The official Nintendo YouTube channel has uploaded the first episode of a new series of Kirby tales, which follows the adventures of the little pink balloon. The franchise kirby is one of Nintendo’s most kid-friendly series, even though the Kirby games have some unsettling bosses hidden away.
It’s not unheard of for Nintendo to post animated shorts on their social media channels, but it’s something that’s more associated with the Pokémon franchise. This is likely because The Pokémon Company is always producing animation for the franchise, so it has the framework to easily create shorts for social media.
The official Pokémon YouTube channel has uploaded all kinds of heartwarming and wacky videos over the years, from cartoon shorts set in the Galar region to ASMR videos centered around Pokémon eating food.
Now, Nintendo is releasing animated shorts from one of its first-party franchises. The official Nintendo channel on YouTube has uploaded the first episode of “Kirby’s Tales“, a series of seven stories starring kirby and their friends and enemies from their games, as they go on adventures.
The first episode of Kirby Tales is called “Kirby’s little world“, and follows Kirby, Waddle Dee, King Dedede and other characters from the Kirby games playing hide-and-seek in the Whispy Forest, going on a treasure hunt in a gem-filled cave, picking watermelons in a field, going swimming and napping on a friendly whale, exploring an enchanted forest and making paper airplanes.
This could be a sign that Nintendo is showing more interest in kirbyespecially since Kirby and the Forgotten Land surpassed Elden Ring in launch sales in Japan, so the company could be seeing more multimedia potential for the character, especially with the Super Mario Bros. movie due in 2022.