Link’s awakening manga (the other one) Legally distinct chain chomp… If I had a nickel for every piece of media that revolves around destroying the premise of the media in order to awaken a person from their slumber I would have a few nickels but if link’s awakening was made like in a current decade they’d definitely make the windfish more fourth wall breaking Drawn to Life 2 has like this exact premise so clearly the dream game is a prevalent thing Since the game was remade for the switch and echoes of wisdom uses the same art style I hope they do the same for oracles and make it all shiny and give the third game too but not like in terms of “releasing three of the exact same game” just make it a bundle thing.

Ive never played a Zelda in my life, closest I had was watching YouTubers play them. I did read a few mangas and watch a playthrough or two... Four swords, majora’s mask, uhhh, oracles. I should probably play at least one in my life, for the gamer points. (Knowing me I’m just gonna reread the mangas.)

Ngl it’s just a series I’ve heard of and seen but never had any major intense desire to play. Anyways guess what I did, I just reread a bunch of mangas and added some new ones. This was like from end of August to September so I'll put it in september.

Oracles

The art style’s pretty nice for like all of them and they’re mostly one volume reads Link is so cute in seasons he just has a little baby bird with him The whole thing about Zelda being a reincarnation cycle is pretty funny though because like link and Zelda are like destined partners and then Ganon is also there like “hey guys” Link doesn’t want to serve the monarchy, he’s chill AF. He goes on his journey to figure out what he wants to do, but it’s also funny how he calls the triforce the “triangle punk.” There’s not really many manga adaptions that work with an in game silent protagonist now that I think about it because Pokespe Red is a yapper. I guess it’s just for the sake of narrative convenience to ignore that.

Does oracle of seasons count as an Isekai I feel like that word has lost all meaning

Unfortunately this is one of those things I’ve also noticed in manga but when a character is tan they just default to white sometimes There’s a lot to think about when you need to condense like an entire game into a single volume in a story, huh… Like the way Link gets his items and meets his like animal friends where it would probably be like 2 text boxes in the game The bird chick Piyoko is probably nonexistent too And Maple joined too and I’m pretty sure in the game she was just like a random encounter It’s like he’s making an RPG party It was alright.

Oracle of Ages

They had a supercut of oracle of seasons just in case you didn’t buy it I’m always thinking about how they had a secret password system for the two games to connect and how there was supposed to be a third game for the green one like pokemon but it never happened Nayru said “I can see everything” which is kind of terrifying, do you remember like Percy Jackson when they had that terrifying snake lady who spoke in riddles and prophecies

Hiiii Ralph Time travel! The art contrast between link and his ancestor is INSANE When you collab with your friend who has a totally different art style So the whole tower was built for that one pirate captain who is already dead and a skeleton Ohhh it’s just like Mr. Bones… (sega Saturn) Sir Raven the GOAT This one’s a bit more I guess… rushed feeling because it’s like the plot points are going by chapter like a speedrun of Veran going “yoink” whenever she needs to. I know it’s like that in the game too tbh but like no one is questioning the behavior switch at all. Link gained not only a time traveling horse but altered history to feature himself in it I looked and it’s the same artist for nearly all the Zelda manga? Impressive.

Himekawa Akira.

Ocarina of Time

They are so mean to him… what is link though, he’s clearly not a fairy forest kid He’s a hylian. Aight. I like how link got to meet Zelda in this one and he didn’t have to do that annoying stealth quest They straight up skipped the adult link portion entirely though they put it in a single panel and then immediately said “we’re going to majora’s mask now.” Actually I was wrong. I switched to the wrong tab and started reading majora’s mask instead. The art style was the same and I really said “kinda crazy they skipped that” without any extra thought

Majora’s Mask

Time travel. Do you think this would have more of an emotional impact if you had played majora’s mask Yeah probably The masks are dead people What about majora Idk They did not have the crying moon detail here Those two and the power of hope wins again Nah it’s cuz fierce deity link locked in

Ocarina of time continued

Zelda said “link WILL kill you” and you know what, he did Link has a ponytail for his hat?! (Does anyone remember that one interview where it’s like during twilight princess they were like we need to get rid of the hat because its too big so people keep asking what’s under the hat lol)

Why did ganondorf have the evil organ He just did He lost 7 years of this life for the mission and then when he was done he was turned back into a kid and now he’s an adult stuck with a childhood he never had and his innocence was lost Skull kid Hi skull kid!

