Let's be realistic, should Super Mario-kun get an english adaptation?

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Would it not sell well, or is Nintendo missing out on some big money gain?
Is it "appropriate for America"? As when it comes to some art products from Japan, I often hear they worry Americans "just wouldn't get it".
Do people love Super Mario Adventures? Would that be a tell if people would love Mario-kun?
Are the other Nintendo comics/manga doing well? I hear there's Zelda ones on the market.
 
yasss I want to read the SPM arc so badly
 
Wallop said:
Would it not sell well, or is Nintendo missing out on some big money gain?
Is it "appropriate for America"? As when it comes to some art products from Japan, I often hear they worry Americans "just wouldn't get it".
Do people love Super Mario Adventures? Would that be a tell if people would love Mario-kun?
Are the other Nintendo comics/manga doing well? I hear there's Zelda ones on the market.
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I feel right now that Kun would sell good in America. Super Mario Maker gave the first incite to this manga and I feel people are interested to find it translated.

Some part of the manga are a bit about Japan and I don't fully get it but the Japanese jokes (I guess that's what I'll call them) are few.

Super Mario Adventures was a big hit in America so that could also help Mario Kun. But, some things are different between the two. Mainly how Peach is portrayed. Peach in Adventures is independent and will fight against Bowser. In Kun Peach sometimes just lets herself get kidnapped.

I believe the international release to the LoZ manga is doing pretty well. Well enough to be at my library which doesn't have many video game related materials.
 
At first, I would've said yes, since France and Spain got their own versions, and the chibi designs did interest me.

But then yesterday I caught wind from here that the manga kinda goes overboard with the toilet humor... And that ain't my cup of tea... So while I'm not completely against an English release, my personal interest in reading it has considerably gone down due to this revelation (unless that's exaggeration; every screenshot I've seen doesn't display such jokes, so I'm really confused about the whole thing).
 
Mcmadness said:
You'd probably be disappointed by it to be honest. It's a very short adaptation.
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It spans three volumes. There's plenty of fan-service.

I've owned all three Partners in Time arcs and I love them all.
 
Should? Yeah, why the hell not.

Could? I suppose the emphasis on toilet and crude humour (cue naked Burt the Bashful pic) might have scared off western licensers, esp. considering Mario's target audience. France is the 2nd biggest manga market in the world and is much less uptight about bodily humour so I'm not surprised they were the first to official translate it (don't know about Spain though).
 
They should localize Dr. Mario-Kun instead so people can finally adopt the headcanon of Count Bleck having long claws, Luigi turning into a haunted house, and Waluigi cooking a strange cuisine.
 
Redshift said:
They should localize Dr. Mario-Kun instead so people can finally adopt the headcanon of Count Bleck having long claws, Luigi turning into a haunted house, and Waluigi cooking a strange cuisine.
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where can find this glorious manga