Super Mario-kun Volume 1
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Super Mario-kun Volume 1 is the first volume that opens the Super Mario World story arc, while the last chapter revolves around a supposed "Mario 5". It features Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi as the main characters. In this part, Mario and his friends pass through Yoshi's Island and the Donut Plains, defeating Iggy and Morton.
Contents
Chapters
Stage One
ピーチ姫を救え！！ 新冒険開始！！ (ニューアドベンチャースタート) (Save Princess Peach!! The Start of a New Adventure!! (New Adventure Start))
Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach are enjoying themselves a vacation on Yoshi's Island. On the beach, Mario pulls a prank on Luigi by pretending to drown. Luigi runs to the rescue, only to realize that Mario is wearing a Frog Suit. Mario awaits joyfully for the arrival of Peach in a bikini, but a Goomba with Peach's wig arrives instead. The Goomba places a small Bowser toy speaker from which Bowser himself explains to Mario and Luigi that he kidnapped Peach (again) and now has a scary legion by his side. Mario, enraged, tries to punch the toy speaker, but Bowser informs him that, by doing so, the speaker will explode, so Mario sends his punch into Luigi's face, but the toy explodes anyway, having served its purpose.
After recovering from the explosion, the Mario Bros. begin their journey to Bowser's Castle to save Peach. On their way, the two find an injured dinosaur. Mario, wearing his doctor clothing, treats the dinosaur with a giant Megavitamin, which he hardly manages to swallow. Cured, the dinosaur presents himself as Yoshi and explains that Bowser conquered the Dinosaur Land with the help of his minions and kids, then stole his eggs to use them as hostages. The Mario Bros. promise to save the eggs in their journey as well and continue on their way.
The brothers are attacked by two Super Koopas. Mario tries to use his fire power, but due to not having used it for a long time he cannot shoot a fireball. Luigi then plugs a gas tank into his bottom, charging him and helping him burn the first Super Koopa, which disappears and leaves behind a Cape Feather. Mario grabs it and becomes Cape Mario but has no idea how to use his new cape. Mario tests the cape on the second Super Koopa: first he tries to use the cape for magic tricks, then he wraps it on the enemy to make a teru teru bōzu. Furious, the Super Koopa charges at Mario, but with a jump, he avoids the attack and learns that the cape can help him fly, while the Super Koopa crashes on the rock behind Mario. Mario continues his travel by flying, followed by Luigi, angry that he does not have a cape to fly as well.
The two meets another dinosaur, a Dino Torch, and mistake it for a friend of Yoshi. Mario is burnt and his cape no longer works, but Luigi tapes the Dino Torch's mouth while avoiding the flames, but not the hot smoke that comes from behind it. Running away, the brothers face a Chargin' Chuck armed with a giant football. Mario tires to catch the ball, but it is too big for him and he gets squashed by it. Luigi grabs Mario, turns him into a ball, and launches him at the Chargin' Chuck, but with a shoulder tackle, he shoves Mario straight down a cliff.
Immediately after, Yoshi (who followed them) dives to save Mario. Yoshi grabs Mario, but then realizes that he had not come up with a plan to survive the fall. He spots a blue-shelled Koopa Troopa on a ledge and eats him while Mario watches him in horror, not knowing why Yoshi is having his last meal. Meanwhile, Luigi is looking down the cliff while the Chargin' Chuck is preparing to toss him down as well. Right at that moment, Mario, riding Winged Yoshi, emerges from the abyss. The Chargin' Chuck prepares an attack to send all of them down, but Mario and Yoshi, with a combined fire attack, fry the Chargin' Chuck (and Luigi), defeating him. Mario welcomes Yoshi into the party and continue their journey together to save Dinosaur Land and Peach. Meanwhile, Bowser is spying on them and wishes Mario good luck for the obstacles they will have to face.
Stage Two
ドカンと一発！！ 合体技炸裂！！ (One-Shot Bang!! Skill-Combining Explosion!!)
Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi are traversing Yoshi's Island when they finally see in the distance Iggy's Castle. Above the castle, there is a sign is written in doodles: Yoshi reveals that it is their language, which humans can read by covering the middle part of the doodle to reveal two lines of dialogue ("It's not a language, it's a kid puzzle!"): the sign reads "Help me", meaning that an egg is being held captive. However, before the trio can take another step, multiple pipes fall from the sky and fall around the heroes. From one of the pipes, a hologram of Bowser explains that this is his new trap. Mario laughs and tries to jump over the pipes, but a Jumping Piranha Plant blocks him and bites him back into the pipe circle, while many other Jumping Piranhas pop out from the rest of the pipes.
