Hoshi no Kirby: Pilot

There are no reviews for this lovely piece of art, so I thought I'd write one. :I

Story (2, just because it's better than Mars of Destruction):
There isn't much of a story here.

Kirby crash lands into some 'princess' lady's face (who people speculate is the original design of Fumu/Tiff) and she gets up perfectly fine, just a bit angry when Kirby floats around like an idiot and gets in her face.
Then it's mostly just Kirby and this 'princess' showing off their moves and flying around...And King Dedede is trying to murder them (or at least Kirby), but fails every time. Afterwards Kirby offers ... him a sausage as a peace offering, since I think he had been having a picnic or something.

Then later some other excuses for enemies appear. (Captain Stitch, Meta Knight, who isn't evil in the actual series, Ice Dragon, Dark Matter, Master Green, Blocky, Efreeti and then some others from various games. Those were all the names I could be bothered to look up.) They kill them in one second. Then Nightmare shocks them with some sort of weird lightning and they can't move. Then, it shows Kirby waking up to find it was only a very trippy nightmare. But wait, that means...did he ever even meet any princess or penguin? Or any of those people? Did he ever actually have a girlfriend? Nope, he had been sleeping the whole time. I think. Whatever, let's move on.

Art (3): The art. Well, to start, they kind of got King Dedede's design messed up I think, with his hat anyways. Lol, and the 'princess' is naked. And the animation...is not too great. This pilot seems more like some sort of test animation.

Sound (3): The music is mostly in the beginning and doesn't really match the "mood", though it's debatable what the mood even is. There isn't any voice acting at all. Also, there's a few sounds, but that's it.

Character (2): There isn't much character development. Basically Kirby and this 'princess' are innocent and everyone else is a complete and total asshole.

Enjoyment (4): I guess it was nice to see how much they improved when they made the actual show.

Overall (3): This was one of...the pilots of all time.

This might be one of the weirdest things I've ever watched. Honestly, at times it feels less like a pilot for a 100 episode anime and more like a middle school students' 3D modeling project. Though, it does have some points of charm.

Story, uh... It doesn't really have one.

The art is a very mixed bag. The 3D animation looks terrible, just absolutely horrendous, it makes RatBoyGenius look like Da Vinci. However, the 2D animation is actually really nice, comparable to the actual show.

Sound isn't good. The music is fine enough, but the stock sound effects are laughably bad.

Obviously, with no story, any character is highly ... lacking. Though, they do have a few moments of mildly amusing antics.

Enjoyment will wildly vary. If you enjoy Kirby, like I do, you will probably get a decent amount of enjoyment from seeing this and comparing it to the actually somewhat good anime that it spawned. If not, maybe you can still get some sort of ironic enjoyment.

Overall, despite the low rating, I would actually really recommend this if you're a fan of Kirby. Mainly because it's just about 4 minutes long. And even if you're not that big into the series, you might get a laugh out of it.