Super Mario: Donkey Kong 1
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| Super Mario: Donkey Kong 1 | |
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| Series | Super Mario |
| Artist | Kazuki Motoyama |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
| Label | KC Deluxe |
| Release date |  January 9, 1995[1] |
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Super Mario: Donkey Kong 1 is the twenty-eighth volume of Kodansha's Super Mario manga published under the KC Deluxe label.
This volume covers the first part of the adaptation of Donkey Kong for Game Boy, and also includes an entry of the "Go! Go! Mario Paint Teather" miniseries.
The main chapters were originally serialized in Comic BomBom from August to October 1994, while the bonus chapter was published in BomBom Natsuyasumi Zōkan-gō of 1994 (published in September).
Contents[edit]
Walkthrough[edit]
ドンキーコングボスステージ
Chapters[edit]
Chapter 1[edit]
ドンキーウホウホ
Somewhere, in the sea, a ship is sunk when a giant beast swims past them at high velocity, directed towards the Big-City.
Mario and Luigi have just arrived in Big-City, the place where dreams come true. Fashinated by the place, they bump into a signpost, advertising the Great Circus of Momo-hime, where the beautiful acrobat Pauline, and a Kong will be starring in a trapeze show titled "The Beauty and the Beast". The director of the circus, Momo-hime (Princess Peach), is happy for the sold out tickets, thanking Kong for that. Toad asks how she first encountered him and Momo-hime explains that, during a vacation in Donkey Kong Island, she met the young ape and decided to take him with her, gifting him a new outfit. This awakens something in Kong, as he stares at nothing. Mario and Luigi, unable to pay the ticket, enter the tent and ask Momo-hime to join the circus. She accepts to hire them as clowns, and right then, the show begins. But right as the main event is about to begin, Toad notices that Kong is still stunned. They realize they might have made him nostalgic of his home-island. Mario and Luigi offer themselves to fix the situation by replacing him by wearing a disguise. With Mario on top of Luigi inside the Kong's costume, the show proceeds normally. Pauline is able to make her tricks perfectly, but at one point, the costume rips apart, revealing the trick.
The audience is furious, and when Momo-hime tries to take control of the situation explaining that Kong got depressed, a huge shadow appears outside the tent, then a giant hand lunges inside and grabs Pauline. Kong finally awakes and happily calls for his "papa", scaring Momo-hime: she thought she had taken an adult ape, not a child. The giant Kong, Donkey Kong, also takes his son, Junior, and scolds him for disobeying his warning about staying away from humans. Junior explained that he got near a woman because he is missing his mom, so Donkey Kong decides to remedy that, by taking Pauline with them. As Donkey Kong proceeds to go towards the sea, Mario runs to her rescue, by putting himself between the ape and the deck. But Donkey Kong kicks a barrel at Mario, he jumps on it but, unable to keep his balance, falls down. During that, Donkey Kong enters the ocean and swims towards his home-island with Junior and his new adoptive mother.
Chapter 2[edit]
ピクピクジャングル
Mario and Luigi take a plane and, as it flies over Donkey Kong Island, they parachute down to rescue Pauline. Meanwhile, the Kongs are showing her off their kingdom, already imagining a good family picture with her, but she pouts in disgust. When Donkey Kong asks her why does not she like him, she retorts that a good husband would go around naked. With a suggestion from Junior, Donkey Kong grabs a snake and makes a tie out of it. Pauline sees her "husband's" new accessory and faints from fear, but they both interpret it as a cue for rest and they sleep next to her.
Meanwhile, the Mario Bros.' parachutes got tagled on some branches, right over a pond full of Bukubuku and Snapjaws. As they pray for their lives, a Monchee appears and offers to take them to safety by using his tails to carry them to land. The brothers thank the Monchee, who asks for a favor: recently he tried to take some candy from a jar, but the hand got stuck in it, and needs a man with opposable thumbs to get free. However, Mario realizes the problem: his hand is clenched, and with a fist full of candy, the hand is unable to get out, so he just needs to release the candies. The Monchee does so and his hand is freed from the jar. Really grateful to them, the Monchee still offers to help them in their quest, and Mario asks him if he saw Pauline around, showing a photo of her. After scrutinizing the photo, the Monchee asks them to follow him over a gorge by using a vine. Luigi is a bit scared to try, until Monchee tells them that a hoard of Dotties are coming towards them. Scared, the brothers jump to the vine and get across the gorge, but the Dotties, walking on the gorge's wall, get across and still run them over.
