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Super Mario 4-koma Daikōshin
Super Mario 4-koma Daikōshin
Series Super Mario
Artists Kazuki Motoyama
Uribō
Daimaru Roketto
Satōgen
Ashigara Soranosuke
Publisher Kodansha
Label KC Deluxe
Release date Japan May 6, 1995[1]
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Super Mario 4-koma Daikōshin is the first 4-koma collection of Kodansha's Super Mario manga published under the KC Deluxe label. It was released the same day as Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land 3.

The volume contains 8 collections of short stories (mostly 4-koma) divided between five different Kodansha artists: Kazuki Motoyama, Uribō, Daimaru Roketto, Satōgen, and Ashigara Soranosuke (under the pseudonym "Yumeya").

Contents[edit]

Introduction to the artists[edit]

Introduction to the artists

さくしゃしょうかい ("Introduction to the artists")

Kazuki Motoyama (本山一城もとやまかずき)

It's been six years since he started drawing Mario for BomBom. No one in Japan can match him when it comes to drawing Mario.

  • Birthday: April 12th
  • Blood type: A
  • Birthplace: Kanagawa Prefecture
  • Debut work: Love to Mini (ラブとミニ)
  • Favourite videogame: Mario's Picross
  • Goal: competing with Hoshino-sensei to see which series will last the longest
  • Habits: teeth grinding
  • A message to readers: "You can't just be an editor!"
Uribō (うりぼう)

She made her debut in BomBom with a oneshot gag story. Rumor has it she recently got married.

  • Birthday: February 29th
  • Blood type: AB
  • Birthplace: Hyōgo Prefecture
  • Debut work: Gakincho Tengoku (ガキンチョ天国てんこく)
  • Favourite videogame: Hebereke (10 years ago)
  • Goal: learn to sleep longer!
  • Habits: fidgeting with her legs
  • A message to readers: "I want to continue drawing hard, so I encourage you to keep drawing as well!"
Daimaru Roketto (大丸だいまるロケット)

This is his first attempt at appearing in a boys' magazine. He's a tough guy who can even get work done in his car.

  • Birthday: October 10th
  • Blood type: 0
  • Birthplace: Chiba Prefecture
  • Debut work: 4-koma manga in a certain girls' magazine
  • Favourite videogame: Banshee's Last Cry
  • Goal: Sending prank faxes to friends
  • Habits: when he sees a sticker with the price on it, he can't help but peel it off
  • A message to readers: "I love scary stories, so let me know if you know any!"
Satōgen (佐藤元さとうげん)

Gen-san's familiar gags are explosive once again! This time, Yumeya staff member Ashigara-san appears as master and disciple.

  • Birthday: January 1st
  • Blood type: 0
  • Birthplace: Atlantis continent
  • Debut work: Aru Fūkei (ある風景ふうけい)

Kazuki Motoyama[edit]

Mototin's Mario Land[edit]

