Super Mario-kun Volume 5

Super Mario-kun Volume 5 is the fifth volume of the manga series. It continues the Super Mario World story arc, whose main storyline ended in the previous volume, but some chapters contain elements from Yoshi, Mario Paint, and Super Mario Bros. 3. In this part, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi encounter many of the Super Mario World enemies that did not appear in the previous volumes (including the boss Lemmy). In the last chapter, the trio properly explores the Star World.

As hinted by the fact that Bowser still has Peach in hostage and his castle is still standing, these chapters (and the first half of the next volume's, plus the Super Mario Bros. 2 arc in Volume 8) are set before Volume 4, explaining why the pre-established ending isn't acknowledged.

This is the first volume without any 4-komas.

Stage One
モンスターテレサ出現！！　恐怖の館を脱出せよ！！ (Monster Boos Appear!! Escape the Museum of Terror!!)

While Mario, Luigi and Yoshi are having a stroll, a storm arrives and, while eating a Spike Top, Yoshi is struck by lightning thanks to the Spike Top's spike, acting like a lightning rod, and the three take shelter in a Ghost House. Inside, Yoshi gets immediately almost eaten by an Eerie. After saving him, the trio is approached by a circle of five Boo Buddies. Yoshi is not scared, since Boos are known for their sight fear, but the Boo Buddies are braver than their solitary cousins. The Boo leader proclaims that his band is the strongest and most powerful band of Boos that ever exists, and to show this, the Boo transforms into different things, a Boo Block and into a cat.

Mario tries to trick him and asks him to turn into a triangle, and the Boo does that, then Mario asks him to turn into a poo, and the Boo does that, realizing too late to have been made fun of. The Boo leader orders his gang to make them pay, and the four Boos become Boo version of horror characters (Frankenstein's Monster,, a zombie and a mummy). Mario tries to attack them with a fireball, but it gets scared by the Monster Boos' faces, going back into Mario's hand, burning Mario and his friends.

The Frankenstein Boo then grabs Mario and the Jason Boo tries to chop him with a cleaver, but misses Mario and accidentally impale the other Boo's head. Mario escapes their grip and, with Luigi and Yoshi, runs from the Boos. The trio comes across a faceless Boo, but Mario doodles a funny face on him, then the Mummy Boo blocks their path, but Mario pulls his bandages, making him spin like a dreidel. When the rest of the Boo Buddies arrive, another pale and round being arrives, but, much to Mario's relief, it's Kirby, who inhales all the Boos, then, realizing he just ate ghosts, runs away in fear.

About to leave the Ghost House, the trio is attacked by the Zombie Boo, who escaped Kirby's inhalation. The Boo possess the Ghost House's floor tiles and tries to squash Mario. Yoshi lays an egg with a lightning bolt inside, thanks to the Spike Top of the beginning. On Luigi's suggestion, Mario strikes the bolt with a fireball, making it explode, making the Ghost House and the Boo possessing it blow up.

Stage Two
スターヨッシー誕生！！　異常気象を吹き飛ばせ！！ (Star Yoshi's Birth!! Brush off all the Strange Weather!!)

Yoshi, Mario and Luigi are having fun with Yoshi's Eggs. In one of them, the three find a TV. On the screen, a Koopa Troopa is doing the weather forecast: apparently, today Goombas, Boos, Piranha Plants and Bloopers will rain from the sky. The trio laughs at this, but soon the four aforementioned species start to actually rain. Luigi tries to defeat the falling Goombas, but he's not successful and gets pounded.

Yoshi, reading the Yoshi 's game manual, gives Mario three plates on which to place the enemies, but Mario can't hold up the weight of all of them and falls to the ground, squashed by them. With only Yoshi left, he starts to eat the Goombas, the Piranha Plants and the Bloopers, but the Boos pound him in Block form, then, helped by the other enemies, they trap Yoshi in two egg's shells. Mario tries to do something, but the egg comes to life and, in Pac-Man style, eats all the enemies and becomes big.

