Super Mario-kun Volume 4
| Super Mario-kun Volume 4 | |
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| Publisher | Shogakukan |
| Label | Coro Coro Comics |
| Artist(s) | Yukio Sawada |
| Release date |  November 28, 1992[?] May 20, 2015[?] April 11, 2017[?] |
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Super Mario-kun Volume 4 is the fourth volume of the manga series, ending the main Super Mario World story arc that began in the first volume, but some chapters also include elements from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Mario Paint. In this part, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi face the Valley of Bowser and have the final confrontation with Bowser. The Reznors, Larry, and Bowser are the bosses fought in the volume. This volume's extras are 4-komas and puzzles.
Contents
Chapters
Stage 1
とりつかれたルイージ！！
Mario, Luigi and Yoshi need to return to the Valley of Bowser and save the real Princess Peach, but the cave entrance has returned to the bottom of the sea. The trio notices a Sunken Airship not too far from the Chocolate Island coast and decide to check inside for some clues. Using Balloon Yoshi, the three reach the shipwreck, diving into it just as some flying enemies come for them.
Inside the shipwreck, Mario and his friends find a bunch of Disappearing Boo Buddies. Using a giant painted sack to disguise themselves as a Big Boo, the heroes passes by. A skittish Boo tosses a coin on the ground and Mario jumps out to get it, revealing their disguise. The Boos attack them, but Mario and Yoshi manages to escape, leaving Luigi behind. When they notice this, Luigi comes back, but is much more angry and violent. Yoshi realizes that he was possessed by the Disappearing Boos.
Mario and Yoshi fight back, but each hit makes the possessed Luigi stronger and angrier. He grabs a ? Block and points to Mario and Yoshi: a vine sprouts out of the block and the two become tied and strangled by it. Mario notices an old ? Block and, making Yoshi hitting it, a Super Leaf comes out. Mario grabs it, becoming Raccoon Mario. With one tail whip, Mario breaks free of the vine and hits Luigi, making him puke out all the Boos that possessed him. Luigi thanks Mario and the trio continues their exploration.
After entering a Warp Pipe, the three finds themselves in a tall and empty space, falling down with Koopa Paratroopas and Floating Mines. In the middle of the enemy swarm, Yoshi notices a Super Star and Mario touches it with his tail, making it larger and invincible. The three fall to the flooded bottom of the hall, where they find a magic ball. After grabbing it, the shipwreck shakes, and they go out to check, hoping to find the emerging Valley of Bowser entrance, not noticing that it is right under them.
Stage 2
While traversing the Valley of Bowser, the trio finds Bowser's New Year Shrine. Yoshi starts feeling ill and informs the Mario Bros. that he needs to go to the bathroom and goes behind a rock. In look for toilet paper, Yoshi finds a Ofuda and, ignoring the sign warning not to, removes it from the wall. Immediately after, the wall breaks and a Bony Beetle comes out of it. Meanwhile, Bowser is taking Peach to the shrine with the Koopa Clown Car, but seeing the heroes and the freed Bony Beetle, Bowser flees, not before mocking Mario and wishing him good luck with the enemy.
The Bony Beetle attacks Mario with laser eyes. Yoshi, returning from his bathroom break, tries to eat it, but it is too large for him. After almost being impaled by its spikes, the trio tries to run for it, but is trapped by the spikes shot at them. However, Yoshi manages to free them all with a powerful fart. The "explosion" makes Mario bump on the shrine's offer box, making a Dragon Coin pop outside. Yoshi tries to eat it, believing it is a chocolate coin, but before he can gulp it, his tongue gets transformed into a longer tongue. Mario decides to use this and wraps the tongue around the Bony Beetle. He then pulls the tongue, making the enemy spin like a whirligig, defeating it.
The Bowser shrine is renamed to Yoshi, who pleads with Mario to pray that his tongue returns to its normal size.
Stage 3
お
The entire Koopa Troop is having a New Year party at Bowser's Castle: Spinies are dressed like Kadomatsu, Thwomps are mashing mochi, and Bowser is making silly dances to please Peach. Bowser then makes an announcement, he will give an otoshidama to the one that will defeat Mario. Of course no one accepts, but Bowser shows that Mario, his friends, and their power-ups are celebrating too, and are now tipsy from the sake. Everyone accepts and runs to Mario's location: Valley of Bowser 2.
