Super Mario-kun!
If you didn’t know about the Super Mario manga before today, you may be surprised to know of its existence. It’s exactly what it sounds like; Mario in a classic Japanese comic form. It was first published thirty years ago in 1990 and it’s still going. The latest issue came out in October. Up until now, that series was released exclusively in Japanese, but last week, it was made available for the first time in English. Honestly though, it looks like no Mario I have ever seen. Bob Hoskins looked more like Mario than this.
The Super Mario manga was written and illustrated by Yukio Sawada. While there are over fifty issues of the series, the English collection is not the entire series. The Super Mario Manga Mania is a select few, handpicked by Sawada for Western localization. It is unlikely that the whole series will be localized in the future, but fans can hope. They can also learn Japanese and read it in its original format, but that’s a bit much. The series
Nintendo s Super Mario Manga Arrives In North America
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Super Mario has easily become one of the most popular video game characters to ever arrive onto consoles, thanks in part to the company of Nintendo creating a steady stream of games for the Italian plumber to the helm, and it seems as if fans of the Mushroom Kingdom resident will have a brand new way to explore his adventures with a long-running manga series hitting North American shores! The manga of
Super Mario-Kun actually has over fifty volumes to its name and this latest installment hitting the West has a number of these stories for Nintendo fans to devour.