Super Mario-kun Volume 15
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| Super Mario-kun Volume 15 | |
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| Publisher | Shogakukan |
| Label | Coro Coro Comics |
| Artist(s) | Yukio Sawada |
| Release date |  January 27, 1996 August 23, 2017 September 18, 2018 |
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Super Mario-kun Volume 15 is the fifthteen volume of the manga series. It concludes both the Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and the Donkey Kong Country arcs that started last volume. The latter arc also includes elements from Donkey Kong Land and Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. After those, an anticipation chapter for the Super Mario 64 arc (which highlights the new mechanics) and the first part of arc itself follows. The volume's extras include various puzzles and a special chapter with 4-komas based on Mario Kart 64.
Contents
Chapters
It has been requested that this section be rewritten. Reason: Grammar check (chapter 2 on-wards)
Stage 1
It is Christmas. Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and Baby Mario are taking a stop during their travel in the middle of a snowy mountain. Mario quickly puts together a house where they can rest and, most importantly, give Santa Claus a place where to bring gifts for them. While Mario, Yoshi, and Baby Mario celebrate, Luigi is disappointed that they are not thinking about Baby Luigi, who is still trapped in Bowser's Castle.
Later that night, Kamek, dressed up as Santa Claus on a sweet potato stand pulled by Fly Guys, arrive at the house. After entering, Kamek spots Baby Mario and tries to kidnap him. On their way to his futon, Yoshi nibs on his legs, dreaming of food, while Mario and Luigi kick him in their sleep. Despite everything, Kamek stays quiet and takes the Baby, but sets off a Santa Claus trap, waking everyone up. Mario mistakes him for Santa and Kamek keeps playing along, telling him to take their present inside the sack. Mario opens it, only to find Jumping Piranha Plants. Panicked, Luigi bashes a wall, and the heroes slide down the hill.
Having reached a shack, Yoshi takes some skis and gives two pairs to Mario and Luigi, so that they can slide down quicker. While Mario and Luigi slide down with the skis tied up incorrectly, Yoshi tries to show off how to do it. He almost crashes onto a tree, but he executes a Flutter Jump, avoiding the crash, but landing butt-first on a pointy rock. Their slide is interrupted when the heroes crash into a fortress. Inside, they are face to face with Sluggy the Unshaven. Understanding that the hairy heart is its weak spot, Yoshi starts throwing eggs at it, but Sluggy dodges them by shapeshifting, then, after shapeshifting into a hand, grabs Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi.
Kamek arrives riding his broom and compliments the boss. Yoshi, noticing Baby Mario outside the slime, points to a frozen Super Star. Kamek laughs: they cannot resort to Powerful Mario, with the star encased in ice, but as he soon realizes, some Shy Guys are having a campfire in the room, and the fire is melting the ice. Before he can do anything, Baby Mario grabs it and then charges at Kamek, the Shy Guys, and Sluggy, punching them all together. The punch is so powerful that all the enemies are hit, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and the castle blow up, and everything lands on a nearby spruce tree, becoming the decoration of a Christmas Tree, much to Baby Mario's enjoyment.
Stage 2
ハクション！
Baby Mario has caught a cold, and his nose is bloated with mucus. This is a problem, as his baby twin telepathy is now not working as good as before, and now tracking down Baby Luigi and Bowser's Castle will not be possible. Then the Baby starts to hiccup and, with some back pats, he spews out a key he previously ate by mistake. Yoshi finds a locked door and use the key on it, finding themselves in front of a Fortune Telling House palace. Suggesting asking the staff for Bowser's Castle location so to not rely on the sick Baby Mario, the group enters, happy to know that with just the admission fee they have unlimited fortune-telling. The trio pays the fee, unaware that the cashier was Kamek and the palace is another one of his schemes.
The group first goes to a Shy Guy tarot reader, but he just plays old maid with the tarots. Next is a Spear Guy expert in "Dance Fortune Telling", but the trio is not convinced by it; then the Horoscope run by a Stretch, who predict pain in Mario's future after bashing him in the head with a mallet; and lastly another Shy Guy with fortune-telling dices used for party games. Sick and tired, the group is about to leave, when a Dangling Ghost takes them and lead them to the "most interesting room": Grim Leecher's room, where it predicts the future with a Crystal Ball.
