GTV Japan | Super Mario Bros 3 King's Room Appears in a Bonoron Manga Story?! @GTV-Japan | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
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Episode information
GTV 4 "Bonoron the Forest Warrior" Season 1 Episode 4
Original Airdate: March 31, 2016
Produced March 27-28 2016
Remastered Version: Produced January 30th, 2023
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, and Topaz AI. All paid for with Gainful Employment™

This video was remastered along with others to improve the quality of these older videos with better equipment and knowhow that I have at my disposal that i did not have back then. The original video was very simply recorded on an iPhone and I was never happy with the final result. Now it looks more in line with what more modern GTV videos look like, while still retaining that 2016, "unknown nobody with 29 subscribers" charm.



For the best print on video be sure to check out these past episodes, because It’s All In Books!


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Club Nintendo youtu.be/TM3oL-xoCO0
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Mega Man 3 Protoman’s Rebirth (Part Two) youtu.be/8MnI91aSrPk
Cosmic Fantasy Manga Part 1 youtu.be/K1W4yWQmkro
Cosmic Fantasy Manga Part 2 youtu.be/VPs0HT-TNJM
Hulk Hogan’s Manga Mania 5 youtu.be/T2O7_EBl3rE
Mega Man 4 Dr. Cossack’s Ambition (Part One) youtu.be/Lf15xKmOfJU
Mega Man 4 Dr. Cossack’s Ambition (Part Two) youtu.be/QeFOMkWE3Uc
Super Mario Land 3 COMING SPRING 2023
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Transcript
Meet Bonoron, The Forest Warrior, the star of a small bi-monthly children’s manga book in Japan. On the 15th day of every even numbered month, you can pick up a new at 7-11, for free! And they even include a 7-11 in each issue as well! In the world of Bonoron, the gentle giant lives in the forest under a giant mulberry tree, coming to the rescue of humans of nearby kingdoms whenever trouble occurs. It’s good for children, but also pretty useful for adults who are studying Japanese. The stories are written with furigana, and are simple, but still interesting and have a lot of fantasy and medieval elements. In The February / March 2016 issue, A Country Without Singing, the king’s daughter, who had a beautiful singing voice, became sick and died young. In his grief, the king outlawed all music throughout the kingdom. A village girl still wishes to sing and Bonoron helps her by carrying her voice on the wind, which the king hears, leading to a change of heart. After hearing the girl’s singing, music is allowed in the kingdom once more. It’s a nice story, but there’s one panel in the book that made me pause and take notice…. look familiar????