Mototin's Mario Land

モトちんマリオランド

  • マリオ登場とうじょう ("Mario appears"): Mario appears and presents himself as the manga's protagonist, a great athlete, and a versatile guy, but most importantly, he is very popular with girls. Luigi appears and asks him "if he so popular why is he not married yet?", to which Mario chases him with a hammer, for embarassing him in front of the readers.
  • ルイージ参上さんじょう ("Here comes Luigi"): It is Luigi time to present himself. He presents as Mario's younger brother, but he is graced with being taller and slimmer than him, therefore, in middle school, girls always asked him out. To get revenge for the first strip, Mario then claims that he was named Luigi because he was a copy.[A] To this, Luigi starts hitting his brother for ruining his presentation.
  • 仕事しごとは? ("What's your job?"): Mario and Luigi begin their journey. The narrator then asks what could be their job: judging by how they are full of money, their job must be collecting floating coins or treasures inside bricks.
  • リアルマリオ ("Real Mario"): in this skit, the artist tries to depict the traveling brothers with a more realistic artstyle, but immediately changes his mind.
  • ヨッシー出現しゅつげん ("Yoshi appears"): Mario and Luigi come across a dotted egg. Yoshi hatches from it. As he is about to present himself, the Mario Bros. repeatedly call him a T-Rex, to the point where Yoshi angerly chomps on them while explaining that his name is Yoshi.
  • ようこそヨッシー① ("Welcome to the team, Yoshi 1"): Yoshi continues to explain his name, claiming that the "Yo-" syllable comes from "Yodel". He continues to sing until his tongue is tied.
  • ようこそヨッシー② ("Welcome to the team, Yoshi 2"): his second explanation for his syllable is from "bride".[B] He even pulls out a bridal dress and hits on Mario, until he punches him, asking him to stop.
  • ヨッシーの特技とくぎ ("Yoshi's special ability"): Luigi asks Yoshi if he can be their bodyguard, to which Yoshi gets confused, not knowing the meaning of the word. While Mario asks him what his special skill is, something steals Luigi's hat in the second panel, and it is revealed in the fourth panel that it was Yoshi: he has the special ability to deliver the punchline two panels before.
  • ふたりと一匹旅ぴきたび ("Traveling with two people"): Yoshi eventually decided to join the Mario Bros. as their bodyguard, so long he could eat all the fish he wants. A giant lake impedes their path, but Yoshi is able to swim, but only with one person on his back, to which Luigi comments that it is gonna be difficult to cross the lake without a float bag.
  • 親切しんせつなヨッシー ("Kind Yoshi"): Mistaking Luigi's words, Yoshi uses his tongue to fish out a Dolphin. He then hands Luigi a knife to remove the swim bladder.[C] Horrified, Luigi flees, saying he is gonna walk around the lake.
  • かんがえすぎだよマリオ ("You're overthinking it, Mario"): Mario and Yoshi cross the lake, with the latter eating all the Cheep Cheeps they encounter. Reunited with Luigi, Mario notices the strange onomatopeia described around them (「スタスタ」, sutasuta, used for briskly paced walks without looking around) and asks the author what it does mean, but he tells him to not worry about it.
  • マリオペイントでお作曲さつきよく ("Composing with Mario Paint"): through Mario Paint, Yoshi has composed a catchy tune for himself, but much to Mario's irritation, the only lyric consists of the word "Yoshi" echoed repeatedly.
  • ピーチじょう到着とうちゃく ("Arriving at Peach's Castle"): Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi have arrived at Toad Town, and the brothers decide to present Yoshi to princess Peach. Upon hearing the name, Yoshi wonders if she is "sweet." Mario's anxiety spikes as he worries that Yoshi might be alluding to her flavor and not her personality. Unfortunately for him, his drooling mouth reveals his thoughts all too clearly.
  • ピーチのおあじは? ("How does Peach taste?"): at Peach's court, the princess welcomes the brothers and finds Yoshi cute. Yoshi, as he alluded, licks her hand and, about to express her taste, Mario and Luigi shuts his mouth, much to Peach's confusion.
  • チビヨッシー ("Little Yoshi"): having heard of Yoshis in her books, Peach asks Mario to find a Little Yoshi for her. In a matter of minutes, Mario and Luigi find a new Yoshi's egg and take it to Peach.
  • はずれ ("Mission failed"): the egg cracks, but only a 1-Up Mushroom emerges from it. Yoshi explains that, if he is around, no Little Yoshi will hatch from a Yoshi's egg. Hearing that, Peach throws Yoshi into the trash bin and stumbles away in tears.
  • あやつ ("That guy"): to forget of that disappointment, Peach goes to the kitchen and grabs a bowl of food out of the fridge. Toad and the Mario Bros. barge in, stopping her from eating, claiming they have to taste it to see if the food is poison, but they end up leaving the bowl empty, much to Peach's frustration.
  • おとこのなみだ ("Where men cried"): Peach starts to feel bad in the stomach, so the Mario Bros. ask her to show them her belly, but she shoos away Luigi, claiming that Mario is the only doctor she will show her belly to. While Mario examines her, Luigi cries in frustration for his brother's luck: if only there was a Dr. Luigi game.
  • ピーチの由来ゆらい ("Peach's name origins"): while filing her diagnosis away, Dr. Mario asks Peach where does her name originate from. She explains that it was because her parents hoped she would blossom into a daughter as sweet as the fruit. The Mushroom King, that was passing by, corrects her: he chose that name because he hoped she would develop a butt like said fruit. Embarassed and angry, Peach knocks him out with a hip attack.
  • 7にんおうさま ("The 7 Kings"): Dr. Mario is shocked by what Peach did to her father, but she explains she is not sure if he is her actual father: she always thought her father was one of the 7 Kings from Super Mario Bros. 3, but does not know which could be. However, she does state she has a fondness for the Water Land, who bears a striking resemblance to Mario.
  • ラジコン・カート ("RC Karts"): to earn back the title of "father", the Mushroom King offers to give to Peach her RC Karts collection modelled after the Super Mario Kart pilots. Mario and Luigi notice how Peach's model is not sparkly clean compared to the others, meaning it must be used quite often. Hearing their conversation, Peach hugs her father, grateful that he cares for her even in toy form. The King discloses to the readers that the doll's unkempt appearance is in fact due to its frequent use, but not as a toy, but as a broom. Peach's toy has been employed to gather dust from the floor with her hair.
  • チビワリオ出現しゅつげん ("Small Wario's appearance"): to quickly change the subject, the King offers to make a stew for the guest, and sends Toad, Peach, and the Mario Bros. to the royal garden to take some Vegetables. Mario picks up an unripened vegetable, Luigi a big turnip, and Peach takes out Small Wario, whose mowhawk is way too similar to a tuff of grass.
  • マムー推参すいさん ("Wart's sudden arrival"): Toad keeps pulling out unripened vegetables, and throws them away, but Peach tells him not to, as they can use them in case the evil Wart appears to shoo him away with them. Toad is sceptical about this, unaware that Wart has been spying on them since the previous panel sequence.
  • ときまれ ("Stopping time"): pulling out four more ripened vegetables, Luigi gains a Stopwatch, and asks the others what they would do if they had the ability to stop time. Toad states that he would use it to cheat, Mario would use it to kiss Peach, while Peach admits he would use it to spy Mario while he is bathing.
  • キノコなべ ("Mushroom nabe"): having collected enough vegetables, the group prepares a pot in the garden, when they spot a mushroom they can add to the stew. Mario and Luigi quickly pick it up and throw it in the pot, not noticing it is actually Toad, gagged and tied up. After pulling him out and freed him, he explained he was caught and tied up by Wart. The Mario Bros. are on their guard, but they can’t help but wonder what a cooked Toad might taste like.
  • ぐるめ キノピオくん ("Gourmet Toad"): taking advantage of a moment of distraction, Wart takes the pot and runs away, so they will not use the vegetable stew against him. While running away, he fails to notice that the royal garden is not on ground level and falls off the wall, ruining the stew and the pot. The group's attention then turns to Toad. The final panel cuts to the group preparing a mushroom stew out of Toad's mushroom cap, leaving him bald.
  • おやつの時間じかん ("Snack time"): Toad is fashinated by how Mario and Luigi get stronger by eating mushrooms. He tries to do the same, but Peach mocks him for trying. Later, Toad gets his revenge by serving a peach fruit to Peach as her snack.
  • ラブラブキャサリン ♂ ("Love Love Birdo ♂"): Yoshi finally manages to get out of the trash bin, and stumbles upon Birdo, who immediately falls for him. Yoshi happily reciprocates her feeling... until Mario informs him that Birdo is actually a male, leaving him stunned.
  • 4たい4 ("4 vs. 4"): while trying to gently turn down Birdo, Yoshi explains that he is part of a group, alongside the Tricolored Yoshis, and he cannot date by leaving the others as singles. (Un)luckily for him, Birdo has a solution: she also has three colored sisters. Scared, the Yoshis flee.
  • かみのお手入ていれ ("Hair care"): Birdo asks Peach how she maintains such beautiful curly hairstyle, but Peach reveals that they are all natural. Birdo does not believe her, and she goes to spy her in the night, discovering that her curls are a result of a bedhair.
