Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 3
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| Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 3 | |
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| Series | Super Mario |
| Artist | Kazuki Motoyama |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
| Label | KC Deluxe |
| Release date |  August 6, 1991[1] |
| ← Previous Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 2 |
Next → Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 4 |
Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 3 is the eighth volume of Kodansha's Super Mario manga published under the KC Deluxe label.
The volume is the third part of the Super Mario World arc, covering the areas of Chocolate Island and the Valley of Bowser (not including the final castle). There are two stories: one that follows the main game events, and one that focuses on the game secrets.
Contents[edit]
Walkthrough[edit]
スーパーマリオワールド チョコレー
Chocolate Island (1-3)
Chocolate Island (4-5); Sunken Ghost Ship
Valley of Bowser (1-3)
Valley of Bowser (4, Ghost House)
Chapters[edit]
Chapter 1[edit]
スーパーマリオワールド
The bubble containing Peach is floating towards Chocolate Island, the region under Wendy's control. Intrigued by the name, Yoshi rushes towards the land, but gets squashed after the piece of land with the first stage emerges from the sea. After de-flattening him, the heroes enter the stage, where they are attacked by a Dino-Rhino. Yoshi gets run over, while the Mario Brothers jump over it. Luigi tries to burn it with a Fire Flower, but the enemy is fire-resistant, but he manages to turn it into a Dino-Torch by landing on top of him. Luigi laughs at its stature, only to suffer the consequences when the Dino-Torch breathes fire onto him. Yoshi eats it, and Mario asks if it was necessary, but Yoshi points out that there are numerous Dino-Rhinos and Torches in the region, pointing to the hoard of them charging them. To escape them, the three jump in a Pipe Cannon and, while flying, almost catch the bubbled up Peach, but miss her, hitting a passing Lakitu (turning him into a Fishin' Boo) and landing in the local Ghost House.
Unbeknown to them, the Ghost House is haunted by Boos from Bowser's special forces, trained to overcome their weakness of being stared at. The Fishin' Boo chase the heroes with a Haunted Hole, forcing them to run in another room. Avoiding the Fishin' Boo's flame, the trio meets these special Boos: Boo Buddy Blocks that, instead of just stop, they turn into stone blocks when stared at. While the heroes are unimpressed, Bowser angrily throws two Boos in the camera, and they appear in the stage as Boo Buddy Snakes, bouncing aimlessly all over the room. Luigi sees an exit, but it is on a high platform, but Peach, monitoring them, yells at them to use the Boo Buddy Blocks and, stepping on them, the trio reaches the exit. Next stop is the second stage, and Peach explains the gimmick of it: the more coins they collect in each area, the easier will be the next one. The three ends up splitting, and while Mario and Yoshi both reach a regular exit, Luigi finds the secret one. Luigi then beat another stage and ends up at Wendy's castle. Wendy, who was cooking chocolate, use her cloning powers to put Luigi down and captures him.
Mario and Yoshi beat the next stage, with a fake Giant Gate placed right before the real one and they too arrive at Wendy's Castle. She welcomes the heroes outside and, admitting that she is a bit late for it, gives Mario a box of St. Valentine chocolate, revealing she has romantic feelings for Mario, and that is why she was mean to him. To this, Yoshi teases Mario and Peach glares at him, but he claims to have eyes only for Peach, to which Wendy takes the princess and runs inside the castle. Mario enters and, dodging the Skewers, he is forced to hear Wendy's delusional romantic sentences. To stop her, Mario unwraps her gift, a chocolate bar with them kissing as a relief, and tosses it in the lava. Hurt and angry, Wendy summons a bunch of Lil Sparkies and Hotheads to flash him. Blinded, Mario follows Peach's voice and reaches her bubble. Peach invites him to kiss him, but Luigi (who regained consciousness after the flash) warns him that it is a trap and Wendy, dressed up as the princess, tried to lure him to kiss her, but he stopped just in time. Wendy then jumps into a pipe system, and challenges Mario to hit the real her, while two decoys makes things difficult, but (as everyone points out) she forgot to remove her Peach's costume, and she is easily locatable. After hitting her three times, Wendy cries that if only she was a good girl she might have had a chance, and falls into lava. Meanwhile, Larry sneaks in and takes Peach away. Feeling bad for her, after destroying the castle, Mario puts a makeshift grave for her, claiming that in the end, she was kinda cute. Hearing this, Wendy almost resuscitates, but Yoshi kicks her back into the grave. Luigi notices Larry entering a shipwreck in the middle of Dinosaur Land's gulf, which they recognize being of one of the Airships from Super Mario Bros. 3, while Bowser's voice confirms that it is also the only way for them to access his lair.
