Translation of the Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe interview from the June 2023 edition of Nintendo Dream

First of all, I want to apologize for the delay in this translation. I lost a lot of motivation when this interview was posted online on Nintendo Dream's official website and thus my hours spent transcribing it felt wasted, and people started to simply machine translate text and thus I kinda felt the translation wasn't …

Translation of Kirby: Squeak Squad narration text with comments

So a while ago I decided to go translate all Japanese narration text of Squeak Squad to see if it was any different from English. Spoiler alert: the official English translation is, all things considered, fairly accurate, but there are still some minor mistakes or things to comment. So, here is my translation of all …

Kirby 30th Anniversary Music Festival – Backstory post 1 translation

So on the website of the Kirby Music Festival, they've been posting backstory posts about basically behind the scenes stuff about the event. I've decided to finally go translate them all. Here is a translation of the first one. Unveiling of the "penlight" mechanism that colored the Kirby Fest! At this year's Kirby Fest, special …

Translations of Kirby: Planet Robobot Copy Ability descriptions with comments

In the Kirby fandom, I think at this point it's known that Planet Robobot's English translation is...bad. I mean, it's not horrible, but there are many mistranslations and weird translation choices that make it clear that the game didn't have enough translation budget and time. And while people usually focus on the boss pause descriptions …

Translation of the Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe interview from the May 2023 edition of Nintendo Dream

This is a translation of the 8 page interview featured in the May 2023 edition of the Nintendo Dream magazine. Many thanks to Falco_Lau for providing scans of this interview, I wouldn't have been able to translate it without said scans. Do know that I'm simply a passionate Kirby fan that is learning Japanese due …

Jun Ishikawa Interview from the Kirby 25th Anniversary Orchestra Concert Pamphlet

This is my translation of the one page interview with Jun Ishikawa present in the Kirby 25th Anniversary Orchestra Concert Pamphlet. Keep in mind that this is from 2017, and is focused on the 25th anniversary of the Kirby series and the orchestra concert that happened to celebrate it; the latest Kirby game covered in …

Short translation of the second Forgotten Land novel that has some interesting stuff

This is different from my usual translation posts, as I mostly translate interviews and such, however I'm making a small exception for this as I found this very interesting, and I was asked to translate and post this to share with the fandom. For context, my translation is from a very small part of the …

Translation of the Kirby and the Forgotten Land interview from the June 2022 edition of Nintendo Dream

This is a translation of the 8 page interview featured in the June 2022 edition of the Nintendo Dream magazine. Many thanks to Falco_Lau's friend for scanning these and making them available, I wouldn't have been able to translate it without said scans. Do know that I'm simply a passionate Kirby fan that is learning …

Translation of “Kirby’s Secrets” from the 20th Anniversary Kirby of the Stars Pupupu Taizen book

So in the 20th Anniversary Kirby of the Stars Pupupu Taizen book, there is a section where a document called "Kirby's Secrets" was posted. Said document was made internally at HAL around the time Kirby's Adventure had just released (so 1993) with notes about various things related to Kirby and his world that from what …

Short translation regarding the singer from Welcome to the New World! of Kirby and the Forgotten Land

So, sadly, a lot of things regarding the development and some tidbits of Kirby games are still exclusively revealed through the Nintendo Dream magazine. Recently the site of the magazine even started to block non-Japanese IPs, so you need to use a VPN located in Japan or be in Japan to access its site. So …