Tosenbo
| Tosenbo | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Artwork from Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins (1992) | ||
| Latest appearance | Super Mario-kun ("Final battle!! Complete victory with the power of the partners!") (1994) | ||
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Tosenbo[1] are pufferfish-like enemies in Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins.
History[edit]
Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins[edit]
In Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins, Tosenbo are encountered the Space Zone's Star Course. They inflate and deflate at a regular interval, but they are barely visible when they are not inflated. Tosenbo can be defeated only from a Star or a fireball while they are inflated, because Tosenbo cannot be defeated while deflated at all.
According to the Shogakukan guide, they may be related to Unibo.[2] The Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten uses a vertically flipped picture of Tosenbo for its entry.
Super Mario Kodansha manga[edit]
Tosenbo appear in the Super Mario Kodansha manga, starting with chapter 4 of Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 2. While flying to Tatanga-sei, Mario uses the Poro's missiles to get past their defenses, in full Star Fox-style.
In Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 3, a Tosenbo can be seen as one of the several enemies that Mario and Luigi quickly pass by inside Wario's Castle.
Super Mario-kun[edit]
In Super Mario-kun, a Tosenbo appears in chapter 13 of volume 9, Mario sits on a deflated Tosenbo and gets prickled by its spikes. After Hippo and Yokkī neutralize it with the former's mucus and the latter's firebreath, Hippo ties it up and orders it to tell them where Tatanga is hiding.
The Tosenbo reappears in chapter 7 of volume 10, when Luigi brings all of the freed Mario Land's creatures to witness the final battle.
Profiles[edit]
Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]
| トーセンボ (JP) / Tosenbo (EN) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| アクア族 | Tribe | Aqua clan | |
| すぐにすねる | Disposition | Sulks easily | |
| ランド2 | Game appearances | Land 2 | |
| しぼんだときを狙え からだ全体にトゲを生やし、しぼんだり、ふくらんだりしている生物。踏みつけても倒せないので、しぼんでいる瞬間に急いで通り抜けよう。ファイアなら倒せるぞ。[3] |
Aim for the moment when it's squeezed. A creature whose entire body is covered with spines, which swell and contract. You can't knock it down by stepping on it, so hurry through it at the moment it is squeezed. Fire will defeat it. | ||
Gallery[edit]
Sprite from Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins
Super Mario Maze Picture Book 5: Adventure in the Land of Rainbows
Names in other languages[edit]
Unlike most mainline Super Mario titles, Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins did not receive officially localized enemy indexes at the time of its release on the Game Boy and not all enemies are listed in its instruction booklets. Consequentially, most available non-Japanese names come from localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | トーセンボ Tōsenbo |
Likely derived from「通せん坊」(tōsenbō, "blocking one's way") and「 |
[4][5] | |
| French | Diodon | Diodon, the genus for porcupinefish | [6] | |
| Italian | Pesce Palla | Pufferfish | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (first edition) | [7] |
| Tosenbo | - | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (second edition) | [8] | |
| Spanish | Tôsenbo | - | [9] |
References[edit]
- ^ Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp (English). Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived December 21, 2025, 19:32:03 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ 「[...] 「ウニボーの親戚（？）。」 (Unibo's relative(?).)」– 「任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオランド２ ６つの金貨」 (Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook – Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins). Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 13.
- ^ 1994. 「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten). Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 119.
- ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Takashi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Jinnai (APE), Jin Kobayashi, Ryuji Osawa, and Shigeo Tanabe, editors (1992). 『スーパーマリオランド2 - 6つの金貨任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-102413-0. Page 13.
- ^ Motoyama, Kazuki (6 July 1993). Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 1, Super Mario, vol. 18. Tokyo: Kodansha (Japanese). ISBN 4-06-319398-5. Page 6.
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 75.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 75.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2025). "Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia (2nd ed.). Translated by Alessandro Apreda. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 979-1259575760. Page 75.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (European Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 75.