Led by an apparently normal Piranha Plant, the Jumping Piranhas are instructed by Bowser to not let Mario get past them, and the hologram shuts off. Mario sends Yoshi to eat the Piranha Plant, but it is too voracious for him. Mario then tries with the fireballs, but the Jumping Piranhas wet them with watering cans. The Piranha Plant orders its minions to surround the heroes from above, biting them every once in a while. While thinking of a solution, Mario pulls out his SNES Nunchaku (a nunchaku with SNES controllers as the sticks) and uses it to reflect the seed the Piranha Plants spit at them. After getting the hand of it, Mario finally manages to defeat all of the Piranha Plants with his weapon, but the normal Piranha Plant rises up and reveals itself to be an invincible Big Piranha Plant.
This time, Mario's nunchaku skills can do nothing, and he even tries to immobilize the Piranha Plant with 
and pausing the story, but this also immobilizes the protagonists. Without the nunchaku, Mario tries to bribe the Piranha Plant, who is disgusted by the fact that the hero has resorted to bribing (but does accept the money, however). After another lethal move, the Piranha Plant prepares the finishing blow and laughs, revealing a sticker in his throat reading: "weak point". After Mario and Yoshi perform a big jump, they begin to rotate and dive head-first into the Piranha Plant's mouth, drilling its head and finally kill it. Luigi celebrates and cheers for Mario and Yoshi, who are now tangled to each other and very dizzy, promising themselves to never do that attack again.
Stage Three
コクッパ・イギー！！ カレイなる頭脳戦！？ (Koopaling Iggy!! The Magnificent Mental Fight!?)
The trio reaches the castle, and Yoshi decides to stay outside to cheer for their victory. Mario is enraged, but Luigi reminds him that "this is what he does in the game." As Luigi enters, a Pillar falls down on him from the ceiling, but he manages to avoid being crushed. However, Mario notices some bones under the pillar. The bones shake and recompose themselves into many Dry Bones, then the Dry Bones fuse together into a giant octopus. After shooting some bones, the Dry Bones roll towards Mario, who cowers on the ground, making the skeletons trip on him and break down on the floor.
By running and fighting, the Mario Bros. reach Iggy's floating arena on the lava, where he and the captive egg await. Luigi kicks Mario onto the platform. Iggy retracts his head into his shell and spits fireballs at Mario, whose own fireballs cannot hurt him. Iggy puts his head out and laughs, but Mario takes out his "ultrasonic weapon": a glass to scratch, making a chilling sound. Iggy retracts his head again, and Mario pulls out a big tube of glue and covers the shell's head hole, preventing Iggy from popping his head out. Luigi comes to the platform to help Mario retrieve the egg, but the blind Iggy trips and falls on top of the glue tube, making it squirt everywhere and freezing everything and everyone in place. Mario and Luigi call out for Yoshi, who is still waiting outside, asking himself why are his friends are taking so long.
Stage Four
最強の魔法使い (マジシャン)！？ カメックあらわる！！ (The Strongest Magician!? Kamek Appears!!)
At Bowser's castle, Bowser is flirting with Peach, offering her a wedding ring that not only she doesn't want, but doesn't even fit her, being so big to be used as a hula-hoop ring by her. Peach yells at Bowser that she'll never marry him and that Mario will, as always, come to save her. Bowser decides to fix this problem and calls his wizard, Kamek. Kamek appears while he's trying to bend a spoon with his mind, after 3000 years of failure. Bowser is not happy of such scene, but the wizard assures his king that he's just warming up and shows to him is powerful magic by transforming Bowser's head into a Kappa's. Angry, Bowser sends Kamek to the Donut Plains to stop Mario and his friends.
Kamek appears in front of Mario, Luigi and Yoshi, presenting himself with a silly song. Mario doesn't take him seriously, but Kamek casts a spell on some Rotating Blocks, making Galoombas out of them. With no issues, Mario fries them (and Yoshi eats them) then tries to burn Kamek too, but he gets freeze by an ice spell. Yoshi, using his fire breath, melts the ice. Kamek then enchants a pile of blocks and creates Burokkun, a giant golem made out of blocks. The trio starts to run away in fear, only to realize that Burokkun can't move.
