Yukio Sawada

Yukio Sawada (in Japanese: 沢田 ユキオ; real name 沢田 幸男) (born March 12, 1953 in the, , Japan), is a manga artist famously known for being Super Mario-kun '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 special chapters about his experience as the "Mario manganaka", in which he is usually called "The Author" (作者).

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. Nintendo then gave Wanpaku Comic the chance of Mario manga serialization, with Sawada as the author and artist, however, after just two stories (based on Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and Super Mario Bros. 3) the company shut down. In 1993, the Mario manga passed to, under the name Super Mario-kun, written and drawn by the same artist: Sawada.

Sawada is nowadays the father of two children, author of 57 Super Mario-kun volumes (plus two spin-offs based of the Wario franchise and Yoshi's New Island) and creator of one Event Course of Super Mario Maker.

Trivia

 * When writing a story for Super Mario-kun, Sawada usually plays the game the story is based on, and gets help from his children in difficult levels.
 * Sawada's favorite character is Yoshi.