Mario is already about to leave, but when the Leecher question the ball, Kamek (with a hidden intercom in the sphere) states in their voices that Yoshi is growing tired of carrying Baby Mario and Luigi wants to get rid of Mario to be the protagonist. Mario asks his friends if this is true: Yoshi denies it, Luigi states "just a bit", and the crystal ball, in their voices, manifest their alleged thoughts of killing Mario. As Mario yells at them in anger, Kamek orders the Grim Leecher to release the Fuzzies, which lands on Luigi and Yoshi's heads, turning them angry and violent.
Scared and confused by their sudden behavior, Mario grabs Baby Mario and tries to reason with his friends, but they just hit them, so Mario throws a fireball at Luigi, burning him and the Fuzzy attached to him, freeing from its control. He then tries to do the same with Yoshi, but he eats the fireball and spit it back at Mario, then lunges at him for the kill. Baby Mario jumps on Yoshi to stop him, but he shoves a Watermelon in his mouth. Just them, Baby Mario sneezes, riddling Yoshi with seeds, knocking out Yoshi and the Fuzzy. Just then, Mario notices Kamek and the Grim Leecher tiptoeing away, but he grabs them, beats them up and turns them and the Fuzzies into a kite.
The chapter ends with Baby Mario (healed from the cold) playing with the new kite, while Yoshi asks Mario why he looks so tired and bruised, much to his frustration.
Stage 3
While riding Yoshi in helicopter form, the group is getting nearer and nearer to Bowser's Castle and, after crashing into a poster sign, and landing on a Harry Hedgehog, the group crash in front of its doors, scaring Bowser and Kamek, especially when they realize they are out of minions to throw at them. As the group barges in, Bowser has the time to make one last thing: converting the castle into a kindergarten. As Luigi retrieves Baby Luigi, Mario asks Bowser what is he up to, but he explains that he has realized he cannot beat them, so might as well accommodate them.
In reality, Bowser's plan is to lower their guard down so to strike them when they least expect it. When the five of them come closer for a group hug, Bowser attempts to bury them under seom toy blocks, but they fall around them, creating a block fortress. For his next plan, he intends on serving the adults some milk in which he put laxatives, but Mario refuses, accidentally spilling his cup of milk in Bowser's mouth, who then tries to rush to the bathroom, but Baby Mario kicks him in the belly, making him soil his shell.
After finally putting the adults to sleep with a (horrendous) lullaby, Bowser tries to squash Baby Mario, but he rolls against the block fort, finding a POW Block between the blocks. Scared, Bowser asks him to not hit it, but Baby Mario does it anyway, causing Bowser's body to convert in so many Stars that all is left of him is a baby version of him since, Bowser was using baby talk to stop Baby Mario.
After the heroes wake up, Baby Bowser joins the play date with the Baby Mario brothers, while Kamek conjures up a plan to turn the situation in their favor.
Stage 4
With the babies rescued, all that it is left is to bring them home to the Mushroom Kingdom and return to the past, but first Mario and Luigi let them finish playing with Car Yoshi at Bowser's daycare. Kamek returns and asks where they put Baby Bowser, and Mario points to a garbage bag ready for pickup, since he was being annoying. Kamek lets him out, and he runs to Yoshi, wanting to ride him too, but he stretches his wheels, dodging Baby Bowser and making him crash onto a wall. Furious, he executes a Ground Pound that sends the wheels flying and the transformation runs out, with Yoshi having his limbs scattered all around. After failing of putting him back together, Yoshi hits him with a rubber mallet and then takes the helicopter form to leave with the four Mario Brothers.
Before departing, Mario takes the time to mock Kamek and Bowser for how their plan was unsuccessful. Angry, Kamek casts a magic spell that turns Baby Bowser into a giant monster shrouded in darkness. The heroes hear the transformation and turn in time to see the monster burst out of the palace and then burn them with his Fire Breath, crashing them down. Using a Magnifying Glass, Yoshi reveals the monster's identity, and the big Baby Bowser starts screaming that he wants to ride the Yoshi.
