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A review by vinceyface
Super Mario Manga Mania by Yukio Sawada
1.0
Swing and a big miss for me. I REALLY wanted to enjoy this, I was so hyped to get proper English translations of the various Mario manga... but boy howdy is this... not great. I can see kids enjoying it, but I can also see them being bored by it. Instead of giving us full translations like the Legend of Zelda manga, we are treated to a best of collection. Chapters are missing the context of their full story (though they do have a small note from the author to contextualize them), the jokes are SO plentiful but also feel like they're missing something in the shift from their original Japanese to a comparable English version.
I think the biggest issue for me is that with just small snippets nothing has room to breathe. Reading these chapters is exhausting, it's rapid-fire nonsense with no context and no pacing. I want to like this, I really really do, but this is just bad.
I think the biggest issue for me is that with just small snippets nothing has room to breathe. Reading these chapters is exhausting, it's rapid-fire nonsense with no context and no pacing. I want to like this, I really really do, but this is just bad.