Super Mario-kun(スーパーマリオくんSūpā Mario-kun) is a Japanese comedy kodomo manga series written and illustrated by Yukio Sawada and serialized in the monthly manga anthology CoroCoro Comic. Individual chapters are collected into tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan, who released the first volume on July 27, 1991, and have released 39 volumes as of March 27, 2009. The series has not been licensed outside of Japan. It follows Mario and his friends through the plot lines of many Mario video games, starting in Super Mario World and reaching as far as Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.