Super Mario Bros. vintage anime gets 4K remaster — here’s how to watch it

A new and comprehensive restoration of the 1986 Super Mario Bros. anime, scanned in 4K resolution from an original print of the film, is now available to stream on YouTube or download from the Internet Archive for your home viewing pleasure. While the film has been available to watch on YouTube for years, this new version of Super Mario Bros. – The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach is a clean, color-corrected, and newly subtitled remaster of Nintendo’s first foray into anime.

According to a description of the remaster from Femboy Films, the team behind the project, the scan of Super Mario Bros. – The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach comes from a “16mm reduction print likely used for small, local screenings back in the day” believed to be “one of the, if not THE only surviving print in the world.”

The new remaster features a brand-new audio recording using the VHS source. “The VHS was originally released with 2-channel Dolby Surround, which is preserved in the audio capture here,” Femboy Films says. “This reflects most accurately how the film would have sounded in cinemas, as it was released with 4-channel Dolby Stereo there.” New English-language subtitles, including translation of the anime’s music, is also available.

You may download the anime in many formats from the Internet Archive ..

Super Mario Bros. The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach a comedy-adventure film from 1986 which follows the events in Super Mario Bros . somewhat loosely. After Princess Peach escapes from Mario’s game world and enters Mario’s, King Koopa (aka Bowser), pursues her and force her to go back to the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario and Luigi are grocery-store workers. A Dumpling Dog lures them to the Mushroom Kingdom in order to save the princess. Wacky misadventures ensue.

The anime has a lot of strangeness that Nintendo wouldn’t recognize as canon. This includes ol’ Dumpling Dog and Prince Haru from the Flower Kingdom. There are also Goombas with arms and Luigi sipping sake. Super Mario Bros.-The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach is a great movie.