  • アゴケツマン ("Buttchinned"): Mario, Yoshi, and Birdo are playing a game in which they have to recognize what body part the shown shape is. The shape in question is two semi-circles. Their (impure) guesses are revealed to be wrong, as it was actually Wario's buttchin. As he gets beat up by Mario and Birdo, Yoshi admits the shape could have also been the back of his eyes.
  • SエスMエムWダブリュー ("SMW"): what is "SMW" short for? Mario claims it is the abbreviation of Super Mario World. Luigi suggets it might be the acronim of a wrestling association. Yoshi proposes the idea of it meaning "S&M World". Wario instead states "S" stands for「すばらしく」(subarashiku, "amazing"), "M" for「めんくい」(menkui, "good-looking"), and "W" stands for "Wario".
  • ルイージ さらわる ("Luigi's kidnapping"): Peach learns that in the Yōsei no Mori, finding a fairy brings good luck and happiness. As she, Mario, and Luigi agree to go and look for one, Wario drops a bucket and a cloud on Mario and Peach's heads, and then takes Luigi away, leaving Mario confused by this last action.
  • 妖精ようせいもり ("Fairy Forest"): Yoshi arrives, intended on joining Mario on the fairy hunt, but when he calls for him and Peach, they turn around and he gets scared by their bucketed heads.
  • ワンダちゃん ("Wanda"): Wario also drops a pipe on Yoshi's head, leaving all three blinded. Just then, a voice calls for them, promising to free them. As they suspect, it is indeed a fairy: Wanda.
  • 期待きたいはずれ ("Disappointed by the expectations"): as Wanda is casting the spell to remove the buckets, the three are imagining the fairy's face: Mario is sure she will look like a beautiful girl, while Peach it is gonna be a handsome man, while Yoshi is thinking of Kinoppe. Their expectations are shattered when Wanda is revealed to be a babyfaced girl.
  • いかりのワンダ ("Angry Wanda"): bored to have to wait for the protagonist to reach Luigi, Wanda flies a cliff where Wario is holding him hostage, tied to a chair, and beats him up with a mallet, concluding the story and, at the same time, the rumor that finding a fairy will bring good luck and happiness.
  • ルイージのはな気球ききゅう ("Luigi's nose balloon"): Mario yells at Luigi that they will soon come and free him, but he finds a better solution: by exercising some force, he grows his nose with air and floats safely down like a balloon.
  • 突然とつぜん ワンダちゃん ("Suddenly, Wanda"): Wario surrenders, so he gives Mario the chance to try the Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 bonus game. Mario pulls one of the ropes, but a bucket falls on his head. Not wanting to wait even more for him to reach Luigi, Wanda strikes repeatedly her wand on the bucket to make him run faster.
  • きらわれマリオ ("Mario the outcast"): Mario arrives in Toad Town, and every Toad runs away in fear when seeing him. Mario gets so confused by this, until Yoshi tells him that his hat emblem is upsidedown: everyone mistook him for Wario.
  • キャンディーコング(友情出演ゆうじょうしゅつえん)("Candy Kong (guest starring)"): first, Yoshi got Yoshi, then Yoshi's Cookie. Surely the next one must be Yoshi's Candy, with a special guest appearance of Candy Kong, a character Yoshi is not much too happy about it.
  • ヨッシーのゆううつ ("Yoshi's depression"): Yoshi is noticing that Donkey Kong is slowly taking is place as the number two character of the franchise in terms of games, for a moment he also allucinates that DK replaced him in Yoshi and Yoshi's Cookie, but Luigi and Peach bully him back to reality: at least he has games of his own.
  • はなうらない ("Nose reading"): Aiko Gibo offers to read Mario and Luigi's future through a nose reading. She declares wide noses are a sign of greed, high noses belong to womanizers, tall noses to selfish people, and bublous noses to stubbern ones. It takes a while for Mario and Luigi to realize they match every description.
  • はなうらない ("Flower reading"): to Peach, Aiko offers to predict Peach's romance partner through loves me-loves me not, in which a petal corrisponds a character. As she plucks the last petal, Bowser swoops in with his Koopa Clown Car and kidnaps Peach, just as he was getting named.
  • クッパじょう ("Bowser's castle"): Peach is quickly taken to Bowser's Castle. Unaware of her true surroundings by how fast everything happened, Peach mistaken the location for a karaoke bar and begins to loudly sing, until Bowser asks her to stop.
  • たばこのけむり ("Cigarette smoke"): Aiko is revealed to be Magikoopa in disguise, and he proceeds to attack Mario by casting his spell. To replicate the magic shapes, Magikoopa inhales from a cigarette to create shaped smoke rings, but by doing so, Mario gets closer to him and punches him.
  • 未成年みせいねん ("Underage"): Magikoopa teleports away, only to end up in the Kinoko Keisatsusho holding cell. As Gori Keibu explains, he is in for underage smoking. His desperate claims that he is merely a small adult and not a child go unheeded.
  • 忍者にんじゃ ハックン ("Ninji the ninja"): learning that real ninjas hear enemies incoming by hearing their footsteps while leaning on the ground, Ninji tries to apply this technique to ambush Mario and Luigi. Unfortunately, he experiments on a train tracks and he is hit by a Mine Cart that the brothers were riding on.
  • ラリー ("Larry"): while reading the name encyclopedia, Larry discovers that his name originated by Saint Lawrence, a Christian saint related to fire. Not investigating further, Larry comes to the conclusion that Christians consider fire sacred, therefore his fire-breathing father who builds monuments and traps on lava must be a Christian.
  • ルドウィック ("Ludwig"): Curious, Ludwig asks for his name origin. Larry checks on the book and discovers that it is the German variant of "Luigi". Ludwig is in distraught in hearing he shares the name with Luigi, to the point that the plumber (who just arrived) gets offended.
  • コクッパぜんめつ ("All Koopalings are down"): notcing the arrival of the Mario Bros., the Koopalings get ready, but Lemmy cannot find his ball, claiming he cannot fight without it. Mario (who took his ball) seemingly passes to him, and none of the Koopalings notice that it is actually a bomb that was passed, and all of them blow up.
  • ハンマーマリオ ("Hammer Mario"): the final battle is at hand, so Mario arms himself with the Hammer Suit and enters the boss arena, where Bowser is awaiting on the Clown Car, conversing with Peach.
  • クッパのことだよ ("I'm talking about Bowser"): while approaching, the conversation becomes clear: Peach is saying that people with big shells and who throw hammers are definitely not her type. Hearing this, Hammer Mario gets distraught, despite Luigi explaining to him that she is obviously talking about Bowser.
  • みどりマリオ ("Green Mario"): with Mario depressed, Luigi steps forward to fight Bowser, but he fails to recognize him, calling him "green Mario", making him flinch.
  • ルイージたおれる ("Luigi's down"): looking attently, Bowser understands that Luigi is not identical to Mario, therefore he is not a "green Mario" he is a "fake Mario". To this, Luigi flinches even more from the frustration and he is out of the battle.
  • トランスマリオ ("Transforming Mario"): angered that his brother was humiliated and hurt emotionally, Mario stands up and goes Super Sayian, but Peach ruins the moment by singing the wrong theme song.
  • ピーチひめ えいっ! ("Yay, Princess Peach!"): Peach decides to help Mario by tossing him a Super Mushroom. While doing so, Peach slams the mushroom against Bowser's face, knocking him out and off the Koopa Clown Car.
  • カメの寝返ねがえり ("Turtle on its back"): having fallen down, Bowser has landed on his shell. While most turtles struggle with getting flipped over in their lives, they often manage to flip back on their own. Of course, turtles do not have to account for a spiky shell that nails them on the floor.
  • クッパやぶれる ("Bowser's down"): Back on his feet, Bowser steals a Super Mushroom from Peach and eats it to grow bigger and destroy Mario, but he almost suffucates in shell that has remained its usual size: Mario and Luigi are prepared to this by wearing strechable clothings.
  • 走馬燈そうまとう ("Life flashing before your eyes"): with Bowser defeated, Peach leaves the Koopa Clown Car and jokingly bids farwell to Bowser, until the next time he tries to kidnap her. Bowser then starts blabbering about his life memories, like they are flashing before his eyes, tearing up Mario and Luigi at the thought that this is their last battle, despite Peach seeing through the abvious lie.
  • 全員ぜんいん集合しゅうごう〜っ ("Everyone is gathered together"): the cast, like in the title screen of Super Mario All-Stars, gathers together to take a picture. During the photoshoot, the lights go momentarely out. Right after, Bowser screams that someone tried to grope Peach's butt in the dark, but everyone is aware that he just outed himself, being the only one behind her.
  • ラスト ("Last one"): Mario points out that between taking the photos in the last segment, there were some changes in pose and asks the readers to point them out. Birdo notices that Mario looked in another direction, Toad mentions that Peach tilted her head, while she points out Luigi's clenched his hand, and he states that Birdo raised her arm. Lastly, Bowser admits he lit the Bob-omb's fuse. As everyone escapes, leaving him with the lit Bob-omb in hand, he curses his honesty and blows up.