The heroes laugh at this failure of a spell, but Kamek pushes the block monster which topples on top of the trio, apparently squashing them. Kamek dances from the joy of managing to kill Mario, but him and his friends are safe and sound in a hole, but are still trapped under Burokkun's chest. Yoshi starts eating slowly the blocks and in one of them finds a Super Star. Riding it, the trio breach out from Burokkun and then strike Kamek, defeating him with the Star's sparks. The trio is about to continue their journey, but Kamek casts one last spell and transforms their heads (even the Star's) into Kappa's, much to Bowser's amusement.
Stage Five
寒～い水中面！！ マリオはお熱いのがお好き！？ (Cold Underwater Stage!! Does Mario Like Warmer Places!?)
Stage Six
マリオ対ジュゲム！！ 史上最大の雪合戦！？ (Mario vs. Lakitu!! The Biggest Snowball Fight Ever!?)
Stage Seven
ようこそ地底へ！！ モグラたたきのあまいわな！？ (Welcome Underground!! Are You Good At Whack-A-Mole?)
Stage Eight
カメック再登場！！ 究極の大魔法合戦！？ (Kamek Returns!! Ultimate Battle of Magic!?)
Stage Nine
弱虫インディ！！ 炎の池で最後の挑戦！？ (Scaredy-Cat Mega Mole!! Final Challenge in the Flame Pool!?)
Stage Ten
強敵アッパレ！！ ハンマーなんてこわくない！？ (Formidable Enemy Amazing Flying Hammer Bro!? Hammers Aren't Scary!?)
Stage Eleven
純情ロマンス！？クッパくんのある愛の詩！！ (Naive Romance!? Koopa-kun's Love Song!!)
Stage Twelve
でぶマリオ！？ パワーバルーンでモートンをたおせ！！ (Chubby Mario!? Defeat Morton With the Power Balloon!!)
Stage Thirteen
またまたカメック！！ 遊園地は地獄だ！？ (Kamek !! The Amusement Park is Hell!?)
Stage Fourteen
炎のつっぱり！？ どすこいＫ、Ｋ、すもう勝負！！ (Attack of the Flames!? Sumo Wrestling Contest With Sumo Bro!!)
Stage Fifteen
どうなる！？ マリオ５おどろき大予想！！ (What Will Happen!? Surprising Great Expectations for Mario 5!!)
4-komas
スーパーマリオくん スペシャル４コマ劇場 (Super Mario-kun Special 4-Koma Theater)
- キラー (Bullet Bill): Mario and Luigi are trying to walk past a stage full of Bullet Bills, but they are too fast. Mario then places a traffic light and the Bullet Bills stop at the red light, finally letting the Mario Bros. pass.
- ブイブイ (Reznors): Mario is facing against the Reznors and is not scared, stating that he just needs to hit their platform from below to defeat them. The Reznors speed up their platforms, making them harder to hit, but the speed makes them dizzy, and they fall on the ground by themselves.
- アトミックテレサ (Big Boo): Mario notices that the Big Boos won't attack him if he keeps watch him. Knowing this, Mario put on the back of his head a mask of his face and manages to avoid any troubles from the Boo, not amused from this efficient trick.
- マントガメ (Super Koopa): Mario has defeated so many Super Koopas that he doesn't know what to make of the multiple Cape Feathers, so he decides to sell them and make money.
- K.K.のカミナリ攻撃 (Sumo Bro's lightning attack): a pestering Sumo Bro is blocking the path with his lightnings. Mario has a plan and gives Yoshi a hat. Yoshi is happy, but he soon discovers that it's a pointy helmet to use as a lighting rod.
- ジュゲム (Lakitu): Lakitu, furious of being humiliated, is preparing a trap for Mario, hiding in a pipe, but he doesn't notice that the pipe is already occupied by a jumping Piranha Plant who bites him.
- フィッシングジュゲム (Fishin' Lakitu): Lakitu is preparing a second trap by tieing a Mushroom on his fishing rod. Someone takes the bait but, much to his horror, is Yoshi, who's slurping the rod and Lakitu like a noodle.
Bullet Bill & Reznors
Big Boo & Super Koopa
Sumo Bro's lightning attack
Lakitu & Fishin' Lakitu
References in later games
- Super Mario Odyssey: Bowser offering a giant ring to Peach, which is way too big to fit her, reminds how the Binding Band is used during their wedding in this game.