In the shipwreck, the heroes are surrounded by a numerous group of Disappearing Boo Buddies, causing Yoshi's to faint when they appear in fron of him. Mario and Luigi continue on their own and, after overcoming a group of Circling Boo Buddies, the brothers enter a pipe, entering a dry area that is also a long drop full of Floating Mines, Koopa Troopas, and Koopa Paratroopas, while Larry and the still bubbled up Peach are witnessing from a platform. To survive, Mario hits Luigi in the head, causing stars to float around him, he then takes one and becomes invincible. Once at the bottom, it seems there is nowhere left to go, so Peach forces herself to cry, and her teardrop falls, breaking the bubble, and lands in Mario's hand as a magic ball. Everyone are teleported outside, so Mario orders Larry to release Peach, but he refuses. A cave shaped like Bowser's head emerges from the sea, and Larry and Peach enters it. Mario and Luigi, riding the fainted Yoshi like a boat, follow them, but before they can catch the princess, Bowser, riding his Koopa Clown Car, takes her and then welcomes Mario to the Valley of Bowser. Luigi sees his castle in the distance, and criticizes that, with all those neons, it looks like a cabaret bar. Offenden, Bowser drops them in the first stage, an underground maze full of Mega Moles (stopped by both the activated ! Blocks) and Chargin' Chucks (which are confounded by the heroes' charades and disguises).
Next is the Ghost House, with a room full of coins and a Switch Block that turns the coins into blocks, leading them to a door at the end of a long corridor of doors filled with blocks turned to coins. In there, they find another Switch Block and a block with a Control Coin. They form a stairway of coins for an opening in the upper level, then turn them into blocks. During the climb, Luigi is hurt by a Boo and turns small and sneaks in the hole to the upper level, but Mario does not manage to sneak in time and falls down on the ground level. Mario goes back to the previous room, and tries to re-enter in the same room, but when he enters the corridor, the Switch Block timer runs out before Mario can reach the correct door, and finds the exit for the regular goal, where Yoshi is waiting for him. Meanwhile, Luigi arrives at Larry's castle, where the last Koopaling and a Magikoopa (the same from last time) ambush him at the entrance. Yoshi and Mario need to beat another stage to reach the castle, where Diggin' Chuck throws boulders at them. Mistaking them for watermelons, Yoshi eats them and spits pebbles out at them, like a machine gun.
After knowng Luigi down, Larry and Magikoopa gives him a Dogusare Kinoko to rot his soul and morals, and order him to stop Mario. Just then, Mario and Yoshi arrive, and Luigi start punching Mario, calling him his enemy. Mario tries to snap him back with a slap, and it almost works, but Magikoopa's voice whispers to him that Mario does not care for him, that is why he is always the second protagonist, angering Luigi. Mario tells Yoshi to keep him at bay, while he goes to defeat Larry, and Yoshi traps Luigi in his mouth. To escape, Luigi questions Yoshi if he is also tired of being in Mario's shadow. Yoshi responds that he does not mind, but while fantasizing on how it would be to be the protagonist, he drools mouth-open when he dreams about the feast that Peach would prepare for him, letting Luigi escape.
He reaches Mario, who just hopped on a snake platform, and tries to push him onto a floor of Spike Traps and agains the Ball 'N' Chains, but Mario resists, and when the snake platform drops down, they both fall, but Mario grabs a ledge and Luigi, showing him that he still cares for him. Magikoopa appears, and orders Luigi to keep Mario, so that the Dry Bones he is going to summon will attack him, but they attack Luigi instead. Mario saves him again, and tries again to make him come to his senses, pushing him to think of good memories. He does in fact remember the time he saved him from the Gahaha Biyō, until he recalls that was because the Viruses mistook him for Mario, and he also recalls of other times he left behind or in trouble because of him, angering him more. His rage is so powerful, that sparks comes out of him, accidentally activating the Spike switch, that almost stab Mario. Mario stands still, and when Luigi asks him why he is not trying to dodge the spikes, Mario responds that if he has to die, he is proud that is by the hand of his brother, asking him to take care of Peach after killing him. This seems to wake Luigi up for real, and when Magikoopa approaches him, telling him to not think of such ridiculous things, but Luigi responds that they might corrupt his body, but not his heart. So, after grabbing the wizard, he throws himself and him in the lava, asking Mario to say goodbye to Peach in his stead.
