Nintendo pulls as much paper as they can out of their manuals these days, but all those pretty pictures and fat infos have got to end up somewhere. And somewhere they have landed indeed! Hit the Home button on your GamePad while playing a game, tap the "Manual" button, and voilĂ .
The Wii U manuals are actually extremely similar to the 3DS ones, which themselves were incubated on DSiWare titles.