GO! GO! Mario Paint Theater[edit]

GoゴーGoゴーマリオペイント(①~⑥)

  1. A small collection of 4-koma centered around Mario Paint
    • Untitled cover segment: While playing Mario Paint, Mario draws him using Peach as a spear against Bowser thanks to her crown, to which Peach hits him in the head for using her as an object, before understanding that he was making projects for future battles.
    • はかないゆめ ("A fleeting dream"): Yoshi is playing Mario Paint and decides to make an animatic in which he saves Peach from a creeper Mario and earns a kiss from her. Usless to say, Mario is not too fond of his creation and deletes it after punishing Yoshi.
    • 芸術ぽいじゅつ!?("Art?"): Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi are fighting over the SNES Mouse to draw a selfportrait of each own. Their fighting culminates in the creation of an amalgamation of the four of them: Marigi Yoppi (「マリージヨッピー」, Marīji Yoppī).
    • あやつりいと ("Puppet strings"): being fans of the Thunderbirds TV series, Mario and Luigi decide to draw on Mario Paint one of the characters. When Peach comes to see their work, she asks why they applied vertical lines to the figure. They explain it is a nod to the supermarionation, the animation technique used for the show. Hearing that, Peach presumes their liking to the show is because the animation technique can be shortened to "Super Mario".
    • ハエたたき ("Gnat Attack"): while playing Gnat Attack, Yoshi gets too frustrated that he attempts to squash one of the flies with his tongue, breaking the TV screen.
    • ドリームキャッチャー ("Dream catcher"): Mario is taken away from a UFO's claw, but he manages to wriggle out and fall on Luigi, but it is revealed to be Peach trying to fish out a Mario plushie from a claw machine.
    • マリオの弱点じゃくてん ("Mario's weakness"): studying the pictures of Mario's crushes (Peach, Daisy, and Lady), Wendy comes to the conclusion that Mario likes blonde girls. She then tries to draw herself as a blonde to see if she should dye her hair, but Morton burts her bubble by reminding her she is bald.
    • ピーチひめさらわれる ("Peach is kidnapped"): while the Mario Bros. are too busy playing Mario Paint, Peach is taken away by Bowser. When she calls him inhuman for doing that, Bowser retorts "well, I'm a turtle".
    • またね〜っ ("See you soon"): Mario is thanking the readers for reading the manga, when Luigi brings him a letter from one of them:「白須淳子さん」(Shirasu Junko-san) from the Osaka Prefecture, claiming that the Mario Paint commercial is misinforming since his slideshows are weird and not at all similar to what is seen in the advertisement. Unimpressed, Mario rips the letter, balls it up, and throws it at Luigi.
  2. Peach has opened the Karaoke Peach House, but people are not coming in. Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi decide to help her by using Mario Paint to create karaoke music to use. With Mario composing, Yoshi animating, and Luigi adding the lyrics, their new song "Princess Peach's poem" is ready. After a bit of advertising, a line begins to form, while Mario invites people to wait their turn by playing Gnat Attack, by hitting Yoshi (dressed up as King Watinga) with flyswatters. Despite this ungrateful position, Yoshi gets the last laugh, as the song animation is him winning Peach's heart, something the Mario Bros. are not pleased about it.
  3. Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and Tatanga tried to invite Peach and the girls to spend time with them, but all of them refused. Unbeknownst to them, the girls are all working together to make Valentine's Day chocolates. Daisy has gathered the best ingredients from around the world for Mario, Peach is preparing the best mushroom stew for him, Lady had already gifted bananas to the Kongs so Mario will get the unused chocolate, and Wendy is not willing to give up despite the harsh rejection from a while back. They also prepared notes through Mario Paint that, when connected to a printer or video recorder, can also print out the results. Meanwhile, the boys have noticed through the sign of a bakery that the girls are preparing for Valentine's Day. Initially happy, the group starts to worry: Luigi will recieve a smaller gift than his brother, Tatanga will recieve nothing from Daisy, Bowser wants to keep his reputation of bad guy so he cannot be seen recieving chocolate, and Mario cannot deal with another batch of cavities. Using Mario Paint, the group (and every other guy in the Mushroom Kingdom) prints out and wears Mario masks to receive his gifts, while he hides as a Snifit. When the girls arrive, they are confused by the sight of the crowd of Marios.
  4. Peach has moved to Harajuku, looking for fame. Suddenly, a Producer (Bowser) approaches her and offers her a contract to make her a celebrity. Without any hesitation, Peach signs it and offers him all the money she brought with her, but the Producer tells her that it will not be enough to launch her career. Seeing how hard this job is, Peach is about to quit, but Bowser makes her read the contract: it states that if she fails to do whatever he will ask her, she will incur a penalty of 5 million yen. In the following days, Peach is forced to do a bunch of jobs and works to pay Bowser, until she faints from hunger on a table she was serving. Mario, the client sat at said table, comes to her rescue and pays the penalty for her, offering food and presenting himself as a composer. He takes her to his studio (now a vacant lot since he sold everything to pay her penalty) promising to make her a piece that she can sing to at the BomBom Music Competition. After a night of reletless work in Mario Paint, Mario finishes Peach's song and she manages to participate to the competition and wins it. At her award ceremony, she thanks "Mario Paint" for her success.
  5. Continuing from the last segment, Daisy is furious that she did not win, especially after bribing the jury. Unable to accept to be less popular than Princess Peach, Daisy asks her rich father for help. Through his money and connection, the Sarasaland King manages to make his daughter popular in the music world. Later, at the TV station in which the King is the sponsor, a live musical top 10 will be held, in which the songs will be ranked through CD sales and phone requests. Upon witnessing Peach participating in the show, Daisy decides to play on the offensive to avenge her loss at the competition. First she reminds Peach that, without a promotional insert to play during the performance, she will be disqualified. Peach starts to panic, but Luigi arrives with a brand new promotional insert created through Mario Paint. Daisy laughs at this, falunting that she got her own ad directed by Spielberg and Lucas. She also makes Peach trip when she goes up to the stage, but her showboating and unsportsmanlike conduct were captured on live camera and her popularity tanks so much she is off the Top 10 and the show. Humbled and overcome, Daisy makes her way back home to Sarasaland.
  6. Continuing from the last segment, Luigi tells his story: after leaving his hometown to become an animator, he joined the Koopalings' animation studio. He was overworked to the bone, alone, and without taking any breaks. What was worse, after a month of slavery, his paycheque was miserable. After walking by the vacant lot that was Mario's music studio, he discovered a copy of Mario Paint, which offered a much easier and efficient way to animate, and took it. Through that, Luigi left the Koopalings' animation studio, and offered his works to a TV executive that instantly hired him. Without Luigi, the Koopalings went bankrupt and Luigi became famous. During an interview, he expresses gratitude for the "god-sent" Mario Paint copy he discovered. Meanwhile, in a bar, Mario is lamenting of how he lost his Mario Paint copy, while Mototin shares that, similarly, he lost his bike when it was mistaken for trash and thrown away.

