Alright, I'm getting ready to travel for a major surgery and really have no idea what recovery will be like for me. I might be able to type and do some stuff pretty soon afterwards. Or... not. It really varies from person to person. So I hope it all goes well and I see everyone in 2-3ish weeks! But I don't know. I've also only posted about this a little but my mom has stage IV cancer (terminal cancer) and she is also going to be traveling for a last ditch treatment. I'm pretty worried about both of us because I have an autoimmune disorder called Addison's disease, which means my immune system already doesn't work well, and also means I'm on immunosuppressants or my body starts to shut down, and my mom is obviously at high risk because of her cancer treatments and immune system as well. So... wish us luck? I'm pretty fucking nervous for both of us. I'd wait on getting surgery until after hers but the mask mandates in hospitals is going to end, and I already use to get sick for weeks every time I had to go to a hospital, and I can't wear an N95 the whole time I'm recovering: so hearing about the end to the mandates means that this is basically my last shot to even have a shot. I'm also expecting there's a decent probability I might not see my mom again after this weekend since she has to fly long distance to a specialist center, and can't even be vaccinated because she has a history of severe adverse reactions to vaccines. (She actually tried even though she knew this, it did not go well.) So, anyway, I'm kind of a mess.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Monday, March 20, 2023
Nintendo Power Illustration Credits
I'm trying to figure out who all of the artist's are. As in: matched with their actual art. This is just going to be a reference sheet for me while I work on this project.
Nintendo Power Volume 1: July-August 1988
- https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_Power_V1
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20001%20July-August%201988/
- Hiroyuki Kurano
- Yoshihiro Onmo
- Keizo Kikushima
- Nobuhiro Ohyo
- Adam Eisenberg
- Izumi Takada
- Osamu Kasai (Gekkosha Co.. Ltd.)
- Ryokuju Tsukamoto
- Atsuko Matsumoto
- Noriko Hasegawa
- Yasuhiro Ohori
- K. Iino (or K. lino)
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20002%20September-October%201988/page/n5/mode/2up
- Hiroyuki Kurano
- Fisherman Orimo
- Ani Orimo
- Izumi Takada
- Osamu Kasai
- Leo Tsukamoto
- Etsuko Kuwahara
- Atsuko Matsumoto
- Noriko Hasegawa
- Desu Iwamoto
- Shugi Shugi Jeff
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20003%20November-December%201988/page/n3/mode/2up
- Goblin Takagi
- Kaz Aizawa
- Hiro-Con Nagami
- Tomoyuki Fukutome
- Orange Nakamura
- Shuji Imai
- Shinichi Hayashi
- Katsuya Terada
- Makikazu Ohmori
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20004%20January-February%201989/page/n5/mode/2up
- Shuji Imai
- Orange Nakamura
- Goblin Takagi
- Takao Watanabe
- Hiro-Con Nagami
- Egu Egu Eguchi
- Tomoyuki Fukutome
- Kazunori lihara (Kazunori Aihara?) (Pokemon artist. Would be funny if he did the AoL map)
- Hiroshi Aizawa (Huh... what if he did the AoL Link and Item art and the LttP Item art. (the line weight and style is the same even if his shading and noses changed...) Look up Bump N Jump on page 80, looks like his style
- Yoshimiru Hoshi and Hideaki Itoh have uncredited work in this issue
- Who did the castle and sword art?
- The dungeon level art
- Who did the enemy art
- Who did the link art on page 14
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20005%20March-April%201989/
- Shuji Imai
- Orange Nakamura
- Hiro-Con Nagami
- Yukio Sawada
- Kazuhiro Kamachi
- Zen Kiyoshi
- Hiroshi Aizawa (Looks exactly like his art on page 23 for Ninja Gaiden, the barbarian, the bomberhead 26, and the little spot illustrations on page 29) Also has the Zelda art though
- Higehige Ohmori
- Who did the castle and sword art?
- The dungeon level art
- Who did the enemy art
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20006%20May-June%201989/page/n3/mode/2up
- Shuji Imai
- Orange Nakamura
- Hiroko Nagami (Hiro-Con Nagami?)
