Super Mario-kun Volume 9

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Template:Manga-infobox Super Mario-kun Volume 9 is the ninth volume of the manga series. It contains the full Yoshi's Safari story arc, with elements from Yoshi's Cookie, Super Mario World, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Mario Bros. and even from the Super Mario Bros. movie; the first part of the Mario & Wario arc; and the third part of the Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins story arc, in which Mario, Carrot, Yoshiki, and Hippo chase Tatanga in the last area, the Space Zone.

The last chapter is a bonus story of the Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins story arc starring Wario and his Goomba assistant.

This volume's extras are puzzles and riddles.

Contents

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Chapters

Stage One

マリオ復活!! クリスタルキノコを探しだせ!! (Mario's back!! Find the Crystal Mushrooms!!)

After so many adventures, Mario has decided to quit being a hero and he is enjoying selling cookies with Yoshi and Luigi to the inhabitants of Yoshi's Island. After Luigi gets stuck inside the freezer and Yoshi eats all the cookies, Mario closes the baking stand for the day and continues to refuse any of his friends' suggestion to return to adventuring. A flying Message Block arrives to them. Inside Mario finds a videotape of Peach asking Mario for help: the world is in chaos, many of the old enemies have come back and the only that can solve this situation is Super Mario, by searching and collecting the three Crystal Kinokos to stop this disaster.

Even if unwillingly, and even without putting his iconic overalls and change from his chef outfit, Mario accepts to accompany Luigi and Yoshi in this adventure. Riding the Sky Pop, the three flies towards a big stormy black cloud in which it seems to be the big concentration of chaos. Just before they can start landing, a giant Battle Beetle catches them in the air, destroying the plane, and slamming the occupants on the ground.

Mario, much to Luigi and Yoshi's shock, does not fight him and instead he offers him cookies. The Battle Beetle punches him, sending him flying against a ? Block, revealing a Carrot inside that falls on Mario, turning him into Bunny Mario (and also changing his outfit). With nostalgia from the Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins events pervading him, Mario finds the lost sparks and starts fighting, but since he has not used the power-ups in a while, he stumbles and falls. The Battle Beetle uses his mandible to trap Mario, but with the power of his ears, Mario breaks free and destroys the mandible, defeating the enemy. The adventure has just begun, and Mario is now ready to strike back.

Stage Two

荒野の決闘!! 花も雷もふみこえて!? (Battle in the wilderness!! Overlooking flowers and thunder!?)

Mario, Luigi and Yoshi are traversing a dry plain where once, as Mario states, it was the place where the most beautiful and gorgeous flowers and cherry blossom tree grew. One flower, however, does pops from the ground, but it is not a normal flower: it is a Panser. The enemy first shoots what it seems to be fireballs, but are instead tadpoles, so, when it shoots the actual fireballs, Mario gets caught off guard. Mario and his friends try to run away from the Panser, but the enemy is able to walk and runs in front of them, burning Luigi and Yoshi. Quickly, Mario ties the Panser's petals, right when he was preparing to shoot another round of fireballs, bursting and getting neutralized.

Yoshi sighs in relief, but from a Warp Pipe, a Venus Fire Trap followed by Munchers and Nipper Plants, comes out and attack them. With a Fire Flower, Mario becomes Fire Mario and burns all the plants (and also Yoshi and Luigi). With the plant family defeated, Mario uproots the Venus Fire Trap out of the pipe, revealing a bunch of Monty Moles gripping the stem. Yoshi proceeds eating the Moles, when a lightning strikes down, right on bodies of a mole and each type of plant, fusing them together into the Pakkun Mogura, a Mega Mole with Venus Fire Traps for hands and a Piranhacus Giganticus on its head.

Mario tosses Yoshi at the monster, but the Venus Fire Trap hands chomp and burn him. Mario then tries to smack him with the hammer, but again gets burned by the Venus Fire Trap hands. After pulling himself up, Mario pulls out the cookie stand's oven from Yoshi's mouth and gets the Yoshi Cookies inside, then proceeds to toss them at the Pakkun Mogura, in a Slave attack: now the enemy and Yoshi are bound to move the same way and feel the same things. Slamming Yoshi's face to a rock, making him pick his nose and slamming him to the ground, the Pakkun Mogura is forced to do the same thing and gets defeated at last. Mario is ready to continue the journey, but then asks where has Yoshi gone, much to Luigi's confusion, since Mario has just slammed him into the ground right some seconds ago.

