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| “ | Babagahara? I've heard of that place. No one who goes there has ever come back!” |
| — Lololo & Lalala • Kirby: Right Back at Ya! |
Babagahara is a wilderness that is located in Dream Land. It is mainly made up of rivers, jungles, and even has a dark cave whose entrance is marked by a skull-like marking above the cave's entryway, and whose interiors form several forks in several passageways. It is the home of the legendary Pukey Flower. For years up until the events of the anime episode Flower Power, no one has ever returned from the jungles of Babagahara alive. This is either due to the wild animals living there, such as a giant spider, swarms of bees, and even a giant snake living in the cave where the Pukey Flower is located, as well as other perilous hazards in the forest, or due to the fact that the flower itself eats up anyone who thinks they can get the Pukey to wake them up. Nevertheless, Kirby's friends managed to survive the wilderness and use the Pukey Flower's petals to wake him up from his sleeping sickness, and the flower itself was destroyed at the end of the episode.
Babagahara would later be visited again during the two-part Fossil Fools episode when King Dedede and Escargoon use it as the setting for the Dino Kingdom theme park and take Kirby, his friends, and the Cappies on a boating tour only to start being chased all over the jungles by dinosaur-like monsters created by Doctor Moro from their DNA. Doctor Moro also built his laboratory in Babagahara during the events of the two-part episode.
Trivia
- The area may be a reference to the real location Aokigahara, a Japanese forest located near Mount Fuji that's become infamous for its unsavory historical connection to demon folklore and suicides and is also known as the Sea of Trees.
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