We learned a fan has translated the 90s Super Mario movie manga, based on the infamous live-action movie.

The manga, which is fully called Super Mario: Goddess of the Demon Empire (Super Mario: Makaiteikoku no Megami), follows the story as told in the 1993 – but in a highly condensed form.

The original Hollywood film starred Bob Hoskins as Mario, John Leguizamo as Luigi, Dennis Hopper as King Koopa, and Samantha Mathis as Princess Daisy.

Upon release the film was considered a financial failure which didn’t even manage to recoup its budget. Thanks to its poor performance, Super Mario Bros. remained the only live-action film of a Nintendo IP for over 25 years until 2019’s Detective Pikachu.

You can find out more about the scanslation effort for the Super Mario movie manga at the translator’s Tumblr here.

An adaptation of the 1993 live-action movie Super Mario Bros., this one-shot heavily truncates the story. It was published in Shogakukan’s Monthly Corocoro Comic Summer Holiday Special 1993.

Daisy requests the help of the Mario Brothers to save her flooded excavation site. She is abducted by Iggy and Spike and taken to an alternate dimension ruled by the tyrant Koopa. Mario and Luigi follow her and soon confront Koopa, who needs a meteorite piece to merge their two dimensions. Fungus-related shenanigans ensue. Can the plumbers stop Koopa from taking over the “surface world” with his de-evolution guns?

Possibly emboldened by the success of Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog, a 3D animated Super Mario film has been announced starring Chris Pratt as Mario.

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