Stage Three

呪われたクッパ城!? 妖精キャサリン登場!! (Cursed Bowser Castle!? Fairy Birdo Appears!!)

Mario, Luigi and Yoshi are still looking for the Crystal Kinokos, yet they have no idea where to find even one of them. Having going in circles for a while, the trio meets a fairy: it is Birdo, the same Birdo that last volume died and is now reincarnated as a fairy. Birdo's ribbon is now magical and can point them out in the direction of the Crystal Kinokos so, under payment of 1 coin per mile, Birdo leads them to the first location of the mushroom: the ruins of Bowser's Castle in the Valley of Bowser.

While looking in the debris, Luigi is attacked by a sentient block. Many other blocks come to life and attack the group. Yoshi tries to eat one of them, but they are too hard for his teeth. Very soon, Mario gets overwhelmed by them. Birdo finds one of Kamek's Magic Wands and passes it to Mario, who turns the angry block into calm Koopa Troopas, that Yoshi proceeds to eat.

With the situation calmed down, Birdo localizes the Crystal Kinoko but, before Mario can reach it, one of the kart circuit Thwomp appears and chases Mario. The chase takes Mario right to the same racetrack where Mario was challenged by Donkey Kong Jr. in the sixth volume. Mario runs towards a ? Panel and obtains a Lightning and uses it to shrink the Thwomp and then squashes it under his foot. In the meantime, Luigi got the Crystal Kinoko. Mario then asks Birdo where is the next destination, but she reveals that now she is charging 2 coins per mile, angering Mario.

Stage Four

そうなんです!? 流れ流され恐竜島へ!! (Is that so!? Washed away to Dinosaur Island!!)

Some days later, after resting in a wooden cabin, the party wakes up in the middle of the ocean: somehow, their cabin was swept way and ended up in the sea. Not seeing the shadow of an island, Birdo gets higher, trying to take a better look and spot and island. Left alone, the three heroes are attacked by a Shark. Mario manages to defeat him by tossing Yoshi in his mouth, somehow, killing him. Suddenly, a storm arises and sweeps away the raft and its occupants.

The three find themselves beached in a strange beach. While exploring the land, what seems to be a boulder rolls towards them, running over Luigi. After noticing that the boulder smells awfully, the heroes notices it's not a rock, but a faece pooped by a giant Rex in a latrine. A giant Dino Torch appears and burns them with its fire breath, then the Rex notices them and attempts to eat them. Running away, the three attract the attention of a giant Blargg and a giant Reznor as well.

Their escape is cut short when a giant Carrot blocks their path, but instead of giving up, Mario bites the giant Carrot, becoming Bunny Mario, but with gigantic bunny ears. The giant dinosaurs reach them, but they are all squashed by Mario's big ears, after he loses balance and falls. With that bonk to their head, the dinosaurs are now gentle and kind and no longer angry and famished. An idea pops in Mario's head and, by the time Birdo finally manages to find them, Mario has already transformed the island into a lucrative "Dinousaur Park".

Stage Five

ザ・ガマン!?三番勝負でチャンプを目指せ!! (The Games!? Aim for the champ in the third round!!)

While traversing a desert in search of the second Crystal Kinoko, the party come across a lake. Mario and Yoshi try to drink from it, but they are attacked by a Dossun-men Sakana. Running away in fear, the four find a sign explaining that the Koopa Troop had organized a series of competitions, in which the winner will receive a Crystal Kinoko. Without thinking twice, the party runs to enter the competition.

The Goomba referee takes them to the first challenge that has to do with food. Yoshi volunteers for it, thinking it will be an eating competition, while in reality, much to his shock, it's a no-eating contest. Yoshi tries to refrain himself, but he gives up and loses the challenge. The challenge is "Karaoke" and Birdo volunteers after seeing that the adversary is a Buzzy Beetle, but unfortunately for her, the competition is not about singing, but it is about surviving Mike Kirby's scream, which she loses, while the Buzzy Beetle gets out undamaged thanks to its hard shell. Mario and Luigi understands that they have to be prepared for anything in the next challenge, but their challenge is unfortunately straightforward: resisting longer in the lava, and their adversaries are a Blargg and a Lava Bubble.

