The Koopalings are NOT Bowser's Children.

[Cirdec]

Suppose that Bowser isn't a playboy

Because he's supposed to be one?

 

[Walkazo]

Maybe they're adopted.

EDIT: DOGGAMNIT CRACKIN AND MnSG.

Dude, I said they were adopted hours before either of them did:

For all I know, Bowser may have adopted the Koopalings while they were still younglings, while Bowser Jr. is his true offspring.

Maybe he adopted them. Then technically, they wouldn't be His children.

No way man. Bowser adopted the older ones, fathered a kid with some anonymous baby mama whilst blowing off steam over his unrequited love for Peach, and then disowned the first seven to make things simpler.

Where are my curses props? Also:

Triple Ninja'd

Fixed. :P


But seriously,

Take this for what it's worth because according to this guy http://www.mariowiki.com/User_talk:LinkTheLefty#Koopaling_mannerisms_in_the_SMB3_manual. the original Japanese manual does imply that the Koopalings are Bowser's kids (at least one part of it seems to directly state it does in the context that it's read)

Yeah, as I said in my earlier post, I also got the "not explicitly said, but the implications are pretty damn obvious" impression from the one scan of the SMB3 manual that you posted. Annoyingly, I couldn't find the full manual or any other Japanese manuals (which is weird: you'd think someone somewhere would have uploaded that sorta thing by now, although maybe I was just using the wrong Japanese keywords), so I can't really comment further on that front. But I can confirm that ore-sama no kodomo-tachi translates to "my group of children" (with the "me" part being a rather self-aggrandizing pronoun-honorific combo), so if the quotation's genuine, I'd say that's pretty solid confirmation that they were originally his kids in Japan too.

The only thing I don't agree with out of LTL's comments is the idea that Miyamoto's current "not his kids" stance is because of how the Japanese staff interpret old quotes. Shiggy only said they currently don't use that story, not that he and his Nintendo never intended them to be his kids, with that story being a product of NoA misinterpreting stuff, or whatever. If anything, Miyamoto's statement confirms that the kids story was used in the past, otherwise the "current" specification wouldn't have been necessary.

 

[Specific Neptune]

When Walkazo posts..she REALLY posts.

Btw, how's Pantaro, Walky?

 

[Walkazo]

You bet I do.

He's raeging about the new school year already, but otherwise, he's good. It's nice of you to ask

 

[Specific Neptune]

It's nice to hear from old users, even if we didn't get along very well. :P

 

[2257]

QUICK SOMEBODY TRANSLATE THIS PICTURE

is this why you asked me about this

you know, you could have just asked if it said they were his kids anywhere. i would have told you

Annoyingly, I couldn't find the full manual or any other Japanese manuals (which is weird: you'd think someone somewhere would have uploaded that sorta thing by now, although maybe I was just using the wrong Japanese keywords),

http://www.geocities.jp/frnyanko/setsumei/famicom/supermario3/supermario3.html

the word you want is probably 説明書

he calls them 俺様の息子達, by the way

「ワッハハ。これから俺様の息子達がこのゲームの説明をするぜ。
息子達の言うことをよーく聞いてせいぜいガンバルことだな。ワッハハ。」

 

[Dorayaki]

Take this for what it's worth because according to this guy http://www.mariowiki.com/User_talk:LinkTheLefty#Koopaling_mannerisms_in_the_SMB3_manual. the original Japanese manual does imply that the Koopalings are Bowser's kids (at least one part of it seems to directly state it does in the context that it's read)

he calls them 俺様の息子達, by the way

「ワッハハ。これから俺様の息子達がこのゲームの説明をするぜ。
息子達の言うことをよーく聞いてせいぜいガンバルことだな。ワッハハ。」

So just like I said, the manual was from SMB3 era which was before the Super Mario Show series. The old staff gave many uncertain and different story vrsios, such as Mario bros' hometown and relatives, or DKJr who is a deleted character.
Probably the staff would deny the introduction that others' did in SMB era. What we need is the manual introduction of NSMB.

In SEGA's Sonic series, they do establish an official site and list the main characters' formal introductions, but Nintendo seems never volunteer to do it.

 

[Post-Damage Invincibility]

This brings to mind Where were you and what were you doing when you first found out about this?

 

[GalacticPetey]

You act like this is such an important thing. I don't really care, nor do I care where I was when I found out.

 

[Xiahou Ba]

You act like this is such an important thing. I don't really care, nor do I care where I was when I found out.

To Koopalings fans, it is

 

[Gumball Machine]

The fact that the koopalings aren't Bowser's kids does make sense to a degree because they barely look like Bowser what with their different colored shells (even before NSMBW, we had green, pink and gray), hair colors/ (we have blue, rainbow, and bald) and body shapes (Iggy's NSMBW design). The only way they could be Bowser's kids would be if the mom had traits of all 7 koopalings.