Kamek and the troop initially fight each other to see who will kill Mario, but Kamek calms everyone down, proposing to work together, then he will duplicate the price and divide it between each other. That said, the Koopa Troop attacks Mario: first, a bunch of Bob-ombs dressed up like shuttlecocks are tossed at them, then a Monty Mole pretending to be a balloon, a Spike Top-dreidel and lastly a Chargin’ Chuck tackles at Mario, decomposing his face. Mario tries to use the power-ups, but they are sleeping intoxicated.
Kamek orders the Koopa Troop to jump at them, but before they can get them, Mario, Luigi and Yoshi find themselves on a solid platform that raises up, making the troop slam into the wall. Avoiding being crushed on the ceiling thanks to a hole, the heroes are now safe, but Kamek uses magic to destroy the walls. However, he keeps missing them, crushing his allies with the debris instead. Kamek tries to appear in front of them and block the path, but is hit by another solid platform and a diagonal platform, falling to the ground unconscious.
It appears to be over, but a late minion arrives: the Thwomp that was squashing the mochi (stuck in the usu). Mario is not scared, but the Thwomp spills the mashed mochi on the three, trapping them in the sticky sweet. Mario tries to fly out and, thanks to Yoshi eating the mochi at his feet, flies towards the Giant Gate. Hitting the highest point, Mario obtains 50 Goal Stars and uses them to defeat the Thwomp, throwing them at it. Mario has won against the whole troop, but a Big Steely sent by Bowser rolls and crushes Luigi and Yoshi. Happy, Bowser gives the otoshidama to himself.
Stage 4
マリオの
The trio finds a natural hot spring. Luigi is, as always, suspicious and notices a sign: the sign states that it is the Warp Zone to other games. Before Luigi can warn his friends, Mario and Yoshi have already dived in. Mario suddenly finds himself in a forest and, immediately after, a knight stabs him in the butt with a trident. Furious, Mario punches him, and only then he notices that he is holding a sword, the Kinoko Sword.
Someone else jumps at Mario, but it is just Yoshi, back in shield form. The two hear Luigi's voice: Luigi explains that he can see them and communicate with them from the Super Mario World side of the Warp Zone. Judging by the situation, Luigi realizes they are in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past side of the lake: to return to their game, they need to find Hyrule's Warp Zone.
While looking for it, Mario chops some bushes, collecting Rupees, but they are suddenly attacked by a group of Octoroks. Mario slashes at them with no problem, but he is then shot by two Zora. This decreases Mario's Life Gauge and a beeping sound is heard by them. Luigi tells Mario he needs to revitalize his health bar to make it stop. A Fairy flies by to help Mario, but Yoshi eats her. Mario yells at him, but Yoshi points to another flying being and Mario catches it, but it is a Bee which stings Mario, increasing the beeping sound.
Yoshi finds a Fairy Fountain and drags Mario in it. Inside, they meet an ugly Bowser-faced Fairy which kisses Mario, replenishing his heart. Trying to forget this traumatic experience, Mario and Yoshi leaves and encounters an Armos that Mario defeats by crushing it with the Statue form. Right after, Mario is struck by a lightning spell cast by Agahnim, the main antagonist of the game. Agahnim strikes again, but Yoshi eats his spell and tries to spit it back at him, but, despite hitting him, Agahnim is not hurt by it.
Being hurt, Mario's beeping sound resumes and the Cursed Fairy comes to aid. Too scared of another of her kisses, Mario pretends to be dead and Agahnim prepares the finishing blow. Quickly, Luigi takes out some Super Mushrooms and tosses them in the lake. The Mushroom falls on the Kinoko Sword, making it the Super Kinoko Sword. With a Spin Attack, Mario defeats Agahnim. The Cursed Fairy accompanies Mario and Yoshi to the Hyrule's SNES Warp Zone, and the two dive in.
However, instead of going back to the Dinosaur Land, Mario and Yoshi (now back to normal), finds themselves in Mute City, right in the middle of the track, running away from the Blue Falcon, the Wild Goose and the Fire Stingray.
