Kyujudo

Kyujudo, or Kyujudo Company Ltd., was a company from the 925th Universe, which was broadl to video games as Dibbsy were to cartoons, or vice-versa. Its subsidiaries including Kyujudo of Europe.

The company originated in the nineteenth century as a“n organised crime syndicate with ties to gambling”, but, in “the final decades of the twentieth century”, it somehow “metamorphosed into a video game corporation which prided itself in a carefully-cultivated family-friendly image, whilst being absolutely cutthroat with their lawyers”. In fact, Like Dibbsy, Kyujudu had hired the services of a phalanx of the interdimensional, supernatural Legalmen Collective. Starting from the 1980s, Kyujudo's flagship franchise was the Super Benito Siblings franchise; in 2023, they partnered with Dibbsy to create an animated film starring the characters from the series, including Benito, Giovanni, Princess Plum and the villainous Bonham, with popular actor, comedian and musician Dwight White voicing the latter. When the Man in Grey and Jenny Over-There's workplace was attacked by a Null-entity believing itself to be Bonham, they eventually decided to call Kyujudo's lawyers to inform them of the “unlicensed appearance”, allowing the Legalmen to subdue Bonham. (PROSE: Who Laws the Lawyers?)

Behind the scenes

Kyujudo is a stand-in for Nintendo. Delilah H. Smith's author comments for Who Laws the Lawyers? reveal that devising a parody company which was to Nintendo as Callum Phillpott's Dibbsy was to Disney was the original thought which led to the writing Who Laws the Lawyers?.

One morning as I was getting out of bed, I started wondering about a possible video game equivalent of Dibbsy Corporation and Mammon Mouse from Callum Phillpott’s Jenny Over-There stories. My train of thought was basically “Hm, 'Ten-Eleven-Do’ …? Wait, no, I know 'nine’ and 'ten’ in Japanese, Kyu-juu-do!” I then spent half an hour looking up Italian names with one tab open to the Wikipedia article on katakana, and chose Benito (as a reference to Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy during World War II) and Giovanni (literally the only name besides “Luigi” I could find that ended with “I”, had the right number of syllables, and worked just as well with katakana as “Luigi”). Their arch-nemesis … 'Bonham’ has the same etymology as 'Bowser’ (in one draft his name was 'Goodman’).

—[[Delilah H. Smith]]

Because Who Laws the Lawyers? was released under a CC-BY-0 license, the organisation is open-source.