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The Kirby TV Channel was a downloadable channel you could download somewhere in 2011 on the Wii Shop Channel for free. Wii players could use it to watch episodes of Kirby Right Back at Ya. there were also some trailers for the Kirby games for the Wii and DS as well. It only lasted a few months before not showing newer Kirby: Right Back at Ya! episodes after that time.
For some reason, this channel was only originally available in Europe, despite unused U.S. and Japanese save file icons being shown in the data for this channel as seen in The Cutting Room Floor.
In July 2021, a Homebrew service called Striim Network brought this channel back for all regions. It works just like it did back in the day. Unlike the original release, it keeps looping through 55 episodes of the show and will not shut down.
The Striim Network service was later merged with WiiLink on 15/01/2022.
As of 7-14-2022, the WiiLink version of the channel is having some errors as seen in a YouTube video for evidence: Episodes won't load, all buttons cannot be pressed, and the only thing you can do is open the manual.[1] Fortunately, This is just caused by WiiLink not restarting the episode loop. As of September 4th, 2022, WiiLink has given the channel its first rerun.
The original runs lasted from June 23–December 15, 2011 and April 2–September 13, 2012.
Release dates[]
Episodes were released every thursday and monday in 2011.[2] Episode numbers followed the original Japanese order.[3] Episode 38, A Novel Approach, was not included.[4]
The following dates are not contemporary and were calculated from the above available information in 2021, years after the original airing.
- 23 June - Episode 1 - Kirby Comes to Cappy Town
- 27 June - Episode 2 - A Blockbuster Battle
- 30 June - Episode 3
- 4 July - Episode 4
- 7 July - Episode 5
- 11 July - Episode 6
- 14 July - Episode 7
- 18 July - Episode 8
- 25 July - Episode 9
- 28 July - Episode 10
- 1 August - Episode 11
- 4 August - Episode 12
- 8 August - Episode 13
- 11 August - Episode 14
- 15 August - Episode 15
- 18 August - Episode 16
- 22 August - Episode 17
- 25 August - Episode 18
- 29 August - Episode 19
- 1 September - Episode 20
- 5 September - Episode 21
- 8 September - Episode 22
- 12 September - Episode 23
- 15 September - Episode 24
- 19 September - Episode 26 - Hour of the WolfWrath
- 22 September - Episode 27 - The Flower Plot
- and so forth
It is not clear how episode 38, A Novel Approach, affected the schedule.
This Kirby-related article is a stub. Please help by expanding it. - ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-PbEAQfpCU
- ↑ "Every week, two new episodes will become available – one on a Monday and one on a Thursday."
- ↑ "Please note that the following episode numbers refer to the Japanese order, and 4Kids used that order on Kirby: Cappy New Year and Other Kirby Adventures. Nintendo also used this order on Kirby TV Channel for Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Anime Channel for Nintendo 3DS."
- ↑ "For unknown reasons, this episode was the only one never aired on the Kirby TV Channel."