Despite Luigi protecting his friend, Mario passes Yoshi to Baby Bowser, who squashes him under his weight. Then, Mario pumps Yoshi with air like a balloon, making it big enough to be a plushie for Big Baby Bowser, but he bursts him with his claws. Baby Bowser then runs towards Baby Mario and Mario manages to shove his younger self away from being squashed, while Kamek suggest Baby Bowser to insist on playing with the baby, in order to kill him and erasing Mario from existence.
Big Baby Bowser starts throwing boulders, but Mario still protects Baby Mario with all his might. Luigi asks what to do next, and Mario propose to "use the main gameplay mechanic": let Yoshi eat him and turn him into an egg, but as Yoshi points out, he is too big for that. Unbothered, Mario tosses him at Baby Bowser, and, after becoming sucked like a pacifier, he tries to swallow Baby Bowser, but he remains stuck half-way through. Just then, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi arrives armed with Stars in their Powerful form. With their strength combined, the babies shoves Big Baby Bowser in Yoshi's mouth, making him lay a ginormous egg that the Shy Guys immediately go to cook, while Kamek tries to stop them.
The heroes return to the Yoshis' village to celebrate, and then they will proceed to send the kids home and later themselves to the present.
Stage 5
ブーブーブー！
It is Christmas: on the Gangplank Galleon, the Kritters are decorating the ship, but King K. Rool yells at them to hold the celebrations until they destroy Mario and the Kongs (despite him wearing a Santa Claus outfit). He has however hired new enemies from Donkey Kong Land: a swarm of Hogwashes the Flying Pigs. One Kritter is impressed by the army of winged pigs, but after being electrocuted by their snouts, he changes his mind.
On shore, while climbing down the mountain, Donkey Kong notices the Gangplank Galleon and rightfully suppose that the Kremling Krew's leader is on the ship. Before proceeding, Diddy Kong asks Yoshi where is he storing the Giant Bananas they retrieved, and he lays them like they were eggs out of his bottom. With the banana now exposed, the Hogwashes swoop in and take them, giving them to a Necky to bring to the king. Then to further humiliate the heroes, the Pigs poops on them and their feces then explodes like bombs. Diddy is the only one to avoid them, but gets almost pushed off a cliff, before saving himself in time.
Donkey Kong tries to take them down with some barrels, but the pigs zap the barrels and then Yoshi into pieces. Using a morph bubble, Yoshi turns into a car and then skids away, much to Mario's confusion. During his absence, the pigs form a ball by grouping together and them rolling at Mario, flattening him. Yoshi returns, armed with a Red Watermelon that he gives to Mario, and with his fire breath, he roasts to death the Flying Pigs. The heroes proceed to enjoy a Christmas feast, while the Kritters watch enviously from the galleon, while K. Rool, prepares another plan.
Stage 6
After a quick new year meal, the four heroes enter a cave that leads to the beach. Inside the cave, Yoshi finds a strange object shaped like a bottom on the wall. The object releases a gas that hits Yoshi and Mario. When the smoke clears, DK and Diddy discovers that it was de-aging gas, as Mario has turned into a baby and Yoshi returned in his egg, but he quickly hatches back. DK immediately thinks of abandoning Baby Mario into a cardboard box, but Yoshi yells at him, making him fumble onto a Message Block, which reveals that the moles have a potion that makes the user grow. Just then, Hard Hat pops out from the ground, but when Yoshi approaches it, he smacks him with his boomerang helmet and then escapes underground.
Grabbing a morph bubble and turning into a Mole Tank, Yoshi starts to chase Hard Hat. After some taking too many wrong turns, Yoshi, Baby Mario, and the Kong finally find Hard Hat and demand to have his potion. In response, Hard Hat pulls out the potion and drinks it, becoming giant. He then traps the Kong under his helmet and he starts chasing Yoshi and Baby Mario. Yoshi gets shoved, and drops Baby Mario onto a POW Block that Mario hits, turning Hard Hat (and DK's face as well) into a bunch of Stars.
Diddy finds in between the Stars a potion and gives it to Baby Mario. Mario returns to his normal age, but he also grows in size. After a long while, the team gets out of the cave.
