Tag: Zelda Manga

Akira Himekawa is the team of two female artists responsible for the official The Legend of Zelda manga series. The duo has been known to release special drawings to their official Facebook page, and it seems the upcoming release of Tri Force Heroes has sparked their inspiration. Akira Himekawa recently shared a new drawing of Violet Link and Shadow Link from their Four Swords adaptation, as well as a neat drawing of Sir Raven from their Oracle of Ages adaptation…

Artist-duo Akira Himekawa is currently hard at work on the newest entry in their long-running The Legend of Zelda manga series. Fans may have to wait a few more months for its release, but the team did recently announce that an awesome tote bag featuring art from the manga will be offered by publisher VIZ Media at future conventions and events. So if you plan to attend an anime, manga, or comic convention sometime soon, be sure to keep an eye for out for VIZ Media’s booth…

Hello and welcome back to The Back Cover, the series that brings you all some insight to The Legend of Zelda franchise’s manga counterpart. For those of you who don’t know, there are ten manga books for the Zelda franchise, written by Akira Himekawa, covering eight of the main series titles. Reading about Link solve endless puzzles in various dungeons probably wouldn’t sell well, so the stories told in the manga series tend to differ from the video games, but still keep…

Hello and welcome back to The Back Cover, the series that brings you all some insight to The Legend of Zelda franchise’s manga counterpart. For those of you who don’t know, there are ten manga books for the Zelda franchise, written by Akira Himekawa, covering eight of the main series titles. Reading about Link solve endless puzzles in various dungeons probably wouldn’t sell well, so the stories told in the manga series tend to differ from the video games, but still keep…

Hyrule Historia is undoubtedly one of the most important things to happen to the Zelda series in a long, long while. Even if the content provided inside the book itself would not be of interest to every fan, the recently announced limited edition has sold like wildfire, with the coveted book selling out in a matter of hour on sites such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. For those of you who own the Japanese edition or have otherwise read…

Zeldamotion, the animated web series based on the manga for A Link to the Past, is making progress slowly but surely. I recently spoke with the creator of the project who told me about a vlog they made concerning the project and the Kickstarter they plan on creating to help the process. Mikey (Mechawatts) and Zach of Aeipathy Industries introduce themselves and discuss Zeldamotion’s A Link to the Past animated series. They also talk about the kickstarter planned to help…

Our friends over at Glitter Berri have posted the next five pages in the Skyward Sword Prequel Manga. This now brings the total to 15 pages of the Manga. The entire book runs at 34 pages so almost half of them have been fully translated. The prequel manga is included with the recently released Hyrule Historia book, which I’m still anxiously waiting to get my hands on. Glitter Berri and Beno have been working hard to get it translated and…

Nintendo of Japan recently announced the upcoming release of a hardback collector’s edition artbook chronicling the history of The Legend of Zelda. The book contains not only artwork from throughout the series, but contains a history of the series, character and costume design notes, production images including scrapped costume ideas, and concept art for Link and various items. Fans will get a chance to see some of the more wild designs that did and did not make it into some…

The Akira Himekawa duo have been the artists for a series of 10 Legend of Zelda Manga and it looks like that number is being expanded to 11. In a recent Twitter Post and in the January 2012 issue Nintendo Dream, it was confirmed that the duo was working on a Manga for the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. There are no details on a release date or whether or not it will release in English immediately when it’s ready,…

Chapter 2 of the ZeldAnime is now available. For those of you unaware of what the ZeldAnime project, here is a tidbit from their website describing the project. ZeldAnime is a “remake” of the notorious Legend of Zelda cartoon from the 1980’s into a comic/manga format. It is not related to any of the video games, however, the story is derived from the cartoon’s main plot while mixing story lines aspects and other elements from the original Zelda games, such…