After that, Monchee takes the brothers to the woman by the beach, but it is revealed to be Peach, who came with Toad to help them (and enjoy the beach once more). While Monchee traps his hand in another jar of sweets Peach brought with her, she yells at Mario and Luigi for wasting time "playing with monkeys", then dresses up to follow them. Mario shows Monchee Pauline's photo once more. Having realized his mistake and recognizing the items she is carrying in the picture, he takes them to a waterfall, where her purse was found hanging on a rock. Using a slingshot, Peach throws Mario at it, and he takes the empty purse. Next, Monchee takes them to a volcano, where Pauline's hat was found inside the crater. Despite the lack of clues it can give them, Peach sends Luigi to take them, and he nearly falls into the lava. The last spot is in the forest, where the parasol is found on the ground. Peach goes to take it, but as she does, a trap activates and she nearly falls into a trapping pit. This also activates a mechanism that informs a nearby Sairesu of their prensence, and it goes to inform Donkey Kong Jr. about it.
Junior goes to investigate, and Toad spots it. The young Kong jumps in, ready to stop the "circus people" from taking away his mother. Mario tries to stop him with a sumo move, but gets bested by Junior. Meanwhile, Luigi, unaware that a cinder landed on him, is set on fire and runs towards Junior, burning him too. Luigi puts out his flames, while Junior is livid for the burns, and shoves Luigi towards the pit. Monchee saves him by using his tail as a wire and Luigi grabs it and spins on it. Letting himself go, Luigi is launched high and lands against Junior, knocking him out. As Peach congratulates to Monchee for his quick-thinking (and helps him free his hand from the jar, again), the Mario Bros. restrains Junior with a rope, all the while Donkey Kong is watching from afar, warned by the Sairesu, promising to come to help his son, right after securing Pauline (who is still sleeping).
Chapter 3[edit]
カッコイイマリオ
As Donkey Kong is getting to his destionation, Pauline wakes up in his hand and screams. Hearing her, the heroes and their hostage get a move on. After finding Donkey Kong's footprints, they follow them to canyon the ape crossed with a jump, something they cannot do. Using the slingshot, Peach ties a rope to Toad and shoots him on the other side. She then instructs the brothers to make a rope bridge. Luigi proses the idea of crossing the canyon by tightrope walking. As he gives a demonstration, Mario comments on how he is no longer afraid of heights. Luigi turns back to rejoice, but then Mario asks him if his aichmophobia passed too, by putting Peach's chest in front of him. This comment earns the two a mallet to the head by Peach, so they begin to build the bridge.
As Peach nervously crosses, grappling with her fear of heights, Junior starts tagging graffiti on the footprints and canyon walls, much to the irritation of the group. As Mario scolds him, a Kānyī cuts the rope under Sairesu's instructions, and Junior runs away. The heroes chase after him, trampling over the Kānyī and the Sairesu, but they get tricked by Donkey Kong Junior's drawings, crashing into painted walls. Hidden in a trashcan, Junior makes his escape to a nearby pyramid, where he reunites with his father: the sacred Temple of Kong, where Donkey Kong intends to marry Pauline. She refuses the idea, saddening Junior, but she explains to him that she cannot marry a giant. Believing that to be the problem, Donkey Kong forcefeeds her a lot of fruit to make her bigger.
Mario and Luigi run towards the temple, but Junior activates a lever and the Kongs and Pauline are lowered inside the pyramid, while an army of Walking Blocks emerge from it. Using the tools they used for the bridge, the brothers make a triprope and the Walking Blocks fall over it. With the Blocks taken care of, Peach uses the slingshot to shoot Luigi, Mario, and Toad inside the pyramid, while she goes to find a place to relieve herself.