- Zen Kiyoshi
- Hiroshi Aizawa (Kinda looks like he did the art for Cobra Triangle and definitely Faxanadu: The castle from that matches the castle in his LttP manga. Also looks like he did the art for the TV Link on page 68 and 69)
- Higehige Ohmori
- Tomoyuki Fukutome
- Katsuya Terada
- who did the cute link and zelda on page 21
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20007%20July-August%201989/page/n3/mode/2up
- Shuji Imai
- Orange Nakamura
- Hiro-Con Nagami
- Kazuhiro Kamachi
- Zen Kiyoshi
- Tatsuya Terada (Katsuya Terada)
- Tomoyuki Fukutome
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20008%20September-October%201989/
- US Illustration Staff:
- Kaz Aizawa
- Nob-Rin Takagi
- Hiro-Con Nagami
- Japanese Illustration Staff:
- Hideaki Ito (Hideaki Itoh)
- Tatsuya Terada (Katsuya Terada) -Dragon Warrior
- Shuji Imai -Dragon Warrior
- Orange Nakamura
- Makikazu Ohmori
- Hiroshi Aizawa -Might have done some of the Fester's Quest enemies, pg 39. Maybe the Bases Loaded II art, pg 85.
- Kazunori Aihara
- Tomoyuki Fukutome
- Poster Art: Hige-Hige Ohmori
- Who did the dragon warrior map
- who did the dragon warrior border
- who did the Willow map art, pg 61, was it Aihara? It actually has some similar tones and I could see how it could bridge the gap between the AoL map and the LA map
- Link art, page 94. Western comic style.
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20009%20November-December%201989/page/n3/mode/2up
- Shuji Imai
- Orange Nakamura
- Makikazu Ohmori
- Magician Sasaki
- Kazunori Aihara
- Tomoyuki Fukutome 福留朋之 bio COVER ART COVER ART 2
- Poster Art: Tatsuji Kajita
- Whomever did the willow art, pg 9, I feel like they did the AoL castle and sword art, and something else I can't place my finger on. Maybe they actually did to the LttP map but just actually spent time on it. Wow the map on page 13... is this really old Kazunori Aihara art? That would be a big evolution if so. Maybe I have this wrong. I need to look into the other people for sure. Like it's kind of stiff, I could see it more as Makikazu Ohmori art and who is Tomoyuki Fukutome...
- Super Off Road art, the sketchy overhead art on pg 25 looks relevant. Could be whomever did the sketchy art in the Ultima guide
- Iron Sword Item Art looks relevant, pg 27
- Who did the Shadowgate art pg 58
- who did all the detailed art on pages 84-85
- Who did the map and ramp art on page 66-67, could also be whomever did LttP level maps
- https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127/Nintendo%20Power%20Issue%20010%20January-February%201990/page/n3/mode/2up
- US Illustration Staff:
- Jim Frisino
- Nob-Rin Takagi
- Hiro-Con Nagami
- Japanese Illustration Staff:
- Shuji Imai
- Orange Nakamura
- Makikazu Ohmori (I still think he must have done the Willow art but idk.) Did he do the Astyanax art on page 63? Guessing he did the wild mech art on page 64
- Magician Sasaki
- Kazunori Aihara (I still think he must have done the Willow art but idk.) Could have done the Mario art on page 57
- Poster Art: Yuji Kaida
- Photography: Izumi Takada
- Claymation: Maji Sasaki
- who did the twin cobra art, they probably did the willow art and the AoL map
Visual Design Masako Honma (Manashi) Yuki Kyotani (Yuki) Nagineko
Monster Design Naoya Tomita (Tom-Pon) Hironori Matsumura (Fish Man) Tall Nob (as Tall Nob)
Sunday, March 19, 2023
High Res Barcode Battler Card Art and Hyrule Fantasy Envelope Art
The Zelda collector Linksliltri4ce has been so amazing to me over the years! She just sent me all of the Barcode Battler cards, and 2 little envelopes with un-scanned images, so that we can all have incredible high res scans of some really unique and rare art! Find the Barcode Battler cards in the Link to the Past Album and the envelopes here and here. I can not thank her enough for everything she does for me and this community. Check out her site and the plushies she makes!
We are still missing an envelope with Link playing the flute. If you have it, could you send me a scan? If you want to sell or trade it, please contact Linksliltri4ce
Hyrule Fantasy Bandai Board Game Art!
And here is an absolutely beautiful Hyrule Fantasy (Zelda 1) map from the same Bandai board game that I just posted. This set has incredible art. I'll make higher res scans at a later date but this was mainly cleaned by Alberto Vitali & then I did some too: flickr.comofhyrule/52720823435
Rare Art Repair: Ikeda Bookstore Hyrule Fantasy Map
This is a strategy guide map for the original Legend of Zelda. Olga @That_black_lynx has repaired it by patching numerous pieces together and she and I have cleaned it up. If you would like the full sized images, from 300-1200 dpi, please visit the download page for the scans on: archive.org/details/zelda_guide_loz_ikeda
Each zip has 7 versions of the map. The original cleaned image, ones with items removed, lines removed, text removed, cropped and uncropped.