The heroes have lost, and not only they will not get the prize Crystal Kinoko, but their own Crystal Kinoko is snatched away by Bowser, who has been enjoying the show from his Koopa Clown Car. Bowser then reveals that his plan is collecting all the Crystal Kinoko and use their power to go on vacation in Hawaii. Mario yells that they need those mushrooms for a much serious cause, but being fine with the world in chaos, Bowser intends to stop Mario and his friends, so he pulls out a Devolution Gun and shoot at them: Luigi is turned into a monkey, Yoshi does not change ("I guess we Yoshis never evolved."), and Mario, having dodge the shot, got a Tanooki Suit and transformed into Tanooki Mario to confuse Bowser.

Bowser does not get confused for long and flip the Clown Car to squash Mario under some Big Steelies, but they all fall on the tail, which becomes bigger due to the bumps. With a big tail whip, Mario defeats Bowser, who flies away in fear, and breaks the Devolution Gun, reverting the effects on Luigi. Just then, Yoshi realizes that Bowser, even if defeated, just got away with the Crystal Kinokos, leaving Mario in shock, while Luigi yells at him.

Stage Six

スーパースコープ登場!! 機械の国を突破せよ!! (The Super Scope is here!! Break through the country of machines!!)

Stage Seven

おにぎりころりん!?食い意地地底対決!! (Onigiri rice ball!? Gluttonous underground confrontation!!)

Stage Eight

クッパ城突入!! メカクッパをたおせ!! (Entering Bowser Castle!! Let's go Mecha-Bowser!!)

Stage Nine

骨肉の争い!? バトルドームの大バトル!! (Battle of bones and flesh!? Battle Dome's big battle!!)

Stage Ten

マリオとワリオ!! お先まっ暗ルイージ探し!? (Mario & Wario !! Looking for Luigi in the dark !?)

Stage Eleven

ワリオのプレゼント!?大?恐竜をたおせ!! (Wario's gift!? Great? Give me a dinosaur!!)

Stage Twelve

マリオ宇宙へ!! 勇者ヒポポン大活躍!? (To Space Zone!! Heroic Hippo's great success!?)

Stage Thirteen

月面最終決戦!! 強敵タタンガをたおせ!! (The final battle on the moon!! Defeat the powerful enemy Tatanga!!)

Special Stage 1

怪力ワリオくん (Super Wario-kun)

Puzzles

マリオスーパー迷路・パズル (Mario Super Maze: Puzzle)

1. アイテム迷路 (Power-up maze): Please tell me what kind of power-ups are in the blocks 1 to 5.
2. OXOX!: Mario taped Yoshi's mouth to help him with his diet. Which tape was put first?
3. 四番目はだれだ? (Who is the fourth?): The members of the Koopa Troop are racing. Looking at the four pictures on the left, can you tell who is the fourth in the line?
4. まちがいさがし (Find the differences):

• • This is a commemorative photo of the Koopa family. Take a good look at it.
  • Look for the differences from the photo on page 114. There are eight differences in total.

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  Power-up maze

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  OXOX!

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  Who is the fourth?

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  Find the differences (first part)

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  Find the differences (second part)

スーパーマリオクイズランド (Super Mario Quiz Land)

1. マリオの通り道 (Mario's path): Let's reach Yoshi by sneaking behind and beside and not in front the Koopa Troopas.
2. マリオをさがせ! (Find Mario!): Well… How many Marios are here? [including the transformations]
3. ブルの無限増殖 (Chargin' Chuck's infinite duplication): This is Splittin' Chuck that loves to duplicate, every minute, one Chuck splits into three and three Chucks split into nine, and it continues until he fills the screen in an hour. So, how many minutes did it take them to fill one-third of the screen?
4. のろまなハナチャン (Slow Wiggler): "Peach has gone for a walk outside. Can you keep an eye on her?" "Sure." [...] "It's late. What is Wiggler doing?" "Your majesty!" "Finally, you returned, at last!" "Well, then. I'm on my way! Now, here is the question: Why did it took me so long to go out?" "Get going, already!"
5. ピーチ姫の手紙 (Princess Peach's letter): I received a strange letter from Princess Peach. What is it written on? Do you understand?

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  Quizzes 1-3

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  Quizzes 4-5 and solutions

Solutions

1. As shown in the figure below.
2. 22 Marios! I wonder if you've noticed that were some Luigis.
3. 59 minutes is the correct answer. Those who answered 20 minutes, as for one-third of an hour, got themselves tricked. That's too bad.
4. Wiggler has a lot of legs, so she needs more time to wear shoes.
5. Read it in horizontal lines