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“1989 Japan-only anime shorts retell Momotaro, Issunboshi, and Snow White with Mario characters.”
Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Brothers
アマダアニメシリーズ スーパーマリオブラザーズ
4.76
14,422 rank · 4,098 viewers · 14 favorites
Adventure
Comedy
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Synopsis
1989 Japan-only anime shorts retell Momotaro, Issunboshi, and Snow White with Mario characters.
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. (Source: AniDB)
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Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
3.8
/10
What 9 viewers settled on.
20%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 5
σ 1.69
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.69 · some divergence
The polarity gap
4.0 pts
Recommenders 6.0 · others 2.0
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Score over time
↓ 1.22
Running avg · Dec 2008 → Jul 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 5 “The animation is very limited for the time and the stories are quite basic the characters aren't that developed either but the voice acting is decent although some like the Tom Thumb-type story...”
- 1 “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...”
- 5 “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...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 33%
Long · 33%
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A Ova Production
Studio Junio.- Format 3 × 11′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 33m all episodes
- Aired Aug 1989 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-3607 catalog