池田書店 チャレンジマップ ゼルダの伝説
Ikeda Bookstore The Hyrule Fantasy The Legend of Zelda
ISBN 4-262-15501-3/C8276
April 22, 1986
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Rare Art Repair: Adventure of Link, Link and Zelda fighting Gleeok Poster
An incredible restoration on this now-rare Zelda art from the 80's. Nearly extinct from the internet.
@JTaylorPro had to combine a poster & folder for the image. It's probably the best its looked since the poster was printed. The art may be from DiC prior to production of the 1989 Super Mario Bros. Show that featured the Legend of Zelda cartoon.
Big thanks to @IkhanaKingdom who sent me scans of a poster that has more image on the sides &
@MrTalida and @RupaKoopaTroopa who got the folder online/to me. All 3 of them, along with Jefferson, made this possible.
Here's a high-res version of just the folder from MrTalida: archive.org
Thanks to Super Zelda Bro for posting this officially licensed art that matches these designs from a Nintendo poster set:
High Res Scans: 1200-2400dpi Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha Legend of Zelda Strategy Guide
Read the book here. I scanned this at 1200dpi and the pages with art were scanned at 2400dpi.
- May 28th,1986
- ISBN 63912-70
- Planning & Editing: Studio Hard
- Hideaki Oide
- Shuichi Matsumoto
- Takeshi Yoshikawa
- Super Game Player
- Hiroaki Nagata
- Koichi Watanabe
- Cover and Text Illustration
- MARUDA®
- Makoto Hidaka
- Cover and Text Design: Hideaki Kinjo
- To Issue: Yoshikazu Masuda
- Issuer: Yoshikazu Ichitsuda
- Publisher: Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha
- Head officeL 1-7-9 Ginza, Chou-ku, Tokyo 104
- Printing and Binding: Dainippon Printing
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2 Years of me being back!
It's officially been 2 years now since I have been back to working on Zelda content! If you were around in the community in the early 2000's, or even 2011ish, you may have caught my other big bursts of work, but disability and website issues built up and took me away from it all. Thank you to everyone that checked in over the years though, one day it finally clicked that I really do want to be back here working on all this with everyone else. It's been really fun being back. I can not believe how wonderful the gaming and preservation community and enthusiasts are. We have found so many cool things together, we have gotten so many more works translated, we have discovered so much lost material. All of you are so amazing and I hope even some of this has brought people even a drop of the joy it has brought me.
I'm going to try to post more on other social media, not just twitter, and I want to try to start fixing up my actual site at some point, but for now I am just going to keep scanning to try to make sure these things aren't lost forever. We need a library for old Zelda works, there's too much left to be discovered from them, and I can't wait to see what working towards that future holds.
~Melora
Rare Art Scan: Pyramid of Power (also: WANTED!)
I scanned it at 2400dpi
I believe it is part of the set of official art from the game manual: Such as Link being awoken from his sleep by Princess Zelda's telepathic plea, them fleeing through the sewers, Link on the cliff looking at the Tower of Hera, etc. Each issue of this magazine contains part of a walkthrough for the game. Each section starts with one of those pieces of official art. This is the only one that hasn't been seen before. So I do think it came from the same studio that did that official art and that was just never used until they needed an extra piece for this magazine spread. Cutting room floor causality, if you will. This has happened a few times, for example there was enemy art for Link to the Past that we never saw before until the Art and Artifacts artbook (the blue Daria.) The Ocarina of Time manual also has an image of Link not seen in any other publication. (In the very beginning, his face is overlaid on Ganon's boot.)
Anyway, if you see this image anywhere else, please write me right away! melorasworld@gmail.com
Official Zelda Artists: A Work in Progress
- Game Credits
- LttP Booklet Art: Illustrator (Story Art)
- Game Credits: LttP, LA, LA DX, Booklet Illustrator. BS Zelda Scene Artist.
