[ENG] Super Mario Adventures

G9King · **Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:47 am

As the first download ever in our Database, I wanted something easy and simple to digest for being the first one.

I present to you

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Super Mario Adventures is an official Nintendo anthology of comics, drawn in a Japanese manga style, that ran in Nintendo Power magazine throughout 1992, featuring the characters from Nintendo's Mario series and based loosely on Super Mario World. Charlie Nozawa, the artist who created the comics, is known in Japan by the pen name Tamakichi Sakura. Kentaro Takekuma was responsible for the story, which follows Mario and Luigi as they attempt to rescue Princess Peach after she is abducted by Bowser with intent to marry her.

It marks the first time the Mario universe is developed into a livable place, as the comic was made before Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars or any other story- or exploration-heavy Mario game. It's notable for its use of the many gameplay devices in the Mario series as elements of everyday life. For example, Mario plays a psychologist and treats the social anxiety of a Boo (a ghost enemy in the videogame series that covers its face whenever the player is facing it).

It's funny, it's goofy, it's witty; it's for SMB fans. You may not understand some parts of it if you don't know much about this universe.

It also includes the Mario VS Wario special that came out some time later (it's the 13/13 chapter).

Super Mario Adventures

13 of 13 chapters.
Full color.
Western reading.
For all ages.