Random: Kirby teams up with Heinz for an exciting new collaboration in Japan

Everyone’s favorite pink sponge cake, Kirby, is teaming up with Heinz (you know, the ketchup maker) to create a new sauce in Japan. Well, that’s not the sentence we thought we’d write today, but we can’t say we’re surprised.

Shared by official Heinz Twitter account, the Kirby line will launch in late November with nine designs adorning the front of the pack. There are even Balsamic and Sriracha flavor options for those who like their fries a little richer.

Naturally, Kirby creator and Mr Video Games himself, Masahiro Sakurai, was quick to endorse the latest collaboration with a neat little fact. According to Sakurai, the character for the series’ primary healing item, Maxim Tomato, was designed to be perfectly symmetrical to save valuable ROM space, however, coincidentally, its English spelling is also Symmetrical when written vertically.

It’s a somewhat loose connection to Heinz’s story, but hey, we’ll never turn down a bit of Sakurai’s wisdom.

As we said, it looks like this Heinz collaboration will be a Japan exclusive for the time being. So if you’ll excuse us, we’ll be admiring our boring bottles of ketchup while dreaming of buying tickets to Tokyo.