Looking at the sky, the Mario Bros. notice Lakitu, the responsible for the enemy rain, laughing at Yoshi's death, but the egg cracks and a giant Star Yoshi comes out from it. Star Yoshi eats Lakitu along with his Cloud. The battle is won, but Lakitu gets the last laugh: from inside Yoshi's belly, he creates a lightning bolt that shrinks him into Baby form.

Stage Three
クッパの大運動会！！　ゴール目ざして一直線！！ (Bowser's Athletes!! Aim for the Finish Line!!)

Bowser has organized a sports day, having as a prize a tour of the island with Princess Peach. With the chance of rescuing Peach without the need to reach Bowser's Castle, the three heroes meet Bowser at the starting line, situated at Yoshi's Island's plains, and he explains the rule: the participants will have to pass through a series of different challenges to reach the top of Kappa Mountain. The three heroes position themselves on the starting line and, at the explosion of a Bob-omb, they begin the challenge.

The three reach the first challenge: trow rocks at a piñata until it breaks. With the power of the Hammer Suit, Mario opens it, but it's revealed to be a Piranha Plant that chomps Luigi, obligating him to be left behind. The second challenge is rhythmic gymnastic, where three Koopa Troopa judge the participants that will face against Wendy O. Koopa. Wendy is the first to go and, even if she trips multiple times, the judges give her a perfect score. Mario then makes a ribbon exhibition, using a vine with which he ties the judge and tighten up the grip until they give him a better score.

The third challenge is a swim in a river full of Porcupuffers, but using Yoshi as a boat, Mario crosses it, but Yoshi falls on the ground, tired out. On his way to the fourth challenge, Mario takes an energy drink from a Koopa Troopa and, much to his surprise and Bowser's anger, Mario got a Super Star drink that makes him invincible and reach the ending in a matter of minutes. Mario celebrates, but Bowser reveals a final challenge and a Banzai Bill emerges from the ground and Mario finds himself on his back, straight for a rocky cliff. While flying to his doom, Mario grabs a bunch of Fire Flowers from a ? Block and hits the cliff, making it melt into mud and the Banzai Bill gets stuck in it.

Mario returns to the ground, where he is reached by Luigi and Yoshi, and demands his price: Bowser then reveals that the sign never said the tour was with the real Peach, so he dresses up as her and runs towards Mario.

Stage Four
ガチガチガマン大会！！　愛の力で氷をとかせ！！ (Teeth Chattering Tournament!! Dissolve the Ice with the Power of Love!)

While ice skating through Donut Secret 2 with his friends, Mario slams on an Ice Block, breaking it and releasing a Ptooie, which remained frozen since the Super Mario Bros. 3 's events. Mario tries to burn it, but slips and gets his friends. The Ptooie blows its Spike Ball to Mario, Yoshi tries to eat the ball but gets stung by the spikes.

The Ptooie then blows on Mario, making him slips on ice, in ice baths, towards ice sandwiches, snow-shooters and cooling fans, ending up in freezing him. Yoshi and Luigi, that sat to a for all this time, decides to unfreeze him by making him thought of Peach. Yoshi dresses like her, but Luigi uses a more efficient photo. Thaw, Mario returns to the attack, not before tying two Spike Top at his feet, like anti-slip crampon.

Mario fries the Ptooie, defeating it, then notices a sign indicating a shortcut to Bowser's Castle and takes it, followed by his friends. On their way, none of them notices Bowser fishing behind an Ice Block.

Stage Five
最強門番登場！！　すもうとドッジの大勝負！！ (Strongest Guard Appeared!! A big game of Sumo!!)

The trio reached Bowser's Castle and find a Back Door, however, Bowser's minions quickly destroys it before Mario can access from it. Mario and his friends have no other choice but to pass through the Front Door, but from the door, two giant hands appear and shove the heroes back. The three are confused by such original enemies: who are they? The hand reveal they are the Torpedo Bases' detached hands.

After making a face appear on their palm, the two hands challenge Mario into a simple and fair Sumo fight, however, the two hands uses all their finger tricks and pranks to beat Mario: slaps, thumb fights, and so on. Mario asks Luigi to pass him something. Luigi pulls out everything they have (coins, a Trampoline, a key and a P-Balloon), but Yoshi eats all of it and becomes a volleyball.