Stage 7
Finally at the beach, right in front of the Gangplank Galleon, the heroes dives into the sea to reach it, only to find out that due to the cold temperature of winter, the sea has frozen. While Yoshi and Diddy starts ice-skating, DK takes the opportunity to ice fishing. Something takes the bait and DK pulls it out: it is Master Necky. Angry that his underwater nap was disturbed, Master Necky starts bombarding them with coconuts. Mario orders DK to do something and he jumps at him, but ends up being knocked out.
After suffering from another barage of coconuts, Mario suggest of fleeing, since the boss is restrained to one place, but he effortlessly follows them and emerges in front of them every time they try to run away: not even splitting up seems to do anything. K. Rool, from his vessel, look pleased in seeing the comeuppance of his enemies and orders to return to Crocodile Isle, only to realize that the ship is stuck in the ice.
Diddy comes up with a plan: using the Team up move to toss DK to the boss, but as he lifts DK, the ice under them cracks and they fall in, freezing in a block of ice. While Master Necky laughs, Mario and Yoshi try to pull them out, but they lack the strength of picking them up. Right then, Dixie Kong arrives and with her ponytail grabs his frozen friends and tosses them at the boss, defeating him. Mario thanks her and, pushing the two frozen Kongs, reach the Gangplank Galleon.
K. Rool tries to stop them by tossing Klobbers at them, but Yoshi eats a red watermelon and Mario prepares his fireball, setting the barreled Kremlings ablaze. The heat melts the surrounding ice and warms the water, creating a thermal spring. Seeing the heroes bathing in relax, K. Rool grabs his bathing items and is about to join them, when a Kritter reminds him he shouldprepare for the final battle instead.
Stage 8
Finally on the Kremling Krew ship, Mario, Yoshi, DK, and Diddy Kong are ready for the final battle, while K. Rool is disappointed to see that the Kritters have all caught a cold and are unable to help him. Mario and DK laughs at his misfortune, so he throws his Crownerang. The heroes dodge it, but when it comes back it hits all of them, and also K. Rool in the belly. The King then proceeds to press a button to release a bunch of cannonballs on them, but they end up flattening him.
With victory apparently ensured, Mario, DK, and Yoshi takes the Giant Bananas stole from the Hogwashes and are about to leave, but a giant K. Rool block their path. Initially scared, Mario just noticed that, due to being flattened, his figure is only bigger in appearance. A Kritter proceeds to inflate him with an air pump, and K. Rool is back on the attack, punching and kicking the four heroes. DK tries to run for it, but he falls into a trap and gets caged by a Klobber.
King K. Rool then grabs a cannonball and attempts to crush it onto Mario, but Rambi appears, stopping the ball with his horn. Mario jumps on his back and orders him to charge at K. Rool, but with the heavy cannonball stuck on his horn, Rambi loses balance and trips. Enguarde and Winky also jumps onto the ship, but with the former flopping on dryland, and the latter still sleepy from his hibernation, they too are useless to Mario.
While K. Rool grabs another cannonball to squash Mario with, Enguarde passes Mario some animal token, leaving him confused. The items then react to Mario's touch and turn him into Golden Mario, a variant of his invincible form. With a powerful punch, Mario pierces through K. Rool's belly, and he flies away like a popped balloon.
Later, Cranky Kong and Funky Kong thanks Mario for helping them retrieve the banana hoard and the latter offers him and Yoshi a passage to the Mushroom Kingdom with his Jumbo Barrel. The chapter ends with Funky taking off with Mario and Yoshi, while Diddy, Cranky, and Enguarde take the bananas back to land, forgetting to release DK from the cage.
Stage 9
スーパーマリオ
Stage 10
Stage 11
Stage 12
Stage 13
Special stage
マリオカート６４コマギャグバトル (Mario Kart 64 4-koma battle)
- マリオ
VS クッパ① (Mario VS. Bowser 1): Mario tries to hit Bowser with items, but he keeps dodging. Frustrated, Mario keeps tossing item, until he find himself seating on the asphalt: in the rush, he accidentally tossed his kart parts. - ヨッシー① (Yoshi 1): to surpass Mario, Yoshi resorts in eating him, getting disqualified.