Uribō[edit]

Mario's Woods[edit]

Mario's Woods

もりのマリオさん

  • マリオの休日きゅうじつ ("Mario's day off"): Mario is reading on the newspaper that people are looking for fairies in the woods, which makes him think what would happened if he found a beautiful fairy, giggling in excitment.
  • ルイージの休日きゅうじつ ("Luigi's day off"): while Luigi is tending to his Fire Flower garden, Mario invites him to go fairy hunting. Luigi also gets excited by this, imagining what a magical fairy could bring to his garden.
  • ヨッシーの休日きゅうじつ ("Yoshi's day off"): next, Mario goes to invite Yoshi, occupied in eating lots of bread. He accepts with joy to join the hunt, already mouth watering at the idea, but Mario reminds him that fairies are not food.
  • ピーチひめ休日きゅうじつ ("Peach's day off"): Toad informs Princess Peach that Wario is causing trouble in the Peaceful Woods, and they need to do something. Hearing that, she asks why she has to come too, but Toad explains that it is her duty as a princess to ensure peace in her kingdom. Thinking about it, Peach joins him, but only because she hopes to learn the secrets of a fairy's beauty.
  • わかれみち ("Fork in the path"): as the two groups are going to the fairy region, they meet up. Mario explains to Peach they are going fairy hunting in Yōsei no Mori, so she decide to join them too (as it would be easier to find a fairy in a forest named after them, and not in a land conquered by monsters), leaving Toad to handle the challenges of the newly renamed Wario's Woods on his own.

Wario's Woods is quite fun![edit]

Wario's Woods is quite fun!

ワリオのもりたのしいぞ!!

  • まいご ("Lost"): looking for a fairy, the group loudly calls for her to show up, but Luigi warns them that they should be delicate and listen to the forest to locate a fairy. Too focused on following the sound of the forest with his eyes shut, Luigi gets separated by the group.
  • 友情ゆうじょう ("Friendship"): the group finally notices that Luigi was left behind, so Peach suggests looking for him, but not because she is worried for him, but because she fears he might get ahead on the fairy hunt and run away with the fairy.
  • ワリオの休日きゅうじつ ("Wario's day off"): while flying on his Bulldog, Wario spots Mario looking for Luigi, and attempts at throwing a bucket on his head, missing him entirely. Meanwhile, Mario comes to the rushed realization that Luigi was turned into a bucket because it appeared the moment he asked Luigi to come out.
  • チャレンジ ("Challenge"): in his second attempt, Wario successfully drops a bucket on Mario's head. While laughing it off, Wario enters a cloud and, unable to see, ends up crashing into the ground.
  • ワンダの休日きゅうじつ ("Wanda's day off"): blinded by the bucket, Mario repeatedly bumps into a tree where Wanda the fairy was resting. Upset, she flies down and knocks on the bucket to stop him. Instead, Mario turns around and trips on top of her.
  • 手伝てつだい ("Help"): Mario keeps on walking towards a wall, so Wanda knocks on his bucket again. In a lapsus, Mario answers that "somebody's in here", like he is replaying to somebody who knocks on a bathroom door.
  • ゆうどう ("Guidance"): Wanda keeps helping Mario not bumping into everything, but she gets distracted by a Coin Block and Mario ends up walking into a floor of spikes.
  • そのころヨッシーは? ("What about Yoshi?"): at the bottom of Pukupuku Kai, Yoshi found himself with a jellyfish on his head, but it soon grows tired of Yoshi commenting every single action he is doing, and floats away.
  • ミス ("Mistake"): While freeing Mario's path, Wanda does not manage to break a Rock Block in time and Mario bumps into it walks in the opposite direction. In an attempt to make him walk back, Wanda misses her shot and breaks the Rock Block under him, and Mario falls down.
  • そのころピーチひめは? ("What about Peach?"): Peach comes across a bucket catalogue and flips over the pages, criticizing all of them and declaring the Piranha Plant bucket the worse. Regrettably for her, that is the bucket that Wario drops on her head.
  • ぐうぜん ("By chance"): while trying to direct Peach on a bridge of Timer Blocks, Peach ends up stalling enough that the blocks disappear from beneath her and falls down, straight onto Luigi.
  • すなお ("Meek"): while guiding Mario through Honō no Dōkutsu, Wanda asks him to stop as she inspects a nearby Tsubōn. Claiming that she can make a quick buck by selling an expensive-looking living vase, Wanda captures them all to later sell them to an antique shop.
  • 使つかみち ("How to use it"): later, at the antique shop, Luigi is inspecting one of the sold Tsubōn, wondering what could it be used for. After being burned when inspecting the inside, Luigi decides to deem it as an incinerator.
  • 再会さいかい ("Reuniting"): Luigi finds the bucketed Yoshi in Kōri no Dōkutsu and waves at him. Hearing his voice, Yoshi runs towards him, ignoring Wanda's words, and falls into a pit.
  • ダイエット ("Diet"): after a long walk across the scorching Karakara Sabaku, through trials and errors, Mario lose so much weight that, by the time Luigi removes the bucket from his head, he is just skin and bones.
  • なぞ・・? ("Mystery..."): while waiting from someone, Luigi starts wondering how come his friends end up with strange objects on their heads. Mario arrives and Luigi removes the pipe bucket from his head, revealing a deformed squared face underneath.
  • おちゃめ? ("Mischievious?"): Luigi finds who looks to be Princess Peach with a vase bucket on her head and goes to help her. He is left shocked and startled, when Wario's face is revealed instead of Peach's.
  • あこがれ ("Longing for"): the real Peach finds Luigi and he helps her out of the Piranha Plant bucket. Finally free, Peach takes the bucket and kicks it against Wario in an act of revenge.
  • 条件じょうけん反射はんしゃ ("Pavlovian response"): Wanda comes across a Tsubōn and challenges it to rock paper scissors. She wins and points to look in a certain direction and the Tsubōn turns towards said direction, but instead of a slap, Wanda lets Mario pass under it, as its flames are no longer hindering him.
  • 逆襲ぎゃくしゅう ("Counterattack"): Wanda spots Wario on his Bulldog and chases him down with a hammer to ruin his plane, but her efforts are proven futile by her and her weapon's small statues. Wario laughs at her, making her mad, and when he turns around to mock her more, Wanda is holding a massive hammer, slamming full-force against him, causing him to crash.
  • おれい ("Gratitude"): with Wario's defeat, Mario proposes to go home, but Peach stops him and furiously yells at him to never do another fairy hunt that would risk her beauty again. After calming down, she admits that they should at least say thanks to the fairy.
  • あんそくの ("Rest day"): the gang is calling for Wanda so they can properly thank her, but she (hidden in the trees) silently pleads they give up and quickly go home, but alas, night falls and the Yōsei no Mori are swalled by the dark, effectively blinding everyone. Looks like they will need a guide to get out, much to Wanda's exasperation.