The two hands laugh at Yoshi, but Mario grabs him and launches him at them. Not prepared, the two hands receive the ball badly, ending up breaking their fingers. Happy, the Mario Bros. roll Yoshi towards the entrance, but he rolls on a pointy rock and flies away from the castle deflating, with Mario and Luigi still holding on him, much to Bowser's relief.

Stage Six
未来からの挑戦！？　恐怖の暗殺者カロン登場！！ (Challenger from the Future!? Dry Bones, the Assassin of Terror Appears!!)

In the future, Bowser has lost his title of King of the Koopas and is now a maid for a bratty, young princess (presumably Princess Peach's daughter) who gives him orders incessantly and who also bullies him. On his way to shop for the princess, Bowser arrives to the realization that his downfall begun the day he was defeated by Mario in Dinosaur Land. On the way, he meets Carmenator the famous and strongest bounty hunter that ever existed, who offers his services to help Bowser by go back in the past, kill Mario and let Bowser reign supreme. Bowser accepts and hires him, so the Carmenator dives in a Time Pipe to Super Mario World era.

The Carmenator appears in front of Mario, Luigi and Yoshi, which are trying to return to Bowser's Castle, but gets ignored. Angry, the Carmentor shoots them with something under the cape. Now he's got their attention and present himself, removing his cape and hat, revealing to be a simple looking Dry Bones. Yoshi tries to eat him, but the Dry Bones is faster. Just then, Mario notices he is unarmed: how did he shoot them, before? Just then, Carmentor reveals he has magic shapeshifting bones, turning his arm into a wind flag and beating Mario with it.

Mario smash it and breaks it down, but Carmentor recomposes himself, but Yoshi grabs it, tosses him into a mortar and smashes him into powder. However, not even this stops Carmentor from recomposing himself (even if he loses a chip of his forehead, since Yoshi ate it). Furious, Carmentor hits Yoshi after shaping his arm into a hammer, giving him a giant bump. Then, Carmentor transforms his arm into a scythe and attempts to cut Mario's head off, but he manages to dodge the swing, and only Yoshi's bump gets cut off.

The trio tries to escape running, but Carmentor becomes a flying car and chases them. Mario gets almost impaled by an arm-fork, but his cape gets caught between the fork and a rock. Carmentor prepares to strike with his other arm-fork. Luigi and Yoshi try to stop him, but are smashed by Carmentor's enlarged foot. Carmentor lunges at Mario, but suddenly, Mario finds himself wearing a Super Shell that breaks Carmentor arms into pieces. Mario hears a voice: it's the old Princess Peach from the future that discovered Bowser's plans and send to the past the only thing that can destroy Dry Bones' magic bones for good, a Super Shell. Mario defeats Carmentor and his friends ask him where he got that Shell.

Meanwhile, in the future, Bowser gets inundated with even more orders and punishments by the young, bratty princess.

Stage Seven
クッパ城突入！！　地獄の部屋で大ジャンプ！？ (Bowser's Castle Rush!! A Big Jump in the Room of Hell!?)

Bowser's Castle has been reached, and the heroes are ready for everything, armed with everything, even a Super Mario World guidebook. But they discover that the Castle has just been renewed by Metto Oyakata so, neither their knowledge from the previous experience, nor the guidebook information will help them, this time. Avoiding the moving walls and the different Skewers, the heroes run into an elevator that takes them into the "very scary floor of plants of hell", but they only find a lot of toilets.

Yoshi sits on one of them, but a chomping vine sprouts from under him, and many others come out from the other toilets, wrapping around Mario and Luigi too. Bowser, through a megaphone, mocks the hero and then orders a powered-up Jumping Piranha Plant to finish them. The Piranha uses a new set of chained up and detachable teeth to torture them, but Mario reaches for some Fire Flowers in his pocket, becomes Hinotama Mario and burns the vines, freeing him and his friends.