Stage 5
かぜに
Kamek just finished a secret weapon known as King Virus, a hybrid of all the three Dr. Mario's Viruses, provoking a deadly cold that only works on humans (but does cause a little cold to Bowser). The Virus is shot, via cannon, towards Mario, landing right in his mouth. Mario starts feeling so cold that not even Yoshi's fire breath can warm him.
Suddenly, a Diggin' Chuck appears and Yoshi shoves Luigi and Mario, yelling at them to run, but Luigi hits his head and falls unconscious, while Mario is too cold to move. The Chuck starts digging out boulders that Yoshi eats and spits back at him, so the Chuck digs out a giant boulder that flattens Yoshi after he tries to, initially, run on it. The Chuck takes advantage of the situation and tosses Yoshi in a hole that he then fills with dirt.
Between the rocks, Yoshi finds a flashing shell and eats it. With the power of wings, fire breath and earthquaking stomp, Yoshi escapes his grave and defeats the Chuck, trapping him in an egg. Meanwhile, Mario sneezes so hard that the King Virus (and a river of mucus) comes out from his nose, finally curing him of the strong cold. Meanwhile, a chilled Bowser has watched everything from hidden cameras and blames Kamek for his failed plan, while the wizard is curing him with Capsules.
Stage 6
クッパ
Bowser's Castle is in sight, but to reach it, the heroes need to pass over a cliff. Mario tries to fly over, but the ceiling has a bunch of hanging Parabombs, preventing flying over the cliff without touching them. Luigi notices a bridge of Dotted-Line Blocks, with Yoshi explaining that they need to find their corresponding ! Switch, hidden somewhere in the Dinosaur Land in a Switch Palace. Using the Star World, the three return to the Forest of Illusion.
They come across a pond where a sign reveals it is magic and inhabited by a kind and generous fairy. Mario tosses a Mushroom inside, but a text-box states that it is not enough, so Mario tosses all of their items. The fairy finally comes out and asks if they dropped their items or a pure gold Mushroom. Luigi tries to answer honestly, but Mario pushes him away and, driven by greed, replies they dropped both. Hating the liars, the fairy disappears, taking their items with her.
An old hooded man comes to them and asks if Mario can lend him his cape. Mario is about to refuse, but Luigi hits him with a hammer and gives him Mario's cape. To repay their kindness, the old man offers to guide them to "the Switch". They arrive at a clearing, where a light switch is present. Mario is furious that they have been led to the wrong place. Just then, the old man and the lake fairy reveal themselves to be a Koopa Troopa and a Sumo Bro respectively.
The two start a TV quiz show in which Mario has to guess the silhouette of an enemy behind a curtain. After failing to guess, the two Koopas make the enemy enter: it is the Reznors, which the Sumo Bro sends to Mario. Mario shoves Yoshi into their wheel, making three of them fall. The last Reznor standing charges at Mario, unable to be helped (due to the TV show rules) by his friends, and is sent flying, landing right on the Blue Switch Palace. Mario enters it, but inside, he finds an army of Spinies. Scared, Mario backs off right on a Gray P-Switch. After activating it, the Spinies turn into Gray Coins and Mario collects them, obtaining many 1-UPs.
The Reznor comes to the Switch Palace and orders Mario to come out, but an army of ninety-nine Marios comes out and attacks it. Luigi and Yoshi reach him and, after identifying the real Mario with a coin, the trio returns to the Valley of Bowser, but when they reach the bridge, Mario realizes that he forgot to activate the ! Switch.
Stage 7
ハックン
Now forced to take an alternative route to the castle, Mario decides to speed things up and use the Pegasus Boots he took from Hyrule (meanwhile in Hyrule, Link is having trouble finding them). With Yoshi and Luigi holding his cape, Mario runs towards the castle, but he does not manage to stop and goes past the castle. Bowser and Kamek notice them and happily see that they have just crashed into the Ninja Village.
