Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros.



The Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros. (アマダアニメシリーズ スーパーマリオブラザーズ) is a series of anime. It is a collection of three original video animations based on fairy tales, and was released only in Japan on August 3, 1989. The series used characters and other elements from the Mario series in place of characters and concepts from the original fairy tales.

The series contains: Super Mario Momotarō, Super Mario Issun-bōshi, and Super Mario Shirayuki-hime‎. The two former episodes in the series are retellings of fairy tales of the same name, while Super Mario Shirayuki-hime is a retelling of the Western fairy tale Snow White. When the titles are read aloud by the narrator, the possessive particle の no is spoken between "Super Mario" and the name of the specific story; translated, this would render the titles as "Super Mario's Momotarō", etc.

Voice cast

 * Toru Furuya as Mario
 * Miyako Endou as Princess Peach, Toad, Morton Koopa Jr., Wendy O. Koopa
 * Masaharu Satou as Bowser, Larry Koopa, Iggy Koopa
 * Naoki Tatsuta as Luigi, Papa, Roy Koopa, Lemmy Koopa, Ludwig von Koopa
 * Toshiko Sawada as Narrator

Episodes

 * ''Super Mario Momotarō
 * ''Super Mario Issun-bōshi
 * ''Super Mario Shirayuki-hime‎

Trivia

 * Princess Peach using a Mallet to make Mario grow to his normal size in "Issunboshi" might have inspired the "Mini-Mario" technique in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, which involves Luigi hitting Mario with a hammer to make him shrink/grow.
 * The idea of Mario befriending several characters originally designed as enemies may have influenced the Paper Mario series.
 * The concept of Mario attacking Bowser from inside the Koopa King's own stomach was later used in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, although the former case was with Prince Froggy.