The Piranha Plant launches his teeth at them, but Mario blocks them using Yoshi, then destroys the chain with a cape twirl. Angry, the Piranha spits Munchers and Nipper Plants and them, then calls Pokey to its aid, but Yoshi spits a Trampoline at Mario that transforms into Jumping Mario. Bouncing all over the room, Mario defeats every plant, saving his friends, but now who's going to stop him from bouncing everywhere?

Stage Eight
地下道攻防戦！！　チョロプー農場を突破せよ！！ (Underground Battle!! Break Through the Monty Mole Farm!!)

Escaping from every trap of Bowser's Castle, Mario, Luigi and Yoshi get captured by a claw from Bowser. The three are tossed in a Warp Pipe that leads them to an underground. While looking for an exit, they come across a field full of striped mushrooms. Mario eats one to become stronger and find an exit faster, but becomes an anthropomorphic version of the mushroom. A large group of Monty Moles comes and inform Mario that he ate a Poison Mushroom. Mario yells at them why they cultivate such thing, they respond that they're for Mario and only when Mario points it out, they recognize him.

Mario tries to attack them, but due to his new chubby body and stubby legs, he continuously trips. Yoshi tries to eat the Moles, but one of them makes him eat a laughing mushroom. Luigi tries to save the situation, but the Moles prevail and beat him too. While the Monty Moles prepare to feed the heroes to the livestock, but Luigi kicks Mario like a bowling ball and hits the Moles.

Furious, the Monty Moles calls a pack of Swoopers and fuse with them, then sucks Mario's blood and ability, including the Mushroom form, returning him to normality. The Moles sic the livestock, a Butamet and Ushimet. Mario gets hit, but he sees a Rotating Block and hits it. Only a coin comes out from it, Mario is upset, but notices that the Monty Moles are sensitive to the blinking light of the coin (and they got more sensitive by fusing with a species of bats).

Mario orders Yoshi to give him the coins they have and cover himself with them, becoming Coin Mario, making the Monty Moles blind from the light reflected. Defeated, the Moles surrender and, after Mario asks them, they point out the exit. However, on the other side of the pipe indicated, the heroes falls in the lava, in Bowser's Castle moth.

Stage Nine
またもやカメック！！　ねん土魔術(マジック)で大活躍！？ (Kamek Again!! The Magic Clay's Great Performance!?)

Stage Ten
ハエヨッシー誕生！！　コクッパレミーは芸術家！？ (Fly Yoshi's Birth!! Koopaling Lemmy, the Artist!?)

Stage Eleven
墓石と決闘！？　うらみの岩を成仏させろ！！ (A Gravestone and a Duel!? Let the Rock of Grudge Enter Nirvana!!)

Stage Twelve
絶対絶命の危機(ピンチ)！！　スターロード大決戦！！ (Desperate Situation of Crisis!! Star Road Decisive Battle)

Part 1
PART1 突入！！ スターロード (PART1 Rush!! Star Road)

Part 2
PART2 激闘！！ スターロード (PART2 Fierce Battle!! Star Road)

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


 * 1) ヨッシー軍団食いしんぽう迷路 (Yoshi's Messy Gluttony Maze): Proceeding while eating one enemy character in the order shown here [Bob-omb ⮕ Goomba ⮕ Spike Top]. Let's take the Baby Yoshis to Yoshi's house.
 * 2) ヨッシーのたまご迷路 (Yoshi's Egg Maze): Three enemies are trapped in Yoshi's egg. Which enemy character can go outside?
 * 3) マリオパンチ迷路 (Mario Punch Maze): From the start to the goal, find the path and beat Bowser.
 * 4) ヨッシー救出迷路 (Yoshi Rescue Maze): Help Yoshi, who was taken by the Monty Moles. Let's move up, down, and sideways.
 * 5) ヨッシーのたまごパズル (Yoshi's Egg Puzzle): Yoshi's eggs broke. Match the upper and lower eggs' shells. There are five in total.
 * 6) うしろ姿クイズ (Back quiz): There are various figures behind Mario and Bowser. What number is correct for each?

Trivia

 * In chapter six, the old Bowser is driving a Koopa Clown Car with wheels. In Mario Kart 7, an identical kart appears.