Inside the pyramid, where Donkey Kong is about to initiate the wedding ceremony, he throws a mushroom to the heroes. Mario eats it, believing it to be a Super Mushroom, but it is instead a Poison Mushroom, which shrinks him and makes him lose his strenght, stumbling right over a pit. Luigi grabs him, and nearly falls with him, but Toad catches him, but he is not strong enough to pull both of them up. With the nuiscances distracted, Donkey Kong begins to pray to the island deity to officiate the wedding, but the god's voice declares that he cannot do it, as the on of the newlyweds is not in love with the other. The same also tells the struggling Luigi to let Mario fall into the pit. Instinctively, he obeys, and Toad manages to pull him up. Right after, the god emerges from the pit, revealing himself to be Monchee. He carries two Marios in his hands: a weak Mario and a strong Mario. Which one should he give back to the brother? Luigi asks for the weak Mario and, satisfied by the honest answer, Monchee, instead, gives him the strong Mario. Full of energy and strenght, the strong Mario arms himself with a hammer and bashes it on Donkey Kong's head, knocking him out.
The adventure seems to be over, but as Pauline is freed, Junior has one last surprise: during all that, the Kānyī and the Sairesu have captured Peach and now she is the new hostage.
In the final page, back in the Big-City, a figure in a trenchcoat and a fedora warns the readers to not forget "a certain character" just because they are laughing at the manga's gags.
Bonus Chapter[edit]
クッパの
At Peach Zoo, things are going smooth sailing in terms of visitors, all thanks to the main attraction: Donkey Kong, who is tended to by the beautiful zookeeper Pauline. From the top of a nearby Construction Site, Bowser sets his plan into motion. While feeding on bananas to Donkey Kong, he starts chocking and faints. Peach and Pauline go to check, unable to figure out what happened. Just then, a Dr. Mario-looking individual, with spiked hairs, arrives, claiming to be a Genius Veterinarian, explains that Donkey Kong fell asleep after injesting a sleeping pill hidden inside the banana. As he hits on Pauline, asking her to strip for a check up, Peach bashes his head with a hammer, telling him to check on the ape. The hit causes the wig and the mask to fall off, and the vet is revealed to be Larry. In a swift movement, Larry swiftly puts a headband on Donkey Kong, and he turns giant and feral, grabbing Pauline and scaring off the zoo visitors. The headband is a control ring and Bowser is ordering Donkey Kong to take Pauline to him.
After Mario saves Peach from being stomped by Kong, she takes him to the underground zoo labs: before Pauline joined the zoo, Peach originally planned to make a show with Donkey Kong fighting off a giant Kong animatronic built by Luigi to promote the zoo, but now Mario will use it to stop him. Peach orders Luigi to quickly remodel it after Hammer Mario and, in a matter of three minutes, the Mecha Hammer Mario is done. Just as Donkey Kong is about to exit the zoo and into the city, something that will cause Peach to pay for the impending damages, the Mecha Hammer Mario is deployed. Mario throws a lot of hammers at Kong, but he stops when Larry reminds him that he will risk hurting Pauline (who fainted), and Peach tells him the hammers are falling on people's houses.
Donkey Kong proceeds his march towards the Construction Site and begins to climb it, but Mecha Hammer Mario jumps at him. During the confrontation, the ape let Pauline go, but Bowser catches her with a crane. After taking her, Bowser declares that he no longer needs Donkey Kong and proceeds to blow up the Contruction Site, along with Mario and Larry. The explosion destoys the structure, the mecha, and the headband, freeing Kong and turning him back to his normal size. Safe and sound on the ground, Bowser declares that his single life is finally over now that he has Pauline. Just then, Peach, burning from rage, goes feral on him for "kidnap-cheating" on him with Pauline. After taking care of Bowser, Pauline wakes up safe and sound.
