Kirby and the Dangerous Gourmet Mansion?!
| “ | Kirby is at last novelized! Setting his sights on the feast, Kirby gets into a gourmet mansion’s party, but something unexpected is waiting for him there…?! An original story that can only be read here!! | ” | — Opening description |
Kirby and the Dangerous Gourmet Mansion?![1] is the first volume of the Kirby light novel series, which was released on August 12th, 2013. It introduces Kirby, Waddle Dee, King Dedede, and Meta Knight as the main protagonists of the series. Hearing the news of Mrs. ParfaitLike, a lady who has moved into Dream Land and is planning to hold a feast for her birthday celebration at her mansion, Kirby, King Dedede, and Waddle Dee all want to attend, but lack invitations. Meta Knight, who was given an invitation, is able to sneak Kirby and King Dedede in as his partner by disguising them as one. However, during the celebration, Mrs. ParfaitLike is kidnapped and the three set off to find her. After they find her, they learn that she secretly locked away her chefs that she hired to cook in her mansion due to her pickiness for food. After clearing things up with Mrs. ParfaitLike, the chefs prepare another feast to celebrate everything turning out well in the end.
In 2019, Kirby JP Twitter posted a Channel PPP post to commemorate the book having sold one million copies since its release.
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Plot synopsis
Chapter 1: Kirby and King Dedede
The story begins as Waddle Dee tells Kirby about Mrs. ParfaitLike, a lady who has recently moved into Dream Land and built a mansion. After hearing Waddle Dee mention a great feast will be held for her upcoming birthday celebration, Kirby is immediately ready to head to it, but is stopped when Waddle Dee tells him he was not given an invitation and cannot attend. However, he suggests the idea of them both creating a dish to Mrs. ParfaitLike's liking to become two of her chefs, which would allow the two to take part in the feast. They agree to this and part ways.
Waddle Dee then arrives at Castle Dedede, only to find King Dedede in a bad mood since his presumed coming invitation has not arrived yet. After calming down, King Dedede tries to decide what he should wear to the occasion, while Waddle Dee becomes terribly anxious thinking about how furious King Dedede will be when he finds out he will likely not be receiving an invitation at all.
Chapter 2: For the Party
The next morning, King Dedede spots Kirby outside the castle. Suspicious, he sends Waddle Dee out to see what exactly the pink puffball is up to. Waddle Dee finds Kirby attempting to make batter for a cake for their plan, but Kirby's creation is a distasteful mess, which makes Waddle Dee realize that their plan will never work this way.
After returning to the castle, Waddle Dee informs King Dedede of Kirby's plan to get into the celebration - without mentioning he himself is a part of it - and suggests he does the same instead of waiting around for an invitation. King Dedede turns down the idea, ordering Waddle Dee to instead fetch Chef Kawasaki to do the cooking. However, while out searching for him, Bronto Burt flies by and tells Waddle Dee that Mrs. ParfaitLike has already hired the talented chef to cook for her.
Chapter 3: Copy Ability!
Returning from his search, Waddle Dee reports the news of Chef Kawasaki back to King Dedede at the castle. However, King Dedede soon is focused primarily on Kirby, who is outside once more setting up a stove. Angry at this, King Dedede sends out Burning Leo to destroy it while Waddle Dee tags along. After he manages to burn Kirby's stove to a crisp, Burning Leo begins to celebrate about his premature victory when Kirby inhales him as he is distracted. Gaining the Fire Copy Ability, Kirby uses it to bake his batter.
Kirby finishes the cake and takes a bite of it. After spewing out a large fireball and running around in havoc, he trips over a large stone and loses his ability, allowing Burning Leo to make his escape. Kirby then decides he would rather eat than cook and gives up on his and Waddle Dee's plan to get into the celebration as chefs entirely. Just as they begin to feel down, an airship approaches from above and lands near their location.
Chapter 4: Meta Knight Appears!
The airship lands and reveals Meta Knight as its pilot after he steps out from it. After greeting the two, he tells them that he has come to Dream Land to attend a celebration after receiving an invitation. Jumping at this, Kirby says that he would like to attend and Waddle Dee mentions that King Dedede wants to do the same. Meta Knight then explains that he must attend with a partner, but only with one. Meta Knight then heads to Castle Dedede with Kirby and Waddle Dee to fairly choose between Kirby and King Dedede.
Arriving at the castle, Meta Knight explains the situation to King Dedede, and after trial and error trying to choose one over the other, Waddle Dee suggests that the two cross-dress as one so to be mistaken as one so they both can attend. However, since a waltz will likely be involved in the dance at the celebration, the two must take the role of a female to avoid any oddness.
Chapter 5: What a Feast!!
Cross-dressed as one, Kirby and King Dedede are picked up by Meta Knight in his airship and the three head off, leaving Waddle Dee to enjoy his alone time. They arrive at the mansion and are greeted by Mrs. ParfaitLike who soon notices Meta Knight's partner. Meta Knight quickly explains that his partner, "Dedeby", has accompanied him to the celebration. After, he mentions Chef Kawasaki who Mrs. ParfaitLike has hired to cook for the celebration. Mrs. ParfaitLike's attitude shifts after this and she soon leaves them to greet the other guests.
Humiliated by passing gossip from the other guests of his and Dedeby's presumed love for each-other, Meta Knight in secret allows Kirby and King Dedede to eat their share of the feast, but while out gathering more food for them, he overhears a conversation regarding Mrs. ParfaitLike, who has been gathering up several chefs with the talk of money and oddly not allowing them to prepare their master dishes when they cook. Putting his suspicion to the side, Meta Knight returns to Kirby and King Dedede.