Link to the Past (akira)

There’s another Zelda manga artist making adaptions so now I gotta specify

He just wanted to pick apples with his uncle. He just keeps getting reincarnated into a sad cycle except for the wind waker universe where that kid said “DIE” and killed ganon

Link to the past (Ataru)

He had to see his uncle die again zelda tried to kill link immediately she had zero hesitation Zelda's various fits compared to links one tunic

in this world there is a secret technique to turn into a crystal why would this be needed plot convinience

will this new oc guy betray link, keep reading to find out the answer is... he waited 600 years in the dark world trying to leave and revive his parents and then he didn't get to leave sad

power of friendship go might be the best thing to do it cuz i'll always pop off whenever it happens

the authors love giving link his own new ancestor guy who isn't link

ocarina of time 3d one shot



this guy draws link really good

hand on let me google something

she?! two?

dang these two women draw link really good

Minish Cap

(Absolutely absurd setup when I went to an IRL library I flipped over a book and it was a Zelda manga Also I demolished an entire thing of butter chicken That was $12 dollars in food truck size and I ate like nearly half of it by myself in one go Crazy work)

The picori are cute All of this art style is cute What about Vaati What about him

The concept of little Guys living in the big world is a good concept Oh to be a mouse floating away using a dandelion to pick up yourself up in the wind That’s cool (tm)

Four Swords

Imagine being one guy and then there’s four of you. Horror. I mean Kirby and the amazing mirror has the exact same premise They even have the master sword in that one too

I feel like there’s a subsection of the Zelda fandom that really liked this one because I’ve seen like all of these links at one point on tumblr 0 times 4 is still zero. Not a single brain cell to be found. Maybe on purple. Purple is the brain cell confirmed.

I like how the four links have distinct eye styles since obviously you couldn’t see the color in black and white Zelda has never been damselled as much as I think she’s actually super powerful and that’s why the villains get her first is the impression that I’m getting Like Zelda is saying stuff like “you’re going to beg for mercy, not me” to Shadow link and I’m like “aight”

No need for those two to do all this

I have never seen a link be more oomf/scrimblo core than the crying one The shadow was the hero as well ooohhhhhhh because he is a link

When the villain moves past his assigned role to do what he was meant to do the whole time Shadow link sits around on the internet in the omake/4 koma Damn… he’s just like me

Skyward Sword

Aw, link didn’t ascend to heaven He always gets a bunch of companions that never return and aren’t part of the cycle whatsoever

Phantom Hourglass

There is NO wind waker adaption There is NO spirit tracks adaption either

Think PH and ST were ones with touch screen integration from what little I remember about them and you had to like drag link instead of just using the up down screen

This is reminding me that I never finished pirate’s curse… Fairies are weird. Sometimes they’re actual fairies, sometimes they’re just balls of light. Linebeck is a good man if not a coward. Link is like a little cat in this art style.

Reading these has kinda given me the thought of “ the Zelda games would probably be great RPGs but they’re more like dungeon crawlers” and simultaneously going “it’s kinda weird that Nintendo has no notable in house period typical RPG franchise that’s still long running of like four guys in a row”

You think of Nintendo and RPGs and chances are first thoughts are like xenoblade, fire emblem, and pokemon. Is xenoblade the closest they have to a modern 4 guys rpg?

Dragon quest and final fantasy started on Nintendo but moved to PlayStation after the 64 SMT and Persona are Atlus

The MOTHER series has been dormant for nearly 20 years outside of rereleases and Winter 2014 is never coming.

Advance wars and codename steam are fire emblem likes. SRPGs. What about fossil fighters? Oh yeah that’s one too.

Dragalia lost was shot in the back as soon as they started losing cash, doesn’t help the first director made a side comment at FGO which is basically akin to angering a giant smacked them like a bug, I don’t think the game ever recovered from that

Miitopia is pretty close to the 4 guys in a row type of thing, tomodachi life for the switch when

There’s always gotta be something like how paper Mario and Mario and Luigi are like RPGs but they have action commands, I’m glad they brought back Mario RPGs like Super Mario RPG and TTYD and that new M and L game after everyone was convinced we’d never get a new one after alphadream went bankrupt Mario and Rabbids is another branch but like Golden Sun could be created if Camelot wasn’t stuck in Mario sports mines

And even then this list still isn’t like fully Nintendo in house, like a lot of these franchises are owned by sub companies of Nintendo and like TPCi owns majority of pokemon and Nintendo just happens to be the publisher

TBR (to be read) link's awakening : Ataru Twilight Princess