- LttP Booklet Art: Illustrator
- LA Booklet Art: Illustrator
- LA DX Booklet (Watercolor of Koholint)
- BZ Zelda: In Game Scenes (Watercolors)
Yasuhiro Sakai : 酒井 康裕
- LttP Game Credits: Illustrator
- Game Credits 2
- LttP Booklet Art: Illustrator
- Manga & Illustrations
- Zelda Handbook (LttP) (Specifically listed as for the Manga, the only option)
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP) Item Illustrations
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- US Nintendo Guide (LA) Item, Character, Scene Illustrations
Kenji Murata : 村田健司 , けんじ むらた
- Ultima Exodus Guide: Maps? (3 artists. Technical Maps | Cute Characters, Items, Map | More Serious Characters | Pastel Chalks) Technical Maps? or Pastels (can't be pastels, he is not in LA US Guide. Might be thicker looking illustrations in LA guide or those may also be by Matsunori Iwamoto)
- Zelda Handbook (LttP) 2 Overworld Maps? (it's either them or Yuji Honma)
- US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP) -There are world maps! or are those by Toshisada Nobuhara? These do look a little different though
- US Nintendo Guide (LA)
- Not in the German LA Guide
- Nintendo Player's Guide - NES Game Atlas (it has technical maps, horrible airbrush of link, that AoL Map, items)
- Nintendo Player's Guide- Game Boy
Yuji Honma : 本間雑二
- Zelda Handbook (LttP) 2 Overworld Maps? (it's either them or Kenji Murata)
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- German Nintendo Guide (LA)
- Super Metroid Players Guide (4 artists)
- CREDITED as an illustrator in the APE guides with the gold covers, as well as the US LttP guide and the DE Lttp & LA guide. Not in the LA US guide.
Makikazu Ohmori : まきかず おもり
- Ultima Exodus Guide: (3 artists. Technical Maps | Cute Characters, Items, Map | More Serious Characters & Pastel Chalks) Pastels? or Technical Maps
- US Nintendo Guide (LttP) Pastels?
- Not in the US Nintendo Guide
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP) Pastels?
- German Nintendo Guide (LA) Pastels?
- Nintendo Power Art Credits (Confirmed example) TONS OF ART, Nearly every issue
- Nintendo Player's Guide - Super NES (3 illustrators)
- Nintendo Player's Guide - NES Game Atlas (it has technical maps, horrible airbrush of link, that AoL Map, items)
- Nintendo Player's Guide - Super Game Boy (only 2 artists, Ken-show)
- Nintendo Player's Guide - Super Mario All-Stars
- Nintendo Player's Guide- Game Boy
- US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- US Nintendo Guide (LA)
- Not in the German LttP Nintendo Guide
- German Nintendo Guide (LA)
Hiroshi Aizawa : 愛沢ひろし
- US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- Not in the US LA Guide
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- German Nintendo Guide (LA)
- Nintendo Player's Guide - NES Game Atlas (source)
- Nintendo Player's Guide - Super NES (3 illustrators)
- This Guide (Guide info)
- His art
- He did a lot of comics, including Wanpakku revival comics
- US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- Super Metroid Players Guide (4 artists)
Toshisada Nobuhara :
- US Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP)
- US Nintendo Guide (LA)
- German Nintendo Guide (LA)
- Futabasha Guide (LttP) Maps (only illustrator & labeled as maps) This does not have either overworld map
- Nintendo Player's Guide- Game Boy
- Super Metroid Players Guide (4 artists)
Satoshi Yuzuriha :
Kazunori Aihara : 相原和典
- German Nintendo Guide (LA) New Simple Items? Simpler Maps? Really Cool Giant Map?
- Pokemon Book Artist Watercolor, so he probably did the big LA map
- Game Boy Player's Guide
- German Nintendo Guide (LA) New Simple Items? Simpler Maps?
Really Cool Giant Map? - Nintendo Player's Guide- Game Boy
Ken-show :
- German Nintendo Guide (LttP) New Simple Items? Simpler Maps?
Really Cool Giant Map? - Nintendo Player's Guide - Super Game Boy (only 2 artists, Makikazu Ohmori) check out metroid items
Check the golden bee. I believe that also appeared in a Nintendo Power, see if he is credited.
- Ultima Exodus Guide: (3 artists. Technical Maps | Cute Characters, Items, Map | More Serious Characters &
Pastel Chalks) Cute Characters? These are the only ones that don't seem to match any Zelda Art - More Game Credits:
- Small World 1975
- W1 Lullaby 1982 Author, Illustrator
- Cheers to the Cannonball! 1983
- Unico in the Island of Magic 1983 Inbetween animation
- Saitoji Buru Utsu 1984 Author, Illustrator
- Getty All 1986 Author, Illustrator
- Riders Rhapsody 1988 Author, Illustrator
- Ultima: Exodus - Hint Book 1989 Illustrator
- Nintendo Player's Guide - NES Game Atlas (source) Check the NP with the AoL map, one of these people may have done it. (it has technical maps, horrible airbrush of link, that AoL Map, items)
- Nintendo Player's Guide - Super NES (3 illustrators)
- Makikazu Ohmori
- KEN-SHOW
- Hideaki Ito
- Kenji Murata
- Kazunori Aihara
- Makikazu Ohmori
- Toshisada Nobuhara
- Kazuhiro Amachi