After tossing away the "useless boots", darkness falls on the trio. Mario and Yoshi mistake it for night and go to sleep, but the "darkness" is revealed to be a Ninji army, led by the elder Hakkunsai, instructed to capture Mario and his friends. A net is tossed and the trio is captured. However, when the Ninjis uncover the net, Mario and his friends are gone, and some logs are in their place, making the Ninjis think they used a substitution technique. Hakkunsai gives the order to find them, but then the Ninjis see the logs sneakily escape: Mario and his friends are just disguised as logs.
Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi ditch the costumes and try to run for it. First, Mario triggers a trap and almost is stabbed by bamboo spears, but manages to block them. Mario grabs one of them and uses it to hit a Ninji on the head, causing a bump, but the Ninji substitutes the bump with a Pokey that is eaten by Yoshi. A female Ninji tries to avenge her friend by summoning a Blargg that bites and burns Luigi, however, Mario soaks the Blargg with a watering can, making it small like a lizard. Angry, Hakkunsai summons a giant frog, but the frog is an inflatable balloon and the female Ninji exaggerates with the pumping, making it pop.
Furious, Hakkunsai first throws a Grinder like a shuriken, but Mario manages to partially stop it, resulting in a little scratch. Hakkunsai then uses a Spinner and hits Luigi, sending him against a Hidden Block that was studying the Ninja way by spying the Ninji. Luigi asks him for help and is turned into an invincible star. Mario tosses him against the Ninjis, defeating them and hurting his brother in the process.
Stage 8
The trio has reached Larry's Castle, but Mario cannot help feeling sad for not having received chocolate for St. Valentine. In the castle, Mario finds a heart-shaped box on a Snake Block and jumps on to get it. The Snake Block takes him to Larry's floating platform. Larry commands the Snake Block to toss Mario in the lava. Mario is burnt, but is still alive, but the Snake Blocks repeatedly hit him and then crush him. Yoshi and Luigi take the flattened Mario and try to help him, but Mario is already dead.
Mario as a ghost appears and tries to be noticed by his friends, but cannot. Some Eeries come and drag him into Hell. In Hell, Mario meets a giant bearded Bowser: he presents himself as Enma Daiō, an ancestor of Bowser, and he was self-proclaimed to be his personal punisher for all the bad things he did to Bowser's minions and the deceased Koopalings. Mario is tossed in a pit where he faces all of his victims, from the first Goomba he ever crushed to Morton.
Morton is the first one to torture him with a deaf-tone song that knocks out all the ghosts. Mario tries to burn them with a fireball, but it does not work on the dead. For the second punishment, Mario is tossed in a sea of spikes, but Mario saves himself with the Statue form. A chipped spike hits one of the ghosts, and Mario finally finds a way to hurt them, continuing to break the spikes and launching at them. Furious, Enma summons Wendy's ghost.
Wendy's punishment is giving Mario's St. Valentine chocolate. Mario refuses, but they are forced down their throat. Wendy then reveals those were Bob-ombs covered in chocolate. One of the fuses is stuck in Mario's teeth, and Wendy ignites it. The ghosts start shoving Mario to the others, like a hot potato, until Mario is passed to Enma, and he burps an explosion to his face. Having had enough of this circus, Enma agrees that his successors can endure Mario a little longer and kicks him out of Hell and the afterlife. Mario resuscitates, scaring Luigi and Yoshi and angering Larry in the process.
Stage 9
It is time to fight Larry, but the Koopaling teleports away, far in the depths of the castle. The trio chases him, avoiding wooden spears and Spinners, but is soon blocked by a wall of blocks. Mario tries to smash the blocks using Yoshi as a club, but the hit block transforms into Dry Bones: the work of Kamek. Kamek, once again, turns himself invisible and gives Mario a difficult time. In the end, Luigi uses the Fire Flowers pollen to locate Kamek and Mario defeats him with a fireball.
The trio arrives at Larry's room. After being crushed by a Pillar, Mario is attacked by three Lava Bubbles but manages to barely grab to Larry's flying platform. Meanwhile, Yoshi finds the last of his eggs taken hostage by the Koopalings and reunites it with the other six eggs he kept in his belly. Larry orders the Fire Bubbles to burn Yoshi and his eggs. Yoshi puts himself in front of the eggs and manages to partially protect them from the Lava Bubbles.