While Mario cries the loss of his brother, Peach also cries for his sacrifice, while Bowser is happy that he avenged the death of his kids (despite Peach, pointing out that none of them really died, as seen by the bandaged up Iggy and Wendy responding to Mario's compliments from the grave, also complaining how dark this manga is turning to). Bowser then orders Larry to retreat, so he takes off on his floating platform, but Mario reaches him with his cape, dodging the Lava Bubbles and Larry's flames. Larry also claims that, bewteen his attacks and his immunity to the three stomps strategy, he cannot lose. But Mario, with a powerful kick, drove by his desire to avenge his brother, sends Larry down in the lava pit, killing him. But as Mario knows, the Koopas will put him back together, but the same cannot be said for Luigi.
While Mario and Yoshi are mourning Luigi, from his casttle, Bowser reassures him that they will soon join him, making Mario so angry he removes Larry's castle with one kick, revealing the last imprisoned egg. Bowser then shows to him Peach, who asks Mario to forget about her and to take the eggs to Yoshi's Island, but Mario refuses. The final battle is approaching.
Chapter 2[edit]
スーパーマリオワールド
While the idea to have all parts being one segmented story like in the previous volume continues, there are also some parts that are stories (particularly a couple of the first ones and the last one) that have nothing to do with the game's secrets and are just funny stories using the game's elements.
- ヨッシーのすがおの
巻 (Yoshi's face)
Keaton Yamada's voice is presenting a TV commercial of Super Mario World, illustrating Yoshi's design, from his toe beans to his face, but then Mario, mimicking Tarako's voice, adds that, from behind, his head looks like a frog, offending him. Just then, three young schoolgirls, passing by the video game show where a TV screen is showing this commercial, comments how Yoshi is cute and it is thanks to him if the game is popular. While Yoshi boastfully smiles from this compliment, the jealous Mario and Luigi, call to the girls and shows them Yoshi, while the brothers are stretching his face, making him look scarier. Also adding that Yoshi is technically a cannibal (since he eats other dinosaurs), the girls flee, saddening Yoshi.
- こんな
夢 を見 たの巻 (I had this dream)
Luigi wakes up Mario, telling him Bowser corrupted Yoshi and turned him into a Godzilla-like monster and he is wrecking havoc around. The brothers then pray to a divine mushroom for salvation. The mushroom opens, and the caterpillar Kazukikun comes out, destroys the Tokyo Tower, cocoons itself and transforms into a giant butterfly with Peach's face, then it charges at Yoshi. Yoshi effortlessly eats it and roars, but his roar is the same "Yoshi" sound, making the two brothers laugh. This is revealed to be a dream of the Mario Brothers, and Yoshi (who is reading abook) is bothered by them sleep-laughing.
- ライタと チビライタたの
巻 (Dino-Rhinos and Dino-Torches)
In Chocolate Island 1, the heroes are charged by a stampede of Dinos. Mario asks it to stops and, pointing to a Dino-Rhino and a Dino-Torch, he says they look like father and son, but if the "father" is stomped, they both become "little brothers". Using this invented logic, Luigi points out the height difference between Peach and Mario, stomps his brother, turning him small, and takes his place, since he is the tallest. The stampede reprise, but Mario stops it again, explaining they have been tricked by Bowser and they can show them a better job. Next thing they know, a Dino-Torch is used as a lighter as a bar, while the Dino-Rhino father glares at Mario, asking him if this is really a better job.
