The fabled, infamous buckled collar shirt… Opens.
He’s usually always wearing his cowl and vest so you can’t usually tell. He does love wearing shirts with open/low collars, which you can esp tell by the Daydream Hour outfits Kui designed for him, so makes sense. And yet… The buckle collar…
If u don’t think this is the same shirt btw he actually does up his collar when meeting the canaries. Just 1 scene difference before after, below. He likes to open up his collars when the setting is more casual but business or action happens and it’s back to being all proper and laced up
Btw idk if it’s a mistake but that screentone on Chilchuck’s chest in the second picture of the post… Is Kui telling us he has body hair. Idk is he dirty does he need a shower?? Kui doesn’t draw Senshi with much body hair in the manga for practicality reasons but she did draw in a Daydream Hour once how much she actually thinks he has, so it wouldn’t be crazy if this was the case for Chil too, and then in a final chapter in a close shot panel where she even details the seams of the shirt she can go all out more. Kui talks about peach fuzz and whatnot for elves so maybe they’re just finer or paler in his case. Please please please— Sigh ok it’s a screentone mistake
Anyways while I’m here, low collar comp. Third one is that shirt he wears sometimes where you have to tie up the strings like in bottom row middle outfit of the first one…
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I find it spooky that the Dark Matter Swordsman gear from Team Kirby Clash Deluxe has Kirby's normal blue eyes.
(Screenshot from a YouTube video lol)
Y'know, I read it as being purple (of course, I was desperate to find any connection between Dark Matter Swordsman and Adeleine for the sake of my out there fan theory but I can see it as being blue too and that is... frightening.
Because even if it's Kirby's eye color, it's not his SHAPE. It's lost the big, looking-at-the-world-with-wonder quality his oval-shaped eyes had, the iris has shrunken in size such that you can see the whites of his eye and of course, it is completely empty of light.
As if Kirby has been transformed just by putting on the gear. (I mean, his "eye" wouldn't even be up there, normally! Eyes down here, buddy!)
(Sorry for the cursed image.)
Although, there is one more spooky thing about this gear. When you use your shield with this gear, the shield takes the form of Real Dark Matter...and the eye in the shield MOVES.
In fact, the eye in the mask moves too! Outside of, like, the mad scientist brain-case/heart equipment and maybe (?) the fish equipment (it's been awhile, I can't remember ^^;) not a whole lot of the equipment is animated to move and react to things.
They could have just left this as cool, nostalgic cosplay. Instead, Dark Matter seems to possess Kirby just to wear him. Or is...still alive...?
(HAL! I demand more answers about Dark Matter Swordsman! And while I'm at it, just bring him back in general! My twitter feed has been full of Dark Matter siblings lately and I'm emotionally destroyed that we can't have that in canon! I will give up my AU(/lh) just pls!)