The warmth helps the eggs hatch earlier and seven Baby Yoshis come out from them. The Babies eat the Lava Bubbles and then save Mario after Larry tosses him down his platform, giving him Super Mushroom syrup. Larry activates some cannons, but the Baby Yoshis eat the cannonballs and Mario jumps at him and kicks down the platform. Larry falls into the lava and is then eaten by the Babies. The Yoshi's eggs have been saved, and only Peach is left to rescue.
Stage 10
マウスは
While on their way to Bowser's Castle, the trio finds a big TV with a SNES and a copy of Mario Paint. Luigi starts to draw while Yoshi tries to. Mario asks him to make him a portrait. The first version comes out poorly, but with the second one, Yoshi draws Mario like he sees him: like a big and ugly monster (complete with tail, fangs and fire breath). About to cancel the drawing, Yoshi notices a strange and new icon with Bowser's face on it. After pressing it, the Monster Mario jumps out from the screen.
As he later tests with a watermelon, Yoshi discovers that the Bowser icon makes their drawing come to life. The Monster Mario attacks them. Yoshi tries to wash him out with water, but it does not work. He then runs to the mouse, but the Monster blocks him and pukes paint all over him. Mario tries to reach the mouse, but he is burned by the fire breath. Mario then throws a Super Mushroom to the mouse, making the eraser come out. Mario uses it to cut and defeat the Monster Mario.
At Bowser's Castle, Bowser is for once happy that Mario passed one of his traps: at least he can now remove the monsters he created with the Bowser icon.
Stage 11
クライマックス！！ マリオ
Part 1
After entering Bowser's Castle, Mario tries to locate the better door of the first hall, but an anthropomorphic Super Mushroom indicates to them a "good door": the one numbered "2.5". Mario, however, notices that it is too small for them, so the Mushroom makes them small, by hitting them with Fuzzies. The room, however, it is a trap: the Mushroom is revealed to be Kamek. Being small, the trio escapes from his spells and newspaper roll.
Running away, Mario realizes that he lost all of their power-ups (back in chapter 6), but they come across a Goomba who sells power-ups. Mario tries to buy a Super Star, but has just one coin, and the only thing he can afford is a yellow Koopa Shell. Kamek finds them and Mario, in order to avoid the spell, dives in the shell and becomes Shell Mario. He then strikes at Kamek, defeating him. Defeated, Kamek accepts in giving them back their normal sizes (not before getting a little revenge by enlarging Mario).
The trio reaches the second hall of doors and enters the 7th Door, a choice that makes Bowser happy. The three come across many fire-breathing Bowser Statues and a pair of a jumping variant. Even with a bit of difficulty, Mario and his friends take care of the statues. The Koopas are worried, but Bowser makes a larger statue emerge from a lava pool. Mario tries to break it with a punch, but it is harder than the other statues. This is because it is the re-built Mekakuppa, repainted to be disguised as a statue. However, being poorly re-built, the Mekakuppa ends up shattering itself after a missed punch that hits the wall. After a cape twirl, the Mekakuppa is destroyed, making Bowser upset.
Part 2
Some Ninjis are preparing an ambush in the castle's dark hall. Mario and his friends arrive and try to use a lightbulb, trying to attach the plug. Luigi turns on the spotlight, and Mario notices he was plugging it to Yoshi's nostrils, making him sneeze and blowing the leaping Ninjis straight into the lava. The rooftop of the castle is reached, and the trio faces Bowser (who fell asleep while waiting for them) on his Koopa Clown Car, where Peach is trapped, Bowser even teases Mario by tying Peach and using her like a yo-yo.
The final battle begins: Bowser throws Mechakoopas, but Yoshi eats them all and spits a ball of them at Bowser, hitting him. Angry, Bowser flips his flying transportation and makes a Steely fall, but Mario sends it back with a golf club. Angrier than before, Bowser steals a Cape Feather from the Item Stock and becomes Caped Bowser, but his massive weight does not let him fly, though he crushes Luigi and Yoshi in the process. To help Mario, Peach tosses a Super Mushroom, but Bowser leans forwards and eats it and his head becomes larger. With a powerful and giant headbutt, Bowser defeats Mario, then traps him and his friends under the flipped Koopa Clown Car.