The story ends with the zoo and city repaired, Bowser as a new attraction of the zoo, and Mario, Luigi, and Larry in Donkey Kong's cage with him, being fed by Pauline, as a way to pay off the damages.
Go! Go! Mario Paint Theater[edit]
To celebrate the new year, Mario, Peach, and Luigi are playing fukuwarai at Mario's castle. As they chuckle at each other's attempts to construct the face without seeing, Yoshi arrives proposing the idea of playing it on Mario Paint, using the stamps for the face parts. Peach goes, but seeing how awful she is doing, Mario states that the mouse was not connected and makes her go again, but this time he moves the mousepad so that she can perfectly place the face parts. Despite the flawless outcome, Yoshi and Luigi cannot help but chuckle at Mario's antics, leaving Peach bewildered by their amusement.
Cameos and caricatures[edit]
Fictional characters[edit]
- King Kong: there are a lot of callbacks to the King Kong franchise, between the giant Kong kidnapping a girl with whom he falls in love with, and the dangerous Kong island. Even the bonus chapter, with Donkey Kong fighting a giant robot, is a nod to King Kong Escapes.
- Godzilla: one of the drawings made by Junior is a depiction of Godzilla.
- The Honest Woodcutter: when Monchee is revealed to be the deity of Donkey Kong Island, he offers to Luigi a worn out Mario or a energetic Mario, asking which one he dropped in the pit, giving him the best option when he answers truthfully. This same setup is done in Aesop's story.
- Dragon Ball: when Peach gets mad about Bowser "cheating" on her with Pauline, her feiry aura is jokingly described as a Super Saiyan's aura. The same joke is done when the author points to Hakase's spiky hair.
Real-life people[edit]
- Aiko Gibo: the Japanese medium (who was also a character in Super Mario: Yoshi no Road Hunting 2), is featured in a jewelry advertisement billboard in Big-City.
- A building in Big-City is called "SAKANA STUDIO", which could be a reference to two Japanese music bands: the folk band Sakana or the SΛKΛNΛ techno-pop band.
- Another building is called「KUSU レコード店」(KUSU record studio) which might be a reference to the rock band KUSU KUSU.
Gallery[edit]
Full cover
Story arc cover
Table of contents
The circus poster with Pauline and Donkey Kong Jr.
Peach "recruits" Donkey Kong Jr. in her circus
Donkey Kong Jr. (in actuallity, Mario and Luigi disguised)
Donkey Kong arrives
Donkey Kong grabs Donkey Kong Jr. and Pauline
Peach at the beach
Enemy list
Luigi gets over his aichmophobia
Monchee asks Luigi if he wants the weak Mario or Kakkoii Mario
"Don't forget about me"
Peach Zoo entrance
Peach Zoo animals
Descriptions[edit]
- Cover flaps
▣なつかしの『ドンキーコング』が
復活 。しかし、マリオが弱 い！！ちょっと落 ちてはピクピク。すぐに焼 け死 ぬ。ラストまでいけない作者 は考 えた。マンガでは、強 いマリオを登場 させよう････と 。The nostalgic "Donkey Kong" is back. But Mario is weak! He trips when he falls. He burns to death immediately. The author, unable to make it to the end of the game, thought "I'll make a strong Mario appear in the manga..."
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作者 からきみへ
下 の写真 は、南海 の孤島 を探険 しているときに出会 った、ドンキーコングとのツーショッ トです。えっ、ちがうって？よーし、第 二巻 では、Jr. の写真 を公開 してやるぞ――！！A word from the author
The photo below is a photo of Jr. and Donkey Kong, whom he encountered while exploring a remote island in the South Seas. What? You're saying it's not? Well, in Volume 2, we'll be releasing photos of Junior!!
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | スーパーマリオドンキーコング①[1] Sūpā Mario Donkī Kongu 1 |
Super Mario: Donkey Kong - 1 |
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kazuki Motoyama (9 Jan. 1995). Super Mario: Donkey Kong 1. KC Deluxe (Japanese). ISBN 4-06-319559-7. Page 132.
