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| |image=[[File:Yukio Sawada Mario hat.png|250px]][[File:Yukio Sawada SMKun 50.png|250px]] | | |image=[[File:Yukio_Sawada_Mario_hat.png|250px]][[File:Yukio_Sawada_SMKun_50.png|250px]] |
| |born=March 12, 1953 (age {{age|March 12, 1953}}) | | |born=March 12, 1953 (age {{age|March 12, 1953}}) |
| |role=Author of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (manga)|Super Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2 (manga)|Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3 (manga)|Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'', ''[[Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!]]'', ''[[Super Mario-kun Gekijou - Yoshi's New Island]]'', ''[[Mario & Sonic at Tokyo 2020 Olympics]]'', ''[[Super Mario Manga Mania]]'' and ''[[Super Mario-kun Special Selection]]'' | | |role=Author of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'', ''[[Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!]]'', ''[[Super Mario Manga Mania]]'' and ''[[Super Mario-kun Gekijou - Yoshi's New Island]]'' |
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| '''Yukio Sawada''' (Japanese: 沢田 ユキオ; real name 沢田 幸男) (born March 12, 1953 in the {{wp|Osaka Prefecture}}, {{wp|Kansai region}}, [[Japan]]) is a manga artist famously known for being ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''<nowiki/>'s (and the other related manga) author. He appears in some panels of his manga as the narrator or even a character of the story, mostly in special chapters about his experience as the "Mario mangaka", in which he is usually called「作者」(''sakusha'', "the author"). | | '''Yukio Sawada''' (in Japanese: 沢田 ユキオ; real name 沢田 幸男) (born March 12, 1953 in the {{wp|Osaka Prefecture}}, {{wp|Kansai region}}, [[Japan]]), is a manga artist famously known for being ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''<nowiki/>'s (and the other related mangas) author. He appears in some panels of his mangas as the narrator or even a character of the story, mostly in some special chapters about his experience as the "Mario manganaka". |
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| After studying engineering at Doshisha University and graduating, Sawada started his career in manga with one-shot manga on ''{{wp|Weekly Shōnen Jump}}''. His first ''Super Mario'' manga is a [[Super Mario Bros. (manga)|''Super Mario Bros.'' one-shot]] in the February 1986 issue of a [[Shogakukan]] publication aimed at third-grade elementary students.<ref>[https://www.famitsu.com/news/201711/21145706.html Sawada interview in ''Famitsu'']</ref> This one-shot was republished in [[Super Mario-kun Volume 40|Volume 40]] of ''Super Mario-kun''. [[Nintendo]] then gave Wanpaku Comic the rights for a ''Super Mario'' manga serialization, with Sawada as the author and artist: ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2 (manga)|Super Mario Bros. 2]]''. This was based on ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' and ran monthly until 1988. In December 1988, Sawada started a new series called ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3 (manga)|Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' but it ran for only two issues as the publication shut down in January 1989. In 1990, Sawada moved to {{wp|CoroCoro Comics}} where he has worked on ''Super Mario-kun'' ever since.
| | Not much is known of him: he graduated from Doshisha University in engineering, he started his career in the manga world with one-shot mangas on {{wp|Weekly Shōnen Jump}}. [[Nintendo]] then gave Wanpaku Comic the chance of ''Mario'' manga serialization, with Yukio as the author and artist, however, after just two stories (based off ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'') the company shut down. In 1993, the ''Mario'' manga passed to {{wp|CoroCoro Comics}}, under the name ''Super Mario-kun'', written and drawn by the same artist: Yukio. |
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| Sawada is the father of two children and author of 59 ''Super Mario-kun'' volumes as well as three spin-offs based on the [[Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!|''Wario'' franchise]], ''[[Super Mario-kun Gekijou - Yoshi's New Island|Yoshi's New Island]]'' and ''[[Mario & Sonic at Tokyo 2020 Olympics|Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020]]''. He has also designed an [[SUPER MARIO KUN 25th Anniversary|Event Course]] in ''[[Super Mario Maker]]''.
| | Yukio is nowadays the father of two children, author of 57 ''Super Mario-kun'' volumes (plus two spin-offs based of the [[Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!|''Wario'' franchise]] and ''[[Super Mario-kun Gekijou - Yoshi's New Island|Yoshi's New Island]]'') and creator of one [[SUPER MARIO KUN 25th Anniversary|Event Course]] of ''[[Super Mario Maker]]''. |
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| ==Gallery==
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| SMKun 11 Yukio message.png|A message to the reader from Sawada in [[Super Mario-kun Volume 11|volume 11]]
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| JWHF Summer 2015 Sawada Special 4koma Manga 1.jpg|Scene of a special 4-koma manga by Sawada, to commemorating the opening of Jisedai World Hobby Fair in Summer 2015
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| JWHF Summer 2015 Sawada Special 4koma Manga 2.jpg|Scene of a special 4-koma manga by Sawada, to commemorating the opening of Jisedai World Hobby Fair in Summer 2015
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| JWHF Summer 2015 Sawada Special 4koma Manga 3.jpg|Scene of a special 4-koma manga by Sawada, to commemorating the opening of Jisedai World Hobby Fair in Summer 2015
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| JWHF Summer 2015 Sawada Special 4koma Manga 4.jpg|Scene of a special 4-koma manga by Sawada, to commemorating the opening of Jisedai World Hobby Fair in Summer 2015
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| Yukio Sawada Present SMO Art.jpg|[[Mario]] and [[Cappy]] drawn by Sawada, used for the present of a lottery activity initiated by {{wp|Famitsu}}
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| Yukio Sawada Present Drawing SMKun 58.jpg|Mario and [[Olivia]] drawn by Sawada, used for the present of a lottery activity commemorating the release of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' volume 58 initiated by {{wp|CoroCoro Comic|CoroCoro}}
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| Sawada 2023 Nengajo.jpg|A 2023 ''nengajō'' drawn by Sawada
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| Sawada Elephant Mario Artwork 1.jpg|[[Elephant Mario]] drawn by Sawada
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| Sawada Elephant Mario Artwork 2.jpg|Elephant Mario drawn by Sawada
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *When writing a story for ''Super Mario-kun'', Sawada usually plays the game on which the story is based and gets help from his children in difficult levels.<ref>''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' [[Super Mario-kun Volume 15|volume 15]]</ref> | | *When writing a story for ''Super Mario-kun'', Yukio usually plays the game the story is based of, and gets help from his children in difficult levels.<ref>''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' [[Super Mario-kun Volume 15|volume 15]]</ref> |
| *Sawada's favorite character is [[Yoshi]].<ref>Back cover of the ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' [[Super Mario-kun Volume 14|volume 14]]</ref> | | *Yukio's favorite character is [[Yoshi]].<ref>Back cover of the ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' [[Super Mario-kun Volume 14|volume 14]]</ref> |
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