Warpstar Inc.

Warpstar, Inc. is an intellectual property company. Formed in 2001, it is a joint venture between HAL Laboratory and Nintendo. It is responsible for managing the Kirby IP, originally for the Kirby: Right Back at Ya! anime series. The company has remained in operation after the end of the anime series, now working in licensing and supervision of the characters in games, merchandise and other media. Both HAL Laboratory and Nintendo each own a 50% stake in Warpstar Inc.

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1st & 2nd Party / Owned Internal divisions Nintendo EPD • EAD* • SPD* • SDD* Nintendo PTD • BDD • SDD* • IRD* • RED* • Nintendo Network Services R&D1* • R&D2* • R&D3* Subsidiaries Nintendo of America (Treehouse) • NST • NTD Nintendo of Europe • NERD Nintendo Australia Nintendo of Korea iQue Nintendo Leisure System Co., Ltd.* Nintendo Sales Co., Ltd. Nintendo Pictures Nintendo Systems Co., Ltd. 1-UP Studio • Mario Co., Ltd.* • Marigul Management* • Mario Club • Mobile21* • Monegi* • Monolith Soft • Nintendo Cube • Next Level Games • Project M* • Project Sora* • RandnetDD Co., Ltd.* • Retro Studios • Shiver Entertainment • SRD Owned / Affiliated Seattle Mariners* • The Pokémon Company • Warpstar Inc. * – Former / Defunct
3rd Parties / Partners 8-4 • AlphaDream* • Ambrella* • Argonaut Games* • Arika • Artoon* • Arzest • AS Tokyo Studios • Bandai Namco • Capcom • Camelot • Cing* • Creatures Inc. • DeNA • DigiNin* • DigitalScape • Eighting • Flagship* • Fuse Games* • Game Freak • Ganbarion • Genius Sonority • Good-Feel • Grezzo • HAL Laboratory • Hatena • Hudson Soft* • indieszero • iNiS • Intelligent Systems • Jamsworks • Jupiter • Koei Tecmo • Kuju • Left Field Productions* • Level-5 • Mistwalker • Monster Games • Noise • Paon • PlatinumGames • Q-Games • Rare* • Red Entertainment • Sega (Atlus) • Sora Ltd. • skip • Softnica • Spike Chunsoft • Square Enix • St.GIGA* • Syn Sophia • TOSE • Treasure • Vanpool* • Vitei * – Former / Defunct
Key employees Presidents Founder: Fusajiro Yamauchi Successors: Sekiryo Kaneda • Hiroshi Yamauchi • Satoru Iwata • Tatsumi Kimishima • Shuntaro Furukawa NOA: Minoru Arakawa • Tatsumi Kimishima • Reggie Fils-Aimé • Doug Bowser NOE: Satoru Shibata • Koji Miyake Managers, etc. Internal Creative Fellow: Shigeru Miyamoto Technology Fellow: Genyo Takeda EPD: Shinya Takahashi PTD: Ko Shiota NST: Shigeki Yamashiro Subsidiaries NNSD: Yusuke Beppu Monolith Soft: Hirohide Sugiura, Tetsuya Takahashi 1-Up Studio: Gen Kadoi ND Cube: Hidetoshi Endo Retro: Michael Kelbaugh NERD: Alexandre Delattre