地下 はへんなしかけがいぽいの巻 (The underground stage has weird traps)
After Mario is brought back to his normal size with a magnifying glass, the group goes in Chocolate Island 4, full of crooked platforms. After finding a Switch Block, the group finds a walled area and, on the other side, a pipe. Inside the pipe, Mario, Luigi, and Peach lands on an arrow made of Rotating Blocks, while Yoshi lands in a Empty Block floor. Mario presses a second Switch Block and Yoshi falls down, revealing rows and rows of floors. Yoshi lands at the bottom, Mario reaches the fourth to last, Luigi glides to the middle floor, and Peach prefers to stay on the top floor. Exiting their respective pipe, they all reunite and show themselves what they collected: Peach got some coins, Luigi five 1-UP Mushrooms, Mario a Fire Flower, and Yoshi a trampoline which he eats.
- インディーはまぬけの
巻 (Mega Moles are stupid)
Because they mocked him for eating the trampoline, Yoshi refuses to go with them, but he then sees three Mega Mole walking towards their position and warns his friends. Mario and Luigi try to burn them or squash them, but they are impervious. The three then try to jump over them, but miss their landing and ends up on the Mega Moles' heads. It looks like the Mega Moles are unaware of their "passengers" so Mario suggest taking advantage of this, but his Mega Mole falls in chocolate lava, so Mario jumps to land, where the Goal is, while the other two Moles, having bumped on their sinking friends, go back to Yoshi. In fear, Yoshi yells, opening his mouth wide, and Peach's Mega Mole walks right into it. Luigi then tries using a cape twirl and beats his Mega Mole. Reunited with Mario, he asks where Princess Peach went, and Yoshi pukes her out: he accidentally ate her with the Mega Mole she was riding.
- ボーナスステージのひみつの
巻 (The secret of the Bonus Stage)
In Chocolate Island 5, the heroes find a lot of Spinies trapped in cages made out of blocks for going against Bowser. One of them asks to be release if the heroes press a Switch Block. Peach almost does, until Mario makes her notice that they are above a pit covered by Empty Blocks, and they will fall if they press the Switch now. Luigi shakes the Spiny's cage, and he asks for forgiveness, confessing that there is also an enclosed pipe that leads to a bonus area. Mario believes it and presses the Switch (on safe ground) and a Spiny pushes him inside the pipe. Inside, Mario arrives in the 1-Up Room. He knows that hitting the O/X Blocks in the order will award him with a 1-UP Mushroom and it is luck based, but when he entered, he rolled with his cape against the left side of a block and it resulted in it being a "O". Doing it again, Mario realizes that this will ensure the block being a "O". Meanwhile, Yoshi and Luigi manage to defeat the free Spinies, one with his tongue and the other with a Super Star from a Roulette Block, and trap them back in the cages. Mario returns, but the other complains that he just missed the fight, so Mario uses a Ground Smash to kill all the Spinies on screen, almost making the others fall off from the stage too.
In the last panel, a Spiny shows a trick for who has to deal with crowded trains: just use a Spiny Shell to keep everyone away from you.
- ウェンデイはこわい？の
巻 (Are you scared of Wendy?)
The group has arrived to Wendy's Castle, and Yoshi says that this castle is so weak that a simple mop can destroy it, and tries to do that. Wendy, from a window, corrects him that this is possible after defeating her. Just then, Wendy is revealed to actually be Kootie Pie from the DIC Entertainment cartoons. The heroes heavily criticize how ugly she looks. Angry, Kootie Pie calls for her father and "American Koopa" (King Koopa) arrive to protect her daughter, but the heroes also criticize his looks and throws rocks at the both of them, making them back out and fall in the lava. While exiting the castle, Mario also points out that, design-wise, Peach is also different. She explains that, the more realistic (adult-looking) Peach from the games wouldn't look good riding the cartoonishly Yoshi, but Mario and Luigi knows the real reason: Motoyama is not that good of an artist.
Bonus[edit]
Mototin's Picture Diary[edit]
モトちんのスーパーファミコン
- Living on the top floor of a condominium, of course it is going to be hot for Mototin during warm seasons. So, when he sleeps, he tends to remove his clothes, this cause some problems when the landlord came to give some papers, and then put a warning sign at the front door about perverts living in the area.
- As a mangaka, Mototin cannot take days off like Sunday, and cannot even enjoy vacations or holidays, causing him to become more and more crazy.