Bomber Toad[edit]

Bomber Toad

爆弾使ばくだんつかいキノピオ

  • 決意けつい ("Determination"): alone in the Wario's Woods, Toad comes across a sprite who starts throwing bombs at him. Scared, Toad starts running away.
  • 勉強べんきよう ("Studying"): while Toad is still running in a panic, the sprite tries to tell him something, but when a bomb lands on his head, Toad starts running faster and screaming louder. The bomb explodes, but Toad is not at all affected by the explosion, which finally stops him. The sprite can finally explain to him that they will join forces against the monsters and that her bombs will not harm him and, that in the future, he should learn to listen.
  • そのころワリオは?① ("What about Wario? 1"): a Pidgit flies to Wario to inform him that Toad has entered Wario's Woods. Boarding his Bulldog, Wario goes to stop him, but keeps flying in the wrong direction until he gives up and goes to check Mario and the others in Yōsei no Mori.
  • そのころキノピオは? ("What about Toad?"): meanwhile, Toad has learned how to deal with the monsters, by stacking them up with one of the sprite's bombs to vanquish them.
  • 成果せいか ("Results"): while bombing monster, thanks to his natural constitution, Toad has built up some muscles in both arms and legs, intimidating the monsters while even more the fairies admire him.
  • なやみ ("Worried"): Toad grows worried that if he goes back to the others all buffed up, they might be scared to the point of exhiling him. While hitting his head to remove these thoughts, he ends up cracking his mushroom head.
  • 空腹くうふく ("Hunger"): about to eliminate a pair of Spuds, Toad decides to spare them. The two monsters thank him, only to discover that he wants to eat them due to their turnip-like appearance.
  • 友達ともだち ("Friends"): after eliminating a couple of monsters, only a Spook remains. It tries to plead Toad to let him live, as a fellow mushroom, but Toad explains that they are not the same kind of mushroom.
  • そのころワリオは?② ("What about Wario? 2"): having finally found the direction to Wario's Woods, Wario goes to check up the situation, only to be hit by a bomb and blowing up with his plane, once more.
  • くせ ("Habit"): with Wario defeated, the Peaceful Woods have returned to their serene, magical state. Just as Toad is about to depart, the sprite drops another bomb at him that she absentmindedly dropped out of habit.
  • おまけ ("Bonus"): at the greengrocer, Toad is picking up some greens for dinner, when he discovers the clerk to be Wario. He is selling his monsters for 1,000 yen due to their incompetence. Toad buys them and promises Peach a rich feast for that night, which she is gladly looking forward to!

Daimaru Roketto[edit]

Pretty Mario[edit]

Pretty Mario

プリティーマリオ

  • 攻略こうりゃく!マリオじょう ("Walkthrough! Mario's castle"): Mario is showing off his impressive castle to Luigi, showcasing his extravagant lifestyle. Tired of his brother's rambling, Luigi calls Wario, ready to offer him the castle the second Mario leaves.
  • マリオ出発しゅっぱつ ("Mario departs"): when Mario discovers that Wario took his castle, he desperately cries on the floor for the loss. After crying, Mario quickly gets up like nothing happened, ready for the adventure.
  • しゃがみマリオ ("Crouching Mario"): Mario's recent crouching sprites make him look cute to the girls, so he starts doing it often, to the point that he actually grows smaller.
  • シャボンだまにのって ("Riding the soap bubble"): while riding Hippo's soap bubble, Mario finds it relaxing and slowly falls asleep. Not even the screeches of a Dondon wakes him up.
  • うみそこには ("At the bottom of the ocean"): while swimming, Mario gets tired and starts losing conciousness. As he gets ready to ascend to heaven, the apparition of Oto-hime, with Wario's face, appears in front of him, making him believe he went to hell.
  • かんちがい ("It's different"): while fighting sewer rat, Mario pulls out a bullfighter outfit to fight him off. Angered, the sewer rat chases him off by prickling his behind.
  • ほしねがいを (When You Wish Upon a Star): while in the Star Course, Mario is fashinated by the stars and prays to them for his castle to be reclaimed. Distracted, the autoscroll causes him to be crushed by a ? Block.
  • ピーチひめ・・♥ ("Ah, Princess Peach..."): learning from his mistake, Mario starts focusing on the stage, until he thinks of how Peach is waiting for his return. As he claims that he will once he takes back his castle, he gets distracted and gets squashed by the same ? Block.
  • ベルをらせ ("Ring the bell"): about to finish the Crane Course, Mario takes the last crane and approaches the bonus bell, ready to body slam it to hit it, but ends up painfully hitting it with his head.
  • びきがねらう! (3 targetting animals!): Mario enters the Three Little Pigheads room. Each one invites the brothers to go first, claiming that they would go first if not for something. Mario breaks the tension by saying what the something could be: they are too fat to get out of their hanging houses.
  • 土足どそく厳禁げんきん ("No shoes allowed"): thanks to the Heavy Zeds, Mario can cross the gaps in the Owl Course. As he steps on the first one, he is launched away for wearing shoes on his head.
  • がんばれグー ("Go, go, go!"): another Zed offers to carry him over a giant gap, but soon starts to lose altitude, while asking Mario if he gained a few more pounds.
  • 集団しゅうだんノコノコ ("Grup of Koopa Troopas"): Mario comes across a numerous group of Koopa Troopas. As they all stuck to form a giant pyramid, Mario is already imagining the worst, only to discover they wanted to show off their formation.
  • 6つめの金貨きんか ("6 Golden Coins"): Mario meets with Luigi at the Dark Gate, having found the sixth Golden Coin: he then pulls out a golden denture, but Luigi tells him he got the wrong item, so Mario pulls out a safe, then a house, then two people fighting.[D] After that, the brothers conclude their comedy sketch by waving at the audience.
  • だいすきマリオ(1)("I love Mario (1)"): one of the Boos is a huge fan of Mario, and everytime she has to face him, always tries to tell him "hello", only to get shy and cover her face when Mario look in her direction.
  • だいすきマリオ(2)("I love Mario (2)"): speaking to her friends, the Boo manages to convince her that Mario's qualities are as great as she is describing them, so they join her the next time they have to face against Mario. They too get shy, but when they chase Mario when he gives them the back, they now do for the same reason as her friend.
  • かくれたオシャレ!? ("Hidden fashion"): In response to the criticism that his outfit lacks flair, Mario dramatically turns his clothes inside out, revealing sparkling glitters in the newly exposed part. He claims that this is how he is fashionable, but Luigi is not convinced.
  • ヒゲマリオ ("Mustached Mario"): Mario is trying on different types of mustache: handlebars, bushy, à la Dalì, until an unconfortable Peach tells him his normal mustache style suits him better.
  • ちたマリオ(1)("Fallen Mario (1)"): Luigi, Yoshi, and Peach theorize that when Mario falls into a pit, he does not die, instead him and his previous lives are trapped at the bottom. The thought of that makes the three shiver.
  • ちたマリオ(2)("Fallen Mario (2)"): continuing theorizing, they also come to the conclusion that if one of the Mario dies in the underground, he is reincarnated into an overworld enemy. The thought of that makes the three shiver even more.
  • ワリオランドだ!! ("It's Wario Land!!"): Wario is so excited to get his own game, and gets even happier in knowing he will not have to share it with Mario or Peach, until he realizes he is going to be alone, and grows worried.
  • いないってば ("If they're not here"): Wario laughs off his last comment on being alone, and calls for Mario and the others. But nobody replies.
  • ゆめ ("Dream"): at the port, Peach is asking Wario if he intends on taking back Mario's castle, but he says no. He then starts a moving speech on what a man truly dreams about, when a wave drags him in the sea, ruining the moment.
  • くやしー! ("How frustrating"): to avoid an incoming spiked ball, Wario ducks in a hole, but as the spike ball rolls over the hole, he seems to notice a grin on the obstacle, like it was laughing at his inability to fight it, frustrating Wario.
  • カギ ("Key"): Wario finds a key and goes to a skull door to open it. After various tries, he fails to open it and walks away. It is then revealed that, instead of the giant keyhole on the skull's forehead, Wario was trying to insert the key in the nasal aperture.
  • 3つのハニハニ ("3 Floaters"): Wario finds three Floaters and decides to pick the furthest one, stepping on the others and angering them for being woken up for nothing.
  • ジェットワリオ ("Jet Wario"): after returning from his mission, Wario shows off his new power-up, the Jet Hat. Peach immediately puts his powers to use, by asking him to retrieve a shuttlecock she and Mario accidentally stuck on a tree while playing badminton. Wario is not amused to be used for such trivial chores.
  • ドラゴンワリオ ("Dragon Wario"): next, Wario shows off his fire-breathing Dragon Hat. Fashinated, Peach has another job for his powers: substitute the grill for tonight's barbecue party. Once again, Wario is not amused.
  • ハ二ハ二がいく ("Floater is going"): Wario takes a Floater, but it starts going in a different direction, without listening to Wario's orders. Much to his surprise, however, the Floater has taken him to a natural hot spring to replenish his strength.
  • ゼニスキーはかたる ("Ghost says..."): the ghost is doing a PSA about the importance of coins, when he spots Wario ignoring a coin and starts a fight with him for leaving a precious coin behind.
  • シュート ("Shoot"): Wario picks up an upside-down Wanderin' Goom and throws it into a Chicken Duck's basket, first try. Later, Mario receives a letter in which Wario challenges him to a basketball match, flaunting his impressive shooting skills.
  • ハ二ハ二メーター ("Floater-meter"): while taking a Floater, Wario hears a beep. After a quick investigation, he discovers that the Floater has a taximeter installed on it, to which Wario begs it to take the short way to his destination.
  • たべた? ("Did you eat that?"): during the Devil's Head's fight, the boss breaks the floor with his tongue and slurps the supposed lava. Only when he comments "delicious", Wario realizes he has been fighting above a sea of nattō, not lava.
  • チャンピオン ("Champion"): D.D. won a boomerang-throwing competition and shows off his trophy to Captain Syrup. She is not impressed and tells him not to waste time with such foolish stuff and go back to work. Upset, the D.D. places a poster of the captain and repeatedly throws boomerangs at it to relieve his frustration.
  • 回転かいてんノッコ ("Rotating Pinwheel"): after ensuring the presence of no one around it, a Pinwheel tries to live up to his English name and spin like a toy pinwheel.
  • やだ! ("No way!"): a D.D. goes to his friend to tell him to get ready to patrol, but he is refusing to go out. The first D.D. is already imagining the worst, thinking his friend is going through an existential crisis and that is why he is not willing to go out, until he hears that the second D.D. does not want to go out because his bandana is crooked. Hearing that, the first D.D. grips his boomerang in anger.
  • ブリザード ("Blizzard"): Wario comes across a Bucket Head, but instead of feeling threatened by his snowflakes, he joyfully engages in winter sports, reminiscent of his carefree childhood.
  • ゴーゴートロッコ ("Go, go, trolley"): Wario jumps on a Mine Cart. As he travels on it, he thinks he is going to arrive in a green windy meadow, but his imagination comes to a halt when the mine cart derails off the tracks and into a pool of lava.
  • デンプーにおねがい ("A request for the Genie"): after defeating the Genie, Wario demands from him a castle. The Genie then asks for a payment, but Wario realizes in that moment that his pockets have holes in them. Without money, all that Wario can affort is a castle made out of six building blocks for children.
  • ワリオじょうへようこそ ("Welcome to Wario's castle"): Wario has invited the Mario Bros. to his new castle, but they feel uneasy as they watch him casually sketch a nonexistent castle on the ground, oblivious to the absurdity of the situation.