新 記 録 (New record): Yoshi is behind Mario and he tells him that he is hungry. Worried about how Yoshi is licking his lips, Mario puts the gas to the pedal, getting chased by a hungrier Yoshi, to the point that they both end up achieving a new record of speed.- ピーチ
姫 の車 (Princess Peach's kart): Mario and Yoshi comment on how the Pipe Frame is not a good kart for a princess and start remodeling it into a more fancy and sumptuous car, much to Peach's annoyance. - ルイージ① (Luigi 1): Luigi crosses the finish line first and he is on cloud nine, stepping out of the kart to celebrate. When Mario arrives and still drives forwards, he askes him why he is not stopping, only for him to respond this is only the first lap and he is losing the advantage.
- レースクイーン (Race Queen): Mario and Luigi cannot wait to see Peach in her revealing racing queen outfit, only to be extremely disappointed and angry when Wario arrives in a one-piece swimsuit, punching him for getting their hopes up.
- アイテムボックス① (Item Box 1): Mario collects an Item Box, but it does not have anything, and the next one he takes contains 1-year worth of items, slowing him down, much to his displeasure.
- アイテムボックス② (Item Box 2): Bowser takes an Item Box, but no item is released. Yoshi suggest him to roll it like a die. Bowser follows his suggestion, only to get an insult on the face it lands.
- マリオ
VS クッパ② (Mario VS. Bowser 2): Mario and Bowser are neck and neck with each other. To surpass the rival, the two use fireballs and punches, and then starts fighting and bickering on the road, forgetting about the kart race. - マリオ
VS クッパ③ (Mario VS. Bowser 3): Mario wins, and on the podium, he sprays Bowser with the champagne. Bowser responds by tossing a bucket of water at him, leading to another fight. - ルイージ② (Luigi 2): hoping to take back first place, Luigi tries to use a Dash Mushroom, but accidentally takes a Super Mushroom, causing him to grow, destroying his kart under his large size.
激 突 (Crash): Bowser and Toad end up crashing into each other, and when the dust cloud disappears, it is revealed that the two have merged together.- ヘンなコース (Strange course): Peach is starting to notice that there are too many enemies on the course and are all ganging up on her: that is because they all want to go on a date with her.
- おれだよ、ワリオだよ (It's a-me, Wario): Wario try to set up some traps on the course: first he tries to dig up a hole, but ends up being too deep and he is now unable to leave it. Next, he tries to cut a rope bridge, but the planks under him break, making him fall down.
- ヨッシー② (Yoshi 2): Yoshi has won, and on the podium he gets hungry from the excitement: he drinks up the champagne, then eats the cup and then the podium, angering the other racers.
- ラストラン (Last race): Mario has finished first in all races and beaten all racers; he is now done. Happy to hear that, the others decide to have a new race without him. As Mario trying to convince the others not to leave him out, the narrator tells the reader that they can now challenge Mario in the game.
Mario VS. Bowser 1; Yoshi 1
New record; Princess Peach's kart; Luigi 1; Race Queen
Item Box 1 & 2; Mario VS. Bowser 2 & 3
Luigi 2; Crash; Strange course; It's a-me, Wario
Yoshi 2; Last race
Puzzles
マリオスーパー
- ボム
兵 の戦 場 めいろ (Bob-omb Battlefield maze): Don't go through where the Bob-ombs are, and go get the Power Star. - まちがいさがし (Spot the differences): If you compare the pictures above and below, you'll notice there are seven differences. Can you spot them?
- テレビクイズ (TV quiz): Bowser is taking pictures of Mario and friends with a TV camera. So, which of the following TV screens is the correct one?
- パワースターめいろ (Power Star maze): Collect all four Power Stars and reach the goal. (Don't take the same path twice).
Bob-omb Battlefield Maze
Spot the differences
TV quiz
Power Star maze
Gallery
Boo, Spooky, and Little Skull Mouser
Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario, and Winged Yoshi
Donkey Kong Country arc cover
Mole Tank tunneling
Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Dixie Kong
Super Mario 64 arc cover
Mario, Yoshi, and Princess Peach
