Editing Yukio Sawada

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|image=[[File:Yukio Sawada Mario hat.png|250px]][[File:Yukio Sawada SMKun 50.png|250px]]
|born=March 12, 1953 (age {{age|March 12, 1953}})
|role=Author of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (manga)|Super Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2 (manga)|Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3 (manga)|Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'', ''[[Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!]]'', ''[[Super Mario-kun Gekijō - Yoshi New Island]]'', ''[[Mario & Sonic at Tokyo 2020 Olympics]]'', ''[[Super Mario Manga Mania]]'', ''[[Super Mario-kun Special Selection]]'' and ''[[Super Mario-kun Kessaku-sen! Henshin Mario dai shūketsu SP!!]]''
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'''Yukio Sawada''' (Japanese: 沢田 ユキオ; real name 沢田 幸男) (born March 12, 1953 in the {{wp|Osaka Prefecture}}, {{wp|Kansai region}}, [[Japan]]) is a manga artist famously known for being ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''<nowiki/>'s (and the other related manga) author. He appears in some panels of his manga as the narrator or even a character of the story, mostly in special chapters about his experience as the "Mario mangaka", in which he is usually called「作者」(''sakusha'', "the author").

After studying engineering at Doshisha University and graduating, Sawada started his career in manga with one-shot manga on ''{{wp|Weekly Shōnen Jump}}''. His first ''Super Mario'' manga is a [[Super Mario Bros. (manga)|''Super Mario Bros.'' one-shot]] in the February 1986 issue of a [[Shogakukan]] publication aimed at third-grade elementary students.<ref>[https://www.famitsu.com/news/201711/21145706.html Sawada interview in ''Famitsu'']</ref> This one-shot was republished in [[Super Mario-kun Volume 40|Volume 40]] of ''Super Mario-kun''. [[Nintendo]] then gave Wanpaku Comic the rights for a ''Super Mario'' manga serialization, with Sawada as the author and artist: ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2 (manga)|Super Mario Bros. 2]]''. This was based on ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' and ran monthly until 1988. In December 1988, Sawada started a new series called ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3 (manga)|Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' but it ran for only two issues as the publication shut down in January 1989. In 1990, Sawada moved to {{wp|CoroCoro Comics}} where he has worked on ''Super Mario-kun'' ever since.

Sawada is the father of two children and author of 60 ''Super Mario-kun'' volumes, three collections, and two spin-offs based on the [[Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!|''Wario'' franchise]] and ''[[Super Mario-kun Gekijō - Yoshi New Island|Yoshi's New Island]]''. He has also designed an [[SUPER MARIO KUN 25th Anniversary|Event Course]] in ''[[Super Mario Maker]]''.

==Gallery==
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SMKun 11 Yukio message.png|A message to the reader from Sawada in [[Super Mario-kun Volume 11|volume 11]]
JWHF Summer 2015 Sawada Special 4koma Manga 1.jpg|Scene of a special 4-koma manga by Sawada, to commemorating the opening of Jisedai World Hobby Fair in Summer 2015
JWHF Summer 2015 Sawada Special 4koma Manga 2.jpg|Scene of a special 4-koma manga by Sawada, to commemorating the opening of Jisedai World Hobby Fair in Summer 2015
JWHF Summer 2015 Sawada Special 4koma Manga 3.jpg|Scene of a special 4-koma manga by Sawada, to commemorating the opening of Jisedai World Hobby Fair in Summer 2015
JWHF Summer 2015 Sawada Special 4koma Manga 4.jpg|Scene of a special 4-koma manga by Sawada, to commemorating the opening of Jisedai World Hobby Fair in Summer 2015
Yukio Sawada Present SMO Art.jpg|[[Mario]] and [[Cappy]] drawn by Sawada, used for the present of a lottery activity initiated by {{wp|Famitsu}}
Yukio Sawada Present Drawing SMKun 58.jpg|Mario and [[Olivia]] drawn by Sawada, used for the present of a lottery activity commemorating the release of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' volume 58 initiated by {{wp|CoroCoro Comic|CoroCoro}}
Sawada 2023 Nengajo.jpg|A 2023 ''nengajō'' drawn by Sawada
Sawada Elephant Mario Artwork 1.jpg|[[Elephant Mario]] drawn by Sawada
Sawada Elephant Mario Artwork 2.jpg|Elephant Mario drawn by Sawada
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==Trivia==
*When writing a story for ''Super Mario-kun'', Sawada usually plays the game on which the story is based and gets help from his children in difficult levels.<ref>''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' [[Super Mario-kun Volume 15|volume 15]]</ref>
*Sawada's favorite character is [[Yoshi]].<ref>Back cover of the ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' [[Super Mario-kun Volume 14|volume 14]]</ref>

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