Satōgen and Yumeya[edit]

Satōgen's chapter

Mario is tough![edit]

Mario is tough!

マリオはつらいよ!!

  • モテモテヨッシー ("Popular Yoshi"): Yoshi has become so popular with the girls, and Mario is unable to accept it, so much so that, during Yoshi's Safari, he keeps "accidentally" hitting Yoshi's back of the head.
  • ひらけとびら ("Open gate"): arrived in a Junction, Mario shoots the gate to go towards the left path. Just as he and Yoshi are about to cross it, Luigi appears on the otherside of the gate ready to help, swinging it open, and slamming it into Yoshi and Mario's faces.
  • うらめん ("Dark Realm"): after overcoming a lot stages, King Fret has been saved. Ready to close the book on this adventure, Mario and Yoshi are informed by the king that there are 5 more levels to go to rescue Prince Pine too. Tired, Mario tosses him the Super Scope, telling him to rescue him himself.
  • なぞ ("Mystery"): after shooting down two Paragoombas at head level, Yoshi asks Mario to not shoot the projectile so close to his ears. Mario apologizes but then starts questioning if Yoshi has ears, not noticing them.
  • 不景気ふけいき ("Recession"): Mario orders Yoshi to walk for a while. Doing so, Yoshi hears a clicking sound: Mario has connected the odometer to reset it to zero because of the recession.
  • ラクチン ("Easy"): after defeating a Hammer Brother miniboss, a Flying ? Block. Mario tells Yoshi that he knows what to do, and he jumps on it, allowing the two to float over the stage effortlessly.
  • ジュエル ("Jewel"): Mario and Yoshi have collected a magic gem. In grabbing it with his tongue, Yoshi accidentally swallows it. With the gem lost, Jewelry Land falls in ruins.
  • トップ ("Top place"): during a Super Mario Kart competition, Mario starts showing off his drifting skills, claiming that nobody will pass in front of him. However, Donkey Kong Jr. ends up bursting his bubble by telling him he is currently in last place.
  • ジャンプ ("Jump"): due to the structure of the karts, if someone were to look from below a kart jump, they would see the legs of the pilot. After telling this to Luigi, he and Mario go to position in front of a jump line to catch a glimps of under Peach's skirt. Right as she is about to aproach, the brothers realize they placed themselves over sinking mud.
  • 屋敷やしき ("Ghost House"): while racing in Ghost Valley, Mario manages to get first place with a curve kick strategy. Doing so he ends up damaging a wall and, during the podium ceremony, a ghost passes him the repair bill. Shocked by the number, Mario's soul leaves his body, revealing how the ghosts of Ghost Valley are created.
  • こいばな〜 ("Love..."): passing over a ? Panel, Mario obtains a "love story". He proceeds to tell Luigi the time he first met Princess Peach, much to his brother's disinterest.
  • ジャンプ② ("Jump 2"): Mario and Luigi retry their peeping plan once more, this time on solid terrain. They hear someone approaching, but it is Donkey Kong Jr., who ends up failing the jump and crashes in Mario's face.
  • 武器ぶき ("Weapons"): stuck in second place, Mario laments the lack of items to throw and take the lead. Just then, the Lakitu with the "FINAL LAP" sign appears. Mario grabs it and tosses it at Donkey Kong Jr., taking over him.
  • キノコ ("Mushroom"): Mario obtains a mushroom and uses it, but instead of dashing, he grows bigger.
  • マリオ地底ちていへ ("Mario in the underground"): Mario is attacked by a Monty Mole. Instead of paniking, he mistakes it for an item that allows him to dig underground, but the mole bails on him after hearing his silly idea.

