Anige is a monster in the Kirby series, appearing exclusively as the main antagonist of the Kirby: Right Back at Ya! episode, "Tooned Out".
Physical Appearance[ ]
Anige's full body
Anige is a dusty old robot surrounded by eight sphere-like drones that bear a lone red eye orbiting around his body. His head is an old fashioned television with a dark green screen that bears a lone large purple eye against several static-like lines. The rest of his body resembles a tabletop lamp. He has a long metal rod for a body and a golden base. Anige lacks arms, instead having floating hands. He holds a controller resembling that of a retro video game console which he can link to optical senors for the purpose of controlling his enemies. Like Walney, Anige has a small moustache and a red beret.
History[ ]
Anige is an elderly, yet cruel and manipulative monster appearing in the episode Tooned Out. Posing as famous animator Dis Walney, Anige gets Dedede and Kirby to act out a "scene" wearing small optic sensors which he says can get them to appear as cartoons when seen on his computer. Having them right where he wants them, Anige gives the 'okay' to Dedede to start bashing Kirby around the set. Tiff then sees through his ruse and charges at him hoping to stop him. Anige then emits a powerful force field and reveals his true form before firing out lasers at Kirby and Dedede using the sphere-like drones that surround him. He also uses controls their every moves by linking his controller to the optic sensors he placed on them earlier. Anige does not really fight directly; he merely controls Dedede and forces him to bash Kirby with his hammer and so on. Meta Knight points out that one of the optical sensors is sparking and tells him to inhale it. With the Spark ability, Kirby blasts a powerful laser at Anige. The monster counters it with a blast of his own, but the blast is instantly overpowered. The beam hits Anige as it screams, his voice glitching, before Kirby fires another spark and vanquishes him in a massive explosion, which takes part of the castle with it.
Etymology[ ]
Anige's name is a portmanteau of "anime", アニメ (Anime), and "game", ゲーム (gēmu).
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Trivia[ ]
Aniges controller in the Japanese version.
Anige's controller in the English dub.
- Anige is one of the few known monsters that can speak.
- In the Japanese version, Anige's remote controller has a Control Pad on the right side, blue and yellow up and down arrows below the red button in the middle, a joystick on the left side, and right and left buttons on the top of the controller. The case makes it resemble a Nintendo 64 controller. However, in the English dub, the Control Pad is replaced by gray up and down arrows, has a gray button in the middle, the left and right buttons are gone, and the controller has shallower gaps between the sides and the middle; this makes it more similar to a Sega Dreamcast controller.
- Anige is the third monster to disguise himself as a famous person, the first being Popon (who took the disguise of Chef Shiitake) and the second being the Broom King (who took the disguise of Rowlin). This is because in the Japanese version it was mentioned that he was just a legend and therefore not real.
- Anige is one of the only monsters that Dedede ordered by accident, since he was attempting to download the real Dis Walney and genuinely unaware that he was a monster. This makes Anige one of the few monsters that Dedede did not order for the express purpose of attacking Kirby.
