Super Mario-kun Volume 8

Super Mario-kun Volume 8 is the eighth volume of the manga series. It contains a one-shot Super Mario Bros. 2 story arc (which takes places after the sixth chapter of volume 6) and the second part of the Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins story arc, in which Mario, Carrot, and Yoshiki enter the Pumpkin Zone and Casino.

The last two chapters are anticipations of the next two story arcs: Mario & Wario and Yoshi's Safari.

Just like in the last three volumes, this volume contains no 4-komas.

Stage One
マムーからの招待状!! サブコン世界突入!! (Wart's invitation!! Entering the Subcon Kingdom!!)

After having dealt with Mouser and the Phanto (from volume 6 chapter 6), Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and the new party member Birdo take a break in Bowser's Castle. Mario falls asleep and has a nightmare in which he is by his friends turned into monsters, before getting eaten by a big worm. Mario wakes up into Birdo's snout and his screams wake his friends up, which reveals to not have had nightmares too. Birdo recognizes this as the work of one of her boss' minions: Pidgit. In fact, a Pidgit appears, holding a message from the King of Nightmares himself, Wart: he has invited Mario and his friends to Subcon, but Mario refuses, not having the time to, and kicks Pidgit down from his Flying Carpet. Angry, Pidgit orders the carpet to kidnap them and creates a portal to Subcon, disappearing with the heroes. Bowser is informed of the disappearance of Mario and his gang and laughs, but Princess Peach starts crying and whining, trowing everything at Bowser and his minions.

Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Birdo are (quite literally) dropped on a Subcon hill. Behind the hill, the giant head of Wart appears, challenging them to defeat the rest of his troop, save the Subcons and get out of there alive. Mario accepts, tossing Yoshi towards Wart, which is revealed to be a cardboard cutout. Pidgit disappears and an army of Snifits arrives. The Snifits attacks them and Birdo suggest Mario to use the Subcon vegetables as weapons to defeat Wart's army. Mario and Luigi try to find any vegetable in the ground, but the Snifits reveal that Wart got rid of those by making his minions uproot them before their arrival. Mario then uses another plan to get rid of the enemies and, wearing his chef clothes, tosses some Yoshi Cookie to create a Blind formation to create a wall and distance themselves from the Snifits.

Continuing on their path, Mario is attacked by a blood-sucking Tweeter which sucks so much from Mario, that all is left of him is his doctor persona. Luigi notices the Snifits coming, having got rid of the wall, but Dr. Mario localize a Red Shell inside a rock with his stethoscope. Mario grabs the shell, attaches two rocket pills to it and, riding it with his friends, runs over and defeats the Snifits. The Red Shell then crash into a wall and, while everyone recovers, Mario turns back into his normal persona.

Stage Two
ピラミッドのわな!! ガプチョは路上戦士!? (Pyramid trap!! Tryclyde is a street warrior!?)

Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Birdo are traversing the Subcon desert. While the Mario Bros. are dying from the heat and thirst, Yoshi and Birdo are enjoying themselves some Pokeys to suck and eat. Luigi notices a vending machine and runs towards it, only to find himself sinking in quicksands. Yoshi decides to "do something" and plants a warning sign near the quicksands and, by the time Mario has yelled at him for being useless, Luigi has already sunk to his demise. Birdo look closely to the vending machine and destroys it, revealing a Cobrat inside. The Cobrat launches at them, but Yoshi eats him.

More Cobrats appears around them, popping from the nearby Jars. Mario asks Yoshi to eat them all, but he's full from all the Pokeys (plus the fact that he doesn't like the Cobrat's taste), so Birdo tries to defeat them with her eggs, but the snakes eat them. Two Cobrats bites and paralyze Birdo and Yoshi, while a third one whips Mario that falls into a jar, in which he finds a POW Block that he uses to defeat the Cobrats.

Yoshi, recovered from the paralysis, notices a pyramid and the three head to it, but Birdo trips and sinks in quicksands as well. Inside the pyramid, Mario and Yoshi sits on some blocks, but the Shy Guys underneath rise the blocks and toss the two heroes inside a Mask Gate, leading them into Triclyde's lair. Mario and Yoshi faces Triclyde, a three-headed Cobrat with the central head being big and mean, one smart and one dumb. The smart head starts to bicker with the dumb one, so the mean head bites them, hurting himself (since he has the pain receptors in his part of the body).

Mario and Yoshi try to take advantage of this bickering and flee, but the heads burn them with fire-breath, then the dumb head grabs Yoshi, but he manages to trick the head and go away. Mario and Yoshi are then hit by a serpentine, but just then, Luigi, wearing a Frog Suit, emerges from the ground: he survived and has found a Magical Potion. The dumb head grabs the potion, but Yoshi tricks him again and the potion falls on Mario's head. Mario's Life Gauge gets refilled and, with a new-found power, Mario overpowers Triclyde tossing Mushroom Blocks at him and kills him. Birdo too emerges from the ground and gets scared seeing Triclyde lifeless body fell on her.

Stage Three
キャシー死す!? ヨッシー怒りの猛攻撃!! (Birdo dies!? Yoshi's angry onslaught!!)

Stage Four
強敵チョッキー出現!! ポリゴンST勝負!! (Strong enemy Clawgrip appears!! Polygon ST game!!)

Stage Five
決戦マムー城!! スロットマシーンで運だめし!? (Battle at Wart's Castle!! No luck with slot machines!?)

Stage Six
マムー脱皮!! 最強パワーVS特製アイテム!! (Wart's molting!! Powerful abilities VS special items!!)

Stage Seven
大逆転!! 友情?パワーでマムーをたおせ!! (Great turnaround!! Friendship? Let's beat Mamu with power!!)

Stage Eight
おばけがいっぱい!? パンプキンゾーン突入!! (A lot of ghosts!? Entering the Pumpkin Zone!!)

Stage Nine
マリオはブタ肉!? サバーサのお料理教室!! (Mario is a pig!? Witch's cooking class!!)

Stage Ten
一攫千金!! スロット勝負は男のロマン!? (A lot of money!! The slot machine is men's best friend!?)

Stage Eleven
ここはどこ!? メロメロめ~ろコースを突破せよ!! (Where are we!? Break through the mellow course!!)

Stage Twelve
百発百中!? 突撃バズーカヨッシーくん!! (Hundreds of hundreds!? Assault Bazooka Yoshi!!)

Puzzles
マリオスーパー迷路・パズル (Mario Super Maze: Puzzle)


 * 1) 観覧車クイズ (Ferris Wheel quiz): Using the three photos below as hints to find out who was on the boxes 1-4.
 * 2) マリオカートクイズ (Mario Kart quiz): Everyone is on their karts. Look for the difference between the picture above and the picture below. There are eight differences in all.
 * 3) ティーカップクイズ (Teacups quiz): Who is riding the same teacup as Mario? (It doesn't matter in which direction it is facing)
 * 4) おばけやしき迷路 (Hunted maze): Climb the stairs to the goal so as not to meet any Boos.
 * 5) 島わたり迷路 (Island maze): Using the bridge, reach for the island where the Baby Yoshies are.
 * 6) 恐竜ランド (Dinosaur Land quiz maze): Let's go through the maze while answering the quiz on the way. If you go to the right direction, you can reach the goal.

スーパーマリオカード (Super Mario Card)