Super Mario Land 2 (manga)

Super Mario Land 2 is the second volume of Kodansha's Super Mario manga published under the KC Deluxe label. The volume is meant to be a direct follow-up of the events of the previous issue, but has nothing to do with Super Mario Land or its sequel, which was not even developed at the time. Also, while the previous volumes used their stories to illustrate some tricks and secrets, this volume's story creates a new plot all together, with little to no focus on tricks, secrets, and strategies.

The game covered in the issue is the Game Boy version of Tetris.

Tetris strategy
テトリステクニック (Tetris complete strategy collection)

Chapter 1
その1 - テトリスの (Walkthrough 1 - The treasure of Tetris (first part))

Mario and Princess Peach are having an outing on a riverbank, pitying Luigi for choosing to not join them. A torn piece of paper is brought by the water stream and, picking it up, Mario and Peach discover it to be a flier with jumbled words and a temple depicted on top: Peach recognize the structure to be the temple of the Tetris Kingdom, an ancient and legendary civilization whose ruins are located just up the river and who are rumored to have hidden a great treasure. The two decide to search for the treasure and head to the ruins riding the Monster, unaware of being followed by a Lakitu, a Hammer Bro and a Goomba on the former's cloud. While searching in the Tetriminos filled wasteland, Mario jokes about the possibility of a monster appearing in such a scary place. Right on cue, a dinosaur appears and picks up and hugs Peach. Peach screams for help and Mario fakes being dead. Upset, the princess starts yelling at him that the dinosaur is not a bear and, while waving her arms, ends up slapping the dino, who whimpers in fear behind his eggshells, where is written on that he was just born. Peach comes to the realization that the dino mistook her for his mother, and hugs him back, naming him Goro-chan, while Mario, faking bravery, claims the dinosaur had no chance against him, flinching when he growls at him. While riding Goro-chan, the two find the temple depicted on the piece of paper. Right then, the Lakitu, the Goomba and the Hammer Bro jump down the cloud and run to it, chased by Mario, Peach and Goro.

Inside the structure they are met with a giant waterfall from which Tetriminos fall down and a tribal man who calls himself as the guardian of the entrance to the Tetris Kingdom, the chieftain German. He also claims that they are not the first intruder of the day, pointing to someone sleeping at the bottom of the waterfall basin, who was overwhelmed by their first challenge: Luigi in an explorer outfit. While distracted by this, the three enemies get in front of the waterfall and use the Tetriminos to create a stair to the top, where they think the treasure is at. As soon as they reach the top, a stone head devours the three. German asks Mario and Peach to come forward and, while they study how should they beat the challenge without ending up like Luigi or the enemy trio, Goro-chan grabs Luigi's backpack, in which they find another ripped piece of paper containing numbers. Nothing comes to mind to what the numbers might mean, so the three decide to play smart. The falling Tetriminos (which are revealed to be dropped by the Tetris Tribe from over the waterfall) are wisely placed in order to occupy as less space as possible, when a line of blocks is formed, this one disappears. Mario then comes to the realization that the two piece of papers are part of the same paper: the jumbled words must be reassembled using the numbers as reference. With the message decoded, Mario understands that they need to clear 100 Tetrimino blocks to pass the test.

German is informed that they discover how to win and orders his men to drop more Tetiminos at a faster rate, but Mario and the other manage to keep up. Worried, German decides to play dirty and drops a boulder on Peach, but she is saved by Goro-chan, who jumps on the rock falling into the basin. Without Goro, Mario and Peach start to make some mistakes, and Mario almost ruins it by placing a flimsy J-Tetrimino. Peach goes under it to hold it, but the game registers her as a Tetrimino and start to turn her into stone. Before getting paralyzed, Peach lends to Mario her ribbon-belt, then turns into a T-Tetrimino. Mario is distraught, but seeing more Tetrimino being dropped, rises back to finish the match. Using Peach's ribbon as a lasso, he manages to push back some Tetrimino while he puts others into place. German is shocked by his play and Mario lassos his wrist and pulls him down from his platform and straight into a vertical gap in his Tetrimino structure, using him as I-Tetrimino, filling multiple rows and clearing the last required blocks. The waterfall stops, the water basin drains, and Peach, Goro-chan and Luigi are back into the game. Behind the drained waterfall, a passage is revealed: the treasure of the Tetris tribe awaits!

Chapter 2
その2 - テトリスの (Walkthrough 2 - The treasure of Tetris (second part))

Chapter 3
その3 - テトリスの (Walkthrough 3 - The Tetris King strikes again (first part))

Chapter 4
その4 - テトリスの (Walkthrough 4 - The Tetris King strikes again (second part))

Extras

 * よみきり★まんが★マリオくん (Mario-kun's one-shot ★manga★): Mario and Luigi offer to Peach their greatest priced possession: leftovers from a month ago.
 * 大霊界(だいれいかい) (Great spiritual world): Mario, Luigi, and Peach, during a hiking trip, find themselves on a collapsing rope bridge, and they respectively call the name of Jesus, Buddah and Kami-sama. The three deities appear, but start fighting for who is going to save them. Meanwhile, the three hikers have already passed away.
 * ハンド・パワー (Hand power): Mario, Luigi, Peach and Daisy are playing with the former as the dealer. Luigi and the princesses all bets on two different numbers each. When Toad (as the commentator) question Mario how is he not going to disappoint any of his friend with this match, Mario shakes the cup and roll a paper dice, which unfolds and lands on all six of the numbers. Everybody is a winner.
 * あなたは、だれのタイプ?テトリス☆い (Which character are you? Tetris ☆ Divination maze): readers have to complete a maze with multiple exits, depending on the exit, they will be associated with a character and personality:
 * Mario: a guy with a strong sense of justice, bright and athletic.
 * Peach: a cute guy, the kind everyone falls for it.
 * King Tetris: a very bad guy and a dummy.
 * Luigi: a very important guy, but also the weak link.
 * Goomba: weak and prone to betrayal.