If you’re trying for a little bit of lightness this vacation season for you and the children, then hopefully you’ve been saving up a bunch of those It’s Me, Mario! shorts. Nintendo has been sharing these on its family-friendly Play Nintendo YouTube Channel since August 2025.
Episode 5 dropped in a single day and options Mario with Yoshi and Toad, who are enjoying a easy sport of hide-and-seek. Mario must discover both of his mates, who have discovered devious locations to keep themselves out of the plumber’s eyesight.
And look, we’re extraordinarily partial to stop-motion animation, but Yoshi and Toad look notably cute; we love the little Super Mario World nod with the trees and the fruit, and Toad is… effectively, Toad! He can disguise in some fairly simple locations in the Mushroom Kingdom.
All 5 shorts have some pretty little callbacks to the Mario collection as a entire, so while the children might delight in the pretty colors and animations, dad and mom (or grandparents, or uncles, aunts — whoever!) can get all nostalgic. You can see all 5 presently launched episodes in this playlist.
The It’s Me, Mario! shorts are really designed to promote the My Mario vary of toys for younger kids, which were launched in Japan back in August this yr. A range of these are coming to the US in 2026.
Are you a fan of these stop-motion shorts? Will you be grabbing some My Mario merchandise next yr? Let us know in the feedback.