Chapter 6: An Unexpected Case!!
The Sun sets and everyone is called into the mansion where they begin to dance. However, Meta Knight does not dance with Dedeby since he fears of revealing his partner's true identity. Instead, Mrs. ParfaitLike asks him to dance with her, and after accepting the offer only to question her, Meta Knight brings up Chef Kawasaki once again to her and she soon after stumbles and breaks off her dance with him. Growing increasingly skeptical, Meta Knight realizes Dedeby is nowhere to be found.
While searching for more food, Dedeby comes across a few of Mrs. ParfaitLike's chefs, who are cowering in fear. Meta Knight then finds Dedeby and notices the odd situation when they all suddenly hear an explosion. Running to the source of it, Meta Knight and Dedeby learn that a group of thieves broke in and kidnapped Mrs. ParfaitLike. Meta Knight, Kirby, and King Dedede - the latter two no longer cross-dressed - then take off to find her. Outside, they catch Wheelie, one of the thieves, and learn Meta Knight's airship was sabotaged. King Dedede forces Wheelie to say where Mrs. ParfaitLike was taken, and afterwards, Kirby inhales Wheelie and uses the Wheel ability, along with a rope, to pull along the sabotaged airship with King Dedede and Meta Knight in it.
Chapter 7: The Real Mrs. ParfaitLike
Upon reaching a small ravine, Kirby quickly stops and allows Meta Knight's airship to land. Noticing a bridge, the three attempt to cross it when a boomerang-like blade flies over them and cuts the ropes holding up the bridge, resulting in it tumbling down the ravine. Sir Kibble then reveals himself and once again throws his blade. Meta Knight uses his sword to strike the blade out of the air and Kirby then quickly jumps in and inhales Sir Kibble after discarding the Wheel ability, which also releases Wheelie in the process. Kirby, using the Cutter ability, cuts down a tree and uses it as a bridge to the other side, and afterwards, Wheelie is forced to lead the way.
After Wheelie leads the group to a cave, Walky steps out and uses his extremely loud voice as a weapon until he attempts to explain the situation. Wheelie quickly silences Walky's ear-piercing voice and asks Kirby to release Sir Kibble. Wheelie and Sir Kibble then explain that Mrs. ParfaitLike was kidnapped to put a stop to her cruel behavior towards her chefs, which was due to her pickiness with food. Due to her anger, she had the chefs locked away within her mansion. Everything now explained, the group heads into the cave to hear what Mrs. ParfaitLike's side of the story is, whose angry voice they hear upon entering the cave.
Chapter 8: A Great Panic in the Cave!?
Deep in the cave, the group finds Mrs. ParfaitLike angry and tied up on a post. After Meta Knight questions her about the chefs, she attempts to defend herself and refuses to release the chefs even after she fails to give a good defense. The group then decides to just search the mansion for the chefs and release them themselves, but Kirby, who knows Mrs. ParfaitLike will likely repeat her actions somewhere else after this, comes up with a plan to change her heart.
Kirby, after inhaling Walky and gaining the Mike ability, begins to sing an ear-splitting song made up of random words. Thinking everyone is being moved by it, Kirby continues to sing until he realizes the cave is beginning to collapse. Everyone then quickly rushes out of the cave, and afterwards, Mrs. ParfaitLike finally gives in and decides to free the chefs from her mansion after experiencing Kirby's terrible singing.
Chapter 9: Let's All Party
Back at Mrs. ParfaitLike's mansion, the group frees the locked away chefs, who soon after start recalling the nonsensical reasons they were locked away by Mrs. ParfaitLike and begin growing increasingly angry until Meta Knight settles them down by telling them to attempt to start over and prepare their master dishes properly without Mrs. ParfaitLike's supervision, which they then agree to do. While doing so, Kirby heads back to Castle Dedede and tells Waddle Dee all that happened during the celebration, who he also brings to the mansion afterwards for the feast since invitations are no longer required.
After the feast is prepared, everyone begins to eat except Mrs. ParfaitLike, who begins stating nonsensical complaints once again. The chefs then reveal a large cake that they made for Mrs. ParfaitLike, which surprises her. After she asks the chefs why they did this, they explain that they decided to make things between them better instead of taking revenge, which finally truly changes Mrs. ParfaitLike's heart. She then gives Kirby, Waddle Dee, King Dedede, and Meta Knight a basket of rare fruit as a gift, but Kirby makes quick work of these by inhaling them. Furious, King Dedede begins to chase him because of this.
Trivia
- It is unknown how the chefs prepared the feast in the last chapter, as they stated beforehand that they had bought up all the stores nearby.
Gallery
Kirby attempts to run off to the celebration with Waddle Dee.
King Dedede throws a fit over his yet-to-arrive invitation.
Waddle Dee watches Kirby as he whips up a disaster.
Kirby transforms into Fire Kirby.
Meta Knight greets Kirby and Waddle Dee.
Kirby and King Dedede's first attempt cross-dressing
Kirby and King Dedede's final result cross-dressing
Meta Knight grows suspicious of Mrs. ParfaitLike.
Dedeby drooling over the sweets-based mansion
Dedeby searching for more food
King Dedede and Meta Knight watch as Kirby transforms into Wheel Kirby.
Wheel Kirby pulls along the sabotaged airship.
Kirby transforms into Cutter Kirby.
Mrs. ParfaitLike attempts to defend her case.
Mrs. ParfaitLike gives in after hearing Kirby's terrible singing.
Kirby inhales the rare fruit without a doubt.
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The final illustration, featuring Kirby
References
- ↑ Kirby Art & Style Collection