You're the main character![edit]

You're the main character!

あんたが主役しゅやく!!

  • バズーカー ("Bazooka"): Mario and Yoshi are tasked by Princess Peach to save Jewelry Land. For their mission, Peach gives them a Super Scope. Astonished, Mario inquires about the reason behind Peach possessing a bazooka. In response, she evades the question, pretending not to understand.
  • いってみよー! ("Let's go!"): Mario and Yoshi depart. On their way, a row of Goombas appears. Using the Super Scope as a club, Mario gets rid of them, but Peach yells at him that the Super Scope is not used like that.
  • 使つかかた ("How to use it"): Peach proceeds to show how to shoot with the Super Scope, intentionally hitting Mario in the head with the projectile for his ignorance.
  • 練習れんしゅうしよう ("Let's practise"): understanding how to use it, Mario and Yoshi proceed on their way. After carefully aiming at the Goombas, Mario shoots, but hits Yoshi in the back of his head.
  • りなおして ("Pull yourself together"): Mario promises to do better, but he ends up hitting Yoshi in the back of the head so much he faints.
  • いかりのヨッシー ("Angry Yoshi"): angry, Yoshi takes the Super Scope for himself and he shoots the enemy. However, when turning left and right, the tail of the Super Scope ends up slapping Mario.
  • 打開策だかいさくは? ("How does it work?"): after a lot of trial and error, Mario and Yoshi come to the realization that they cannot properly use a bazooka, so they give up on the mission.
  • そーいうわけにはいかない ("That's now how it works"): furious, Peach takes the bazooka and goes with Yoshi to save Jewelry Land herself, leaving Mario behind, who now feels useless.
  • カートで GOゴー! ("GO Kart!"): going back home in his kart, Mario is soon surpassed by his friends and foes piloting various fast karts. He is so confused about their speed and taunt until he reads that he mindlessly entered a Mario Kart competition to establish the new main character of the series.
  • 主役しゅやく意地いじ ("Main character's stubborness"): not wanting to lose his role, Mario goes after them. He quickly climbs the leaderboard by reaching the next pilot and criticizing them: Toad is said he cannot be a protagonist, Yoshi is already the main character in various games, Donkey Kong Jr. is past his prime, Luigi will be Player 2 forever, and Bowser is an unsung hero. About to deal with Peach in first place, she replies first saying that she will never talk to him again if he takes over her. Mario is left so scared that everyone takes over him and he goes back to last place.
  • アイテム ("Item"): Mario decides to fight fair and square and slowly surpasses some of the pilot. After surpassing Luigi, he takes a shell and throws it at Mario, causing him to spin and leaving him confused on the usage of items in the race.
  • カメのこうら ("Turtle shell"): Mario catches up with Luigi, ready for a payback. Luigi laughs at him that he has no shell with him, but Mario throws Koopa Troopa and his kart at him, causing him to crash, and surpasses him.
  • 宿命しゅくめい対決たいけつ ("A fated showdown"): Mario catches up to Bowser, and uses a Lightning to stop him. This ends up doing nothing as Bowser's size is big to begin with, and shrinking it up even made him light enough to make him go faster.
  • 栄光えいこうはだれのに ("In whose hands in the glory?"): Mario, Luigi, and Bowser and fighting tooth and nails for first place, but unbeknownst to them, Peach has already crossed the finish line a long time ago and is holding the trophy cup, ready to make some changes.

Gallery[edit]

Descriptions[edit]

  • Cover flaps
Mario

▣でたぞ、でたぞ、ついにでたー!!マリオファン必笑ひつしようの四コマしゅうだぜ。これできみのギャグセンスも、1UPワン アツプまちがいなし!!ボンボンがほこるちよう豪華ごうかメンバーが、よる昼寝ひるねしてかいた爆笑作ばくしようさくを、ごらんあれ〜!!

It's here, it's here, it's finally here!! A must-have collection of 4-koma for Mario fans. Your sense of humor is sure to be taken to the next level!! Check out these hilarious works drawn by Bombom's all-star cast, who stayed up all night and took naps!!

Mototin and the others

作者さくしゃやからきみへ
マリオっておれのどもみたいだなぁ。(本) それじゃあ、ピーチひめはおれの彼女かのじょだ!!(元) ヨッシーは、わたしのダンナさまかしら?(う) あの〜ワリオって、わたしの・・なに?(大)

A word from the author(s)
Mario is like my child. (Motoyama) So Princess Peach would be my girlfriend!! (Satōgen) I wonder if Yoshi is my husband? (Uribō) Um, Wario would be my... what can he be? (Roketto)

  • Afterword

みなさん、みおえた感想かんそうはどうでしょうか?たくさんわらってもらえましたか?ギャグが連発れんぱつしているなかにも、あいがたっぷりりこまれていたとおもいます。このマンガをまえ元気げんきがなかったひとは、いまでは気分きぶんスッキリ全快ぜんかいバリバリに。そして、もとから元気げんきだったひとは、さらにパワフルになったことでしよう。それでは、またえるたのしみにしています。(作者さくしゃ一同いちどう

What are your thoughts after finishing the book? Did you laugh a lot? I think that even though there were a lot of gags, there was also a lot of love packed into the stories. Those who were feeling down before reading this manga will now feel refreshed and in top form. And those who were already energetic will have become even more powerful. We look forward to seeing you again. (All authors)

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Note(s) Ref.
Japanese スーパーマリオ4コマだい行進こうしん
Sūpā Mario 4-koma Daikōshin
Super Mario 4-koma Parade [1]

Footnotes and references[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Luigi's Japanese name,「ルイージ」(Ruīji), is quite similar to the word「類似ルイジ」(ruiji) which means "similar".
  2. ^ "Bride" in Japanese contains the "yo" syllable:「およめさん」(oyomesan).
  3. ^ "Float bag" shares the same Japanese word as "swim bladder",「うきふくろ」(uki fukuro).
  4. ^ In Japanese, "coin" is pronounced「金貨きんか」(kinka). The items Mario pulls out are similarly worded items:「金歯きんば」(kinba, "gold tooth"), 「金庫きんこ」(kinko, "safe"), 「民家みんか」(minka, "private house"), and 「ケンカ」(kenka, "fight").

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Kazuki Motoyama (6 May 1995). Super Mario 4-koma Daikōshin. KC Deluxe (Japanese). ISBN 4-06-319591-0. Page 128.