Jumbo Ray

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Jumbo Ray
Model of a Jumbo Ray from New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Model from New Super Mario Bros. Wii
First appearance New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009)
Latest appearance Mario Party 10 (2015)
Variant of Manta
Comparable

Jumbo Rays[1] are creatures debuting in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They are Mantas that are green and wear a pair of swim goggles. Jumbo Rays can leap and fly through the sky, allowing the player characters to stand on them as platforms until they disappear into the fog. Their appearance and manner are similar to those of Dolphins. Despite being Mantas, they lack the usual pair of cephalic fins around their mouths, and instead resemble eagle rays with their slightly elongated snouts.

History[edit]

New Super Mario Bros. Wii[edit]

Mario, at World 5-5, in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Screenshot from New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Jumbo Rays appear in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They are encountered in World 5-5 only. The player characters have to use the Jumbo Rays to traverse the level. Jumbo Rays make a whistling noise when the player jumps on them, similarly to if the player jumps on a Para-Beetle. However, the Jumbo Rays' sound does not go up the music scale as the Para-Beetle does. Jumbo Rays are not enemies and cannot hurt Mario.

Mario Kart Arcade GP DX[edit]

One Jumbo Ray appears near the start of the underwater zone of Tropical Coast in Mario Kart Arcade GP DX, and unlike other appearances, it does not fly in the air.

Mario Party series[edit]

Jumbo Rays have appeared as background characters in the Mario Party series. In Mario Party: Island Tour, a large group of Jumbo Rays can be seen in the background of the Hot-Air Hijinks minigame mode, a Jumbo Ray can be seen in the background of one of the scenes depicted in the minigame Get Reel, and a Jumbo Ray can be seen at the hot-air balloon in the minigame Point 'n' Shoot. In Mario Party 10, Jumbo Rays appear in the backgrounds of the minigames Bouncy Brawl and Bubble Squabble.

Mario Golf: World Tour[edit]

Jumbo Rays fly around in the background of the Sky Island course in Mario Golf: World Tour.

Gallery[edit]

Naming[edit]

Internal names[edit]

Game File Name Meaning

New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Mario Kart Arcade GP DX
1 Data/files/Object/manjirou.arc
Data/Model/Object/manjirou
manjirou Portmanteau of "manta" and「次郎」(Jirō); compare with Mantarō and Hōjirō

Names in other languages[edit]

The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media with which they are associated in the "notes" column. Names exclusive to localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia are not prioritized due to concerns about circular reporting, and are only listed first for their respective languages if they are the only ones available.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese エイジロウ[2][3]
Eijirō
Portmanteau betweenエイ(ei, "stingray") and the masculine given name次郎じろう(Jirō); comparable to「マンタロウ」(Mantarō, "Ray")
Chinese (traditional) 魟魚仔[4]
Hóngyúzǎi (Mandarin)
Hùhng'yújái (Cantonese)
From「魟魚」(hóngyú / hùhng'yú, "stingray") and the diminuitive suffix「仔」(zǎi / jái); comparable to the Simplified Chinese "鳐鱼仔" (Yáoyúzǎi / Yìuh'yùhjái, "Ray")
French (NOE) Raie manta[5] Manta
German Jumbo-Manta[6] Jumbo Manta
Italian Mantamilla volante[7] Flying Ray, with Mantamilla referring to the character from Super Mario Galaxy
Raggio Jumbo[8] Jumbo Beam; a mistranslation of the English "Ray" New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Mantamilla Volante[9] Flying Ray, with Mantamilla referring to the character from Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia
Korean 나는 가오리[10]
Naneun Gaoli
Flying Stingray
Spanish (NOE) Rayo Jumbo[11] Jumbo Ray; potentially a mistranslation of the English "Jumbo Ray" or a play on rayo ("ray beam"), raya ("stingray"), and masculine given names ending in -o
Aeromanta[12] Air Manta Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bueno, Fernando (November 15, 2009). New Super Mario Bros. Wii PRIMA Official Game Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 978-0-307-46592-4. Page 10, 106, 107.
  2. ^ Ito, Shota, Tomomi Seki, Kei Narita, Izumi Sasaki, Ryosuke Ito, Mio Yuasa, and Masakazu Kodaira, editors (2009). 『ニュー・スーパーマリオブラザーズ・Wiiパーフェクトガイド』. Tokyo: Enterbrain (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-04-726295-9. Page 30.
  3. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" in『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 144.
  4. ^ 2010. 新 超級瑪利歐兄弟 Wii - 香港任天堂網站. Nintendo Official Site (Traditional Chinese). Archived August 20, 2010, 00:36:46 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 Feb. 2020.
  5. ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 144.
  6. ^ 2011. New Super Mario Bros. Wii Official Sticker Collection (German Edition). Barcelona: E-max, EnterPLAY (German). Page 27.
  7. ^ Sawada, Yukio (2022). Super Mario Mangamania. Translated by Alessandro Colombo. Milan: Edizioni BD (Italian). ISBN 978-88349-07122. Page 113-14.
  8. ^ 2011. New Super Mario Bros. Wii Album Ufficiale (Italian Edition). Barcelona: Mysterics, EnterPLAY (Italian). Page 27.
  9. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 144.
  10. ^ "하늘을 나는 가오리의 등을 빌려 진행하는 공중 코스" – WORLD 4~ (2010). 뉴 슈퍼 마리오브라더스 Wii. Nintendo Official Site (Korean). Archived October 24, 2016, 20:00:20 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved 15 Sept. 2025.
  11. ^ 2011. New Super Mario Bros. Wii Official Sticker Collection (Spanish Edition). Barcelona: E-max, EnterPLAY (European Spanish). Page 27.
  12. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (European Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 144.