr kurz, aber nicht weniger interessant. In der ersten Spalte wird hier der jeweilige Bezug zur Serie beschrieben. Bei Interviews, die aus mehreren Seiten bestehen, sind nur Links auf relevante Seiten vorhanden.
Topic(s) | Interviewee(s) | Source | Date | Original Version | Translation(s) |
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Mother 3, 64DD, More Games by HAL Laboratory (some info about Kirby’s Air Ride) |
Satoru Iwata | Dengeki Nintendo 64 | mid 1997 |
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Nintendo GameCube (Miyamoto refers to his presentation of Kirby Tilt ’n’ Tumble 2) |
Shigeru Miyamoto | N.O.M | 2001-09-01 |
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Developer Career of Hideo Hatakeyama (info about his work on Kirby Tilt ’n’ Tumble) |
Hideo Hatakeyama | N.O.M | 2003-02-01 |
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Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo (Iwata refers to the beginnings and the success of the Kirby series) |
Satoru Iwata | Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun | 2005-03-09 |
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Claude M. Moyse’s Time at Nintendo (including the Kirby comics in Club Nintendo whose plot was invented by Moyse) |
Claude M. Moyse | classic-zone.de | 2006-10-31 |
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Developer Career of Dave Jones (mention of the unreleased game Kid Kirby) |
Dave Jones | Gamasutra | 2006-12-21 |
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Super Mario Galaxy (Vol. 1) (the two-player mode in Kirby’s Fun Pak / Kirby Super Star is based on a proposal of Shigeru Miyamoto) |
Yoshiaki Koizumi Takao Shimizu |
Iwata Asks | 2007-10-04 |
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Super Mario Galaxy (Vol. 4) (see above) |
Shigeru Miyamoto | Iwata Asks | 2007-10 |
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Vol. 2) (see above) |
Toshihiko Nakago Takashi Tezuka |
Iwata Asks | 2009-11/12 |
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Vol. 3) (Shigeru Miyamoto found an earlier version of the transformation sound in Kirby’s Adventure too light) |
Sanae Uchida Eiji Mukao Takayuki Ikkaku Shigeyuki Asuke |
Iwata Asks | 2010-02 |
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Handheld Games of the Zelda Series (Kirby’s guest appearance in Link’s Awakening) |
Toshihiko Nakago Takashi Tezuka Eiji Aonuma |
Iwata Asks | 2009-12 |
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Game Design Philosophy (Sakurai describes his intentions behind Kirby’s Dream Land and other games) |
Masahiro Sakurai Ryutaro Ichimura |
Famitsu | 2010-08 |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (Vol. 3) (Haruhana mentions his first real assignment at Nintendo, illustrations for Kirby’s Dream Course) |
Kazuaki Morita Makoto Miyanaga Satoru Takizawa Yoshiki Haruhana Eiji Aonuma |
Iwata Asks | 2011-06 |
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Wii U, Zelda and More All About Nintendo (Miyamoto verrät, warum die neuen Kirby-Spiele nicht auf der E3-Pressekonferenz beworben wurden und wie Kirby zu seinem Namen kam) |
Shigeru Miyamoto | Game Informer | 2011-06-17 |
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Keiko Inoue’s Work at Nintendo (artwork designer Inoue names Kirby Mass Attack and Kirby’s Epic Yarn as two of her recent works) |
Keiko Inoue | Nintendo Recruiting Information (Japan) | 2011-12-01 |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising (Sakurai names Kirby Air Ride as an example for his style) |
Masahiro Sakurai | Iwata Asks | 2012-02-22 |
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(unlike in this game, the story normally doesn’t have high priority for Sakurai, Iwata names Kirby as an example) | 2012-03-29 |
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For sure, these are not all Kirby interviews. There are possibly translations of Japenese interviews I’m not aware of, too. Do you know more? Then let me know!
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