4-koma[edit]
スッゲェ~つまんない4コマコーナー (Wow… a boring 4koma section)
- Mario notices that while riding Yoshi, drums gets added to the background music. Apparently it is because a drummer is inside Yoshi's saddle.
- Copying Caped Mario, Cape Luigi, and Cape Yoshi, Peach tries to fly herself, but her skirt is not a good substitution for the cape and she crash-lands on the ground, much to Bowser's worry.
- Bowser orders a Sumo Brother to hinders Mario's way, but he misunderstand that he needs to show a German suplex, and suplexes Bowser, knocking him out.
- On Bowser's tombstone is written「クッパのはか」(Kuppa no Haka, "Bowser's Tomb"), but Mario comes and corrects it in「クッパのばか」(Koopa no Baka, "Bowser the fool"), angering Bowser so much he emerges from the grave.
Fanarts[edit]
Cameos and caricatures[edit]
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Fictional characters[edit]
- Godzilla and Mothra (Godzilla): the second segment of the second chapter, Mario and Luigi dream about Yoshi becoming Godzilla and facing Mothra with Peach's face. This was probably made to advertise the upcoming Godzilla vs. Mothra. Casually, Super Mario-kun volume 6 also did a Godzilla vs. Mothra-inspired story with Yoshi.
- Tokoro-san (Tokoro-san no Tada Monode Wa Nai!): the cartoon caricature of the presenter of the Fuji TV quiz show and its stage make an appearance in the fourth segment of the second chapter.
- American Koopa and American Wendy: in the seventh and last segment of the second chapter, Bowser and Wendy's American counterparts appear and both have the design of King Koopa and Kootie Pie from the DIC Entertainment cartoons.
- An "American Mario" also appears in a side image, but he is a caricature of Mario as he appears in the Super Mario Bros. 2 artwork.
- The same goes for the "American Peach", who is designed like the Princess Peach from the artworks but still retaining her manga hairstyle.
Real-life people[edit]
- Keaton Yamada: the first segment of the second chapter takes place in a commercial. The narrator's voice is stated to be Keaton Yamada's, a retired Japanese actor and voice actor who also dubbed the Hammer Brothers in Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!
- Tarako: in the same segment, later Mario concludes the narration imitating Tarako. She was a Japanese actress, voice actress, and singer, mostly known for minor roles in animated media.
- Kenichi Mikawa: in the third segment of the second chapter, under Mario's suggestion, Dino-Torch takes a new job as a cigar lighter in a bar. The man seen using it, is a caricature of Japanese singer and TV personality Kenichi Mikawa, with a tag that also has his surname written on it.
Gallery[edit]
Full cover
Caped Mario with a 1-Up Mushroom
Story arc cover
Table of content
This is Dinosaur Land!!
Lil Sparkies and Hotheads
Wendy's fight
Valley of Bowser's closed entrance
Valley of Bowser's entrance
Evil Luigi
Luigi's sacrifice
Larry's death
"To be continued..."
Yoshi's "cute" face
The weird Godzilla-inspired dream
Dino-Torch's new job
Chocolate Island 4 bonus room
Solution for crowded trains
The truth behind Peach's design
Description[edit]
- Back cover
クッパの
本城 は、もうすぐ！
お色気 たっぷりウェンディと陽気 な悪党 ラリー。コクッパたちは、よりパワーアップして、マリオをおそう。ゆくてに待 ちうける攻略 コースも、なかなかきびしく、ちょっぴり苦戦 のマリオブラザーズ。ファイト！！Bowser's castle is almost there!
The alluring Wendy and the jovial villain Larry. The Koopalings have become even more powerful and are attacking Mario. The courses that awaits them are quite difficult, giving the Mario Brothers a bit of a hard time. Let's go!!
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | スーパーマリオブラザーズ４スーパーマリオワールド３[2] Sūpā Mario Burazāzu 4 Sūpā Mario Wārudo 3 |
Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 3 | |
| スーパーマリオワールド③[1] Sūpā Mario Wārudo 3 |
Super Mario World 3 |
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kazuki Motoyama (1991). Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World 3. KC Deluxe (Japanese). Page 148.
- ^ File:KC Mario - Super Mario World (volume 3 cover).jpg
