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Super Mario Manga Mania

Yukio Sawada

3.50 · Rating details · 52 ratings · 14 reviews

Experience the zany world of Super Mario through manga!

Features stories based on the hit Super Mario games!

From crazy to classic, Mario and his friends star in adventures that find them traveling through the many worlds of one of the biggest video game series ever!

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Paperback, 160 pages

Published December 8th 2020 by VIZ Media LLC

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Dec 30, 2020 Nathan Dehoff rated it liked it

The Super Mario-kun manga has run for a long time in Japan, but with no official English translation. I did come across fan translations of a few stories online. It retells the Mario games in a humorous fashion, often crude and full of corny gags, including ones where the characters mysteriously change shape or gain a prop for a panel to make a pun. This is a best-of collection, featuring individual comics rather than entire story arcs. Games featured include Paper Mario, Super Mario Sunshine, M ...more

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Oct 27, 2020 Rebecca rated it liked it

Shelves: humor, manga, upper-elementary

A curated selection of Mario comics by the man responsible for 52 volumes-worth of children's Super Mario manga, this is a solid offering for the chapter book set. Familiarity with the franchise is definitely recommended, since each story takes place in a different game, but the humor is perfect for the age group, with lots of butt-related jokes and at least one problem solved by someone peeing. There is a merited trigger warning for Sawada's chapter about dealing with the loss of his father, bu ...more

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Feb 02, 2021 Chance Hansen rated it liked it

Shelves: comic-style, video-game

The Games I'm most familiar with was Paper Mario, Super Mario Sunshine and Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros. Wii
The best words to explain this book would be Madness and Chaos. There's a lot to cover so lets get into it.

Cover
I like this cover. It's simple and minimal but it's what you would expect. A goofy looking Mario with charm popping out of a pipe. A nice touch having the back cover as an after moment where Mario is falling from the pipe and everyone else is climbing out.

Interior
Story
It humo The Games I'm most familiar with was Paper Mario, Super Mario Sunshine and Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros. Wii
The best words to explain this book would be Madness and Chaos. There's a lot to cover so lets get into it.

Cover
I like this cover. It's simple and minimal but it's what you would expect. A goofy looking Mario with charm popping out of a pipe. A nice touch having the back cover as an after moment where Mario is falling from the pipe and everyone else is climbing out.

Interior
Story
It humor focused so how is the humor? It can be Crude and at time somewhat cruel. but something that I have to give Yukio credit. The toilet humor is actually low in this collection.
It... It has some decent jokes and follows some of the elements to games while adding more that wasn't in the game. It's completely changes some of the battlefield tactics. Accents moment a lot more for story purposes. And it pretty nice addition. It has some odd jokes like mistaking crunch and break for lunch break. I'm sure not everything translates well.
Which that being said I do feel like some of the stories have been redacted for space. Some of it felt like a scene or two were missing.
I really like the Bonus episode. It was a nice touch and really emphasizes the impact depression can have on a person. The insanity here feels most controlled and makes the character feel most grounded and self aware. I can feel the writers heart in this story and it's well done.

Illustrations
When it come to this type of illustration. Over all it's not that bad and when he inserts himself into the outrage at times is pretty fun. I didn't expect Mario to get the snot beat out of himself so often in the illustrations. While some of the visual gags are alright is can get a little uncomfortable to a little disturbing from time to time.

After Thoughts
The biggest mishap this book has is that it's like it's boiled down to the best/favorite moments. The biggest issue I find with that is that whatever overarching story impact is completely gone no matter how loose. It's like being introduced to a show by watching with a flash back and plot heavy episode. I don't have that association to Manga Sushi, Kooper, or more importantly Mario. Especially since Mario's demeanor is different from Sunshine to Mario Bros. Wii, to Paper Mario.

By far I would much rather have the entire collection translated into English than segments wanting to tell me the best parts. Granted that would be a heavy undertaking but I would get the series then.

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Dec 08, 2020 Ridge Briel rated it it was amazing

Shelves: the-library-of-ridge-and-michelle

Gag manga is something I haven’t read all that much of. I’ve only had a passing exposure to it, but this one caught my eye and I ended up learning a lot! After reading Bakuman, I knew of what gag manga was, but I knew that my exposure wasn’t all that in depth with any of the ‘classics’ of the genre. For those who don’t know, Bakuman is a manga about two ninth graders who make manga together. This is from the same creative team behind Death Note, so yeah, it was a bestselling series in Japan. And ...more

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Dec 16, 2020 Chelsea Gouin rated it liked it

Shelves: manga, video-games

Ehhh. This was a collection of manga adaptations of random levels of random Mario games. Not a cohesive story at all... but still rather cute. I do think that some of the pages were too crammed with pictures, dialogue and narration that it got too clustered and overwhelming.

Innocent enough for kids, but it would have been better if it was similar to the Zelda manga that tells the story of the games opposed to the random chapters with no cohesive narrative.

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Jan 18, 2021 Drew rated it did not like it

Small children might like this, but that's about it. It's all very shallow and immature, full of "jokes" that only a child who's just learned about jokes might be able to enjoy.

The art isn't very good either. There's hardly ever any backgrounds, so everything seems to take place in a featureless void. The pages are crammed full of close-ups of characters' heads and huge word balloons and it's honestly difficult to focus on anything. ...more

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Jan 13, 2021 Danielle Booey rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy, juvenile, manga, gave-up-on

I full on admit to only getting through half of this Super Mario manga. I'm still adding it to my Goodreads log because I know that kids who are fans of Mario, video games, and sheer absurdity in their books are going to really enjoy this.

It is just a little too zany for me and that is ok. ...more

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Jan 18, 2021 Christy rated it it was amazing

I'm a big Nintendo nerd, so this was right up my alley! I used to read a lot more mangas, but it has been some time since I dived into anything new.

I loved all the little spin-off stories that revolved around Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Sunshine, and several other Mario spin-offs. I have a soft spot for anything and everything Super Mario Sunshine - for me that was a hidden gem of a game that I have had such a blast playing. It was awesome that the author included several mini stories in thi ...more

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