Introduction
The Super Mario Amada Series are a series of short Japanese fairy tales anime that is found and released only in Japan. The series are released in August 3, 1989 once again only in Japan; making it extremely rare to people not living in Japan.
The series is based on one of the three Japanese fairy tales that are told to children. Additionally, the series contained Mario series that are played in the three short Japanese fairy tales. The characters introduced Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, and his Koopalings during the fairy tales. Each fairy tale shown in anime consists of about 15 minutes. The three Japanese fairy tales contain; Momotaro, Issunboshi, and Snow White.
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Audience reviews
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passing_through
Guys, this anime is fine. I'm serious. I honestly don't understand what all the hate is about, except that the best-quality videos we can find ripped from a VHS are pretty poor quality. In fact, the only reason I'm putting this as a 6 and not a 7 is because of how poor the quality of the anime I could find was. Other than that, I enjoyed the stories, I thought the voice acting had good emotional connotations in it (better than whatever happened with the Yoshi anime), and I just had fun and wanted to know what happens next in every scene.
So yes, the Super Mario Brothers OVA is a retelling of three fairy tales in the style of Mario. (I originally thought that they were non-canon origin stories at first, but nope they're fairy tales.) The first is Momotaro, a boy who is born out of a peach,…
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One would think that Mario characters and fairy tales would be a combination that works, but “Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Brothers” is just silly. I can tolerate a lot of the liberties taken in the three stories in this short OVA. A mustachioed baby Mario? Sure. Queen Bowser? Okay. Princess Peach being the granddaughter of two Koopas? It’s a stretch, but an understandable decision. The issue is that the stories don’t make logical sense. Stuff just happens without rhyme or reason, and characters do things that seem incredibly unrealistic, even by fairy tale standards. Given the fact that the stories are short and based on existing material, the writing here is inexcusably sloppy.
The animation is also quite bad. It’s somewhere between full animation and storybook-style limited animatio…
Read at the sourceBurntFlower
‘The Monkey’s Paw’ was a short horror story written in the early 20th century, which centered on a mysterious primate’s hand that would grant three wishes to whomever found it. Written as a cautionary tale, each wish carried a grave price – poverty, madness, or even death. It served as a warning not to fight against fate and be thankful for what you have.
In 1989, a Japanese child came across the mythical monkey’s paw and wished for her favorite video game franchise to become an anime. It is the only logical explanation that I have for the existence of this monstrosity, ‘Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Brothers’.
Each episode has its own self-contained story and is a retelling of a classic tale. I do not know which executive producer greenlit this project, or what Nintendo was smoking t…
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If the cover to the series hasn't given you any indication on what's in store, then watching it might accentuate what horrible scenarios await. The Anime tries to cash in folklore tales with Super Mario characters, doing so in a way that one would want to just keep skipping to see how it all ends rather than watching it unfold before their very own eyes. It does not seem to work. The fact that Mario would then carry a machine gun in an episode simply slams a hard deserving nail on an spacious coffin. There is simply no means to describe just how horrific this small series is overall. Stick to playing mario games instead.
Read at the sourceVoltairesBong
This is just so horrible. Everything about this is terrible! None of these three stories are at all related, they start Mario off with a different origin every time. So none of these 11 minute episodes even feel like episodes, they just feel like very short very very badly produced movies. None of which have a plot that would pass the standards for a Mario game story line, not even one geared to toddlers. Every woman who contributed to this should be thrown in prison. Every man who contributed to this should be forced into publicly undergoing surgical castration to repent for their sins.
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Okay, imagine for a minute that Nintendo licensed Mario out to someone who just horribly, horribly abused it, created the schlockiest, most garbage product with it, and what do you call it?
No, it's not the Philips CD-I
It's the long forgotten, defective cousin AniMario!
I don't think Shigeru Miyamoto knew about this one. If he did, I think he would have died of shame before Mario ever made it to the 90s.
We've got three OVAs here, which are Japanese rips of fairy tales. The second one is Thumbelina, the last one is Snow White, and I have no freaking clue what the first one was supposed to be. We'll call it Schlocklestiltskin.
In Schlocklestiltskin, Princess Peach is born to... Koopa Troopa grandparents, and is abducted by Bowser, who is king of the intergalactic space jewelry pirates…
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The Mario Brothers are two of the most iconic, if not the most iconic, video game characters ever created. The game franchise has had a whole slew of installments, most of which are remembered fondly. Some of which are reviled. Specifically, Hotel Mario on the CD-I and the “edutainment” titles like Mario is Missing and Mario's Time Machine. Naturally, it has had some other media. Including one of the worst Hollywood movies ever made and some horrendous American cartoons from DIC. Was the character treated with any more respect by Japanese animated studios? Let's look at Studio Junio's Mario Brothers OVA from 1989 to find out.
Story:
Each episode tells a different story very loosely based on a fairy tale. Which I will be going over individually because this insanity merits close inspect…
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What, there is actually a Super Mario Anime?? Yeah that was pretty much my thoughts when I found out, in fact there a few versions of it.......plus a movie! This review however, will be regarding the title: "Amada Anime Series: Super Mario." (which come as three 13 minute OVAs)
Story: 4/10
Well it certainly doesn't stay linear that's for sure, basically all three OVAs tell a different style of story, two of which show different origins of Mario himself. (one as a Tom thumb character, the other has him born from a peach in space) These stories play out more like a wacky fairytale than anything else. While Princess Peach and Mario do face off against Bowser in ever episode, its done untrue to the video game before it, which may bum out some fans of the game. We only get backstory and depth…
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