Akira Himekawa | Zelda no Densetsu: Twilight Princess

Japanese: ゼルダの伝説 トワイライトプリンセス
English: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Type: Manga
Volumes: N/A
Chapters: 1 +
Status: Publishing
Published: Feb 8, 2016 to ?
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic
Authors: Himekawa Akira (Story & Art)
Serialization: MangaONE

Synopsis: Link, a shepherd from Ordon Village, sees village children, including with his childhood friend Ilia, being kidnapped by monsters. He chases after them only to find his world covered in twilight. Thereupon Link suddenly transforms into a wolf and finds a mysterious character named Midna. His journey to bring back light into the world begins.

Background

Zelda no Densetsu: Twilight Princess is based on 2006 Nintendo Wii and GameCube game of the same title. It was initially to be serialized in an academic magazine since April 2007, but because the game received CERO's B rating the plans were suspended.

Related Manga
Prequel: Zelda no Densetsu: Toki no Ocarina

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Source: Baka updates, MAL Manga info, Bato.to


Side notes: This is manga kinda a last minute change in plans. The manga that was supposed to be here ended up having a tag of yuri with it and sadly I had to move it away 'cause I'm not presenting Yaoi, Yuri or Hentai mangas here... well there can be sometimes that one or two that slip into my presenting list but I try to avoid them a bit so that it stays in the realm of not age limited blog.^-^

Okay The legend of Zelda... even I've heard about it but do not know anything else.XDDD I'm not a gamer so anything related to them is like What?! Whoo?! Where?! to me.... but as I've covered some game news and lots of manga/ anime news in the past 6 months I came across this manga too. Thought I didn't know that it's been suspended this long from the original planned release date and maybe that also reflects the scores that this manga gets.

I myself like some of the art although the backgrounds are a bit blank. Also the story lacks some intensity or thread that keeps it together from falling apart. The first partial chapter that was released is... kindly to say... poor. So there is lots to room to level up to this manga to get standing on its two feets.

Update: The second part of the first chapter was published on Wednesday July 20 (?) and it has  a lot of what the first part was missing: A decent story, characters and meat on the bones so if things go well it's going to be a fun shounen adventure manga to follow.^-^

Main character

Link (リンク)

Link, contrary to the title of the series The Legend of Zelda, is the main character and the main hero in the Zelda franchise games. Link is usually depicted wearing a green tunic with a green floppy hat. Throughout the many games released, there have been many Link's throughout the history of Hyrule that rose up to the challenge of saving the world from evil, mainly from the wrath of Ganondorf, the King of Thieves. However, in the stories of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, it is the same Link who we see. In addition to the hero of time, the Link in Wind Waker is the same one as featured in Phantom hourglass.

Link is depicted as courageous, bold and although he is never seen to speak in the game, he shows no shyness in the manga as he is seen chatting quite a lot. From his speech, we can see that Link is also a curious person who once he has a goal in mind, will set out and achieve it at all costs.

Our Hyrule savior, so far, has been the only one to wield the Master Sword, the evil-banishing sword. His swordsmanship is unparalleled throughout the land of Hyrule and he (usually) wields his weapons in his left hand.

Source: MAL

Supporting

Midna, Twilight Princess
Leader of the Twilight realm

Main antagonist, Zant, former King's
aid and candidate to rule the land after
King's death. He was considered to be
too ambitious and he lost the crown.