With Mario finally defeated, Bowser can finally commence his wedding with Peach, to which the whole Koopa Troop is invited. During the ceremony, Peach refuses to exchange the vows and, right at that moment, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi pop out from the wedding cake: the trio escaped from the Koopa Clown Car thanks to Yoshi, who ate an escape hole in the transportation. Bowser orders his minions to attack them, but they are all asleep thanks to the alcohol they drank. Only the underwater minions are awake in their water tanks, but they can not do much outside water.
Bowser is not finished yet and calls to him the non-living obstacles: Skewers, Grinders, Spinners, Chainsaws, Hotheads and Lil Sparkies. Each of the heroes is hit. Mario asks Luigi to pass him their power-ups, but the Grinder that passed over him destroyed them. Yoshi saves Mario from an incoming Skewer that hits a wall, breaking it. On the other side, Mario finds some captured power-ups. Bowser tries to stop them, but is hit with a hammer by Peach. Mario frees the power-ups and, using their combined powers, destroys the obstacles and the entire castle. Bowser is defeated and the trio happily returns to Yoshi's Island with Peach, the Baby Yoshis, and a tied-up Bowser.
4-komas
ピーチとクッパのスーパークリスマス (Super Christmas with Peach and Bowser)
- クリスマスツリー (Christmas Tree): While making the Christmas tree, Peach asks Bowser to help her to decorate it by passing her the streamers. Bowser accepts and rummages in the box, grabbing the first fuzzy and yellow thing he finds. Doing this, Bowser is shocked by grabbing Lil Sparkies and Hotheads.
- クリスマスケーキ (Christmas cake): Peach just finished baking a Christmas cake. Some Lava Bubbles ask her to have a little taste, but as soon as they get close, the cake melts, being an ice-cream cake.
- くつ
下 (Socks): Peach is upset that she does not have a place to keep her gifts. Bowser consoles her by giving her his big sock, but she uses it as a warm sleeping bag. - カメックショー (Kamek's show): Kamek is making a magic show, but Peach is not impressed by any of the tricks. Furious, Kamek teleports her in midair.
- グースカショー (Rip Van Fishes' show): A shoal of Rip Van Fishes will do a Christmas chorus. On the stage, there is a Mario cutout. Bowser removes it, but the Rip Van Fishes fall asleep: the cutout was needed to keep them awake.
- マリオからのプレゼント (A gift from Mario): Peach receives a gift from Mario, but Bowser confiscates it to check if there is something that can help her escape, but when he opens it, it is revealed to be a trap for him: after a giant explosion, Bowser and the entire Koopa Troop have fake Santa's beards attached to them. Meanwhile, Peach is laughing at this prank.
Christmas Tree
Christmas cake & Socks
Kamek's show & Rip Van Fishes' show
A gift from Mario
Puzzles
マリオスーパー
- It's a Super Maze using Mario's characters! Break through the bone maze and beat Dry Bones at the goal!
- The second Super Maze is a maze that uses Monty Mole as its base. Let's go with Yoshi squeezing us and aim for the goal!
Gallery
Cape Mario and Yoshi from volume 4's back cover
Bony Beetle altar
Mario's Zelda save file
Disguised Koopa Troopa and Sumo Brother
Blue Switch Palace's interior and last Reznor fight
Monty Mole ghost
Dead Mario and an Eerie
Yoshi and a Baby Yoshi on a Super NES Mouse
Mario on a Pipe Frame
Mario and two Bowser Statues
Phase 1 of the final battle (Mechakoopa)
Phase 2 (Big Steely)
Trivia
- The second 4-koma introduces, for the first time in the Super Mario franchise, Peach's passion to bake cakes.
- Due to the Spinies infesting it, it is revealed that the Switch Palace in chapter 6 is the Forest of Illusion's one, the Blue Switch Palace. However, in the previous volume, Mario and his friends were still in the forest when they fought the mind-controlled Rex and defeated it by pressing the ! Switch and raining ! Blocks on it.
- In chapter 9, it is revealed that all the seven Yoshi's Eggs were rescued, even though Mario and his friends skipped Lemmy's Castle, and Roy was fought outside his castle.
