Editing Yukio Sawada

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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.

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