October 31, 2016
[Comic] Donkey Kong ‘94 Wonder Life mini-comic

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In collaboration with dkgirder.com, here’s my newest scanlation project! The official Nintendo “Wonder Life Special” guide for Donkey Kong (Game Boy), aka DK94, contained a short comic by Kotobuki Shiriagari about Mario and DK Junior having a little adventure together. I.M. Gibbon ( @imtherealgibbon​ ) scanned it for me and I’ve translated it from Japanese into English.

Unlike a lot of manga, this is in colour and also printed in English-style left-to-right. This makes it very natural for English readers to digest. There are a couple of cultural allusions though; big pipes are common in Japanese playgrounds apparently! You might know Shiriagari for his absurdist, surreal manga and art, or you might know him as the guy who did Mona’s comic strip collection for WarioWare DIY (which you can read here)! His style certainly shines through in this comic, it’s quite funny. I also like seeing Mario and Junior being pals (and shaving their body/facial hair).

As always, check out the scanlation tag on this blog for more of my comic projects. Sorry it’s been a while between comics!

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November 9, 2014

I’ve just got done playing through most of Game & Watch Gallery 3, finding anything Donkey Kong-related. I specifically want to mention what a good job they did with the modern version of DK Jr., with a pic of the Classic mode too for comparison. Similarly to the modern Donkey Kong in GWG2, there’s multiple stages, new Mario series enemies, and plenty of colour in the updated version. I also like how you progress from day to evening to night.

I’m not going to do a full review of the game, but it’s an improvement on the second/third one (Australia got an extra zeroth edition in the series for some reason). The presentation’s pretty similar to 2, specifically the GBC version, but it’s got more unlockables and a little map to walk around where the extras are.

I was also impressed by the amount of Yoshi content. Egg and Greenhouse in particular have you playing as Yoshi and bring in Cookie and Island elements respectively, and turtle bridge has Toad jumping over Goonies, a rare intersection of Toad with the Yoshi series.

As a whole the game’s mostly iterative, especially when played right after 2. What I’ve seen of the Advance one though looks like it goes well above and beyond. Looking forward to that.

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