It's only after I've got over forty gigabytes of assorted scans on my hard drive and half my floorspace covered in books, magazines and assorted gubbins do I realise - I scan a lot of things! Like, a lot of things!
Maybe I oughta share them sometime!
Assorted raw scans can be be found on MEGA:
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This page also serves as big dumb research into Japan-only magazines and manga anthologies, with links to scans and translations from other folks when available.
Feel free to distribute these images as you please. A link back to this page wouldn't hurt if just so people know where to find the rest (nobody was talking about GO! Ketsu Wario until I raised a stink about it, goshdarnit!), but it's a free country.
Interested in translating these? Feel free, and tell me about it! I want to support such endeavours in any way I can, and I'm willing to commission!
If any official body representing the properties scanned here doesn't approve of the images being publicly available, contact me! I cower real easy!
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By Tatsuhiko Matsuda (松田辰彦), ran in Televi-Kun (てれびくん, also referred to as Telebi-Kun or TV-Kun) from roughly July 1986 until December 2000. It rebranded a few times towards the end of its run:
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Televi-Kun is a magazine focusing mostly on sentai shows like Kamen Rider and Ultraman, geared towards teeny tiny kids with lots of colourful pages, craft activities and silly extras. Ganbare Mario is a silly adventure comic recapping the games with kid-friendly gags and gaffs.
Six books were released between 1991 and 1998, the first three covering Super Mario World, the 4th all about Super Mario Land 2, and the last two for Super Mario 64; all books feature full-colour content, though the original printings were in limited colour. All content before and after has never been reprinted, and it's likely the books are incomplete too.
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October 2000Donkey Kong bumbles through the first challenges of Jungle Japes. |
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By Kouya Anna (公弥杏捺), ran in Monthly Manga Boys (月刊マンガボーイズ) from April 1995 until the magazine's conclusion in August 1995. A shonen manga take on Donkey Kong Country starring devilishly handsome apes. Collected in a single volume. The back cover proposes an adaptation of Donkey Kong Country 2 that never came to be. |
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By Goro Yamada (山田ゴロ), ran in TV Magazine (テレビマガジン) from January 1991 until June 2006. A simplistic adventure series meant for a very young audience, with simplistic writing and gags; occasionally presented as a full-colour comic pack-in. Never reprinted outside of the magazine. |
TV Magazine was published by Kodansha and much in the same vein as Telebi-Kun, targeting a tiny baby audience with primarily Super Sentai content. It seems to have more varied content with a focus on the latest hot trends, be it Digimon, Transformers, or even B-Daman Bakugaiden.
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June 2000Bowser races the plumbers to reach a shooting star first. |
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